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October 30, 2003
New Kazaa beta attempts legitimacy
— download it from their site, if you don't mind spyware #
Soda's Moovl
— like a very intuitive version of Sodaplay #
Entire contents of S.F. apartment stolen
— after cleaning it out, they cleaned it up #
Microsoft Wallop
— intelligent microcontent client for Longhorn #
Neat Expose/Ctrl-Tab idea
— Windows should adopt this, as well #
October 29, 2003
Lafayette Project renamed to Kinja
— supposed to go live in the next two months #
2600 on the White House robots.txt
— the excluded files were available elsewhere on the site #
Build your own tail
— sure, but is it prehensile? #
October 28, 2003
End of the World
— Flash, one potential scenario #
Feedroll javascript includes
— add arbitrary RSS feeds to your site via Javascript includes #
Worst infographic ever
— you'd burn to death while trying to interpret this map #
TinyURL whacking
— someone there has a sense of humor #
October 27, 2003
The White House's robots.txt
— why hide so much from Google? #
Your Own Dot Org
— Shannon's tribute song to Ben & Mena #
Cher anonymously calls C-SPAN
— I'd love an audio clip of this #
Sidetalkin'
— mocking the Nokia N-Gage #
October 26, 2003
Jack Valenti stepping down
— replaced by Billy Tauzin, who took $99k from the media industry last year #
MyTunes, cheat for Windows iTunes
— save shared music on your network to your hard drive #
October 25, 2003
Amazon's Book Search threatened by Author's Guild
— they bring up some great ideas, like searching cookbooks and reference materials #
Sand applet
— left-click to draw, right-click to erase #
Power Filesharer
— 23 200GB drives is 4.6 terabytes #
October 24, 2003
Toilets in video games
— Ignore the Russian text (via Kafkaesque) #
The Aeron wheelchair
— who needs a Segway? #
Dan Engor's GPS Tron
— run around with your friends and trap them in your path #
"Blogs: Fad or Goldmine?"
— Ciaran Buckley: clueless or inept? #
AOL software silently disables Windows Messenger service
— most people don't use it, but it's a dangerous precedent #
eBay affiliates spamming Google
— I expect Google to retaliate any day now #
October 23, 2003
"I want to be an engineer… Sex can wait!"
— if you're an engineer, you're probably involuntarily abstaining anyway #
Text editor for the Gameboy Advance
— interface input optimized for joypads #
Wired on Amazon's full-text searching and the Internet Archive
— possibly the first time Wired has published a story online before printing it #
Bloggers Vol. 1
— I just ordered this Japanese magazine about Mighty Morphin' Power Bloggers #