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June 30, 2005
Cockeyed's 24 Hours of Foo (

Dave Grohl is a fan of Rob's site and sent him to NYC to appear on MTV2

)
Num Sum, social spreadsheet for sharing data (

more on the advantages over Excel from the creator

) [via]
Video: Stella Artois' "Bench" commercial (

quite possibly the strangest commercial ever made

) [via]
James Burns' "Detached" (

comic about the author's surgery for a detached retina

) [via]
Pirated movies hosted on Google Video (

by offering unlimited video storage and bandwidth, this was inevitable; could be a legal disaster

) [via]
Microsoft to buy Gator adware? (

a match made in hell

) [via]
CNN begins podcasting (

why do I feel like there are more people creating podcasts than listening to them?

) [via]
TiVo announces Developer Challenge winners (

some great free apps written with the HME SDK

)
Horse Hater (

best blog ever? offensive language

) [via]
iTunes 4.9 also supports videoblogs (

news to me

) [via]
June 29, 2005
Video: Spoiled rotten kid fights with mom on Xbox Live (

"Mom! You said you'd bring me some chocolate milk!"

) [via]
Defective Yeti's crush on Kanga (

perfectly normal

) [via]
Yahoo Maps API (

you can pass it a street address, in addition to a lat/long pair

)
Geotagged Flickr photos mapped in Google Earth viewer (

some screenshots of it in action

) [via]
A9 redesigns map pages (

very Google Maps-ish, but with their excellent storefront photos; update: they removed it

) [via]
MAME ported to the PSP (

well, with one game only for now

) [via]
Insanely huge eBay lot of vintage 45s (

a 60-year-old record collector sells his entire collection

) [via]
Google Maps API (

this is a huge relief for every Google map hacker

) [via]
Ernest Miller on BitTorrent and the Grokster decision (

would Bram Cohen's statements open the door for a case against BitTorrent?

)
DVD Jon cracks Google Video restrictions (

cracking an open source project isn't quite as impressive

) [via]
June 28, 2005
Waxy Links' third-busiest day ever (

geez, 25 links is just silly; and why do I link the most on Tuesdays?

)
NYT on My Web 2.0, Flickr, and user content (

it's almost quaint that they punctuate "R.S.S."

)
Canada legalizes same-sex marriage (

sad that Canada understands equal rights and the pursuit of happiness better than my own country

)
Yahoo launches My Web 2.0, social bookmarks plus search (

I was part of the private beta, here are my comments

)
Unofficial ad-free versions of Gawker, NY Post launched on Blogspot (

creator claims it's "performance art meets media"

)
Salon on Tom Cruise and the new public face of Scientology (

speculates that he's OT-VII; first in a four-part series on Scientology's PR campaign

)
Video: OK Go's "A Million Ways" (

the guitarist of the band is blogging, too

) [via]
Developer asks city to seize Supreme Court justice's home to build new hotel (

a response to the Court's recent unraveling of property rights

) [via]
What does it take to "induce" infringement? (

an excellent example from the Betamax era; Sony would've failed the Grokster test

) [via]
Google Press Releases for 2006 (

more search engine humor from Philipp Lenssen

)
A Cynic's Guide to Videogame Politics (

what the key players in game legislation have to gain, from the excellent Game Politics blog on (gasp!) Livejournal

) [via]
House of Cosbys publisher cease-and-desisted by Bill Cosby!? (

the short films are brilliant; "I like to sue people! I'm litigation Cosby, you see."

) [via]
Wil Wheaton interviewed by Slashdot (

as always, he's witty and humble and essential reading

)
The Entrepreneur in a Post-Grokster World (

blurring the lines of the Betamax decision

) [via]
Monkeys, Ninjas, Pirates, and Robots in Safari's RSS database schema (

very funny, I wonder what the unused fields are for

)
World of Warcraft player stumbles on unfinished area (

I've always suspected places like this exist in the real world, too

) [via]
Extracting video from cat brains (

Strange Days, indeed

) [via]
Bloggers accepting payment for blog mentions without disclosure (

commentary from Rebecca and Matt, and a list of other blogger shills; even USWeb's blog got in on it

