Waxy.org is the sandbox of From this unusual page about the Simpsons in Thailand, check out the three censored screen grabs of Patty and Selma. In addition to banning smoking in most public places, the Thailand government mandated a ban on depictions of smoking on television. Still, California is stricter on one count: you can smoke in bars and nightclubs in Thailand. (Found while searching for this Simpsons sound clip.)
Simpsons Smoking on Thai TV
Posted Oct 17, 2002
October 12, 2008
Ultima creator Richard Garriott launched into space
— Lord British spending 10 days on the International Space Station for a cool $30 million
Moral psychology testing on Amazon Mechanical Turk
— Brendan O'Connor's blog is one of my new favorites; he works at Dolores Labs
Conplot, a commandline plotter with ASCII art
— for use with piping from sort|uniq -c and the like
October 11, 2008
Preview of Gomibako, like Tetris with garbage
— every object has physical properties, so trash can be crushed, burned, or toppled
October 10, 2008
Gary Vaynerchuk on recession-proof marketing and dumb advertising
— don't miss the part where he queries his UStream followers in real-time
October 9, 2008
October 8, 2008
Tuttuki Bako, poke virtual characters in a little box
— like Tamagotchi meets Levelhead
Kevin Mitnick on the indictment of Sarah Palin's email hacker
— he also touches on his own recent encounter with U.S. customs
Portal: Prelude, extensive fan-made Portal mod, released a day early
— Gamespy loved it, but warns that it's very hard
Inspired by xkcd comic, YouTube adds audio previews for comments
— this works nicely for quick speech synthesis with simple URL hacking
NYT to close International Herald Tribune website
— I remember when their 2000 redesign blew away everyone with impressive DHTML features
Steven Levy visits Jay Walker's insane personal library
— funny, I keep all my priceless artifacts in cardboard boxes in the basement
October 7, 2008
Yahoo! Calendar finally, finally launches redesign
— ten years in the making
Chuck Klosterman's Brief History of the 21st Century
— like Kottke said, there's too much in here to like; related: Phone Sex AI
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YouTube in Super HD!
— after it buffers, try clicking "Restart" to get it in sync
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Little Big Computer, a virtual electronic 8-bit calculator built in Little Big Planet
— see also: Mechanical 5-bit Calculator in the Half-Life engine
October 6, 2008
Mail Goggles, Gmail tries to prevent late-night drunk emails
— this could also be used to keep you from answering personal email during work hours
DJ Z-Trip's Obama Mix
— very listenable pastiche of rock and hip-hop from Pink Floyd to Saul Williams with a strong political undercurrent
This American Life's Another Frightening Show About the Economy
— followup to The Giant Pool of Money episode from May
Take on Me: The Literal Version
— if songs sang what was happening in the music video
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TIGSource's Bootleg Demake competition winners
— best game competition ever
Sarah Palin's evening gown entry to the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant
— "In Alaska, we have mosquitoes."
Damn It Feels Good To Be a Banksta
— Banksta 4 Life
The Big Picture on Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Earth from Above photographs
— with convenient Google Maps links for each
October 4, 2008
Keith Loutit's tilt-shifted time-lapse videos
— reminds me of an ant colony
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The VP Debate on Auto-Tune
— it's got a beat and you can dance to it
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October 3, 2008
Flickr adds rainbow-vomiting panda feature to Explore
— finally, some innovation in the photo sharing space
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11:21 PM
http://www.oldskool.org/pc/quiz/
This is the hardest old-school computer quiz ever.
4:42 AM
The funniest example of this nonsense was in a Thai-sreened episode of the Sopranos.
Tony Soprano is in lying in bed, holding a big Cuban cigar beside his left hip. His mistress leans forward to light it for him. As her head disappears into the pixellated area, it looks like she's performing a service of an entirely different nature.
I can't imagine what Thai family audiences made of that.