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Chatroulette Map

9 days ago

Andy Baio : Chatroulette Map - I think I'd rather not know, thanks  [via]

nelson : Chatroulette Map - The illusion of privacy disintegrates

Tags : privacy chatroulette via:waxy maps

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Lessons from Doom

19 days ago

nelson : Lessons from Doom - Interesting re-analysis of Doom in the context of contemporary FPS. Lots of things to learn.

cobra libre : Lessons from Doom - "Back then, the idea of a first person shooter was barely established, and [the] closest models... were from 2D shooters like Robotron, Berserk and Tempest." [via#

Tags : games via:Waxy doom idsoftware robotron criticism

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Sushi Cat

24 days ago

Rod Begbie : Sushi Cat - Cute fun flashgame. Sort of Peggle meets Plinko, with a sushi-eating cat. [via#

Andy Baio : Sushi Cat - damn you, Cal  [via]

nelson : Sushi cat - Silly pachinko-like game featuring sushi-eating longcat

Tags : cute flashgames games sushicat 4chan via:Waxy sushi cat neko silly flash

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Zeldman on posthumous hosting and the fragility of the creative web

2 month ago

Andy Baio : Zeldman on posthumous hosting and the fragility of the creative web - maybe a nonprofit focused on archiving individual authors? Archive.org's wonderful, but it's darkweb

philgyford : Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report - I've been pondering the same things, wondering about some kind of foundation you pay who will archive a static copy of your sites after your death. (via Waxy)

cobra libre : Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture - "But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes. We are not clairvoyants, so we cannot say which fledgling, presently little-read web publications will matter to future historians #

Tags : top via:waxy jeffreyzeldman death posterity

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Frank Cifaldi's annotated Mr. Gimmick playthrough

2 month ago

Andy Baio : Frank Cifaldi's annotated Mr. Gimmick playthrough - obscure NES gem I'd never heard of, the annotations are expertly done  [via]

nelson : NES Mr. Gimmick - Great annotated playthrough of an obscure Nintendo game. Sort of Kirby aesthetics

Tags : via:waxy games nes kirby mrgimmick famicom

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Browser Pong

3 month ago

Andy Baio : Browser Pong - only works in modern browsers, uses HTML5 audio

nelson : Browser Pong - Ridiculously awesome javascript hack

Rod Begbie : Browser Pong - Play Pong with browser windows. Neat hack. [via#

Tags : via:waxy games pong browser chrome javascript hack

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Facebook demographics

3 month ago

nelson : Facebook demographics - Great analysis by the company of the race of their users

Andy Baio : Facebook Data team releases study on user ethnicity - they compare it to the demographics of the Internet and United States

Tags : demographics ethnographics race facebook via:waxy

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Javascript game library

3 month ago

nelson : Javascript game library - Looks interesting

Andy Baio : Effect Games - web-based toolkit for making and sharing hosted JS games; see the platformer tutorial for an example

Tags : games via:waxy javascript code programming

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Automatic Mario cover of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now"

4 month ago

Andy Baio : Automatic Mario cover of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" - the amount of work here just hurts my brain  [via]

nelson : Mario vs. Queen - 4 simultaneous specially crafted Mario levels play along with "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen. It's unfathomable.

Tags : queen mario snes games music via:waxy

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HTML history: IMG tag

5 month ago

nelson : HTML history: IMG tag - Great little trip down 16 year old mailing list discussions

Andy Baio : Mark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element - told through annotated conversations from 1993  [via]

Milo Vermeulen : Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark] [via]

philgyford : Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark] - The history of the image element in HTML. A great bit of documenting internet history. (via Waxy)

Tags : internet web html standards history multimedia mime mosaic top markpilgrim webdevelopment img via:waxy

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iPhone game developer looks at piracy rates for their app

5 month ago

Andy Baio : iPhone game developer looks at piracy rates for their app - vaguely related: World of Goo's pay-what-you-like sale results

nelson : iPhone app piracy - 95% of people playing a specific game stole it. And it's only $2!

