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February 28, 2006
Myspace launches video sharing service (

undoubtedly why they blocked YouTube until Myspace users rebelled

)
Video: Battlefield 2 machinima remakes Bravia commercial (

parody of the bouncy balls ad

)
Windows Live Local adds street-side views (

the maps arms race escalates with this crazy driving mode

)
iPod Hi-Fi (

I just found my new stereo

)
February 26, 2006
Zonetag, upload cameraphone pics to Flickr with real-time location tagging (

neat hack for Series 60 phones, uses cell tower IDs to infer location

)
February 24, 2006
NetJaxer (

treat web apps like Windows programs, with desktop, tray, and quickstart icons and startup launching

)
Yahoo Music exec says labels should sell DRM-free music (

a breath of fresh air to hear this; Ian Rogers agrees

)
February 23, 2006
MPAA targeting Usenet binaries services (

looks like NZB indexes and forums instead of Usenet feeds

)
I'm Your Biggest Fan (

blogger flunks job interview because of daily fan letters to Star Jones

) [via]
World of Warcraft teaches the wrong things (

grinding and the time commitment are two big reasons why I can't get into current MMOs

) [via]
Google To Become Portal (

silly 2002 April Fool's article predicts the future

)
Kottke.org switches from micropatrons to skyscraper ads (

the parallel universe Kottke

)
February 22, 2006
Google Pages (

Google's Geocities 2.0 offers a simple CMS, free hosting, and 100 MB storage

)
Kottke reviews first year as a pro blogger (

1,450 people donated a total of $39,900, but almost entirely in the first three weeks

)
All Google's Roads Lead to Kansas (

with ground photos of the farm at the default center of Google Maps

)
30 Boxes releases their API (

they have serious momentum

)
February 21, 2006
Neil Young's Perfect Echo Volume 1 '67-'71 (

full album of heart-breaking rarities

) [via]
MP3: Postal Service remixes Feist's "Mushaboom" (

with new vocals by Ben Gibbard; also, the cover of Nina Simone's "See-Line Woman" (local copy) is worth hearing

) [via]
Technorati launches Favorites (

an RSS reader that never mentions RSS

)
Democracy Player (

making it drop-dead easy to subscribe, watch, and share video channels online; like a BitTorrent PVR community

) [via]
Woman loses custody of son for participating in Subgenius holiday (

anyone familiar with the Church knows it's religious parody and performance art

)
Lego'd Video Games (

the Excitebike scene is lovely

) [via]
February 20, 2006
Techcrunch previews Flyspy, historical airline ticket search (

like Zillow, blows up industries by making hard-to-find information widely available

)
February 19, 2006
"Lost Camera" unlost, but not quite found (

a Canadian couple found the Flickr fan's camera, but won't give it back

) [via]
The Perils of Metadata (

Washington Post accidentially exposes their anonymous botnet hacker with photo metadata

) [via]
Gelf interviews the Smoking Gun on the aftermath of their Million Little Pieces expose (

excellent interview on the history, media coverage, and a potential followup

) [via]
February 18, 2006
Hell is Chrome (

a screenshot of a new message in Outlook 12 beta

) [via]
Bizarre "Contract of Wifely Expectations" emerges in Iowa kidnapping case (

the text may be offensive

)
Video: Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack on piano (

jaunty!

) [via]
February 17, 2006
NBC demands YouTube remove "Lazy Sunday" video (

biting the hand that feeds you; they should have paid for that kind of amazing promotion

)
Bradley Horowitz on Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers (

only a fraction of a community needs to be active for everyone to benefit

) [via]
OSX86 Project served with DMCA takedown (

did it come from Apple?

