Waxy.org is the sandbox of If anyone out there can get me a guest pass into E3 or wants to loan me their own badge for the third day, please let me know. I'll happily take you out to lunch.
May 12, 2004: I'm all set for Friday! Thank you so much (you know who you are).
I'll Kiss Asses for E3 Passes
Posted May 6, 2004
March 12, 2010
8-Bit Austin
— I think I'll use this map to get to Datapop 2010
March 11, 2010
Preview of Sword & Sworcery EP for the iPhone
— looks unlike anything I've ever seen
Sitby.us
— essential iPhone-optimized site for SXSWi session planning
Danc on the release of Ribbon Hero
— turning Microsoft Office into a game, with competition against your friends
(via)
March 10, 2010
"Play" by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman
— avatars as Russian nested dolls
(via)
Chatroulette Map
— I think I'd rather not know, thanks
(via)
Steamshovel Harry
— not sure how I missed this one last year, metagaming with music by Brad Sucks
El Fin Del Mundo by Alberto González Vázquez
— there's so much I love about this, I can't quantify it all
(via)
March 9, 2010
Wired Reread, blogging the best ads from '90s-era Wired
— also, the complete SPIN archives are on Google Books
Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg perform Lazy Sunday live
— for the first time, backed by The Roots
Adam Savage's pursuit of the perfect Blade Runner gun replica
— related: his quest for the perfect replica Maltese Falcon and dodo skeleton
The Panic Status Board
— the instant feedback made work more game-like
March 8, 2010
Valve ports game library and Steam service to Mac
— Portal 2 will be released for Mac simultaneously with PC, along with "all of our future games"
Maciej Ceglowski on the discovery, loss, and rediscovery of the cure for scurvy
— fascinating story of bad science and the unintended effects of new information
March 7, 2010
8-Bit NYC, Brett Camper's videogame map of New York
— he's using Kickstarter to expand to 15 other cities worldwide
Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game
— watch the slideshow for details; I just wish it was on the web instead
Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency
— "Maybe I'll learn something."
PS22 Chorus sings Phoenix's Lisztomania
— I love how expressive they are
Echo Nest and SCHED's guide to SXSW Music
— very nicely done, uses Echo Nest's recommendation engine
GameInformer's Portal 2 exclusive cover story
— scans, since it's not on GameInformer's site yet; Valve hired the TAG: The Power of Paint team right out of Digipen
March 5, 2010
Cal Henderson on gaming probability in World of Warcraft
— he's collected 118 pets, some of which only drop 1 in 10,000 attempts
March 4, 2010
LiveJournal rewrites outbound links with affiliate codes
— looks like the regex was a bit greedy
NYT on Chinese "human-flesh search engines"
— very similar to the H+ article on the topic from last year
YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos
— a free, automated audio transcription service based on YouTube should be viable now
OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass"
— Rube Goldberg machine built by Synn Labs in Los Angeles
Roger Ebert starts subscription service
— $4.99 for a year, goes up to $5.00 on April 1
March 2, 2010
Yelp's official response to the business extortion accusation
— nicely lays out the case against the conspiracy theories
3:16 PM
It's been a dream of mine to go to E3, someday. Unfortunately, I'll have to time being in the area with mooching a pass somehow.
5:02 PM
Supposedly, I am getting a few passes from vendors. Drop me an email and if they come through, I'll get you one.
8:00 PM
For some unkown reason I got a pass to E3 last year. I'm only a simple network admin at an ISP in Louisiana, yet I got a pass. Of course I couldn't use it becasue I didn't have the funds to fly out and pay for a hotel, as I'm sure I won't this year. So if I happen to get another one this time consider it yours.
11:31 AM
If you get in, say hi to the Io guys who're over there and tell them to give me a raise ;)
2:54 PM
E3?! It's a freaking videogame convention. What's the matter with you? Eveyone knows real men go to Comicon dressed as Obi Juan Kenobi. Seriously though, be careful as conventions are cracking down on illicit badge trading. At the last convention I went to they took my picture at registration that subsequently popped up on a handheld when they scanned my badge at the door. Very creepy.
5:24 PM
This is the first year my company has not provided us with passes for friends (normally 10 or so per person). We did get our own badges, which I'm told I have to pick up at the convention center. This leads me to believe they're going to photograph me.
I don't know if this is E3 doing this, or our company just didn't get the passes this year, but it sucks.
1:13 PM
It's always been a dream of mine to go to E3, but I highly doubt I will this year as my network is hardly prestegious enough to be taken seriously by anyone.
9:03 PM
I am so still kicking myself for not going when I had the chance. So young! So foolish!
3:41 PM
Wait, 'Obi Juan Kenobi'? Please say that that's not a typo, because that's the funniest thing I've seen in months.
7:57 PM
I gotta say.. I'm cracking up over "obi jaun" too. Thanks for point that out Nick.
12:05 PM
WATCH OUT, E3 is taking dna samples to enable one to pick up badges this year......EEKS!!