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October 31, 2003
Obsolete games exempt from copyright (

most ROMs are now legal?!

)
Boing Boing's new IP address (

domain will start resolving correctly soon

)
CEO Halloween Masks (

Forbes has the most annoying video ads

)
And Microsoft wants to buy Google
Friendster rejects Google's $30m buyout bid (

I can't believe they turned it down

)
October 30, 2003
Death notice of Gertrude M. Jones (

unusual obituary, more from Snopes

)
Sonic Wire Sculpture (

3D rotating sketchpad translates lines to sound

)
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

)
Cory explains Boing Boing's downtime
Insanely great pumpkin carvings (

the best I've seen

)
Pac-Man for Excel 97 and 2000 (

also: a flight simulator for Excel

)
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
Microsoft temp fired for blogging (

the offending entry

)
End of the World (

Flash, one potential scenario

)
How not to advertise on the Internet (

via Michel

)
Draft Wesley Crusher (

the other Wesley

)
Feedroll javascript includes (

add arbitrary RSS feeds to your site via Javascript includes

)
Google interested in creating a book database (

wants to compete with Amazon?

)
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
Man's self-written obituary contains grandiose lies
VH-1's "I Love 6 Months Ago"
The White House's robots.txt (

why hide so much from Google?

)
First-hand blogging of the SoCal fires (

another list of San Diego bloggers

)
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

)
There.com officially launches online world (

with virtual Nike product tie-ins

)
Fox News threatened Simpsons over parody (

Fox News vs. Fox Broadcasting

)
Analog music library at MIT
October 26, 2003
In-car device changes stoplights from red to green (

cause traffic accidents for only $300

)
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

)
Highly addictive SnakeJump game (

old, but good Java applet

)
What's the Diff: the MPAA's new anti-piracy curriculum for classrooms (

with fun activities like "Starving Artist"

)
eBay affiliates spamming Google (

I expect Google to retaliate any day now

)
October 23, 2003
Google considers online IPO auction
"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

)
Jason Salavon's amazing portfolio (

don't miss Song of the Century, Late Night Triad and Every Playboy Centerfold

)
Dartmouth's wireless setup and the wireless future (

via Matt

)
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

)
Mat Honan on latest anti-spam bill (

why the Burns-Wyden bill is thinly-veiled pro-spam legislation

)
Amazon adds full-text searching of 120,000 books (

requires a valid credit card to view pages, though

)
Malcolm McLaren on the Gameboy music scene (

people are still making MODs, too

)
Spin magazine's media kit (

PDF, targeting the 25-year-old, $60k/year male demographic

)
7th grader's Internet research gets red-flagged by FBI (

also: the Transportation Authority are a bunch of squealers

)
iTunes 4.1.1 for Windows (

"Keep iTunes Music folder organized" preference is now turned off by default

)
Florence Lawrence, the first movie star (

careers ruined by the introduction of sound in movies

)
Why Moreover was an innovator
October 22, 2003
Fred "Rerun" Berry dead (

will he be buried in a red beret?

)
16oz Jamba Juice for $1 (

Thursday 3-6pm, not really prime smoothie time

)
Todd Rundgren commentary on the music industry (

argues that labels have mishandled music downloads

)
Dave Winer: don't comment on my site (

he removed the entry shortly after posting it

)
Britta's notes from the Lessig/Rosen debate
Ann Coulter talking action figure
Elliot Smith, dead at 34 (

so very sad

)
October 21, 2003
Leonard's writeup of tonight's Larry Lessig/Hilary Rosen debate (

more info, audio should be forthcoming

)
New Fiona Apple album due in February (

four years in the making

)
Webcam Painting Tool (

paint with live webcam images around the web

)
9/11 Survivor game (

morbid Unreal mod lets players escape before towers collapse, Mefi

)
ABC's Saturday Morning Fall Preview Special from 1983 (

Rubik the Amazing Cube, Pac-Man, and the Monchichis

)
Light of Other Days (

Slow glass, ten years thick [indirectly via Ming]

