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
May 15, 2012
Austin Seraphin on learning echolocation
— he's a real-life Daredevil
Mat Honan's feature on Yahoo's mismanagement of Flickr
— a depressing read, especially while seeing the team release great new features
May 14, 2012
Make interviews Bunnie Huang on the end of Chumby
— sad end to a promising product, I received one of the prototypes at Foo Camp in 2006
Rebecca Sugar's Singles
— file under: scenarios I'd like to play in a videogame
SMBC on hell
— sounds about right
OAuth Is Your Future
— Dan Hon snaps some screenshots from the near future
May 13, 2012
Fracuum
— winner of Ludum Dare 23; every winner is worth playing
May 11, 2012
Welcome to Life
— "the Singularity, ruined by lawyers"
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BusinessWeek on the post-Kickstarter life of Diaspora
— the founders talk about the Ilya's tragic suicide for the first time
Anachronism detection in Mad Men episodes
— language studies from the person who did the frequency analysis for Downtown Abbey
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Verge feature on Scamworld, the inside look at Internet scams
— incredibly deep investigation and short film, brilliantly made
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Hartverdrahtet
— amazing 4k intro from the PC demoscene
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Mike Birbiglia's short film from This American Life
— starring Fresh Air's Terry Gross
Chris Poole's talk on the shifting meme landscape at ROFLCon
— the shift away from interest-based web communities towards social networks
Robot butt that represents emotions
— I'm hoping someone turns this into a drone
May 10, 2012
Gina Trapani on the failings of "brogrammer" culture
— holy hell, the comments are awful
Dustin Curtis on pixel fitting rasterized vector images
— best explanation of a long-standing issue I've seen
Mitt Romney bullied gay students in high school
— people change, just so long as he takes ownership of his actions; oh, wait
Walt Disney's Taxi Driver
— the scene starting at 3:45 is like a parallel universe remake of Roger Rabbit
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Ben Jackson on memes, the Internet, and the divine
— "The memes we choose to elevate to Internet fame are the product of the purest form of democracy ever invented"
May 9, 2012
Recursive Drawing
— watch the video or it won't make any sense
The Forger
— for fans of Kutiman's ThruYOU, found footage beat mashups from Meat Beat Manifesto's Jack Dangers
May 8, 2012
Steve Albini AMA on Reddit
— "There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me"
Maurice Sendak, rest in peace
— goodnight, Max
May 7, 2012
Tinkercad
— amazing WebGL CAD designer that prints to Makerbot, Shapeways, and Ponoko
Mechanizing a miniature Main Street Electrical Parade
— wonderful attention to detail; watch the finished parade
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LA Times on American Airlines' attempt to revoke its all-you-can-fly passes
— the company regretted its short-sighted decision to offer lifetime first-class travel
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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