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January 31, 2006
The Cost of A La Carte Television (

how much would it cost to replace cable TV with iTunes downloads?

)
January 30, 2006
Blogs vs the NYT in Google (

sounds like Winer has almost won his bet

)
January 29, 2006
MP3: Kevin Long covers Fiona Apple's "I Know" (

pure serendipity; from Hype Machine's most popular to this MP3 blog to his MySpace

)
Congressional staffers authorized to change Wikipedia biographies (

but lots of other trolling edits are coming from the House IP address

) [via]
Jason Scott discusses an idea for a hackathon TV pilot (

dubbed "Hardcoded," he's outlined a show I would easily watch every week online or off

)
Long WaPo profile on the Great Zucchini (

witty and moving profile of a kids' entertainer; don't miss the followup with the writer

) [via]
January 28, 2006
Blizzard blocks GLBT guild in World of Warcraft (

by being openly gay, Blizzard claims they'd incite harassment by other users

)
A Comics Panel with Chris Ware, Seth and Ivan Brunetti (

illustrated by Gordon McAlpin, who recounts comic-related events in comic form

) [via]
World of Warcraft maps (

what, no driving directions?

) [via]
January 27, 2006
Tic-Frac-Toe (

playable version of this visualization; requires Firefox 1.5

)
Google removes help entry on censorship (

it's one thing to censor to comply with local laws, just be open and honest about it

)
Grandaddy split up (

a good time to revisit Jed's Other Poem

)
January 26, 2006
Image: Google China (

man, this kills me

)
Averaging Gradius (

overlaying 15 game runs of Gradius into a single video; I want Pac-Man next!

) [via]
eBaum's World gets TV show on USA Network (

the controversial viral video site has some enemies

) [via]
January 25, 2006
FeedLounge goes public (

nicely designed web-based feedreader goes out of private beta

)
Greg's Music Forum 2005 (

aggregation and analysis of 75 "Best Albums of 2005" lists

)
Fastr (

fast and addictive Flickr multiplayer game

) [via]
Reddit looking for investors as seed money runs out (

one of Y Combinator's eight startups is still growing

)
Tic-Tac-Toe as a fractal (

a great visualization of all 362k possible permutations

) [via]
Video: Wintergreen's "When I Wake Up" (

music video about the true story of E.T. for the Atari 2600; also, a great interview with the game designer

)
Google Code's Web Authoring Statistics (

popular elements and attributes across a billion webpage sample set

) [via]
January 24, 2006
8088 Corruption (

full-motion video and audio running on the first IBM-PC

) [via]
OGLE, the OpenGL Extractor (

grab 3D models from games or apps for reuse, mashup, or 3D printing; badass!

) [via]
January 23, 2006
The Most Downloaded Konfabulator Widgets (

unofficial, created by Jon Aquino by scraping the official Konfabulator gallery

) [via]
Finding a Beached Xbox (

some theories on the Gizmodo thread

)
Audition, a Korean massively multiplayer dance game (

DDR with 50,000 of your closest friends

)
January 22, 2006
The Waxy Cloud (

Waxy Links tag cloud visualized using Ajax, the PHP5 XML DOM, and Yahoo Term
Extraction API

)
House of Cosbys Soundboard (

still popular; I've served 215 GB of the House of Cosbys pilot this month

)
"The city as an avatar of itself" (

aerial city photos that very much resemble scale models

)
January 21, 2006
Video: Tripod's "Make You Happy Tonight" (

gamers get smooth

)
Andy Samberg responds to Nick and Amelia's "Lazy Sunday" (

Nick's response was "I'm exploding inside"

)
January 20, 2006
Disney may buy Pixar for $6.8 billion (

Steve Jobs would sit on the board and be a major shareholder

)
What technology will be like in 2001 (

tech predictions from the October 1989 issue of Compute! magazine

) [via]
C64S (

web-based Commodore 64 emulator

) [via]
Patriot Search (

sly commentary on the US Government asking search engines for private search queries

)
Schoolchildren recruited as copyright 'spies' in Hong Kong (

remember kids, nobody likes a snitch

)
January 18, 2006
Jason DeFillippo leaves Technorati to work on Metroblogging full-time (

with Mumbai, they're up to 40 local blogs

)
Top 65 Music Videos of 2005 (

outstanding annotated list

)
January 17, 2006
Google Robot FAQ from 2030 (

sounds familiar

)
Washington DC schools target Facebook, MySpace (

won't somebody think of the children?

