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November 30, 2005
Game Set Watch (

new gaming blog by Simon Carless, one of my favorite link sources

)
Nick Montfort's Book and Volume (

new text adventure about being a sysadmin; try the Java version online without save/load

) [via]
November 29, 2005
Firefox 1.5 final released (

read about their new marketing blitz

)
RSS reader added to Yahoo! Mail beta (

I've used it, and it's good stuff

)
Time Travel Holograph conspiracy theory (

photographic evidence the government is placing time travel holograms over this guy's face

)
November 28, 2005
Mapquest FindMe (

local mobile search plus Dodgeball-like GPS features

)
Try Ruby (

play around with the Ruby language in your web browser

) [via]
Teen with peanut allergy dies after kiss (

such a strange and sad story

)
The Protomen's Mega Man-themed rock opera (

details and MP3s from the epic concept album

)
United Arab Emirates blocks Flickr, again (

apparently for good, this time

)
SplogSpot, spam search engine (

all splogs, no blogs!

)
Evan Williams' Ten Rules for Web Startups (

from a man who knows

)
Gollum, the Wikipedia browser (

alternative UI for browsing the site, could be useful in a library or academic setting

) [via]
November 27, 2005
Hands-on review of Sony's Talkman for the PSP (

an avatar-based universal translator with speech recognition

)
November 26, 2005
Archive.org asked to remove Grateful Dead soundboard bootlegs (

very sad; Cory sums it up

) [via]
November 23, 2005
Songbird (

media player built on Mozilla platform, very iTunes-like

)
Richard Scarry's The Best Word Book Ever, 1963 and 1991 (

Alan compares all the subtle differences between the two versions

)
Internet chatspeak as vintage type ligature (

the "wtf" series is outstanding

)
Meet with Approval (

lo-fi meeting scheduler

)
November 22, 2005
Gary Glitter facing death penalty in Vietnam (

possible death by firing squad for child rape

)
Anti-videogame lawyer Jack Thompson disbarred from Alabama courts (

good, because that guy is a huge ass

)
Gordon gets his traffic ticket dismissed (

Gordon doesn't do anything casually, and I love that about him

)
Washington Post Remix (

Adrian Holovaty is leading the effort to let people mashup WaPo

)
Bram Cohen agrees to remove pirated torrents from BitTorrent.com search results (

about time; I said back in May that drawing attention to infringing uses was a big mistake

)
Sketchplanet (

cute community for instantly sharing Flash sketches

)
Del.icio.us redesigns (

increasing the emphasis on recently popular links is very smart

)
WSJ interviews the Million Dollar Homepage creator (

Philipp has great before and after screenshots

)
BitTorrent and MPAA to make major announcement today? (

Bram Cohen and Dan Glickman are holding a joint press conference at 2pm PST

)
Video: Mario on the Marimba (

very good talent show medley of Mario themes

) [via]
VisitorVille 3D released (

oddball visualization of your website traffic as people and vehicles roaming a city

)
Video: Best Christmas Lights Ever (

or: how to get your neighbors to hate you

)
November 21, 2005
Web 2.0 Checklist (

don't forget feature screencasts

) [via]
8-bit NES covers of hit songs (

not bad, but Vert's covers of Hot in Herre and Thriller reign supreme

) [via]
TiVo adding iPod/PSP support to TiVoToGo (

this is a surprising move, but wonderful for TiVo owners

) [via]
November 20, 2005
Influential guitarist Link Wray, dead at 76 (

the news is spreading on blogs and message boards, with nothing in the US media yet; MP3s here of the guy who arguably invented guitar distortion and the power chord

)
November 19, 2005
Google-Mart (

intriguing Cringely column on Google's dark fiber plans

) [via]
November 18, 2005
Tom Coates on Space Cadets, the real-life Truman Show (

I agree, it sounds cruel regardless of the execution

)
November 17, 2005
Video: Dying Fetus, "Kill Your Mother, Rape Your Dog" (

death metal music video using clips from Disney and Nickeloden kid's shows

) [via]
JS/UIX, Unix OS in Javascript (

with a stripped down vi clone; also, try /usr/bin/invaders

)
MIT unveils $100 laptop (

with photos

) [via]
DVD Jon's GPL code in Sony rootkit? (

this story continues to get weirder; Cory's coverage has been outstanding

)
Peter Callesen's Paperworks gallery (

amazing cutout art from sheets of A4 paper; more on his official site

)
November 16, 2005
Text message transcripts admitted as evidence in teen murder trial (

very disturbing read

)
Meg Hourihan and Jason Kottke get engaged (

five years after You've Got Blog; a warm and wonderful congrats, you two

) [via]
Leeroy Jenkins mentioned on Jeopardy! (

the contestants weren't well-versed in Internet memes

)
Video: Rumble Strip's "Motorcycle" (

one take music video for a good song, with very good timing

) [via]
November 15, 2005
Interactive Fiction Competition 2005 winners announced (

reviews are coming in; an excellent chance to play wonderful games created by a single passionate author

)
Video: 12 Lucasarts games in 24 hours (

what, no Grim Fandango?

