Waxy.org: Links Archives: April 2004

Sega rumored to announce new Dreamcast at E3 (sounds bogus to me, too)

Video: Pocketbikes at Deal's Gap (exciting footage of tiny racing bikes) [via]

Wedding Dress Guy is partially a hoax (nice gimmick, the dress sold for $3,850) [via]

U.S. Army scolds soldiers for using P2P (the Army News Service on spyware, trojans, and copyright) [via]

i2hub, the P2P app for Internet2 (trading files at 6GB/minute) [via]

google.com/blog? (a test page now, but are they working on something?) [via]

Video: South Park's "The Aristocrats" (extremely offensive retelling of the classic joke) [via]

John Battelle's great analysis of the Google SEC filing

Wired on the MPAA's PR campaign in schools (skip to the kids' quotes in the last couple paragraph)

Borekut (it's the boringest) [via]

Lady Pi (the effects of a lifelong career in mathematics) [via]

Multiplayer version of Great Giana Sisters (updating the Commodore 64's answer to Super Mario Bros)

1981 computer catalog (from when 10 million bytes was insanely large) [via]

Andropotterists, cross dressing Harry Potter fan art (the action figure dress-up photos are funny)

Lucasarts layoffs after game cancellations (I still can't believe they abandoned the Full Throttle and Sam & Max sequels)

Google temp employee's account of the day's events

Gmail account auctions on eBay (one sold for $50) [via]

iTunes 4.5 auth cracked, one day later

Google's SEC filing (1,900 employees, a breakdown of all assets, and more) [via]

Adam's Breedster account gets an STD (Breedster is still the weirdest social network I've ever seen)

Google Files for $2.7 billion IPO! (in other news: Evan Williams retires)

About.com redesign brings traffic increase (the redesigned site looks much better) [via]

FeedSweep, add RSS/Atom sidebars to your site (more flexible than Feedroll, and works great with Upcoming.org)

Jonathan Lethem's "My Marvel Years" [via]

Part 4 of the Mario Brothers epic released (for reference: episodes 1, 2, and 3) [via]

300 icons from 1800 sites (comparing arrows, posts, mail, and more) [via]

Update to last year's amazing "Cog" commercial (scroll down to the last comment, an insider smacks down the conspiracy theorists) [via]

UCLA uses new software to block file sharing (anyone have technical details about how it works?)

New Half-Life 2 screenshots [via]

Yetisports 4 (fun game, but it only works in IE)

PHPTunes, another PHP iTunes browser (but this one supports purchasing songs, and it's open source) [via]

Image: wtctris.gif (it has to be old, but it's new to me)

The LockCup, the cup that locks (for all the Miltons of the world)

MIT student newspaper interviews Jack Valenti (absolutely brilliant grilling) [via]

GPS Drawing (the GPS equivalent of sky writing, try the Shockwave viewer) [via]

Xbox Linux cluster (check out the other photos) [via]

Powazek on iTunes randomizing (he has some great ideas for new features)

Analysis of the Memespread tracking project (one day, I'll do this with the Star Wars Kid data)

Coachella Moblog 2004 (documenting the concert in real-time) [via]

Commodore 64 to get 30-in-1 TV game (this top 50 list is a good place to start)

Update on the Hot Abercrombie Chick hoax (nice detective work from Justin and Cameron)

MP3: A Perfect Circle's "Diary of a Lovesong" (live mashup of Ozzy and the Cure)

MP3s of Japan train departure songs (they made Justin cry)

Google indexes Flash (try searching for skip intro, loading, or any Flash meme; note that it's not a new feature)

Flash: Troubled Windows (Japanese Microsoft-themed fan anime, try clicking around)

Indie Game Jam 2 games released (some good and original concepts) [via]

iTunes 4.5 released (Ask has a couple tips)

Vintage snapshots of Disneyland (more photos here and here) [via]

Nicosphere3000 (finally, I can smoke in church) [via]

State websites tattle on tax evaders (publishing lists of deadbeats to shame them into paying)

Russian MP3 site sells DRM-free music by the megabyte (sounds shady, but 500MB for $5 is a great deal)

iToogle, search the iTunes music store (excellent PHP port of iTMS-for-All)

Sprint trying to block TTY relay fraud (the IP relay scam forums are a good source of insider commentary) [via]

U.S. Intelligence tracking blogs (no word on whether they're tracking Livejournals yet)

