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March 26, 2004

Kottke tries the Times Square racing game

— read more about it at Gothamist #

Blogspot and Ben Brown's balls

— he dipped his balls in it #

Sippey on the layout of the big three travel sites

— homepage maps of Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity #

Bento box character photos

— Japanese food turned into cute creatures via Brett O'Connor #

Sony shows first PSP in-game footage

— looks like Death Jr. was heavily inspired by Grim Fandango via Game Tab #

Hide your valuables in fake dirty underwear

— add a couple Doo Drops to complete the illusion via b3ta #

The Method of Developing ICO

— the design process of my favorite PS2 game via Slashdot #

EV1 CEO has second thoughts about SCO deal

— he publicly says he shouldn’t have done it, in hindsight #

Half-Life 2 physics engine ported to PSP

— the Playstation Portable is powerful enough to handle Havok? #
March 25, 2004

Screenshots and videos of new Xbox 2 tech demos

— a bit underwhelming, really via Delicious #

Free Culture, Lessig's new book available for download

— I’m a bit behind on the memes today, sorry via napsterization.org #

Flash: Yacht.shtml

— video game core dump music video via abstractdynamics.org #

Audio: Comprehensive English Supplemental Audio #19a

— you must listen to this right now via torrez.org #

Exercise guru Richard Simmons cited for assault

— let’s drop our bags and rock to the ’50s! via Phil Fibiger #

Wired News on the InfocomBot

— now if only AOL would stop kicking it off the network #

Google Voice Search Demo

— search Google by phone via Graham Leuschke #

TiVo plans commercial on demand

— view extended ad content linked from ads using the TiVo remote #
March 24, 2004

Speak & Spell simulator

— silly nostalgic fun #

BannedMusic.org, Downhill Battle's virtual record label

— distributing banned albums with BitTorrent via techlawadvisor.com #

First Danger Hiptop 2 pictures

— it looks like candy #

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 #
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