Waxy.org is the sandbox of My baby boy turns one year old today. Wow, what a difference a year makes:
Happy birthday, Eliot!
Happy Birthday, Eliot!
Posted Jun 9, 2005
(Updated Jan 16, 2009)
November 20, 2009
Regretsy gets a book deal
— the anonymous author turned out to be April Winchell, collector of audio oddities
Google Chrome OS Demo
— a world without a local filesystem and apps; also, the Chrome UI concept video
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Patrick Moberg's Internet Vices
— funny, Tumblr feels more like beer than wine to me
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's "Heaven Can Wait"
— Keith Schofield's surreal video and insane treatment were inspired by FFFFOUND and Reddit, but maybe too explicitly
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November 19, 2009
YouTube adds machine-translated automatic captions
— starting with some partner channels, but auto-timing is available to everyone today
Microsoft tries to patent Edward Tufte's sparklines
— they were recently added to Excel
Leonard Lin's Retweet Avatars for Greasemonkey
— a subtle change, but a big improvement
Web-ops god John Allspaw leaves Flickr to join Etsy
— he's the last of the original Ludicorp team to go
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November 18, 2009
Laptop Steering Wheel Desk
— don't miss the product photos
Interview with Ralph Eggleston, Pixar's production designer on WALL-E
— from last February, but new to me; I didn't know the Axiom had three passenger classes
NSFW: Animated pixel-art video for Flair's "Trucker's Delight"
— warning: very offensive and sexist, but the attention to 16-bit detail by director Jérémie Perin is incredible
NY Observer on Anil Dash's new government 2.0 incubator project
— Expert Labs debuted at Web 2.0 today, funded with a $500k grant from the MacArthur Foundation
November 17, 2009
Google's Dan Morrill explains how the Droid autofocus breaks every 24.5 days
— this gets second-place for quirkiest Android bug
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Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter on Zach Galifianakis' Between Two Ferns
— his style of comedy usually makes me uncomfortable, but this made me laugh
The Pirate Bay shuts down their tracker for good
— they're switching to DHT instead
November 16, 2009
How Darren at Link Machine Go found Belle de Jour's identity five years ago
— Brooke was part of the early UK blog scene
ICU64, real-time visualization of Commodore 64 memory
— the developer also posted videos of Paradroid and Boulder Dash
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Russell Davies on pretending and "barely games"
— his SAP prototype looks like great ambient fun
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NYT Magazine on the indie gaming movement
— nothing new here, but good overview with a wonderful closing anecdote from Cactus
Tim O'Reilly on the pending War for the Web
— "more than that, it's a war against the web as an interoperable platform"
November 14, 2009
Jason Scott rounds up Geocities' top 10 most popular MIDI files
— along with a torrent with 51,000 MIDIs rescued by Archive Team
Matt Haughey on the discovery of his brain tumor, treatment, and the Internet's response
— there were about 1,000 #mathowielove tweets in 24 hours
Belle de Jour reveals herself after six year of anonymity
— only six people in the world knew, she only told her parents yesterday
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Paul F. Tompkins debates comedy ethics with Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd
— great discussion, and it's hard not to see where both are coming from
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November 13, 2009
Rogue Amoeba stops iPhone app development after App Store idiocy
— I'm with Marco, the only fix is allowing external apps, but it's unlikely
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Numb3rs on IRC
— "Luckily, I speak l33t."
Prank War 8: The Skydiving Prank
— hard to say if life-threatening situations are funnier than public humiliation
301 Works, Internet Archive works to preserve URL shortener data
— the shorteners will provide regular backups and hand over data on closure, though TinyURL's conspicuously missing
November 12, 2009
Quizipedia
— simple game with trivia scraped from Wikipedia entries
Kill Screen, funding a new art magazine about videogames
— sounds like the English analogue of Amusement I was hoping for
4:45 PM
wow, what a cutie :D half-elf!
5:02 PM
Yay! What a great looking kid! Happy birthday Mr. E.
5:04 PM
[Me reaching out my finger and pointing at the screen]: El-i-ot? Friend.
congrats!
5:08 PM
Wow, is right. He looks like a grown man. Happy B-day and good luck.
5:21 PM
My nephews 1st was a few months ago. Just wait until they start learning phrases that you don't remember teaching them.
5:23 PM
Excellent second pic. My second nephew was born on Monday, my first nephew will be a year old in about 2 months.
