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April 5, 2004

8-bit BBSing over the Internet

— emulating a Hayes modem, no less via Slashdot #

Video Game Wedding Card

— designed by Jason and Meg via Delicious #

Boing Boing's paying too much for hosting

— why don’t they just switch to a dedicated server? #

Reason Magazine customizes new cover with each subscriber's name and satellite photo

— this sort of thing is considerably easier for online mags via Slashdot #

Sean Palmer's Gmail preview with new screenshots

— user-defined labels, “starred” messages, and filters #

Amazon generated 6% of their 2002 revenue from web services

— if so, why don’t more retailers offer them? via Paul Bausch #

Catty, the chatbot with a Google brain

— using Google Groups might be even more effective via itre.cis.upenn.edu #

Musical quadratic equations

— plus, other nerdy math singalongs #
April 4, 2004

Playfair, iTunes DRM remover

via macslash.org #

Wonderfalls cancelled

— all the good shows get cancelled via danhon.com #

Brutal File Manager

— 3D first person shooter/file manager, with screenshots via Slashdot #

Tomas on unfounded Gmail paranoia

— my thoughts exactly #

Lessig responds to a Forbes columnist's attacks

— the columnist calls Larry a “moron” and “idiot” via greenehouse.net #

Live Music Archive hits 10,000 free shows

— highlights: Cowboy Junkies, Doughty, Soul Coughing, Tenacious D, Ben Lee, Ben Kweller via q.queso.com #
April 3, 2004

Short quiz to stop comment spam

— the end of comment spam is nigh! via Cam Marlow #

NewsDesigner

— blog written by an anonymous insider at a metro newspaper via Matt Haughey #
April 2, 2004

Webjay, listener-created playlists of web music

— great idea, but hotlinking MP3s is usually frowned upon via grumet.net #

Image: two full-size screenshots of Gmail

— Sippey has some good notes on the UI #

txtkit, visual text mining tool for OS X

via Delicious #

SphereXP, 3D desktop replacement for Windows XP

— the screenshots and video are bizarre via Delicious #

Background of the Mezzoblue-StopDesign April Fool's swap

via Mark Pilgrim #

Image: First real Gmail screenshot

— it supports threaded messages via Philipp Lenssen #

Japanese emoticons

— horizontal, instead of vertical via Delicious #
April 1, 2004

Google moves to block RSS scraping

— if you don’t release an API, the net routes around it via quietconfusion.com #

Man proposes to wife with Atari 2600 game

— geekiest marriage proposal ever, download the ROM via Slashdot #

PDTP, P2P directory mirroring

— complicated concept, but very practical applications via Slashdot #

Mogi, location-based multiplayer gaming in Tokyo

— sounds like this is the first fun example of the genre via Brett O'Connor #

Quake 2 mod displays as "Magic Eye" stereograms

— this is insane via Brett O'Connor #

David Bowie to perform inside Star Wars Galaxies?

— it was an April Fool’s joke after all #

Xanga is more popular and viral than Friendster

— it’s about to break Alexa’s top 100 most trafficked websites #

Kinja's terms of service boo-boo

— cribbed from Yahoo’s TOS #

Visualizing Wikipedia changes over time

via Anil Dash #

Nick Denton on Kinja launch

— here’s my public Kinja digest #

5.25" Disk Sleeve Archive

— too bad the images are so small via Things Magazine #
March 31, 2004

Kinja scheduled to launch tomorrow

— digests of subject-specific weblogs for new readers via Eyebeam #

4th Annual Chatterbox Challenge

— you can play with all the chatbot entries! #

Altavista switched to Yahoo's database

— the former king of all search engines is dead #

Recipe error could cause kitchen explosions

— sounds like Swedish Lemon Angels via John Walkenbach #

Google launching Gmail, free 1GB webmail?

— official temp page, and not an April Fool’s prank via Simon Willison #

Boston Globe on modchips

— not just for piracy, chips are used for homebrew games and apps via weblogs.variety.com #

Book deal for dragon hoax author

— created by a professional creature effects studio via raygirvan.co.uk #

Sound of Magic, tribute to Disney theme park music

— amazing site with tons of interesting MP3 downloads #

Letterman clip and the White House reaction

— very entertaining clips and response #

Ashcroft creates task force for copyright violations

— I’m hoping this is an early April Fool’s joke #

Toronto court rules music sharing legal under Canadian copyright law

— plus, the Canadian RIAA can’t subpoena ISPs for names #

Popular Mechanics cover gallery

— from 1902 to 2004 via Things Magazine #

Historical relationship of height to success

— a society’s height is a biological shorthand for well-being via Delicious #

Shirky on micro-social software tailored to small groups

— not all software should be built to scale via Sippey #
March 30, 2004

Technorati hits 2 million blogs

— I noticed it this morning, but was waiting from comments by Dave #

Newsmap, Google News visualization

— size and color indicates importance and freshness via David Ely #
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