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June 15, 2004

Proof of concept Bluetooth virus

— replicates on Nokia 60 phones via Boing Boing #

Transcript of Winer's Weblogs.com audio announcement

— Wired News on the shutdown, and more via theregister.co.uk #

Cuckoo for Coco Cox, rant on celebrity baby names

— hard to pull off, unless your dad is Frank Zappa via Ethan Marcotte #

Second Life upgrade adds XML-RPC, in-world marriage

— you can blog from within the world via Slashdot #

Plain Layne, another Kaycee Nicole?

— Kottke rounds up other recent fakes in his comments #

Construction of a sand mandala

— David Hirmes made an excellent animation of the entire thing #

Firefox open to malicious spyware installers

— but don’t let that stop you from using today’s Firefox 0.9 release #

Fox News raves about Fahrenheit 9/11

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Winer shuts down Weblogs.com

— leaves thousands of blogs offline without warning via q.queso.com #
June 14, 2004

Half-Life 2 moves to Autumn release?

— seems unlikely that Vivendi would sit on it for a couple months #
June 13, 2004

Why WaxyLinks Isn't Updating

— we had our baby! #
June 7, 2004

Snarkout on real-life superheroes and villains

— not many wore costumes, though #

Image: Writers, Abandon Your Dreams

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Amateur online film reviews predict box office success

— the MIT paper is online #

Nucleus, automated torrent downloading from RSS feeds

via grumet.net #

San Diego weekly publishes entire month of Brian Dear's weblogging

— here’s Brian’s take on the $2000 check #

Mammatus Clouds Over Mexico

— looks like a Kai’s Power Tools texture #

US markets to close Friday for Reagan

— yay, I get the day off! #

Pringles to print ads on individual chips

via Kottke #

Wikis are the next frontier for link spammers

— Slashdot has more on the story #

Untold story of the Nintendo's censorship of Maniac Mansion

— the changes made the port substantially worse via Delicious #

Live blogging of Reagan's funeral arrangements

— photos of the funeral home right outside her front door #

Movie: William Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

— ridiculous fan-made video, heavy on the Lucy via andrewraff.com #

Thingster, geocoded content tool

— it should integrate with Geocoder.us via brainoff.com #

Apple's Airport Express with AirTunes

— standalone wireless adapter for any stereo via George Hotelling #

Apple iTunes Europe launch set for June 15

via Tom Coates #

A personal remembrance from Ronald Reagan's costar, Bonzo

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High-res photos of the retro NES-style GBA

— I want this, bad via Gizmodo #

Sun introduces employee weblogs

via Jeremy Zawodny #
June 6, 2004

Reagan's Raiders, the Ronald Reagan comic book

— more info about the first issue #

Damask Wallpaper Patterns

— inspired by damask weaves via Delicious #

Samsung's Olympic reminder

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Andrew Anker joins Six Apart

— read about Andrew in Gary Wolf’s Wired book #

How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop

— an interview with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Hank Shocklee via Creative Commons #

New default theme in Firefox 0.9

— people are getting worked up about it, for some reason #

Rebel Leader John Kerry action figure

— face him off against the Bush action figure #

Google Answerer thoroughly debunks "stupid facts" e-mail

— variations of the e-mail are all over the web via Philipp Lenssen #

Super Mario War, deathmatch Mario for Windows

— network play is in the works via Delicious #

Glassdog's "Worth Hating," a rant on criticism

— don’t miss Anil’s excellent rebuttal #
June 5, 2004

Plague Cookies

— mmm, boils via Brett O'Connor #

Geocoder.us, free US geocoder

— with a great web services API via Delicious #

Virtual real estate boom in Second Life

— this virtual island sold for US$900 via futurismic.com #

RIAA wants your fingerprints

— biometric DRM for music is a truly awful idea via Octopus Dropkick #
June 4, 2004

Yoshinoya restaurant game for the PS2

— the modern equivalent of Chase the Chuckwagon for the 2600 #

Anil gets in the Nigritude Ultramarine game

— the contest has revealed the deepest secrets of the SEO scumbags #

Video: Spelling bee competitor faints, recovers

— he went on to spell the word correctly and take second place #

Experiments in riding motorcycles while drunk

— with a heroic .247 blood-alcohol level via Brett O'Connor #

Slashdot discussion on programmer parenting

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Story of getting mugged yesterday in Chicago

— reminds me of Mat’s similar story in SF via Matt Jacobs #

Seanbaby's Top 10 Internet Fads

— memes, not trends #
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