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 #

Kids Show

Posted October 30, 2003 by Andy Baio

The following 14-minute masterpiece is the pilot for “Kids Show,” a deranged version of Sesame Street developed by comedy writers Vernon Chatman and John Lee for USA Networks, but recently sold to MTV for a six-episode contract. The quality of this video isn’t very good, but it doesn’t matter. (Warning: Not for the easily offended.)

Watch the video: Windows Media, 24MB (mirror)

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" #