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2026

• Waxy Refresh: The End of Playfic After 14 years, I decided to retire Playfic, an online community for writing and sharing interactive fiction made with Inform 7. All the games will stay online indefinitely.
  Aug 3
• Waxy Refresh: Supercut.org Continuing my series of updating old side projects, I gave Supercut.org a big refresh, plus some notes on the sad state of Vimeo.
  Jul 31
• A Little Waxy Refresh I updated Waxy.org's design over the last few weeks, part of a series of updates to some of my long-dormant projects.
  Jul 30
• ★The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.
  Jun 18
• Big Walk and the magic of proximity chat Big Walk is out on August 4, the new game from Untitled Goose Game creators House House, an open world inspired by pandemic lockdowns and the constraints of proximity voice chat.
  Jun 9
• Tiny Awards 2026 nominations are open For the fourth time, nominations for this year's Tiny Awards celebrating the "best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" are open.
  Jun 8
• LEGO Batman’s Commodore 64 BASIC easter egg
  Jun 8
• ★Launching a permanent archive for XOXO We launched a permanent archive for all eight years of XOXO, along with some ridiculous merch, and we're really proud of it.
  Apr 30

2025

• Interviewing the couple in the Will Smith AI crowd video: “The sign was real. The emotions were real too” I tracked down the couple at the center of the viral Will Smith AI concert video. What does it feel like for millions of people to think you're an AI hoax?
  Sep 9
• ★Will Smith’s concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines Will Smith is being accused of generating fake fans with AI, but it's complicated: the crowds are real, but the videos were manipulated by Smith's team and YouTube itself.
  Aug 25
• Vote on the 2025 Tiny Awards Finalists The finalists for the 2025 Tiny Awards are out, which I helped judge again this year. Here's a little roundup of the 11 contenders. Voting ends September 1!
  Aug 8

2024

• The XOXO 2024 Talks We published all the talks from the final XOXO, possibly the best day of talks we've ever had. I wrote a bit about how we booked speakers and the themes that emerged this year.
  Oct 15
• Kind of Bloop 15th Anniversary Vinyl Kind of Bloop is getting a surprise vinyl reissue for its 15th anniversary, the weird little chiptune album that changed my life.
  Aug 15
• ★The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened?
  Jan 18

2023

• Interviewing Dracula Daily’s Matt Kirkland at Powell’s Books I'm interviewing the creator of the Dracula Daily newsletter, now in book form, at Powell's Books in Portland on Thursday.
  Oct 24
• ★Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning What would it sound like if the musicians parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic sang *his* parodies instead? I jumped off the deep end into the world of A.I. cover songs to find out, and the results are even worse than you imagine.
  Oct 2
• The Tiny Awards Winner Is… The Tiny Awards winner is announced! Congrats to Rotating Sandwiches, the site that judges and voters felt best embodies the "small, heartfelt, and playful web."
  Jul 25
• ★Tiny Awards, a celebration of the small, playful, and heartfelt web Tiny Awards is a celebration of the "small, playful, and heartfelt web." I helped narrow the nominees down to 16 finalists, now you decide who wins: voting's open until July 20.
  Jul 14
• Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk’s emergency blocks and rate limits: “It’s amateur hour” An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.
  Jul 1
• Miniatua’s tiny handcrafted replicas of vintage computers Miniatua makes hyperreal miniature replicas of vintage computers, like the WOPR, IBM 5150 PC, and IBM 1401 mainframe. His latest is recreating David Lightman's bedroom from WarGames in exacting detail.
  Jun 7
• The Unhinged Miniature World of Bobby Fingers I've never seen anything quite like Bobby Fingers and his unhinged celebrity diorama videos on YouTube. So I tracked down the pseudonymous creator to learn more.
  May 11
• Goodbye, Dooce Rest in peace, Heather.
  May 10
• Cory Doctorow’s Red Team Blues Is Out Now Cory Doctorow's new cryptocrime novel, Red Team Blues, is out today, and I'm interviewing him at Powell's about it on May 2.
  Apr 25
• ★The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why?
  Apr 5
• ★Pirating the Oscars 2023: The Final Curtain Call After 20 years of tracking leaked screeners, my final Oscars piracy post ends with a bang: this is the first year where *zero* screeners leaked.
  Mar 12
• ★Lost Media: Finding Bill Clinton’s “Boxers or Briefs” MTV Moment Was video of Bill Clinton's famous "boxers or briefs" MTV interview question from 1994 purged from the internet? Or is 30-year-old media just hard to find?
  Jan 23