)
History of Joe Portman Sand Worm Infection
rssWeather (

local weather reports via RSS

)
NYT gets a facelift (

headlines all in Cheltenham typeface, example

)
October 20, 2003
The Inner Lives of Fonts (

Aimee Bender's very short stories about typefaces

)
This Is the Title of This Story (

Self-referential goodness

)
Pongomania (

fun with modeling clay, via Mefi

)
Beanie Baby Meltdown on eBay (

or brilliant ruse? it sold for $860

)
Mobile gaming ideas (

Ghostbusters for GPS-enabled devices sounds fun

)
Statistical Analysis of the World Series (

Game 7 occurs much more often than simple probability would suggest

)
Outside the Inbox (

songs inspired by spam

)
Washington Post pulls week of Boondocks comics about Condi Rice (

read the pulled strips

)
The nTag Sleep Attack (

tech conference attendees hack their "smart" badges

)
Turn your Nokia cellphone into a Gameboy
How to render the Segway obsolete (

they'll architect cities around it

)
Amazing video of Ohio school bus rollover accident (

mirror, no serious injuries

)
Student fools international newspapers with spoof story (

story behind the fake CNN "fellatio cures breast cancer" article

)
Princess Diana predicted own death in handwritten letter
One million songs sold since Thursday's iTunes for Windows launch (

14 million songs sold since April launch

)
Jesus teething ring
New Google feature: "define" (

retrieves definitions culled from the web

)
Fear to Fear (

Leonard's short film about the dangers of p2p

)
Mandy Moore has decent taste in music (

covers XTC, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens on new album... who knew?

)
October 19, 2003
New Strokes video for "12:51" (

WMV, heavily Tron-inspired

)
Original Albini mix of Nirvana's "All Apologies"
McLuhan's Medium Is The Massage (

explains the origin of the book's title

)
October 18, 2003
Foo Camp interview videos (

that's me walking behind Ben and Mena

)
Britney Spears look-alike (

don't forget to scroll down

)
CSS art, no images (

like ANSI art for the new millennium

)
October 17, 2003
PSA: iTunes for Windows moves and renames MP3s (

looks like Adam got burned, too

)
Winamp 5 Beta
Banned Schwarzenegger mural (

and you thought L.A. traffic couldn't get any worse

)
Website users legally changing names to match usernames (

it'd be nice to write "Wax Pancake" on my tax forms

)
Tall people earn more (

$789/year per extra inch

)
ESPN Sportcenter pranked by "Cubs fan" impersonator
Baton Teleplay Modem (

unreleased 2400 baud modem for the NES, SNES and Genesis

)
Time Warner's new logo (

the usage guidelines are cute

)
iTunes Link Maker (

search the store from the web

)
Free web hosting for 3 years (

500MB space, 5GB/month transfer, no credit cards, no catches

)
Black Like I Thought I Was (

take the test yourself for $158

)
Social Software Mind Map (

messy, but shows how far it reaches

)
October 16, 2003
iTunes for Windows (

and it's not crippled at all

)
Subjecting today's children to yesterday's gaming classics (

"I'm sure everyone who made this game is dead by now."

)
GBA adapter for NES cartridges (

includes authentic "blowing in cartridge" action

)
October 15, 2003
Arcade Ambience MP3s (

1-hour-long collages of arcade sounds created with MAME!

)
Lady Liberty and the Three Impossible Dreams (

101-chapter fan-fiction epic, a Buffy/Harry Potter crossover set during the American Revolution

)
Bayesian spam filter for MovableType
Great profile of Linus Torvalds (

Touches on the SCO lawsuit, but mostly about his personality

)
Bit Spirit, new BitTorrent client (

Powerful manager for serving/downloading multiple BitTorrent files

)
Cubs Fan identified by name (

coming soon: Chicago man torn apart by wild mob

)
Yahoo Serious resents Yahoo website (

he made the cover of Time!?

