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
November 18, 2008
Bike Hero, biking a Guitar Hero level in the real world
— most likely a commercial viral, and maybe even fake, but does it matter? beyond awesome
Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy
— mostly posting this just to beat Rex to it
The A.V. Club's 27 popular websites that became books
— though they missed Belle de Jour, The Washingtonienne, Fucked Company, Fark, and ZUG
Speed Guitar goes to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
— every hour, on the hour, for one solid minute of metal complete with gothic arch and smoke machine
MGMT's "Kids" on the iPhone Ocarina
— "the iPhone Ocarina officially replaces the recorder as the nerdiest instrument I can play"
Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation
— my favorite was Space Mountain Snob
LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google
— millions of high-res photos, most never published
Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN
— very complementary with S3
November 17, 2008
John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the Long Winters perform "Tonight You Belong to Me"
— "Thank you, normal-sized man."
Jerry Yang stepping down from Yahoo's CEO post
— it never really fit him well, though I'll miss his e.e. cummings memos
Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch
— no, raunchy photos don't accidentally attach themselves to outbound email
Greasemonkey script to pull WikiDashboard visualization into Wikipedia
— I made a LazyWeb plea for this last week, and Paul Irish came through
Lee Byron's Fireflies, anaglyph 3D game for Mac
— part of Kokoromi's Gamma 3D showcase of anaglyph games
Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles
— read Tom Taylor's entry for more information
Cooking Mama, the Unauthorized PETA Edition
— a strangely obscure target for their attention, with a petition to write to the game's publisher
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Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld
— good writing in a nice design from Brandon Boyer, former news editor of Gamasutra
"Violet" wins the Interactive Fiction Comp 2008
— play it online; glancing at the charts, it looks like Buried in Shoes was the most divisive
Trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel
— looks surprisingly good, but I'm a sucker for origin stories; I even liked Enterprise
What would Depression 2009 look like?
— Tim sums up the thought-provoking Boston Globe article
The Pirate Bay hits 25 million simultaneous peers
— that's not unique people, but concurrent connections; Napster peaked at 26M users
Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app
— related: Chasing Ghosts will finally be released on BitTorrent Showtime in December
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The Big Picture on the California wildfires
— also: first-person coverage on Twitter and YouTube, like this freeway on fire and aftermath
Tim-Tams available at Target until March, first time available in the U.S.
— best chocolate cookies ever, the Tim Tam Slam is a chocolaty revelation
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JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash
— through a hack, it even works in IE 6
November 14, 2008
Esquire's hosting Between, the new two-player networked game by Jason Rohrer
— from the creator of Passage
"What's that buzzing noise from my BBQ?"
— he thought he was killing a few bees, but ends up annihilating an entire colony
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November 13, 2008
Kottke explains how to embed high-quality YouTube videos
— I knew how to save, link, and change the default, but the embedding hack was new to me
Web 2.0 Origami
— lazyweb, please build a converter that creates folding patterns from an uploaded image
Pixar's Burn-E short on YouTube
— here's an interview with the director
Valleywag folded into Gawker, all but Owen Thomas laid off
— I won't miss it; they hurt a lot of good people and interesting projects in the quest for pageviews
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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!!