Fafblog returns: Stupid Chris, going to his college reunion and denying us the world's only source of Fafblog!
Sugarplum, the spambot poisoner: I've seen references to spammers using the nonsense text Sugarplum creates to help seed their messages and sneak them past Bayesian filters. I blame Dixie Flatline.
Fun and games with Google Maps: When farmers get up to not-safe-for-network-television hijinks.
iDon't -- lame "guerilla" marketing for a Sandisk iPod knockoff: But hey, they like Pitchfork Media! Those -rebels-! Also, they probably know that the Shins will change your life.
"Latino" v. "Hispanic" in Google Trends: Settling an argument for some of my friends about regional variation in usage -- a very nice use of Google Trends.
Weylan-Yutani Corporation: I've got access to Mother now and I'll get my own answers, thank you.
Protectors of the Krispy Kreme Brand: I'm utterly fascinated by this blog, run by a large California franchisee and dedicated to exploring the attempts to pull the HOT DONUTS NOW company out of its nosedive.
The Neighborhood Project: Map sites are the current hotness for tinkering hobby-type websites.
demonbaby: The First Annual MySpace Stupid Haircut Awards!: When did Captain Marvel (Marvel version) change her name to "Photon"?
Someone really likes the White Sox: Really, really likes the White Sox. Really. A lot.
Bet On Iraq.com: Because nothing says "conservative investment" like Iraqi dinars purchased over the internet from a site with black-on-black text at the bottom!
Just Letters: A multi-user refrigerator alphabet game; spell out dirty words for people to read all over the world!
Destructo hits Livejournal!: My friend Stephen Swift's little doodle game gets played out in a hysterical LiveJournal thread.
The Bessemer Venture Partners greatest misses page: "Students? A new search engine? In the most important moment ever for Bessemer’s anti-portfolio, Cowan asked her, 'How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?'"
The eWorld That Was and Wasn't: "And here is what really killed eWorld. What we forget about those days at Apple was how dark they got." The life and death of Apple's first online offering.
Lawblogger Phil Carter gets called to active duty: The former MP, current contract lawyer, and occasional Slate writer will be serving in the 101st Airborne. I wish him well.
Kottke reviews a thirteen-year-old book everyone's already read: Not to be a hater, but between this and his recent Minor Threat post (where he spelled Dischord Records' name wrong), it's been a bad pop culture week for Jason.
The Seldovia Herald: I'm mostly helping a friend get around some domain squatters, but if you ever wanted to know what small-town Alaska life is like, here's your chance.
Google Will Eat Itself: A slow wave corporate takeover/performance art project, in which Google Adsense funds purchase of Google shares. (via We Make Money Not Art)
robin_d_laws: ATIUBS: "This acronym would reflect the strong possibility that any news story remarkable enough to comment on may be debunked, thereby making the blogger look like a dope." (via Unqualified Offerings)
Mark Cuban continues his flamebaiting: Am I bad for being so amused that a billionaire chooses to spend his time picking fights with the pseudonymous "Bob O'Brien" over illegal shortselling?
MSN's Online Banking forum: Huge trove of information about online-only banks (USAA, ING, State Farm) and the online efforts of many national and large regional operators.
The Web Application Security Consortium attempts to put together some statistics: I've never heard of this group (I assume they're the corporate version of OWASP), but they're collecting and collating stats on vulnerabilities.
Corante: Why Google Is Faltering on RSS: Fine research from the folks at Corante. Next up: why hasn't President Kerry delivered on his campaign promises?
sproutliner: "Think of it as a supercharged structured to-do list." Very nice. (via Waxy)
The Comics Curmudgeon: "OH NO, SHARKS. THAT"S ALL I NEED." This is so joining my morning cup of coffee as an a.m. ritual.
Will someone please shoot Xeni?: I've moved past blaming her for the decline of Boing Boing, but anyone who says, "Make blog to the camera" needs to be put down for their own good.
Peerflix: a P2P network for physical DVDs: Vaguely similar to Mark Anderson's Booklend.net, only decentralized and for-profit.
The Cards Speak: A poker blog. Now I will be flagged as spam forever. (via teh Torrez)
BoingBoing Butler: Using Greasemonkey to enhance weblog readability. This sort of thing will make Dave Winer's head burst like an overripe melon.
Microsoft's forthcoming fonts: They look really nice, nicer than Bitstream Vera to my eye; it's a shame Microsoft won't let them become a universal standard.
Instiki for OS X: The Ruby wiki becomes a double-clickable app, blurring the boundaries between web and desktop applications.
