Ads via The Deck
January 31, 2005
Coachella 2005 lineup announced (

strange that bands like Sloan and Spoon are buried in the lineup

) [via]
Charting the sharing frequency of Del.icio.us links (

raises the question of researching Del.icio.us point of entry

) [via]
Video: Mashup of "Paperback Writer" and "I'm a Believer" (

fan-made music video matched to GHP's flawless mashup

)
Register UK's interview with a comment spammer (

nothing new here, but it's good to know thy enemy

) [via]
TiVo launches Home Media Engine SDK (

PVRBlog is hosting a gallery of apps, and TiVo is running a programming contest

)
Make a Life Poster with iPhoto (

a 20"x30" collage of 98 photos, printed by Kodak for $29

) [via]
Video: Gene Kelly breakdancing in VW Golf commercial (

great editing, but crass exploitation of the dead

) [via]
Digg, community-moderated link blog (

like Metafilter meets K5; how it works

) [via]
Video: IBM's The Information Machine (

animated film directed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1958, with an Elmer Bernstein score

) [via]
Steven Johnson's semantic research system (

desktop and web search tools need this functionality

) [via]
Hands-on preview of Katamari Damacy 2 (

with two videos of gameplay from the classroom demo

) [via]
Del tha Funkee Homosapien performs at the Dreamcast launch party in 1999 (

don't miss the video of Del performing the gaming-focused song "Proto Culture"

) [via]
Angie Hart on the bitter breakup and new reunion of Frente! (

there's a new song up on Myspace, but it just doesn't have the same sense of wonder

)
Matt Biddulph made two new Del.icio.us hacks (

a tool that detects similarly-named tags, and a Firefox extension that embeds Del.icio.us into the BBC website

) [via]
January 29, 2005
To Protect and to Rock (

painting of Steve Perry as Robocop

)
Image: Cigarro & Cerveja's Cookieright (

cute independent comic strip on copyright

) [via]
A9 CEO denies they paid for getting mentioned on The OC (

does anyone really believe that?

)
January 28, 2005
Pokemon causes cancer, literally (

POK Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic proteins

) [via]
Livejournal circa 1945 (

round-robin letter writing during WWII

) [via]
Mikel Maron's A9 panorama tool (

enter a Block Search URL, get photos of the entire street

)
Credit card statement drawings (

drawing each one until they're paid off

) [via]
January 27, 2005
Amazon pays for A9 reference on The OC (

it sounds awkward, but here I am talking about it; anyone have a clip?

)
Flicker slideshow of A9 photos down Melrose (

set the speed to high; thanks, Jonah

)
Smoking Mickey Mouse t-shirt (

order one before they're served a C&D

) [via]
Adwords API launches (

web services for managing, deploying, and tuning Adwords campaigns; congrats, Nelson!

)
Homebrew code now running on the Nintendo DS (

graphic demos will probably be next, as programmers learn how to code for it

)
Interesting images found on A9 Local (

Alan has more information; also, finding yourself in a photo

)
New IE security newsgroup launches (

the first comment made me laugh

) [via]
Ben Folds releasing new album in April (

Weird Al singing backup on one song?

)
Panoramas with A9's Block View (

anyone want to write a tool to automate this to get an entire block or street?

)
Russell Beattie on A9's block photos (

it's been done before in Spain and France

) [via]
Image: MSN's new math (

6 divided by 3 is...?

)
January 26, 2005
Amazon/A9's amazing new Yellow Pages (

with photos of 14 million storefronts across ten cities, like this one; walk up the block

)
Yahoo moving up to 1,000 employees into new Santa Monica office (

about six blocks away from my house

) [via]
Craig's List traffic stats (

1.7 billion pageviews per month, and 7 million uniques!

) [via]
Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty (

three cheers for the middle manager!

)
Downhill Battle's Eyes on the Screen campaign (

excellent campaign to rescue the classic civil-rights documentary from copyright hell

) [via]
Steve Martin's letter to Johnny Carson (

very sincere

) [via]
January 25, 2005
Turn your Mac Mini into a home media center (

great howto by Engadget

) [via]
AOL stops offering newsgroup access (

the endless September finally ends!

