Waxy.org is the sandbox of Upcoming.org Badges
Posted Sep 8, 2005
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
(via)
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
(via)
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
(via)
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
(via)
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
11:30 PM
very neat.
(however, this blog entry looks strange in bloglines since it's not rendering the badge, just:
"Upcoming.org Events
More of waxpancake's events")
11:40 PM
Yeah, Bloglines filters out Javascript from their feeds for security reasons.
5:32 AM
Very interesting addition to Upcoming. Just to hope that there would be more Finnish users...
12:37 PM
Very very cool, it took me a second to realize it wasn't a jpeg.
6:25 PM
Yeah, totally neat!
I was using a script to render my Upcoming RSS feed on my page, but I never quite got aronud to finishing it up. I suppose now I don't ahve to.
6:05 PM
Not sure if you were aware: upcoming.org is mentioned (only once, very briefly) in one of Robert Scoble's Channel Nine videos. Its the one about MS Virtual Earth at about minute 27 and change.
Second point re: linkblog. I love the Gilette Razor article. The Onion even predicted the double lotion strips.
3:21 PM
Totally awesome -- Now I have *NO* excuse not to use upcoming.org. Thanks Andy.
7:59 PM
Very nice Andy. I am excited to add it to my page.
I have alwys found others upcoming lists to be helpful.
This will be an immensly positive developement for upcoming.org.
8:22 PM
Definitely a good idea. And a great way to promote upcoming.org. This makes the site much more useful to me personally, as well.
1:56 PM
very neat indeed. this is one of the best ideas I've seen about *music networking*
8:39 PM
That's a cool feature. I think Yahoo is outdoing craigslist at their own game when it comes to this particular little calendar niche.
8:16 AM
Respect! That looks really cool.