) [via]
Ning launches redesign (

the popular apps page is useful, and they're doing a much better job of explaining what Ning is

)
February 16, 2006
Anti-piracy poem hidden in Mac OS X source code (

the AP got a quote from Apple about it

)
John "Spumco" Kricfalusi's new blog is fun (

there's a character named "Waxy" in the kid's show collage

) [via]
Googler Matt Cutts photographs Jeeves, and vice versa (

don't miss the followup

) [via]
Video: Daily Show on Myspace (

oof, Friendster gets dissed

) [via]
SF Gate on Pillow Fight Club (

also: the Upcoming event and photos

) [via]
RIAA attacking AllofMP3.com (

the Russian grey-market MP3 site is great, but not long for this world

)
Podbop (

podcasting MP3s from bands on tour using the Eventful API; very clever mashup

) [via]
Little Food People (

and a second set; originally from a French site with a bad UI

) [via]
First Mac OS X trojan in the wild? (

every Mac is a powerful Unix box, so it's inevitable that it gets targeted

) [via]
February 15, 2006
Video: Oprah grills Tom Cruise (

great mashup of two famous Oprah moments

)
Fisheye (

neat visualizations for CVS/SVN source code repositories

) [via]
Amazon's most edited wikis (

appropriately, A Million Little Pieces has nearly twice the edits of the next runner up

) [via]
Daily Candy may be sold for $100 million (

not bad for a daily newsletter that found its niche

)
Chuck Norris Facts, Web 2.0 version (

also: Chuck's selling his own shirts now

) [via]
Flowcharts in art and comics (

not mentioned is Jason Shiga's Meanwhile

) [via]
37signals launches Campfire (

group chat for distributed teams and projects

) [via]
February 14, 2006
CNNi redesigns with clean onscreen titles (

more details at Kemistry

)
Google buys Measure Map (

congrats, Jeff and the Adaptive Path crew!

)
The Dumpster (

a visualization of romantic breakups collected from blogs in 2005

) [via]
February 13, 2006
New York magazine's cover story on blogging (

the issue includes a Ben Fry infographic PDF and some other fluff

) [via]
WSJ on web parodies and copyright enforcement (

with a very high-profile mention of House of Cosbys!

)
Video: She Hit Me (

motorcyclist records video of Honda Civic losing control and hitting her, posts video online

)
Half-Life 2 to become episodic series (

exactly the way it should be

) [via]
Review of Firewall movie, a big-budget computer thriller (

Harrison Ford just hacked your bank account with an iPod; the trailer

) [via]
Can MTV stay cool? (

I wouldn't be shocked to see YouTube bought by Viacom

) [via]
Alexadex (

like Blogshares for the entire web, using Alexa traffic data

) [via]
SiteAdvisor Preview (

Firefox/IE plugin detects unsafe websites and warns you in search results; Waxy is safe, but try looking for divx

)
Dave Winer responds to Steve Kirks, former Userland evangelist and developer (

I knew Dave could be difficult, but this is ridiculous

)
The Beastles (

Beatles to Beastie Boys mashup album; illegalicious!

) [via]
LA Times on creationism being taught to young children (

most depressing are the two curious kids crushed by their parents' dogma

) [via]
The Song Tapper (

overloaded the last time I tried to visit, it's working now and found "Since U Been Gone" on the first try

) [via]
Oh No Robot (

web comic search engine and transcription

) [via]
How to Make Garfield Funny (

a growing meme, this thread collects some of the best examples

)
February 12, 2006
Video: Top Gear trashes a Toyota Hilux (

increasingly insane tests of strength; also: Top Gear Turismo and more

)
Star Wars Valentines (

"my love for you will stay on target"

) [via]
February 11, 2006
The Hall of Best Knowledge (

weekly comic on Flickr combining hand-drawn typography and prose

) [via]
February 10, 2006
Image: You Complete Me (

originally from 4 Color Rebellion, but their account was suspended

)
PowerGlove Mouse (

brilliant hack to control your mouse with a Nintendo PowerGlove; it's so bad

) [via]
EFF issues Google Desktop warning (

I'd prefer a Hamachi-like virtual network instead of sending everything to Google, but it's a tradeoff of privacy and convenience

)
Who Is Harry Nilsson? (

new documentary about one of the most underrated songwriters of all time; also: production notes