2022

• ★Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model How does it feel to be turned into an AI image model? To find out, I opened a door to the multiverse and interviewed the creator and unwilling subject of a controversial DreamBooth model.
  Nov 1
• Winding Down Skittish I'm winding down Skittish, the playful space for virtual events we built during the pandemic.
  Oct 27
• ★AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.
  Sep 30
• A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements and nobody knows how A mysterious voice is moaning and grunting on American Airlines' in-flight announcement systems, and nobody knows who or how they're doing it.
  Sep 23
• Online Art Communities Begin Banning AI-Generated Images Online art communities have started banning AI-generated art, while others are facing public pressure from their own members to take a stand.
  Sep 9
• Perfect Tides, a Coming-of-Age Point-and-Click Adventure, Kickstarts a Sequel My game of the year so far is Perfect Tides, a coming-of-age point-and-click adventure made by a webcomics legend, and it's now crowdfunding a sequel.
  Aug 31
• ★Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator What images were used to train Stable Diffusion's text-to-image AI model? I worked with Simon Willison to make a data browser to explore and search a sample of 12 million images.
  Aug 30
• ★Opening the Pandora’s Box of AI Art This week's release of Stable Diffusion, a powerful open-source text-to-image AI model, raises hard questions about the ethics of AI art and its potential for abuse.
  Aug 26
• Waxy.org Turns 20 Waxy turned 20 today! Hard to believe my blog's almost old enough to drink. Here's a roundup of some favorite posts from the last ten years.
  Apr 14
• ★In the Shadow of the Star Wars Kid 20 years after the Star Wars Kid exploded online, I finally met Ghyslain Raza face-to-face to talk about my role in the meme and his experience living through it for a newly-released documentary.
  Mar 31
• The Incredibly Satisfying Birth of a Marble A random TikTok video about how marbles are made sent me down a rabbit hole of marble content.
  Mar 30
• Pirating the Oscars 2022: The Rise and Fall of the Screener Over 20 Years The Academy banned physical screeners this year, but the pandemic may have killed demand for Oscar screeners for good. It's time for Pirating the Oscars 2022, now with 20 YEARS of data!
  Mar 27

2021

• Skittish Is Live! Skittish, the colorful virtual event space I started, is finally open to the world. Go see the new homepage and demo, and create a new world for free.
  Nov 16
• virodome17 Is A Gmail Scammer
  Oct 4
• Zendaya Is Chani
  Jul 23
• Skittish Hosts Its First Public Events
  Jun 3
• ★Colin’s Bear Animation, Revisited Colin's Bear Animation is finding a new life on TikTok with thousands recreating its signature dance, though with a new soundtrack and context.
  Apr 28
• Skittish March Updates
  Mar 30
• ★Pirating the Oscars: Pandemic Edition This year, fewer Oscar screeners leaked online than ever before, but nominated films still managed to leak online at a record pace. What happened?
  Mar 25
• ★Announcing Skittish I'm very excited to announce my new project, Skittish, a playful space for online events.
  Feb 16

2020

• ★The House on Blue Lick Road I talked to the owner of 8800 Blue Lick Road about his unusual house, RICO charges, baptismal pools, and Girls Gone Wild DVDs.
  Oct 27
• ★alt.binaries.images.underwater.non-violent.moderated: a deep dive An internet deep-dive into the origins of Usenet's provocatively-named alt.binaries.images.underwater.non-violent.moderated newsgroup.
  Oct 16
• A Disappointed Reader Responds You've got mail! An anonymous Waxy reader responds to my recent links about politics and current events, with accusations of bias.
  Sep 25
• ★OpenAI’s Jukebox Opens the Pandora’s Box of AI-Generated Music OpenAI released Jukebox, a state-of-the-art AI model capable of generating music with vocals in the style of various artists and genres. I highlight some of my favorite samples and discuss the legality of it all.
  Apr 30
• ★With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake audio parodies off YouTube With a questionable claim to copyright, Jay-Z ordered two deepfake audio parodies of his voice off YouTube. I talked to the video's creator about the future of AI for creative expression.
  Apr 28
• ★Paste Parties: The Ephemeral, Chaotic Joy of Random Clipboards Yesterday, I posted a tweet asking to see everyone's clipboards, and got over 2,000 pasted replies. It's a snapshot of digital ephemera, stripped of context, reflecting our work, lives, and concerns.
  Apr 23
• Kickstarting Flatter Me: A Compliment Battle Card Game My wife Ami made @flattermecards, a compliment battle card game now funding on Kickstarter, super close to the goal and ending this Friday. It's kind and gentle and adorable, and I hope you check it out.
  Apr 14

2019

• Bbbreaking News: Discovering Amateur News Videos by Monitoring Journalists on Twitter In August, I tweeted an idea for a breaking news site that monitored reporters asking for broadcast rights on Twitter. @probablycorey built it, and it's great.
  Dec 10
• The Tools I Use: My Setup, 11 Years Later Nearly 11 years and more than 1,000 interviews after @waferbaby first asked if he could interview me for Uses This, it's finally done.
  Dec 9
• ★How Artists on Twitter Tricked Spammy T-Shirt Stores Into Admitting Their Automated Art Theft Spammy bots are searching Twitter for images to illegally sell on t-shirts, so the indie artists they're ripping off teamed up to subvert them.
  Dec 4
• Adam Koford’s Bootleg Peanuts Reboot I'm in love with @apelad's bootleg Peanuts comics, so I aggregated them all into one place for easy reading.
  Nov 29
• ★Unraveling the Mystery of “Visit Eroda,” The Tourism Campaign For An Island That Doesn’t Exist Unraveling the mystery of @visiteroda, the strangely well-funded tourism campaign for an island that does not exist.
  Nov 25
• ★Turning Photos into 2.5 Parallax Animations with Machine Learning A new Python machine learning library turns static photos into 2.5D animations. I threw Gordon Sondland, The Beatles, Disaster Girl, and others at it to see what happens.
  Nov 20
• The Deletion of Yahoo! Groups and Archive Team’s Rescue Effort Yahoo! Groups is purging the archives from its 20+ year history on December 14. You can request an archive, or help Archive Team save it.
  Nov 5
• ★Painting with Pure CSS Using only a text editor and Chrome Dev Tools, @cyanharlow makes stunning CSS art for Chrome. I ran her latest through some older browsers for kicks.
  Nov 4
• ★Fast and Free Music Separation with Deezer’s Machine Learning Library My experiments with Spleeter, a jaw-dropping new library that quickly and freely separates vocals from music with machine learning.
  Nov 4
• Panic Announces Playdate Working in secret for four years, @panic just announced @playdate, a delightfully retro-modern handheld console.
  May 22
• ★Dad Remembering the life of my dad, Stephen Baio.
  Feb 5
• ★Suck.com, Gone for Good (For Good) After 23 years at its original domain, seminal webzine Suck.com appears to be permanently offline.
  Jan 11

