April 2006 - Waxy.org

April 30, 2006

Video: Powerpuff Girls Z trailer — bizarre Japanese-only anime version of Powerpuff Girls (via) #

Hi, Racists! — Ryland tweaks his Church Sign Generator to thwart white supremacists (via) #

VideoDownloader extension for Firefox — download embedded media, including Myspace, Youtube, and Google Video; see the screencast (via) #

Stephen Colbert kicks ass at White House press corps dinner — don't bother with the torrent, use these YouTube videos instead (via) #

April 29, 2006

YouTube spending $1 million per month on bandwidth — 200 terabytes per day of mostly illegal goodness #

April 27, 2006

MP3: Bell Labs' Synthesized Speech 33 1/3 record — bicycle built for two #

Database War Stories #3: Flickr — also: Second Life, Bloglines and Memeorandum #

Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 — making the rounds, and well worth watching; lower-res streaming version (via) #

The Endless Forest — multiplayer game (?) where you control a deer in a forest of other players, but with only non-verbal communication (via) #

Google releases Sketchup Free — the most intuitive 3D modeling app now free, and with a shared repository of models (via) #

Visual Scratch — visualization of turntable scratching with Max/MSP and Processing #

Last.fm isn't just for humans — BBC radio station quietly tracking nearly every song played for the last year (via) #

Typography for Headlines — I'd love to see a site like GUIdebook for web UI elements (via) #

Facebook expands to corporate users — expanding the scope makes sense as their base starts graduating #

April 26, 2006

Video: Super Mario, live on stage — nice rendition (via) #

Make magazine launches Craft — a geekier Readymade? (via) #

April 25, 2006

Ze Frank's The Show — highly concentrated daily video goodness, like Rocketboom but awesome-r #

1968-1974 Alcoholics Anonymous comic strips — tons more great comic propaganda on Ethan Persoff's site #

Second Life on cover of Business Week — with four feature stories about the virtual world #

IE 7 beta 2 ships — "put safety first" #

April 24, 2006

Google Cartography — visual representation of the interconnectivity of streets using the Google Maps API (via) #

SFGate tribute to the 25th anniversary of Journey's "ESC4P3" — don't stop believin' #

April 23, 2006

Feedburner now tracks more podcasts than sum total of all radio stations — and it's just beginning #

April 21, 2006

Video: IFC's SXSW Behind the Badge, starring Consumating's Ben Brown — I'm offscreen in the taxi, calling Ben a corporate sellout whore #

Bush administration proposes mandatory website ratings — or risk imprisonment for up to five years #

More details on AOL's Myspace killer — building on the back of the AIM network; the I Am Alpha screencast is neat, too #

Microsoft Live Drive may launch before GDrive — in the meantime, a handful of startups are vying for the space #

Most Popular Words 2006 — according to Google rankings #

Slashdot on the Digg censorship conspiracy — don't miss the comments on Slashdot's own policing (via) #

Sabifoo — IM bot that turns all incoming messages into an RSS feed and web page #

Bush impersonator reads speeches written by little kids — he should fire his speech writers and hire these kids (via) #

April 20, 2006

Kevin Rose on the Digg conspiracy — people were scripting bots to mass-digg stories; Thomas Hawk has more #

LiveJournal adds ads — LazyWeb request: an Internet Archive visual diff tool #

Rolling Stone cover story on the Worst President in History — he's the decider, he does the deciding around here #

Daring Fireball goes full-time — John left Joyent to try blogging as a career #

Web 2.1 server-side blink tag — replacing the blink tag with a standards-compliant Ajax alternative (via) #

Digg Corrupted — strangeness involving identical Diggs on two posts, silent user bans, and a popular story conspicuously missing from the front page #

April 19, 2006

Famous Sounds — aka cliched samples; see also: Julien's originals (via) #

Onion AV Club interviews Wonder Showzen creators — I've been a fan since the bootleg pilot (via) #

Flash: Pepsi NexGame — blissfully stupid #

Sesame Street Video Clips — 59 of the videos were added by one YouTube user #

Chris Ware on his move from Fantagraphics to Drawn & Quarterly — the distributor unwrapped every book and added a permanent sticker to the cover (via) #

April 18, 2006

In the Pit, an audio-only game for Windows — also, Sonic Invaders sounds great (via) #

Hacking A More Tasteful Myspace — making MySpace attractive is the new CSS Zen Garden (via) #

April 17, 2006

Chris Ware ends his run in the NYT Magazine — the 29 parts are all online, but in PDF format (yuk) (via) #

Cabbie drives Ben Folds to laundromat, ends up on stage playing harmonica that night — no bootlegs online just yet (via) #

State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 — blogosphere continues to grow at a frightening rate #

Kleptones' "24 Hours" sample listing on Wikipedia — a work in progress (via) #

Kottke joins The Deck — he explains what makes The Deck different #

"thanks for the add, you guys rock" — the MySpace cliche watch (via) #