Waxy.org is the sandbox of My baby boy turns one year old today. Wow, what a difference a year makes:
Happy birthday, Eliot!
Happy Birthday, Eliot!
Posted Jun 9, 2005
October 6, 2008
Mail Goggles, Gmail tries to prevent late-night drunk emails
— this could also be used to keep you from answering personal email during work hours
DJ Z-Trip's Obama Mix
— very listenable pastiche of rock and hip-hop from Pink Floyd to Saul Williams with a strong political undercurrent
This American Life's Another Frightening Show About the Economy
— followup to The Giant Pool of Money episode from May
Take on Me: The Literal Version
— if songs sang what was happening in the music video
(via)
TIGSource's Bootleg Demake competition winners
— best game competition ever
Sarah Palin's evening gown entry to the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant
— "In Alaska, we have mosquitoes."
Damn It Feels Good To Be a Banksta
— Banksta 4 Life
The Big Picture on Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Earth from Above photographs
— with convenient Google Maps links for each
October 4, 2008
Keith Loutit's tilt-shifted time-lapse videos
— reminds me of an ant colony
(via)
The VP Debate on Auto-Tune
— it's got a beat and you can dance to it
(via)
October 3, 2008
Flickr adds rainbow-vomiting panda feature to Explore
— finally, some innovation in the photo sharing space
(via)
Fring, make Skype calls for the iPhone
— Truphone was the first VoIP app, but didn't support Skype calling
(via)
Sippey's idea for restaurants to help diners split the bill
— very useful, though it'd require servers to enter the number in each group
One Metafilter user's personal anecdote about Paul Newman
— there are several other good stories in that thread; related: a Hole in the Wall camp counselor's tribute
Weird Al to release songs on iTunes as soon as he's recorded them
— he talks about how digital distribution makes topical parodies much easier
(via)
Slate releases Poll Tracker app for the iPhone
— looks like they bought Aaron's Election '08 app and rebranded it
(via)
NYT's interactive VP debate transcript
— searchable and scrollable with checkpoints and speaker coloring; it's only missing permalinks and plaintext
October 2, 2008
Dan Aykroyd pimps vodka in a crystal skull
— looks like Ray has gone bye-bye; related: his UFO "documentary"
(via)
Interactive Fiction Competition 2008 entries released!
— like last year, the brilliant IF luminary Emily Short will be reviewing games as she plays them
Cave Story coming to WiiWare with exclusive new content
— if you've never played the freeware masterpiece, it's available for PC, Mac, and Linux
Obama campaign releases official iPhone app
— flawlessly designed, focused heavily on participation; grouping your address book by state is surprisingly useful
(via)
Nintendo announces new DSi with camera, web browser, downloadable games
— here's video of it in action
Webmonkey on the clickjacking IFRAME exploit
— potentially devastating hack and relatively easy to pull off, affecting every browser
October 1, 2008
The Money Meltdown, excellent primer to the current mess
— some very good links I haven't seen before
(via)
Google Blog Search launches new Techmeme-like homepage
— funny, I thought they'd abandoned the site entirely; here's the announcement
Dexter ad campaign spoofs Wired, Esquire, New Yorker magazine covers
— clever campaign, though the typefaces are slightly off throughout; the New Yorker cover was drawn by regular Edward Sorel
Visual History of Recessions since 1949
— in other words: everything is going to be okay
(via)
Dan Rather interviews FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver
— applying knowledge learned from baseball analytics to electoral projections
4:45 PM
wow, what a cutie :D half-elf!
5:02 PM
Yay! What a great looking kid! Happy birthday Mr. E.
5:04 PM
[Me reaching out my finger and pointing at the screen]: El-i-ot? Friend.
congrats!
5:08 PM
Wow, is right. He looks like a grown man. Happy B-day and good luck.
5:21 PM
My nephews 1st was a few months ago. Just wait until they start learning phrases that you don't remember teaching them.
5:23 PM
Excellent second pic. My second nephew was born on Monday, my first nephew will be a year old in about 2 months.
5:28 PM
Pass on my Happy Birthday wishes! And yes, what a difference after a year.
5:34 PM
Nice picture.
6:12 PM
Aww, that is an adorable pic. Happy birthday to him!
