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April 16, 2004

How to Steal Public Domain Content and Repackage It for Profit

— scumbag marketers via Graham Leuschke #

Circuit Benders, modified electronic childrens' toys

— these MP3s are amazing via b3ta #

Ultimate Cadbury Creme Egg

— disgustingly good! via b3ta #

Jabberwocky, a mobile phone app for meeting familiar strangers

— the more you encounter someone, the lighter their square via Delicious #

PDF: The Story of Infocom, Inc

— many more great papers and books at Textfiles’ PDF section #

A9 predictions about collaborative search filtering

— “people like you found these results the most useful” #

Mars Rover Soundtrack

— smart guys, but questionable taste in music #

Jason Scott's dialogue with a modern artscene group

— someone else in the group followed up, but still refused his request #

Images: Baby giraffe born in Santa Rosa

— Encarta has video of another giraffe birth via Lilly Tao #

Priceton 3D Model search engine

— sketch a shape, return similar matches via MetaFilter #

Using Perl in PHP

— saving this for reference via Delicious #
April 15, 2004

Queso on Gmail paranoia

— Paul Boutin debunks the critics, but proposes lame concessions at the very end #

Maciej on bloom filters

— a practical example can be found in Loaf via Leonard Lin #

Pornstars quarantined after actor's HIV infection

— the San Fernando Valley’s chief export is threatened via Nelson Minar #

Bob Schneider's "Come With Me Tonight"

— heavy b3ta influence, and a very impressive Flash homepage via chapel-perilous.net #

Cooperative Linux, run Linux on Windows natively

— yes, natively. here’s how it works via Simon Willison #

Turn your GBA into a microcontroller

— Gameboy robots will destroy us all via Gizmodo #

Stuff magazine's Baby Jessica hoax

— it’s a hoax, but the real Jessica has a weblog #

Analogia, algorithmic celebrity face matching

— upload your image, see which celeb it thinks you look like #

California boasts more New Yorker subscribers than New York

— I subscribe, and skip through the New York-specific sections via The Morning News #

Google Adwords go local

— advertisers can target specific regions for ad campaigns #

Kempa on metasongs and Nilsson's "Vine Street"

— don’t miss the Family Guy MP3 parody of Randy Newman #

Adam uses Technorati bombing to prove a point

— Technorati and Trackback are not a replacement for comments #

Video: Googling for Happiness

— you find it in the strangest places via dailything.com #
April 14, 2004

E! Online's breaking coverage of Bush's necktie

— this could be the scandal that brings down the Bush administration #

Full-size Lego Volvo car

— what, no Lego wheels? #

Video: Amazing Unreal 3 engine demo

— very, very impressive lighting effects via Boing Boing #

kkrieger, the 96k first person shooter

— not bad for something that fits on a floppy disk, 15 times via dynamic5.gamespy.com #

Slack Album, Jay-Z meets Pavement

— it’s a dead meme, but the album is very listenable #

David Bowie's official mashup contest

— mashup two Bowie songs, win an Audi TT coupe via futurismic.com #

Insert Snarky Title Here

— calloo and callay via emptybottle.org #

Amazon launches their A9 search engine

— the A9 toolbar has a Diary feature #

Haughey explains the benefits of Bluetooth

— connect your laptop to the Internet with your cellphone #

Half-Life Rally, racing mod for the HL engine

— it’s amazing how flexible it is #
April 13, 2004

Mysterious Whitehouse.gov document

— no Google cache, no Wayback Archive… any idea what this is? via blog.deconstructor.com #

Album art by comic artists

— the Chris Ware ones are beautiful via Adam Kempa #

Kottke says "syndication" is a misnomer

— he’s right, but the meaning of the word will evolve #

Screech loses his domain battle

— read the text of the decision via techlawadvisor.com #

Stockstock, festival for short films made from stock footage

— I’d love to see a broader competition that uses any available free footage #

New Yorker profile on Harold Ramis

— they tell human stories so well via The Morning News #

Bird Watching with the Blind

— identifying bird species by sound alone via The Morning News #

Image: Letter from the liquor store owner

— good clue that you might have a drinking problem #

Spike, networked clipboard for Mac/Win

— sounds interesting via Anil Dash #

Cameron creates a Timecube AIM bot

— it’s indistinguishable from talking to Gene Ray himself #

Gameboy Books to Go

— copyright-free books for your GBA #

Mat tests out Gmail's ads

— very nice, with tons of screenshots #

MacGyverisms

— “disarmed missle with a paperclip” via idly.org #

Metafilter catches a spammer

— they posted a long denial #

Songs to Wear Pants To

— request ridiculous song ideas, and Andrew creates them #
April 12, 2004

Weird Al's statement about his parents' deaths

— this is so sad #
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