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August 31, 2004
BBC on political commentary in video games [via]
MP3: Maciej's audioblogging manifesto (

listen to this now, it's absolutely brilliant

)
Disney's social software for vacation planning (

Magical Gatherings is a Windows app with networking features

) [via]
Brand mapping the presidential candidates (

what brands do Bush/Kerry supporters associate with their candidates?

) [via]
Mac sightings in the movies, with makes and models (

obsessive "computers in media" lists are fun

)
Fictional passwords and passcodes in movies (

not a long list, but a nice idea

)
BBC rereleasing Hitchhiker's Infocom game online with illustrations (

you can play it online right now, with hints and a walkthrough

) [via]
MovableType 3.1 released (

also: the MT Contest Plugin Pack and the new Professional Network

) [via]
GBA price drops to $80 (

Nintendo DS will launch on November 11th at $179

) [via]
Engadget's interview with Jack Valenti (

also: Ed Felten's debunking of the former MPAA head

) [via]
Apple says new iMac G5 will run Doom III (

look for the last sentence under "A Place for Everything"

)
Amon Tobin making soundtrack for next Splinter Cell game (

excellent choice for ambient gameplay

) [via]
Adaptive Path's Extreme Usability series (

a clever Burning Man parody by Mule Design

) [via]
President Bush's nicknames for friends and foes [via]
Friendster fires Joyce Park for blogging (

this is an unbelievably stupid move on their part

) [via]
August 30, 2004
What if Simpsons characters mated? (

surprisingly good fan drawings

) [via]
Ask Mefi poster performs mystery guitar riff, gets song identified (

neat trick, it's like a manual search engine for music

)
Liberated Games launches (

commercial games officially released for free by their creators

) [via]
NYT on eBay promoting dropoff stores (

great service, but 30% is a serious cut

)
Collin Brooke on Wikipedia's reputation (

a Syracuse professor's take on the controversy

) [via]
Woman's skin grows over wedding ring (

impressive, but it's no match for dad's kidneys

) [via]
History of the Apple.com homepage (

I linked to the 1995 version

) [via]
Scalable headlines in Flash (

here's a funny side effect of the technique

) [via]
Wikipedia's List of fictional companies (

also: fictional video games, brands, radio stations, and much more

)
A Lesson Is Learned, a beautiful web comic (

surreal, but very funny

) [via]
Analysis of an artificial meme (

tracking of a small meme through social groups

) [via]
Kempa on palindromic music
August 29, 2004
Justice Dept. censors Supreme Court quote (

the irony of the blacked-out quote is thick

) [via]
Construction photos of the Chubu Airport in Nagoya (

here's the Wikipedia entry

)
Fimoculous is back! (

Rex Sorgatz' site was a big inspiration for my own links blog

)
Glassdog calls for nuanced anti-Bush bumper stickers (

liberal, but not dogmatic

)
August 28, 2004
GmailFS, badass Gmail hack (

mountable Linux filesystem using Gmail for storage

) [via]
Classic anti-piracy print ads [via]
August 27, 2004
Video: VH-1's profile on Randy Constan, the Peter Pan guy (

he's unhappy with the portrayal

)
Old Men Crying (

Dan Rather tends to get weepy

) [via]
McSweeney's E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
Memespread Analyzer, track keyword popularity in Usenet over time (

he was inspired by my old entry

)
Acclaim files for bankruptcy (

another classic game studio dies

)
Verisign loses Sitefinder case against ICANN (

lots of wonderfully thoughtful court rulings lately

)
A morality tale of Spectrum ZX piracy and clones (

like it or not, piracy and emulation serve to preserve culture

)
NYT on the movement towards computerized sewing machines (

"computers with needles and thread attached"

)
Stiki Wiki (

WYSIWYG wiki with neat outgoing link previews

) [via]
August 26, 2004
Half Life 2 preloading begins (

the game is done!

