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
November 18, 2008
Bike Hero, biking a Guitar Hero level in the real world
— most likely a commercial viral, and maybe even fake, but does it matter? beyond awesome
Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy
— mostly posting this just to beat Rex to it
The A.V. Club's 27 popular websites that became books
— though they missed Belle de Jour, The Washingtonienne, Fucked Company, Fark, and ZUG
Speed Guitar goes to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
— every hour, on the hour, for one solid minute of metal complete with gothic arch and smoke machine
MGMT's "Kids" on the iPhone Ocarina
— "the iPhone Ocarina officially replaces the recorder as the nerdiest instrument I can play"
Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation
— my favorite was Space Mountain Snob
LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google
— millions of high-res photos, most never published
Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN
— very complementary with S3
November 17, 2008
John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the Long Winters perform "Tonight You Belong to Me"
— "Thank you, normal-sized man."
Jerry Yang stepping down from Yahoo's CEO post
— it never really fit him well, though I'll miss his e.e. cummings memos
Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch
— no, raunchy photos don't accidentally attach themselves to outbound email
Greasemonkey script to pull WikiDashboard visualization into Wikipedia
— I made a LazyWeb plea for this last week, and Paul Irish came through
Lee Byron's Fireflies, anaglyph 3D game for Mac
— part of Kokoromi's Gamma 3D showcase of anaglyph games
Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles
— read Tom Taylor's entry for more information
Cooking Mama, the Unauthorized PETA Edition
— a strangely obscure target for their attention, with a petition to write to the game's publisher
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Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld
— good writing in a nice design from Brandon Boyer, former news editor of Gamasutra
"Violet" wins the Interactive Fiction Comp 2008
— play it online; glancing at the charts, it looks like Buried in Shoes was the most divisive
Trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel
— looks surprisingly good, but I'm a sucker for origin stories; I even liked Enterprise
What would Depression 2009 look like?
— Tim sums up the thought-provoking Boston Globe article
The Pirate Bay hits 25 million simultaneous peers
— that's not unique people, but concurrent connections; Napster peaked at 26M users
Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app
— related: Chasing Ghosts will finally be released on BitTorrent Showtime in December
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The Big Picture on the California wildfires
— also: first-person coverage on Twitter and YouTube, like this freeway on fire and aftermath
Tim-Tams available at Target until March, first time available in the U.S.
— best chocolate cookies ever, the Tim Tam Slam is a chocolaty revelation
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JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash
— through a hack, it even works in IE 6
November 14, 2008
Esquire's hosting Between, the new two-player networked game by Jason Rohrer
— from the creator of Passage
"What's that buzzing noise from my BBQ?"
— he thought he was killing a few bees, but ends up annihilating an entire colony
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November 13, 2008
Kottke explains how to embed high-quality YouTube videos
— I knew how to save, link, and change the default, but the embedding hack was new to me
Web 2.0 Origami
— lazyweb, please build a converter that creates folding patterns from an uploaded image
Pixar's Burn-E short on YouTube
— here's an interview with the director
Valleywag folded into Gawker, all but Owen Thomas laid off
— I won't miss it; they hurt a lot of good people and interesting projects in the quest for pageviews
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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