) [via]
43 Places goes live (

the wanderlust is a great snapshot of where people want to visit

)
Yahoo to relaunch Yahoo Mail with Oddpost features (

expect a very GUI look and feel to try to outshine Gmail

) [via]
Google relaunches personalized search (

reorders search results based on past searching history; a step in Google's plan to fight spam

) [via]
Google Earth launches (

the massive Keyhole upgrade with businesses, driving directions, and 3D buildings

) [via]
Connect Draw Remix, interactive CD sleeves (

plug the CD box into a USB port, remix tracks with a pencil

) [via]
iTunes 4.9 ships with built-in podcasting support (

their Podcast Directory is very impressive

)
AMD files antitrust lawsuit against Intel (

claims Intel coerced hardware industry to avoid AMD

) [via]
June 27, 2005
Flash: Michael Jackson Famicom (

essential Japanese weirdness

)
Gmail blocking Greasemonkey users? (

several other people confirmed this behavior

)
The Bad Review Revue: Burned At The Stake (

"Critics are enchanted with Bewitched!"

)
Men that voiced Tigger and Piglet die one day apart (

they both played the characters since Disney's first Pooh short in 1968

)
Corporate album cover remixes (

brilliant Photoshop thread inspired by Nike's borrowing of Minor Threat album art

)
Supreme Court rules against Grokster (

unanimous decision finds technology services liable for its users' infringement

)
Flash: Tetka.swf (

human body falling through a bubble landscape

)
Robot Co-op announces 43 Places (

I've tried the beta; great design and fun to use

)
Google launching online video playback today (

based on VLC, no less

)
AudioFlickrscrobbler (

retrieve photos tagged with the last five artist names listened to

) [via]
June 26, 2005
USA Today on Andy Milonakis Show (

web meme gets own MTV show, and it's surprisingly funny

)
Insanely great history of Suck.com (

interviews with nearly everyone involved; so very good, read this now

)
NYT profile of Party Poker (

online gambling is technically illegal in the U.S., but nobody seems to mind their $600m earnings in 2004

)
June 25, 2005
Top 10 beams, lasers, and death rays in film (

they left out the death ray from Real Genius

) [via]
NY Times promotes Bugmenot (

very strange; refers to "newspaper marketers" and "those annoying site registrations"

)
Jason Scott's update on his podcast collection project (

he's collected about 700GB of podcasts so far

)
Katamari Damacy cosplay (

some of the best I've seen

) [via]
Another World homebrew port for the GBA (

free conversion by the original author; found on 1UP's great feature on console emulation

) [via]
June 24, 2005
Del.icio.us Director (

gorgeously designed Ajax-style browser for Del.icio.us

) [via]
Hacking the flag-burning amendment (

using legal loopholes to make a statement; you can't keep a good dissident down

) [via]
Joe Gregorio's Sparklines web service (

the code is available, too

) [via]
Report finds most people don't consider downloading digital media as theft (

technically, it's not theft; it's illegal duplication

) [via]
Data Munging with Sprog (

Perl scripting from a GUI, without even knowing Perl

) [via]
eBay launches open-source Community Codebase effort (

more importantly, they're allowing 10,000 API calls monthly for individuals

) [via]
Crying While Eating creator discusses the rise of the meme (

they say that I linked to it first; go me!

)
Behavior Javascript module (

keep your code clean by using CSS selectors to apply JS functions

)
Scientology's Nut Job Founder (

The Smoking Gun digs through L. Ron Hubbard's FBI file

)
June 23, 2005
Empire State Building vs. 100 billion hot dogs (

it's like the MegaPenny Project, only delicious!

)
Gizmodo's history of the Scientology E-Meter (

never trust a religion that hooks you up to lie detectors

)
Annalee Newitz on stringent new porn recordkeeping laws (

won't somebody think of the children?

