Star Wars Kid, Redux
Posted May 22, 2006
(Updated Dec 4, 2008)
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
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Eclectic Method's 8-bit Mixtape
— not particularly great music, but the visuals make it
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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
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The Wilderness Downtown
— an HTML5 music video for Arcade Fire with some fun geo integration
August 29, 2010
Swarmation
— like musical chairs for pixels
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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
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"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
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Waxy.org is the sandbox of 
10:31 PM
I love it. The same zest as the original, but now with a better GUI and more data-destroying potential.
1:11 AM
Oh, mathowie, you lovable scamp.
1:38 PM
Ahhh-hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
2:07 PM
Heheheheh
8:06 PM
HA!
5:33 PM
I thought thishadto do with the SWK getting an iBook.
4:47 AM
Haha! Reminds me of the scene from Arrested Development.
3:31 PM
Ok that is just stupid ok and what is he doing ok this is VEREY VEREY VEREY STUPID!!!!!!!! ok buh-byes and so long
11:04 PM
What the hell? Is this an ad for how tough the ibook is, or is this somebody that has kidnapped an ibook and showing it being abused?!?!?!
4:05 PM
So, in memory of a fallen former cow-orker, I'm featuring the Waxy.org links blog as one of our top picks this week (not like you need the recognition from me, or anything, but still).
Anyway, Bob (that being his name) really liked the original SW kid video, so I thought that posting a comment to this followup entry was kind of fitting.
Thanks -- Joe
1:54 PM
how is ghyslain?
did u ever find out what he did with the money?
i love him even tho i dont know him, i would love to have a chat with him sometime even though he is 30 something! lol i know i'm strange
8:38 PM
That guy is a classic.
He should get girlfriend....