Sixfoot6.com Daily Links / Micromemes (site feeds)

May 31, 2005

• A Gamers' Manifesto: 20 things gamers want from the next gen of consoles. Very funny.

May 30, 2005

• The Sith Sense (play 20 questions with Darth Vader

May 28, 2005

• A Whole Lotta Nothing: The age of paradox (Matt on the odd succes of Napoleon Dynamite; check out my comments)

May 27, 2005

• The Force is a Tool of Satan - Episode III ALERT!: "Do not trust a Yodah puppet from Satan's dream factory, trust in the Word of the Bible!"
• M Doughty busks outside his own concert

May 25, 2005

• Amnesty International calls for foreign governments to investigate U.S. officials regarding abuses against detainees in Iraq and elsewhere. I hope this happens.
• Visible Human Browsers (slice up corpses in your own browser)

May 23, 2005

• Finishing your basement (good starting suggestions)
• Comments: Behind the Scenes - snook.ca (nice clean CSS design and comment sytem)

May 19, 2005

• The Ultimate Bacon Sandwich (mmmm.)
• Game Girl on the inevitability of XBox taking over all media in your living room (changing the conflict to fit your strenghts)
• IMDb Boards: Superman Returns, 2006 (trolls, screaming at each other)

May 18, 2005

• In 50 Cent's video game, 50 gets caught in a web of corruption, double-crosses and shady deals that lead him on a bloody path through New York's drug underworld. The streets are watching as 50 Cent blasts his way to the truth.
• When I Was Nine: Thoughts About Star Wars
• Iraq veterans' unspoken epidemic - video games as treatment (designed to recall the streets of Falluja and thus exorcise the ghost of war)
• Diary of a [male] Porn Star (rather informative)

May 17, 2005

• Great interview with the guy who invented Flash Mobs
• Star Wars Last Supper
• GMail Drive - an awesome little program that allows you to read and write to your gmail account as if it's a hard drive on your system. Perfect for transfering MP3s from work to home... you can even create folders! (thnks Adam)
• formerlyROSIE (intriguing O'Donnell blog written entirely in sometimes awkward freeverse)

May 16, 2005

• State Secret: Thousands Secretly Sterilized (for decades the gov't sterilized women in the US south without their knowledge? wtf?)
• Republican L.A. Mayoral candidate Jim Hahn's campaign site rips off large graphic from opponent's site (hilariously tacky)
• FAQ: How Real ID will affect you (national ID legislation went through. great.)

May 12, 2005

• Dave Chappelle checks himself into South African mental health facility (following another delay in production oh Chapelle Show season 3)
• Me3dia: "Arthur," said Arthur. (Andrew uses AutoSummarize in MS Word to shrink each book in The Hitchhiker's Guide series down to less than 100 words)
• Amazing Photos of the 28 course, 7.5 hour tasting meal at Grant Achatz's Alinea restaurant (I still want to be a plating chef)

May 11, 2005

• Prescriptivists are assholes. Ignore them.
• A Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising (1983 - Frank Zappa was a visionary)

May 10, 2005

• A History of the GUI (must read - instant messaging in 1969?)

May 03, 2005

• google maps + flickr (cool shit is on the rise)
• Awesome photos of an abandoned amusement park (several pages worth, along with other abandoned places)

May 02, 2005

• Matt Haughey's daughter Fiona born, on Flickr

May 01, 2005

• Cambodian troops Quarantine Quan'su (new strain of malaria creates zombies?)