) [via]
Live webcam from within Second Life (

yeah, it's about that strange

) [via]
Mad Hot Ballroom documentary markers encounter with the music copyright cartel (

egregious examples of copyright hell; one publisher asked for $10k to clear a ringtone

)
Google Sightseeing points out new highlights to Google Maps (

finding the neat stuff in their newly expanded global satellite photos

)
First look at Apple's Intel Macs (

Windows XP installs fine on them, but OS X for Intel won't install on generic PCs

) [via]
Neopets sold to Viacom for $160 million (

the kids' gaming site is one of social software's biggest successes, but nobody's paying attention

) [via]
Katie Holmes' Missing Days (

Fox News conspiracy theory implies brainwashing

)
June 22, 2005
Nerds Make Better Lovers (

Slashdot commenter on the reality of this story

) [via]
Jason Kottke on G4's "Attack of the Show" in about 30 minutes (

update: Haughey has the video

)
PSP no-swap homebrew loader released (

no more swapping memory sticks! huge news for the PSP homebrew scene; more mirrors; how it works

) [via]
Google not competing with Paypal (

Eric Schmidt said it won't involve direct user-to-user payments

) [via]
Flickr Montager (

automated photo mosaics using Flickr; it must be hammering their servers, though

) [via]
First look at the Nyko Movie Player (

plug your iPod into this weird portable video add-on

) [via]
YubNub's most popular commands (

quite a community has popped up around the Rails Day contest entry

)
Flickr banned by United Arab Emirates ISP (

the nudity debate on Flickr rages on

) [via]
Foxit, freeware Windows alternative to Acrobat Reader (

Acrobat sucks so bad, nearly anything else is better

) [via]
Reblg, universal "Blog This" button generator (

not to be confused with the outstandingly awesome reBlog project

) [via]
Playlist Magazine interviews Evan Williams about Odeo (

recording in the browser is the best feature, I think

)
June 21, 2005
The Onion 2056 (

a special issue transported from the future

) [via]
Odeo launches quietly (

if you signed up for the announcement, you should get an invite soon

)
Lonely Google searchers form ad hoc community (

where people that type "i am lonely" into Google find solace

) [via]
Typepad integrates Kanoodle text ads for its users (

turn on ads, and let the pennies roll in

)
Tristan compares how Yahoo and Google index the blogosphere (

surprising results: Yahoo is indexing blogs better than Google

)
Universal adapting American McGee's Alice game to the screen (

starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the goth Alice in Wonderland, this could be awful

) [via]
Video: Tom Cruise Kills Oprah (

he's coming after your children next

)
Ilya's thoughts on his involvement with the LA Times wiki project (

though it failed, this kind of media experimentation should be commended instead of ridiculed

)
Bram Cohen slams Microsoft's BitTorrent clone (

an entertaining read

)
June 20, 2005
Movie industry cracks down on copyrighted pinatas (

fasinating article about L.A.'s homebrew pinata cottage industry

) [via]
Snopes on the Ketchup Trousers e-mail (

he's rumored to have resigned because of the notorious e-mail forward

)
Real Simple's list of product expiration dates (

very handy; honey lasts forever

) [via]
MIT Weblog Survey real-time results (

fill out the survey to view all the lovely charts

) [via]
GoDaddy president condones military torture tactics (

it's linked from the front page of GoDaddy, too

) [via]
AOL blocking all e-mails with Metafilter.com links (

part of AOL's antispam blacklist, apparently

)
Website Payments Pro (

accept website payments without ever redirecting to Paypal

) [via]
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (

Cory Doctorow's new book, licensed for reuse and available in multiple formats

) [via]
Flash: 3wish (

short and lovely adventure games without words

)
Howto: Watch BeyondTV video on your PSP (

great tutorial for moving any video to the device

) [via]
Alcoholix, social software for drunks (

and it uses the Upcoming.org API, too

)
Interview with creator of Gametap (

with tons of high-res screenshots of Turner Broadcasting's upcoming on-demand gaming service; lots of emulated old games

) [via]
CommonTunes (

a directory of organized, freely-available music

)
Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein is back online (

hopefully, this will be a bit more permanent mirror

) [via]
Xoc's full album of Super Mario World covers (

made with diverse instruments; highly recommended

) [via]
LA Times removes Wikitorials (

they weren't prepared for wiki abuse, apparently

) [via]
June 19, 2005
Yahoo closes user-created chat rooms (

related to a lawsuit surrounding ad-sponsored pedophilia chat rooms

) [via]
June 18, 2005
Google to launch Paypal alternative (

it'll be hard for Google to compete with Paypal's ubiquity, unless they drop fees

