Waxy.org: Links Archives: May 2007

Parallels 3.0 RC supports 3D games at full speed (my last remaining reason to own a dedicated Windows box is about to go away)

David Sacks on the New Portals (insightful article explaining why the Facebook Platform represents a fundamental shift)

Philipp Lenssen on Google Maps Street View and Mapplets (still on vacation, catching up on big news)

Last.fm co-founder on their acquisition by CBS (the $280M price seems low and the idea of CBS eventually running Last.fm scares me)

Inkling Magazine on Nerd Nite, science presentations at hipster bars (also, while on vacation, I saw Dorkbot get front page coverage in a local newspaper) [via]

TweetVolume (see also: Twitter is all about love and belong) [via]

New York Times publishes Water Cooler's newsgames (very interesting and a surprisingly nice fit)

Om interviews Desktop Tower Defense creator (he's making six figures of ad revenue with only $130 in monthly expenses)

Facebook Platform guide and documentation (been playing with this, and am floored how well-done it is; also: the growing list of apps)

Cringely on The Final Days of Google ("the founders of that Google-beating start-up ... are working right now at Google.")

Electric Slide Lawsuit: Jason Schultz Responds (cool, two of my favorite Jasons go head-to-head)

reCaptcha (using the effort answering captchas to help digitize scanned books)

Iminlikewithyou and Game Design in the Web (one of my favorite new interests is the natural overlap between gaming and the social web)

How does Bill Gates feel about about the John Hodgman character in those Mac ads? (read the last few awkward lines of this otherwise uneventful interview) [via]

Hackety Hack, the Coder's Starter Kit (amazingly brilliant programming guide for kids and newbie adults; Windows-only, for now)

Video: Battle at Kruger (herd of buffalo vs. lions vs. crocodiles; the baby buffalo survives)

Visualizing the ‘Power Struggle’ in Wikipedia (sexy infovis with hotspots for hotly revised articles)

How the EFF Dropped the Ball on the Electric Slide Lawsuit (by settling and allowing a CC license for the dance, they wrongly concede a simple dance move can be copyrighted)

Webjay closing in June (possibly because of the changes in net radio royalties?)

Adrian Holovaty leaves Washington Post to build local news startup (with a $1.1m grant; I hope it's like Chicago Crime writ large)

Video: Jim Henson's The Cube (surreal teleplay from 1969, reminiscent of Cube and House of Stairs) [via]

Google Hot Trends (people love their American Idol and World of Warcraft)

passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers (you know the kind) [via]

A Different Fluttershine (thoughtful little comic)

Crowd Porn at Coachella (music fans writhing in the desert heat) [via]

If the Beatles Were Born Today (also: Zen Parable or Just Someone Being Cruel?)

The Only Time You Will See A Picture Of One Of My Patients (EMT's tale of a cat found in a London building fire) [via]

Street Installations (clever outdoor art, soon to be appropriated by ad agencies) [via]

Video: Jeremy Boyle's self-playing pneumatic band (one of the more interesting Maker Faire hacks, read more on his site)

Onslaught (like Desktop Tower Defense, but with insane combos)

Zooomr using Ustream video chatroom for live updates during downtime (Thomas Hawk has been doing real-time Q&A for the last 14 hours while Zooomr's been offline)

Army cuts off soldier access to YouTube, Myspace, Photobucket, and more (more than simple bandwidth, they're restricting major communication tools)

Ottoman humping gigolos ruin troop morale (Daily Show's meme-laden take on the Army's new restrictions)

Frank Miller to write and direct film adaptation of Will Eisner's "The Spirit" (the film rights were sold in the early '90s, but Eisner himself preferred the comics medium to film)

Paul Cloutier's wife Alana responds to JPG Magazine critics (Derek responds in the comments; Paul's own response was brief)

Mark Pilgrim on the US patent system ("an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable")

I Deleted My JPG Account (people leaving in droves after community betrayal; also: Derek and Heather quietly added back to the About page as a footnote)

Gmail quietly adds Powerpoint viewer (the first step in Google Presentations)

Derek and Heather leave JPG Magazine (erased out of existence by the company they started) [via]

Video: Kosbees, episode 1 ("is that legal?" "it's satire.")

The Onion interviews Acceptable.tv (American Idol for YouTube shows is a pretty decent summary of the concept)

Kottke on the growth of Twitter vs. Blogger (great analysis, but faulty data; the Twitter IDs weren't sequential since November, making my post invalid too)

VH-1 to air "Kosbees," a House of Cosbys spinoff (created by the original creators and airing on Acceptable.tv, VH-1's user-driven show by the Channel 101 guys)

White Glove Tracking (using crowdsourcing to spot Michael Jackson's white glove for a video visualization) [via]

game, game, game and again game (very odd hybrid of poetry, art, and platform gaming) [via]

Rage fans didn't like Crowded House's reunion at Coachella (unfortunate lineup placement leads to disastrous results, foreshadowed here)

2007 Scene.org Awards winners announced (the best of the still-thriving demoscene)

Fortuito.us (Matt Haughey's great new blog on becoming self-sufficient online)