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August 5, 2004

Rumors that Sun may soon own PHP

— unlikely, no more than IBM “owning” Linux #

PalmPSOne, handheld Playstation 1 mod

— a cleaner version of the PSP1 mod via Slashdot #

Longshot Presidential Candidates

— including HRM Caesar St. Augustine de Buonaparte #

New version of Bugmenot Firefox extension auto-fills form fields

— this is huge, and very cool #
August 4, 2004

Flash: Don't Let It Get Your Cursor

— a final silly link for the day via adampsyche #

Die-cast "Back to the Future" DeLoreans

— including versions from all three films! #

Thai fuel cell converts carbs to electricity

— it’s like Mr. Fusion for Krispy Kreme donuts via Mike Elgan #

IRC bots are handling Usenet binary reposts

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MS Newsbot biased toward MSNBC articles

— or: why Google News is a better news site #

File Sharing Purchase Database

— retail purchases that resulted from illegal downloads via Slashdot #

Carmack to open-source Quake III engine later this year

— exciting news via bluesnews.com #

Flash: Low Morale's "Creep" video

— absolutely gorgeous Flash work #

Wikipedia entry on company name origins

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Declan McCullagh on John Kerry's record on technology

— in this Wired scorecard from 2000, he scored the same as John Ashcroft #

FCC approves TiVo's heavily-DRMed show-sharing

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California banned most SUVs from city streets

— but it’s completely unenforced via q.queso.com #

Haughey on downloading the Olympics

— the networks need to adapt to a BitTorrent world, fast #

Steven Seagal released an album in France?

— more sound clips from Amazon France via Eyebeam #

Nitrate fertilizers are causing increased shark attacks

— one of nature’s stranger chain reactions #

Matt Webb announces "Brain Hacks" book for O'Reilly

— a practical companion to Mind Wide Open via Boing Boing #

Video: TV Funhouse's banned primer on Media Monopoly

— aired on “Saturday Night Live” only once and censored by CBS; complete transcript via fadetoblack.com #

Image: Doom 3 floppy install

— in reality, it would take over 1,200 disks #

CIA Asks Bush to Discontinue Blog

— hmm, it looks like Typepad #
August 3, 2004

Googling for credit card numbers

— made possible by Google’s number range operator via Delicious #

RSSCalendar, freeform calendars by RSS

— if they had an API, I could tie it into Upcoming.org via David Bisset #

James Harry's Week in Review

— obsessively analog cousin of Newsmap via Creative Commons #

How Much Gold Is Inside Goldschlager?

— here’s the bootleg RSS feed for Cockeyed via Darren Barefoot #

Trixie's eight months of sleep pattern data

— visualizing a newborn baby’s sleep patterns #

BattleTorrent project proposal

— Downhill Battle’s pitch for a simpler BitTorrent experience #

Wired News on porn blog spamming

— Blogspot is an unlimited resource for spammers via Anil Dash #

Beta Band breaks up

— they never seemed to like their own music via stereogum.com #

TextCat language guesser

— try the demo via Delicious #

Archive of '96 Election campaign websites

— when will that Clinton guy stop flip-flopping? via Philipp Lenssen #

NewsIsFree's News Map visualizations

— requires Java, but here’s a screenshot via Magnetbox #

Google News source statistics

— top 10 sources account for 66% of all Google News stories via anti-chambre.net #

eBay's digital music auctions are a big failure

via Anil Dash #

Sega announces Shenmue Online

— also, you can play Shenmue with the Chankast emulator via Slashdot #

Fark.com secretly sells their homepage story links

— Shirky has more thoughts on this fundamental violation of reader trust #

Sniper rifle modded into WiFi antenna

— shoot packets up to ten miles away via Boing Boing #

phpBB Blog

— blog add-on for phpBB forums #
August 2, 2004

DirecTV makes moves to drop TiVo

— it’ll be fun to compare the UIs of the NDS and TiVo #

Video: "Team America" trailer

— Matt Parker and Trey Stone’s political action/comedy with marionettes via @ponderance #

Mario Paint Music Compo

— make songs with Mario Paint for the SNES via Simon Carless #

Something Awful's Honest Album Titles

— the best ones are toward the end via Magnetbox #

NYT on invention to walk on water

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Video: "Thriller" music video in Second Life MMO

— they used a pale woman for Michael Jackson’s part via Simon Carless #

Jazz preservation difficult with iTunes

— problems with performers, reissues, album art, liner notes, and more via Magnetbox #

Flash: Peasant Quest

— Homestar retro adventure game in the style of King’s Quest, plus a walkthrough via littlefluffy.com #

Wired News on Last.fm Internet Radio

via Magnetbox #

Life Lessons from the Super Mario Bros. Instruction Booklet

— another great McSweeney’s list via Delicious #
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