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
May 15, 2012
Austin Seraphin on learning echolocation
— he's a real-life Daredevil
Mat Honan's feature on Yahoo's mismanagement of Flickr
— a depressing read, especially while seeing the team release great new features
May 14, 2012
Make interviews Bunnie Huang on the end of Chumby
— sad end to a promising product, I received one of the prototypes at Foo Camp in 2006
Rebecca Sugar's Singles
— file under: scenarios I'd like to play in a videogame
SMBC on hell
— sounds about right
OAuth Is Your Future
— Dan Hon snaps some screenshots from the near future
May 13, 2012
Fracuum
— winner of Ludum Dare 23; every winner is worth playing
May 11, 2012
Welcome to Life
— "the Singularity, ruined by lawyers"
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BusinessWeek on the post-Kickstarter life of Diaspora
— the founders talk about the Ilya's tragic suicide for the first time
Anachronism detection in Mad Men episodes
— language studies from the person who did the frequency analysis for Downtown Abbey
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Verge feature on Scamworld, the inside look at Internet scams
— incredibly deep investigation and short film, brilliantly made
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Hartverdrahtet
— amazing 4k intro from the PC demoscene
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Mike Birbiglia's short film from This American Life
— starring Fresh Air's Terry Gross
Chris Poole's talk on the shifting meme landscape at ROFLCon
— the shift away from interest-based web communities towards social networks
Robot butt that represents emotions
— I'm hoping someone turns this into a drone
May 10, 2012
Gina Trapani on the failings of "brogrammer" culture
— holy hell, the comments are awful
Dustin Curtis on pixel fitting rasterized vector images
— best explanation of a long-standing issue I've seen
Mitt Romney bullied gay students in high school
— people change, just so long as he takes ownership of his actions; oh, wait
Walt Disney's Taxi Driver
— the scene starting at 3:45 is like a parallel universe remake of Roger Rabbit
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Ben Jackson on memes, the Internet, and the divine
— "The memes we choose to elevate to Internet fame are the product of the purest form of democracy ever invented"
May 9, 2012
Recursive Drawing
— watch the video or it won't make any sense
The Forger
— for fans of Kutiman's ThruYOU, found footage beat mashups from Meat Beat Manifesto's Jack Dangers
May 8, 2012
Steve Albini AMA on Reddit
— "There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me"
Maurice Sendak, rest in peace
— goodnight, Max
May 7, 2012
Tinkercad
— amazing WebGL CAD designer that prints to Makerbot, Shapeways, and Ponoko
Mechanizing a miniature Main Street Electrical Parade
— wonderful attention to detail; watch the finished parade
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LA Times on American Airlines' attempt to revoke its all-you-can-fly passes
— the company regretted its short-sighted decision to offer lifetime first-class travel
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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...