) [via]
New Google employee blogging about work (

update: he took it down for a short time, but Dave cached the homepage before he did

) [via]
CastleZZT's mirror-image Garfield (

the most interesting Garfield strips in two decades; see also, the rest of the site

) [via]
Flickr coincidence (

it's not the only uncanny coincidence on Flickr

) [via]
Ashlee Simpson's spamming message boards (

maybe not her, but someone involved with her PR effort

) [via]
Christie's The Origins of Cyberspace auction (

historical documents galore; BUY IT NOW! NO RESERVE!

)
January 24, 2005
Real-life tribute to Calvin & Hobbes' snowmen (

here's one more example

)
Audio: Staccato Music 7 (

featuring an interview with Magnatune Records creator John Buckman

) [via]
Google Video launched (

search major networks, but no video clips are available!

) [via]
Today, Some McSweeney's Lists (

Olivia Newton-Tron

) [via]
Unusual articles on Wikipedia (

heavy metal umlaut is on there

) [via]
Kottke on the maximum Starbucks density (

current winner is downtown NYC with 169 stores in a 5-mile radius

)
Bugs Bunny in drag (

for those who were worried about Spongebob's pro-gay agenda

) [via]
Long-lost video of Steve Jobs introducing the Mac in 1984 (

taped off public TV, finally available online

)
Google Video Search coming soon? (

the directory and subdomain now temporarily redirect to the homepage

)
Firefox's lead engineer Ben Goodger hired by Google (

this suggests that the Google Browser is definitely a reality

) [via]
Insecure vs. confident weatherman videos (

both are painful to watch

)
Street art in Counterstrike Source (

anyone can make custom graffiti in CS:Source

) [via]
Just A Plant, a children's story of marijuana (

the next book should be "Poppies Are Pretty: A Children's Guide to Opiates"

) [via]
2005 Bloggies nominations (

the Bloggies need a "Best Linkblog" category

) [via]
CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby (

one developer's move away from PHP and MySQL

) [via]
Hurricane Electric ISP adds automatic BitTorrent hosting for clients (

drop a file in a directory, and it's automatically tracked and seeded locally; wonderful!

) [via]
Non-desktop uses for a Mac mini (

some great ideas here for DIY projects

) [via]
Google rumored to offer voice-over-IP phone service (

a bold move, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Google buy a Skype competitor

) [via]
Collaborative fiction writing with SubEthaEdit (

I'll bet it would work great for screenplays and sketch comedy, too

) [via]
Snarkout essay on Will Eisner (

tons of great links about Eisner and the Spirit

)
Are design contests worth the time and effort? (

B. Adam Howell asks contest winners if they got any business after winning

)
Washington school district bans Halo 2 tsunami fundraiser (

they cited violent games and the Columbine shootings

) [via]
January 23, 2005
Habbo Hotel gets $23m in funding (

one of the most successful and profitable multiplayer worlds, despite its lo-fi approach

) [via]
Flash: Jon Udell's Wikipedia case study on the heavy metal umlaut (

this is essential viewing for anyone with any interest in Wikipedia

) [via]
Darwinia demo released (

a real-time strategy game with a completely unique look, independently published

) [via]
Phrack to publish its last issue (

publishing since 1985, I used to read the hacker e-zine religiously in my BBS days

)
Google raises word limit to 32 (

before, you were limited to 10 words in a single query

)
MP3: Ben Folds and Rufus Wainwright duet on Wham's "Careless Whisper" (

the live version of Philosophy is nice, too

)
Drivey, monochrome driving sim for Windows (

also: history of driving games

) [via]
Five terrible fake Livejournal memes (

from Merlin Mann's 5ives

) [via]
MoonEdit, multiplatform collaborative text editor (

like SubEthaEdit, but for both Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD

) [via]
Ivan Brunetti's Doodle-A-Day (

his galleries of vintage postcards and art are good, too

)
Wired cover story on Firefox (

it's tempting for the media to put one face on a much larger project

)
Target selling Mac mini (

but only on their website, I believe

) [via]
Johnny Carson passes away (

even to the end, he was writing jokes and secretly sending them to Letterman

) [via]
January 22, 2005
NYC radio station skit mocking tsunami victims (

you'd think as New Yorkers, they'd empathize with the disaster

) [via]
January 21, 2005
Exeem open beta released (

yeah, but it has spyware with no opt-out; better wait for an updated ExeemLite

) [via]
Google to provide AdWords API to advertisers (

I could imagine uses for an AdSense API for publishers, as well

)
Paul Ford's Three Favorite Computer Games of 2004 (

the Will Oldham MMORPG should be called "Palace"

)
A post about Sally Forth, the main character in Sally Forth [via]
Video: Innernet, parody of Justin Hall's breakdown (

some context; created by this guy

)
Convert Tivo-to-Go to MPEG files (

DRM, be gone!

) [via]
Jacob Weinstein on the movie industry's screener DVDs (

they're hassling award voters, or not sending out screening copies at all

) [via]
January 20, 2005
Justin Foster signs up for free trade magazines (

you, too, can get free subscriptions to Pig International, Aqua, Firehouse, and Tissue World

)
January 19, 2005
Image: Sega's next football game (

with EA's monopoly on NFL or ESPN rights, Sega doesn't have much left

) [via]
mp3Blog Toplist, gauging popularity by multiplying Del.icio.us users by Technorati inbound links (

Alf also made toplists for blogresearch and games

)
Sparklines for representing Wikipedia activity (

a brilliant idea they should try to reproduce as soon as possible

) [via]
NYT journalist's followup on two girls he freed from Cambodian sex trade (

he purchased them for $450 in 2003, turning journalism into activism

) [via]
Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination (

boy, I'm glad nobody cares about race anymore

) [via]
Ourmedia launching this weekend (

platform for free hosting of personal video content, partnered with Archive.org

) [via]
PubSub tracking over 8 million blogs/feeds (

wow, that easily trumps Technorati's 6.2 million blogs

) [via]
Geocities 1996 (

the best CSS Zen Garden theme ever

) [via]
Ta-Da Lists (

37signal's free shared to-do lists; I've already set one up for Upcoming.org

)
Metafilter Tags, 24 hours later (

unbelievable explosion as Mefi users tag all their old posts

)
Justice Dept. gets first two convictions in P2P piracy case (

"felony copyright infringement" is an upsetting phrase

)
Cory refuses to give up personal info to American Airlines (

his letter to AA is a great read

)
January 18, 2005
Movie: The Cyberpunk Educator (

analysis of cyberpunk movies of the 1980s, full download with BitTorrent

) [via]
Image: One does not simply walk into Mortor (

mirrored locally

)
Unintended consequences of "nofollow" support by search engines (

legitimate linking in comments helped make Google relevant, but spammers ruined it for everyone

)
Socialtext loses Disney deal to Jotspot (

Mike downplays it, and he should know

) [via]
Star Trek Enterprise not cancelled? (

this sounds like a non-denial denial to me

) [via]
Chris Anderson on the Long Tail applied to TV shows (

the conclusion to his very good recent series

)
Calculating the best albums of 2004 from 60 top ten lists (

Franz Ferdinand firmly at the top

) [via]
Comic: Perry Bible Fellowship's "Shotgun" (

how do Rock, Scissors, and Paper settle disputes?

)
Yahoo, Google, MSN announce "nofollow" support to combat comment and Trackback spam (

more details about the spec that removes the Pagerank incentive for spammers

) [via]
Dissecting the iPod Shuffle (

not a bit of space is wasted

) [via]
New Yorker on Collegehumor.com (

four guys in their early 20s, 8 million unique visitors and $400k/month

) [via]
Matt adds tagging to Metafilter (

hopping on the tag bandwagon

)
David Galbraith on search ordering by date (

I've been wanting this for years; it will be increasingly essential as the web stagnates

)
Blinx Video Search signs major networks (

you can search the archives of BBC, Fox, Sky, and more

) [via]
Michael Wolf's photographs of Hong Kong high-rises (

from a distance, resembles random noise or UPC barcodes

) [via]
"Legend of Zelda" upper back tattoo (

in the style of Wind Waker, from this Gaming Tattoos community

)
Video: Justin's dark night (

the web's first blogger has a very public nervous breakdown; lots of questions here about the personal costs of posting your entire life online

) [via]
FreeMe, remove DRM from Windows Media files! (

never mind, this is really old news; Microsoft released a "fix" for it

)
Ripshark will convert your CDs to MP3 (

at less than $1/album, cheaper than RipDigital

) [via]
Craig Robinson's What If? (

illustrated with Minipops

) [via]
January 17, 2005
PS2 brute force hacking of GTA San Andreas cheat codes (

he connected his PS2 controller to his PC to step through every button combo

)
Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers fan fiction (

Mikester says, "No slash, I think, I hope."

