Waxy.org is the sandbox of You know blogging has hit the big time when your mom starts a weblog. Unlike most new webloggers though, she's already found a confident and compelling voice. Highly recommended, even though I'm a little biased.
My Mom Gets a Blog
Posted Mar 17, 2003
November 18, 2008
Bike Hero, biking a Guitar Hero level in the real world
— most likely a commercial viral, and maybe even fake, but does it matter? beyond awesome
Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy
— mostly posting this just to beat Rex to it
The A.V. Club's 27 popular websites that became books
— though they missed Belle de Jour, The Washingtonienne, Fucked Company, Fark, and ZUG
Speed Guitar goes to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
— every hour, on the hour, for one solid minute of metal complete with gothic arch and smoke machine
MGMT's "Kids" on the iPhone Ocarina
— "the iPhone Ocarina officially replaces the recorder as the nerdiest instrument I can play"
Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation
— my favorite was Space Mountain Snob
LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google
— millions of high-res photos, most never published
Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN
— very complementary with S3
November 17, 2008
John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the Long Winters perform "Tonight You Belong to Me"
— "Thank you, normal-sized man."
Jerry Yang stepping down from Yahoo's CEO post
— it never really fit him well, though I'll miss his e.e. cummings memos
Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch
— no, raunchy photos don't accidentally attach themselves to outbound email
Greasemonkey script to pull WikiDashboard visualization into Wikipedia
— I made a LazyWeb plea for this last week, and Paul Irish came through
Lee Byron's Fireflies, anaglyph 3D game for Mac
— part of Kokoromi's Gamma 3D showcase of anaglyph games
Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles
— read Tom Taylor's entry for more information
Cooking Mama, the Unauthorized PETA Edition
— a strangely obscure target for their attention, with a petition to write to the game's publisher
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Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld
— good writing in a nice design from Brandon Boyer, former news editor of Gamasutra
"Violet" wins the Interactive Fiction Comp 2008
— play it online; glancing at the charts, it looks like Buried in Shoes was the most divisive
Trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel
— looks surprisingly good, but I'm a sucker for origin stories; I even liked Enterprise
What would Depression 2009 look like?
— Tim sums up the thought-provoking Boston Globe article
The Pirate Bay hits 25 million simultaneous peers
— that's not unique people, but concurrent connections; Napster peaked at 26M users
Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app
— related: Chasing Ghosts will finally be released on BitTorrent Showtime in December
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The Big Picture on the California wildfires
— also: first-person coverage on Twitter and YouTube, like this freeway on fire and aftermath
Tim-Tams available at Target until March, first time available in the U.S.
— best chocolate cookies ever, the Tim Tam Slam is a chocolaty revelation
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JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash
— through a hack, it even works in IE 6
November 14, 2008
Esquire's hosting Between, the new two-player networked game by Jason Rohrer
— from the creator of Passage
"What's that buzzing noise from my BBQ?"
— he thought he was killing a few bees, but ends up annihilating an entire colony
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November 13, 2008
Kottke explains how to embed high-quality YouTube videos
— I knew how to save, link, and change the default, but the embedding hack was new to me
Web 2.0 Origami
— lazyweb, please build a converter that creates folding patterns from an uploaded image
Pixar's Burn-E short on YouTube
— here's an interview with the director
Valleywag folded into Gawker, all but Owen Thomas laid off
— I won't miss it; they hurt a lot of good people and interesting projects in the quest for pageviews
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7:58 PM
Wow. You're smarter than god. That rules.
9:06 PM
But you're mom is so cool.
10:31 PM
Disappointing. I was hoping it would be waxy's mom.
10:33 PM
Greg, that is my mom.
10:33 PM
Oh shit, it is mama waxy!
4:45 AM
Heh! Pretty damn cool... my mother refuses to go near a computer after a small incident a few years ago where she somehow accessed top secret South African Defense Force files! I'm trying to convince her to use one of those e-mail appliances at the very least *sigh*
2:09 PM
Highly recommended, and I'm not biased at all. She has a solid, smart style.
11:52 AM
Blogging mom's are cool. My own mother's been blogging (in Dutch at elswhere.org) for well over a year now. Your mom has indeed a confident and pleasant writing style.
11:13 AM
can i adopt your mother? maybe she always wanted a third kid?
6:18 PM
I'd love to get my mom blogging. I've offered several times to get her setup, but it hasn't happened yet. I would just find it facinating to read about what's on her mind. Maybe someday.