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June 6, 2004

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 #

2004 Spelling Bee scandal?

— Coudal’s research shows it’s likely a coincidence #

First all-artificial feature film released

— voices were synthesized, video was machinima #

Scientists delete huge chunks of mice DNA with no effect

— they removed 2.4 million DNA bases via Delicious #

Homebrew network-enabled washing machine

— more details about his badass new controller hack via b3ta #

How it feels to get shot

via John Walkenbach #

Friendster appoints former NBC president as new CEO

— Jon Abrams is just a mascot now via socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com #

Bugmenot extension for Firefox

— bypass obnoxious web registrations with one click via philringnalda.com #

VisitorVille, bizarre SimCity-ish visualization for website traffic patterns

via Philipp Lenssen #

Defective Yeti on Amazon's "plogs"

— he’s on their strange blog list #

Insects in album cover art

— more obsessive and obscure list making via sixdifferentways.com #

Cliche watch: My name is * and I approve this *

via emptybottle.org #

Microsoft's "The Apprentice" E3 parody for the Xbox

— starring Donald Trump and a cameo by Bill #

Simpsons torrents

— nearly every episode, of varying quality via Delicious #

Gallery of movie copyright warnings

— we’ll be seeing these in the U.S. soon, I’m sure via Boing Boing #
June 3, 2004

Creed breaking up?

— in other news: world rejoices #

Brainball, game controlled by alpha waves

— the calmest person wins via sixdifferentways.com #

Gawker Media available for contract work

— they just launched a marketing blog for Nike #

Yoga training program for the Xbox

— watch the video preview or visit the official site via apeshallnotkillape.org #

Pine first-use statistics

— nice charts showing steady adoption rates via apeshallnotkillape.org #

PC World interviews the creators of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program

— Bricklin, Frankston, and Fylstra reminisce and make new predictions #

Angela from "Spellbound" has a blog

— don’t feel bad, Google can’t spell heleoplankton either via Glassdog #

Movie List classic trailers

— very high-quality videos, like Goonies, Wargames, and Alien via Phil Fibiger #

People I've Slept With

— Harpers-style personal list making via @growabrain #

Movies of levitating objects

— floating in a magnetic field via Things Magazine #

OJR on Craig's List destroying print classified ads

— and how newspapers could compete with social networking via Anil Dash #

NYT on vintage gaming getting trendy

— here’s a local MP3 of Lil’ Flip’s “Game Over (Flip)” via Slashdot #

Bram Cohen on BitTorrent 2 features

— tracker redirection could be a very good thing via slyck.com #

IMDB user ratings for Fahrenheit 9/11

— the film you don’t need to see to review #
June 2, 2004

Unused "Curb Your Enthusiasm" footage frees accused murderer

— Larry David saves the day via Ryan Gantz #

ForwardTrack beta test

— Eyebeam’s new e-mail tracking system #
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