Ads via The Deck
March 31, 2004
Kinja scheduled to launch tomorrow (

digests of subject-specific weblogs for new readers

) [via]
4th Annual Chatterbox Challenge (

you can play with all the chatbot entries!

)
Altavista switched to Yahoo's database (

the former king of all search engines is dead

)
Recipe error could cause kitchen explosions (

sounds like Swedish Lemon Angels

) [via]
Google launching Gmail, free 1GB webmail? (

official temp page, and not an April Fool's prank

) [via]
Boston Globe on modchips (

not just for piracy, chips are used for homebrew games and apps

) [via]
Book deal for dragon hoax author (

created by a professional creature effects studio

) [via]
Sound of Magic, tribute to Disney theme park music (

amazing site with tons of interesting MP3 downloads

)
Letterman clip and the White House reaction (

very entertaining clips and response

)
Ashcroft creates task force for copyright violations (

I'm hoping this is an early April Fool's joke

)
Toronto court rules music sharing legal under Canadian copyright law (

plus, the Canadian RIAA can't subpoena ISPs for names

)
Popular Mechanics cover gallery (

from 1902 to 2004

) [via]
Historical relationship of height to success (

a society's height is a biological shorthand for well-being

) [via]
Shirky on micro-social software tailored to small groups (

not all software should be built to scale

) [via]
March 30, 2004
Technorati hits 2 million blogs (

I noticed it this morning, but was waiting from comments by Dave

)
Newsmap, Google News visualization (

size and color indicates importance and freshness

) [via]
Yahoo's Tim Koogle to replace Jon Abrams as Friendster CEO? (

he's a Nazi you know

) [via]
Peanut Butter Terror Time (

the Dept. of Homeland Security's terror alert banana

) [via]
Obsessive list of "stinking badges" references (

badges badges badges, mushroom mushroom

) [via]
Video: Zelda Dance Party (

Japanese rap, cosplay, dancing, and puppets!

)
March 29, 2004
Frequency chart of "blog" and "weblog" in daily newspapers (

"blog" is much more commonplace than "weblog" now

) [via]
Socialight, wireless social networks (

use your cell phone to gesture to people or annotate physical places

) [via]
Video: Zefrank rant on Friendster and social networks (

sarcastic and smooth

) [via]
Aaron's technical description of iTunes Music Store and DRM (

with a link back to my original thread about their encryption

) [via]
Leaked Catwoman and Spiderman 2 trailers (

Catwoman looks laughably bad, I'm mirroring it locally

)
Create your own iPod adventure games (

more like "choose your own adventure" stories than interactive fiction

) [via]
Heavy metal umlaut [via]
Gameboy Advance programming tutorial (

excellent crash course to creating a Pong clone

) [via]
FunHi, camgirl-ish gift economy (

the motives driving the site are unusual

)
Google Web Alerts (

get notified of new pages matching search terms

) [via]
Charlie Brown, existentialist (

The Great Pumpkin represents the absence of God

) [via]
Blogger gets a big icon on Google's new Options page (

here's a list of all the new Google changes

)
March 28, 2004
Songs about robots, MP3 mix tape (

the only mix tape with both tATu and Kompressor

) [via]
After Celebrity, the bizarre world of Livejournal celebrity role-playing (

they even have their own set of rules

)
Audioscrobbler adds support for Windows iTunes
Extinct Disneyland Attractions DVDs (