Coalblog: A fascinating example of the weblog-as-trade-journal.
On posting a Sandman rarity: A debate about the value of IP breaks out, and one of the artists shows up to point out that if nothing else, the scanner is being rude. (via Ralenu)
Google adds a tag, special for Oscar week: Oh, this is nice.
Experts have not yet quite swallowed the blogospheric Kool-Aid: A majority of experts think the future of art and entertainment is digital (and increasingly amateurized), but only a third foresee terminal partisan filtering.
There%u2019s Someone at the Door, He Says He%u2019s From the Future.: Two men spend two years making a random 18-year-old gamer the subject of their art project, in which he is informed he is the savior of the future human race. Possibly the greatest conceptual art piece of our time.
Taste for the Web: It doesn't mention Viaweb often enough, actually.
Stats Weenie: a blog devoted to tracking browser market share: "This probably indicates a significant change in their methodology. This change is most noticable in the figures for 'unknown' browsers, which have jumped from their previous background level of 0.2-0.3% to about 1.6-1.7%."
English Cut: the weblog of a bespoke tailor: It makes me wish I had two thousand pounds to drop on a suit. (via Redmonk)
English Cut: the weblog of a bespoke tailor: It makes me wish I had two thousand pounds to drop on a suit. (via Redmonk)
Stupid MSN Maps tricks: Also known as "the most expensive cab ride you'll ever take".
CAN SPAM fails to work as intended: Number of knowledgable commentators surprised by this: 0.
Snopes on Adam Clymer (with extra John Kerry action): It's frustrating to see Snopes try to jam some mediocre political reporting into an urban myth debunking.
Noteworthy: A blogger's roleplaying game: Turning LiveJournal into an epistolatory RPG.
A red letter day in the annals of product placement: Wow. That's.. painfully awkward.
"Official Use Only" Homeland Security briefs make it onto the web via Google cache: I hope the security compliance officer is taking a long, hard look at how he or she is running things.
Game databases change the way masters play chess: "'The line he played reeked of preparation,' he said." (via JJG)
The Bloggies are the People's Choice Awards of the personal web.: And Boing Boing is our Limp Bizkit. (The best of the year nominees make me terribly sad.)
Sacramento Bee's foodblog roundup: Everybody loves my baby! (Everybody loves Anil Dash's baby, too, but shamelessly promoting her website isn't my problem.)
The Eponym: Nick is a fabulous writer and a swell guy. I'm glad to see him blogging again.
The Alternative Energy Blog: "News, views and strong opinions on alternative energy technology including wind power, solar power, wave power, geothermal & other renewable energy sources."
The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps: "Anything that fits under that rubric, from medieval mapae mundi to satellite imagery, and from topo maps to Tolkien, is fair game."
Where Waxy gets his links: Andy Baio's blog has about the best linklog going; he's nicely codified his sources, so you can try to be nearly as hip as him.
Food bloggers chronicle their delicious obsessions: "And they like to hang out in places like the Accidental Hedonist, Hungry Tiger, and Food Porn Watch." The author of Hungry Tiger is obsessed with del.icio.us, so it all works!
Gmail bug can be used to sniff for passwords and mail: I'm sure the problem -- based on Gmail's treatment of malformed headers -- will be fixed shortly.
Delicious Inbox is back!: Oh, thank goodness. Del.icio.us is once again the second most bestest site evar.
Alek's Christmas Lights Webcam is NOT real: Photoshopping a bunch of pictures to represent fake webcam views strikes me as a pretty lame hoax, but to each his own.
Best. Thread derailment. Ever.: Because there's nothing much nice to say about Eric Milton, the people at the Transaction Oracle argue about Neville Chamberlain and Sam Bowie
Desperately seeking referral bonuses: ING Direct unintentionally created what looks very much like a positive feedback loop for spam
The Potted Meat Museum: Who could refuse "Our Finest Brand Tripe with Gravy"?
del.icio.us spam: The serpent enters paradise, yet again.
Wired Words: Utopia, Revolution, and the History of Electronic Highways: Cable t.v. was supposed to kick off the long boom in 1971.
Catacomb: A story about MUDs and the online economy, circa 1985 (I read this when it came out, I think). (via)
sIFR 2.0 release candidate 2: The next version of the Flash typography for headlines tool pioneered by ESPN
Responding to a cease-and-desist from Dustin Diamond: The response to t.v.'s "Screech" is actually funnier than the supposed parody site. (PDF)
QuickHoney: A gorgeous illustration portfolio (not all pieces are worksafe) - the Soap Machine is particularly great.
