Waxy.org is the sandbox of Upcoming.org Badges
Posted Sep 8, 2005
September 1, 2010
First details on Telltale's episodic Back to the Future game emerge
— they also secured rights to make games based on Jurassic Park
Cee Lo Green's official video for F**K YOU
— even better than the typography video, I'm perfectly content to have this song stuck in my head 24/7
Slate interviews Innocence Project cofounder about false convictions
— over 250 people have been freed by new DNA evidence, many of them with false confessions
Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel for the iPhone/iPad
— impressive tech demo, now available for free
GameSetWatch covers Assembly 2010's PC demo contest
— if you have the hardware, I highly recommend trying out the two winners yourself
Apple announces Ping, a social network built into iTunes
— their first foray into social, finally; seems inevitable that app/location/TV/music sharing will follow
August 31, 2010
All four issues of Daniel Raeburn's The Imp available for free download
— highly recommended, covers Daniel Clowes, Jack Chick, Chris Ware, and dirty Mexican comics
(via)
Eclectic Method's 8-bit Mixtape
— not particularly great music, but the visuals make it
(via)
Vanity Fair's glimpse into the day in the life of the President
— long, must-read look at the insane complexity of today's political landscape
Lanyrd, social conference directory
— brilliantly executed social event discovery; it should be pronounced "La Nerd"
Copyrighting Fashion
— a new bill would subject fashion to copyright, but at what cost?
Tom Scott's Evil hack shows phone numbers exposed by Facebook users
— culled from public "lost my phone" groups
Unhear It
— replace one earworm with another
August 30, 2010
Stay Free's Illegal Art mix tape
— the files all moved here
Hark! A Vagrant's Nancy Drew covers
— previously: the Gorey covers
Markov chaining Kickstarter blurbs
— this also doubles as a Kickstarter project idea generator
Pomplamoose teams up with Ben Folds & Nick Hornby
— Hornby wrote all the lyrics for Folds' new album
(via)
The Wilderness Downtown
— an HTML5 music video for Arcade Fire with some fun geo integration
August 29, 2010
Swarmation
— like musical chairs for pixels
(via)
August 28, 2010
Disney remixes old cartoons into "Blam!"
— truly awful
August 27, 2010
PieLabPDX food cart makes customers play games to buy pie
— they had to win a game of Rock Scissors Paper to get their choice
Dirpy
— convert YouTube videos to MP3s with surprisingly deep transcoding options
Indie Game: The Movie interviews Adam Saltsman on Canabalt
— every one of these shorts gets me more excited for the full-length film
August 26, 2010
Jerry Stiller Unscripted
— an adorable encounter with the owners of the Costanza house
Members of Paramore, New Found Glory, and Relient K cover "Bed Intruder Song"
— the original broke the Billboard Top 100
(via)
"Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan
— a better-written short story with a similar theme as "Where Am I?"
"Where Am I?" by Daniel Dennett
— short sci-fi story from 1978 about where consciousness resides
(via)
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.