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
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
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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
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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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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...