) [via]
Video: Half-Life 2 mousetrap (

ridiculous Rube Goldberg device built with Garry's HL2 mod

) [via]
February 9, 2006
Brokeback Mountain mod for the Sims
Current style in web design (

a good explanation of current trends in good web style

) [via]
18x18 pixel clones of classic arcade games (

they're surprisingly playable

)
Alone together in World of Warcraft (

the MMO players favor loose, indirect forms of social contact

) [via]
Video: Dave Chappelle's Block Party (

Michel Gondry directs the story of an epic party

) [via]
February 8, 2006
The Mohammed Dance (

yes, it's exactly what you think it is

)
Reclusive Sly Stone surprises Grammys (

sporting a huge mohawk, he wandered off after a couple minutes

)
Zillow, real estate valuation search (

find out how much your boss's house is worth

)
Video: Multi-Touch Interaction Research (

it's like the Nintendo DS as a PC

)
Yahoo testing new homepage (

funny that this first appears on Flickr

)
Make Your Own Oscar Pool (

I'm voting for a Dukes of Hazzard sweep

)
Boing Boing interviews Rob Lord on Songbird (

the open-source iTunes clone launched today, though the site is totally crushed

)
Video: Pac-Man on campus (

incidentally, these YouTube clones are popping up like weeds

)
February 7, 2006
Canadian customs censoring adult DVDs at the border (

the list reads as both bizarre and arbitrary

)
BitTorrent to crack down on use of name (

I was afraid this would happen eventually

)
WINE running on Intel iMacs? (

if true, the ability to run Windows apps in a natural way could be huge

) [via]
Video: Nacho Libre trailer (

quite possibly the best and/or worst movie of the year

)
Blurb (

brilliant book creation software for on-demand publishing, a la Cafe Press

)
Cupid Mistake (

a particularly good Perry Bible Fellowship this week

)
Sketch Swap (

draw a picture, get one in return; also, File Swap

)
Clearbits, free CSS icon set (

looks uncannily similar to Dan Cederholm's Chameleon; is it plagiarism?

) [via]
Visualizing relationships and geographies of New York Times articles (

Aaron dumps the RDF daily, so you can hack on it yourself; mashups, please!

)
February 6, 2006
Ben Goodger on the history of Firefox (

a must read; it also cites Greg Knauss' pan of Netscape's themes

)
The Art of De-Touch (

Eyebeam's Processing utility lets you scrub through before and after retouches

) [via]
NYT announces Gmail Chat (

web-based instant messaging with Gmail

)
Disney retooling Pirates ride with movie tie-ins (

gah, this sounds awful

)
µTorrent creator on BitTorrent encryption (

Bram doesn't like it, but clients are encrypting BitTorrent traffic to get around ISP bandwidth throttles

)
Super Noah's Ark 3D (

also: 1UP's great roundup of retro game ripoffs

)
CoComment, blog comment tracking (

leave a comment, hit a bookmarklet to track the conversation

)
Sifry's State of the Blogosphere, Feb 2006 (

75k new blogs per day, though unclear how many are automated spam blogs

)
February 5, 2006
Anil responds to SFBG editor's rant on Craig Newmark (

the editorial compared Craig's List to Wal-Mart

) [via]
Superbowl commercials on Google Video (

for once, I don't miss AdCritic

)
30 Boxes beta (

now open to the public, and they added iCal and mobile support over the weekend

)
February 4, 2006
Jason Robida's Myspace journal (

the teen wanted in the gay bar rampage was caught today in a bloody shootout

)
playsh, the playful shell (

Matt Webb and Ben Cerveny's Etech session sounds so intriguing that it hurts

)
February 3, 2006
London Underground as a music map (

surprisingly good and accurate, and available as a poster

) [via]
Legal firms cold-calling artists appearing on P2P networks (

Jason Scott gets a call from a paralegal looking for witnesses in a new P2P lawsuit

)
Katamari Damacy lyrics translated (

everybody clump together and spurt it all out

) [via]
February 2, 2006
SimpleTicket (

open-source trouble ticket support software built in Rails

) [via]
Motown Building Razed for Super Bowl Parking (

along with countless historical Motown documents

)
Valleywag, Silicon Valley gossip blog (

it's like The National Enquirer meets Fucked Company

) [via]
Thomas Hawk reviews 30 Boxes, a new calendaring startup (

I was at this private demo last night and I agree, it's the best web-based calendar ever

)
February 1, 2006
The GNE Mystery, a pre-Flickr interactive fiction game by Cal Henderson (

Cal said I'm the first person to ever beat the game without hints

)
Comparative review of Pandora vs. Last.fm music recommenders (

the big difference is that Last.fm gets better as more people use it at no additional expense

)
The Best BBS Movie Ever Made (

sounds like a good candidate for a bandwidth blowout

)