)
Firebird 0.7 released (

nasty font treatment, though

)
Salon on the "dolling" subculture (

I have one too

)
October 14, 2003
Man.cx (

a work-safe alternative to Goatse.cx

)
Every Second Counts (

Flash, try to meet the target time

)
The Clay Eaters (

Pregnant women compelled to eat dirt

)
The Woman Who Vomited Frogs (

Compulsive swallowing and eating habits

)
CNN covers darknets like Waste and Freenet (

Ian Clarke looks sad

)
Six degrees and the Bacon/Erdos number
Danny O'Brien on Foo Camp and the death of the private register (

Also: Andrew Orlowski pokes fun at us

)
October 13, 2003
Amazing treemap of Usenet (

or delve into the rest of the data

)
Massive collaborative hypercomic (

featuring 20 great artists, including Chris Ware

)
St. George, Patron Saint of Photo Opportunities (

Strange caption... Is he appearing on BET and the Food Network?

)
Sony may drop PS2 price to $99 in mid-November (

Target in-store advertisements reveal possible price cuts

)
Open Video Project (

2,000 videos and growing, similar to Archive.org's movies library

)
Justin Hall's gallery of emerging Japanese cellphone tech
Bio-chips for detecting dengue fever in South America
Stupid Dreams (

Exploding Dog on The Morning News

)
NYC city guide written by people on PDAs
Clay Shirky on file-sharing and darknets (

The move toward trust-based P2P

)
Prince wants his music back (

Asks for fans to send him unauthorized recordings

)
Gizmodo on uLocate (

GPS cellphone service tracks your friends and family location on a map

)
MT-Blacklist coming later today (

Robust solution for defeating weblog comment spam

)
Oddball CPAN modules (

Perl programmers get bored too

)
Re Rill Not Forget (

September 11 remembered, Scooby-style

)
October 10, 2003
Waco Resurrection (

3D multiplayer game/art project that reenacts the 1993 Branch Davidian stand-off in Waco, Texas

)
Napster 2.0 won't work with iPods
October 9, 2003
North Korean anti-American propaganda (

Bizarre, head-bangin' music video

)
Sign added to Disneyland's Tower of Terror
Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies (

Quantum physics meets Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

)
Deleted political cartoons from Al-Jazeera (

removed at State Department's request

)
Photographic Chinese Whispers
SunComm sues Princeton student over "shift key" workaround (

Expose obvious flaws in crappy DRM, get sued by clueless company

)
Universe may be finite
Miracle Berries transform sour tastes into sweet (

drink vinegar like grape juice

)
Ben Affleck's L'Oreal commercial (

banned in the US to protect his image

)
iTunes for Windows (

available next Thursday

)
Mark and Carla leave Rarotonga (

Ringworm no more

)
Dancing Eyes, bizarre Japanese arcade game (

Like Amidar meets Qix, but undressing schoolgirls and cows. Now in MAME

)
Hands-on with the PSX Playstation/PVR (

Don't miss the UI screenshot

)
Vatican vs. condoms (

Spreading lies to AIDS-ravaged countries

)
Simpsons movie references quiz (

I got 17

)
Orrin Hatch introduced constitutional amendment to allow foreign-born presidents (

Get ready for President Arnold

)
New iPod commercial
eMusic cancels unlimited downloads (

via Slashdot

)
The Playmate Financial Index
October 8, 2003
Smoking gun found (

Video of Powell stating Iraq had no WMD before the war

)
Robert Smith's Friendster profile (

Xeni must be a Cure groupie

)
Fresh Air Interview with Bill O'Reilly (

Bill cuts off the interview

)
FCC indirectly authorizes the 'f'-word (

FCC says "fuck" is okay when not referring to sex

)
Two Californias (

via Merlin via Kuniavsky

)