2018

• Morph Cut Transitions on TV News BBC News modified interview footage using a morph cut transition, resulting in a hilariously awkward edit, but it raises questions about the reality of what we see.
  Dec 13
• The “Arcade” Workprint, ’90s Cyber-Cinema Without Music or Sound Effects This early workprint of "Arcade," an AI-run-amok B-movie from 1993, somehow made its way online without the final audio mix — no score or sound effects make for hilariously surreal viewing.
  Dec 13
• The Incredibly Unlikely Creation of Katamari Damacy This is a great time for Katamari Damacy fans, with the publication of L. E. Hall's new book about the game's creation and impact, coinciding with its remastered HD re-release.
  Dec 11
• Rocky Bergen’s Retro Computer Papercraft Artist/designer Rocky Bergen makes tiny papercraft retro computers and electronics — all free to print, cut, and fold.
  Dec 10
• Shrek Hacked My Spotify A year ago, I played a Spotify prank on a friend that I completely forgot about until today. It just paid off with the release of 2018 Wrapped.
  Dec 6
• Song Exploder Goes Its Own Way Song Exploder host/creator Hrishikesh Hirway is stepping back from the show after five years and 150 remarkable episodes.
  Dec 5
• Pro Office Calculator Is A Totally Normal Calculator Pro Office Calculator is a totally normal calculator that you should really, really try.
  Dec 5
• ★Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora Forget about Quora's security breach. Their ongoing efforts to block access to their content, including a multi-year ban on the Internet Archive, are reason enough to never use them.
  Dec 4
• Personal Highlights from NaNoGenMo 2018 Three of my favorite projects from this years' NaNoGenMo, a competition to generate a 50,000+ word "novel" with code during the month of November.
  Dec 3
• The End of Rookie
  Nov 30
• 1990s Tech In Danny Boyle’s “The Beach” A look back at Leonardo DiCaprio using '90s technology in Danny Boyle's film, The Beach.
  Nov 30
• ★Demi Adejuyigbe at XOXO 2018 Demi Adejuyigbe's two talks at XOXO were something special, spotlighting his comedy and vulnerability, and both worth checking out.
  Nov 29
• The Peach Pack Tomorrow's the last day to back The Peach Pack, Ami's followup to You Think You Know Me, a fun and thoughtful game worth supporting.
  Nov 28
• ★A Tribute to YouTube Annotations YouTube just announced every video annotation will be deleted on January 15. Here's some of what will be lost.
  Nov 27
• ★Bringing XOXO Back
  Jun 28
• Kickstarting Drip I've returned to Kickstarter for a limited time as part of their new fellowship program, helping Drip get off the ground.
  Jan 9

2017

• ★You Think You Know Me My wife, @heartshapedsky, just launched You Think You Know Me—a conversational card game on Kickstarter.
  Sep 7
• Fuzzco and Me Some personal news: I joined @fuzzco as their Technology Director, and I'm looking for people to join me.
  Aug 15
• ★The Flagpole Sitta Lip Dub Turns 10 The Flagpole Sitta lip dub came out 10 years ago today, subverting the meme to spawn a global phenomenon.
  Apr 20
• ★Pogo’s Politics Remix artist Pogo's work is brilliant, but his views on women and politics would alienate many of his fans—and he seems to know it.
  Apr 18
• ★Closing Communities: FFFFOUND! vs MLKSHK Seminal image-sharing communities FFFFOUND! and MLKSHK are shutting down next month—in very different ways.
  Apr 13
• Bad Lip Reading’s Force Awakens remix taken down by questionable copyright claim Bad Lip Reading's hilarious The Force Awakens remix taken down by a questionable YouTube copyright claim
  Apr 6
• Reply All’s The Russian Passenger How did Gimlet CEO Alex Blumberg's Uber account get hacked? The latest @replyall found the answer.
  Apr 6
• The Portlandification of Pot In Portland, even drugs are an artisanal, farm-to-table experience.
  Apr 5
• ★This Must Be The /r/Place The chaotic wonder of Reddit Place, a million-pixel canvas turned battleground
  Apr 4
• ★The Long Cold Winter The long, cold winter is over. Waxy is back, along with the relaunch of Upcoming.org.
  Apr 3

2016

• Jenn Schiffer and Lucy Bellwood at XOXO 2016 Two talks from this year's XOXO worth watching, from engineer/artist @jennschiffer and cartoonist @LuBellWoo.
  Nov 29
• Liza Daly’s Generative Blackout Poetry For NaNoGenMo, @liza made Blackout—a Python script that generates blackout poems in the style of @austinkleon.
  Nov 23
• ★Go to Bed
  Nov 23
• John Roderick and the Myth of No Effort John Roderick and the myth of no effort—if your work is hard, you're a failure. If it's easy, you're a fraud.
  Nov 22
• IFComp crowns its first non-parser game For the first time in its 22 year history, @ifcomp's winner can be played without a keyboard.
  Nov 21
• Teaching good manners to soldiers in the 1940s "Ladies do not like the whistling" and other advice from a 1949 Army guide to personal conduct.
  Nov 18
• The end of What.cd, the internet’s biggest and best music collection What.cd shut down, deleting the internet's biggest and best music collection
  Nov 17
• ★Creativity in a Post-Trump America
  Nov 14
• ★Remembering XOXO 2016
  Nov 1
• ★Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition
  Nov 1
• Pirating the Oscars 2016
  Jan 19

