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
February 8, 2012
Double Fine's Kickstarter project to make a new point-and-click adventure
— best project video ever; I backed it so hard
What Popular iPhone/Android Apps Know/Transmit About You
— ignore the awful visualization and skip to the table; Angry Birds sends your contacts to third parties!?
Path apologizes, deletes user address books
— they never should've done it in the first place, but this is the right way to handle it
BBC tracks down an Internet troll
— as the Daily Dot points out, he's more of a racist asshole than a troll
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February 7, 2012
PressPausePlay
— stylish documentary on the digital media revolution of the last decade
February 6, 2012
Restored Disneyland footage from 1957
— only open for two years in this video
Robot readable world
— found footage from machine-vision tests
February 3, 2012
February 2, 2012
How and why Mark Jaquith became an atheist
— gripping personal story of the life-affirming shift from faith to evidence
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Where's the Pixel?
— find and click on the black pixel; you may need to clean your screen first
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ARTINFO on the chilling effect of the Prince v. Cariou copyright ruling
— the journalist mentions me and Kind of Bloop
January 31, 2012
Nano quadrotors flying in formation
— don't miss the figure 8 pattern at the end
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Bootstrap 2 released
— here's the announcement
Jeff Atwood on the risks of unmoderated communities
— left to their own devices, popular online communities get taken over by cheap, easy gags
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How and why J.D. Roth sold Get Rich Slowly
— interesting tale of a founder selling his site, but unable to share the details for years
Yahoo lays off in-house Flickr support team
— from what I hear, it was done with 10 minutes' notice to Flickr management
Mapstalgia
— videogame maps drawn from memory
January 30, 2012
Shit Programmers Say
— strikingly similar to Shit Rocks Say
Impressions of Corporate Logos by a 5-Year-Old
— "a cheetah, a cheetah, a cheetah"
Bellbot
— web app that beeps when you get new signups or sales
ScratchML
— markup language for recording and replaying turntablism
Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
— nice piece of Quora fiction
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David Carr on Kickstarter's film funding at Sundance
— 10% of the festival was funded on Kickstarter, with two optioned by HBO
Why ten-year attendee Mike Pusateri's skipping SXSW this year
— I made the same decision to skip this year; I may regret it, but it just wasn't fun last year
MegaUpload's user data set to be destroyed by Friday
— collateral damage in the copyright war
Blogging declines across the Inc. 500
— too bad; Twitter and Facebook aren't a replacement for longer-form communication
January 29, 2012
January 27, 2012
Identifying Ice Cube's "Good Day"
— process of elimination
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.