these vintage Disneyland home movies are great, too

) [via]
Flash: Warthog, alien car exposion game (

I can't get past level 38

)
NYT on web vigilantes (

sums up last week's trend

)
Guardian UK on Citizen Kubrick (

amazing glimpse into Kubrick's personal archives and library

) [via]
March 27, 2004
Nintendo confirms NES GBA reissues (

the $20 games are a rip-off, but I must have the NES-style GBA

) [via]
Far Cry's hostile copy protection (

installer won't run if a virtual drive app is also installed

)
Community recording Lessig's "Free Culture" as an audiobook (

sign up for a chapter

) [via]
Blogroll as a fractal (

I need to modify the Levitated source to make my own

) [via]
March 26, 2004
Reflections of a Texas prison cook (

he prepared the last meals for over 300 executions

) [via]
Stay Free interviews Rick Prelinger (

of the Prelinger archives

)
Screenshot leak of Gamecube Online? (

I guess I'll found out at E3 in May

)
Kottke tries the Times Square racing game (

read more about it at Gothamist

)
Blogspot and Ben Brown's balls (

he dipped his balls in it

)
Sippey on the layout of the big three travel sites (

homepage maps of Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity

)
Bento box character photos (

Japanese food turned into cute creatures

) [via]
Sony shows first PSP in-game footage (

looks like Death Jr. was heavily inspired by Grim Fandango

) [via]
Hide your valuables in fake dirty underwear (

add a couple Doo Drops to complete the illusion

) [via]
The Method of Developing ICO (

the design process of my favorite PS2 game

) [via]
EV1 CEO has second thoughts about SCO deal (

he publicly says he shouldn't have done it, in hindsight

)
Half-Life 2 physics engine ported to PSP (

the Playstation Portable is powerful enough to handle Havok?

)
March 25, 2004
Screenshots and videos of new Xbox 2 tech demos (

a bit underwhelming, really

) [via]
Free Culture, Lessig's new book available for download (

I'm a bit behind on the memes today, sorry

) [via]
Flash: Yacht.shtml (

video game core dump music video

) [via]
Audio: Comprehensive English Supplemental Audio #19a (

you must listen to this right now

) [via]
Exercise guru Richard Simmons cited for assault (

let's drop our bags and rock to the '50s!

) [via]
Wired News on the InfocomBot (

now if only AOL would stop kicking it off the network

)
Google Voice Search Demo (

search Google by phone

) [via]
TiVo plans commercial on demand (

view extended ad content linked from ads using the TiVo remote

)
March 24, 2004
Speak & Spell simulator (

silly nostalgic fun

)
BannedMusic.org, Downhill Battle's virtual record label (

distributing banned albums with BitTorrent

) [via]
First Danger Hiptop 2 pictures (

it looks like candy

)
Jack Valenti retiring from the MPAA (

it'll be hard to find a bigger jerk to replace him, but I'm sure they'll succeed

) [via]
March 23, 2004
Guide to Indie-Rock Hair (

Julian Casablancas as Vinnie Barbarino

) [via]
Paul Ford redesigns Ftrain.com (

finally, a site that takes advantage of my 2048x1536 resolution

)
Real Networks' CEO urges Apple to open iPod (

Rob Glaser, champion of open platforms!

)
Unreal 2004 cheaters will have their CD keys banned (

hopefully, they won't spoof the serials from unbought copies

) [via]
The Science of Eternal Sunshine (

SBJ digs into the subtleties of memory erasing

) [via]
NES Mini in the U.S.? (

20th anniversary NES nostalgia for the GBA

)
Recovering data from discarded hard drives for fun (

maybe you'll end up with a celebrity's hard drive!

) [via]
Pricewatch's $10,000 t-shirt contest entries (

hardware geeks and Photoshop don't mix (except for #193 and #174); here's the rules

)
Black on Black, Jay-Z vs Metallica mash-up (

download the whole album with BitTorrent

) [via]
Typekey FAQ answers all questions (

naturally, Winer isn't satisfied

)
March 22, 2004
A Brief Conversation with the Blogosphere (

or: if Blogdex could talk

)
Cameron interviews the "Nanniebot" (

seems like an obvious fraud to me, confirming suspicions

)
3D rendering of Back to the Future's Hill Valley in 1955 (

the entire town square and Marty's hoverboard, all made with Sketchup

)
New Technorati beta site (

much more pleasant to look at

) [via]
Worldbuilder, Lego real-time strategy game (

from the brilliant designers at Gamelab

) [via]
Mark Pilgrim's hilarious rant on Typekey (

he's taken sarcasm to new undiscovered heights

)
March 21, 2004
Do we really use only 10% of our brains? (

well... no.

