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Waxy.org at SXSW Interactive 2009

Posted Mar 10, 2009 (Updated Mar 11, 2009)

I'm making the pilgrimage to Austin for SXSW Interactive again this year, but no crazy Worst Website Ever antics this time. But I will be speaking at a couple events, if you want to get together:

Sunday, 3:30pm
What Do I Do With Myself, Now that the Economy Has Collapsed?

Lane Becker moderates a lineup of web geeks who started projects during the last bust, with some advice and lessons learned from our past success and failures. I'm very lucky to be on the lineup, along with the wonderful Ben Brown, Michael Sippey, and Jane Mount.

Monday, 7:30pm
The Heather Gold Show
Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Road

Every year, writer/comedian Heather Gold brings her live, interactive talk show to Austin to interview artists, musicians, coders, and writers around a theme. This year's subject is "Something From Nothing," a loose conversation about inspiration and the creative drive, with CD Baby founder Derek Sivers, Huffduffer creator Jeremy Keith, Adaptive Path founder/Emmett Labs CEO Janice Fraser, singer/songwriter Amber Rubarth, and me! The Heather Gold Show is a small part of the huge Plutopia EFF-Austin party, a three-stage art and music extravaganza featuring Bruce Sterling and Ian McLagan from The Faces, so should be fun. Free admission for SXSW badge holders, $10 for everyone else.

Naturally, I'll be on Twitter and my picks for the show are on Upcoming and Sched.org. If you see me, say hi!

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Waxy Links
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September 1, 2010
Bear's Double Rainbow ad for Microsoft — also: meet Bear (via)
First details on Telltale's episodic Back to the Future game emerge — they also secured rights to make games based on Jurassic Park
Cee Lo Green's official video for F**K YOU — even better than the typography video, I'm perfectly content to have this song stuck in my head 24/7
Slate interviews Innocence Project cofounder about false convictions — over 250 people have been freed by new DNA evidence, many of them with false confessions
Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel for the iPhone/iPad — impressive tech demo, now available for free
GameSetWatch covers Assembly 2010's PC demo contest — if you have the hardware, I highly recommend trying out the two winners yourself
Apple announces Ping, a social network built into iTunes — their first foray into social, finally; seems inevitable that app/location/TV/music sharing will follow
August 31, 2010
All four issues of Daniel Raeburn's The Imp available for free download — highly recommended, covers Daniel Clowes, Jack Chick, Chris Ware, and dirty Mexican comics (via)
Eclectic Method's 8-bit Mixtape — not particularly great music, but the visuals make it (via)
Vanity Fair's glimpse into the day in the life of the President — long, must-read look at the insane complexity of today's political landscape
Lanyrd, social conference directory — brilliantly executed social event discovery; it should be pronounced "La Nerd"
Copyrighting Fashion — a new bill would subject fashion to copyright, but at what cost?
Tom Scott's Evil hack shows phone numbers exposed by Facebook users — culled from public "lost my phone" groups
Unhear It — replace one earworm with another
August 30, 2010
Stay Free's Illegal Art mix tape — the files all moved here
Mads Peitersen's paintings of gadget anatomy — love the iPhone guts (via)
Hark! A Vagrant's Nancy Drew covers — previously: the Gorey covers
Markov chaining Kickstarter blurbs — this also doubles as a Kickstarter project idea generator
Pomplamoose teams up with Ben Folds & Nick Hornby — Hornby wrote all the lyrics for Folds' new album (via)
The Wilderness Downtown — an HTML5 music video for Arcade Fire with some fun geo integration
August 29, 2010
Swarmation — like musical chairs for pixels (via)
August 28, 2010
Disney remixes old cartoons into "Blam!" — truly awful
August 27, 2010
PieLabPDX food cart makes customers play games to buy pie — they had to win a game of Rock Scissors Paper to get their choice
Dirpy — convert YouTube videos to MP3s with surprisingly deep transcoding options
Indie Game: The Movie interviews Adam Saltsman on Canabalt — every one of these shorts gets me more excited for the full-length film
August 26, 2010
Jerry Stiller Unscripted — an adorable encounter with the owners of the Costanza house
Members of Paramore, New Found Glory, and Relient K cover "Bed Intruder Song" — the original broke the Billboard Top 100 (via)
Happylife — prototype device ambiently shows a family's collective mood (via)
"Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan — a better-written short story with a similar theme as "Where Am I?"
"Where Am I?" by Daniel Dennett — short sci-fi story from 1978 about where consciousness resides (via)

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