) [via]
Roundup of sexy podcasts (

every new technology finds an application in porn

)
Zellestyle (

jewelry made from electronics and computer components

) [via]
Eclipse, free and gorgeous Half-Life 2 full conversion (

third-person mod built by students in five months of spare time

) [via]
Fail Math's Video Game Quiz (

fun with the cliche of gritty realism

) [via]
June 17, 2005
Video: Ural 13 Diktators' "Name Of The Game" (

excellent 8-bit music video, reminiscent of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet

) [via]
June 16, 2005
Video: Surprise (

I won't ruin the ending for you

)
Jorn Barger debates with a misguided Wikipedian about the definition of "weblog" (

this kind of debate is part of what makes Wikipedia so entertaining

)
Microsoft readies BitTorrent alternative (

yeah, but BitTorrent is a protocol, not an application

)
Clay Shirky on copyrighted cakes (

the chilling effect hits a Brooklyn bakery

)
Brian Dear on more non-sequiter blog spam (

Technorati is inundated with garbage blogs

)
Wikipedia Animation bounty up to $150 (

code a useful app, make a decent chunk of change

)
Livejournal adds tags (

the LJ community seems to like it, too

) [via]
Onion A.V. Club's roundup of video game-related songs (

the Pixies covered the theme song from NARC?!

) [via]
June 15, 2005
Odeo beta screenshots (

I got an invite, and the site is nicely done

)
Video: Triumph vs. the Michael Jackson supporters (

incidentally, iFilm's weekly top 100 is an good mish-mash of viral video

)
TiVo demos beta of on-demand video downloading (

also, appears to be playing videos from the local network

)
Flickr to add photo book printing (

though from a different company than their photo printing announcement

) [via]
House subcommittee votes to eliminate funding for PBS, NPR (

Sesame Street is on the chopping block; an ironic update to this classic e-mail petition

) [via]
Casino carpet gallery (

obsessive collection of bad carpeting from casinos

) [via]
Phillip Torrone's excellent HOWTO on running homebrew code on the PSP (

the best tutorial, by far

)
Yahoo Change Map (

heatmaps of Yahoo homepage changes over time

)
MyBlogLog adds support for multiple blogs and referral program (

I've been using this on Waxy Links for months and I love it; a simple app designed to do one thing perfectly

)
mp3act, streaming MP3 jukebox (

free and Ajax-enabled, but not as feature rich as Zina; requires PHP and MySQL

) [via]
Anarchist Cookbook author disowns book on Amazon (

but can't pull it out of print because of copyright quirks

) [via]
Sony PSP 1.50 firmware swap trick (

works fine, but requires two memory sticks; a good step, but not ideal

) [via]
Target phases out VHS (

a nail in the coffin of analog video; update: Wal-Mart still in the VHS game

) [via]
Andre Torrez joins John Battelle's FM Publishing (

welcome to the Boing Boing empire!

)
June 14, 2005
$100,000 Poker Bot Tournament (

finding the Deep Blue of Texas hold-em

) [via]
PDF: Continental Airlines complaint (

Snopes has more info about it

)
MyScreencast (

growing collection of screencast software demos

) [via]
First thoughts on Odeo private beta (

I have a good feeling about it

) [via]
jwz switches from Linux to Mac (

the Slashdot comments are entertaining, as usual

)
Top Three Things Q*bert Is Pissed About Today (

what a mouth on that guy

) [via]
Flickr photos lead to Secret Service investigation (

collage apparently isn't art, especially if you're a sysadmin

) [via]
Yahoo acquires Blo.gs (

a good deal for everyone involved

)
Yahoo News beats Google News on Michael Jackson trial (

Google could solve this with a single employee devoted to picking featured news stories

) [via]
MIT Weblog Survey (

aka: Help Cameron Marlow graduate

)
Financial Times website using link spam (

this is getting ridiculous

)
Drug traffickers hiding drugs in printer cartridges (

ironically, they still cost more when purchased retail

) [via]
Homebrew cassette tape DJ (

DJ Aptem from Russia built his own custom mixing deck

)
YouTube (

like Vimeo, wants to be Flickr for video

) [via]
L.A. Times to introduce "wikitorials" (

strangely, for their editorial page; oh well, there's always Wikinews

) [via]
Video: Live-action Tetris (

a lonely L block tries to find a fit; silliness from the Mega64 crew

) [via]
Katie Holmes embraces Scientology (

"she digs it," says Tom "Level 6 Alien Destroyer" Cruise

) [via]
Wikipedia and the social construction of knowledge (

also: I'm offering $50 to anyone able to automate the animation of Wikipedia revision history

