Sixfoot6.com Daily Links / Micromemes (site feeds)

March 29, 2006

• Tavarez: one strike, one brawl (photo slideshow of Red Sox / Devil Rays fight. Use the slider on the bottom to remix your own version)

March 27, 2006

• Cubicle Dwellers' Funniest Home Video (mention and still from my comedy troupe's Broke Mac Mountain clip)
• NPR: Six Degrees of Jack Abramoff (interactive exploration of Jack's ties)

March 24, 2006

• Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston (TWF this is a sculpture of Brintney naked and pregnant on a bearskin rug)

March 23, 2006

• The Dog Powered Scooter

March 22, 2006

• Beebo! Metalog and Metalog Ratings - 2000 (ahh, those were the days)
• Starlight Meadows, USA (one of the best Flickr photosets I've ever seen; cinematic animal politics)

March 20, 2006

• The Trailer for Drawing Restraint 9 (bjork + matthew barney) looks like a fun, easygoing family film.
• Why Nerds are Unpopular (quite a thorough essay by Paul Graham)
• Today is the The First Day of Spring! W00t! It's cold as balls out right now, but I'm really excited about April.
• Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (6,000 hundred-year-old popsongs you've never heard before, archived from wax cylinders)

March 19, 2006

• It was great to listen to podcasts and watch video coverage of SXSW panels that I missed. Now I feel better.

March 17, 2006

• The Straight Dope: How was ice made and sold in pre-industrial times?

March 16, 2006

• Our Interactive Playpen @SXSW project became a real success, I think. It'll be open for the remainder of the conference, and new photos are pouring in all the time. Checkit.

March 12, 2006

• Auto-KAP camera and kite kit

March 11, 2006

• Wicked Local Girl (local newspaper company tries to get hip and webby with a twentysomething view of Plymouth, MA, my home town. Don't miss the Flash.)

March 09, 2006

• Mystery of the 'Booty Don't Stop' tape revealed, thanks to FOUND magazine

March 08, 2006

• The Amazing Climbing Robot (video of 2kg self-directed DARPA robot climbing trees, brick wall, sheer surfaces)

March 07, 2006

• Two guys race to finish Super Mario Brothers. Intense live competition from 2002.
• This X-Men 3 trailer actually, um, looks really good.
• Digital Web Magazine: Free Things to get at SXSWi (I never win anything)
• Motorsport.com: Josh Rem dies in road accident (I wasn't very close to this Plymouth native, but some of my friends were. I knew him in 7th grade; he was a great kid. He raced cars, but was struck on the side of the highway after he stopped to help someone. Shit.)

March 03, 2006

• Peanut kiss did not kill Quebec teen: coroner (GOOD NEWS)
• Joshua Darden Studio (beautiful relaunched site for this Typeface design studio)
• Waxy.org: Litigation Cosby Threatens Waxy, You See! (Andy's not taking down the "House of Cosby" videos despite cease and desist letters from Cosby's lawyers)

March 02, 2006

• the disappearance of two girls: "In statistical terms, MySpace is safer than going to school. It is safer than being in a car with your parents. It is safer than going to the mall. And yet, we are more scared because we don't understand it and we're afraid."