June 18, 2004
Inventory of crappy CDs sent to libraries for price-fixing settlement
— bastards are sending garbage CDs sold in remainder bins (via) #
Snopes update on the guy living in a Paris airport
— The Terminal movie is loosely based on his story #
Site Flavored Google Search
— explicit categorization is not very useful, it should analyze my site content instead #
FDA History, The Case of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
— with vintage photos and typography (via) #
Garfield Generator shut down by lawyers
— it took three random Garfield panels for a Zen reading experience (via) #
Andy Pryke's detailed meeting with Nanniebots creator
— he includes transcripts of his chats, some background on the story #
New Scientist update on ChatNannies
— still a hoax, Wightman showed off a modified copy of the Alice bot #
3D FPS-style car navigation system in Japan
— this is badass, but not a very practical visualization (via) #
Pitchformula, crunching thousands of Pitchfork album review to write better songs
— he includes all the Perl scripts he wrote for his BA project (via) #
Straight Dope on electricity failure after a zombie takeover
— answer: scattered blackouts within 4-6 hours, complete failure in 24 hours (via) #
TuneTeller, MIDI search engine with a piano UI
— focus the Java applet and play with your keyboard #
Cuckoo for Coco Cox, rant on celebrity baby names
— hard to pull off, unless your dad is Frank Zappa (via) #
Firefox open to malicious spyware installers
— but don't let that stop you from using today's Firefox 0.9 release #