) [via]
Rumor: Latest PSP firmware cracked (

PS2NFO has more info; they're saying the hack works on 1.50, but not 1.51 or 1.52 firmware

) [via]
Video: Andrew Raff's commentary on an Arrested Development indecency complaint (

great use of video for online commentary

) [via]
Gamepal (

rent leveled-up MMO characters, but the terms of service are bizarre

) [via]
Technorati beta launched (

no longer ugly! nice work, Derek and company

) [via]
June 13, 2005
Ian Rogers on Yahoo Music Unlimited's "Mojo Filter" test (

I've heard great things about this service, despite the limitations

) [via]
EFF's Legal Guide for Bloggers (

I could've used this at least five times last year

) [via]
Contagious Media Showdown winners (

6 million pageviews to all the entries; I look forward to this again next year

)
Lost Garden explains why Nintendogs is so innovative (

the game's driving DS sales in Japan, and should be a huge hit here

) [via]
Del.icio.us adds MP3, podcast support (

a brilliant, built-in extension of Eric Rice's DIY podcasting tutorial

) [via]
gCensus (

Google Maps hack with US Census data down to the city block; how it works

)
Tristan Lewis on the relationship between Technorati Top 100 and Google inbound links (

Tristan's been doing some fantastic research lately

)
June 9, 2005
Cringely thinks Apple and Intel are merging (

wild speculation that they'll try to dethrone Microsoft

) [via]
FeedLounge alpha announced (

tagging feeds is brilliant and the UI looks like it blows away Bloglines and Rojo; I can't wait to try it

) [via]
MP3s of ice cream truck music (

keep an eye out for special treats this summer

) [via]
Video: New "We Love Katamari" trailer (

very entertaining Japanese trailer; here's the box art

) [via]
Lego concept models on Flickr (

I love this one, but they're all great

)
OC Register on Jason Cosper and Preshrunk (

boogah is one of my favorite blogger underdogs

)
The RU Sirius Show (

my old boss gets the podcasting bug

)
Axing corporate graffiti (

don't miss the building owner's rant in the comments

)
Worth1000 photoshops MC Escher (

worth seeing for the Munsters image alone

) [via]
Greasemonkey script to turn bookmarklets into Greasemonkey scripts (

self referential goodness

) [via]
Video Game Sprites (

excellent for use with Pixelblocks

)
Transl8it (

kewl srvic 2 cvert frm txt msgN shrt& 2 pln eng

)
Wikipedia's lamest edit wars ever (

hit the Discussion page for each topic to see how it played out and was resolved

) [via]
Disgruntled brit hacks cable company's on-hold message, gets sued, and wins case (

offensive, but not illegal

) [via]
June 8, 2005
Interview with Leeroy Jenkins (

never heard of World of Warcraft's biggest meme? watch it now

)
Merholz on designing for the sandbox (

nice thoughts, and a mention of Upcoming.org

)
Real-time Wikipedia changelog (

watch the encyclopedia get better with every second

) [via]
Real-life Super Mario power-up blocks (

for best results, fill with giant gold coins

) [via]
Inline hCalendar editing with Greasemonkey (

watch the neat screencast

)
Google orders gMerge offline (

first takedown request for a Google Maps hack

) [via]
NES characters with Pixelblocks (

very fun; someone should make pixel diagrams to reproduce them

)
Harry and the Potters (

Potter-themed tribute band, a bit Jonathan Richman-esque

) [via]
Tom Cruise's Medical Forum (

Dr. Cruise cures the ill with anything but psychiatry

) [via]
Logo trends for 2005 (

trendy today, cliche tomorrow

) [via]
Vader on Wheel of Fortune (

warning: audio; the collection keeps growing at YTMND

) [via]
Steven Johnson comments on his Daily Show appearance (

download the whole episode, courtesy of Matt Haughey; get yer hot brains!

)
Wired News on the BBS Documentary (

mine's on its way; have you bought yours yet?