)
Linkroll.com for sale on eBay (

get your own Del.icio.us clone for $499, cheap!

)
Google Base launches (

for real, this time

) [via]
Wall Street Journal on the Interactive Fiction competition (

this year's IF Comp winners should be announced tomorrow

) [via]
eBay stops charging for API use (

good move! I complained about their API charges back in 2003

) [via]
November 14, 2005
King Kong, business monkey (

Alan rounds up the merchandising from Peter Jackson's Kong

)
AOL launching online TV service (

3,400 hours of ad-supported video

) [via]
Video: David Cross on Fox's mishandling of Arrested Development (

from the Season 2 blooper reel, but very relevant

)
Amazon tries tagging (

also, they have a "Tags Team"

)
Google Analytics (

free, gorgeous web stats package, with site overlays; so that's why they bought Urchin

)
November 12, 2005
Fan-made films from Lionhead Software's The Movies (

Peter Molyneux's new RPG has a built-in machinima engine with export options

)
Video: Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Dance Team (

sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion

)
November 11, 2005
Fox cancels Arrested Development (

officially, this time; I hate Fox

) [via]
Watching all six Star Wars films simultaneously (

reminds me of Jason Salavon's work

) [via]
Digg vs Dot (

comparing cross-posting between Slashdot and Digg, with a running tally

) [via]
Blogger catches SF Chronicle plagiarizing New Yorker (

nicely handled without an angry mob, giving them the chance to fix it and respond

)
Say So (

like an anonymous, lo-fi version of Ask Metafilter

)
SF Gate web designers get snarky in alt tags [via]
November 10, 2005
Katamari creator dreams of playgrounds (

ok, misread this story; he doesn't see a long career in gaming

)
Katamari Sushi (

nope, not sick of katamari yet

)
Replica of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree (

isn't the whole idea of this contrary to the moral of A Charlie Brown Christmas?

) [via]
November 9, 2005
Ning.com's Anytown Marketplace (

Jon Aquino's genericized Craig's List, cloneable for any city

) [via]
Florida judge rules online discussion can apoint public figures (

interesting precedent in a defamation case

)
NYT on leaked Microsoft memos panicking about the "Internet services" era (

Winer has the full text of Gates' and Ozzie's e-mails

)
Flash: eBaum's World Sucks (

it may be flamebait, but at least it's entertaining

)
November 8, 2005
Digg.com set to overtake Slashdot in Alexa traffic rankings (

pretty amazing, especially considering the timeframe

) [via]
Yahoo Pirate Maps and Radar (

using Flash filters and transforms to make a new look and feel

) [via]
November 7, 2005
Mainstream Media Meltdown II (

Chris Anderson updates his media stats

)
Grokster shuts down network (

the final chapter in the settlement, if not for the ongoing aftermath

)
FlickrFS (

Linux virtual filesystem that ties to Flickr for grabbing and posting photos

) [via]
MySpace threats shuts down San Antonio high school (

the school's reaction is puzzling; shouldn't they be grateful the information spread so quickly?

)
Risk on Google Maps (

the next version will attempt multiplayer

) [via]
Aimi.cn (

a Chinese 43things clone; this goal made me laugh

)
November 6, 2005
Google adds Creative Commons license search (

like Flickr, the ability to filter website by usage rights is wonderful

)
Kottke on My Dirty iPod (

I'll let him link to it, since it's explicit NSFW

)
NYT tech columnist on the future of Yahoo (

whoa, with a mention of Upcoming

)
November 5, 2005
Dave Cassel's 100 Greatest Internet Moments (

some serious nostalgia, mining the early web for memes and culture

)
Something Awful on honest game titles (

the first one is brilliant, but they're all good

)
November 4, 2005
Best privacy policy ever (

the Malevole text generator slips into production

)
Japanese blogger poisons mother in homage to killer (

with translated excerpts from her blog

)
White Stripes cover Tegan and Sara on new EP (

nice homage, but the original is much better; judge for yourself

) [via]
November 3, 2005
MySpace starts record label (

sounds like a natural extension of the buyout

) [via]
Rasmus Lerdorf's PHP tutorial on the new Yahoo geocoder (

for me, the geocoding platform is just as important as the new maps UI

) [via]
Google Desktop 2 launches (

with support for user-created plugins

) [via]
Alisa Viejo teen murderer posted on Something Awful, Anandtech, others (

he was about shotguns on SA, then killed his neighbors and himself three days later

)
Amazon Mechanical Turk (

develop questions that can only be answered by humans, make money answering them

)
Fark makes violent videogames friendly (

my favorites are Duck Hunt, Pac-Man and Postal

) [via]
Cafepress copyright police shut down parody t-shirts for non-existent drug (

the Panexa site is great, too

) [via]
November 2, 2005
Yahoo! Maps beta (

developers have already built some neat apps, including the outstanding MashUpcoming

)
November 1, 2005
BitTorrent for Dummies (

it doesn't get much more mainstream than this

) [via]