2015

• The First Round Capital Holiday Train Wreck
  Dec 17
• ★If Drake Was Born A Piano
  Dec 15
• Lying With a Zero Axis
  Dec 14
• Tracking the "Trump Is A Comment Section Running for President" Joke
  Dec 14
• Psychonauts and Double Fine's Relentless Experimentation
  Dec 12
• Poker, Wikipedia, and the Singular They
  Dec 11
• The Joy of Getting Hacked
  Dec 10
• Embedding Software History
  Feb 13
• ★Never Trust A Corporation To Do A Library’s Job
  Jan 28
• ★Pirating the 2015 Oscars: HD Edition Pirates are now watching films at higher quality than the industry insiders voting on them.
  Jan 22
• Block With Abandon
  Jan 13

2014

• ★Playing With My Son
  Dec 9
• Black Lives Matter
  Nov 26
• Too Many Cooks
  Nov 6
• Analyzing 72 Hours of #Gamergate
  Oct 28
• ★72 Hours of #Gamergate Digging through 316,669 tweets from three days of Twitter’s two-month-old trainwreck
  Oct 27
• Runnin' On Empty
  Oct 17
• Justin Hall at XOXO
  Oct 17
• Gamergate Is Running Out of Heroes
  Oct 16
• Middling
  Oct 16
• The Problem with Ello
  Sep 25
• ★How to Flawlessly Predict Anything on the Internet Spark conspiracies, incite riots, and predict the future with a confidence scam for the Twitter era
  Jul 15
• Chloe
  Jul 9
• Friending the App Store How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest. Here’s one way to fix it.
  Jun 19
• ★Diary of a Corporate Sellout
  May 28
• Every Lonely Sandwich Video At The Same Time
  May 15
• The Return of Upcoming.org
  May 7
• ★‘JIF’ Is the Format. ‘GIF’ Is the Culture
  Apr 29
• Medium Is The Message
  Apr 29
• The Indiepocalypse at Webstock 2014
  Apr 14
• Dirty, Fast, and Free Audio Transcription with YouTube
  Jan 24
• ★Ellen DeGeneres' "Walter Mitty" Screener Leaks Online
  Jan 9

2013

• ★GoldieBlox and the Three MCs
  Nov 26
• Listen to MEEE
  Nov 15
• Fix Your Boring Slides
  Nov 14
• ★Remembering XOXO 2013
  Nov 13
• ★Screens on Screen
  Jul 11
• How XOXO Works
  Jun 28
• XOXO 2013
  Jun 21
• These Aren't the PRISMs You're Looking For
  Jun 7
• The Spelunky Dance
  May 1
• How You Can Help Save Upcoming.org, Posterous, and More
  Apr 20
• ★The Death of Upcoming.org
  Apr 19
• ★The New Prohibition
  Apr 15
• Real SXSW Headlines Found on Twitter in the Last 15 Minutes
  Mar 7
• How Long Is The Mailbox Line?
  Feb 22
• Indiepocalypse: Harlem Shake Edition
  Feb 21
• Playfic Turns One
  Feb 19
• More Angry Songs about Record Labels
  Feb 1
• The Indiepocalypse
  Jan 31
• NRA's New Commercial Made Truthy
  Jan 16
• ★Aaron
  Jan 16
• Inglewood Police Chase, Synchronized Split-Screen
  Jan 15
• Glitch: The Text Adventure, and Other Fun with Playfic
  Jan 4

2012

• ★The Unified Theory of XOXO
  Dec 7
• Spelunky Pancakes
  Jul 9
• Can't Wait for iOS 6? Renegade Developers Trade Access for Cash
  Jun 21
• Busting the iOS 6 Transit Map Myths
  Jun 13
• Turning Patrons into Producers: Fan-Commissioned Art on Kickstarter
  Jun 7
• Content ID Run Amok: Isaac's Lip-Dub Proposal Removed from YouTube
  Jun 7
• Google+ Search API Weirdness
  May 29
• ★Introducing XOXO
  May 24
• The Final ROFLCon and Mobile's Impact on Internet Culture
  May 14
• ★Criminal Creativity: Untangling Cover Song Licensing on YouTube
  May 14
• History of Yahoo CEOs: Tenure vs. Stock Price
  May 14
• Super Mario Summary Shame
  Apr 27
• In a Rigged Game, Twitter's IPA Lets Developers Rewrite the Rules
  Apr 19
• Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs
  Apr 18
• Waxy.org Turns 10
  Apr 14
• ★Instagram's Buyout: How Does It Measure Up?
  Apr 11
• The Fun Pass Is An Awesome Deal
  Apr 11
• The End of Expert Labs, The Start of Something New
  Apr 9
• Flashback Trojan Creators Scared of Xcode, But Not Norton Antivirus
  Apr 6
• Crate-Digging Through YouTube
  Apr 6
• Waiting for Molydeux: What the Web Could Learn from Indie Games
  Apr 5
• Sightseeing 8-Bit Maps with 1-Bit Camera
  Mar 31
• ★A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work
  Mar 24
• ★YouTube's Content ID Disputes Are Judged by the Accuser
  Mar 2
• ★Introducing Playfic
  Feb 15
• ★The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox
  Feb 11
• Pirating the Oscars 2012: Ten Years of Data
  Jan 31
• Why SOPA and PIPA Must Die
  Jan 18
• Spotify vs. Rdio, Part 2: The Billboard Charts
  Jan 17

