Waxy.org is the sandbox of I started this blog five years ago today with a basic idea: keep it original and keep it relevant. Unfortunately, I left out "keep it updated." As you can probably tell, Waxy is taking the back seat these days to other priorities, namely work and family. (I don't even have the time to weed out comment spam.) I terribly miss the quirky form of investigative reporting I used to do and I certainly miss spending more time exploring the backroads of the web. I promise I'll be back. In the meantime, the infrequent updates continue. Happy birthday, little blog!
Five Years of Waxy
Posted Apr 14, 2007
November 18, 2008
Bike Hero, biking a Guitar Hero level in the real world
— most likely a commercial viral, and maybe even fake, but does it matter? beyond awesome
Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy
— mostly posting this just to beat Rex to it
The A.V. Club's 27 popular websites that became books
— though they missed Belle de Jour, The Washingtonienne, Fucked Company, Fark, and ZUG
Speed Guitar goes to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
— every hour, on the hour, for one solid minute of metal complete with gothic arch and smoke machine
MGMT's "Kids" on the iPhone Ocarina
— "the iPhone Ocarina officially replaces the recorder as the nerdiest instrument I can play"
Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation
— my favorite was Space Mountain Snob
LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google
— millions of high-res photos, most never published
Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN
— very complementary with S3
November 17, 2008
John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the Long Winters perform "Tonight You Belong to Me"
— "Thank you, normal-sized man."
Jerry Yang stepping down from Yahoo's CEO post
— it never really fit him well, though I'll miss his e.e. cummings memos
Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch
— no, raunchy photos don't accidentally attach themselves to outbound email
Greasemonkey script to pull WikiDashboard visualization into Wikipedia
— I made a LazyWeb plea for this last week, and Paul Irish came through
Lee Byron's Fireflies, anaglyph 3D game for Mac
— part of Kokoromi's Gamma 3D showcase of anaglyph games
Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles
— read Tom Taylor's entry for more information
Cooking Mama, the Unauthorized PETA Edition
— a strangely obscure target for their attention, with a petition to write to the game's publisher
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Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld
— good writing in a nice design from Brandon Boyer, former news editor of Gamasutra
"Violet" wins the Interactive Fiction Comp 2008
— play it online; glancing at the charts, it looks like Buried in Shoes was the most divisive
Trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel
— looks surprisingly good, but I'm a sucker for origin stories; I even liked Enterprise
What would Depression 2009 look like?
— Tim sums up the thought-provoking Boston Globe article
The Pirate Bay hits 25 million simultaneous peers
— that's not unique people, but concurrent connections; Napster peaked at 26M users
Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app
— related: Chasing Ghosts will finally be released on BitTorrent Showtime in December
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The Big Picture on the California wildfires
— also: first-person coverage on Twitter and YouTube, like this freeway on fire and aftermath
Tim-Tams available at Target until March, first time available in the U.S.
— best chocolate cookies ever, the Tim Tam Slam is a chocolaty revelation
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JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash
— through a hack, it even works in IE 6
November 14, 2008
Esquire's hosting Between, the new two-player networked game by Jason Rohrer
— from the creator of Passage
"What's that buzzing noise from my BBQ?"
— he thought he was killing a few bees, but ends up annihilating an entire colony
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November 13, 2008
Kottke explains how to embed high-quality YouTube videos
— I knew how to save, link, and change the default, but the embedding hack was new to me
Web 2.0 Origami
— lazyweb, please build a converter that creates folding patterns from an uploaded image
Pixar's Burn-E short on YouTube
— here's an interview with the director
Valleywag folded into Gawker, all but Owen Thomas laid off
— I won't miss it; they hurt a lot of good people and interesting projects in the quest for pageviews
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5:39 PM
Happy Birthday, Waxy.org
It's always a pleasure reading your blog, Andy. :)
6:37 PM
a little less yahooing and more waxy!
10:13 PM
5 years is a long time.
10:42 PM
Happy Blogday!
12:39 AM
Happy birthday Waxy.org...can't wait for you to find more time for blogging again. In the meantime we still have waxy links.