6:28 PM
Happy Birthday, Eliot!!!
6:34 PM
What? No blog yet?
6:35 PM
Congrats! And just wait, pretty soon you'll have a 14 yr old soon to be graduating 8th grade and wondering where all the years went by!
7:26 PM
Awww - so cute. Happy B-Day Eliot.
7:31 PM
what a cute kid!
8:05 PM
They grow up so fast. I hear. Yay!
8:17 PM
adorable! happy birthday, eliot!
9:37 PM
Happy b-day Eliot.
9:40 PM
Happy Birthday, Eliot! That second pic is priceless.
10:26 PM
It's been a year already? Time flies...
12:47 AM
He's a cute kid, and has a bunch of hair.
My son is 7 1/2 months and barely has any. In fact, Elliot had more hair when he was born than my son has now.
4:16 AM
I'm expecting my first in a couple of weeks. Its amazing what 1 year will do. I'm looking forward to it.
5:03 AM
Wow.. what a cute boy! Is he like you? But I am sure Eliot is more handsome... :)
5:42 AM
Teach him to blog. Ha! Ha! Ha!
7:21 AM
Happy Birthday, Eliot!
9:06 AM
Happy Birthday Eliot, you cute lil guy!
9:51 AM
Happy birthday Eliot!
10:22 AM
Yay, congratulations.
12:52 PM
Happy B to E!
4:33 PM
happy birthday E !
great pic
6:37 PM
As someone has said, "Babies are a great way to make people." Congratulations! He's awesome!
6:57 PM
Oh my god
Cutest! Baby! Ever!
If he ever disappears,know that we're safe and happy together in South America somewhere.
8:38 PM
waxybaby.org is available for the baby-blogger :)
8:47 PM
Andy, you have the cutest kid I have ever seen in my so-far-short existence. Hope he grows up to be just like his dad! ;)
3:26 AM
Excellent picture at 1 year. Happy Birthday, Eliot!
4:54 AM
Now *that* is a cool looking kid.
8:47 PM
so dang adorable, you should make more. Clearly, you have a knack for it!
8:58 AM
Congratulations! My second son was just born the day before! June 8th at 4:25pm. 3 weeks early. The roller coaster just got a little wilder.
9:05 AM
To clarify, he was just born a few days ago - so 1 year later.
12:04 PM
Adorable! Great picture.
9:28 PM
congrats kid, happy birthday, nice shot
11:44 AM
WOW! What a nice looking lad :)
Happy Birthday!!!
3:54 PM
wow how cute!
2:47 PM
cute just cute!!
All the best!!!
7:27 PM
That there is a REALLY FRICKIN CUTE baby. This comes from someone who believes in ugly babies.
1:46 AM
Hahaha I see your son is also a member of the way too much wacky hair club. I think it gives him super powers or something.
Adorable.
7:27 PM
A little late, but happy birthday Eliot! Love the expression on his face in the second picture.
7:49 AM
Totally late, but happy belated birthday Eliot! What a cutie!
11:29 AM
that is heaven, isn't it? To just be around such pure joy. Happy Birthday!
9:07 AM
Super! Happy belated birthday to him! He's beautiful.
11:10 AM
that's one adorable little boy!
3:06 AM
Happy birthday Eliot. Grammy loves you.
7:08 AM
aww now he is too cute!
just wait a couple more years when he enters that "not baby-all boy" thing. enjoy this time!
5:12 PM
Nice! My boy turned 8 this last week. Nothing like it.
8:24 PM
What a beautiful boy.
3:49 PM
I am gonna steal him.
or maybe just his picture.
3:59 AM
happy birthday he's so cute
happy happy happy ... @^-^@
10:43 PM
Wowww!
So cutie!
:-*
12:27 AM
The boy is so cute.
4:24 PM
That is the cutest kid I've ever seen
6:03 AM
and good picture well taken good frameing
Mike
12:34 PM
what a cute little boy
12:34 PM
what a cute little boy
3:19 AM
that is the cutest kid ever!
10:02 AM
holy crap that is the sweetest kid I've ever seen. Did you genetically engineer him to look like that? Happy birthday!
5:25 AM
amazing eyes , your boy's really cute!Happy birthday!
6:10 AM
soooooo late but such a cutie!!