Sixfoot6.com Daily Links / Micromemes (site feeds)

March 31, 2005

• Yahoo 360° is already paying off with hot cyber action! (Jason Schupp talked up at work, could be a bot?)
• DNC Case File listing all of Tom DeLay's scandals, including all of the House Ethics Committee's public admonishments.

March 30, 2005

• Proactively prodding pro-"life" protesters (a refreshing way to voice opinion on the Shiavo case)
• A Fair and Balanced screencap of FOX News
• Museum of the Moving Image to create a VR room, similar to the Star Trek holodeck, for artists to create a fully immersive experience. Visitors will use stero glasses and a 3D mouse.
• Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam. Waxy poses some thoughtful questions about open source projects disclosing their funding. Is it ethical for a site like Wordpress to make money gaming search engines?
• Posterwire.com: the movie poster weblog (good to see that not all recent movie posters are crappy)
• 24: The Video Game (looking pretty good, with full cast and production values of the show)

March 29, 2005

• CopyNight: people interested in ensuring freedom for artists, writers, thinkers.
• Yahoo 360 launched today - the latest in a long line of social software sites. Erik Benson suggested a good motto: "Do everything, make it really confusing". It's still interesting (and in beta) - email me if you'd like an invite.
• Starbucks gets criticized for too many liberal quotes on coffe cups: "There are a lot of great conservative quotes, but oh well," [some lady] said. "I'm not surprised. I'm used to being under-represented." HAHAHAHA HA HA HA HA HAHAHA! OH. MAN. GOOD ONE.
• Terri Schiavo's Blog (So wrong, but I gave a sad chuckle. The comment threads and blogroll list a cacophony of voices that I've been tuning out lately.)
• A Google news search for 'Funk' brings up several pages of bad headline puns.

March 28, 2005

• Support Idle Words by becoming a Macropatron and donating a lump sum of $300,000.00 so Maciej can blog full time.
• M.I.A.: Pitchfork Interview (Sri Lankan by way of London, her album 'Arular' is awesome)
• Note to self: read this Robert Crumb interview when less busy
• Messa di Voce - incredible audiovisual performance in which the speech, and songs produced by vocalists are augmented in real-time with beautiful projected visuals. Videos are highly recommended. (via
• MSNBC collection of firsthand accounts of the Sumatra quake
• Bloggers in Malaysia Covering this morning's 8.7 earthquake
• Huge changes made to Upcoming.org, within 7 days, as primised! My friend Waxy's calendar project now supports personal events, tagging, developer's api, and email/SMS reminders. (Expect the app to take off; I'll be adding more events to my profile.)
• Absenter's photo slideshow layout is simply gorgeous.
• That Wicked Worn Look - Cameron Moll's four part guide to weathering images in Photoshop

March 27, 2005

• Selection of Terri Schiavo political cartoons from Slate.
• Sleeptracker Watch (wakes you up when it's best for your sleep cycle. I want one.)

March 26, 2005

• Just rediscovered: my homeade start page from October 1999. Totally Century Gothic and mostly dead links.
• I want to write blurbs summarizing mediocre movies.

March 25, 2005

• Here are a whole bunch of Choose Your Own Adventure books.
• A Coder in Courierland (well written account of the transition from cubucle to bicycle)

March 24, 2005

• McDonald Funeral Home, staring A9 photo guy (this photo was taken by the BU Marsh Chapel - nowhere near a funeral home)
• zestyping: How to really confuse your party guests (build a zero-gravity room)
• Yahoo! Creative Commons Search (awesome, and about time.)
• Transparent Screens - a photoset (neat trick)
• Quake is ten years old? (I have been a geek for far too long)
• Bloggie Howser, M.D. (doog, you were the first blogger?)
• Ready, Set, Breakfast! (work smarter and stay healthier. thanks for cooking this morning, Jenny!)

March 23, 2005

• Bansky disguises himself and installs his own art in NYC Museums (a real artistic statement)
• In Pictures: Fantasy coffins (I'd like to go die with dignity. Please bury me in the giant rooster.)