) [via]
Paul Pfeiffer from the "Wonder Years" is a lawyer (

I bet he makes twice the yearly income of Fred Savage

)
TiVo-like application for XM Radio under fire (

his software was C&D'ed by XM and the RIAA

) [via]
Video: Townsend's "Pour Some Sugar On Me," boy band take on Def Leppard (

the worst thing I've ever seen, made worse by the presence of Smashmouth

)
Blog Torrent tracker beta (

the first PHP tracker that doesn't need MySQL, but still too hard for most

)
Interview with Downhill Battle's Nicholas Reville (

they renamed Battle Torrent to Blog Torrent

)
Microsoft redesigns with standards (

well, almost there

) [via]
Video: Bjork's Olympic performance (

without the annoying U.S. color commentary

) [via]
Lia's roundup of Marvel Swimsuit Specials (

the geekier precedent of Playboy's upcoming girls of gaming

)
ASCII-mode TV goggles (

distort an incoming video signal various neat ways

) [via]
Dooce is having problems (

get well soon Heather, the Internet loves you

) [via]
Video: John Kerry on the Daily Show (

not great quality, but it's the whole thing

)
August 25, 2004
Tracking the "All Your Base" meme with Usenet (

an old entry, now updated with 2004 data

)
Coca-Cola's new net-enabled vending machines (

buy drinks with your cellphone

) [via]
Search engine belt buckle (

I can recognize a Torrone project from a mile away

) [via]
Distributed proofreaders posts 5,000th E-book (

over 1100 active users in the last 24 hours

)
Video game women featured in October Playboy pictorial (

what's next, the Ladies of Marvel Comics?

)
Screencap comparisons of Lucas alternations to new Star Wars trilogy (

the cleanups look great, but what about the new Jedi ending?

) [via]
Doom 3 Classic (

full conversion of original Doom for the Doom 3 engine, screenshots

) [via]
Librarian misunderstands Wikipedia (

just because it's open doesn't make it unreliable

) [via]
Video: Grayson, the Revenge of Robin (

great trailer to a movie that doesn't exist

) [via]
Glassdog on what's wrong with feed readers (

are you reading this, Luke?

)
SA photoshops UK anti-piracy campaign poster
JibJab wins "This Land" lawsuit (

and the purported copyright owners lost the song to the public domain!

)
Dozens charged in spam crackdown (

only 200 spammers send 90% of spam, so this a good start

) [via]
There.com changes name to Forterra (

and someone gave them lots of money

) [via]
List of great "material moments" in film (

from an academic journal on materials science and engineering

) [via]
Cancelling an AOL account is not easy (

an entertaining account of one attempt

) [via]
Quentin Tarantino's alleged weblog (

update: Q's publicist says it's fake

) [via]
Bjork on filesharing (

"God bless the internet."

)
August 24, 2004
Trevor visits the Berkeley "I Love Bees" GPS site (

the viral game pointed to pay phones today, which could activate "axons" on the website

)
Star Wars Galaxies users crash server with protest demonstrations
Olympic gold medals, adjusted per capita (

adjusting for the population bias

)
John Kerry chose the Daily Show over the news networks (

he's interviewed on the show tonight

) [via]
Good advice for record labels [via]
Pirate Bay's response to Dreamworks cease-and-desist (

one benefit of living in Sweden

)
"I found a digital camera in the woods" (

like the Internet's version of the Blair Witch Project

) [via]
Typewriter mod that sends e-mail (

with detailed photos

) [via]
Video: "Planet of the Apes" as a Twilight Zone episode (

brilliant fan re-edit

) [via]
Tricks of the Trade (

great list of trade secrets, more on Mefi

) [via]
Simoniker's last post on Slashdot Games (

Simon Carless was the best editor of the best section of Slashdot

)
How to make your own red-blue 3-D photos (

the JPL tutorial is nice, too

) [via]
August 23, 2004
Windows worm accesses webcams and microphones (

not the first Trojan with a voyeur angle

) [via]
NYT on the Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "Team America: World Police" (

new marionette movie, with political themes and graphic puppet sex

) [via]
Lycos launches Discussion Search (

searches mish-mash of message boards, discussion lists, and blogs

) [via]
Technorati gets $6.5 million in funding (

Socialtext, too; it's the New Boom!

) [via]
Banner Report, gallery of 15,000+ ad banners (

Wired covered the site today

) [via]
How to Be Rich and Famous (

endlessly ridiculous comments, because of this

) [via]
Halo 2's viral marketing campaign goes meatspace (

massive real-life mystery event all over the map

)
The Seven Deadly Harveys (

the sins of Harvey Comics

)
August 22, 2004
Taking a Closer Look at the War Medals of George W. Bush
MP3: Usher's "Dot Com" (

horrible web-themed track, read the lyrics

) [via]
August 21, 2004
Wheat allergy keeps 8-year-old girl out of heaven (

the Catholic Church says her first Communion was invalid

)
August 20, 2004
Isometric pixel map of Washington D.C. [via]
Dick van Dyke is a professional CG animator (

who knew?

) [via]
21% of people who hate their lives use Livejournal [via]
Mozilla.org's redesigned beta site (

Steven has more info about the redesign

) [via]
Real's "Freedom of Choice" print ad (

note the fine print

)
BugMeNot is back! (

their new host is much more sympathetic to the cause

)
Browse Happy, the anti-IE switch campaign (

IMO, Firefox is the best of the bunch

) [via]
From the Ground (

a guy is blogging his walk from Nebraska to the East Coast

) [via]
Flash: The Invisibility Game (

don't miss the ending to level 12

) [via]
Movie: Red vs Blue's primer on Real Life vs the Internet (

funniest thing I've seen all month, from these guys

) [via]
FoxyTunes, control your media player from Firefox (

Mac support is in development

) [via]
Surowiecki on the Google IPO (

Wall Street retaliated from being removed from the process

) [via]
Video: Interviews from FanimeCon 2004 (

courtesy of Kwoon, an online Kung Fu series

)
Cute... and Evil! (

Glassdog on Six Apart conspiracy theories

)
Radio Userland adds Atom support (

very surprising; now Blogger should add RSS support

) [via]
Detachable phonecam lenses (

makes it possible to shoot good photos with crappy phonecams

)
Time Travel Mutual Fund threatens Museum of Hoaxes (

I'm upgrading them from "hoax" to "scam"

)
Build your own hoverboard (

here are some design ideas

) [via]
Closeup prop photos from Back to the Future trilogy (

note the "Queen Diana" detail on the USA Today

)
Vaporized alcohol comes to Manhattan bars (

order yours today for only $2995

) [via]
August 19, 2004
Mister Donut desktop wallpaper (

the commercials are pretty damn cute, too

)
Google Search: "hypertext links to this site, you must contact" (

more stupid linking policies

) [via]
Video: "The Life Aquatic" trailer (

new Wes Anderson movie starring Bill Murray

) [via]
Fox News billboard gets Photoshopped (

worthy of the BLF

)
Inquiry leads to Google Zeitgeist's removal of OS stats
Khoi Vinh's outstanding redesign contest mockups (

his own site is amazing, highly recommended

) [via]
MP3: NES-style cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (

using the Konami VRC6 sound chip extensions for the NES

) [via]
Queso's review of his Dropcash campaign (

he raised $450 in 13 hours, thanks to Metafilter

)
Broadband users now the majority in the U.S. (

63 million broadband vs. 61 million jealous dial-up users

) [via]
Cringely's advice for the newly public Google
IPTA's great summary of the Grokster ruling (

Corante rounds up all the discussion

)
Cory Doctorow on the EFF's historic Grokster win (

P2P developers aren't liable for copyright infringement on their networks

)
Brad Choate joins Six Apart (

they're hiring too many smart, clever people

)
Mozilla Sunbird 0.2 released (

the Mozilla Foundation is slowly rebuilding Outlook

) [via]
LA Weekly profile on Elizabeth Loftus, repressed-memory skeptic [via]
Playing "Halo" on the big screen [via]
Olympic athletes biting their medals (

the Yahoo search is currently broken in Firefox

)
Donkey John (

Australian political commentary in the form of a Nintendo Game & Watch

)
RSS Auction, excellent eBay-to-RSS generator [via]
Consensual hugging in Second Life
Computer Chronicles episode on the Commodore 64 (

including Skate or Die, the Koala Pad, and GEOS

) [via]
Fitts' Law, designing navigation with large targets
Google shares up 18% [via]
Videogame TV commercials (

someone get these on Archive.org!

) [via]
Top 25 sites requested on Bugmenot (

the biggest targets in the free registration wars

)
Bugmenot creator responds to outage (

their host pulled the plug, so they're moving soon

) [via]
Nintendogs pet sim for the Nintendo DS (

pet the dog with the touchscreen?

) [via]
Wired sponsors Creative Commons benefit concert (

with David Byrne and Gilberto Gil

) [via]
August 18, 2004
Toogle, text converter of Google Image Search (

takes the most popular image and converts it to ASCII art

)
More details and screenshots of GTA San Andreas (

hundreds of hours of gameplay? yikes.

)
Slashdot's 10 millionth comment (

"I don't get it."

) [via]
MD5 algorithm proven insecure (

Chinese team generates collisions in a matter of hours

) [via]
Flickr launches the Organizr (

built with the lovely new Flickr API

)
Image: Yahoo News' horrific new skyscraper ads (

IE users are graced with gigantor banners

)
Indie band Dios forced to change name by Ronnie James Dio (

will this affect Dio's presidential campaign?

)
August 17, 2004
Jaws in 30 Seconds Re-Enacted by Bunnies [via]
Japanese children's books from the 1920s (

if only the images were larger

) [via]
RealNetwork launches anti-Apple blog, inspiring wrath (

they removed comments from the petition, and all the blog comments are from Apple fans

) [via]
Weboggle, DHTML Boggle game (

I'm really late to this one, but I'm still catching up from downtime last week

) [via]
Ann Arbor Library's 16-player Mario Kart tournament (

eight Gamecubes running on a LAN

)
Stopdesign on Blogger's new navbar (

Doug Bowman designed it

)
Image: Rowing machine diagram (

related: the FileMatrix GUI screenshot

) [via]
ljArchive, intense LiveJournal archive utility for Windows (

including psychological profiles, archive printing, and exporting to MIDI!?

) [via]
Dropcash, easy fundraising with Typekey and Paypal (

Torrez and Kottke create a kick-ass app; read more about it

)
The Google Face Game [via]
Flash: Pixelfield game (

not for the impatient

) [via]
Clueless security firm blocks BitTorrent usage (

there are legitimate uses for BitTorrent too, asshat

)
Children's Pimp & Ho costumes (

you know, for kids!

) [via]
Don't Copy That Floppy from 1992 (

a classic, with a funny review and reliable video download

) [via]
August 16, 2004
CSS Zen Garden Interface Tool (

great way of browsing the designs on the site

) [via]
TransGaming tagging downloads to prevent piracy (

each download is watermarked with a unique ID

)
Political debate in Second Life MMORPG (

there are liberal and conservative areas of land in the virtual world

)
Danah Boyd on I-Neighbors (

social networking at the local neighborhood level

) [via]
Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo (

44 years of discarded bubble gum

) [via]
Costco begins test marketing caskets (

they're cheap, but you need to buy enough for your whole family

)
Video: Ali G's "Throw the Jew Down the Well" (

now read about the fallout of the performance

)
History of Isometric Game Engines [via]
Making tile-based games in Flash (

one of the highest quality tutorials I've seen

)
Slyck's roundup of illicit BitTorrent sites (

most of these are account-based trackers

)
Half-Life 2 dialogue accidentally leaked (

including the game's surprise ending

)
TimeTrax, convert XM Radio to MP3 [via]
Adbar for Firefox (

the evil cousin of Adblock

) [via]
Video: Jim Woodring's Frank (

Woodring art goes 3D, to great effect

) [via]
Stormtrooper Fairyland Wedding [via]
Piracy's Own Punishment (

if mostly young people pirate, the industry will cater only to old people

)
Netflix as social psychological experiment (

people choose virtue over vice for simultaneous viewing

) [via]
Washington Post profile on Washingtonienne (

they're a little late to the story

) [via]
Olympics shut down online streaming radio stations (

distinguishing between online and offline radio licensing is dumb

) [via]
Excel-based RSS reader (

this is disturbing and wrong

) [via]
Lord of the Rings My Little Pony (

Dazzle Surprise of the Nazgul

) [via]
Blogger adds search navigation bar to all unpaid Blogspot weblogs (

and removed all of the ad banners

) [via]
How to make a scale model of a city (

next: how to make it into a Quake map?

) [via]
Technorati cosmos spammers [via]
MP3: WWE wrestler John Cena freestyling about the NES (

he's surprisingly well-versed in the subject

) [via]
Fijuu, real-time performance environment using 3D objects as instruments (

it boots from a standalone Linux CD

) [via]
Nature magazine on the urban maze (

or read the "Networks and Cities" paper

) [via]
Mom helped five-year-old son smoke crack (

from a homemade bong made from a baby food jar

)
Top 10 Black Metal Publicity Photos (

rule #1: don't be evil

)
Suprnova Light mirror scripts (

also: this Suprnova search engine is nice

) [via]
Novelty shaved head designs (

lightning bolt!