Video: Roi Sabarov's Letter Flow (check out the rest of Roi's portfolio) [via]

Importing Hotmail into Gmail using Getmail (clever trick, but requires Windows) [via]

Wired on the return of Push (partially inspired by my comment on Gary's blog, no less) [via]

Guardian UK profile on Nick Drake

Blogdigger Media (recent media links scraped from weblogs)

Create your own You're The Man Now Dog site (use IE to hear the audio)

Holding Pattern screen saver for Win/Mac (composite Internet searches draw a landscape outside your window) [via]

MyMediaList, media lists for blogs (may be useful until Mediachest adds RSS feeds) [via]

Scumbag ISP uses cloaked links to game Google (displays links on client sites when the user agent is Googlebot) [via]

Guide to creating very high-quality MP3s (using free software for Windows)

The Rise of Elegance in Open Source Software (some good examples outlining the trend)

Tree Wave, 1980s electronics (Paul is a badass Atari 2600 developer) [via]

Make your own Iraq photo controversy (based on the original fake) [via]

Tron fan responds to costume criticism (the spread of the meme and its fallout reminds me of the Star Wars Kid) [via]

Mat's Gmail review in Salon (he's been blogging about it, too)

DeDRMs, remove iTunes DRM under Windows (DVD Jon tops himself with 210 lines of code) [via]

A Pyrogon Postmortem (lessons learned from a failed indie game company) [via]

Gmail security hole (challenge questions in the age of Google)

Who is that eating Jeremy? (a tasteless parody of the original) [via]

Tami Stronach's Neverending Story scrapbook (from the Childlike Empress herself)

GBA JPEG Viewer (with a clever list of potential uses) [via]

The Year That Comics Took Flight (Scott McCloud's introduction to the new Flight comics anthology) [via]

Orkut network GeoMapper (here's my personal network) [via]

New Zelda NES speed record is under 27 minutes (from an amazing page of NES Speed Videos, distributed with BitTorrent)

Hey, Crackhead (why don't you own a crackpipe?) [via]

Thank you, Frank Black (he was reading the NYT at Starbucks)

Insanely detailed explanation of every Spam Assassin rule (Leonard rightfully suspects a spammer asked the question)

High-quality scans of video game manuals (in handy BitTorrent archives) [via]

Doug Rowell's carved guitars (and a banjo for Steve Martin)

Banjo Newsletter interviews Steve Martin

HDTV TiVo finally ships

Reverse engineering the TypeKey protocol [via]

Hell freezes over [via]

Oregon's voter guide mentions weblogs

Half-Life 2 drama from an insider

Atari 2600 Paddle Games reissues (the design is excellent) [via]

The Way of the Master (Kirk Cameron goes the way of Willie Ames) [via]

Flash: Orisinal Floats game (fiendishly clever, similar to Loop) [via]

Pixies setlist comparisons (interesting information design) [via]

Very interesting insider info about the DOJ warez raids (more info on Slashdot)

Limburger (the simplest of all, just click on the cheese)

Torrentz.com taken offline (but they released their PHP tracker) [via]

Cameron's research into debunking Hot Abercrombie Chick (also: irrefutable proof!)

Plaxo founder Sean Parker booted out by VCs

Google's indexing of syndication feeds (they're guessing at feed locations, maybe for an upcoming blog search?)

Image: Walt Whitman was 90 stories tall (reminds me of Tim's chemistry exam)

Webcrawler turns 10 years old (I'm starting to feel old)

Blogger.com's offering Gmail accounts

Image: Terror logos

GoogleGuy requests blog stops reposting his comments (pressure from HQ, maybe?) [via]

The nature of meaning in the age of Google (aggregating meaning and the tension between content and spam) [via]

Mozilla Thunderbird's new logo (when I switch from Eudora, it'll likely be to Thunderbird)

The Curse of the Ziering (with a handy chart) [via]

Kempa on Otto Preminger miscellanea (Saul Bass, the Zombies, and Nilsson's "Skidoo" opening credits lyrics)

MP3.com archives not lost (1.7 million songs rescued)

Dr. Dobbs on non-gaming GBA apps (thanks to Anil for the PDF)

Meetup adds new venue, messaging features (finally, users can pick different venues) [via]

Snarkout on the orchestra union's battle against the Sinfonia (the accompanying NYT article is a must-read)

Luke Chueh, illustrations (don't miss monkeys with hat)

Yahoo Soul Search (be sure to click the "What's This" link) [via]

