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May 12, 2004

George's running E3 roundup

— I’ll be adding my own after I attend on Friday #

Trebuchet must die

— to be fair, I started using it before it was popular via Mark Pilgrim #

Hymn Project, the Playfair project moved and renamed

— strip the DRM off your iTunes files via downhillbattle.org #

The uncanny resemblance between Jimmy Corrigan and the Family Guy

— was Chris Ware ripped off? probably not #

Five digital photography hacks

— from O’Reilly’s new book via Jason Cosper #

Slashdot's roundup of E3 announcements

— including the four player Mario 64 for the DS #

Interview with Suprnova founder

— it’s a miracle the site hasn’t been shut down yet #
May 11, 2004

Realistic Zelda game announced

— the Quicktime trailer is great via Game Tab #

Sony PSP photos from E3

— the screen looks huge, more from Gizmodo #

GBAX 2004 competition results

— homebrew games for the GBA and GP32 via gbaemu.com #

Internet Archive's Petabox

— 1,000 terabytes, or a million gigabytes. via Boing Boing #

Doom III released this summer

— will it beat Half-Life 2 to market? via Slashdot #

Moblogging from the front and the new Reformation

— Shirky on how moblogs are changing the world #

Vonnegut's geezer rant on the state of the world

— with the obligatory Eugene Debs quote via @insignifica #

Breedster user e-mails

— 120 users frustrated with the first social software disease #

First Nintendo DS photo

— Gizmodo notes that it resembles the old Game & Watch games via Slashdot #
May 10, 2004

PearPC, OS X on Linux

— pretty rad, where’s the Windows port? via Ethan Marcotte #

Official Google blog by Ev

via Jason Cosper #

Number of film downloaders tripled last year

— 1.67 million people download films and TV shows via zeropaid.com #

Carl Steadman's Freedonia is expired

— personally, I miss Two Solitudes #

Image: Commodore MP3 player

— the player holds ~1,541 times the capacity of the 1541 drive #

Videogame character threatens national security

— an FBI tip reported the game character as real threat #

Los Angeles man goes to jail for camcording "The Alamo"

— he was caught with night vision goggles via Defamer #

Sony's 1TB DVR with 7 TV tuners

— if you have 7 shows that all air at the same time, you have issues via bump.net #

Cringely on the sale of virtual goods through Paypal

— without physical goods, chargeback policies don’t work well via Nelson Minar #

L.A. Philharmonic plays Final Fantasy game soundtrack

via Eyebeam #

Info about the Disneyland 50th anniversary events

— the Tower of Terror opened last week #

Blogger now publishes UTF-8 by default

— so does MT 3.0 #

MSNBC's interview with Madeleine L'Engle

— the Wrinkle in Time movie airs tonight via Lilly Tao #

ACME Novelty Archive

— Kempa’s excellent archive of Chris Ware work #

IGN's Half Life 2 hands-on review

— Gamespy has a new preview, also #
May 9, 2004

Doug Bowman on the Blogger redesign

— here’s a list of all the new templates via Kottke #

Friendster's high school age crowd

— the fakester teacher profiles are an interesting form of commentary #

Internet Archive's new Speed Runs section

— still in development, as is the new Machinima section #

National Lampoon flashbacks

— archiving old articles from the Lampoon #

GPS for the Gameboy Advance

— this opens the door for all sorts of great gaming ideas via Boing Boing #
May 8, 2004

New version of Blogger launching tomorrow

via Jason Cosper #

LA Weekly on Andy Kaufman returning from the dead

— he just might appear at the House of Blues show via Kottke #

9-year-old leukemia patient helps create chemotherapy game

— you can download Ben’s game, thanks to Lucasarts #

Dissertation research of 46 celebrity blogs

— only 7 of them had comments enabled via idly.org #

Hotelling on routers, IPv6, and the broken Internet

— also explains why BitTorrent may be slow for you #

Xbox 1.6 modded

— mmod community hacked the redesigned Xbox in a week via Nelson Minar #
May 7, 2004

What's New, KHAAAN?!

— IE-only, mashup between this and this via accordionguy.blogware.com #

iPod Lounge photo contest winners

via Gizmodo #

Negativland's Mashin' of the Christ

— distributed with BitTorrent via Nelson Minar #

Metroid Cubed, isometric Shockwave remake of NES classic

— someone should make an NES emulator that does this real-time via Brett O'Connor #

LA Weekly on the Erowid drug community

via Delicious #

Convert RSS to the `fortune` file format

— useless, but plugs my new archives #

Image: New Zealand parking ticket defense

via idly.org #

Adventure Morality Fables for Boys #7

— sweet, delicious erasers #
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