1:12 AM
A mention by waxy means a torrent of interest. People know quality. Keep it going!
6:29 AM
my site's been up for the same amount of time too.
I'm updating mine less and less lately...and it seems just like a cost to me now...I'm really thinking about just auctioning it off and handing the keys to the hosting to someone else. Sad but I just don't spend all that much time on the net doing anything constructive these days...a generic run-of-the-mill funny video and pic site.
10:26 AM
Why not allow a few close friends who also have an eye for intriguing pages and stories contribute to waxy links in order to keep the spirit of the blog alive? Just a thought.
1:56 PM
Maybe a redesign is in order. The links are still updated regularly, but they're relegated to a sidebar. Kottke, for instance, just puts all the stuff in one column, and it doesn't feel like the front page is old just content. Then you can sidebar the articles, so they are easy to find.
3:42 PM
Oh, don't worry. I have big plans. They're just going to have to wait a while until things settle down.
11:01 PM
Congratulations!
I still subscribe to you, even if you take months to post. Do your thing man!
11:26 PM
Just do what you need to do, little buddy. We'll be here when you're up and running again!
Happy anniversary!
3:31 PM
Congrats. Also: beware the path of updates about a lack of updates. It does not end well.
4:00 PM
Take as long as you want -- my feedreader will still catch ya. And congrats on 5 years :-)
4:17 PM
Hey Andy, grats! Nice work. Always a pleasure cuz u have uncommon topics
9:01 PM
That's OK we still love you for the links. Always fresh!
8:24 PM
I remember when I shut down for a while and you yelled at me. I won't do the same. Heh.
Bring! Waxy! Back!
1:22 PM
Bring back ascii art!
er Waxy.. yes bring that back too ya Fink.
Teal
1:05 PM
Happy birthday! (or is an anniversary?) Your original rules are still great and I try to run my site by them except I every now and again give into #2.
4:48 AM
I'm glad you're packing not all in; I started reading your post there and thought it was a 'farewell' to blogging or something like that. Hurry back to posting. And Happy Birthday!
3:18 AM
Waxy - I am not sure you realise that you are your own brand through this blog. And its a brand more powerful than I think you realise. I agree with the fourth poster - less yahooing - more waxy. I reckon the rewards will follow.
3:21 AM
Waxy - I am not sure you realise that you are your own brand through this blog. And its a brand more powerful than I think you realise. I agree with the fourth poster - less yahooing - more waxy. I reckon the rewards will follow.
6:29 AM
Congratulations!! Five years are really a long time in the online world. Keep up writing articles for the next five years.
6:04 AM
I don't think regular updates are nessecary for a good blog! And your blog is a good one!
6:07 AM
I don't think regular updates are nessecary for a good blog! And your blog is a good one!
9:38 PM
OH, man, you have made my day, ages ago I watched the Nutragrain I feel great commercial. Then I lost it, then I found your site and bookmarked it. I still occasionally open the link and watch it over and over again. It never fails to crack me up. Thanks for keeping it up there!
Hey does your Ascii art have anything to do with Fungi...Now I have to check that out...
Sarah
1:38 AM
Glad to hear that - I've always a big fan; I helped research the pirated Oscar movies...
2:12 PM
Congratulations.
By the way, who doesn't know about the time problem? Bringing life family work ... and webthings into little 24h a day
Cheers, keep on rocking
RockTheCam
6:07 PM
Sometimes quality means more than quantity...update when you can, we'll still be here!
Danni.
10:13 PM
Been reading your linkroll for a long time. I've always enjoyed how you portray the internet's. Take you time, but life is only gonna get busier.
Thanks for all the tasty bits.
1:12 PM
Sometimes quality means more than quantity...update when you can, we'll still be here!
4:40 PM
First kottke stop posting frequently, and now you. I don't know where to turn anymore!
7:44 AM
3 posts a year? hopefully you'll post another before the end of the year. :p
9:44 AM
Anybody home?
11:03 AM
Patience! Updates coming very soon.
8:59 PM
Yay.
10:27 AM
Wow, congrats for surviving such a long time.
1:03 AM
Come back to us...
COME BACK!