)
Ted, torrent episode downloaders (

Windows utility automates TV episode downloads from public trackers

) [via]
Video: Dev2.0, "Whip It" (

directed by Gerald Casale of DEVO for Disney Records

) [via]
Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure (

Zork meets the Washington Post

)
Disaffected (

videogame parody of working at a Kinko's store, sounds like Root Beer Tapper

)
January 12, 2006
Kottke on the Digg vs. Slashdot effects (

Slashdot still wields enormous traffic, even as Digg's influence grows

)
January 11, 2006
Video: Live Action Punch-Out (

not great, but I've been humming the Punch Out theme since I saw this last week

)
The Prejudice World Map (

silly fun with Google wildcards

)
January 10, 2006
Apple's stock price closed at $80.86 today (

cute coincidence

) [via]
Steve Jobs announces Intel-based iMacs and new MacBook Pro laptop (

MacBook 4-5x faster than Powerbook G4; new iMacs 2-3x faster

)
Chuck Norris responds to the Random Facts (

for some context, see the popular web meme

)
Flickr's firstgoatse tag (

not even Ron Jeremy could handle it

)
Slashdot's CmdrTaco on their story moderation process (

an uncharacteristic rant posted to the Slashdot homepage; some users want /. to be more Digg-like

)
Mac Rumors Live (

live coverage of the Macworld keynote, now with Ajax!

)
January 9, 2006
Student Life on the Facebook (

wow, incredible analysis of UNC's freshman class Facebook usage, including demographics and information sharing

)
Nat Torkington on the Steve Mallette vs. Digg controversy (

O'Reilly contributor accused of stealing templates for Digg clones, turns out to be unfounded

)
Package Mappers (

map the routes of UPS, Fedex, and USPS packages

) [via]
The Aargh Page (

tracking the popularity of various spelling permutations on the web

) [via]
Video: Nintendo's holodeck prototype (

a neat interactive floor display

)
November 2005 social networking statistics (

also: MySpace growing by 160,000 new users per day!

)
Morning Becomes Eclectic to start video podcasting (

great in-studio live performances

)
Internet feud escalates between Ebaumsworld and its detractors (

this time around a borrowed Lindsay Lohan animated GIF

) [via]
Learn reverse engineering by hacking Windows Pinball (

if nothing else, worth it for playing around with the backdoor cheat

) [via]
Yahoo! acquires Webjay (

if you haven't played with the playlist sharing community, try it out

)
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail (

"annoying" someone anonymously online is now a federal crime? Boing Boing readers say this isn't new

) [via]
Google testing contextual ads in print newspapers (

they're filling unsold ad space in the Sun-Times

)
January 6, 2006
Newsvine beta released (

I've been playing with this, and it's very well-designed; the story-specific live chat is great

)
3D Japanese Google Maps (

tech demo, only works in Firefox 1.5

) [via]
January 5, 2006
Mike Elgan on the Push Music project (

automatic wireless sharing of music with strangers based on recommendations

)
TiVo adds transcoding video to PSP, iPod (

also: TiVo Central gets Ajaxified and a peek at the HD TiVo Series 3

)
Crazy Del.icio.us (

it's like a web geek litmus test; if you get it, you're a lost cause

)
Bounty County (

blog listing cash bounties for open-source projects

)
January 4, 2006
Fark's best Photoshops of 2005 (

some of these are brilliant, like The Temptation of Jedi and I Want to Make Believe

)
Extra Tasty (

Drinking 2.0 from the Threadless crew

)
January 3, 2006
TechCrunch on AllPeers (

outstanding looking Firefox extension for sharing files privately with BitTorrent

)
The Decade the Music Blockbuster Died (

crunching the numbers on best-selling albums by decade

) [via]
Massively Multiplayer Personal Productivity (

there's a seed of a brilliant idea in here

) [via]
Second Life's virtual prison (

they send you to The Cornfield

)
Retrievr (

search Flickr by sketching; impressive examples on Mefi

) [via]
January 2, 2006
What's your dangerous idea? (

The Edge's annual question for 2006 with answers from 116 professional thinkers and a real live Monkee

) [via]
Windows WMF vulnerability hotfix (

possibly the worst Windows hole ever, affects all versions, and spreading fast; install this now, as even viewing an image can infect you

)
Horse sex story was online hit (

because of web traffic, arguably the most popular story in the Seattle Times' 109-year history

) [via]
January 1, 2006
Clive Thompson on the last days of Asheron's Call 2 (

how do people behave when a game world is about to end permanently?

)
Cory Doctorow leaves EFF to write and blog full-time (

more Cory on Boing Boing is a good thing

)