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February 29, 2004
NES BitTorrent video downloads (

more neat speed runs

)
Mehack (

Raffi Krikorian's new hardware hacking blog

)
The Girl Who Feels No Pain (

this is the most disturbing thing I've read in months

)
When Journalists Blog, Editors Get Nervous (

the NYT doesn't allow employees to have personal blogs?

)
Balloons and Ribbon as Social Networking Visualization
February 28, 2004
Final Fantasy Online webcam (

supposedly a live stream from inside the multiplayer game world

)
Creative Commons Moving Image Contest Winners (

wow, top-notch design from Justin Cone

)
Last Panel, animated short film about an animator and his creation (

an indirect tribute, only because Mickey's still in copyright prison

)
NPR on the Grey Album (

clips from all three albums, and an interview with DJ Danger Mouse

)
February 27, 2004
Ninja Golf for the Atari 7800 (

I thought it was an elaborate joke, but it's real

)
Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 2 (

writing an autotagger for your MP3 collection

)
Paul Boutin covers BitTorrent for Slate
Blogrolling acquired by Tucows (

Joey has more info on the buyout

)
Jeffery Veen's Webmonkey eulogy (

this Atom writeup from the 24th may be their last article

)
Audioscrobbler weekly charts (

they've added excellent artist similarity and more plugins

)
Will Eisner's new comic on the "Elders of Zion" forgery (

not familiar with his work? you're missing out

)
List of senators' positions on the gay marriage amendment (

I love when bloggers do the footwork

)
Crosswalk buttons don't actually do anything (

at least in New York

)
Smith & Wesson chairman quits over criminal past (

did time for armed robberies and a bank heist in the '50s and '60s

)
Playing with Time video clips (

the time-lapse pregnancy and aging woman are amazing

)
Video: Insane Russian talk show fight (

the Russian equivalent of Jerry Springer, I guess (via b3ta)

)
Video: Raging Fred (

pure genius, pairing Flintstones video with dialogue from Raging Bull

)
New Super Mario Bros speed record (

five minutes and 17 seconds, I want to see the video

)
Oscar gift bags 2004 (

probably around $50k of swag

)
EA closes down Origin and Maxis (

via Nelson

)
Giant pandas roam Times Square (

I'm guessing there's bamboo in the attache cases

)
The Anti-Miscegenation Amendment of 1912 (

history repeats itself

)
February 26, 2004
1up's long piece on Interactive Fiction (

including several great interviews

)
Video: Japanese commercial for PS2 game Katamari Damashii (

amazingly strange ball rolling video game

)
Verisign sues ICANN over Sitefinder (

Verisign is competing with SCO for Most Evil Company

)
Apple v. Apple judge is an iPod owner
Program Andrew Grumet's TiVo (

some badass TiVo hacking, from the RSSTV guy

)
History of the telephone greeting rivalry (

Bell wanted "Ahoy Ahoy," but Edison coined the word "Hello"

)
EFF's primer of the Grey Tuesday legal issues (

does EMI have a case? not as strong as you'd think

)
Rebecca Blood's 13 ways to save Orkut (

great ideas, all of them

)
Comparison of most trafficked sites from 1996 and 2004 (

an .edu in the top 10? how quaint

)
February 25, 2004
FeedBurner, RSS/Atom feed filter (

stats tracking and other neat filters for your RSS feed

)
Anna, an animated short film made with the Quake III engine (

one flower's life story, very impressive work

)
Atari 2600 Combat level design contest winners (

the Adventure tribute is cute

)
Orkut revealed to be a college thesis experiment (

hmm, that sounds familiar

)
How Californians see the U.S. (

that map seems about right to me

)
Goodle News (

all good news, all the time

)
Woman says 'I Don't' at NBA game, with video (

update: it was a prank

)
Snack Mascots Gallery (

from the RSS-friendly snack review site, Taquitos.net

)
Abcdefghi..., world's longest e-mail address webmail (

they offer an unusual list of benefits

)
b3ta interviews Orisinal's Ferry Halim (

he makes lovely games

)
Google redesign exercise (

somehow, I missed this last month

)
Yahoo vs Google search visualization (

elegant way to compare results between engines

)
February 24, 2004
Hilarious movie review of 2001's ".com for Murder" (

starring Huey Lewis, according to the IMDB entry

)
Image: This Sign Has Sharp Edges
Federal judge's Talking Heads tribute (

this is not my beautiful house!

)
NYT on Grey Tuesday (

with quotes from EMI, Downhill Battle, and Zittrain

)
Clips from all the animated Oscar nominees
Craig's List: will trade web design for massage (

he's a great designer, and a handsome guy to boot

)
FOAF added to Livejournal
Top Twelve Reasons Against Gay Marriage (

dripping with sarcasm, but funny and poignant

)
2004 Scene.org demo award nominees (

the year's best real-time, algorithmic art

)
February 23, 2004
Slate dissects the Quizno's ads (

they've got a pepper bar!

