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Faints on a plane.
My best of 2005 doesn't really stick to any one medium. I tried listing my favorite music this year, but some of it was recorded in 1993. I tried listing some favorite movies, but I couldn't think of anything I got on Netflix this year that wasn't a TV show or made in some year like 1993. So then I thought about books and there was just the one I thought was worth reading.
So here are my favorite things of 2005. In no particular order.
A few years ago I was into programming AIM bots. I wrote one for Metafilter that would scrape the RSS feed and send out a couple hundred IMs to people informing them of the latest posts to Mefi. I ran into the "too many messages" wall and gave up on the bot. I didn't feel like creating a web of bots, like my friend Phil Fibiger did, and so I let the bot die.
A couple years later Andy rigged his AIM bot to the Infocom interpreter, and let loose a few Infocom games to the world. It was wildly popular, and tonight while researching some AIM bots for something entirely different, I ran into something I hadn't seen in a while. Andy had registered infocombots 1-3, and someone else decided to register infocombot4.
As they say on the Internet, hilarity ensued (read comment #6).
My mom showed me how to make a chicken pot pie this weekend. I decided to use the recipe to make a cherry pie.
View the set.
View the set.
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This is awesome. I sure do love you, WWW.
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They doin' something!
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I have most of these, though I think Notational Velocity is one of those things you download and never use. Kind of like some gym equipment that folds nicely under your bed never to be seen again.
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Yup.
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I am using del.icio.us to link to a Flickr image of Deepleap on CNET of all places.
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The nice thing about being old and out of touch with pop culture is that you are out of touch with pop culture.