Del.icio.us search plugins for Firefox: Nicely done, and they've already proved handly.
BYU Presents: Resources for Overcoming Inappropriate Internet Use: I think of BYU more as a research university than a religious one, but then there's stuff like this. Also, "interesting and inviting"?
5280.com: The "professional local blog" model escapes from the clutches of Nick Denton. Mostly Colorado state politics, with a smattering of sports and culture news.
Marryanamerican.ca: A resource for Americans looking to move north and Canadians looking to get some.
The eBay Reader: "he first book-length academic inquiry within the humanities into the cultural implications of eBay": Okay, I confess that even I want to make fun of this.
Nick Nolte is a crazy man.: "I have decided to wage war on Ishii's kids. I know, I know, better judgement would be to ignore their antics, but because of them I haven't read the Calendar section in weeks."
Olaf Unleashed: An "Unfortunate Events" movie promo that somehow fails to work in any Magnetic Fields references. (via)
Tagging bookmarks: I've been thinking about hooking my sideblog into something much like this; look for it to happen if I ever get a few days of free coding time (i.e. never).
Welcome to the world, Babyhacker: Girlhacker was one of my first blog discoveries, and I eagerly await the toy and baby food links she's going to dig up.
One Day at Fenway: Baseball writer Rob Neyer's adventures with Amazon reviews and identities.
Hot girls, frisky delegates: The Village Voice gets a strip club waitress to keep a tally of how her week goes. A cheap shot, but it's shaping up to be really amusing.
The Wikipedia FUD marches on: The extent to which this guy doesn't get it is amazing, and the fact that he -refuses to look- at the Wikipedia makes it even more impressive.
I knew him when!: My friend Drew's photos of the DC Metro system have been highlighted by DCist, the atrociously-named Gothamist spinoff. (Dig around and find pictures of me!)
Attack of the Catspiders: A beautifully done Blair Witch-esque series of photos devolves into a running joke on a GTA fan forum. Wonderful in about six different ways. (via)
Jason Craft: "Video games, comic books, popular media and literary theory."
Hey, Apple! Don't break my iPod!: Real Networks unleashes a mass movement in an attempt to cash in on their vast stores of goodwill among the internet-using peoples of the world. (Mysteriously, they no longer link to this site.)
Craig of Craigslist on the eBay deal: "The deal we're announcing today basically allows us to operate without changing our mission of community service, while making available to us expertise and resources we could really use." I wish Craig the best of luck with that.
Clubbo: Music to Believe In: Forty years of fictional failure, as told in words, pictures, and MP3s. (via)
The Open Clip Art Library: Public domain clip art for use with open source software.
Douglas Wolk's Lacunae: Douglas Wolk (Fiery Furnaces fan, Slate music critic, and Dark Beloved Cloud proprietor) has jammed a MP3 blog into his personal blog and actually gone to the trouble of securing the bands' permission.
The Beast: The Making of the A.I. game: "It was street theater and a con game and a pennant drive rolled into one." (via) (see also)
Congratulations, Kevin Britten!: I hope you make Steve Jobs give you an oversized novelty check. (here's why)
Anatomy of a 419 scam: "This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon. I await your response."
Crooked Timber turns 1: This week they've talked about Michael Moore and the nature of political deceit, launched a vicious attack on poor Mary Astor, discussed leftist reforms designed to make child care more affordable, argued about weblog comments, and yammered about cricket. Happy birthday to the best group blog on the web.
The Amazon kneejerk contrarian game: Find a classic that someone dissed. "I think about Kenny G., for instance. His rythmic session is much more regular, whereas Coltrane's session seems sometimes to loose the beat."
Simone Ledeen goes at it with a critic: The daughter of prominent conservative pundit Michael Ledeen responds to criticism over perceived nepotism in her hiring by the CPA in Iraq. On a blog. (see also) (and this)
Fafblog!: Okay, I give. Nine out of ten Nielsen Haydens, Crooked Timbers, and Jim Henleys are right: Fafblog is really funny.
"How to avoid flamewars" (by Dave Winer): In other news, Henry Kissinger still has a Nobel Peace Prize, it will rain on your wedding day, and irony remains dead.
Howling Curmudgeons: A two-fisted group blog, all in color for a dime.
Nigritude Ultramarine: Anil Dash wants an iPod real bad, and somewhere the ghost of Bernard Shaw is prepared to offer him tuppence and haggle over the price.
Wiki hype, part 2: Business journalists have discovered wikis. Next step: three zillion crappy startups!
