Waxy.org: Links Archives: May 2008

TinyDB, store tiny data in a tiny URL (store variables with a POST or GET, get it back in JSON or XML) [via]

Ian Rogers on Reaper, Justin Frankel's current project (the Winamp/Gnutella creator made a formidable ProTools competitor; amazing to see it go from this to this)

A Brief History Of Cars Crashing Through Walls On Sitcoms (I'm embarrassed to admit I found the Happy Days clip (in French) for Jeff)

Turning the New York Times into a beatbox (an application for Lily turns DOM elements into audio) [via]

Antville Quarterly, their favorite music videos so far this year (high quality videos in three torrents from the music video community)

Gore Verbinski to direct Bioshock film (I loved Bioshock's story but not the gameplay, so this should be a fun ride) [via]

Anil Dash's Paste to Win (random sampling of 150 people's clipboards, categorized)

John Resig ported Processing to Javascript, using the Canvas element (one of the most amazing hacks I've ever seen; don't miss the demos further down the page)

Chronotron (time-bending Flash game, reminiscent of P.B. Winterbottom)

Rock Band hates me (a multi-instrumentalist's reality meets fiction) [via]

Piet, a graphical programming language, with source code resembling abstract art (named after Piet Mondrian, here's how it works; also, a Javascript IDE) [via]

The Sewer Goblet, The Wu-Tang Clan and the Wu-Tang Baby (new RPG madness from the developers of Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden)

Interview with indie game creator Cactus (he just released a mega-sampler of 17 of his games; highly recommended)

Dino Run (surprisingly deep multiplayer 8-bit Flash game)

Kottke on the Yahoo! stock "plunge" (on the contrary, Yahoo! gained $7B in value while Microsoft lost $33B)

Interview with astronaut Peggy Whitson about her return to Earth (members of the Soyuz capsule were greeted by confused locals in a Kazakhstan field) [via]

SynPet's Newton, 1989 promo video for a personal robot (like R2D2 with a floppy drive and 20MB hard drive)

Why the Lucky Stiff's Unholy attempt to convert Ruby into Python (not there yet, but a fun first pass at getting Ruby code running Google App Engine)

Google's chart of character encoding adoption on the web (last December, Unicode beat out ASCII and Western European encodings for the first time)

Ben Goldacre debunks the recent "regrown finger" story (glad I wasn't the only one skeptical of "pixie dust" made of pig bladders) [via]

San Diego GOP chairman co-founded warez group Fairlight (funny, guys like that usually end up in tech, not politics) [via]

Soundamus (generate a feed of upcoming releases from your favorite artists on Last.fm)

XSketch, multiplayer Pictionary game (from the creators of Kdice, even more fast-paced than iSketch)

Ze Frank, Textism, Chip Kidd, and Aviary join The Deck (Jim Coudal knows how to pick 'em)

Schulze & Webb show off the Olinda prototype (their social radio for the BBC, modular hardware that adjust to your habits and social network)

Twitter typewriter in Second Life (hop around on the giant keyboard and it'll post here) [via]

College Humor's All-Nighter (live feed with thousands of chatters, and they're posting new videos all night)

Winners of Boing Boing Gadget's 1k contest (if you like that, try these popular 1k intros from the demoscene)

Homer Simpson in CSS, animated (taking typewriter art to the next level; from the same creator, a portrait of Bush)

Jonathan Coulton performs "First of May" (take that, Bee Gees; NSFW lyrics, for the sensitive folks) [via]

AT&T wi-fi hotspots now free for iPhone users (including Starbucks and Barnes & Noble; spoof the iPhone user-agent and it's free from your laptop too)

Mena Trott's Wasted on the Young (what if first-gen bloggers were vlogging in 1994? this is amazing, I want to see Kottke next)