Gucci iPod Case (for $195, I could almost buy a new iPod) [via]

Vintage 1980s Rap Videos (LL, Eric B, Schoolly D, EPMD, and all the other OG MCs) [via]

Flash: Adrian's Insect Shop (make your own bugs) [via]

Campbell's Warhol soup can labels (damn you, Warhol!) [via]

Bootleg "Passion" screenings drawing crowds in Jerusalem (the Israeli distribution company refuses to release it)

"Hot Abercrombie Chick" hoax (I noticed the Blogdex whoring this weekend, so this is gratifying)

Tracking the "Page 23, Sentence 5" meme (variations spread from Livejournal to the larger blogging world) [via]

Yayhooray's Let's Draw Birds (also: Let's Draw Robots) [via]

Epic announces Unreal Machinima contest finalists (movies made with real-time 3D engines, usually from videogames)

Programmer hacks full-color interleaved images into the Atari 2600 (people are still creating innovative work for the 2600) [via]

A Day at The Grove with Quentin Tarantino [via]

Nigerian scammers exploiting IP relay phone lines for the deaf (you can read relay operators complain on Livejournal) [via]

Dodgeball mobile social app goes multi-city (including Los Angeles and San Francisco)

Nigerian spammers... in space!

Flash: Tontie, number keypad game (this game stresses me out)

iTMS-4-All, search the iTunes Music Store (he used the anonymous info posted to my entry) [via]

Movable Type 3.0 Beta Testing (everyone who submits the survey can beta test) [via]

NYT on new videogame lounges (the return of the arcade? I certainly hope so) [via]

DirecTV HU card hacking is dead (I'm sure they'll hack the P4 cards eventually)

NYT on the demise of Mickey Mouse (Mickey has no identity of his own anymore) [via]

Eddie Breen's Piggyback Art (Eddie changes painted portraits into art) [via]

KHAAAN!! (my new browser homepage)

Roger Ebert on the Howard Stern controversy

Bald Stars baldness fetish (celebrities Photoshopped to look bald)

Desktop Gaming, lovely videogame desktop wallpaper (stick and move, kid) [via]

USC student spends $2500 meal plan on winning Pepsi/iTunes bottles (don't forget to recycle, kid) [via]

CSS Zen Garden, Comic Book Style (the most gonzo of all the designs I've seen) [via]

How to Steal Public Domain Content and Repackage It for Profit (scumbag marketers) [via]

Circuit Benders, modified electronic childrens' toys (these MP3s are amazing) [via]

Ultimate Cadbury Creme Egg (disgustingly good!) [via]

Jabberwocky, a mobile phone app for meeting familiar strangers (the more you encounter someone, the lighter their square) [via]

PDF: The Story of Infocom, Inc (many more great papers and books at Textfiles' PDF section)

A9 predictions about collaborative search filtering ("people like you found these results the most useful")

Mars Rover Soundtrack (smart guys, but questionable taste in music)

Jason Scott's dialogue with a modern artscene group (someone else in the group followed up, but still refused his request)

Images: Baby giraffe born in Santa Rosa (Encarta has video of another giraffe birth) [via]

Priceton 3D Model search engine (sketch a shape, return similar matches) [via]

Using Perl in PHP (saving this for reference) [via]

Queso on Gmail paranoia (Paul Boutin debunks the critics, but proposes lame concessions at the very end)

Maciej on bloom filters (a practical example can be found in Loaf) [via]

Pornstars quarantined after actor's HIV infection (the San Fernando Valley's chief export is threatened) [via]

Bob Schneider's "Come With Me Tonight" (heavy b3ta influence, and a very impressive Flash homepage) [via]

Cooperative Linux, run Linux on Windows natively (yes, natively. here's how it works) [via]

Turn your GBA into a microcontroller (Gameboy robots will destroy us all) [via]

Stuff magazine's Baby Jessica hoax (it's a hoax, but the real Jessica has a weblog)

Analogia, algorithmic celebrity face matching (upload your image, see which celeb it thinks you look like)

California boasts more New Yorker subscribers than New York (I subscribe, and skip through the New York-specific sections) [via]

Google Adwords go local (advertisers can target specific regions for ad campaigns)

Kempa on metasongs and Nilsson's "Vine Street" (don't miss the Family Guy MP3 parody of Randy Newman)

Adam uses Technorati bombing to prove a point (Technorati and Trackback are not a replacement for comments)

Video: Googling for Happiness (you find it in the strangest places) [via]

E! Online's breaking coverage of Bush's necktie (this could be the scandal that brings down the Bush administration)

Full-size Lego Volvo car (what, no Lego wheels?)