Something Wiki This Way Comes: Sweet merciful heavens, the relentless hyping of another useful tool has begun.
Double-Tongued Word Wrester: Grant of the great World New York has a new project for etymological trufans.
Geegaw takes a rest: Almost five years later, Miranda Gaw goes off the air. Best of luck in the Big Apple, KHLAM Ms. Gaw!
P.dro Classic: Flash simulation of a Mac Classic
Gmail Swap: I thought it was sad until I saw the (incredibly clever) branding. Torrez has inspired greatness.
Google Groups Beta: Create your own -Usenet- groups? Oh my. (via)
IRC: The devil's chatroom: "I.R.C. is where you are going to find your 'elite' level pirates." Cool -- I never even mastered docking in that game. (And when will America end the elite level pirate gap?)
The Business Plan Archive: Business plans of the dotcom boomtimes, preserved as a lesson for future generations.
Three-way hive-mind cage-match!: Oh mercy. Which is better, the Hobbesian "your report only contains one fact, and you made it up" or the Gareth crack in the comments? (Warning: Cheap shots aplenty.)
Why don't nice guys get the girl?: Man, Google knows -everything-. (via)
Mocoloco: Like Gizmodo, but for shelter mag obsessives.
The Atlasphere's Ayn Rand Dating Service: SWM ISO attractive railroad executive for fun, LTR in private utopia. No hard drugs, fiat money. Willingness to read 90-page speeches a plus. (via)
Thousand-Faced Moon: Comics, movies, books, queer old things. Who wants to read a blog about -those-??
Julian Dibbell wraps up Play Money: He did not quite earn more as a Ultima Online retailer than he earned as a professional writer, but four grand a month isn't anything to sneer at.
Word Work: Novelists, highway patrolmen, and tofu manufacturers: Word's "Work" feature, one of the great treasures of the web.
Scaremongering about Google Mail: I'm carrying no water for Gmail -- I think it's a dumb idea, in fact -- but I didn't have to get past the headline to know that this was by The Register's resident lunatic Googlehater, Andrew Orlowski.
Waxy vs. the NannyChat programmer: It's hard to choose between this debunking and the Infocom bot as Waxy's best project of the month. (see also) (and this)
Mark Cuban's blog: I'll give it six weeks until he starts drawing fines. (via)
The Panda's Thumb: The group blog of a pod of biologist, dedicating to whacking the tar out of Intelligent Design
Garth Marenghi, sculptor of nightmares: "Let me clarify my position on this matter. 'Slicer IV' was not technically part of the 'Slicer' trilogy, although it was, indeed, part of the 'Slicer' series. 'Slicer IV' stands as a book in its own right even thought the character of Blade features once more in the plot line." (via)
Which blogs does Senate candidate Brad Carson read?: That's actually an entirely credible list, and he gets bonus points aplenty for Crooked Timber.
The Gadflyer goes live: http://gadflyer.com/... (via)
A review of Web bracket interfaces: But will they automatically pick this year's #13 upset for you?
The Press Gaggle: The standup comedy of the White House press corps.
BugMeNot.com: Read websites without filling out obnoxious registration forms (I'm looking at -you-, LA Times!)
NY Post cribs Girlhacker?: Journalistic laziness or sheer coincidence? You make the call!
Reading A1: Nicely done, left-leading Times criticism focusing not on nitpicking but on how media narratives are formed.
Free books from Baen: Lousy interface and only a few interesting titles in my mind, but it's good to see a whole publishing imprint try raising sales by giving out free samples.
Technology Review: The weblog version of MIT's 'Technology Review' magazine, written by Simson Garfinkel and others. (via)
Computational Complexity weblog: Like I said, I'm a sucker for single-focus weblogs.
Lawrence.com: William S. Burroughs! A local music guide! Blogs by the columnists! This is the best alt.weekly website I've ever seen, I think.
David Sheen's Myberry: David Sheen, like Mark Anderson, is running a filesharing app for his bookshelves. (via) (see also)
Orkut map: Wow. That's an impressive visualization tool, and it might theoretically be useful. (via)
Rex Hammock's weblog: It's all about the magazine industry. I love focused weblogs like this.
Lachlan Cranswick's links: A huge treasure trove of links that I'll be mining for months
Badger Badger Badger: Badger dance? SO much better than hampster dance.
NYT Link Generator: Make New York Times articles truly permalinkable. Mostly for my own reference.
Pi = 3 and a smidge: A browser-crashing illustration of transcendance (see also) (and this)
Supernova Comics torrents: Bringing comic books into a brave new century of copyright infringement