Waxy.org: Links Archives: November 2006

Chris Pirillo's Dueling Videos (synchronized videos, Brady Bunch style)

Penny Arcade on Wii accidents (that's not weird)

Burtin vs. Ellis/Williams ("comics are in everything")

The Mii Lebowski (silly machinima using Wii Sports' Bowling)

Flickr Time (clock composed of Flickr photos) [via]

NPR's Morning Edition on Vince Guaraldi's "Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack (CBS hated the use of jazz, ordinary kids, and the central themes of materialism and faith)

Google Answers shuts down?! (but why? it seemed to be a successful niche community)

Asteroid's Revenge (turn the table on those bastard triangle ships)

Russia agrees to shutter AllofMP3.com at U.S. request (frankly, I'm surprised they lasted this long)

del.icio.us will eat itself (meta meta meta meta)

Tristan Lewis on the relaunch of Boo.com (he worked on the original site and has an interesting insider view of the original's failure)

Video: Children of Men trailer (I guess that means a Y: The Last Man adaptation won't be happening soon)

Kubick audition Brian Atene returns, for real this time (skip straight to 1:45; Atene claims the original audition was never actually sent in) [via]

Reports of Wii injuries rolling in (Nintendo anticipated this by placing obvious warnings and reminders in the games)

Google Master Plan (zoomable version of the whiteboard epic, leaked for the world to see) [via]

Google Earth team asks Gaia team to shut down project (finally, a human face behind the C&D, instead of nastygram lawyerbots)

'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders (behind the recent surge of Captcha-like image spam) [via]

Inside World of Warcraft gold farms (new documentary explores the half million Chinese making their living earning virtual currency) [via]

Make's Open Source Gift Guide (incredible resource; you could spend weeks exploring any one of these projects)

2006 Interactive Fiction Comp winners announced (detailed reviews of every entry linked in the comments)

The Secret World of Lonelygirl (Wired Magazine's late profile of the Lonelygirl fad is still an interesting read, with new details of the beginning)

Rex Sorgatz begins his 2006 List of Lists (as always, this will become the ultimate source for year-end best-of lists over the next six weeks)

Using Amazon EC2 for on-demand multiplayer game servers (EC2 enables all sorts of interesting niche businesses) [via]

Chris Ware's gorgeous Thanksgiving New Yorker covers [via]

Flickr Camera Finder (also, they pushed the oft-requested Guest Pass feature)

Stephen Colbert on John Zorn ("I wonder how your little genius came up with that toe tapper")

Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala (Adam Cadre's wiki reality) [via]

Gamer breaks TV with Nintendo Wiimote (sweaty hands and a faulty strap are hazardous to your living room)

Video: Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham (from a very rare TV special he hosted in 1969)

"One Bank" U2 homage gets a cease-and-desist from Universal Music (meanwhile, David Cross and Johnny Marr covered it live)

Cary Grant Sings FCC Regulations (more oddball regulatory singing here)

The Tokyopia Wedding Game (friends create WarioWare-like game for newlywed gamers, with video!) [via]

A Coder in Courierland (story of a computer programmer who dropped out of tech to be a bike courier) [via]

Wagner James Au on Second Life's copying controversy (new tools let users clone any object or avatar without permission, creating clone wars in Second Life)

Inverted Inverted Pyramid (flipping sensationalist reporting on its head)

Leaked internal memo says Nick Douglas fired from Valleywag (at least partly because of his 10 Zen Monkeys interview)

10 Zen Monkeys stalks ex-Valleywag Nick Douglas (they obsessively track down Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom, Dave Winer, Nick Denton, and call Nick Douglas on his cellphone)

Amazon Earworm interviews XTC's Andy Partridge (Alexa's Web Discovery and Amazon Earworm are two of the best corporate blogs)

The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch (tracking abuses of the silent panel gag in the Sunday funnies) [via]

Nick Douglas leaving Valleywag (the blog everyone here won't admit they read; also: 10 Zen Monkeys interview with Nick)

Australian scientists build working air guitar (even better: air tambourine) [via]

Elderly harmonica player arrested for performing copyrighted songs at bar (what a relief) [via]

ESA threatens Kotaku over game rating parody shirt ("Your Mom Rated E for Everyone")

Convert an analog wall clock into a binary clock (brilliant hack, with a printable pattern PDF) [via]

How I Was Duped by Ali G. (another first person story of an unwitting victim; also, a look behind the scenes)

Humiliated frat boys sue Borat (the inevitable followup to this Ask Metafilter question from a friend of one of the guys)

Video: One Bank (corporate America takes on U2's "One"; painful to watch in its sincerity)

Slashdot runs out of comments (they hit 16,777,216 comments, the upper limit for a mediumint in MySQL)

Review of Lou Reed's performance at the AOL Web 2.0 party (sounds painfully awkward) [via]

Unofficial FAQ for the Digg Algorithm (good look at what gets stories to the Digg homepage, but doesn't cover everything)

Video: Colbert Calls It Quits (grade-A ranting)

Video: Robot Chicken on Calvin & Hobbes [via]

Comedy Central blogger breaks the Rumsfeld news last night (they're getting so good at fake news, it's turning into reality)

Bad SF Show Steals MySpace Page from Bad Indie Band (this sounds like the domain trademark wars all over again; update: they gave it back)

WSJ on bands that love Guitar Hero (I'd love to see the videos of bands attempting to play their own songs in the game)

Stikkit, sticky notes for the web (lovely design, launched at Web 2.0 along with 12 others)

You Can Learn a Lot From a Rich Girl (don't miss the linked footnote on how she got out of debt) [via]

Winners of The Morning News' Encyclopedia Brown for D.A. contest ("Vote for Miss Viola Swamp, Board of Education")

The Rush Limbaugh Boogie (maybe I'm just giddy from the election results, but I can't stop laughing at this)

Ryan Carson publishes DropSend's monthly profits (it's still baffling why he's selling it if it takes so little effort) [via]

Michael Crook's Internet Club (excellent (and long) followup of the Michael Crook and the EFF lawsuit against him)

Video: Grand Theft Mario (as opposed to Mario in Vice City)

Goopymart's TEH INTERNETS (collect them all!) [via]

Video: Hacking Democracy (HBO looks at voting machine irregularities)

Nightmare

Let's Paint, Exercise and Blend Drinks! (making Bob Ross look like a slacker) [via]

Saddam Hussein sentenced to death (nice timing)

Orlando teen steals bus, drives regular route and pockets fares ("I drove that bus better than most Lynx drivers could") [via]

Joni Mitchell working on first new album in 8 years? (coming out of her musical retirement)

Analysis of Comedy Central content on YouTube (though they claim the videos are coming back)

EFF files lawsuit against Craigslist sex scammer Michael Crook (more about the case from Jeff Diehl at 10 Zen Monkeys and the PDF of the complaint filing)