) [via]
A Prayer for the Part-Time BBS (

there were several evening-only BBSes in the 818 and 805

)
Criminals follow laws of statistics (

crime rates follow power laws

) [via]
Adam Gessaman on the Typekey backlash (

I agree with everything he said

)
Video: Night of the Living Dead (

the entire movie is freely available on Archive.org!

) [via]
Poker probability calculator (

using one of the more esoteric open-source projects I've ever seen

) [via]
Sarah Champion on being mistaken for Belle du Jour (

LinkMachineGo is keeping tabs on the story as it develops

) [via]
Dept. of Homeland Security's "Entertainment Liaison Office" job description (

they're looking for an insider to control Hollywood's portrayal of the DHS

)
March 20, 2004
The Untitled Project, urban photos stripped of all typography (

too bad the typefaces only rarely match

) [via]
eBay vigilantes fight auction fraud (

looks like it's vigilante week on the web

) [via]
Video: One-legged Dance Dance Revolution (

he came in second place according to this thread

) [via]
Yahoo's Web Rank (

their version of Google's Pagerank, only viewable from their toolbar

) [via]
Image: Left arrow (

note the URL and filename

) [via]
March 19, 2004
Typekey, central authentication for blog comments (

not limited to MovableType blogs, either

) [via]
Scientific American on Tetris dreams (

I think everyone with the first generation Gameboy experienced this

) [via]
LOAF, social network filtering for e-mail (

Maciej and Joshua's idea to filter mail by sharing your entire address book

) [via]
Kema.com's entire vinyl series (

this is some of the most entertaining research I've ever seen online

)
Unreal 2004's hidden toilet vehicle (

the developers have a sense of humor

) [via]
USA Today compares Orkut and ICQ Universe (

short version: Orkut wins

) [via]
Vigilante group entraps and exposes online pedophiles (

the story of one person's exposure, here's their official site

)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track P2P users (

they're logging and publishing the IP addresses of everyone that runs the fake cracks

) [via]
SketchUp, sketch-based 3D design software (

I wish all 3D FPS level editors were like this

) [via]
March 18, 2004
On gay characters in videogames [via]
Yetisports 3, Seal Bounce (

much better than the last game

) [via]
Sports Illustrated's digital photo workflow (

a glimpse into a major magazine's editing process

) [via]
Doom, the board game (

great, but can I kill zombies with a shotgun?

)
100 most mispronounced words in the English language (

Febyuary, nucular, sherbert, and other verbage

) [via]
Secret Service affidavit on Fox Entertainment's movie piracy bust (

fascinating details of how they caught a pirating employee

)
Jeffrey Veen doesn't care about accessibility (

his SXSW notes are great reading for anyone who designs for the web

)
Unreal 2004 comes on six CDs and takes up 5.5 gigs (

time to start distributing games on DVDs, I guess

)
People kissed by Min Jung at SXSW (

she really gets around

) [via]
Degree Confluence Project world maps (

snapshots from every degree intersection in the world

) [via]
Eyezmaze's Vanilla growing game (

from the same guy that made Grow

) [via]
March 17, 2004
Google Pagerank Tool (

enter in URLs to find out their pagerank

) [via]
Video: Immortel trailer (

intense looking French sci-fi, reminds me of the Casshern trailer

) [via]
The Pink Lady of Malibu Canyon
Image: Goatse reference in Unreal 2004 (

okay, no more goatse links

) [via]
Dating goes wireless with MIT Media Lab's Serendipity (

social networking with proximity alerts

)
Morse code hidden in music (

the rhythm for the Rush song "YYZ" spells those letters in Morse

)
United Media's lawyers C&Ded everyone hosting the "Hey Ya" Charlie Brown video (

copy of the cease and desist, and my local mirror of the video

)
Corante's great series on broadcatching news (

RSS + BitTorrent = broadcatching

)
Friendster CEO Jon Abrams' keynote at SXSW (

Matt and Danah think he's a bit of an ass

)
Translation guide for Perl and PHP (

very handy, bookmarked for later

) [via]
Google integrates localized search with live search results (

for example, "donuts santa monica"

