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April 7, 2004

Memespread Project

— I’ve been meaning to do this for the Star Wars Kid log data via Kottke #

Smart stoplights penalize speeders

— sounds a bit dangerous to me via Delicious #

Blog service pinger

— ping ’em all, let god sort ’em out via Anil Dash #

Atari 2600 Comic Books

— I never pictured Centipede quite like that #

John Woo working on Metroid movie?

via Game Tab #

Rock Academy, the French "School of Rock"

— I love seeing Jack Black speaking French #

Boston Globe on Infocombot and AIM gaming

— no mention of my website, though #
April 6, 2004

I got my second cease and desist order

— not surprising, since I’m the #1 result for opus comic #

Decapitated cat commercial backfires on Ford

— just an excuse to link to the video via David Ely #

Dodgeball Social, like Friendster for your mobile phone

— notifies you when your friends are within 10 blocks via Kottke #

Iconsurf, favicon.ico icon browser

— random 500 icons out of over 15,000 via Brett O'Connor #

Amazon's Red Light District

 #

PS2, Gamecube, Xbox wedding cakes

— what, no Atari 2600? #

There are 600 quintillion ways to spell Viagra

via Kottke #

Wired on Realplayer Suckfulness

— Tomas was interviewed for the article via jogin.com #

More Gmail beta testing

— including more screenshots #

Topographic page bookmarklet

— the deeper the element, the lighter it appears via Delicious #

Sony's wireless network plans for the PSP and PS3

— 802.11 instead of Bluetooth for both via evilavatar.com #

Kottke on GooOS, the Google operating system

— they said the same thing about Netscape, but this makes more sense #

Flash: Techno made from Windows default sounds

via Delicious #
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 #
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