Waxy.org is the sandbox of I just received an e-mail with the subject line "Shock and Awe." Turns out, it's unsolicited spam advertising a gross-out porn site called freakview.com. Spammers seem to be adjusting to wartime nicely.
Shock and Awe Spam
Posted Mar 21, 2003
November 20, 2009
Regretsy gets a book deal
— the anonymous author turned out to be April Winchell, collector of audio oddities
Google Chrome OS Demo
— a world without a local filesystem and apps; also, the Chrome UI concept video
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Patrick Moberg's Internet Vices
— funny, Tumblr feels more like beer than wine to me
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's "Heaven Can Wait"
— Keith Schofield's surreal video and insane treatment were inspired by FFFFOUND and Reddit, but maybe too explicitly
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November 19, 2009
YouTube adds machine-translated automatic captions
— starting with some partner channels, but auto-timing is available to everyone today
Microsoft tries to patent Edward Tufte's sparklines
— they were recently added to Excel
Leonard Lin's Retweet Avatars for Greasemonkey
— a subtle change, but a big improvement
Web-ops god John Allspaw leaves Flickr to join Etsy
— he's the last of the original Ludicorp team to go
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November 18, 2009
Laptop Steering Wheel Desk
— don't miss the product photos
Interview with Ralph Eggleston, Pixar's production designer on WALL-E
— from last February, but new to me; I didn't know the Axiom had three passenger classes
NSFW: Animated pixel-art video for Flair's "Trucker's Delight"
— warning: very offensive and sexist, but the attention to 16-bit detail by director Jérémie Perin is incredible
NY Observer on Anil Dash's new government 2.0 incubator project
— Expert Labs debuted at Web 2.0 today, funded with a $500k grant from the MacArthur Foundation
November 17, 2009
Google's Dan Morrill explains how the Droid autofocus breaks every 24.5 days
— this gets second-place for quirkiest Android bug
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Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter on Zach Galifianakis' Between Two Ferns
— his style of comedy usually makes me uncomfortable, but this made me laugh
The Pirate Bay shuts down their tracker for good
— they're switching to DHT instead
November 16, 2009
How Darren at Link Machine Go found Belle de Jour's identity five years ago
— Brooke was part of the early UK blog scene
ICU64, real-time visualization of Commodore 64 memory
— the developer also posted videos of Paradroid and Boulder Dash
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Russell Davies on pretending and "barely games"
— his SAP prototype looks like great ambient fun
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NYT Magazine on the indie gaming movement
— nothing new here, but good overview with a wonderful closing anecdote from Cactus
Tim O'Reilly on the pending War for the Web
— "more than that, it's a war against the web as an interoperable platform"
November 14, 2009
Jason Scott rounds up Geocities' top 10 most popular MIDI files
— along with a torrent with 51,000 MIDIs rescued by Archive Team
Matt Haughey on the discovery of his brain tumor, treatment, and the Internet's response
— there were about 1,000 #mathowielove tweets in 24 hours
Belle de Jour reveals herself after six year of anonymity
— only six people in the world knew, she only told her parents yesterday
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Paul F. Tompkins debates comedy ethics with Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd
— great discussion, and it's hard not to see where both are coming from
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November 13, 2009
Rogue Amoeba stops iPhone app development after App Store idiocy
— I'm with Marco, the only fix is allowing external apps, but it's unlikely
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Numb3rs on IRC
— "Luckily, I speak l33t."
Prank War 8: The Skydiving Prank
— hard to say if life-threatening situations are funnier than public humiliation
301 Works, Internet Archive works to preserve URL shortener data
— the shorteners will provide regular backups and hand over data on closure, though TinyURL's conspicuously missing
November 12, 2009
Quizipedia
— simple game with trivia scraped from Wikipedia entries
Kill Screen, funding a new art magazine about videogames
— sounds like the English analogue of Amusement I was hoping for
2:46 PM
How funny. I received one with the subject "Suck Bush." Like an idiot, I fell for it. Let's just say it wasn't about the president.
5:38 PM
I got one for gas masks.
8:24 AM
I've probably been getting this sort of crap lately. I get all the other spam that goes around. Thank go for Mozilla's new junk mail filtering!!
2:09 PM
I received one claiming to come from "ABC News" with the subject being "Breaking News: Saddam Captured". Like your examples, it was a spam, this time for Anime & hentai porn. You gotta give 'em points for being clever.
Well, on second thought, maybe not.