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
September 1, 2010
First details on Telltale's episodic Back to the Future game emerge
— they also secured rights to make games based on Jurassic Park
Cee Lo Green's official video for F**K YOU
— even better than the typography video, I'm perfectly content to have this song stuck in my head 24/7
Slate interviews Innocence Project cofounder about false convictions
— over 250 people have been freed by new DNA evidence, many of them with false confessions
Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel for the iPhone/iPad
— impressive tech demo, now available for free
GameSetWatch covers Assembly 2010's PC demo contest
— if you have the hardware, I highly recommend trying out the two winners yourself
Apple announces Ping, a social network built into iTunes
— their first foray into social, finally; seems inevitable that app/location/TV/music sharing will follow
August 31, 2010
All four issues of Daniel Raeburn's The Imp available for free download
— highly recommended, covers Daniel Clowes, Jack Chick, Chris Ware, and dirty Mexican comics
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Eclectic Method's 8-bit Mixtape
— not particularly great music, but the visuals make it
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Vanity Fair's glimpse into the day in the life of the President
— long, must-read look at the insane complexity of today's political landscape
Lanyrd, social conference directory
— brilliantly executed social event discovery; it should be pronounced "La Nerd"
Copyrighting Fashion
— a new bill would subject fashion to copyright, but at what cost?
Tom Scott's Evil hack shows phone numbers exposed by Facebook users
— culled from public "lost my phone" groups
Unhear It
— replace one earworm with another
August 30, 2010
Stay Free's Illegal Art mix tape
— the files all moved here
Hark! A Vagrant's Nancy Drew covers
— previously: the Gorey covers
Markov chaining Kickstarter blurbs
— this also doubles as a Kickstarter project idea generator
Pomplamoose teams up with Ben Folds & Nick Hornby
— Hornby wrote all the lyrics for Folds' new album
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The Wilderness Downtown
— an HTML5 music video for Arcade Fire with some fun geo integration
August 29, 2010
Swarmation
— like musical chairs for pixels
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August 28, 2010
Disney remixes old cartoons into "Blam!"
— truly awful
August 27, 2010
PieLabPDX food cart makes customers play games to buy pie
— they had to win a game of Rock Scissors Paper to get their choice
Dirpy
— convert YouTube videos to MP3s with surprisingly deep transcoding options
Indie Game: The Movie interviews Adam Saltsman on Canabalt
— every one of these shorts gets me more excited for the full-length film
August 26, 2010
Jerry Stiller Unscripted
— an adorable encounter with the owners of the Costanza house
Members of Paramore, New Found Glory, and Relient K cover "Bed Intruder Song"
— the original broke the Billboard Top 100
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"Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan
— a better-written short story with a similar theme as "Where Am I?"
"Where Am I?" by Daniel Dennett
— short sci-fi story from 1978 about where consciousness resides
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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.