today was Open Hack Day, and they played this video at the amazingly awesome Beck concert;
)they're a clueful company, I expect them to figure out this is a bad idea
)Harvey Danger's Sean Nelson covers great selections from Harry Nilsson's catalog
) [via]like Patrick Stewart, Gervais gets incredible performances out of his cameos
)he just crushed Lowtax from Something Awful in a single round
)extremely unlikely; despite the similarities, coincidences do happen in music
)total retail cost could be between $430 to $975
)old, but great; they turned to 11-year-olds for advice
) [via]was Defamer involved in this parody for NBC's Studio 60? they don't seem to even know about it
) [via]as terrible as New Numa is, it's weirdly compelling to see this guy from another angle
)watch for the O'Reilly book reference and Star Wars Kid parody
)here's first-hand video of the live painted elephant that everyone's fussing about
) [via]excellent set of unique web services, like the image nudity detector and bootleg IMDB API
)Windows app to bypass Myspace music player security; or try the online version
) [via]extremely surreal cultural references slipped into soap opera
) [via]says that Flickr, YouTube, and most next-gen apps "are really driven off the back of Myspace"; note that all three companies have typos
) [via]constructing a psychological profile of the man behind the Craigslist sex baiting based on his online writings
)after FairUse4WM defeated Microsoft's patch within days, my insider sources say some major media companies will be pulling their DRM content within days
)19-year-old actress Jessica Rose from New Zealand; the producers were very good about covering up the original photos
)$13 for new releases, $10 all others; also, they bought Cover Flow
)pre-web BBC documentary on hypertext and multimedia; interviews Ted Nelson (among others) and stars Dr. Who's Tom Baker as the software agent
)unreleased 30-minute home video captured from 500 yards away; Revver is crushed, so use the torrent
)as advertised, 59 foods on a stick; Scotch Egg on a Stick gets my vote
) [via]frenetic and full of fascinating random trivia, like Dave himself; most recent episode is all Disney secrets and urban legends
)self-conscious and unfunny, it proves once again that creating a meme is practically impossible
)griefer republishes personal ad responses publicly, ruining lives in the process
)the official site is down, but Danah has the best analysis
)I was waiting for her to chime in; the big issue is not privacy, but too much transparency
)they care about their record label partners much more than you or the Internet
)brilliantly meta explanation of how to write a fugue based on Britney Spears' "Oops, I Did It Again"
)close networks of friends have the end result of gaming Digg, even if they're not trying to
) [via]bands that sound exactly like their influences; don't miss Scott Wilk, the Elvis Costello clone
) [via]it'll be fun to compare this to the actual lists in December
)Art Clokey's Gumby ancestor from 1955, abstract and set to a frenetic jazz soundtrack
)buying companies to get to the juicy people inside
)I captured video of the best examples of this interesting glimpse into the videogame design process
)Noah Kalina has shot a photo of himself every day for six years; see also, every day for three years
)Greg Allen wonders whether our dangerous passions can, or should, change after becoming a parent
) [via]22-minute epic parody of Alice's Restaurant, chocked full with Metafilter in-jokes
) [via]most Wikipedia edits are by core users, but Aaron finds the most important contributions are by infrequent or anonymous users
) [via]very offensive (and mostly unfunny) Disney meets Deadwood parody, banned from the new Cracked magazine
)1,000 virtual cars overlayed in a single Trackmania run; also, the 3K Project and the full game for free download
) [via]update: false alarm! it appears that the unburnable tracks are the bonus videos
)by all accounts, his followup to Office Space is an instant cult classic, but Fox released it this weekend without a trailer or website into only 130 theaters
)also, the original game's a steal at $25 with Day of the Tentacle, and runs on any modern OS with ScummVM
)insane port of an SNES game to NES; looks surprisingly playable
)uses Internet Archive and web caches to store website on your local filesystem
)a physical manifestation of Michael Paulus's drawings
)in the the '30s and '40s, vinyl was hard to come by in the USSR and Eastern Europe
) [via]Luis von Ahn's ESP Game now officially part of Image Search; see also, his excellent Tech Talk at Google
)fascinating glimpse into the origin of Nigerian scam e-mails
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