Waxy.org is the sandbox of I started this blog five years ago today with a basic idea: keep it original and keep it relevant. Unfortunately, I left out "keep it updated." As you can probably tell, Waxy is taking the back seat these days to other priorities, namely work and family. (I don't even have the time to weed out comment spam.) I terribly miss the quirky form of investigative reporting I used to do and I certainly miss spending more time exploring the backroads of the web. I promise I'll be back. In the meantime, the infrequent updates continue. Happy birthday, little blog!
Five Years of Waxy
Posted Apr 14, 2007
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
(via)
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
(via)
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
5:39 PM
Happy Birthday, Waxy.org
It's always a pleasure reading your blog, Andy. :)
6:37 PM
a little less yahooing and more waxy!
10:13 PM
5 years is a long time.
10:42 PM
Happy Blogday!
12:39 AM
Happy birthday Waxy.org...can't wait for you to find more time for blogging again. In the meantime we still have waxy links.
1:12 AM
A mention by waxy means a torrent of interest. People know quality. Keep it going!
6:29 AM
my site's been up for the same amount of time too.
I'm updating mine less and less lately...and it seems just like a cost to me now...I'm really thinking about just auctioning it off and handing the keys to the hosting to someone else. Sad but I just don't spend all that much time on the net doing anything constructive these days...a generic run-of-the-mill funny video and pic site.
10:26 AM
Why not allow a few close friends who also have an eye for intriguing pages and stories contribute to waxy links in order to keep the spirit of the blog alive? Just a thought.
1:56 PM
Maybe a redesign is in order. The links are still updated regularly, but they're relegated to a sidebar. Kottke, for instance, just puts all the stuff in one column, and it doesn't feel like the front page is old just content. Then you can sidebar the articles, so they are easy to find.
3:42 PM
Oh, don't worry. I have big plans. They're just going to have to wait a while until things settle down.
11:01 PM
Congratulations!
I still subscribe to you, even if you take months to post. Do your thing man!
11:26 PM
Just do what you need to do, little buddy. We'll be here when you're up and running again!
Happy anniversary!
3:31 PM
Congrats. Also: beware the path of updates about a lack of updates. It does not end well.
4:00 PM
Take as long as you want -- my feedreader will still catch ya. And congrats on 5 years :-)
4:17 PM
Hey Andy, grats! Nice work. Always a pleasure cuz u have uncommon topics
9:01 PM
That's OK we still love you for the links. Always fresh!
8:24 PM
I remember when I shut down for a while and you yelled at me. I won't do the same. Heh.
Bring! Waxy! Back!
1:22 PM
Bring back ascii art!
er Waxy.. yes bring that back too ya Fink.
Teal
1:05 PM
Happy birthday! (or is an anniversary?) Your original rules are still great and I try to run my site by them except I every now and again give into #2.
4:48 AM
I'm glad you're packing not all in; I started reading your post there and thought it was a 'farewell' to blogging or something like that. Hurry back to posting. And Happy Birthday!
3:18 AM
Waxy - I am not sure you realise that you are your own brand through this blog. And its a brand more powerful than I think you realise. I agree with the fourth poster - less yahooing - more waxy. I reckon the rewards will follow.
3:21 AM
Waxy - I am not sure you realise that you are your own brand through this blog. And its a brand more powerful than I think you realise. I agree with the fourth poster - less yahooing - more waxy. I reckon the rewards will follow.
6:29 AM
Congratulations!! Five years are really a long time in the online world. Keep up writing articles for the next five years.
6:04 AM
I don't think regular updates are nessecary for a good blog! And your blog is a good one!
6:07 AM
I don't think regular updates are nessecary for a good blog! And your blog is a good one!
9:38 PM
OH, man, you have made my day, ages ago I watched the Nutragrain I feel great commercial. Then I lost it, then I found your site and bookmarked it. I still occasionally open the link and watch it over and over again. It never fails to crack me up. Thanks for keeping it up there!
Hey does your Ascii art have anything to do with Fungi...Now I have to check that out...
Sarah
1:38 AM
Glad to hear that - I've always a big fan; I helped research the pirated Oscar movies...
2:12 PM
Congratulations.
By the way, who doesn't know about the time problem? Bringing life family work ... and webthings into little 24h a day
Cheers, keep on rocking
RockTheCam
6:07 PM
Sometimes quality means more than quantity...update when you can, we'll still be here!
Danni.
10:13 PM
Been reading your linkroll for a long time. I've always enjoyed how you portray the internet's. Take you time, but life is only gonna get busier.
Thanks for all the tasty bits.
1:12 PM
Sometimes quality means more than quantity...update when you can, we'll still be here!
4:40 PM
First kottke stop posting frequently, and now you. I don't know where to turn anymore!
7:44 AM
3 posts a year? hopefully you'll post another before the end of the year. :p
9:44 AM
Anybody home?
11:03 AM
Patience! Updates coming very soon.
8:59 PM
Yay.
10:27 AM
Wow, congrats for surviving such a long time.
1:03 AM
Come back to us...
COME BACK!