) [via]
Wired Style no longer capitalizing "net," "internet," or "web" [via]
Food stamp recipients receive educational videogames instead of pamphlets [via]
Playboy's open source mirrors (

"I read it for the source code"

)
NYT on Warner Brothers' marketing to MP3 bloggers [via]
Feedster prepares ads in RSS feeds (

I actively dislike ads in RSS feeds

)
2004 Olympics website's silly hyperlink policy (

whoops, I just violated their Terms and Conditions

) [via]
August 15, 2004
Paper Napkin, a rejection line for e-mail [via]
August 14, 2004
Retrozone, vintage console controllers modded to USB (

for $24 each, these USB NES joypads are a steal

) [via]
August 13, 2004
Mozilla team verifies Goat Cheese bug (

the lighter side of browser programming

) [via]
The Great Meatshake Experiment (

one brave soul tries chicken, beef, and ham Meatshakes

) [via]
Ask Mefi on emotional videogames (

has a videogame ever made you cry?

)
Aruze develops Linux-operated arcade machine (

meanwhile, Taito's using Windows XP for their arcade games

) [via]
August 12, 2004
Give it up for Pam! (

she wrote about my Lost Friends page and Upcoming.org

)
RIAA Toilet Paper [via]
Audio CD that plays an endless loop of random musical tones [via]
OJR on blog transparency and trust (

plus, a nice graph of Technorati data

) [via]
Bjork opening the Olympics ceremonies [via]
Bootleg RSS feeds for Pitchfork Media (

finally, feeds for news and reviews

) [via]
Light Speed, graphics app to simulate the effect of light speed on appearance (

for example, a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air

) [via]
RF shielding apparel (

to prevent you from evil cell phone rays!

) [via]
Microsoft shuts down SP2Torrent [via]
August 11, 2004
Den Sen, neat unreleased game for the PS2 (

also, some videos of a very early version of "Rez"

) [via]
Advertising Plagiarism (

side-by-side comparisons of pirated print designs

) [via]
Beethoven's "Stairway to Heaven" (

arrangements of Zep in the style of famous composers

) [via]
Ubisoft's "Political Machine" game released (

play the campaign manager for Bush or Kerry

)
Mercury News profile on Brewster Kahle (

he asked Google for a copy of their database

) [via]
The TiVo LCD Project (

hacking a show readout into your PVR

) [via]
CirculaFloor, real-life holodeck floors (

moving floors shift as you walk

) [via]
Polystation, Panasoanic, Sonny, and Sanzyo (

amusing Japanese knockoff electronics, like this fake PS1

) [via]
TV listings in RSS (

this might come in handy for a BitTorrent TV project

) [via]
Business Software Alliance asks kids to help name their new copyright-crusader weasel mascot (

don't miss their new promo videos

) [via]
Augmented Reality's Smart Projecters (

real-time texture and color correction to project onto arbitrary surfaces

) [via]
Open Audiobooks Project (

distributed effort to record "Pride and Prejudice"

) [via]
Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive (

remarkable research into documents recovered from an Al-Qaeda desktop PC

) [via]
The Political Conspiracy BitTorrent Tracker (

and one with politically-themed torrents

) [via]
Ron Fedkiw's physics modeling videos (

I can't wait for those water, mesh, and fire simulations in videogames

) [via]
DVD Jon cracks Airport Express encryption (

I love that guy

)
Glassdog's complaints about BitTorrent (

this is an essential companion piece to the BattleTorrent project

)
Video: Mindgame trailer, new animated Japanese film (

2D, 3D, and live-action faces composited on animated bodies

) [via]
Salon on TiVo-to-Go and BitTorrent TV
Video: Huge Japanese landslide caught on video (

here's a smaller version without the commentary

) [via]
August 10, 2004
Video: "Alone in the Dark" trailer (

I loved the game, but this is the worst trailer ever

)
Fark photoshops "What if Microsoft owned Nintendo?" (

my two favorites

) [via]
Morning News roundtable chat with six MP3 bloggers (

Oliver has a great idea for official label MP3 blogs

) [via]
Protester technology at the RNC (

radio hijacking, mobile Wifi, backpack pirate radio, and aerial crowd photography

)
Long Chris Ware audio interview from 2001 (

shortly after the release of the Jimmy Corrigan hardcover

)
Police investigating Daryl Kabatoff, and his mom gives more detail (

he indirectly threatened me last year because of my post

)
Yann Bertrand's Aerial Photos (

gorgeous photos from "Earth from Above"

)
Life-Size Mousetrap (

photos from the giant recreation of the kid's game

) [via]
Bookmarklet: Detect deleted Metafilter threads
August 9, 2004
Sprawl, experimental typeface based on Belgium maps (

takes into account population density

) [via]
Salon's feature on Six Apart and MovableType (

strange, the word "cute" is nowhere to be found

)
Stripe Snoop, free tools for analyzing magnetic stripe cards (

what do your credit cards say about you?

