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June 24, 2004

Flash: Die Wagenschenke game

— try not to fall over while stumbling home drunk via Ethan Marcotte #
June 23, 2004

Moblogging within Second Life

— take “photos” within the virtual world and post them to your blog #

Drunk Driving Rampage

— amazing gallery of destruction #

Election Night Drink Specials

— get your local barkeeps added to the site #

Webcam Music Box

— Lego webcam reads printed barcodes for playing MP3 albums via Delicious #

MP3: Fiona Apple's "Extraordinary Machine," title track off her shelved new album

— local mirror here #

AV Club interviews Nellie McKay

via @popwherry #

Screen-scraping with PHP 5

— scrape any poorly-formed HTML using loadHTMLFile #

The Onion's Guide to Celebrity Weblogs

— what, no Wil Wheaton? via Delicious #

GBAX 2004, Gameboy Advance coding competition results

— the winner is an excellent TurboGrafx 16 emulator #

Comdex 2004 is cancelled

— maybe they can team up with Lollapalooza #

Induce Act draws key support in Senate

— the Act makes me physically ill via Matt Haughey #

Get notified when Googlebot indexes your pages

— neat and simple idea #

Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 in anti-spam shootout

— here’s a good summary of the results #

ASCII art conversion of "Deep Throat"

— 55 minutes of text-based smut via Octopus Dropkick #

Early Xbox 2 spec leaked

— could be fake, but appears legit via evilavatar.com #

Google Pagerank Checksum Algorithm

— if you want to port this to Perl or PHP, please contact me ASAP #

Kempa on more vinyl oddities

— laser turntables, album scanning, human groove recognition, and DIY album pressing #
June 22, 2004

Punctuation errors in "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"

— copy editing the copy editors via Delicious #

Rivers Cuomo's Myspace profile

— it’s real, he posts new MP3s like “Tomorrow” from Annie via Delicious #

Doom 3 release date set for August 3

— I can’t believe it’s going to beat Half-Life 2 to market #

T-Mobile Sidekick 2 preview

— what, no Sidetalking? #

Image: Rob Conger's "Marshall McLuhan," anamorphous hook-rug portrait

— view his entire rug portfolio and a short film about him via Adam Kempa #

Lollapalooza 2004 cancels all dates

— poor ticket sales, but I blame the String Cheese Incident via Mat Honan #

Zelda Classic

— Zelda clone with better graphics and a mapmaking community via Delicious #

Google plans to reveal some of its code

— also, they’re tripling their staff in the next year via Slashdot #

Spam forces blind users to give up on e-mail

— they listen to subject lines one at a time #

NYT on David Huffman's curved paper structures

— here’s a nice gallery of modern origami via Lilly Tao #
June 21, 2004

WiFi-blocking wallpaper

via futurismic.com #

Vivendi Games closes Sierra offices

— death of another classic game company #

NYT on Imagination Environment

— art project that searches Google Images for text found in closed captioning via futurismic.com #

Sorting Algorithm Visualizations

— if you think this is cool, you’re a nerd #

Snopes on those obnoxious "Word of Mouth" spams

— someone is researching your background! #

Folderblog, drop-dead simple PHP photo blog or gallery

— the default template is clean and simple via Delicious #

Werkkzeug, tool to create amazing real-time 3D graphic demos

— see also: Conspiracy’s Addict software and Moppi’s Demopaja #

Ask Metafilter asks, "Why have kids?"

 #

Michael Chabon's "Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Vol. 1"

— B&N has Chris Ware’s gorgeous cover sans watermarks via Airbag Industries #

SpaceShipOne test succesful

— first manned private space flight #

FCKeditor, inline DHTML text editor

— works in IE, Netscape and Moz via Nelson Minar #

Torrentocracy, a BitTorrent RSS plugin for MythTV

— download new torrents with your TV remote control #

Bizarre Rev. Moon coronation ceremony held in Senate office building

— I’m hosting the video on my BitTorrent tracker #

Scans of Scottish broadsides

— the tabloids of the 18th and 19th centuries via Things Magazine #
June 20, 2004

The Daily Show provides better coverage than most "real" news shows

— Aaron breaks coverage of one recent story down #

Video: Graphics Then and Now panel

— Will Wright, Jordan Mechner and Rand Miller talk about graphics history and future via Game Tab #

Looking back at The Lawnmower Man

— in these gyrospheres, we wear full cybersuits #

NYT on fact-checking Fahrenheit 9/11

— Moore wisely hired outside fact checkers via @ponderance #

Dooce's Father's Day tribute

— this makes me want to cry #

Baby Formula Taste Test

— we’re using Horizon, which also smells funny #

New York movie piracy raid ends in cop shooting

 #
June 19, 2004

Stamen Design's Google News Visualization

— I missed this because it launched the day my son was born via Delicious #
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