) [via]
Moistworks MP3 blog shut down by British RIAA (

they contacted the host directly to shut them down; some commentary about the closure

) [via]
Drunk Men Work Here's Blacklist log (

an automated list of scumbag comment/Trackback spammer activity on DMWH's random weblog service

)
EA teams up with ESPN for sports games (

after the exclusive NFL deal, this clinches their monopoly on sports gaming

)
January 15, 2005
Image: Katamari Damacy cosplay (

damn, I was hoping they'd dress up like the King of All Cosmos

) [via]
Technorati Tags (

turn MovableType extensions to Technorati tags

)
January 14, 2005
Overriding site-wide CSS styles at the page level with PHP (

a nice hack

)
Dream World, Thailand's cheap Disneyland knockoff (

complete with fake Space Mountain, Fantasyland, and bootleg Disney gift shop

) [via]
MP3: Nina Gordon's "Straight Outta Compton" (

some other offbeat covers on her official site

) [via]
Patrick Nielsen Hayden criticizes Boing Boing's "Copyright Communist" parody propaganda (

outstanding comments by Cory Doctorow, Charlie Stross, and more

) [via]
January 13, 2005
Marcus Arnold aka "LawGuy1975," dead at 19 (

AskMe.com's #1 legal expert at age 15, he was featured in Michael Lewis' Next

) [via]
Spam Assassin plugin for MovableType (

very neat

) [via]
Will you still need me, will you still feed me? (

my mom overhears a conversation

)
Technorati introduces tag searching (

searches Flickr, Delicious, and category-tagged blog posts

) [via]
BayTSP's FirstSource anti-piracy software targets first uploads (

find the first instance of a file online, verify it, and capture the IP addresses of the initial seeders

)
Blogpulse charts of blogger meals (

"breakfast" and "dinner" references go up every Sunday, while "lunch" references go down

)
Ocean-related keywords recede and then sharply rise after Indian Ocean tsunami (

blog keyword frequency as a strange, but coincidental, predictor of tsunami activity

) [via]
Jennifer Garner's Awesome Great Workout Mix! (

I'm not sure what's worse, her comments or her taste in music

) [via]
Gizmodo grills Bill Gates about his copyright communist remarks (

read his earlier remarks for some background

) [via]
A World of Invisibilia (

photos with the people replaced by line drawings

) [via]
Pac-Man Game Over (

game ova, holla

)
iTunes update breaks anti-DRM Hymn utility, again (

and JHymn has the workaround and recovery procedure

) [via]
Joey DeVilla's guide to writing interactive fiction with Inform (

this is an impressive overview with tons of great references

)
Blizzard orders World of Warcraft pulled from shelves? (

the rumor is their servers can't handle the insane growth and demand

) [via]
Gamasutra's excellent overview of emulating the Atari 2600 (

it's one of the hardest and most CPU-intensive to emulate

) [via]
Waxy Links Statistics (

here's the background, for those of you that don't read the main weblog

)
Hong Kong makes first file-sharing arrest (

he should've been arrested for bad taste

)
NYT on the style guidelines of Google AdWords (

Google reviews and edits text ads for spelling, grammar and clarity

) [via]
Google Mini (

hopping on the "mini" bandwagon with a $5k Google search appliance

) [via]
Video: Bizarro iPod World (

very, very weird

) [via]
First issues of JPG Magazine released (

Derek and Heather go print and bring Flickr users with them

) [via]
January 12, 2005
Harvard Crimson interviews Think Secret's Nick Ciarelli about Apple lawsuit (

Apple is suing the formerly-anonymous 19-year-old Harvard freshman

) [via]
TKPal plugin for MovableType (

easy micropayments at the post level with MT, Paypal, Typekey, and PHP

) [via]
Wired's Top 10 Vaporware of 2004 (

topping the list is Longhorn, CherryOS, and the Phantom console

)
Comic: Derek Kirk Kim's "Same Difference" (

All Things Considered just interviewed him

)
Making ASCII stereograms with Javascript (

my eyes hurt

) [via]
Video: The Uncle Liam Show (

Liam Lynch's music video for his nephew Arlo's first birthday

)
Beatles Anomalies (

obsessive list of Beatles oddness; see also, background noises in Led Zeppelin songs

) [via]
Del.icio.us Inbox is back (

one of my primary sources of linkage is back

) [via]
Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems, fails to notify customers (

he monitored Secret Service e-mails, and took cam photos from Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, and Paris Hilton

) [via]
Guardian Angel bags (

handbags built with the outline of a gun or knife; laptop bags with the outline of groceries

) [via]
January 11, 2005
Justin Frankel's Assniffer for Windows and Linux (

network sniffer that automatically saves files of transferred data

)
Early '90s Predictions Database (

4,200 predictions made between 1990-1995; also, some new predictions

) [via]
Justin Hall stops publishing Links.net? (

this was his last entry, also found in the source code of his homepage

) [via]
OJR on tsunami video hosting on blogs (

organized mirroring is great, but isn't BitTorrent a better long-term solution?

)
iPod shuffle differences between US and UK (

apparently, we eat gum in the US, while the Brits chew it

)
Decentralized BitTorrent with Kenosis (

more information in the Slashdot thread

) [via]
Verizon blocking e-mail from the UK (

as an ISP, Verizon has a responsibility not to have any false positives

) [via]
The Words of Albert Spamus (

spam poetry for the ages

)
Mac mini, official homepage (

do not taunt Mac mini

)
iPod shuffle, official homepage (

"do not eat iPod shuffle"

)
Video: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on Archive.org (

also: most popular feature films for download on Archive.org

) [via]
New iPod Shuffle, the Flash-based iPod (

really tiny, no screen, weighs under an ounce; $99 for 512MB, $149 for 1GB; shipping today; photo

)
Mac Mini, 2" tall headless Mac for $499 (

Think Secret was right! more details coming; photos of box and product

)
SQL Injection Attacks by Example (

a great starting point to securing your own code

) [via]
Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition (

Ali G strikes again

) [via]
TowerSeek (

a prototype BitTorrent search crawler, with estimated speeds and file listings

) [via]
An analysis of BitTorrent distribution and centralization (

the long tail is very long; 87% of trackers have less than 100 torrents

)
January 10, 2005
The Unicorns break up (

looks like Mclusky broke up, too

)
eBay: Sub Pop Singles Club (

over 125 records; the complete collection, worth seeing just for historical value

) [via]
Audio: Inside look at NPR's audio editing practices (

removing "um" and "uh," ambient audio, and off-site interviews

) [via]
Ming's page of Googleable webcams (

he performed geo-lookups of the IP addresses, and made a nice UI for browsing

) [via]
Face Transformer Java applet (

excellent and bizarre algorithmic morphing

)
Second Life's changing culture (

the shift from innovation to 200 strip clubs

)
Feedburner's list of the top 20 RSS readers (

may be skewed by default feeds that ship with readers

) [via]
Think Secret's top Macworld Expo rumors (

even Cringely thinks the sub-$500 Mac is going to happen

) [via]
Snopes on anti-seat belt law advocate killed in car accident (

he wasn't wearing a seat belt, while two other passengers were and survived

) [via]
TKPal implemented for Grouphug comments (

interesting to see how it's getting used

)
January 9, 2005
CodeCon 2005 Program (

all sorts of interesting new projects

) [via]
Salon feature on the death of the payola system for radio (

Eliot Spitzer started cracking down in October

) [via]
McDonald's Israeli "Pulp Fiction" commercial (

very surreal, with dead-on impersonations of Travolta and Jackson

)
Taggregator (

combined display of Flickr and Del.icio.us tags; try apple, disneyland, and, of course, mathowie

) [via]
Matt Haughey reports from CES on TiVo's new features (

they're opening it up to developers, and linking it to portables

)
Mathowie Lookalike group on Flickr (

it's Matt Haughey day on Waxy.org!

)
Matt Haughey on Bill Gates's anti-copyright comments (

plus, he rounds up Microsoft's Internet-related failures

)
Penny Arcade rips into "Non Sequitur" artist Wiley Miller's attack on web publishing (

more background on the ongoing feud between Wiley and PvP's Scott Kurtz

) [via]
Matt Haughey on Internet-wide comment tracking (

Andre has a similar idea involving Typekey

)
Leslie Orchard on General Motors' new blog (

a major corporate blog, with comments and Trackback

)
January 8, 2005
Robin Good on Loki Torrent's battle with the MPAA (

they're taking a hands-off ISP-like stance; their users have donated $40k to the legal fund so far

)
Untouched comment spam breeds more spam (

comment spammers search for vulnerable sites in Google

) [via]
Andre Torrez's TKPal (

pay for access to webpage content with Typekey and Paypal; understated announcement, but could have huge implications

)
January 6, 2005
LA Times drops Garfield from comic pages (

"a strip cynically designed to be inoffensive and bad, on the theory that public tastes are insipid"

) [via]
Bram Cohen points to increased BitTorrent usage despite tracker shutdowns (

people are using it for more than just pirating

)
Camera Mail (

cameras mailed with instructions asking the USPS to snap photos with it

) [via]
Rumor of the day (

you didn't hear it from me

) [via]
Sims 2 hacks spread like viruses (

magic espresso, teen pregnancy, and washing machines named Candace

) [via]
January 5, 2005
Livejournal confirms the rumored sale to Six Apart (

Mena discusses the purchase, and Six Apart's Livejournal FAQ and press release

)
Apple suing Think Secret over Mac rumors (

they want them to name names and stop leaking again

) [via]
New Yorker on the mashup scene (

and the recent attempts to cash in

) [via]
Shirky's response to Danah Boyd on the recent Wikipedia debate (

Clay on Danah on Clay on Sanger; a great debate

)
January 4, 2005
Six Apart to buy Livejournal!? (

holy crap!

) [via]
Johnny Ryan's comic parodies of indie comic greats (

he's been making fun of all the biggest names

)
Angry dad blames Disney for profanity in pirated GBA game (

The Sun and the Inquirer both uncritically reported the claims

) [via]
Historical reenactments with the Half-Life 2 engine (

made with Garry's Physics Mod

)
Will Eisner, dead at 87 (

a huge loss; one of the most important and influential artists in comic history

)
Calgary Herald runs two-year-old tsunami photo on front page (

even Snopes is still unsure about this one

) [via]
January 3, 2005
Khoi Vinh redesigns Subtraction.com (

possibly the best designed blog I've ever seen; many nice touches throughout

) [via]
BBC News article talks about "dooced" bloggers (

but makes no reference to Dooce herself!?

) [via]
Guy calls every 867-5309 in America, reports on results (

the 678 guy is cranky

) [via]
250 covers of "House of the Rising Sun" (

this site has descriptions of each MP3, in Russian

) [via]
Videora, the BitTorrent RSS reader (

with "Season Passes" and "Wishlists"

) [via]
Workflow plugin for MovableType (

and he started a Dropcash campaign to fund it

) [via]
TivoToGo launched, with sucky DRM (

plus, no Mac support and you won't have it for weeks! yay!

)
Video: How Dylan Verdi got on TV (

I'm partially to blame, apparently

)
Video: Amateur Eye of the Tiger (

this made me laugh

) [via]
January 2, 2005
Lazyweb request for Taggle, a search engine for tags (

please, someone do this and make an API

)
Katamari Damacy 2 screenshots (

much better pics than the first preview

)
Meta Mammon (

an options market for trading high scorers from Media Mammon

)
January 1, 2005
Adam Mathes' thesis essay on Folksonomies (

Adam should build tags into Organizine!

) [via]
PuppetTool (

old, but new to me

)
43 Things Zeitgeist (

what do people want to do?

)