)
March 16, 2004
Maciej hacks Russian literature (

geeks eat books for breakfast

)
Great roundup of old ZX Spectrum software found on vinyl albums (

including the Thompson Twins graphic adventure game!

) [via]
BitTorrent gains corporate support (

Blizzard and Valve are using it for distribution

)
Ask Dr. Michael, the 8-year-old advice columnist
Lifeline, Konami's voice recognition game for the PS2 (

the official site isn't very good, but the game sounds strangely good

) [via]
Starbucks opens first music cafe in U.S. (

three blocks away from me, I'm heading over there to see Rufus play

)
CNN on the Gameboy DS (

free wireless gaming and local IM capabilities over RF

) [via]
I, Lobot (

the Star Wars geeks have a sense of humor

)
ScummVM 0.6.0 released (

now supports all of Lucasarts' SCUMM-based games

)
Space Lane, vertical panoramic artwork [via]
Outdated web design cliches (

someone should put every one of these on one page

)
Comic books coming to the GBA in Japan (

distributed by kiosks that write to blank cartridges

) [via]
March 15, 2004
iLife '84 (

it's like Microsoft Works for the rest of your life

)
Stewart answers questions by random AIM users (

hilarity ensues

) [via]
DevilFinder, high-res image searching (

for example, searches for atari and piracy

)
40-page Mac ad from 1984's Newsweek (

Apple bought every page of advertising in the Nov/Dec 1984 issue

)
Blik, wall graphic decals (

their entire collection is nice

) [via]
Image: Goatree (

I've been on the web too long

)
Not the 100th Strongbad E-mail (

for real

) [via]
Jokes cut from SNL's Weekend Update (

appeared in dress rehearsals, but cut from the show for various reasons

) [via]
Jay-Zeezer, the Black Album meets Weezer's Blue Album (

thanks to the Jay-Z Construction Kit

) [via]
ArtRage, freeware painting package for Windows (

very nicely simulates paint on a canvas

) [via]
Video: iPod^3 virtual reality of The Shining's Overlook Hotel (

I suspect 3D games will eventually look this good

) [via]
March 14, 2004
Snopes on nameless TV characters (

Colombo, Quincy, Agent 99, Mr. Big, and more

)
GBAFrotz, text adventure parser for your GBA (

play Infocom or almost any other IF game

)
NYT profile of Kerry Conran, Sky Captain's creator (

watch the oddball trailer

) [via]
Nintendo launching wireless GBA hotspots in Japan (

JoySpot goes live in two weeks at retail locations throughout the country

) [via]
Julia Robert busted for crack cocaine possession (

she claims she doesn't know where it came from!

) [via]
Ausdioscrobbler Browser (

Java visualization for their excellent music similarity engine

) [via]
Dave Johnson's 7-year-old son started a weblog (

"when we got home daddy lock us outside"

) [via]
The Dunbar Number and Online Communities (

great analysis of the size limits of social groups

) [via]
Windows OS anime fan art
March 13, 2004
NYT on the DARPA Grand Challenge results (

