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June 25, 2004

Video: Heat Vision and Jack

— I’m hosting the infamous Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson TV pilot #

Senate passes toughened copyright laws

— including the anti-camcorder law #

Glassdog diagnoses Dave Winer

— sociopath, or at least empathy-deficient #

Today's two NYT op-eds on file-sharing

— here’s the other one, both advocate blanket licensing via Magnetbox #

Nationmaster's Mortality statistics

— the rest of the site’s stats are amazing via Boing Boing #

Flash: Swinger game

— left and right to move, space to jump via b3ta #

Flash: The Animal Alphabet

— you know, for kids! via b3ta #

1000 Characters

— obsessive doodling via b3ta #

Flash: J. Otto's "Alice in Wonderland"

— more about the pop-up book via Boing Boing #

Bill Gates may start blogging

via Anil Dash #

Bearskinrug Compositionals

— the submissions are nice via Leonard Lin #

Update on the Plain Layne hoax

— including the confession, inspired by Kaycee Nicole #
June 24, 2004

EFF's Prelude to a Fake Complaint

— Induce Act makes the iPod illegal #

Chart of popular P2P artists with little or no radio airplay

 #

Wired News on the "Inducing of Copyright Infringement Act"

— it’s inducing me to vomit #

Half Life 2 may arrive in August too?

— Valve reacts to Doom III ship date via @crystaltips #

New Bjork album is entirely acapella

via Glassdog #

Video conferencing at 35,000 feet

— Kottke’s worried about security via Kottke #

Mayday Mystery texts

— read about the history of the weirdness via Delicious #

CMP blocks Google News referers

— when corporate paranoia affects your readership via Anil Dash #

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 #
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