March 2014 - Waxy.org

March 31, 2014

OKCupid asks Firefox users to boycott Mozilla — I'm floored that Brendan Eich hasn't explained or apologized for his Prop 8 donation by now #

Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge — Google kicks off Internet Jackass Day with style #

Supreme Court revisits software patents — more information on SCOTUSblog #

Down Beat Touhou — shot-for-shot remake of a 1955 Tom & Jerry cartoon using Touhou game characters (via) #

Music Object, Substance, Organism — composer David Kanaga's GDC talk on music and games (via) #

Zelda in 16×16 — Ben Purdy explains how he made it in 48 hours #

Ben Sack's hand-drawn maps — the timelapse gives you a sense of how insane this is #

March 28, 2014

sql.js — try the demo #

Action Movie Kid — when your dad works at Dreamworks (via) #

Penguin Books targets UK artist for children's book parody — in most cases, parody still requires permission in the UK #

danah boyd's research on gender differences and VR — the subject of her 2000 bachelor's thesis #

March 27, 2014

Whatever goes up, that's what we do — Facebook's Julie Zhuo responds #

The Threes Mails — incredibly deep look into the development of Threes, and the clones spawned from it #

Choice Chamber — crowdsourced Twitch play as a new game mechanic #

One Human Heartbeat — artist Jen Lowe put her heartbeat on the Internet, with a 24 hour lag (via) #

FaceRift — browse Facebook on your Rift, today #

Marco Arment on the value of understanding web hosting for app developers — Linux administration is so unsexy, but I'm incredibly glad I taught myself what little I know #

Craig Mod launches Hi — a new writing platform #

March 26, 2014

DJ Nick Thayer's breaks down sales and expenses of his last EP — Zoe Keating also updated her revenue stats #

March 25, 2014

Notch on the Oculus acquisition — "I definitely want to be a part of VR, but I will not work with Facebook." #

Facebook buys Oculus for $2B — aw, nuts #

This Is A Generic Brand Video — a remake of the McSweeney's piece using stock footage, created as an ad for stock footage #

Microsoft releases early source to DOS and Word — a very restrictive license, but an interesting historical artifact #

BASE jumping the NYC Freedom Tower — it happened on September 30, but they were charged yesterday #

Callie goes to space — a three-year-old tries the Oculus Rift #

Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace — Mozilla's new CEO invented Javascript, but also helped fund anti-gay marriage legislation; his statement was pretty bad #

Patatap — try it on a touchscreen; by Lullatone and Jono Brandel #

Idea Channel on archiving the Internet — the Internet is perceived as both an archive and ephemera (via) #

March 24, 2014

Iconic History — Chrome extension visualizes your browser history as favicons #

Disney buys Maker Studios — the leaked details of their Ray William Johnson deal sounded pretty exploitative #

NYT feature on Wattpad — VC-funded fanfic platform, would be great if they let fans pay writers directly #

Fast Company on The Gig Economy — related: Ghosts with Shit Jobs #

Visualizing street grids — distribution of road orientations by city #

Greg Wohlwend on indie marketing for those who hate marketing — Max Temkin elaborates, "how people find out about your art is inseparable from the art itself" #

Basecamp under DDOS extortion attack — the same group that tried to blackmail Meetup #

How to break news while you sleep — the L.A. Times' Ken Schwencke on his bot that writes articles based on USGS earthquake reports #

The Machine To Be Another — The Verge on the Oculus Rift-based art project to swap perspectives #

The Office Time Machine — Joe Sabia indexed 1,300 cultural references from all nine seasons of The Office by creation date #

March 21, 2014

Teens Migrating From Facebook To Comments Section Of Slow-Motion Deer Video — deer me later, 'kay? #

Graph TV — graph IMDB ratings of the full lifetime of a TV series; Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Brady Bunch #

2048 Numberwang — you might need a refresher on the rules #

DNS graffiti in Turkey — spreading Google's DNS servers to bypass the Twitter ban #

March 20, 2014

Pietro Grossi's Computer Concerto from 1967 — reminiscent of a 1980s videogame arcade 13 years before Pac-Man (via) #

Vice's 20 Best TED Talks — by Crap Hound creator Sean Tejaratchi, who's pretty great at Twitter #

March 19, 2014

Flappy Arms — open-source experimentation with WebRTC and PeerJS #

Crafting link underlines in Medium — it's the small things #

Cards Against Humanity opens to indie game stores, bans big box retailers — the video is a nice encapsulation of their values #

Github Selfies — Chrome add-on takes a webcam snapshot with every pull request; earlier: lolcommits #

March 18, 2014

Edward Snowden speaks at TED — using a Beam robot #

March 17, 2014

After Dark in CSS — flying toasters for the modern age #