Waxy.org is the sandbox of The winning performances for last year's Meow Mix Jingle All The Way To L.A. contest are online, and in an unprotected directory (Windows Media format). These videos are just about as strange as you would think they'd be. Meow meow meow meow!
Meow Mix Jingle Tour
Posted Apr 23, 2002
March 18, 2010
C-SPAN opens massive video archives
— 160,000 hours of video dating to 1987
Joel Johnson, "Raiding Eternity"
— more tech writing like this, please
xkcd's Google phrase frequency charts
— "I got $x problems"
Newspaper Club designs, prints, distributes overnight newspaper at SXSW
— I was lucky enough to grab one of the hand-numbered issues
March 17, 2010
Crowdsourced demographic study of Chatroulette
— the info was gathered by Hacker News users
March 16, 2010
Progress Wars
— countless hours of fun
March 15, 2010
Piano Improvisation on Chat Roulette
— amazing how much creativity the site's inspiring
(via)
March 12, 2010
8-Bit Austin
— I think I'll use this map to get to Datapop 2010
March 11, 2010
Preview of Sword & Sworcery EP for the iPhone
— looks unlike anything I've ever seen
Sitby.us
— essential iPhone-optimized site for SXSWi session planning
Danc on the release of Ribbon Hero
— turning Microsoft Office into a game, with competition against your friends
(via)
March 10, 2010
"Play" by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman
— avatars as Russian nested dolls
(via)
Chatroulette Map
— I think I'd rather not know, thanks
(via)
Steamshovel Harry
— not sure how I missed this one last year, metagaming with music by Brad Sucks
El Fin Del Mundo by Alberto González Vázquez
— there's so much I love about this, I can't quantify it all
(via)
March 9, 2010
Wired Reread, blogging the best ads from '90s-era Wired
— also, the complete SPIN archives are on Google Books
Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg perform Lazy Sunday live
— for the first time, backed by The Roots
Adam Savage's pursuit of the perfect Blade Runner gun replica
— related: his quest for the perfect replica Maltese Falcon and dodo skeleton
The Panic Status Board
— the instant feedback made work more game-like
March 8, 2010
Valve ports game library and Steam service to Mac
— Portal 2 will be released for Mac simultaneously with PC, along with "all of our future games"
Maciej Ceglowski on the discovery, loss, and rediscovery of the cure for scurvy
— fascinating story of bad science and the unintended effects of new information
March 7, 2010
8-Bit NYC, Brett Camper's videogame map of New York
— he's using Kickstarter to expand to 15 other cities worldwide
Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game
— watch the slideshow for details; I just wish it was on the web instead
Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency
— "Maybe I'll learn something."
PS22 Chorus sings Phoenix's Lisztomania
— I love how expressive they are
Echo Nest and SCHED's guide to SXSW Music
— very nicely done, uses Echo Nest's recommendation engine
GameInformer's Portal 2 exclusive cover story
— scans, since it's not on GameInformer's site yet; Valve hired the TAG: The Power of Paint team right out of Digipen
5:27 PM
this is the most colossal thing i've seen this week.
thank you. a million thank yous. your children will be blessed, i'm sure.
nice blog; btw.
11:43 AM
haha i love the Meow Mix mobile!!!! Its great!!!
oh btw if ur ever in pennsylvania and u see MeowMix wriiten on something you'll know I WAS THERE!!!!
12:12 AM
Damn... I don't know whether to be scared of these people or to pity them. ;)
8:49 AM
meow mix is currently running a commercial depicting a conestant (#63) the contestant coughs ...and they say that they are through for the day ....I WAS THAT CONTESTANT !!!, i entered the contest and in my rendition of what ithoght a comercial could be i began coughing then continued on anyway i knew it would be used somehow now i feel they should at least have me do the comercial