Wired has more and Mike Elgan was there

)
Insanely fast typing game (

a compelling reason to learn touch typing

) [via]
Celebrity voice talent with MP3 samples (

highlights include Dan Castellaneta, Marlon Brando, and Debbie Gibson

) [via]
U.S. targets hackers for selective military draft (

what a wonderfully awful idea

) [via]
Presidential campaign in The Sims Online (

like any society, The Sims continues to self-organize

) [via]
Exercises in Style (

one comic, done 30 different ways

)
Everquest Daily Grind (

testimonials from the disgruntled spouses of Everquest addicts

) [via]
March 12, 2004
Sideloading, sending files to remote locations (

I wish this was built into operating systems

)
Linux kernel swear counts (

graphing the profanity in the Linux source code over time

) [via]
Metafilter Stats updated through February 2004 (

I posted my analysis to MetaTalk

)
Dangermouse explains how he created the Grey Album (

every element of the background beats and music were Beatles samples

) [via]
Lego remake of Super Mario Land for the Gameboy (

much shorter video by the same guy

)
Shot-for-shot Lego remake of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (

here's a local mirror of the 35MB WMV

) [via]
Jack Berg Sales, vintage merchandise mint in box (

the Atari shirts, toys, and radios are all great

) [via]
"Golden Tee" tournament fraud exposed (

a team hacked the arcade golf game's centralized score database to win $20k in prizes

)
Nintendo patents handheld emulation, threatens to sue GBA emulator (

good luck with that, Nintendo

) [via]
Red Swoosh finally launches (

News.com covers the launch of the ex-Scour crew's new company

)
March 11, 2004
David Siegel's "I ruined the web" article from 1997 (

surprisingly good foresight from the creator of the High Five Awards

) [via]
China orders their largest blog service to shut down (

looks like they complied

) [via]
The Passion of the Curly (

Curly was beaten for our enjoyment

) [via]
Boing Boing switches to Movable Type! (

finally, individual archives!

)
Why You Should Use Upcoming.org (

btw, I'm launching iCal support later tonight

)
Painful XHTML/CSS jokes (

you've been warned

) [via]
Starbucks to provide in-store CD burning (

they're building a new Hear Music store two blocks away, with a Starbucks inside

) [via]
Leaked Nintendo DS handheld spec includes touchscreen, wireless, and 3D (

what, no cell phone, camera or can opener?

) [via]
Unsolicited advice for the new father (

also: I adjusted Meconium.org to reflect the real definition

)
Banned words for the Bush/Cheney sign generator [via]
Reverse engineering Marble Madness's design (

see also: the same author's article on isometric view theory

) [via]
Ad agency spoofs porn sites and webrings for web campaign (

clever marketing, and 100% hot "pot noodle" action

) [via]
Tracking social networking in Shakespeare's plays (

meet me in #hamlet, d00d

) [via]
Wired News on Salon's survival (

isn't Wired News struggling to survive, too?

)
Demor, an audio-only first person shooter for the blind (

tracks your position and direction you're facing

) [via]
March 10, 2004
Overclosking your Sega Genesis (

sure, but can you overclock an NES for the slowdowns in Metroid?

) [via]
Corante on BitTorrent plus RSS (

these unofficial feeds for Suprnova and Torrentz are a great example of "broadcatching" in action

)
Writeup of the Orkut launch party (

it was over a month ago, but it's a good piece

) [via]
Major label exec doesn't like being called evil (

also: Magnatune is not evil

) [via]
Orwellian Newspeak Dictionary (

there's a doubleplusgood modern version, too

)
Blogs eroding traditional news sites (

News.com's overall ranking is dropping

)
SharedID, centralized web authentication (

neat idea, but the charging for more than 10k monthly uniques makes me nervous

) [via]
Feel the awesomeness of THOR! (

experience the raw power of John Mikl Thor

)
Rasterbator (

make poster-sized half-tone prints of any image online

) [via]
NYC woman gets Chris Rock's old cell phone number, hilarity ensues (

she chats with Jack Nicholson, Ken Burns, Spike Lee, Adam Sandler, and more

) [via]
March 9, 2004
EFF sues the FCC about the Broadcast Flag (

Cory's enthusiasm is contagious

) [via]
Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink to make major announcement about spam (

