Waxy.org is the sandbox of This morning, Eliot was constantly flailing his arms around while lying in his playpen. It reminded me of Stan, the used-boat salesman from the Secret of Monkey Island:
Yeah, I'm a geek.
Eliot's Previously Owned Vessels
Posted Nov 12, 2004
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
7:02 AM
Stan was a great guy. Hehe what a game!
7:20 AM
how appropriate....
7:50 AM
Now Eliot needs a mini-sombrero!
9:45 AM
Yeah, it does look like a sombrero. This history of Stan shows that the designers had some difficulty figuring out exactly what's on his head.
10:55 AM
how about making a video that people all over the world can add cool graphics to, and whatnot
11:52 AM
I'm not sure my wife would approve of a lightsaber remix of our baby videos.
12:04 PM
man taht was like the first game i ever played i need tod/l that somewhere
12:26 PM
"Danger, danger! My arms are flailing wildly!"
Random freak-outs are one of the best things about kids.
11:32 PM
real quick anyone know a site where i could d/l the game i remember it and the second one being packaged with a promo deal for pc gamer im sure they cant be that hard to find tried p2p and got nothin' thx
12:33 PM
Matt, you could try a site called The Underdogs (I won't post a link, it might be considered dodgy).
Haha, God I love Monkey. SCUMM was the best thing my 386 ever saw.
3:38 PM
You won't find it on the Underdogs, because Monkey Island was a smash hit. The Underdogs is only for games that fell beneath the radar, and deserved a wider audience.
The complete Monkey Island series is available for only $30 directly from LucasArts. Well worth the money.
4:16 PM
SoMI is my favorite game of all time. Its phenomenal sountrack still holds up. I should make a CD or something...
1:58 AM
"Guybrush Threepwood? What kind of name is that?"
"Well what's your name?"
"Mancomb Seepgood."
I'm pretty sure it's not a sombrero. Looks like a tri-cornered hat thems used to wear back in the ancient times of pirates and ninjas and whatnot.
5:13 AM
Actually, the Mac version is on The Underdogs. Here it is.
1:27 PM
Heh, your Stanimation goes well with track #4 of Hip Hoptera.
6:07 AM
Anothert Stanimation
10:09 AM
Yeah, Eliot needs a mini-sombrero!
4:26 PM
Awww this totally cracked me up (and wouldn't have, as much, four months ago). I know exactly what you mean! (OK, I'm a little behind on reading here, but y'know I've got a lot of arm flailing to keep up with.)
11:32 PM
Stan! haha, takes me back to my childhood... spent mindlessly playing video games
funny how somethings always stay the same...