Waxy.org is the sandbox of Inspired by the recent wave of Disney attractions adapted into full-length films, here's an exclusive look at the next three movies in the series.
New Disney Rides-to-Movies
Posted Jul 10, 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
11:21 AM
:) LOL
11:31 AM
NICE.
can't wait for gift shop, the movie.
cause, really, that's what it's all about anyway.
1:57 PM
Phwee! I'm blowing the whistle on one count of BoingBoing pandering.
2:12 PM
Funny. Very damned funny.
I wonder if the plot of "Monorail" will be anything like the late 70's thriller "Rollercoaster."
2:38 PM
Nice. Made me laugh.
5:23 PM
[this is good]
I'm blowing the whistle on one count of Anil pandering.
8:33 PM
"Autotopia" is totally going to rock...
1:08 AM
Next thing you know they'll do a Swiss Family Robinson film! Crazy! Seriously, Epcot fans out there will likely join me in anticipating the arrival of Kraft Foods Presents: The Land: The Movie.
12:38 AM
No "Overpriced Concession Stand" or "The Man in the Droopy Dwarf Mask"?
3:09 PM
...isn't there already a Swiss Family Robinson film? It was made in 1960 and starred, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk. Nice try though, "Christian."
11:23 AM
I find the idea of an Autopia movie strangely intriguing...
--m4
11:24 AM
oops, and I didn't even see that "Captain EO" poster the first time around...
...the inner geek in me screamed out "Who drew thaT? Howard Chaykin or Brian Stelfreeze?"
--m4