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March 24, 2004

Jack Valenti retiring from the MPAA

— it’ll be hard to find a bigger jerk to replace him, but I’m sure they’ll succeed via Boing Boing #
March 23, 2004

Guide to Indie-Rock Hair

— Julian Casablancas as Vinnie Barbarino via torrez.org #

Paul Ford redesigns Ftrain.com

— finally, a site that takes advantage of my 2048×1536 resolution #

Real Networks' CEO urges Apple to open iPod

— Rob Glaser, champion of open platforms! #

Unreal 2004 cheaters will have their CD keys banned

— hopefully, they won’t spoof the serials from unbought copies via Todd Dominey #

The Science of Eternal Sunshine

— SBJ digs into the subtleties of memory erasing via stevenberlinjohnson.com #

NES Mini in the U.S.?

— 20th anniversary NES nostalgia for the GBA #

Recovering data from discarded hard drives for fun

— maybe you’ll end up with a celebrity’s hard drive! via Boing Boing #

Pricewatch's $10,000 t-shirt contest entries

— hardware geeks and Photoshop don’t mix (except for #193 and #174); here’s the rules #

Black on Black, Jay-Z vs Metallica mash-up

— download the whole album with BitTorrent via Boing Boing #

Typekey FAQ answers all questions

— naturally, Winer isn’t satisfied #
March 22, 2004

A Brief Conversation with the Blogosphere

— or: if Blogdex could talk #

Cameron interviews the "Nanniebot"

— seems like an obvious fraud to me, confirming suspicions #

3D rendering of Back to the Future's Hill Valley in 1955

— the entire town square and Marty’s hoverboard, all made with Sketchup #

New Technorati beta site

— much more pleasant to look at via Boing Boing #

Worldbuilder, Lego real-time strategy game

— from the brilliant designers at Gamelab via MetaFilter #

Mark Pilgrim's hilarious rant on Typekey

— he’s taken sarcasm to new undiscovered heights #
March 21, 2004

Do we really use only 10% of our brains?

— well… no. via Boing Boing #

A Prayer for the Part-Time BBS

— there were several evening-only BBSes in the 818 and 805 #

Criminals follow laws of statistics

— crime rates follow power laws via Cam Marlow #

Adam Gessaman on the Typekey backlash

— I agree with everything he said #

Video: Night of the Living Dead

— the entire movie is freely available on Archive.org! via Delicious #

Poker probability calculator

— using one of the more esoteric open-source projects I’ve ever seen via Delicious #

Sarah Champion on being mistaken for Belle du Jour

— LinkMachineGo is keeping tabs on the story as it develops via timemachinego.com #

Dept. of Homeland Security's "Entertainment Liaison Office" job description

— they’re looking for an insider to control Hollywood’s portrayal of the DHS #
March 20, 2004

The Untitled Project, urban photos stripped of all typography

— too bad the typefaces only rarely match via typographi.ca #

eBay vigilantes fight auction fraud

— looks like it’s vigilante week on the web via Slashdot #

Video: One-legged Dance Dance Revolution

— he came in second place according to this thread via Brett O'Connor #

Yahoo's Web Rank

— their version of Google’s Pagerank, only viewable from their toolbar via Philipp Lenssen #

Image: Left arrow

— note the URL and filename via Brett O'Connor #
March 19, 2004

Typekey, central authentication for blog comments

— not limited to MovableType blogs, either via Anil Dash #

Scientific American on Tetris dreams

— I think everyone with the first generation Gameboy experienced this via Anil Dash #

LOAF, social network filtering for e-mail

— Maciej and Joshua’s idea to filter mail by sharing your entire address book via idlewords.com #

Kema.com's entire vinyl series

— this is some of the most entertaining research I’ve ever seen online #

Unreal 2004's hidden toilet vehicle

— the developers have a sense of humor via evilavatar.com #

USA Today compares Orkut and ICQ Universe

— short version: Orkut wins via socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com #

Vigilante group entraps and exposes online pedophiles

— the story of one person’s exposure, here’s their official site #

Anti-piracy vigilantes track P2P users

— they’re logging and publishing the IP addresses of everyone that runs the fake cracks via Slashdot #

SketchUp, sketch-based 3D design software

— I wish all 3D FPS level editors were like this via Delicious #
March 18, 2004

On gay characters in videogames

via Slashdot #

Yetisports 3, Seal Bounce

— much better than the last game via Andrew Chorney #

Sports Illustrated's digital photo workflow

— a glimpse into a major magazine’s editing process via John Walkenbach #

Doom, the board game

— great, but can I kill zombies with a shotgun? #

100 most mispronounced words in the English language

— Febyuary, nucular, sherbert, and other verbage via Delicious #

Secret Service affidavit on Fox Entertainment's movie piracy bust

— fascinating details of how they caught a pirating employee #

Jeffrey Veen doesn't care about accessibility

— his SXSW notes are great reading for anyone who designs for the web #

Unreal 2004 comes on six CDs and takes up 5.5 gigs

— time to start distributing games on DVDs, I guess #

People kissed by Min Jung at SXSW

— she really gets around via Delicious #

Degree Confluence Project world maps

— snapshots from every degree intersection in the world via Eyebeam #

Eyezmaze's Vanilla growing game

— from the same guy that made Grow via Things Magazine #
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