March 22, 2005

• Treehugger: Getting Started with Prefab Good links to get your on the road to a cookie cutter home. [via]
• Erik Benson: a concise guide to what I learned at sxsw and etech 2005 [impressive thread drawn through multiple events]

March 21, 2005

• Do a Google Local search for brothel in Los Angeles and both Ticketmaster and the Academy of Motion Pictures appear in the top five. EFFING WHORES.

March 20, 2005

• Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr (I hope it's as painless and as wonderful as they describe)

March 18, 2005

• These Michael Wolf photos of high-density high-rises in Hon Kong are beautiful.
• 50 people see (similarly tagged flickr images blended by computer to beautiful effect)

March 16, 2005

• Still Standing: A short mockumentary I made with Mighty McPilgrim about human mannequinns performing in the subways below Boston.

March 13, 2005

• Mathowie's crappy plane ride, saved by a crafty flight attendant.

March 12, 2005

• Flickr: Photos tagged with SXSW (try and track me down!)

March 10, 2005

• "Judge Weinstein also said the plaintiffs had failed to prove a clear link between Agent Orange and their illnesses." Sure.
• State teacher commission probes wound-licking practice by coach
• Jared Dunn, Blogger on Television (demanding One Million Dollars!!! )

March 09, 2005

• Lisa Whiteman photos: The Barbers of New York
• PixiesDiscs: the 12 final shows.
• Identifont: identify fonts and typefaces through a series of questions. Cool.
• New method for colorization of B&W movies and images (just scribble colors and go; don't miss the demo clip)
• Trustees Kill journalism programs at Ventura and Oxnard Colleges, Andy's mother Toni Allen loses job (Note my quick lecture in the comments)

March 08, 2005

• Savetoby.com ($50,000 or the bunny gets it!)
• 10 Things I Have Learned (awesome advice from Milton Glaser)
• Waxy.org's Mom Fights to Save Community College Journalism (attend the board meeting in Oxnard Tuesday night)

March 07, 2005

• White House Approves Press Pass for Blogger (via)
• Going to SXSWi in Austin this year? Join me for comedians Patton Oswald / Brian Posehn at Emo's on March 14th (after 20x2)
• A Complete Analysis of Pink Floyd's "The Wall"
• U2's Bono a candidate for leader of World Bank?
• The Most Expensive Album Never Made (Will GNR's Chinese Democracy ever come out?)

March 06, 2005

• The New York Times article on Beck (very good, full bio, scientology, musical evolution, Guero)
• Google Desktop Search 1.0 is fantastic, lets you find virtually anything on your PC instantaneously, and must be scaring the crap out of Microsoft.
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (it takes time, effort and practice to do anything right)
• Gerhard3 and woman (I love Flickr)

March 04, 2005

• Kottke: The Blogosphere's Matt Lauer. A rather nice interview about Jason's decision to go pro.
• Postscript From a Strange Land: suicide note from oddball journalist John Makeig found written in an old mystery novel. Great bio of strange man. (via)
• Brokuworld.com: beautiful personal site, held together in Flash. Don't miss the good stuff on the projects page.
• Flirting with iTunes music sharing (via)
• A Dictionary of Old Hobo Slang
• This wedding shower photo is disturbing.
• Montage-a-google: mosaics auto-generated through google image search.

March 03, 2005

• KICK!ball again at SXSW 2005.
• Yahoo - A Guide to WWW (from 1995. This is what the web looked like when I was a senior in high school?)

March 02, 2005

• Flocabulary: teaching SAT words through hip hop and rhyme. Excellent.
• My friend Jake on the death of Hunter S Thompson (how do you live off the edge, off the grid anymore?)
• Million Shekel Baby: Amish vs Rabbi. First of a series of films to be released by my comedy troupe, Mighty McPilgrim. (I edited this one.)

March 01, 2005

• The secret to more profession photos (shoot more, edit better)
• Top 10 Useless Limbs (and Other Vestigial Organs) [via]
• From Fibiger.org: Community forums offer advice on everything you'd ever want to buy.