) [via]
TiVo saves Polyphonic Spree singer from airport arrest (

microphone mistaken for pipe bomb, shutting down Dallas airport

) [via]
Jason Scott on current geek documentaries [via]
Japanese "Alice in Wonderland" cosplay (

including several from Disneyland Tokyo

) [via]
Video: Qua's "Devil Eyes" (

bizarre, 8-bit style music video

) [via]
Nelson researches the S.F. guy behind the fake beheading video
Windows XP SP2 BitTorrent site (

BitTorrent meets the demand that Microsoft can't fulfill

)
Saskatoon paper's profile of Usenet kook Daryl Kabatoff (

I wrote about him back in 2002

)
August 6, 2004
Forbes thinks RSS is dumb (

read the "Worst" section of the Standard review

) [via]
Joggle Tellybot, UK TV listings over Jabber IM (

can we get one for the U.S. now?

) [via]
Close-up photos of ENIAC (

one of the first computers, plus lovely desktop wallpaper

) [via]
Yahoo mocks Google's employee party [via]
Americans blocked from online access to live Olympics coverage (

another argument for pirating the Olympics

)
Publisher buckles, renaming Katie.com book (

the Internet wins!

) [via]
Drew responds to Wired's Fark article (

also: is Fark a blog? I say yes

)
Video: Macromedia Shockwave press kit from 1995 (

cue massive wave of nostalgia

)
Excellent review of Fraggle Rock DVD (

explains in loving detail why my 6-year-old self adored it

) [via]
Review of Seth McFarlane's "American Dad" pilot (

it's no Family Guy, local mirror here

)
dbagg3, an Atom-powered feedreader (

the first step in something very good

) [via]
Unabashed racist wins GOP primary in Tennessee (

his official website is beyond ignorant

) [via]
Video: Rockwell Automation's Retro Encabulator (

mine's on back order

) [via]
How not to buy happiness
Insane bicycling videos (

"Drag Race NYC" is a suicidal ride through NYC traffic

)
Image: Status Quo tattoo (

I'll bet Harv was there

) [via]
MeatShake, shakes made of meat (

nice jingle on this page

) [via]
Vulnerability in PNG image format
August 5, 2004
25 Years of the Brown Sisters (

reminds me of these family photos

) [via]
Google Ads for pirating Doom 3 from Suprnova (

there's no way Suprnova had anything to do with it

)
Lunatic Christians debating whether Barack Obama is the Antichrist (

they blocked access to the original, so here's the Google cache

) [via]
First Doom 3 mod pack released (

co-op single player mode and 32-player servers

) [via]
Wired on anonymous onion routing networks (

or download the code yourself

)
Tartarus, a 3D shooter engine built within Second Life (

a multiplayer game built inside a multiplayer virtual world

)
MT-Blacklist 2.0 review and screenshots (

moderating spam, auto updates, and much more

) [via]
Can a Mac SE bypass modern Mac network security?
California Extreme classic arcade show is this weekend (

the first time I'll miss it in five years, see the panorama

)
Solar charge your iPod or GBA [via]
Sippey joins SixApart (

they're building a serious brain trust there

)
Video: Documentary on the Firefly Press (

a vintage letterpress company in Portland

) [via]
Engineering inscriptions in the catacombs of Paris (

beautiful typography photos

) [via]
Register UK on the Katie.com saga (

lawyers are pressuring Katie Jones to give up the domain

) [via]
LA Weekly on the history of IMDB [via]
Rumors that Sun may soon own PHP (

unlikely, no more than IBM "owning" Linux

)
PalmPSOne, handheld Playstation 1 mod (

a cleaner version of the PSP1 mod

) [via]
Longshot Presidential Candidates (

including HRM Caesar St. Augustine de Buonaparte

)
New version of Bugmenot Firefox extension auto-fills form fields (

this is huge, and very cool

)
August 4, 2004
Flash: Don't Let It Get Your Cursor (

a final silly link for the day

) [via]
Die-cast "Back to the Future" DeLoreans (

including versions from all three films!

)
Thai fuel cell converts carbs to electricity (

it's like Mr. Fusion for Krispy Kreme donuts

) [via]
IRC bots are handling Usenet binary reposts
MS Newsbot biased toward MSNBC articles (

or: why Google News is a better news site

)
File Sharing Purchase Database (

retail purchases that resulted from illegal downloads

) [via]
Carmack to open-source Quake III engine later this year (

exciting news

) [via]