)
There.com simulating Earth for the Department of Defense (

so military personnel can chat and ride hoverboards

)
New York Romscapes (

where New York meets Nintendo

)
EMI/Capitol e-mailing preemptive cease and desist e-mails to all Grey Tuesday sites (

expect an e-mail, whether you're hosting the album or not

)
MP3: The Orkut Song (

Spatch's answer to Tapdance (The Friendster Song)

)
Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die (

the Zen koan of interactive text games from 1996, requires Java

)
UK thieves are mugging people for iPods (

the white headphones are stylish, but a huge target

)
Staten Island reporter writes about her appearance on The Apprentice (

reality TV never ends up being very real

)
GeoOrkut creator responds to spidering questions (

by the way, here's my hood in GeoOrkut

)
Evolution of orcs in video games (

via my new favorite link log, Things Magazine

)
Terrible celebrity impersonators from Amsterdam (

the worst are Sarah Jessica Parker and Tom Hanks

)
Rise of the Lost, iPod game (

choose your own adventure for the iPod

)
Google starts penalizing for blog spamming? (

has anyone seen similar reports?

)
February 22, 2004
The ethics of scraping Orkut (

is it okay to violate TOS for research?

)
Imaginary Girlfriends (

filling the gap left by banned eBay auctions

)
Washington Post goes to Jenin to track down Earth Station V (

they can't find anyone

)
Mydoom.F variation attacks the RIAA (

idiocy disguised as advocacy

)
February 21, 2004
Chicago Tribune falls for Denounce's Amazon-Orkut parody (

user/pass: waxyorg/waxyorg

)
End of four-month L.A. grocery strike may be near (

I haven't had Apple Jacks in four months

)
List of things that are the new black (

"$noun is the new black" is the new black

)
Virus distributors selling lists of infected machines to spammers (

this is very bad, virus writing is a career for some

)
Indie filmmaker Sarah Jacobson dies of cancer at 32 (

she was a Gettingit contributor and friend of the staff

)
February 20, 2004
Hamster Music (

intelligent MIDI sequencing with hamster control

)
Cute, but mildly disturbing, baby costumes (

babies dressed as animals, dragons, fruit, and adults

)
Student arrested for bringing Game Boy bomb to school (

what a waste; I would've used an N-Gage

)
Deaddrop and Moogle, two great ideas from Boogah (

Google should start indexing all public discussion lists

)
Nintendo Famicom 2004 calendar (

it'll probably show up in Hot Topic any day now

)
EMI lawyer sends pre-emptive Grey Tuesday e-mail to George (

being listed first on the official site didn't help him any

)
Tom Otterness' 9/11 Memorial (

Metafilter has some other good ones

)
8up, clever Japanese Flash game (

reminds me of the Tapper mini-game

)
Eddie Clontz, editor of Weekly World News, dead at 56 (

all of the obits are great, but this one stands out

)
February 19, 2004
Space Invaders gang render (

my new desktop wallpaper

)
Usenet kook, "FBI is torturing me for 2.5 Years" (

the guy badly needs meds, his replies are depressing

)
Rollup.org, free and public multi-feed aggregator (

might be fun to publicly aggregate your feedroll

)
Teen hacker triggered nuclear terrorism alert (

by setting up an FTP site for music and movies, no less

)
Make Your Own Pruno (

a prison wine created from fruit, sugar and ketchup

)
Analysis of the Beatles' Revolution 9 collage (

or try the detailed timeline

)
Personal e-mail networks to filter out spam (

compile a list of From/Cc/Bcc addresses from good e-mail to build a whitelist

)
Napster 2.0 is losing money, executives, and will to live (

I can't believe they even pull in $1 million a month

)
Zeldman on the current drop shadow and bevel revival (

I'm waiting for page curls and Kai fractal backgrounds to make a comeback

)
Steriogram's "Walkie Talkie Man" (

stop-motion knitting music video directed by Michel Gondry

)
John Hargrave orders Viagra online and reports the effects (

Zug.com has been makng me laugh for almost ten years

)
Verizon drops several binary newsgroups, blocks new binary groups (

yet another reason to pay for a premium feed

)
Video game to help UK flood planners (

FloodRanger, the SimCity clone for earth science geeks

)
Grey Tuesday, Free the Grey Album (

post the album on your site for 24 hours

)
February 18, 2004
Ben and Mena on Yahoo News Photos (

cute AND famous

)
Traffic Island art project (

a tiny house and garden built overnight in the middle of a busy freeway island

)
Wedding proposal casemod (

"will you do me the honor... of hot-swapping that RAID?"

