story links: interview with joshua davis author of the underdog: how i survived the world’s most outlandish competitions, book [1, 2]
starsight project to charge batteries from street lighting (via), aluminum street light poles stolen, flickr vs. webshots, tom cruise buys a sonogram to watch the baby, google pays $1 to switch browser, microsoft pays $1 to keep browser, colorful bubbles called zubbles, rocketboom t-shirts, hoder is banned from the US because of information on his(…)
story links: super-action joystick attachment (thanks, josh!), skater time lapse (via), attorney general ramsey clark to defend saddam hussein, bush approval rating chart over time, red vs. blue states election map, red vs blue states approval map, inside the xbox, xbox retail price set lower than cost, forbes on the xbox, the elderly gamer top(…)
story link: annual rocketboom christmas special with chris christmas rodriquez created by mother (thanks for the detective work, andreas!)
story link: dumpster diving, freegan.info
story links: x-box midnight madness on flickr [1, 2], google maps best-buy xbox store locator and model inventory tracker, two xboxes stolen from virginia, planet lab visualization of sony rootkit infections (via), christmas tree light show (via), christmas tree light show makes it to snopes, blogger business.com book sales website (via) [google cache, bird man(…)
story links: christmas lights sequence (source unknown) [update! lights by alek (thanks, takemynamedamit][update#2: carson williams from mason ohio used 88 light-o-rama channels to control his 16,000 christmas lights (thanks,
story links: new york city blue ball machine [ref:blue ball machine fixed, blue ball machine tragedy, music, rb:1,2]
story links: grave digger toy truck from wal-mart (thanks, blair!), graffiti writer with pump fertilizer sprayer, atari 800 laptop xe (thanks, walter!), doom running on ipod nano (thanks again walter!), donald rumsfeld and saddam hussein shake meeting in 1983, phoneswarm, corante symposium on social architecture, j.d. lasica of ourmedia, lisa stone of blogher, and tony(…)
story link: rb prague correspondent graham walker covers a slice of life in vietnam
story links: us governement speaks out against sony drm softwware (thanks, jan, phone swarm, rocketboom 640×480 bittorrents, rb on the rtlnews in holland, rb boston field correspondent steve garfield covers the boston auto show, digg vs. slashdot (via), blue ball tragedy (thanks to the 17 people who sent this in!)
story links: r50 min cooper to autonomous biped robot conversion
(thanks, manuel!) ** update: mini cooper bot is a hoax (thanks, andrew and rman!), 18yr old high school student wins mayor race [image] (thanks, nathan & rachel!), kill bill’s internet explorer browser with switch to firefox for $1, zach braff, sony releases music(…)story links: verizon? (via), [note: this guy gets kinda mad, you may want to lower volume at work]