Blog Profile / Waxy
| URL : | http://waxy.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology / Internet | |
| Posts on Regator: | 150 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.6 | |
| Archived Since: | May 15, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
These Aren't the PRISMs You're Looking For
I'm a little obsessed with the story that broke yesterday about PRISM, the NSA/FBI project to gather information from popular Internet services, including Facebook, Google, and Apple. So, naturally, I've been doing a lot of digging about the story on .gov websites. Show More Summary
The Spelunky Dance
First, I tweeted this to Cards Against Humanity co-creator Max Temkin. @maxtemkin Still waiting for a Dance project I care about. Someone needs to do an interpretive dance based on Spelunky or something. — Andy Baio (@waxpancake) May...Show More Summary
How You Can Help Save Upcoming.org, Posterous, and More
This morning, I woke to the news that Archive Team is working to save Upcoming. This is the Internet equivalent of hearing that Marsellus Wallace is sending The Wolf. For those unfamiliar, Archive Team is a band of rogue archivists and programmers working to rescue dead and dying websites from destruction. Show More Summary
The Death of Upcoming.org
So, Yahoo's finally decided to close Upcoming.org, the events community I started nearly ten years ago. And, in Yahoo's typical fuck-off-and-die style, they're doing it with 11 days notice and no way to back up past events. I knew its closure was inevitable after the infamous sunset slide, but never knew when it would happen. Show More Summary
The New Prohibition
Last month, I spoke at Creative Mornings/Portland about copyright, fair use, and remix culture. It started as a riff on my No Copyright Intended post, and ended up something much bigger. I really like how it came out, I hope you do ...
Real SXSW Headlines Found on Twitter in the Last 15 Minutes
Pizza Hut To Hold 140-Second Interviews For Social Media Manager Position at SXSW Meet Nyan Cat's Creator at Mashable House Tweets Will Power Doritos' 62-Foot SXSW Vending Machine Concert Stage Top the Kred SXSW 2013 Leaderboard andShow More Summary
How Long Is The Mailbox Line?
The line to try Mailbox, the new iPhone app for managing your inbox, is long. Really, really long. I signed up the day it went live in the App Store, on February 7, and finally made it to the front of the line this morning after twoShow More Summary
Indiepocalypse: Harlem Shake Edition
After four weeks topping the Billboard Hot 100, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's "Thrift Shop" was replaced this week by Bauuer's "Harlem Shake." As I wrote last month, Macklemore is only the second unsigned artist in Billboard history to...Show More Summary
Playfic Turns One
Playfic, my little interactive-fiction platform, turned one year old on Friday. I rounded up some recent news about it just last month, so I'm not going to retread that territory. But I was starting to feel guilty about ignoring it,Show More Summary
More Songs About Record Labels
The undiscovered young talent gets their big break and a record deal, and soon realizes they were swindled by corrupt management and a major label. It's an old story, and a common theme that pops up in rock songs, often from well-established bands. Show More Summary
The Indiepocalypse
For the first time in two decades, an indie artist is topping the Billboard charts. For the last three weeks, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's "Thrift Shop" has remained at the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100, beating the likes of Taylor...Show More Summary
NRA's New Commercial Made Truthy
The NRA's new Stand and Fight ad is completely truthful and accurate... if you turn it off at the right time. I took the liberty of fixing it for them.
Aaron
Last Thursday, on my last night after working a few days in NYC, I pulled together a little meetup of a few friends at Spitzer's, a great little restaurant in the Lower East Side. On a frigid Manhattan night, we all cozied up against...Show More Summary
Inglewood Police Chase, Synchronized Split-Screen
Today, a video's making the rounds of a Southern California car chase that jumped from the TV to real life, giving one young man a front-row seat to the action. I was curious to see if the video was matched up to the local TV news broadcast, so I synchronized the two videos side-by-side to see. Show More Summary
Glitch: The Text Adventure, and Other Fun with Playfic
Nearly a year ago, my nephew Cooper and I launched Playfic, a community for writing and sharing interactive fiction games from your browser. I haven't talked about the site much, and have barely touched it since we launched, but I've been delighted to see people slowly discover it and use it in interesting ways. Show More Summary
The Unified Theory of XOXO
Nearly three months have passed since XOXO, and I'm still digesting what happened in Portland on those warm September days. The writeups on The Verge, Boing Boing, and Wired summed it nicely, and I did a big roundup of reactions from...Show More Summary
Spelunky Pancakes
My eight-year-old son and I are completely obsessed with Spelunky, the brilliant 2D platformer-meets-Roguelike game that launched last week on XBLA. How obsessed? Yesterday, at brunch at Slappy Cakes, he asked me to make this: Tasty! The...Show More Summary
Can't Wait for iOS 6? Renegade Developers Trade Access for Cash
Every year, Apple's keynotes hype the latest and greatest iOS software, receive unprecedented media coverage, and tout hundreds of new features on the Apple homepage. But then, like an evil Santa Claus, Apple asks their most passionate fans to wait months to play with the new toys. Show More Summary
Busting the iOS 6 Transit Map Myths
There's a ridiculous amount of misinformation spreading online about the new maps in iOS 6, compounded by incorrect press reports, vague statements by Apple, and the developer NDAs. I'm even guilty of spreading it myself, based on reports I'd seen on the blogs. Using information provided to me by an anonymous source, I've pieced together the facts. Show More Summary
Turning Patrons into Producers: Fan-Commissioned Art on Kickstarter
Wired posted my new column yesterday, an attempt to coalesce some thoughts around a trend in fan funding that isn't really happening yet, but really should be — fans hiring artists directly to make the art they want to experience and own. Show More Summary