April 2004 - Waxy.org

April 30, 2004

Sega rumored to announce new Dreamcast at E3 — sounds bogus to me, too #

Video: Pocketbikes at Deal's Gap — exciting footage of tiny racing bikes (via) #

Wedding Dress Guy is partially a hoax — nice gimmick, the dress sold for $3,850 (via) #

U.S. Army scolds soldiers for using P2P — the Army News Service on spyware, trojans, and copyright (via) #

i2hub, the P2P app for Internet2 — trading files at 6GB/minute (via) #

google.com/blog? — a test page now, but are they working on something? (via) #

Video: South Park's "The Aristocrats" — extremely offensive retelling of the classic joke (via) #

John Battelle's great analysis of the Google SEC filing #

Wired on the MPAA's PR campaign in schools — skip to the kids' quotes in the last couple paragraph #

Borekut — it's the boringest (via) #

Lady Pi — the effects of a lifelong career in mathematics (via) #

Multiplayer version of Great Giana Sisters — updating the Commodore 64's answer to Super Mario Bros #

1981 computer catalog — from when 10 million bytes was insanely large (via) #

Andropotterists, cross dressing Harry Potter fan art — the action figure dress-up photos are funny #

April 29, 2004

Lucasarts layoffs after game cancellations — I still can't believe they abandoned the Full Throttle and Sam & Max sequels #

Google temp employee's account of the day's events #

Gmail account auctions on eBay — one sold for $50 (via) #

iTunes 4.5 auth cracked, one day later #

Google's SEC filing — 1,900 employees, a breakdown of all assets, and more (via) #

Adam's Breedster account gets an STD — Breedster is still the weirdest social network I've ever seen #

Google Files for $2.7 billion IPO! — in other news: Evan Williams retires #

About.com redesign brings traffic increase — the redesigned site looks much better (via) #

FeedSweep, add RSS/Atom sidebars to your site — more flexible than Feedroll, and works great with Upcoming.org #

Jonathan Lethem's "My Marvel Years" (via) #

Part 4 of the Mario Brothers epic released — for reference: episodes 1, 2, and 3 (via) #

300 icons from 1800 sites — comparing arrows, posts, mail, and more (via) #

Update to last year's amazing "Cog" commercial — scroll down to the last comment, an insider smacks down the conspiracy theorists (via) #

April 28, 2004

UCLA uses new software to block file sharing — anyone have technical details about how it works? #

New Half-Life 2 screenshots (via) #

Yetisports 4 — fun game, but it only works in IE #

PHPTunes, another PHP iTunes browser — but this one supports purchasing songs, and it's open source (via) #

Image: wtctris.gif — it has to be old, but it's new to me #

The LockCup, the cup that locks — for all the Miltons of the world #

MIT student newspaper interviews Jack Valenti — absolutely brilliant grilling (via) #

GPS Drawing — the GPS equivalent of sky writing, try the Shockwave viewer (via) #

Xbox Linux cluster — check out the other photos (via) #

Powazek on iTunes randomizing — he has some great ideas for new features #

Analysis of the Memespread tracking project — one day, I'll do this with the Star Wars Kid data #

Coachella Moblog 2004 — documenting the concert in real-time (via) #

Commodore 64 to get 30-in-1 TV game — this top 50 list is a good place to start #

Update on the Hot Abercrombie Chick hoax — nice detective work from Justin and Cameron #

MP3: A Perfect Circle's "Diary of a Lovesong" — live mashup of Ozzy and the Cure #

MP3s of Japan train departure songs — they made Justin cry #

Google indexes Flash — try searching for skip intro, loading, or any Flash meme; note that it's not a new feature #

Flash: Troubled Windows — Japanese Microsoft-themed fan anime, try clicking around #

Indie Game Jam 2 games released — some good and original concepts (via) #

iTunes 4.5 released — Ask has a couple tips #

Vintage snapshots of Disneyland — more photos here and here (via) #

April 27, 2004

Nicosphere3000 — finally, I can smoke in church (via) #

State websites tattle on tax evaders — publishing lists of deadbeats to shame them into paying #