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 #Derek and Heather leave JPG Magazine
— erased out of existence by the company they started via MetaFilter #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 Kottke #game, game, game and again game
— very odd hybrid of poetry, art, and platform gaming via Nelson Minar #Rage fans didn't like Crowded House's reunion at Coachella
— unfortunate lineup placement leads to disastrous results, foreshadowed here #Acme Novelty Toy Gallery
— Niem’s putting together Chris Ware papercraft, so you don’t have to via John Martz #Tim O'Reilly's thoughtful article on the Alexaholic lawsuit
— don’t miss Ron Hornbaker’s comment in the thread #Upcoming drops the ".org" with new redesign
— biggest changes ever; full geo database, visual redesign, switch to Yahoo IDs, and more #Ben Brown leaves CNET and Consumating
— couple weeks old, but news to me; who’s next? three makes a trend via Andre Torrez #Forbes Magazine's mesothelioma search engine spam
— amazingly bad; stumbled on this from a comment on Matt Cutts’ blog #The Shins busk in Montmartre, Paris
— impromptu live performances by great bands, recorded in one long shot via stereogum.com #PeaceMaker, game simulating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
— here’s a detailed review from Gamasutra via watercoolergames.org #Five Years of Waxy
I started this blog five years ago today with a basic idea: keep it original and keep it relevant. Unfortunately, I left out “keep it updated.” As you can probably tell, Waxy is taking the back seat these days to other priorities, namely work and family. (I don’t even have the time to weed out comment spam.) I terribly miss the quirky form of investigative reporting I used to do and I certainly miss spending more time exploring the backroads of the web. I promise I’ll be back. In the meantime, the infrequent updates continue. Happy birthday, little blog!
