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April 30, 2006
Video: Powerpuff Girls Z trailer (

bizarre Japanese-only anime version of Powerpuff Girls

) [via]
Hi, Racists! (

Ryland tweaks his Church Sign Generator to thwart white supremacists

) [via]
VideoDownloader extension for Firefox (

download embedded media, including Myspace, Youtube, and Google Video; see the screencast

) [via]
Stephen Colbert kicks ass at White House press corps dinner (

don't bother with the torrent, use these YouTube videos instead

) [via]
April 29, 2006
YouTube spending $1 million per month on bandwidth (

200 terabytes per day of mostly illegal goodness

)
April 27, 2006
MP3: Bell Labs' Synthesized Speech 33 1/3 record (

bicycle built for two

)
Database War Stories #3: Flickr (

also: Second Life, Bloglines and Memeorandum

)
Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 (

making the rounds, and well worth watching; lower-res streaming version

) [via]
The Endless Forest (

multiplayer game (?) where you control a deer in a forest of other players, but with only non-verbal communication

) [via]
Google releases Sketchup Free (

the most intuitive 3D modeling app now free, and with a shared repository of models

) [via]
Visual Scratch (

visualization of turntable scratching with Max/MSP and Processing

)
Last.fm isn't just for humans (

BBC radio station quietly tracking nearly every song played for the last year

) [via]
Typography for Headlines (

I'd love to see a site like GUIdebook for web UI elements

) [via]
Facebook expands to corporate users (

expanding the scope makes sense as their base starts graduating

)
April 26, 2006
Video: Super Mario, live on stage (

nice rendition

) [via]
Make magazine launches Craft (

a geekier Readymade?

) [via]
April 25, 2006
Ze Frank's The Show (

highly concentrated daily video goodness, like Rocketboom but awesome-r

)
1968-1974 Alcoholics Anonymous comic strips (

tons more great comic propaganda on Ethan Persoff's site

)
Second Life on cover of Business Week (

with four feature stories about the virtual world

)
IE 7 beta 2 ships (

"put safety first"

)
April 24, 2006
Google Cartography (

visual representation of the interconnectivity of streets using the Google Maps API

) [via]
SFGate tribute to the 25th anniversary of Journey's "ESC4P3" (

don't stop believin'

)
April 23, 2006
Feedburner now tracks more podcasts than sum total of all radio stations (

and it's just beginning

)
April 21, 2006
Video: IFC's SXSW Behind the Badge, starring Consumating's Ben Brown (

I'm offscreen in the taxi, calling Ben a corporate sellout whore

)
Bush administration proposes mandatory website ratings (

or risk imprisonment for up to five years

)
More details on AOL's Myspace killer (

building on the back of the AIM network; the I Am Alpha screencast is neat, too

)
Microsoft Live Drive may launch before GDrive (

in the meantime, a handful of startups are vying for the space

)
Most Popular Words 2006 (

according to Google rankings

)
Slashdot on the Digg censorship conspiracy (

don't miss the comments on Slashdot's own policing

) [via]
Sabifoo (

IM bot that turns all incoming messages into an RSS feed and web page

)
Bush impersonator reads speeches written by little kids (

he should fire his speech writers and hire these kids

) [via]
April 20, 2006
Kevin Rose on the Digg conspiracy (

people were scripting bots to mass-digg stories; Thomas Hawk has more

)
LiveJournal adds ads (

LazyWeb request: an Internet Archive visual diff tool

)
Rolling Stone cover story on the Worst President in History (

he's the decider, he does the deciding around here

)
Daring Fireball goes full-time (

John left Joyent to try blogging as a career

)
Web 2.1 server-side blink tag (

replacing the blink tag with a standards-compliant Ajax alternative

) [via]
Digg Corrupted (

strangeness involving identical Diggs on two posts, silent user bans, and a popular story conspicuously missing from the front page

