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February 11, 2004

NYT profile on BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen

— using BitTorrent for illegal trading is “patently stupid because it’s not anonymous” #

Joshua "Praystation" Davis may appear on Queer Eye

— this should be good #

Googledorks

— exposing sensitive info with Google #
February 10, 2004

TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline

— teacher threatened to sue over student comments, via #

Democratic candidates quizzed on pop culture

— Clark thinks Justin Timberlake is a Beach Boy #

Image: Technorati visualizes the power curve

— rank vs inbound links on a logarithmic chart #

Reviewr, tying the Flickr API into Amazon API

— a small step towards one distributed identity for social software #

Flickr, real-time picture sharing

— Ludicorp’s second product goes beta, after GNE #

Video: Why the Mars Rover Failed

— by the guy who did the official MER animation #

MyDoom variant writes source code to infected hard drives

— “andy” may be trying to cover his tracks #

Cinema Redux, more algorithmic video art

— one 8×6 pixel thumbnail per second, one row per minute #

"No message please" iPod engraving

— when usability errors attack #

Producer of Beatles/Jay-Z "Grey Album" mash-up gets a cease and desist order

— from EMI, not Jay-Z #

P22 Type Specimen Playing Cards

— close-up image of the entire deck #

Dolphin, experimental Gamecube emulator

— very exciting screenshots #

Clever Paypal scam almost trips up Ev

— keep an eye out for this one #

Julian makes about $85/hour in Ultima Online

— not too shabby for playing video games all day #

Science Mag repeats Milgram's "Six Degrees" experiment by e-mail

— most people were only four degrees of separation apart #
February 9, 2004

Dooce's Heartbreaking Work of Super Pooping Genius

— baby Leta poops while Heather watches in envy #

"I Feel Great" Nutrigrain commercial

— original was taken offline, so I’m mirroring it #

Background on the Firefox logo

— the design team is dominated by bloggers #

Verisign considers relaunching Sitefinder "service"

— widely despised, for many good reasons #

Technorati adds full-text searching

— it’s fast and surprisingly good #

Background behind the Firebird rebranding ordeal

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Mozilla Firebird 0.8 renamed to Firefox

— it’s the most devastating killing machine ever built! #

Disney chooses Microsoft DRM for digital movie distribution

— they plan to start releasing movies online late 2004 or early 2005 #
February 8, 2004

Quiz: Bush or Palpatine?

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50 Coolest Apes of All Time

— celebrating the Year of the Monkey #

Gay Penguins in the Central Park Zoo

— more gay animals from Salon #

LA Times on William Hung

— makes inevitable comparison to Star Wars Kid, u/p: waxyorg/waxyorg #
February 5, 2004

Hacking Friendster, Part I

— cross-site scripting to become anyone’s friend #

Daily Cal interviews William Hung

— yes, the “She Bangs” guy from American Idol #
February 4, 2004

Viacom's internal memo about the Superbowl debacle

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Fark.com, the future of journalism

— weblogs and message boards break stories before the press #

Video: Spoof of Pepsi's iTunes Superbowl commercial

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Basecamp launches

— gorgeously usable hosted project management #

Pizza Party U.S.A.

— finally, someone’s taking charge of this country #

Crowd Simulation Framework for Java

— I’m off to reenact LOTR battles on my desktop #

Alternative Valentine's Day cards

— with PDFs suitable for printing #

Zelda: History or Myth?

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February 3, 2004

What's New in Firebird 0.8

— it’ll be out on Monday! #

Microsoft security education posters

— they should warn about the dangers of Outlook instead #

Half Life 2 sets a new release date

— if you call “late summer” a date #

Li'l Gn'R, the junior Guns n' Roses tribute band

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February 2, 2004

Profile of Snotty Richter, another big-time spammer

— don’t miss the punchline in the last paragraph of page 3 #

Google Textads for "Orkut"

— “can’t join Orkut? try us at FriendSync” #

Superbowl moment created biggest spike in TiVo history

— 180% increase in viewer reaction #

Xbox 2 specs leaked

— three 64-bit processors makes for a badass machine #

NYT on outsider artist Mingering Mike

— the original images were removed, but here are some hi-res scans #

Dave's Browser Support 2004 roundup

— also: The Counter’s global browser stats are back #
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