September 2004 - Waxy.org

September 30, 2004

Mount St. Helens' insect overloads — mmm, underground sugar caves #

Why I'm not posting many links — their crappy rooms have no Internet access; light posting until Friday #

Top 10 Secrets about the Presidential Debates — both parties are to blame for this comspiracy to suppress real debate (via) #

Tribe.net goes local — for example, here's Los Angeles #

September 29, 2004

Cachelogic's survey of P2P network traffic — BitTorrent by far the biggest; P2P traffic far outpaces web traffic #

September 28, 2004

Girlhacker has a baby! — welcome, little Babyhacker (via) #

Cockeyed's TGI Fridays menu prank — one Bacon Churner and an Atkinz Soda, please #

The Internet's Most Accurate English-to-English Dictionary — now with support for three new languages! (via) #

Ask Mefi on skitter scatters, ghosts, and auras — very odd thread about a 6-year-old girl who sees strange things (via) #

University professors gathering students in Second Life — I highly recommend the free trial #

Boogah interviews Eric Kleptone — the Waxy shout-out left me blushing #

HR 4077 bill passed the House — bill proposes up to 5 years of jail for sharing 1,000 songs or one unreleased album #

Invisible Train, multiplayer augmented reality game for the PocketPC — watch the video to see the virtual trains running on real tracks #

Bloglines announces web services, sync support for other feedreaders — huge news; FeedDemon now supports it and NetNewsWire support is coming soon (via) #

Sony PSP to retail for $349? — update: it was a hoax #

Flickr slideshow of U2's "Vertigo" — wait for the images and hold the spacebar to flipall the frames #

Escher for Real — 3D printed models of Escher artwork (via) #

Tomas on the crazy juice in his hometown — take me to the river, drop me in the water #

Evil JPEG virus in the wild — tons of info, including the FTP site it connects to and the image itself #

September 27, 2004

Jeremy on new My Yahoo beta — very well designed, with RSS everywhere (via) #

Flash charts with PHP — easier than working with GD::Graph, and sexier too (via) #

Audio: Engadget has the breast-enhancing ringtone MP3 — it sounds very butt rock (via) #

Bontago, multiplayer Jenga-ish strategy game — it was a winner in last year's IGF (via) #

Conan to replace Leno on The Tonight Show — ...in the year 2009 (via) #

Lindows office building letters on eBay — looks like a job for the Anagram Server (via) #

Cornelius is Joi Ito's second cousin — lovely photo of them on Flickr #

Rex's thoughts on game culture intersecting with other media #

MTV2's "Video Mods," music videos portrayed by video games — machinima goes mainstream, watch the clips (via) #

Black Magic, virtual reality pop-up books — the handheld viewers look like a modern take on stereoscopes (via) #

September 26, 2004

Dance Dance Revolution fan fiction — the rest of the Games category at FanFiction.net is fascinating, too (via) #

Image: Star Wars Battlefront game lets you kill Jar-Jar Binks — and the Ewoks, too #

September 25, 2004

Annotated recipes on Flickr — like Cooking for Engineers, a new approach to an old genre (via) #

Del.icio.us extension for Firefox — two great tastes that go great together (via) #

Annenberg survey finds Daily Show viewers far more politically aware — also: of the 83 jokes surveyed, he targeted Bush and Kerry equally (via) #

George draws parallels between the Kryptonite lock scandal and the DMCA — this is an excellent read #

Esther Dyson invests in Flickr — great to see them get the support (via) #

Technorati passes 4 million blogs — I wonder how many of those are from Livejournal's 1.8M active sites #

September 24, 2004

First screenshots of Wario Ware 2 (via) #

Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, huge walking kinetic sculptures — the videos are unbelievable, like a real-life Sodaplay (via) #

CBS adventure race contestant killed by 300-pound boulder — the first reality show fatality? (via) #

Bootable Goatse rescue floppy — make copies and put them in Best Buy PCs (via) #

Fable's first-week game sales beat Sky Captain's box office — it sold 375,000 games for an $18.7 million gross (via) #

Fascinating article on Second Life's economy and entrepreneurs by a Linden Labs VP — a must-read for both the uninitiated and experienced users (via) #

TiddlyWiki — neat UI, but a novelty until saving changes is fixed (via) #

MIT creating a spinach-powered computer (via) #

OJR on political coverage on Google News and Yahoo News — they claim Google's system favors conservative sources (via) #

September 23, 2004

Image: Sim playing "The Sims" in "The Sims 2" — very meta (via) #

MetaVNC, a window-aware VNC client — as in the screenshot, makes your remote Linux desktop transparent within Windows XP/2000 (via) #

Image: Nice hat! — Google Images is great for serendipity #

Emusic relaunches — $9.99/month for 40 DRM-free MP3s (via) #