)
April 19, 2006
Famous Sounds (

aka cliched samples; see also: Julien's originals

) [via]
Onion AV Club interviews Wonder Showzen creators (

I've been a fan since the bootleg pilot

) [via]
Flash: Pepsi NexGame (

blissfully stupid

)
Sesame Street Video Clips (

59 of the videos were added by one YouTube user

)
Chris Ware on his move from Fantagraphics to Drawn & Quarterly (

the distributor unwrapped every book and added a permanent sticker to the cover

) [via]
April 18, 2006
In the Pit, an audio-only game for Windows (

also, Sonic Invaders sounds great

) [via]
Hacking A More Tasteful Myspace (

making MySpace attractive is the new CSS Zen Garden

) [via]
April 17, 2006
Chris Ware ends his run in the NYT Magazine (

the 29 parts are all online, but in PDF format (yuk)

) [via]
Cabbie drives Ben Folds to laundromat, ends up on stage playing harmonica that night (

no bootlegs online just yet

) [via]
State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 (

blogosphere continues to grow at a frightening rate

)
Kleptones' "24 Hours" sample listing on Wikipedia (

a work in progress

) [via]
Kottke joins The Deck (

he explains what makes The Deck different

)
"thanks for the add, you guys rock" (

the MySpace cliche watch

) [via]
iTorrent (

download BitTorrent distributed podcasts from iTunes

) [via]
April 16, 2006
"Ante Dominum" by Traction (

lovely graphic demo available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, stuffed into only 64k bytes

)
Alleged cannibal blogged about plans (

Mefi has a link roundup, including his Blogger blog, Myspace, and profiles on Blogger, Yahoo, eBay,

) [via]
Video: Saturday TV Funhouse's "The Disney Vault" (

shocking Disney parody uses the image of Mickey Mouse and clips from "Song of the South"

)
"Barn" by the Digital Artists (

Windows-only graphic demo that transcends the cliches of the demoscene, with music by The Wailers; other mirrors

)
Madin.jp Ouen (

convert any photo into 1,024 stadium flipcards held by a pixel army

) [via]
Video: Adicolor Pink (

Adidas viral video, but I don't care; it's high-quality stuff

) [via]
Market share of TV release groups (

ripping the new "Lost" episode isn't as hard as leaking pre-release software, but it's neat to see the diversity

) [via]
1UP feature on Second Life call girls (

interviews with two virtual escorts and the guy who reviews them publicly (NSFW)

)
April 15, 2006
Google integrates Calendar with Gmail (

detection of events in e-mails with a link to quick-add to calendar

)
April 14, 2006
Akismet for Movable Type (

unexpected, but welcome

)
Video: Where to Attack Next (

enough with the geography lessons, let's blow up Australia already!

) [via]
Land of the Rising Fun (

1UP's feature on innovative and unusual Japanese videogames

) [via]
MeFi Projects Most Popular (

monthly top 10 projects created by Metafilter members

)
hCalendar and Google Calendar reminders (

Greasemonkey script adds reminder links for any hCal formatted page, like all of Upcoming

)
Google Video adds Top 100 list (

also, the YouTube top videos is an essential car wreck

) [via]
April 13, 2006
Audio: Vert's chiptune remix of the Katamari theme (

as always, a flawless NES-style cover

) [via]
High-res remake of "Another World" game to be released tomorrow (

one of the best games ever made

) [via]
Beatles to sell catalog through online music services (

would selling it through iTunes affect the Apple vs. Apple litigation?

)
Flash: Dungeon Escape (

stick figure tribute to Dragon's Lair

) [via]
Audio: The Great Failure of Wikipedia (

though I disagree with his conclusions, this is a fascinating listen covering the rarely discussed internal politics and cover-ups; also: full transcript

)
Google Calendar goes live (

I'm glad they didn't keep the "CL2" name

) [via]
April 12, 2006
Video: Titanic Two (

high-quality trailer mashup

) [via]
Etsy Garden's Town Hall (

interesting avatar arrangement for a Flash chat room

) [via]
Google's Da Vinci Code Quest movie tie-in (

puzzling

)
News.com profile of "age play" in Second Life (

is virtual sex play between adults using child-like avatars more like infantilism or pedophilia?

