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 7, 2009
NYT visualizes the unemployment rate for different demographics
— 48.5% of young black men without a high school degree; 3.6% of college-educated white women over 25
November 6, 2009
Another World level ported to Javascript
— in other emulation news, a NES and Gameboy emulator in JS and SNES9x ported to Flash
(via)
Blocktronics' ANSI art tribute to RaDMaN
— powered by Viewtronics, Peter Nitsch's gorgeous new Flash 10 ANSI viewer
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Aaron Straup-Cope leaves Flickr, joins Stamen Design
— one of my favorite geeks joins one of my favorite companies
Unreal Engine 3 development kit now free for non-commercial use
— huge announcement, along with the recent free release of Unity Indie
The Big Picture's series on Martian landscapes
— Kai's Power Tools in real-life
(via)
November 5, 2009
Preview of McSweeney's Panorama, their one-shot newspaper
— as expected, looks incredibly great
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Birdhouse for Your Soul
— Greg Knauss finds one small piece of the historical web
Video montage of actors speaking the movie's title
— great comments with some missed opportunities; "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to The Taxi Driver?"
The Morning News' Cloud of Atlases
— impossible to guess, but look at all the pretty colors
American Airlines fires UX designer for explaining why their UX isn't great
— a lapse of judgment from both American Airlines and an employee who cared too much
November 4, 2009
Overheating, photo series of gadgets thrown through walls
— from issue 6 of Amusement, the incredible French gaming culture magazine
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Ricardo Autobahn's The Golden Age of Video
— insane pop culture video mashup
November 3, 2009
The Last Days of Gourmet
— sad photo series, reminds me of the dot-com carnage photos
Put This On
— first episode of Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor's Kickstarter-funded video series on clothing
Jono Bacon's The Art of Community released for free download under CC license
— looks fantastic and worth buying
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Eric Testroete's papercraft portrait Halloween costume
— incredibly creepy, like videogames leaking into the real world
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November 2, 2009
Mark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element
— told through annotated conversations from 1993
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Every vandalism edit to Nickelback's Wikipedia page
— I wonder which edits managed to stay in the longest without detection
November 1, 2009
Mike Pusateri's Halloween costume data collection
— for the fifth year, he's collected every costume name; this year, "nothing" spiked to #2
XKCD's movie narrative charts
— here's a more serious attempt at Primer's timeline
October 30, 2009
GameCity Squared's 15-Pixel Megamix
— extremely minimalist interpretations of 12 different games
October 29, 2009
Lauren McCarthy's Happiness Hat
— it measures your smile and stabs you if you're not smiling sufficiently
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October 28, 2009
Auto Tune de Nieuws
— needs an angry Dutch gorilla
Facebook prank memorializes living person
— the Facebook team should allow an email veto, or at least require better documentation
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2D Boy's pay-what-you-like World of Goo results wrapup
— don't miss the breakdown by OS and country
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FreeForm's short film on the Open Internet
— impressive set of interviewees, directed by Jesse Dylan of Yes We Can fame
Using Flickr as a paintbrush
— coloring overhead maps based on the dominant colors of photos taken on the ground
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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!!