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 7, 2009
NYT visualizes the unemployment rate for different demographics
— 48.5% of young black men without a high school degree; 3.6% of college-educated white women over 25
November 6, 2009
Another World level ported to Javascript
— in other emulation news, a NES and Gameboy emulator in JS and SNES9x ported to Flash
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Blocktronics' ANSI art tribute to RaDMaN
— powered by Viewtronics, Peter Nitsch's gorgeous new Flash 10 ANSI viewer
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Aaron Straup-Cope leaves Flickr, joins Stamen Design
— one of my favorite geeks joins one of my favorite companies
Unreal Engine 3 development kit now free for non-commercial use
— huge announcement, along with the recent free release of Unity Indie
The Big Picture's series on Martian landscapes
— Kai's Power Tools in real-life
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November 5, 2009
Preview of McSweeney's Panorama, their one-shot newspaper
— as expected, looks incredibly great
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Birdhouse for Your Soul
— Greg Knauss finds one small piece of the historical web
Video montage of actors speaking the movie's title
— great comments with some missed opportunities; "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to The Taxi Driver?"
The Morning News' Cloud of Atlases
— impossible to guess, but look at all the pretty colors
American Airlines fires UX designer for explaining why their UX isn't great
— a lapse of judgment from both American Airlines and an employee who cared too much
November 4, 2009
Overheating, photo series of gadgets thrown through walls
— from issue 6 of Amusement, the incredible French gaming culture magazine
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Ricardo Autobahn's The Golden Age of Video
— insane pop culture video mashup
November 3, 2009
The Last Days of Gourmet
— sad photo series, reminds me of the dot-com carnage photos
Put This On
— first episode of Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor's Kickstarter-funded video series on clothing
Jono Bacon's The Art of Community released for free download under CC license
— looks fantastic and worth buying
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Eric Testroete's papercraft portrait Halloween costume
— incredibly creepy, like videogames leaking into the real world
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November 2, 2009
Mark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element
— told through annotated conversations from 1993
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Every vandalism edit to Nickelback's Wikipedia page
— I wonder which edits managed to stay in the longest without detection
November 1, 2009
Mike Pusateri's Halloween costume data collection
— for the fifth year, he's collected every costume name; this year, "nothing" spiked to #2
XKCD's movie narrative charts
— here's a more serious attempt at Primer's timeline
October 30, 2009
GameCity Squared's 15-Pixel Megamix
— extremely minimalist interpretations of 12 different games
October 29, 2009
Lauren McCarthy's Happiness Hat
— it measures your smile and stabs you if you're not smiling sufficiently
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October 28, 2009
Auto Tune de Nieuws
— needs an angry Dutch gorilla
Facebook prank memorializes living person
— the Facebook team should allow an email veto, or at least require better documentation
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2D Boy's pay-what-you-like World of Goo results wrapup
— don't miss the breakdown by OS and country
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FreeForm's short film on the Open Internet
— impressive set of interviewees, directed by Jesse Dylan of Yes We Can fame
Using Flickr as a paintbrush
— coloring overhead maps based on the dominant colors of photos taken on the ground
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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.