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May 31, 2004

Night vision goggles given to Harry Potter theater ushers

— I guarantee it’ll be available the same day of U.S. release, or before via zeropaid.com #

Chankast 0.1 released, first working Dreamcast emulator

— huge news, here’s a compatibility list, screenshots, and FAQ #

Dale, "Meet You at the 7-11"

— more found sound from Archive.org and Comfort Stand #

Paper arcade game models

— the templates are at the bottom of the page via Slashdot #

NYT on Microsoft's spam detectives

via Nelson Minar #

"Stairway to Stardom" Appreciation Page

— video and audio from a long-running NYC cable access show #
May 30, 2004

Walken's "Gold Watch" monologue from Pulp Fiction

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NYT profile on Christopher Walken

— he’s an excellent cook #

Photos from the Mario vs DK ad shoot

via Delicious #

Japanese collection of jazz album covers

— also: vintage hi-fi magazines, mod interior design, and more via @growabrain #

Photo gallery of Tokyo store window displays

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Flash video for the Beatles' "Come Together"

— by the French geniuses at Melon Dezign #

Eye tracking videos

— including tracking eye movements on Google results #
May 29, 2004

U.S. missiles in the 1960s had a default launch code of 00000000

— and everyone knew the password #

Lushe, search only the sites you like

— build a list of sites, search within it via Battelle Media #

Mocky's "Mickey MMFRS," music video made entirely with Google Images

via Brett O'Connor #

Colecovision emulator for the GBA released

— download the beta via gbaemu.com #

The Daibijin, Japanese PS2 game

— defend Okinawa from a giant girl in a bikini #

Tutorial to searching and downloading files on IRC

— using the IRCSpy search engine via slyck.com #

Teen plots his own murder in chatroom

— he created eight characters to convince an older boy to kill him via MetaFilter #

Interview with Will Harvey, founder of There.com

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CSS naming conventions on the websites of the pros

— read the complete table via Ethan Marcotte #

Audio tour of the Mac Plus

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Strawberry Saroyan on Apple Martin and other fruity name

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May 28, 2004

Image: Brandon Bird's "Lazy Sunday Afternoon"

— my new Walken wallpaper, plus many more paintings #

Hasselhoff denies rap album rumors

— Ice-T was joking about Hassel the Hoff #

Memory Hole website banned on U.S. Army PCs in Iraq

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Warren Spector leaves ION Storm

— many laid off, and they’re switching to PS2 only via Game Tab #

Google responds to the Gmail privacy issues

— Battelle says Google smartly gave Gmail accounts to a bunch of journalists via Battelle Media #

Alien Swarm, a top-down space shooter mod for Unreal 2004

— reminds me of the side-scroller Quake 3 mod via apeshallnotkillape.org #

Java: The Ladybug Game

— fun, but aggravating, tile game via b3ta #

Chalabi's ancestry and Chalabi numbers

— he received degrees from MIT and the University of Chicago #

New version of Netscape based on Mozilla 1.7

— finally, they made the switch via Slashdot #
May 27, 2004

Brooklyn Camera Stores

— documenting the fly-by-night storefronts advertising online #

iTunes Alarm Clock

— trigger MP3s or playlists at particular times #

Rodeohead, bluegrass medley of Radiohead songs

— here’s a much faster local mirror via Boing Boing #

California Senate approved anti-Gmail bill

— read the text of the bill #

Pros and Cons of John Kerry's Top 20 Candidates

— I’m looking forward to a Kerry/Kutcher ticket #

New Yahoo toolbar removes spyware

— for Internet Explorer only, though via Mark Pilgrim #

Wired's profile of Nick Denton and Gawker Media

— they pay their writers $2000 per month and a pageview bonus #
May 26, 2004

MTV won't air "Supersize Me" ads

— there’s another side to the story, though #

Alexa's popularity rankings of top U.S. sites dropping across the board

— Alexa responds, explaining it’s because of global competition #

Dave finds Washingtonienne lied about college degree and age

— small stuff, but is she lying about the big stuff too? #

NYT reporter Judith Miller led the flawed Iraq reporting

— she wrote or co-wrote 10 of the 12 problem articles cited by the NYT #

Flash: Bush Game, very entertaining political propaganda (NSFW)

— Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and He-Man vs. Bush, Rumsfeld and Voltron via Todd Dominey #

Grand Theft Auto phone conversation leads to bomb threat evacuation

— don’t talk and play, or get a 2nd degree felony via Slashdot #

News coverage of the NYT Iraq retraction

— the Times makes the news with the broadest retraction I’ve ever seen #

Ex-Nickelodean stars relate horrors of Green Slime Syndrome

— punished for having the courage to say “I don’t know” via David Ely #

OJR on bloggers influencing mainstream newspapers

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Gish, original Windows platform game

— watch the gameplay video and try the demo #
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