Tags : games iphone piracy drm copyright via:waxy

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Time Fcuk

6 month ago

nelson : Time Fcuk - Flash game, with amazing aesthetics as if Mother/Earthbound were made to be a giant bummer

Andy Baio : Time Fcuk - very quirky lo-fi platformer by Edmund McMillen

Tags : games puzzle via:waxy

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Codepad

7 month ago

nelson : Codepad - Share code via a website; unlike pastebin, this one runs the code too

Tags : via:waxy software pastebin

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Kind of Bloop commentary

7 month ago

nelson : Kind of Bloop commentary - Nice background on how the project happened

Tags : music milesdavis chiptunes scene via:waxy kickstarter

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Kind of Bloop

7 month ago

nelson : Kind of Bloop - Andy's chiptune project covering Miles Davis is released! Samples online now, available to the public soon

Andy Baio : Kind of Bloop released! - Bygone Bureau wrote a great behind-the-scenes feature about the album

Tags : via:waxy music milesdavis chiptunes scene kickstarter

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Choose your own Adventure analysis

7 month ago

nelson : Choose your own Adventure analysis - Great flowchart of one of the old kid's books. Worth viewing the PDF. The structure is quite complex and rewards multiple visits.

Andy Baio : Visualization of a Choose Your Own Adventure book's outcomes - 8 out of 42 endings were favorable

Rod Begbie : Choose Your Own Adventure - Most Likely You'll Die - Mapping out the paths of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Chance of death: Nearly 50%! [via#

Tags : via:waxy games infovis books visualization cyoa chooseyourownadventure depth-firstsearch flow

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Hedge maze cheating

8 month ago

nelson : Hedge maze cheating - Lol

Tags : via:waxy iphone geolocation maze

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how to avoid ads in gmail

8 month ago

wearehugh : how to avoid ads in gmail - "you need 1 catastrophic event or tragedy for every 167 words"

nelson : Avoiding gmail ads - Simply make sure tragic words are in every mail

Andy Baio : How to Avoid Ads in Gmail - just add tragic words to your signature  [via]

Simon Willison : How to avoid ads in gmail - How to avoid ads in gmail. “After extensive testing I’ve discovered you need 1 catastrophic event or tragedy for every 167 words in the rest of the email.”

Tags : google humor via:waxy gmail ads funny

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Kickstarter and the 1,000 True Fans

8 month ago

Andy Baio : Kickstarter and the 1,000 True Fans - 94% of projects that hit the 25% mark ultimately hit their goal

deusx : The Kickstarter Blog - Kickstarter and the 1,000 True Fans - "From the beginning, we’ve encouraged creators to tap into their networks as much as possible: there’s clearly a desire from audiences for greater interaction, more access, a more intimate relationship. Twitter has demonstrated that. And so what

Tags : kickstarter waxy fans makers creators fundraising success

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SHA collision finder

8 month ago

nelson : SHA collision finder - Engineers from Zappos code up some Javascript to help find SHA collisions for a contest.

Tags : via:waxy misucking sha

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Waxy to Kickstarter

8 month ago

nelson : Waxy to Kickstarter - Congratulations, Andy!

Andy Baio : Joining Kickstarter - Some news: I'm proud to announce that I've taken the CTO role at Kickstarter, the Brooklyn-based crowdfunding startup I've mentioned here before. Yay! I've acted a board member for over a year, helping find the development team and providing some guid

Tags : kickstarter waxpancake waxy nonprofit jobs

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Hidden Triforce

8 month ago

nelson : Hidden Triforce - Google logs have had a hidden Zelda figure embedded

Andy Baio : The Google Doodle Triforce Conspiracy - the artist has been hiding a triforce in the logo illustrations

Tags : games zelda nintendo google via:Waxy

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Instapoll pundits!

8 month ago

nelson : Instapoll pundits! - Great Onion video. See also: Max Headroom's take on instant democracy

Andy Baio : The Onion: New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time - I'm waiting for a talk show to start a real-time Twitter sentiment tracker  [via]

Tags : poll politics via:waxy funny onion

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Evan Roth's letterform studies of Paris graffiti

8 month ago

Andy Baio : Evan Roth's letterform studies of Paris graffiti - see the interactive site to see all 2,400 tags

nelson : Paris graffiti taxonomy - Photographic study of tagging styles in Paris. Not to be confused with Paris street art.

Tags : graffiti tagging paris france via:waxy typography

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Flip Flop Fly Ball

9 month ago

Rod Begbie : Flip Flop Fly Ball - "A love of baseball plus a love of infographics equals Flip Flop Fly Ball." Lots of great stuff, the comparison of ballpark ticket prices being my favourite. [via#

nelson : Flip Flop Fly Ball - Great collection of sports infographics

Andy Baio : Flip Flop Fly Ball, Craig Robinson's baseball infoviz - Ballpark Orientation, Major League Fields, Ball Size Comparison and the Wu-Tang vs. E Street Band  [via]

Tags : baseball geekery infographics via:waxy infovis sports

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