2011

• Spotify vs. Rdio: Who Has the Exclusives?
  Dec 14
• ★No Copyright Intended
  Dec 9
• Tracking the U.S. Government’s Response to #Occupy on Twitter
  Nov 29
• ★Viewing the UC Davis Pepper Spraying from Multiple Angles
  Nov 21
• ★Google Analytics A Potential Threat to Anonymous Bloggers
  Nov 16
• Arcade Improv: Humans Pretending to Be Videogames
  Nov 10
• ★Supercut: Anatomy of a Meme
  Nov 3
• ★Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back
  Oct 27
• ★Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late
  Oct 4
• Geek's Guide to Portland
  Sep 30
• Gamer Recreations of the World Trade Center
  Sep 11
• Heello is Twitter for Pretending
  Aug 11
• There's No Wrong Way to Play Monopoly
  Jul 25
• Sweet Tea
  Jul 24
• Lessons Learned from the President's Tweet
  Jul 22
• ★Kind of Screwed
  Jun 23
• ★Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator
  Jun 13
• ★Making Supercut.org
  May 16
• ThinkBack, Playing with ThinkUp's New API
  May 3
• Waxy Goes to SXSW Interactive 2011
  Mar 7
• How I Indexed The Daily
  Feb 23
• ★The Daily: Indexed
  Feb 3
• ★Metagames: Games About Games
  Feb 1
• Colorblind Leading the Blind
  Jan 27
• Pirating the 2011 Oscars
  Jan 26

2010

• ★Wikileaks Cablegate Reactions Roundup
  Nov 30
• ★Joining Expert Labs
  Nov 12
• Memeorandum Colors v0.2, or How Not to Ask for A Bugfix
  Aug 5
• An Open-Source History of Mondo 2000
  May 12
• Pixeljam and James Kochalka's Glorkian Warrior
  Mar 22
• Kickstarter at SXSW 2010
  Mar 11
• ★Interviewing Ted Rall on Comics Journalism in Afghanistan
  Feb 22
• Regarding Foursquare and Please Rob Me
  Feb 19
• DEN.net and the Top 100 Websites of 1999
  Feb 11
• Pirating the 2010 Oscars
  Feb 3

2009

• Audio Analysis of the Beatles Multitrack Masters
  Oct 11
• Kind of Bloop On Sale
  Aug 20
• ★Code Rush in the Creative Commons
  Jul 31
• Joining Kickstarter
  Jul 20
• ★Meme Scenery
  May 26
• ★Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis
  May 12
• 419 Scammer Gets Honest
  May 4
• Kickstarter Launches!
  Apr 28
• ★Category Inflation at the Webbys
  Apr 14
• ★Attribution and Affiliation on All Things Digital
  Apr 8
• Waxy.org at SXSW Interactive 2009
  Mar 10
• ★Translating "The Economist" Behind China's Great Firewall
  Feb 26
• John Hodgman on "meh"
  Feb 24
• ★Robin Hood's "Oo De Lally," Translated Into 16 Languages
  Feb 5
• Pirating the 2009 Oscars
  Jan 22

2008

• ★The Faces of Mechanical Turk
  Nov 20
• Musicians Get Meta in Guitar Hero and Rock Band
  Nov 19
• Deconstructing Google Mobile's Voice Search on the iPhone
  Nov 18
• Yes We Did
  Nov 4
• Girl Talk's Feed the Animals: The Official Sample List
  Oct 29
• ★Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey
  Oct 10
• Found Footage: Sarah Palin's 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant Video, Swimsuit Competition
  Sep 26
• ★Kickstarter
  Sep 23
• ★Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk
  Sep 22
• Interview with David Winton, Director of "Code Rush" Mozilla Documentary
  Sep 19
• Oddpost Co-Founder Launches Bandcamp, Publishing Platform for Musicians
  Sep 16
• Computability: Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows' Computer Video from 1984
  Sep 14
• ★Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals"
  Sep 10
• Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now
  Aug 12
• Friendfeed and Flickr
  Jul 23
• Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe's The Big Picture
  Jun 20
• Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000
  Jun 17
• The Machine That Changed the World: The World at Your Fingertips
  Jun 7
• The Machine That Changed the World: The Thinking Machine
  Jun 6
• The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback Computer
  Jun 6
• The Machine That Changed the World: Inventing the Future
  Jun 3
• ★The Machine That Changed the World: Giant Brains
  Jun 3
• BBC Two's "The Net," Episodes 2 and 5 from 1994
  May 30
• Star Wars Kid: The Data Dump
  May 21
• Garry Kasparov Griefed by Flying Penis
  May 19
• The Whitburn Project: One-Hit Wonders and Pop Longevity
  May 16
• ★The Whitburn Project: 120 Years of Music Chart History
  May 15
• BBC Two's Horizon on "The Electronic Frontier" in 1993
  Apr 23
• ZombieURL
  Apr 18
• ★Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  Apr 17
• Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2
  Apr 14
• ★Fanboy Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages
  Apr 11
• Waxy.org Redesigns
  Apr 9
• Internet Power Volume 2: Education
  Apr 2
• Game Neverending Relaunches
  Apr 1
• BBC2's The Net, first episode from April 1994
  Mar 31
• Dead Week
  Mar 27
• Olympia School District's Technology Program from 1995
  Mar 20
• Abort, Retry, or EPIC FAIL
  Mar 19
• "Hot Hot Sex" Video Removed from YouTube
  Mar 18
• ★Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web
  Mar 17
• Worst Website Ever, Redux
  Mar 9
• Interview with the creator of YouTube's new #1 video
  Mar 5
• New Video Overtakes "Evolution of Dance" for #1 Spot on YouTube
  Mar 5
• Worst Website Ever at SXSW Interactive
  Mar 3
• Joni Mitchell’s “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” Demos
  Feb 29
• Santa Monica Farmer's Market, a First-Person Narrative
  Feb 29
• Greetings from 1993!
  Feb 27
• ★ForumWarz Postmortem: Interviewing the Game's Creators
  Feb 25
• Still Alive at the Valve Party
  Feb 21
• The Jonathan Coultons of Gaming
  Feb 21
• GDC: First Impressions
  Feb 19
• Game Developer's Conference 2008
  Feb 18
• The Online Life of NIU Killer Stephen Kazmierczak
  Feb 15
• Geek Valentines
  Feb 14
• ★WIRED and The WELL
  Feb 13
• Oscilloscope Fun and Games
  Feb 12
• ★Highlights from the British MovieTone Darkweb
  Feb 11
• CNET to Shut Down Consumating
  Feb 8
• An Assortment of Random Updates, Volume 1
  Feb 7
• Origins of the "Plane on a Treadmill" Meme
  Feb 6
• Pirating the 2008 Oscars, Part 2
  Feb 5
• Pirating the 2008 Oscars (Now with 6 Years of Data)
  Feb 4
• My First Week
  Feb 1
• Brent Spiner's Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back
  Feb 1
• Social Media Founders on Undisclosed Mass Promotion
  Jan 31
• ★The Times (UK) Spamming Social Media Sites
  Jan 30
• ★Personal Ads of the Digerati
  Jan 29
• ★Colin's Bear Animation
  Jan 28

