Waxy.org is the sandbox of The NRA's new Stand and Fight ad is completely truthful and accurate... if you turn it off at the right time. I took the liberty of fixing it for them.
NRA's New Commercial Made Truthy
Posted Jan 16, 2013
June 19, 2013
John McAfee's NSFW video on how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus
— I love that he snorts his bath salts through a krazy straw
June 18, 2013
The Deletionist
— bookmarklet turns any webpage into an erasure poem; examples: Daring Fireball and me
Gunpoint recoups development costs in 64 seconds
— linkbait headline for the delightful news that Tom Francis will be working on games fulltime
June 17, 2013
Battle for the planet of the APIs
— "If those services don't trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?"
June 15, 2013
Instant Server
— intantly spin up an Ubuntu server with a built-in terminal for 35 free minutes
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June 14, 2013
Google's Project Loon
— high-altitude balloons with Internet access for rural and remote areas
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Matt Haughey on Gmail's Organized Inbox
— just enabled it, and it's instantly useful
The Internet of Actual Things
— "Your light bulbs will narrate their agonizing deaths."
Sci-Fi Corridor Archive
— so many octagons
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Filmmaker sues to prove Happy Birthday To You is public domain
— and, best of all, they want Warner to pay back millions in undeserved licensing fees
NYT on how Yahoo tried to fight PRISM in court
— related: the story of one CEO that defied NSA wiretap orders
June 13, 2013
Apple's short film on the personal impact of four iOS apps
— helps to explain why this app can cost $220 and still have four stars
Wemoji
— reenact emoji icons with your webcam; more unlock as photos are added
Foursquare Time Machine
— don't miss the infographic it generates in the "Share My Stats" section
Stamen's Map Stack
— powerful photo filters for map design
Venus Patrol's Horizon press conference
— stunning lineup of upcoming artful indie games, an antidote to E3 ego and bluster
Jony Ive Redesigns Things
— apparently, I started a meme
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the future of film
— "out of that chaos will come some really amazing things... because all the gatekeepers have been killed!"
John Martz ends Drawn
— don't know how I missed this, but I'm sad to see it go
June 12, 2013
Kyle McDonald's Caricature
— automatically generating caricatures based on motion
Geek vs. Nerd
— analyzing 68k tweets to see how the terms are used
June 11, 2013
Author Hugh Howey on the future of self-publishing
— widely applicable across all indie art and tech
ScummVM ported to Javascript
— ported with Emscripten, audio's Firefox-only for now
Frank Chimero on the iOS 7 redesign and perspective
— also, Leo Drapeau's quick icon redesign
In Defense of Art Games
— fantastic Ignite talk by Owen Goss; links to the cited games
June 10, 2013
The Pirate Cinema
— turning film torrents into a cut-up art installation
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Well said.