)
June 7, 2005
Crappy bootleg DVD covers on Flickr (

I love this kind of thing

) [via]
Naked and Angry launches (

new from skinnyCorp; like Threadless for neckties, but way too expensive

) [via]
Press release announcing Slashdot DayPass (

view an ad to get access to the Slashdot queue; um, that should be a big hit with their audience

) [via]
Justin Frankel developing music software for real-time online jams (

Winamp creator using actual instrument audio instead of MIDI; could be very fun

) [via]
Black holes on Google Maps (

quirky satellite imagery

) [via]
1and1 ISP changes its mind about BitTorrent (

Dreamhost did, too; that's the power of Boing Boing

)
Classic Nintendo games not free on new Revolution console (

contrary to rumors; here's the list of Nintendo's back catalog

) [via]
iTunes more popular than almost every P2P services (

they compete with free on ease of use, reliability, and legality; cost isn't everything

) [via]
Magnetic Ajax Poetry (

reminds me of Just Letters, but with Ajax instead of Flash

)
59 Bloggers documentary withdrawn by ranting lunatic (

for some context, see Chuck's original entry

)
Bait Car Videos (

Canadian police trap thieves and tape the results; I love the irony of the music in this video

) [via]
The Woolworth Card (

how the number on a sample Social Security card came to be used by thousands of people

)
Free Flickr Schwag (

just send a self-addressed stamped envelope

)
Dance Dance Immolation hack (

when you mess up, it shoots you in the face with a flamethrower

) [via]
High-res scans of an Episode III bootleg bought in L.A. (

also: Fantastic Four and another Episode III bootleg

) [via]
"Vote for Lunch" market roundup (

we use Eatlunch.at every day at work

)
Secret locations of MPAA cameras revealed (

Xeni Jardin and Sean Bonner head to downtown L.A. to report on the bootleg DVD spy cams

)
Slyck interviews The Pirate Bay (

probably the biggest torrent site that hasn't been shut down (yet); their Top 100 is a great snapshot of piracy zeitgeist

)
Bzzzpeek (

how do you say "meow" in Chinese? audio clips of onomatopoeia around the world; old, but good

) [via]
China orders bloggers to register with government (

sad and hopeless attempt to control online dissent

) [via]
UK considers doubling copyright term for pop music (

more copyright idiocy

) [via]
June 6, 2005
Wal-Mart and other photo labs won't develop professional looking photos (

the whole world is going copyright insane

) [via]
Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design (

less a review, and more of a handy list for your own judgment

) [via]
Jason Scott responds to a school district's Media Resource Specialist (

depressing state of affairs

)
Judgeing the Webby Awards judges (

Steve Baldwin reviews the websites of the Webby's 500 judges

)
Spelling Bee contestant does a Napoleon Dynamite impression (

with audio! we'll make an exception to this for nationally-broadcast media pranks

) [via]
Video: Murderball trailer (

I love documentaries about fringe competitions, like Scrabble, spelling bees, and krumping

) [via]
Blentwell (

niche social bookmarking for DJ mixes only

) [via]
Gizmondo acquires modeling agency (

to help find booth babes for launch? this baffles me

) [via]
Shipment of 12,000 iPods heisted in Los Angeles (

a guy convinced a clerk to let him walk out with a $2.6 million delivery

) [via]
Goonies sequel stuck in development (

also: Chunk did the Truffle Shuffle for the fans at the Goonies festival

)
Gutenbomb, harvesting out-of-copyright text for pagerank and profit (

I think running Wikipedia mirrors with ads falls under the same shady realm

) [via]
TagCloud (

automated weighted tag lists using Yahoo's Content Analysis web service

) [via]
Intel's press release on the Apple deal (

by the end of 2007

)
Mac Observer's live WWDC updates (

yes, the Intel rumors are true; MacNN is also posting updates

)
Five Movies I Wish People Would Stop Quoting (

sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!

) [via]
Google Maps wallpaper maker (

generate images up to 2048x1536

) [via]
June 5, 2005
The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme (

the donuts are only good within two minutes of leaving the conveyor; anything else is mediocre, at best

) [via]
GBAX 2005 contest entries released (

homebrew games and software for GBA, DS, PSP, and GP32; some amazing stuff here

) [via]
NYT profile of Music for Robots (

this bookmarklet is handy for MP3 blogs

)
The Case Against Coldplay (

ouch

) [via]
The Monster Engine (

what would children's art look like if painted realistically?