2007

• Exclusive: Yahoo! Brickhouse launches BravoNation
  Dec 20
• ★Outgoing
  Nov 12
• Five Years of Waxy
  Apr 14
• Tracking Twitter's Message Growth
  Mar 15
• Pirating the 2007 Oscars
  Jan 23

2006

• Kim Jong Il's Ringtones and Wallpaper
  Oct 24
• ★Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds
  Sep 8
• Half Life 2's Developer Commentary
  Sep 5
• ★Metafilter Sources 2006
  Jul 24
• Waxy at Webvisions 2006
  Jul 19
• California Extreme 2006
  Jul 7
• Eliot Turns Two
  Jun 9
• E3 Underdogs 2006
  May 26
• Star Wars Kid, Redux
  May 22
• Internet Jackass Day 2006
  Mar 31
• ★Litigation Cosby Threatens Waxy, You See!
  Mar 3
• Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors
  Feb 28
• Waxy Hits the Deck
  Feb 16
• Nick and Amelia's Lazy Sunday
  Jan 17

2005

• Suck.com, Gone for Good?
  Dec 30
• Dogwelder's "My Humps"
  Dec 18
• ★House of Cosbys, Mirrored
  Nov 12
• ★Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree
  Oct 4
• ETech 2006 Call for Participation
  Sep 17
• Upcoming.org Badges
  Sep 8
• Feist and the State of Music Videos Online
  Sep 1
• House of Cosbys, You See
  Aug 25
• Yahoo Launches My Web 2.0
  Jun 28
• ★Wikipedia History Contest Winners
  Jun 27
• Tom Cruise Kills Oprah
  Jun 24
• Yellow Antelope Comment Spam
  Jun 14
• Automating Wikipedia History
  Jun 14
• Happy Birthday, Eliot!
  Jun 9
• E3 Underdogs 2005
  May 26
• Star Wars EP3 Workprint Leaked Online
  May 19
• Syndic8's Search Engine Spam
  May 4
• WordPress Followup
  Apr 1
• ★WordPress Website's Search Engine Spam
  Mar 30
• Star Wars Kid TV Tribute Roundup
  Mar 20
• ETech 2005
  Mar 11
• College Trustees Kill Campus Papers
  Mar 9
• My Mom Fights to Save Community College Journalism
  Mar 8
• Yahoo's Contextual Ads in the Wild
  Feb 28
• Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer
  Feb 16
• Pirating the Oscar 2005 Screeners
  Feb 7
• A9.com on The O.C.
  Jan 29
• Boing Boing Statistics
  Jan 21
• Waxy Links Statistics
  Jan 13

