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July 3, 2008

Rolando, Loco Roco clone for App Store

— looks promising #

Fox News alters photos of NYT reporter in critical segment

— watching the clip reminded me of high school via streeter.tumblr.com #

Flowing Data's infographic history of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

— barring another breakthrough, my money’s on Chestnut #

The Last Days of Dr. Wily

— don’t miss the screenshots at the end via Eliot Phillips #
July 2, 2008

Boing Boing responds to "that Violet Blue thing"

— Xeni and David respond in the comments #
June 30, 2008

Netflix team decides to keep Profiles after community backlash

— good move, the users are rejoicing #

Aza Raskin announces Algorithm Ink and ContextFree.js, making art with Javascript

— Resig mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but Aza’s video demo is a must-see #

Chuck Klosterman asks 100 German college students to name the most interesting 20th Century American

— wide range, from George Gershwin to Jared Leto via Fimoculous #

Anil Dash on Bill Gates and The Greatest Tech Hack Ever

— still catching up from vacation, this hit Digg but worth reading if you missed it #

Josh Harris tells Boing Boing that Pseudo.com was conceptual art

— don’t miss Douglas Rushkoff’s comment about his Pseudo investment #

Habbo Hotel may soon overtake World of Warcraft's total subscribers

— then again, it’s free to register and there’s no client via Delicious #

GlaGPS, GlaDOS voice for the Garmin Nuvi

— how about a JOSHUA voice pack next? #

Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr with code_swarm

— see also: Federated Media and Django via Delicious #

No Country for Raising Arizona

— deliberately or not, the Coen Brothers quote from their early work via Daring Fireball #

LA Times on YouTube's Fred

— insanely popular with tweens, he has 242k subscribers and a sponsorship deal; here’s an interview #

There's No Such Thing As New Wave

— animated type via Chris Glass #

Sound Chaser

— broken vinyl used as train tracks; don’t miss the video via Delicious #

Tom Taylor's Delighting with Data

— presentation about clever parsing hacks, several oriented around Twitter via Delicious #

Electronic Arts veteran starts iPhone-only gaming startup

— some insights into what’s attractive about the platform for game developers #
June 29, 2008

Last.fm launches new public API

— a huge upgrade, with write support and many new methods #

One Post Wonder

— collection of blogs who never got past their first post via Delicious #

Google releases data dump of US copyright renewal records

— Jarkko Hietaniemi, you’re my hero #

Nintendo DS homebrew music apps

— I hope niche apps like these move over to App Store via Delicious #

Winners of the Procedural Generation Game competition

— Rescue: The Beagles looks like fun, and some of the other entries are intriguing via GameSetWatch #

Boing Boing removes over 100 70 posts linking to Violet Blue

— whether this was a glitch or vendetta, some sort of response would be nice via Fimoculous #

Biotech firm Analtech creates viral video to attract the youngsters

— they spent $60,000 and had 44 performers, including a congressman; sounds like a massive train wreck #

Anonymous Yahoo employee snarks on the re-org

— pure sarcasm, but sums up the shuffling as viewed from the ground via Delicious #
June 28, 2008

Kevn Kelly on brute-forcing science

— an excellent companion piece to Chris Anderson’s Wired cover story #

Wall-E's easter eggs and inside jokes

— with more unconfirmed ones listed in the comments #
June 26, 2008

Waxy on Vacation

— or: why I’m awfully quiet this week #
June 25, 2008

The Paper Version of the Web

— early paper prototypes for Flickr, Twitter, Vimeo, and others via Delicious #

Exaggeration with Maps

— in one example, one pixel represents 114 miles via Mike Migurski #
June 24, 2008

Metafilter's Guide to Indie Platformers

— a brilliant primer with some familiar names to Waxy readers, and plenty of new ones #
June 23, 2008

The Simpsons map for Quake III Arena

— incredible detail, including the Simpsons house, Moe’s, and much of Springfield via Delicious #
June 22, 2008

Perfect game of Peggle, 18 million points

— the amount of planning in the how-to is staggering #

Gamasutra on Nintendo DS piracy in South Korea

— media piracy of all kinds is pervasive and not stigmatized via GameSetWatch #

Jim Le Fevre's zoetrope built from a Technics turntable

— like a real-life animated GIF via @russelldavies #

Kanye West on Ice-T vs. Soulja Boy

— hip-hop rivalries in the YouTube age via Fimoculous #

"Where the Hell is Matt?", the 2008 sequel in HD quality

— exactly two years from his first video, Matt returns from a 14-month journey around the world #

Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children's Healthcare

— “the majority of respondents shrieked ‘NOOO!'” via jeffrubinjeffrubin.com #
June 21, 2008

Simple Truths, a quiet video of parkour training

— more discipline than sport, this seems truer to parkour values than the over-the-top highlight videos #
June 20, 2008

Ian Rogers unveils Topspin, his digital music marketing startup

— one of the smartest guys I know, I’m keeping a close eye on this #

History of the TiVo peanut remote control

— story of the design process with several photos of prototypes via pvrblog.com #

Chop Shop's The Internets meme t-shirt, annotated

— all the memes are found, thanks to help from ChopShop #

Limbo Of The Lost – An Astonishing Tale

— full list of plagiarized works; don’t miss the Photoshop competition, including this one #

The Onion AV Club interviews Jonathan Coulton's iPod

— this is a great format for interviewing musicians via jonathancoulton.com #

Penny Arcade on Lego fruit snacks

— unfortunately, the bottoms are flat so they don’t stack nicely via Simon Willison #

Edith Macefield, Ballard woman who refused to sell her home, passes away at 86

— wonderful story; I’m not the only one who was reminded of The Little House #
June 19, 2008

Girl Talk's Feed the Animals, outstanding illegal mashup album

— I gave $20 towards the inevitable legal costs; preview it on Hype Machine, partial sample list on Wikipedia #

First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival from 1979

— MP3s for the entire vinyl LP; I love hearing digital through an analog medium #
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