Waxy.org is the sandbox of I just noticed that former G.E. CEO Jack Welch and Springfield Nuclear Power Plant CEO Montgomery Burns are currently neighbors on Yahoo's Most Popular News, both in the classic evil-CEO pose. Here's the screenshot, archived for posterity. Excellent!
Jack Welch and Mr. Burns
Posted Sep 16, 2002
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
March 5, 2010
Cal Henderson on gaming probability in World of Warcraft
— he's collected 118 pets, some of which only drop 1 in 10,000 attempts
March 4, 2010
LiveJournal rewrites outbound links with affiliate codes
— looks like the regex was a bit greedy
NYT on Chinese "human-flesh search engines"
— very similar to the H+ article on the topic from last year
YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos
— a free, automated audio transcription service based on YouTube should be viable now
OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass"
— Rube Goldberg machine built by Synn Labs in Los Angeles
Roger Ebert starts subscription service
— $4.99 for a year, goes up to $5.00 on April 1
March 2, 2010
Yelp's official response to the business extortion accusation
— nicely lays out the case against the conspiracy theories
Valve updates Portal with mysterious achievement and ARG trailhead
— radio transmissions convert into Morse code and images pointing to a telnet BBS with ASCII screenshots
The Skull of Regret
— even Pictures for Sad Children's guest comics are great
March 1, 2010
NYT's auralization of crossing the Olympic finish line
— hear the women's 1,000-meter speedskating gold medalist win by .02 of a second
(via)
Activision shuts down 8-year King's Quest fan project
— even though Vivendi, the former IP owners, granted them a non-commercial license
(via)
Bioshock's lead level designer remakes Arcadia in Doom 2
— don't miss his companion article about Doom as Robotron
February 26, 2010
Pictures for Sad Children, "Play Play Play"
— Level End
(via)
Nieman Labs tallies original reporting vs. rewrites for the Google/China hacking story
— 121 different versions of the story, but only 13 did any original reporting
February 25, 2010
Joel Johnson's extremely painful, personal story of sexual abuse
— so horrible I hesitate linking to it, but I will, if only for Google justice
February 24, 2010
Casey Neistat's excellent short film about Chat Roulette
— includes demographics, vernacular, and how men and women are treated differently
8:56 PM
That is uncanny.
12:25 PM
!!!
6:10 AM
Love the caption on the AP photo. "Businessmen, and some women, are the bad guys of TV fiction, committing more crimes than those in other fields - even common crooks - and generally acting like scoundrels, according to a new study."
Boo hoo hoo. Maybe their image would improve if they'd stop pillaging their company coffers while rubbing their hands with glee...