Waxy.org is the sandbox of No entries this week. I've had a miserable flu since Sunday that's made it impossible to think straight. I'll see you Monday, Internet.
Dead Week
Posted Mar 27, 2008
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
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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
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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
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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
Milkshake
— an open-source WebGL music visualizer based on Milkdrop
January 26, 2012
Typographica's favorite typefaces of 2011
— returning after a two-year break
Pirating the Oscars, 2012
— now with 10 years of data; I'll republish the article here tomorrow
Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak
— a national treasure; part two
January 25, 2012
Warby Parker's Annual Report
— lovely design
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Mario meets Tim from Braid
— with cameos from Limbo and Super Meat Boy
Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback
— here's the awesome preview, with responsive design, new plugins, and tons of new components
January 24, 2012
Method of Action's color matching game
— love the colorblind mode
12:36 PM
I don't think I've ever had flu that wasn't miserable. Hope you feel better soon.
1:01 PM
But you still managed to update your links section, so that's pretty good. Get well soon.
1:17 PM
Updating my links section is a natural extension of wasting time on the web, which I'll probably be doing when I'm on my deathbed.
1:49 PM
FAIL
(note that I am talking to the flu)
3:21 AM
Under your pledge to "investigate things noone cares about", please, please, tell us more about this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLSRMoKKS0