September 2009 - Waxy.org

September 30, 2009

Cabel Sasser and the Kashiwa Mystery Cafe — cafe as collaborative art #

Sophie Blackall's illustrated Craigslist Missed Connections — the NYT interviewed her about the project (via) #

September 29, 2009

Nerdrock band uses entire Zork walkthrough as lyrics — "I hate grues." (via) #

Google Docs adds free OCR conversion API — throw it into the OCR toolbox #

Os Gameboys' Super Mario Bros. medley — this Brazilian band does the best live Mario cover I've ever seen (via) #

OKCupid's analysis of race and religion in online dating — more fascinating dataporn #

September 28, 2009

Ed Champion edits every product mention from a single Jay Leno show — related: Bill Hicks on Jay Leno #

Fall on Your Sword's Back to the Ship — from the creators of Shatner of the Mount, mashing up the brilliant audio from the Kasper Hauser comedy podcast #

We Are Colorblind — design patterns for colorblind users; one of my favorite examples and how they fixed it #

September 27, 2009

Dan Bull responds to Lily Allen's anti-filesharing drama — in case you missed it, Techdirt was at the center of the drama #

September 24, 2009

Pomplamoose's cut-up Single Ladies cover — loving their other covers, too (via) #

DocumentCloud adds MSNBC, New Yorker, Trib, WaPo, and more to primary-source news database — the entire list is incredible, and all the code is open along the way #

Hipster He-Man — illustrator envisions Masters of the Universe meets American Apparel #

One sentence contained in every HTML tag in alphabetical order — almost, view source to see where he cheated (via) #

No Signal — massive supercut of cell phone cliches in modern horror films (via) #

September 23, 2009

Nokia to buy Dopplr? — I feel mixed emotions with acquisitions lately; thrilled for the team, sad for the community #

Cabel Sasser remixes the Windows 7 Party marketing video — from the company that brought you the Microsoft Songsmith commercial #

September 22, 2009

ASCIIpOrtal released for Windows, Mac, Linux — I mentioned it when it was just a mind-bending screencast #

Flickr gallery of the Sydney dust storm — is there life on Mars? #

Chrome Frame plugin turns Internet Explorer into Chrome — Alex, you sly dog #

Paul Ohm on anonymization and reidentification of the Netflix Prize 2 dataset — don't miss Paul's research paper, which explains even innocuous movie ratings can reveal your political, religious, and sexual leanings (via) #

September 21, 2009

Icycle, ride a tricycle naked through the next Ice Age — Flash game with gorgeous art direction #

September 19, 2009

Emoji Dick — using Kickstarter to hire Mechanical Turkers to translate Moby Dick to a CC-licensed book of emoji icons #

September 18, 2009

Fan replaces nearly every sound in Half-Life 2 with his own voice — reminds me of Petra Haden's acapella version of The Who Sell Out (via) #

SquarePixelz, collection of five vintage videogame films — hasn't been updated since April 2008, but these all look great #

September 17, 2009

Time Fcuk — very quirky lo-fi platformer by Edmund McMillen #

Deep Green, the pool-playing robot — don't miss the augmented reality pool at the 2 minute mark (via) #

List of all 22,802 spawnable objects in Scribblenauts — and the developer says it's not even a complete list #

September 16, 2009

Scientists cure colorblindness in monkeys with gene therapy — exciting news, since I'm red-green colorblind, along with 8% of all white males #

Monetizing the Hate — Dooce publishes her hate mail; for the full effect, read the backstory and turn off AdBlock (via) #

Incredible, awesome, amazing Apple keynote — supercut of every superlative (via) #

Christopher Niemann's Good Night and Tough Luck — very funny painted infographics from Abstract City, his illustrated blog #

September 15, 2009

Khoi Vinh's Craigslist redesign for Wired — also: Craigslist redesign from SXSW 2006 #

Nick Montfort's Interactive Fiction suggestions for Fall 2009 — updated list of ten games, a perfect primer to the genre #

Modern Pixel Art — hand-drawn subpixel renderings of favicons; see also: his teeny, tiny typeface #

Lukas Biewald demonstrates CrowdFlower — just launched today, amazing tool makes crowdsourcing tasks dead simple #

OK Cupid analyzes 500,000 intro emails to give online dating advice — self-effacing terms made men's messages more appealing, but didn't affect women's (via) #

September 14, 2009

Book Titles If They Were Written Today — many more in Kottke's comments (via) #

Infinite Mario AI contest winner releases source code — don't miss the slo-mo video of the mouse-controlled AI as it analyzes every possible path in real-time (via) #

September 13, 2009

Philadelphia shutting down all public libraries in October — discovered via the Internet Archive's new blog (via) #

Facebook pranks Techcrunch with a working "fax this photo" feature — I'm late on this, but it's still hilarious #

Stamen and Radian 6's MTV VMA visualization of Twitter activity — as I watched, the Kanye bubble exploded because of this debacle (via) #

Justin Hall on shutting down PMOG and starting Dictator Wars — "If someone can't figure out what to do in the first five minutes... you are hosed." (via) #

September 11, 2009

Everything Is Terrible's Advanced DOS Strategies — always format b: #

UK PM issues official apology for persecution of Alan Turing — the result of a petition from 31k British citizens, including Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry #

Llamasoft's vintage footage from 1980s computer conventions — feels like E3 circa 1986 #

September 10, 2009

How one team tracked down missing Wired reporter Evan Ratliff — part of the contest published in last month's Wired; another perspective from the ground (via) #

September 9, 2009

Google's undocumented embeddable PDF viewer — death to Acrobat Reader! #

September 8, 2009

Birds on the Wires — transcribed from nature (via) #

Designing a Popularity Algorithm — with examples from Hacker News, Reddit, del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon (via) #