Waxy.org is the sandbox of Upcoming.org Badges
Posted Sep 8, 2005
March 12, 2010
8-Bit Austin
— I think I'll use this map to get to Datapop 2010
March 11, 2010
Preview of Sword & Sworcery EP for the iPhone
— looks unlike anything I've ever seen
Sitby.us
— essential iPhone-optimized site for SXSWi session planning
Danc on the release of Ribbon Hero
— turning Microsoft Office into a game, with competition against your friends
(via)
March 10, 2010
"Play" by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman
— avatars as Russian nested dolls
(via)
Chatroulette Map
— I think I'd rather not know, thanks
(via)
Steamshovel Harry
— not sure how I missed this one last year, metagaming with music by Brad Sucks
El Fin Del Mundo by Alberto González Vázquez
— there's so much I love about this, I can't quantify it all
(via)
March 9, 2010
Wired Reread, blogging the best ads from '90s-era Wired
— also, the complete SPIN archives are on Google Books
Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg perform Lazy Sunday live
— for the first time, backed by The Roots
Adam Savage's pursuit of the perfect Blade Runner gun replica
— related: his quest for the perfect replica Maltese Falcon and dodo skeleton
The Panic Status Board
— the instant feedback made work more game-like
March 8, 2010
Valve ports game library and Steam service to Mac
— Portal 2 will be released for Mac simultaneously with PC, along with "all of our future games"
Maciej Ceglowski on the discovery, loss, and rediscovery of the cure for scurvy
— fascinating story of bad science and the unintended effects of new information
March 7, 2010
8-Bit NYC, Brett Camper's videogame map of New York
— he's using Kickstarter to expand to 15 other cities worldwide
Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game
— watch the slideshow for details; I just wish it was on the web instead
Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency
— "Maybe I'll learn something."
PS22 Chorus sings Phoenix's Lisztomania
— I love how expressive they are
Echo Nest and SCHED's guide to SXSW Music
— very nicely done, uses Echo Nest's recommendation engine
GameInformer's Portal 2 exclusive cover story
— scans, since it's not on GameInformer's site yet; Valve hired the TAG: The Power of Paint team right out of Digipen
March 5, 2010
Cal Henderson on gaming probability in World of Warcraft
— he's collected 118 pets, some of which only drop 1 in 10,000 attempts
March 4, 2010
LiveJournal rewrites outbound links with affiliate codes
— looks like the regex was a bit greedy
NYT on Chinese "human-flesh search engines"
— very similar to the H+ article on the topic from last year
YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos
— a free, automated audio transcription service based on YouTube should be viable now
OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass"
— Rube Goldberg machine built by Synn Labs in Los Angeles
Roger Ebert starts subscription service
— $4.99 for a year, goes up to $5.00 on April 1
March 2, 2010
Yelp's official response to the business extortion accusation
— nicely lays out the case against the conspiracy theories
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.