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
January 6, 2009
The Perils of Zero-Gravity Videography
— Matt Harding discovers hard drive-based camcorder don't work in zero-gravity
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Screenshot: 4chan hacks MacRumorsLive during Apple keynote
— the 4chan thread shows how they found the admin interface, password hashes, and finally cracked a user's password
January 5, 2009
xkcd's Guide to Converting to Metric
— even Liberia and Myanmar are mostly metric, compared to the U.S.
January 3, 2009
Stamen's Mike Migurski on extreme programming vs. interaction design
— the linked interview is great
January 2, 2009
Jason Scott on the closure of AOL's online communities
— like physical evictions, there need to be laws protecting community data in the event of closure
JPG Magazine to stop publishing, turn off website
— with only three days notice; here's the response from Derek and the JPG community
December 31, 2008
Wikipedia over DNS
— loony hack serves summaries of Wikipedia articles; also available as JSON and JS
Leap year bug caused every 30GB Zune to crash at 2am this morning
— as strange as the Android bug that ran every keystroke as root
Metafilter's exhaustive tour of the early origins of Adult Swim
— the Cartoon Network breathed new life into old cartoons, while constantly trying to find the next big thing
December 30, 2008
Infochimps' massive scrape of Twitter's friend network
— Twitter gave their blessing on sharing the 56-million records, which includes 10M tweets and 220k hashtags
The Lonely Island's We Like Sportz
— the sequel to Just 2 Guyz
Niall Kennedy documents the undocumented Google Reader API
— whoops, this was three years ago; here's an updated version
Fimoculous' 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008
— an incredibly well-researched list, with related recommendations for every entry
December 29, 2008
DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2008
— mashing up the top 25 singles of the year into a single song and video
Twit 4 Dead, four Twitter bots fight zombies in real-time
— watch their collected activity here
Facebook sentiment mining predicts presidential polls
— like StateStats, Facebook Lexicon is tons of fun
Giganews reports Usenet upload growth since 2001
— note this doesn't reflect Usenet popularity, but most likely the rise of huge Blu-Ray and HD rips
December 28, 2008
List of Starbucks employee jargon
— culled from the Starbucks Gossip blog
December 27, 2008
Rocketboom covers the history of the Lip Dub
— the Know Your Meme series is consistently well-researched and fun to watch
Jennifer 8. Lee on the history of General Tso's Chicken
— different cultures each localized their own versions of Chinese food around the world
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Top 20 freeware games released by Cactus, this year
— is Jonatan the most prolific game developer alive?
December 26, 2008
Paul and Storm finish their 25 Days of Randy Newman
— hosted on Bandcamp, and now with the solo piano track used in each song
AutoPager, infinite scrolling for Firefox
— love the idea, but too clunky for everyday use
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December 24, 2008
Net Cafe archives, dot-com nostalgia TV show from 1996-2002
— Sergei Brin in 2000 at the newly-opened Metreon, Mondo 2000 and Boing Boing, awkward Webby broadcasts, and hundreds of dead dot-coms
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The Offworld's best indie and overlooked games of 2008
— also: Gamasutra's top 5 indie games
Left 4k Dead
— lo-fi zombie shooter in 4k of Java
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NORAD's Santa Tracker on Twitter
— they just passed through Kazakhstan; also tracking on Google Maps and in 3D on Google Earth
December 22, 2008
ScummVM adds support for 7th Guest
— I didn't realize they expanded into non-Scumm engines last year, including the Sierra AGI games
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...