if this involves paying to send e-mail, I'm gonna throw up

) [via]
Myst/Uru license plate conspiracy (

great research from the game community

) [via]
Hack a Super Mario cart to remove everything but clouds (

the gameplay may suffer a little, though

) [via]
RIAA must sue file sharers one at a time (

no more mass lawsuits

) [via]
Unusual baseball cards [via]
Good roundup of MP3 blogs (

blogs that regularly put free MP3s online

) [via]
March 8, 2004
EV1 underestimated reaction of SCO licensing (

also, SCO and Microsoft have a lot more 'splaining to do

) [via]
Typographica's amazing photo gallery of Disneyland sign lettering (

also: this handy guide to Disney typefaces

)
Excellent contest entries to redesign Project Gutenberg (

part of the ongoing Version 2 redesign series

) [via]
Stewart Brand Future Unclear (

gotta love those digerati in-jokes

)
"Janet and Justin Half-Time" Barbie dolls [via]
Sleeves, t-shirts that make you look tattooed (

clever idea for wimps who want to look badass

) [via]
Matt Haughey mixes Jay-Z with Kenny G (

Kenny-Z is Satan's music

)
Image: Epworth Methodist Church on the Passion of the Christ [via]
March 7, 2004
Witchcraft goes online in small Mexican town (

where e-commerce meets shamanism

) [via]
Flash: Korean toilet cartoon (

with translation

) [via]
Atari 2600 to USB adapter (

use your 2600 joysticks on your PC for only $30

) [via]
Spam Glam (

clip art images culled from spam e-mails

)
March 6, 2004
Bookmarklet to toggle Google's new look [via]
How Superman's "Clark Kent" disguise really worked (

his Kryptonian glasses enhanced his low-level hypnotic gaze

)
SomethingAwful's Product Placement of the Christ (

very offensive fun with Photoshop

)
Video Game Jam (

guitar and bass tablature for an assortment of platforms

) [via]
Reinvigorate, free and gorgeous real-time website stats (

I've been playing with this for the last couple days, the timezone chart is clever

) [via]
Tomas gets another insider e-mail from Real Networks (

this is shaping up to be a classic story of bad management

)
Statue of Mickey Mouse dressed like Janet Jackson (

Disney just discontinued it because of the Superboob scandal, it's not listed on the site anymore

) [via]
Slashster, Friendster for Slashdot users (

the source code is available

) [via]
Painting with Baskin Robbins' Radical Blast drinks (

it's even more fun after you eat it!

)
A peek at script kiddie culture (

a security admin infiltrates the scripting scene

) [via]
March 5, 2004
Patent office nullifies Eolas plugin patent (

good riddance

) [via]
Tomas gets a response from Real (

an anonymous employee forwarded him an internal memo

)
Sam & Max creator responds to Lucasarts' game cancellation [via]
John Romero confirms the N-Gage 2 (

he should port Daikatana to it

) [via]
Hilary Rosen joins fight against marriage amendment (

I guess she's not all bad

) [via]
The "Google Friends" mailing list is hosted by Yahoo (

delicious irony

) [via]
O'Reilly may launch "Make," a hacking lifestyle mag
The Exorcist in 30 Seconds, with bunnies [via]
The American People (

Greg Knauss' new mini-project

) [via]
CSS replacement for image slicing rollovers (

damn cool trick

)
One fanboy's quest to develop River City Ransom 2 for the GBA (

he bought the trademark, but backed down when another developer stepped in

) [via]
HP's Blog Epidemic Analyzer (

visualization of meme/link propagation, like the Star Wars Kid video

)
Interface issues in store self-checkout machines (

brilliant and detailed breakdown, and how it relates to the web

)
Popular bloggers borrow from less popular sites without attribution (

I'm going to add a "via" field to my links sidebar someday

)
Girl Watcher, vintage cheesecake scans (

neat typography and clip art in 1959's precursor to Maxim

)
The Clownsweater Project (

via Mr. Pants

)
March 4, 2004
John Kerry on Friendster (

John Edwards too, and they're both real

)
Yoshimi Battles the Hip Hop Robots (

Flaming Lips remixes, here's boogah's mirror

)
Ted Jesus Christ GOD (

Ted thinks he's the next messiah and is spreading the word through spam

)
Designing death in multiplayer online games (

the NYT compares several different methods

)
SounderCover, fake background noise for cell phones (

simulate a traffic jam, dentist visit, incoming call, or thunderstorm

)
Ask Jeeves buys Excite, IWon, MyWay (

who knew Ask Jeeves had $150m cash to blow?