)
PocketSNES, first SNES emulator for the GBA released! (

screenshots, confirmed working games and lots of discussion

)
Hybrid, an insanely detailed role playing game (

seems autogenerated, but only a real human could be this insane

)
New Yahoo search returns RSS/XML feeds (

and the option to add the feeds to My Yahoo!

)
Autotrace, convert PNG bitmaps to vectors (

output format can be AI, SVG, or more

)
Lazy reporters lean on Google for meaningless statistics (

it's the new Lexis-Nexis!

)
Facebook, the Friendster clone for Harvard students and alum (

"Hey, I’m your friend." "Are you joking me?"

)
How to find winning Pepsi iTunes bottles before buying (

Gillmor calls it an analog hack

)
Plink's "Photos of Andy Baio" (

Plink apparently thinks I'm this young Asian girl

)
Rubhub, the XHTML Friend Network search engine (

the XFN counterpart to FOAF's Plink

)
Kevin Fox on Yahoo's new search results (

they're blending paid results with search results, a big no-no

)
MP3: DJ Penfold remixes DJ Danger Mouse's remix (

is this illegal too? probably, because IP law is broken

)
February 17, 2004
Regional Baskin-Robbins flavors
"@" Symbol Added to Morse Code (

dot dash dash dot dash dot

)
Orkut Density Map (

truly incredible geospatial visualization of Orkut users

)
State of the Arcade Industry 2004 (

the shift to player communities is exciting

)
Mediachest (

personal media inventory management goes social

)
Missing for 14 years, teen finds himself on Internet (

found his own photo on a Missing Children website

)
Chad Oakenfold's Stabbing Machine (

more photos on his homepage

)
Yahoo Switched to Inktomi (

and Google's index grew 25% to 4.2 billion pages

)
Paul Boutin's Webmonkey eulogy on Wired News
Downhill Battle on the Grey Album (

the best summary of the relevant copyright issues that I've seen

)
February 16, 2004
WaPo's Future of Search feature
Edson cover of The Darkness' "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" (

an acoustic, heart-warming love song

)
Hacking Social Networks, pt 2 (

discovering or abusing Friendster by last name, ZIP, and e-mail addresses

)
Using video games to market new cars (

what, no Volvo station wagons?

)
Akimbo, on-demand TV over the Net (

instead of buying another set-top box, TiVo should be offering this

)
XFire, instant messaging for online gamers (

I'd rather have this as a Trillian plugin

)
K5 analyzes the leaked Win2k source (

also via Boing Boing

)
Polaroid's Outkast FAQ (

do not shake it like a Polaroid picture

)
Gum Blondes (

100% chewed bubblegum portraits on plywood backing

)
Reuters on the Grey Album (

and it mentions my site

)
Lindows uses BitTorrent for distribution
February 15, 2004
Canadian RIAA to launch dozens of Kazaa lawsuits (

the ISPs are fighting it

)
February 14, 2004
Slice City, play Simcity within The Sims (

meta-Sims, via Wired News

)
Phony LinkedIn account gets real links (

very few people turn down friend requests

)
Book Reader for the GBA (

see also: E-Book Advance

)
Flash: Grow (

solution: cube, ladder, egg, ball, mountain, pipe, propeller, wind, gear, dish, rocket, tv

)
Disinformation: The Complete Series DVD (

did you know disinfo.com had a TV show in the UK?

)
February 13, 2004
Signup no longer required to make Paypal payment (

simpler online payments are a good thing

)
Ben Goodger on the road to Firefox 1.0 (

"I am here...to steal as much market share from IE as possible"

)
FireSomething plugin for Mozilla Firewaxy (

don't like the new name? change it to whatever you want

)
Story of the Webmonkey layoffs from their former editor
Win2k and NT4 source code leaked online (

confirmed by Microsoft

)
February 12, 2004
Wargames Tic-Tac-Toe Screensaver (

the only way to win is not to play

)
iPodLounge tries to predict future iPod models (

reasonably well-informed guesses

)
The Magical Skillset of Elves (

versatile pointy-eared little freaks

)
Matt Webb's ETech presentation on Glancing (

I'm looking at you right now

)
Lycos lays off Webmonkey staff (

sad, but it's amazing they survived as long as they did

)
Elephant vs Bird game (

13.2 20.2 seconds!

)
February 11, 2004
The Back to the Future Tour (

I grew up about a mile from Doc's garage

)
Game pirate gets four years in jail, $700k fine (

Breen led the infamous group Razor 1911

)
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 8x6 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
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?
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
Fark.com, the future of journalism (

weblogs and message boards break stories before the press

)
Video: Spoof of Pepsi's iTunes Superbowl commercial
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?
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
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

)
Video game tablature (

written system for choreographing Super Mario Bros. moves

)
February 1, 2004
Wired Reach (

decentralized social networking app for Mac and Windows

)
Video games predict the 2004 Super Bowl
Geek names baby son 2.0 (

boy, you'd have to be pretty geeky to do something like that

)