5:28 PM
Pass on my Happy Birthday wishes! And yes, what a difference after a year.
5:34 PM
Nice picture.
6:12 PM
Aww, that is an adorable pic. Happy birthday to him!
6:28 PM
Happy Birthday, Eliot!!!
6:34 PM
What? No blog yet?
6:35 PM
Congrats! And just wait, pretty soon you'll have a 14 yr old soon to be graduating 8th grade and wondering where all the years went by!
7:26 PM
Awww - so cute. Happy B-Day Eliot.
7:31 PM
what a cute kid!
8:05 PM
They grow up so fast. I hear. Yay!
8:17 PM
adorable! happy birthday, eliot!
9:37 PM
Happy b-day Eliot.
9:40 PM
Happy Birthday, Eliot! That second pic is priceless.
10:26 PM
It's been a year already? Time flies...
12:47 AM
He's a cute kid, and has a bunch of hair.
My son is 7 1/2 months and barely has any. In fact, Elliot had more hair when he was born than my son has now.
4:16 AM
I'm expecting my first in a couple of weeks. Its amazing what 1 year will do. I'm looking forward to it.
5:03 AM
Wow.. what a cute boy! Is he like you? But I am sure Eliot is more handsome... :)
5:42 AM
Teach him to blog. Ha! Ha! Ha!
7:21 AM
Happy Birthday, Eliot!
9:06 AM
Happy Birthday Eliot, you cute lil guy!
9:51 AM
Happy birthday Eliot!
10:22 AM
Yay, congratulations.
12:52 PM
Happy B to E!
4:33 PM
happy birthday E !
great pic
6:37 PM
As someone has said, "Babies are a great way to make people." Congratulations! He's awesome!
6:57 PM
Oh my god
Cutest! Baby! Ever!
If he ever disappears,know that we're safe and happy together in South America somewhere.
8:38 PM
waxybaby.org is available for the baby-blogger :)
8:47 PM
Andy, you have the cutest kid I have ever seen in my so-far-short existence. Hope he grows up to be just like his dad! ;)
3:26 AM
Excellent picture at 1 year. Happy Birthday, Eliot!
4:54 AM
Now *that* is a cool looking kid.
8:47 PM
so dang adorable, you should make more. Clearly, you have a knack for it!
8:58 AM
Congratulations! My second son was just born the day before! June 8th at 4:25pm. 3 weeks early. The roller coaster just got a little wilder.
9:05 AM
To clarify, he was just born a few days ago - so 1 year later.
12:04 PM
Adorable! Great picture.
9:28 PM
congrats kid, happy birthday, nice shot
11:44 AM
WOW! What a nice looking lad :)
Happy Birthday!!!
3:54 PM
wow how cute!
2:47 PM
cute just cute!!
All the best!!!
7:27 PM
That there is a REALLY FRICKIN CUTE baby. This comes from someone who believes in ugly babies.
1:46 AM
Hahaha I see your son is also a member of the way too much wacky hair club. I think it gives him super powers or something.
Adorable.
7:27 PM
A little late, but happy birthday Eliot! Love the expression on his face in the second picture.
7:49 AM
Totally late, but happy belated birthday Eliot! What a cutie!
11:29 AM
that is heaven, isn't it? To just be around such pure joy. Happy Birthday!
9:07 AM
Super! Happy belated birthday to him! He's beautiful.
11:10 AM
that's one adorable little boy!
3:06 AM
Happy birthday Eliot. Grammy loves you.
7:08 AM
aww now he is too cute!
just wait a couple more years when he enters that "not baby-all boy" thing. enjoy this time!
5:12 PM
Nice! My boy turned 8 this last week. Nothing like it.
8:24 PM
What a beautiful boy.
3:49 PM
I am gonna steal him.
or maybe just his picture.
3:59 AM
happy birthday he's so cute
happy happy happy ... @^-^@
10:43 PM
Wowww!
So cutie!
:-*
12:27 AM
The boy is so cute.
4:24 PM
That is the cutest kid I've ever seen
6:03 AM
and good picture well taken good frameing
Mike
12:34 PM
what a cute little boy
12:34 PM
what a cute little boy
3:19 AM
that is the cutest kid ever!
10:02 AM
holy crap that is the sweetest kid I've ever seen. Did you genetically engineer him to look like that? Happy birthday!
5:25 AM
amazing eyes , your boy's really cute!Happy birthday!
6:10 AM
soooooo late but such a cutie!!