January 2004 - Waxy.org

January 29, 2004

Alan's Orgulator web toy for IE 5.5+ — the only compelling reason to start IE in months #

Pixar ends talks with Disney — how will Pixar fare without Disney's marketing machine? #

Video: David Bradley explains the origins of Ctrl-Alt-Del — and disses a pissed-off looking Bill Gates in the process #

Teen Gets Blood Clot Playing Xbox — deep vein thrombosis from kneeling, via #

Tolkein as Calculus #

Video: sports bloopers from NES games — the Excitebike one still cracks me up #

RealNetworks teams with Heineken for free song giveaways — logical, since you'd have to be drunk to choose RealAudio #

Video: Pepsi's iTunes commercial — putting young faces to the statistics can't be good for the RIAA's PR campaign #

Microsoft recommends manually typing all URLs — a great solution to Internet Explorer's URL spoofing vulnerability #

Currency of the lost Victorian colony of Nadiria — beautiful designs, I like the $91 dollar bills best #

P2P companies say they can't filter #

Wired profiles The Minibosses, the best NES cover band — sadly, their new homepage removed most of the MP3, but try here #

X68000 Floppy Disk image gallery — more about the Sharp X68000 from 1987 #

Image: Yet Another 48 Hours — Nick Nolte and James Brown, via spingo #

January 28, 2004

MPAA's "Internet Enforcement" Manager job listing — Working knowledge of DMCA and copyright law preferred #

Confessions of a Car Salesman — fascinating series by an Edmunds.com writer going undercover #

Classic Sierra adventure games on the GBA — King's Quest, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and more #

MSN Search beta is live #

Slow motion movies — also, slow-motion gunplay #

Kaba Kick, Russian Roulette for kids — you know... for kids! #

Alexa Movers & Shakers — Orkut up 18,000% #

January 27, 2004

Gameboy Advance wireless link adapter — beat up your friends across the room #

New Face of the Digital Age — putting a human face to India's tech outsourcing #

Julian Dibbell sold his virtual house — a castle for only $600? that's it, I'm moving to Brittania #

Modding a G5 into an Athlon XP — or: how to reduce a Mac user to tears #

Google Grants — background on the AdSense PSAs #

PocketNES author developing an SNES emulator for the GBA — here's an 8MB video of Super Mario World gameplay #

Democratic Candidates and their Cartoon Equivalents #

GoogObits — obituaries and essays augmented by Google searches #

Six Degrees of Livejournal — find the shortest path between two users #

Car Stuck Girls — safe for work, pedal pumping and stranded auto fetish #

MyDoom designed to take down SCO website — I hate SCO as much as anyone, but this is beyond lame #

Dio for America — you've been left on your own like a rainbow in the dark #

January 26, 2004

Being your friend is hard work — Kottke gets meta on social software #

Dreamweaver Studio MX 2004 causes epileptic seizures? — the effect is simulated here #

Lycos Discontinues Communities — including Chat, Message Boards, Clubs and Image Galleries #

Cellphones and Internet use in mental hospitals #

Vocaloid singing synthesis software demo songs — strange, everyone sounds like Peter Frampton #

First episode of Dave Eggers' political serial novel #

Plastination see-through human wallpaper — preserved human bodies in silly action poses #

Philips rollable electronic paper — with nice video demonstrations #

Interview with Streamcast CEO about Morpheus — the new version leeches off other P2P networks, but they blame Kazaa #

Lieberman denounces Grand Theft Auto — counterpoint: what Lieberman is missing #

Cockney Rhyming Slang dictionary — check out this wind and kite #

Seattle newspaper customizes their homepage by time of day — big news in the morning, lighter stories after lunch #

TiVo buys super-secret Strangeberry — much speculation about the nature of the company #

Torrents.us, an anonymous open BitTorrent tracker — if you want to create your own torrents, this is a good bet #

January 25, 2004

Justin Frankel resigns from AOL and Nullsoft — happened Friday morning, but I haven't seen this anywhere #

Orkut down for improvements — probably wise, considering the security issues and current criticisms #

Great UI design for a platform crane #