2004

• ★Amateur Tsunami Video Footage
  Dec 28
• Eliot's First Christmas
  Dec 25
• iTunes Producer Patent
  Dec 22
• The Future of Movie Theaters
  Dec 1
• The Grey Video
  Nov 18
• Disney Suppressing the Kleptones
  Nov 17
• Eliot's Previously Owned Vessels
  Nov 12
• Greg Knauss on the Political Divide
  Nov 3
• Bandwidth Blown!
  Oct 31
• Internet Vets for Truth
  Oct 28
• ★Afro-Ninja Found!
  Oct 22
• Mazda's Viral Marketing
  Oct 21
• Jon Stewart on Crossfire
  Oct 15
• New SEO Technique in the Works?
  Oct 12
• Star Wars Kid in Tony Hawk Underground 2
  Oct 11
• ★Kleptones, "Night at the Hip-Hopera"
  Sep 23
• Alt-Rock Karaoke 2004
  Sep 8
• Olympics 2004 on Usenet
  Aug 24
• Mooncheese, Old-School Graphic Demo in Pure DHTML/Javascript
  Aug 9
• Metafilter Sources
  Aug 6
• Knauss on Paul Graham's "Great Hackers"
  Jul 29
• Fun with iDictate Transcription
  Jul 29
• All Music Guide’s Response to Redesign Complaints
  Jul 13
• New All Music Guide Launches
  Jul 12
• Jaleco Borrows PocketNES Emulator Source Code
  Jul 9
• Anchorman's Friendster Marketing
  Jul 9
• ★Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game
  Jul 1
• ★Waxy's Bandwidth Blowout #1: Heat Vision and Jack
  Jun 25
• Dave Winer Remix Contest Winners
  Jun 22
• Dave Winer Remix Contest
  Jun 16
• It's Baby Time
  Jun 13
• Ronald Reagan's Body
  Jun 5
• New Harry Potter Film Pirated Online
  Jun 4
• Local Mirror of "Fahrenheit 9/11" Trailer
  Jun 4
• Every Beatles Song in Alphabetical Order
  May 27
• Wayne White's Text Art
  May 25
• Cameron Marlow's "Weblogs and Authority"
  May 24
• Shrek 2 and 0-Day Movie Piracy
  May 20
• E3 Oddball Roundup
  May 16
• I'll Kiss Asses for E3 Passes
  May 6
• Ancient CD-ROM Shovelware
  Apr 16
• Internet Jackass Day 2004
  Apr 1
• Disney's New York World's Fair Box Set
  Mar 30
• InfocomBot Update
  Mar 25
• ★Nanniebots: Hoax, Fraud, or Delusion?
  Mar 23
• ★InfocomBot for AOL Instant Messenger
  Mar 21
• Help Wanted
  Mar 8
• Radio Vox Populi
  Mar 3
• 120 Minutes Playlist Statistics
  Mar 2
• ★Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album MP3s
  Feb 11
• Subscribe to Salon, Make $7
  Feb 10
• On Sydney
  Feb 9
• ★Waxy v2.0
  Jan 22
• ★Researching the 2004 Oscar Screeners
  Jan 14
• Oscar Screeners and Industry Denial
  Jan 13
• Socialgrid Kookiness
  Jan 8
• Earthstation 5 Hires Sex.com’s Stephen Michael Cohen
  Jan 6
• Computer Chronicles on 1980s Gaming
  Jan 4

2003

• Clear Channel Goes Indie?
  Dec 30
• Cannibalism on the Web
  Dec 4
• New Opus Comic
  Nov 24
• Bloggers Volume 1
  Nov 14
• Let Me Sing It For You
  Nov 14
• Self-Publicity Roundup
  Nov 13
• Anton Maiden, Dead
  Nov 9
• Kids Show
  Oct 30
• Cubs Fan
  Oct 15
• Paypal Challenges BitPass
  Oct 13
• Low-Threshold Miniblog
  Oct 9
• Half-Life 2 Beta Leaked
  Oct 7
• ★Upcoming.org Launch!
  Sep 19
• Hurricane Isabel Webcams
  Sep 18
• Butt Rock Lifestyle
  Sep 17
• Double Dee and Steinski's "The Lesson"
  Sep 2
• MAME Online with Kaillera
  Aug 31
• Bush's Corporate Grassroots Effort
  Aug 19
• Fun with Google's Calculator
  Aug 14
• RIAA PSA
  Aug 12
• Fun with Google's New Synonym Operator
  Aug 4
• Pervading Animal and Elk Cloner
  Aug 3
• Harv Was There
  Jul 31
• California Extreme 2003
  Jul 23
• 12hr Project
  Jul 22
• ★Santa Monica Farmer's Market Tragedy
  Jul 16
• Shipping the Star Wars Kid's Presents
  Jul 16
• Free Half-Life 1
  Jul 11
• New Disney Rides-to-Movies
  Jul 10
• Celebrity Moblogging
  Jul 2
• Piracy, Bad
  Jun 25
• Grandma
  Jun 23
• Browser-Based Webpage Voting
  Jun 19
• Personal Bits
  Jun 17
• Space Ghost Kid
  Jun 10
• Newly Digital: Hack's Retreat
  May 31
• Ghyslain Pursues Legal Action
  May 29
• The Transfiguration of Harold Maines
  May 29
• The First $2.5 Thousand Is the Hardest
  May 29
• Gameboy Advance Linkers
  May 28
• Half-Life 2
  May 23
• Final Tally for the iPod Fund
  May 21
• Media Coverage of the Star Wars Kid
  May 18
• ★Finding the Star Wars Kid
  May 13
• E3 2003
  May 13
• Search the iTunes Music Store
  May 9
• ★Star Wars Kid
  Apr 29
• Classmates.com: The TV Series
  Apr 21
• Classic Rock Massage
  Apr 20
• 1st Birthday
  Apr 16
• Parodeities
  Apr 15
• Madonna's P2P Bombing
  Apr 14
• VH-1 Co-Opts Singing Kitten Meme
  Apr 12
• Blogger Joins the Google Appliance?
  Apr 10
• Emulation Roundup
  Apr 9
• Saddam Pirates Movies
  Apr 7
• ★Typo Popularity Tracking with Google
  Apr 3
• Alt-Rock Karaoke
  Apr 2
• Mini-Waxy
  Apr 1
• The Geometry of Japanese Schoolgirls
  Mar 31
• Shade and Interactive Fiction
  Mar 28
• Open CD-ROM Drive with VBScript
  Mar 27
• ★Bias Affects Story Updates on Political Weblogs
  Mar 27
• Hiding Secret Images
  Mar 26
• Shock and Awe Spam
  Mar 21
• Decapitation Attack
  Mar 19
• My Mom Gets a Blog
  Mar 17
• eBay to RSS
  Mar 17
• Beat It, Waxy
  Mar 15
• Elizabeth Smart Kidnapped by Steve Miller Fans
  Mar 14
• Dixie Chicks Boycotted
  Mar 14
• Crispin Glover on Letterman
  Mar 13
• Defeating Scott Baio
  Mar 7
• Evil RSS Feeds
  Feb 28
• Mat Honan Is A Badass
  Feb 24
• Crazy Baby Zoe
  Feb 21
• Gift Upgrades
  Feb 21
• Early Access to Slashdot
  Feb 19
• Coachella 2003
  Feb 19
• Yahoo Message Boards Critique Blogs
  Feb 17
• Google Buys Blogger
  Feb 15
• DirectConnect
  Feb 14
• Loudon Wainwright's "Something for Nothing"
  Feb 12
• Freenet's Ian Clarke Speaking at C-Level
  Feb 10
• Listening to EXEs as MP3s
  Feb 7
• The $125,000 Tattoo
  Feb 6
• Audioscrobbler
  Feb 5
• Space Shuttle Columbia
  Feb 1
• Sawmill Log Analyzer
  Jan 31
• ★NYT and Lost Friends
  Jan 29
• Black Diamond
  Jan 24
• Andre Torrez Is Dying
  Jan 21
• Boston Globe Interview
  Jan 19
• ★Eldred, Shared Culture Loses
  Jan 15
• Price Is Right's Greatest Wins
  Jan 13
• Native Windows Emulation in OS X
  Jan 10
• There.com Launches Beta
  Jan 8
• Mind-Control Weapons
  Jan 7
• Mahir Kisses Gettingit.com
  Jan 5

