July 2010 – Waxy.org

July 31, 2010

Auto-Tune the News' Bed Intruder Song — here's the original newscast-turned-meme, in case you missed it #

July 29, 2010

Craig Mod's incredible postmortem of raising money with Kickstarter — gorgeously designed article with plenty of solid data #

GET LAMP, the text adventure documentary, is done — five years in the making with incredible attention to detail; you can order the DVDs here #

FC64 Commodore 64 emulator in Javascript — a bit CPU-intensive, but it works! #

10k Apart — build a web app in less than 10k, though you can use jQuery/Prototype and Typekit #

TorrentFreak on the BitTorrent releasers vs. the Scene — insidery article covering an interesting shift in online movie releasing #

July 28, 2010

Google Alarm Firefox add-on — audio alerts when your personal info's sent to Google servers #

Bradley and Bethany — Dan Wineman's App Store review fanfic #

July 27, 2010

Michael Jackson's estate demands Popcap change Dancing Zombie character — they're retroactively changing him in all versions of the game #

Paul Graham on the acceleration of addictiveness — the iPhone and iPad is the Internet's equivalent of a hip flask #

GameStop buys Kongregate — this seems like a bad fit; has a retail chain ever acquired an online community? (via) #

July 26, 2010

Ron Livingston does Keyboard Cat — previously: Keyboard Kato (via) #

Andrew Plotkin reviews The Ultimate Alphabet for the iPad — based on Mike Wilks' insane picture book from 1986; here's the gameplay #

EFF wins DMCA exemptions for bypassing DRM, phone jailbreaking/unlocking — Ars Technica breaks down the changes #

8-bit color cycling with HTML 5 — how it works #

Guardian UK's report on the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs — they call it the "biggest leak in intelligence history"; more from the NYT #

The No Twinkie Database — anti-patterns for game design #

Aza Raskin on Tab Candy, experimental tab management for Firefox — not an extension, the download is a Firefox build #

The Chipophone — 8-bit synth in an electronic organ, don't miss the video (via) #

July 22, 2010

Philipp Lenssen's book on Graphic Adventure games — culled from Wikipedia entries, edited, and fleshed out with original interviews #

Cow Clicker — Ian Bogost's Facebook game about Facebook games #

July 21, 2010

Sledgehammer and Whore — a screenwriter deals with a very unusual break-in at his office, and how he might pitch it as a show (via) #

Adam Lisagor on Flipboard — free iPad app creates a personalized magazine of your friends' FB/Twitter links #

July 20, 2010

4chan trying to take down Gawker — in response to their critical Jessi Slaughter posts and a post yesterday taunting them #

Top Secret America — Washington Post's two-year investigation into federal use of private contractors after 9/11 #

Xbox 360 developer recounts the history of their achievements system — how it was developed and how they work (via) #

Apple donates MacPaint/QuickDraw source to Computer History Museum — see Folklore.org's evolution of MacPaint and the long, great oral history #

GQ's rare interview with Bill Murray — Sofia Coppola tells the story of trying to track him down for Lost in Translation #

July 17, 2010

You've Either Shipped or You Haven't — from Tom Taylor, who ships; journalist Bobbie Johnson's response and Tom's followup #

July 16, 2010

Hacked Sonic the Hedgehog gains weight as he consumes fried rings — as he grows, he eventually becomes completely immobile #

Rigid-Body Fracture Sound — rendering sound effects from physics simulations, from this year's SIGGRAPH #

Aaron Cohen tests the "I Write Like" authors — F. Scott Fitzgerald writes like H.P. Lovecraft, who writes like Edgar Allen Poe #

AutoSummarize — top 100 free books summarized by Microsoft Word into 10 sentences #

Google acquires Metaweb — very happy they won't be shutting down Freebase (via) #

July 15, 2010

OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the biggest lies in online dating — for example, hotter photos were much more likely to be outdated according to EXIF tags (via) #

Drew Blas' analysis of GPL'ed code in Thesis — he found several blocks of Wordpress code #

Trailer for The Social Network released — but will it be better than The First $20 Million? #

Matt Mullenweg and WordPress theme developer argue GPL licensing — the debate about the GPL and derivative works may finally go to court #

July 14, 2010

The Revolving Internet (via) #

Old Spice Guy's video responses to individual tweets — brilliant marketing campaign; in a meta moment, the actor responds to himself (via) #

Yiying Lu's repositionable wall graphics — the Twitter Fail Whale was originally an elephant #

The Men Who Stare at Screens — going to the gym might not help long stretches of inactivity #

I Write Like — Dan Brown!? I'll take comfort in knowing Shakespeare writes like butt (via) #

Massachusetts newspaper to charge fee to comment — and no anonymity, they'll post with the name on their credit card (via) #

July 13, 2010

BLU's Big Bang Big Boom — months in the making, their new wall-painted animation is a brief history of the world #

July 12, 2010

pOnd — a five-minute zen game that takes an unexpected turn, or two (via) #

SuperMe — multiplayer game about resilience and positive thinking (via) #

Man Enough — I think I'm just a sucker for games with vocals by the developers #

Twirdie — golf game played by guessing the popularity of Twitter searches #

Ask Metafilter takes on men's bathroom etiquette — increasingly hilarious thread, everyone thinks their method's "right"; over or through the flap, sit or stand to wipe, fold or crumple #