Video: Amazing Unreal 3 engine demo (very, very impressive lighting effects) [via]

kkrieger, the 96k first person shooter (not bad for something that fits on a floppy disk, 15 times) [via]

Slack Album, Jay-Z meets Pavement (it's a dead meme, but the album is very listenable)

David Bowie's official mashup contest (mashup two Bowie songs, win an Audi TT coupe) [via]

Insert Snarky Title Here (calloo and callay) [via]

Amazon launches their A9 search engine (the A9 toolbar has a Diary feature)

Haughey explains the benefits of Bluetooth (connect your laptop to the Internet with your cellphone)

Half-Life Rally, racing mod for the HL engine (it's amazing how flexible it is)

Mysterious Whitehouse.gov document (no Google cache, no Wayback Archive... any idea what this is?) [via]

Album art by comic artists (the Chris Ware ones are beautiful) [via]

Kottke says "syndication" is a misnomer (he's right, but the meaning of the word will evolve)

Screech loses his domain battle (read the text of the decision) [via]

Stockstock, festival for short films made from stock footage (I'd love to see a broader competition that uses any available free footage)

New Yorker profile on Harold Ramis (they tell human stories so well) [via]

Bird Watching with the Blind (identifying bird species by sound alone) [via]

Image: Letter from the liquor store owner (good clue that you might have a drinking problem)

Spike, networked clipboard for Mac/Win (sounds interesting) [via]

Cameron creates a Timecube AIM bot (it's indistinguishable from talking to Gene Ray himself)

Gameboy Books to Go (copyright-free books for your GBA)

Mat tests out Gmail's ads (very nice, with tons of screenshots)

MacGyverisms ("disarmed missle with a paperclip") [via]

Metafilter catches a spammer (they posted a long denial)

Songs to Wear Pants To (request ridiculous song ideas, and Andrew creates them)

Weird Al's statement about his parents' deaths (this is so sad)

New Yorker profile on the Boondocks

American troops in Iraq pirating music and movies (I'm sure the RIAA is preparing lawsuits at this moment)

Matt hosts the Jon Stewart interview on Franken's radio show

Maciej on PC Forum (I always wondered what those $4000 conferences were like)

Audio: Streaming audio from the 1964-65 World's Fair (or you can buy them on CD)

Great Dooce thread on the childhood names of private parts (I had a "dinghy", defined as a "pleasure craft on a larger boat")

Video: Daily Show interviews uber-spammer (Scott Richter is a bad, bad man) [via]

Livejournal's Most Recent Images (warning: it's very random, so may be very offensive) [via]

Airbag redesigns the White House intelligence briefs (memos never looked so good)

Musicompass, Java visualizations for Audioscrobbler (their artist recommendations get better every day) [via]

Wired on the Gopher underground (before there was Google, there was Veronica) [via]

eBay Searches to RSS (like my old PHP script, only it works) [via]

Wizard People, new audio track for Harry Potter film (bizarre fan-made retelling of the Sorcerer's Stone)

The Political Biases of Video Games (good, long article with lots of ideas) [via]

First Mac OS X trojan infects MP3s (proof of concept, not yet found in the wild) [via]

Gourmet's personal account of bribing NYC maitre d's [via]

Wired on abandonware and the Underdogs

Google founder Sergey Brin in Drag (don't be evil... be fabulous!) [via]

Weblog templates for every song on the White Album [via]

Yahoo hints at social networking service (George predicted Yahoorkutster in February) [via]

MP3: Remix of two similar Nickelback singles (one song in each channel) [via]

Cxbx, Xbox emulator (it can play Turok) [via]

Veen on ridiculous editorial-to-advertising ratios (if you can find a worse ratio, I'd love to see it)

Crash Bonsai, totaled model cars (I missed this the first time around) [via]

Thurston Moore's NYT editorial on Kurt Cobain [via]

The Worst Arcade in the World [via]

Tandy Computer Whiz Kids Comics (boogah jokes that Tandy predicted blogging) [via]

Peep, the network auralizer (audio representation of network activity) [via]

Torrentbot, BitTorrent meets IM (get IMed when a new torrent appears, and start downloading automagically!)