) [via]
Duke Nukem Forever may finally be released by year-end (

if not, 3D Realms sacrifices half a million dollars

) [via]
Bumbershoot announces partial lineup (

Feist, Mates of State, Metric, Of Montreal, Kanye West, and more

)
Flashbag (

USB flash drive that bloats when it's full

) [via]
April 11, 2006
Snoil (

a ferrofluid-based version of Snake

) [via]
Argentina on Two Steaks A Day (

I'm drooling vicariously through Maciej

)
Video: Incredible Machines (

more Japanese Rube Goldberg fun; also: cooking ramen, the hard way

) [via]
IGN's I Am 8-Bit contest winners (

don't miss the winner on the second page

) [via]
Hell Is Other People's Music (

Momus' rant on the "soundtracking of America"

)
Forbes on the MySpace cottage industry (

countless small startups creating utilities and add-ons for MySpace users

)
Cadbury Egg Cake (

replace real eggs in cake batter with Cadbury Creme Eggs

) [via]
Video: 1986 World Series Game Six recreated on the NES (

lovingly crafted in RBI Baseball, itself released in 1987

) [via]
Rex Sorgatz revisits Microserfs (

he's now working at Microsoft, 12 years after Coupland's novel was published; see also: jPod

)
EyeSpot (

web-based video remixing

) [via]
April 10, 2006
New Yorker profile on Muzak (

"Our biggest competitor is silence.”

)
April 7, 2006
KittenAuth (

I prefer this to captchas

)
Cabspotting Cab Tracker (

averaged and real-time visualization of taxis moving around San Francisco

)
Park Place, an Amazon S3 clone in Ruby (

also, how Adrian Holovaty is using S3 as a media server at 35 cents per month

) [via]
"Star Wars Kid" settles out of court with schoolmates (

new details emerge as the trial come to a close

)
April 6, 2006
Jon Gruber on Apple's strategy with Boot Camp (

dead on, from the inevitable reaction of PC enthusiasts to the future direction of the OS

)
Half-Life 2 on an Intel iMac (

it runs surprisingly well

)
Seven Songs With Factual Or Logical Mistakes In The Lyrics (

also, there's no colloquial "East California" as mentioned in "Kids in America"

) [via]
Video: Devo live on "Fridays" (

performing "Girl U Want" and "Gates of Steel" in May 1980

)
April 5, 2006
Video: Google Current's tribute to Numa Numa star (

Gary Brolsma, this one's for you

) [via]
Santa Monica to get free wireless (

Google and Yahoo both have a strong presence in Santa Monica

)
Apple's Boot Camp public beta (

the stock market loves Apple's new official support of Windows XP dual boot

)
s3DAV (

virtual filesystem using your Amazon S3 account

) [via]
April 4, 2006
Tyra Banks show dedicated to Myspace (

if you find the full video, let me know

)
April 3, 2006
Scene.org Awards 2005 nominees announced (

the best of real-time, algorithmic art from the PC demoscene

)
April 2, 2006
Interview with an ex-exployee of adware creator 180 Solutions (

insider details about employee adware usage and dealing with public perceptions

) [via]
Video: Steve Jobs demos NeXTSTEP Release 3 in 1992 (

keep in mind, Windows 3.1 was released the same year

)
Interview with the head of the Swedish Pirate Party (

contrary to previous reports, it's not formally connected with the Pirate Bay

)
Gnarls Barkley single becomes first Internet-only single to hit #1 UK charts (

I see why; the Danger Mouse/Cee-Lo joint is catchy as hell

)
Ohio town calls in bomb squad over Super Mario power-up cubes (

an April 1 prank takes a turn for the surreal

)
URLFan, top 100 sites linked in RSS feeds (

a surprisingly good alternative to Icerocket and Technorati

)
New York Times redesigns (

not designed by Khoi Vinh, but a lovely and clean redesign

)
Anti-SUV Chevy Tahoe commercial contest entries (

they don't seem to be moderating the entries; two more

)
April 1, 2006
Video: O'Reilly Factor on Myspace (

features the brilliant Danah Boyd; he's surprisingly reasonable

) [via]