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Dead Week

Posted Mar 27, 2008

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.

5 Comments (Add Yours)

Mar 27, 2008
12:36 PM  
david wrote:

I don't think I've ever had flu that wasn't miserable. Hope you feel better soon.


Mar 27, 2008
1:01 PM  
PS wrote:

But you still managed to update your links section, so that's pretty good. Get well soon.


Mar 27, 2008
1:17 PM  
Andy Baio wrote:

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.


Mar 27, 2008
1:49 PM  
Patrick M wrote:

FAIL

(note that I am talking to the flu)


Mar 31, 2008
3:21 AM  
SW wrote:

Under your pledge to "investigate things noone cares about", please, please, tell us more about this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLSRMoKKS0


 

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Waxy Links
Ads via The Deck
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 (via)
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 (via)
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 (via)
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 (via)
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 (via)

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