)
Rapid color afterimage optical illusion (

this broke my brain, but not as much as the Best Optical Illusion Ever

)
Cockeyed's oversized "Support our Troops" ribbon (

"4.8 times more patriotic"

) [via]
Episode III: The Pirate DVDs (

Tama reports on the bootleg DVD found in Bali, with timecodes removed and laughably bad menus

)
John Gruber on the Intel/Apple reports (

in the last paragraph, an interesting lead points to PowerPC emulation

)
Rails Day is over (

contest to write a Rails app in 24 hours; my favorite entries include Clockwork, Tackboard, Friendr, Space Tag, and Nutrient

)
June 4, 2005
Penn Jillette names daughter Moxie CrimeFighter (

Teller had no comment

) [via]
New version of Microsoft's Start.com web feedreader released (

looks like Scoble is the only individual blogger in their default feeds

)
Laptops outsell desktops for first time (

also, 95 percent of laptops now support wireless

) [via]
X-Rom GBA flash cart reduced to only $69 (

the X-Rom isn't as good as the EZ-Flash II, but it's well worth the money

) [via]
Ghosts of the Webby Awards (

which sites are dead from the 2000 Webbies?

) [via]
June 3, 2005
1and1 ISP thinks BitTorrent is for piracy only (

they sent a C&D to a guy hosting a movie that he made

) [via]
Meetro (

proximity-aware IM client for Windows laptops with wifi

) [via]
Apple to switch from PowerPC to Intel x86 chips?! (

might threaten hardware sales once someone gets OS X running on cheap PCs

) [via]
Human-flavored tofu pressures Museum of Hoaxes to remove blog entry (

Halfbakery came up with the idea in 2001, with a better product name

)
Burglers using virtual real estate tours to find targets (

they can use the photos to see all furnishings and alarm systems

) [via]
Cloudalicious, tracking Del.icio.us tags over time (

see also: Pietro's excellent tag cloud analysis using the tool

) [via]
Video: Working for the Weekend (

everybody's goin' off the deep end; I'm mirroring the video.

) [via]
Paramount considers dropping Mission Impossible 3 because of cuckoo Tom Cruise (

they report Cruise is an Operating Thetan 6, meaning he can leave his own body and read people's minds

) [via]
Phone phreaking with your iPod (

useful if you can travel back in time to when blue boxes worked

) [via]
Video: Fast Film (

short film created from 65,000 photocopied screenshots from 300 feature films; from the creator of Copy Shop

) [via]
b3ta stories of mistakenly sent IMs and text messages (

offensive, but funny

)
Video: Insane daredevil stunt (

tries to launch a flare, lights parachute on fire instead; more here

) [via]
CNET thinks next-gen consoles will kill PC gaming (

eh, PCs will always be better for certain game genres

) [via]
Coudal's Filmstrip Poker video contest (

the original 1953 film strip is great, too

)
Rilo Kiley sign to Warner Bros. (

one of my favorite indies goes super mainstream

)
Subway ends coupon cards because of Internet counterfeiters (

there are still books of 1000 stamps on sale at eBay

)
June 2, 2005
Why the BBS Documentary is Creative Commons licensed (

read this immediately

)
Google Sitemaps (

like a reverse robots.txt, tells Google what to index and what's been updated recently; also, note the Creative Commons license

)
phpMMORPG, roll your own massively multiplayer game (

very early, but a great idea; could be used for community building

) [via]
Cell phone for 3-year-olds ships (

it could couble as a baby monitor for parents on vacation without their kids

)
Customizing MovableType's interface (

good for hiding advanced functions from clients

) [via]
80 years of the New Yorker to be offered on DVD (

$100, cheap

) [via]
Webolodeon (

Greasemonkey script to help you stop mindlessly web surfing

) [via]
Flash: Poom (

frustrating, but addictive bouncing game

) [via]
Google's secret lab (

a look at Google's internal tools for evaluating their search results quality; Flash movie

) [via]
Video: Celine Dion is bad (

um, err

)
Anil Goatse'd the New York Times (

photo of the article and the article online

)
ICANN set to approve .xxx top-level domain (

might as well add it to your e-mail and comment blacklists now

) [via]
The Freaky Universe of McDonald's Advertising (

history of bizarre vintage McD's ads, with video

)