)
Nice L.A. Times article about Mark Allen's Machine art gallery (

my friend Mark does neat things

)
Far Side cartoons made real (

some of these are amazing

)
History of the Penguin Yeti game (

also: I didn't know Reinhold Messner was a real person

)
Lessig on the piracy roots of media (

film, music, radio, and cable TV all evaded copyright law

)
SCO internal e-mail reveals Microsoft is funding their war against Linux/Unix (

SCO would be at least $15m in debt today without Microsoft's $86m

)
March 3, 2004
The Double Black Album (

remixing Jay-Z's Black Album with Metallica's Black Album

)
Typographic Illustrations set to music (

I like Garamond the best

)
LucasArts cancels Sam & Max sequel (

first Full Throttle and now this!?

)
Jay-Z Construction Set (

make your own Black Album remix

)
Flash: Demon Ball, simple mini-game (

51 18 seconds is my current best

)
Lookout search plugin for Outlook (

like an integrated version of X1, but it comes highly recommended

)
Gameboy Advance SP: Girls Edition (

released in Spain only, with a list of Spanish games targeted at girls

)
NYT op-ed makes a case for a Kerry/Clinton ticket (

Bill, not Hillary

)
Historical speech synthesis sound clips (

would you like to play a game of chess?

)
POV-Ray Short Code Contest 3 entries (

amazing what POV-Ray can render with only 256 bytes

)
Video: Innuendo episode from "Rainbow," an '80s UK kids' show
Ludicorp's ETCon presentation on Relationship-Based Computing
March 2, 2004
Friends or Enemies? (

I wish there was an answer key, via Kottke

)
The Truth for Youth (

hilarious religious comic books on evolution, rock music, porn, and more

)
Movie Alphabet Quiz (

I have the full answers, if you want them

)
Pete “Gizmodo” Rojas is now at Engadget (

Om sums it up nicely

)
Justin Hall freely publishes his Tokyo guidebook online (

download and read the PDF

)
Salon interview with arcade pioneer Eugene Jarvis (

he talks about "Target: Terror," the modern version of "N.A.R.C."

)
Passion of the Christ blooper reel
MTV's 120 Minutes playlist archive (

sorely missed, via Cap'n Design

)
XTC's Partridge did the theme to new Fox series (

via Stereogum

)
Microwaved $20 bills (

the Slashdot comments are funny

)
EV1 CEO responds to SCO licensing critics
March 1, 2004
EV1 Servers customers discuss the SCO licensing (

all of us are rightfully upset

)
Lessig recollects his Eldred loss (

"How I Lost the Big One" is a sad story

)
Lawrence Welk Fashion Police (

from this oddball Welk fan page, with an 11 page scrapbook and fan fiction

)
NYT: Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy (

"bits are not the same as atoms"

)
Audio: Decemberists cover Bjork's "Human Behavior"
Social software in a box (

start your own Friendster for $280, cheap

)
iPod Battery Pack hack (

two AA and two 9-volt batteries give about 10 hours of extra battery life

)
GBA Time Machine preview (

plug your old NES carts into your GBA

)
EV1Servers agrees to license Linux from SCO (

my ISP is making a really bad decision

)
Tufte's Sparklines, intense word-size graphics (

it took a second reading to understand the concept, but very practical and good

)
Video: What if real life was like the Internet? (

from Chappelle's Show

)
The Kicker stops publishing (

ex-Gawker Liz Spiers weblog for New York magazine is no more

)