2002

• RIAA Hacked Again
  Dec 30
• iPod Improvements
  Dec 30
• Dumb Laptops
  Dec 27
• Forever A Kid
  Dec 27
• Under Construction
  Dec 26
• Top 10 Albums for 2002
  Dec 24
• Binary Finger Counting
  Dec 12
• The National Wax Association
  Dec 11
• Faux Community
  Dec 6
• Fight Spam With Spam
  Dec 4
• A Little Too Accessible
  Dec 3
• Doomsday Cult Destroys 1980s Rock
  Nov 17
• CoJag Games Added to MAME
  Nov 15
• Waxy in Bangkok
  Nov 9
• ★October 2002 Dictionary Domains
  Nov 6
• Wired Covers Memefest
  Nov 1
• Memefest 2002
  Oct 29
• EMI Anti-Piracy VP
  Oct 29
• Content-Management with Bricolage
  Oct 23
• Virtual Desktops in Windows 2000
  Oct 22
• Simpsons Smoking on Thai TV
  Oct 17
• Warez File List from 1995
  Oct 9
• Best Optical Illusion Ever
  Sep 25
• BalloonAnimalCon
  Sep 20
• Jack Welch and Mr. Burns
  Sep 16
• Might and McSweeney's
  Sep 16
• Unclaimed Property
  Sep 13
• 2002 California Extreme Roundup
  Sep 11
• American Idol, Remixed
  Sep 4
• Magazine Pirates
  Sep 3
• ★Steve Martin Fans
  Aug 29
• "Name That Tune" Search Engines
  Aug 26
• California Extreme 2002
  Aug 23
• Gettingit Redesign
  Aug 20
• Leprechaun in the Hood
  Aug 17
• Spamming Weblog Comments
  Aug 16
• Dark Shadows Online Role-Playing
  Aug 8
• Virile Uncle Joe
  Aug 5
• The Eminem Rag
  Jul 21
• Dictionary Domains
  Jul 20
• NetControl Archive
  Jul 15
• Living Room Parties
  Jul 13
• Gene Kan, Dead at 25
  Jul 8
• Baio.net
  Jul 4
• Today Show Catfight
  Jul 3
• Metafilter Stats Databased
  Jul 2
• Rufus the Amazon Dog
  Jun 30
• Waxy Backlinks v0.05
  Jun 29
• Spock and Data
  Jun 24
• Easynews
  Jun 24
• Fidonet creator Tom Jennings in Chinatown
  Jun 20
• The First $20 Million
  Jun 19
• Meaty vs Meetup
  Jun 15
• ID3 Tag Editing
  Jun 13
• The Onion's Meta Tags
  Jun 12
• SonicBlue is Awesome
  Jun 10
• Free Blockbuster Rentals
  Jun 4
• Surprise, Marketers Hate Spam Filters
  Jun 3
• Dad’s Kidneys
  May 31
• Heart of the Alien
  May 28
• E3 2002
  May 24
• ★Dar Kabatoff's In Town
  May 21
• Going There.com
  May 15
• Googling the Onion
  May 14
• Backlinks
  May 10
• The Forbidden Web
  May 9
• Playstation 2 Emulation
  May 8
• The Roots of Hotmail
  May 7
• Useless but Good
  May 6
• Googlebombing
  May 3
• Identity Theft
  May 1
• ★Tracking the All Your Base Meme with Usenet
  Apr 29
• Predicting the Web-Enabled Desktop
  Apr 24
• Meow Mix Jingle Tour
  Apr 23
• Birthday #25
  Apr 22
• Tourist Guy Avatar
  Apr 22
• 1983 Video Game Olympics
  Apr 19
• Anime Dress-Up
  Apr 17
• Spambots and Dynamic E-mail Addresses
  Apr 16
• The Basic Idea
  Apr 14