Cin-o-Matic, like a configurable Metacritic (boy, I feel like Kottke-filter today) [via]

Memespread Project (I've been meaning to do this for the Star Wars Kid log data) [via]

Smart stoplights penalize speeders (sounds a bit dangerous to me) [via]

Blog service pinger (ping 'em all, let god sort 'em out) [via]

Atari 2600 Comic Books (I never pictured Centipede quite like that)

John Woo working on Metroid movie? [via]

Rock Academy, the French "School of Rock" (I love seeing Jack Black speaking French)

Boston Globe on Infocombot and AIM gaming (no mention of my website, though)

I got my second cease and desist order (not surprising, since I'm the #1 result for opus comic)

Decapitated cat commercial backfires on Ford (just an excuse to link to the video) [via]

Dodgeball Social, like Friendster for your mobile phone (notifies you when your friends are within 10 blocks) [via]

Iconsurf, favicon.ico icon browser (random 500 icons out of over 15,000) [via]

Amazon's Red Light District

PS2, Gamecube, Xbox wedding cakes (what, no Atari 2600?)

There are 600 quintillion ways to spell Viagra [via]

Wired on Realplayer Suckfulness (Tomas was interviewed for the article) [via]

More Gmail beta testing (including more screenshots)

Topographic page bookmarklet (the deeper the element, the lighter it appears) [via]

Sony's wireless network plans for the PSP and PS3 (802.11 instead of Bluetooth for both) [via]

Kottke on GooOS, the Google operating system (they said the same thing about Netscape, but this makes more sense)

Flash: Techno made from Windows default sounds [via]

8-bit BBSing over the Internet (emulating a Hayes modem, no less) [via]

Video Game Wedding Card (designed by Jason and Meg) [via]

Boing Boing's paying too much for hosting (why don't they just switch to a dedicated server?)

Reason Magazine customizes new cover with each subscriber's name and satellite photo (this sort of thing is considerably easier for online mags) [via]

Sean Palmer's Gmail preview with new screenshots (user-defined labels, "starred" messages, and filters)

Amazon generated 6% of their 2002 revenue from web services (if so, why don't more retailers offer them?) [via]

Catty, the chatbot with a Google brain (using Google Groups might be even more effective) [via]

Musical quadratic equations (plus, other nerdy math singalongs)

Playfair, iTunes DRM remover [via]

Wonderfalls cancelled (all the good shows get cancelled) [via]

Brutal File Manager (3D first person shooter/file manager, with screenshots) [via]

Tomas on unfounded Gmail paranoia (my thoughts exactly)

Lessig responds to a Forbes columnist's attacks (the columnist calls Larry a "moron" and "idiot") [via]

Live Music Archive hits 10,000 free shows (highlights: Cowboy Junkies, Doughty, Soul Coughing, Tenacious D, Ben Lee, Ben Kweller) [via]

Short quiz to stop comment spam (the end of comment spam is nigh!) [via]

NewsDesigner (blog written by an anonymous insider at a metro newspaper) [via]

Webjay, listener-created playlists of web music (great idea, but hotlinking MP3s is usually frowned upon) [via]

Image: two full-size screenshots of Gmail (Sippey has some good notes on the UI)

txtkit, visual text mining tool for OS X [via]

SphereXP, 3D desktop replacement for Windows XP (the screenshots and video are bizarre) [via]

Background of the Mezzoblue-StopDesign April Fool's swap [via]

Image: First real Gmail screenshot (it supports threaded messages) [via]

Japanese emoticons (horizontal, instead of vertical) [via]

Google moves to block RSS scraping (if you don't release an API, the net routes around it) [via]

Man proposes to wife with Atari 2600 game (geekiest marriage proposal ever, download the ROM) [via]

PDTP, P2P directory mirroring (complicated concept, but very practical applications) [via]

Mogi, location-based multiplayer gaming in Tokyo (sounds like this is the first fun example of the genre) [via]

Quake 2 mod displays as "Magic Eye" stereograms (this is insane) [via]

David Bowie to perform inside Star Wars Galaxies? (it was an April Fool's joke after all)

Xanga is more popular and viral than Friendster (it's about to break Alexa's top 100 most trafficked websites)

Kinja's terms of service boo-boo (cribbed from Yahoo's TOS)

Visualizing Wikipedia changes over time [via]

Nick Denton on Kinja launch (here's my public Kinja digest)

5.25" Disk Sleeve Archive (too bad the images are so small) [via]