Yahoo's new BravoNation brings Xbox Live type achievements to the world outside of gaming. You can send or receive homemade awards from any user. They are banking on third party sites using their API to hand out bravo awards to people for doing various things. Our own waxpancake has the exclusive first look.
posted on Dec 21, 2007 - View this thread

waxy.org vows to fight Bill Cosby's lawyers and continue to provide hosting to House of Cosbys despite receiving a cease & desist letter [PDF]. Andy Baio, founder of waxy.org, discusses this in the NY Times and provides updates on his site. As previously posted, Bill Cosby's lawyers were successful in getting the creators of House of Cosbys to stop hosting and making new episodes of their parody series.

It appears that threatening letters and lawsuits will continue to be filed against internet parody sites as celebrities try to protect what they view as their copyright, according to the Wall Street Journal.
posted on Mar 6, 2006 - View this thread

Waxy's contest to design an interface for animating wikipedia histories has already borne fruit.
posted on Jun 16, 2005 - View this thread

The web gets mashed up.
posted on May 10, 2005 - View this thread

Yo! Check out Dylan's video blog! Does 11-year old Dylan point us towards the future of video blogs? [via waxy & eyebeam]
posted on Dec 23, 2004 - View this thread

Screenshots from the new Netscape release. (via waxy)
posted on Dec 1, 2004 - View this thread

Return of the Star Wars Kid
posted on Oct 11, 2004 - View this thread

Iraq Attacks - 30 days worth plotted on a map. The gyre is widening [via waxy]
posted on Oct 3, 2004 - View this thread

Hot Links is a visually appealing link blog portal. Featuring links from local heroes Andy Baio (waxpancake), and Tom Coates (barbelith).
posted on Jun 9, 2004 - View this thread

Die DUCKOMENTA. German art gallery of Disney-centered pastiche art. The Wall Street Journal says "This Exhibit Is No Featherweight, so You Better Duck." [Stolen from waxy]
posted on May 25, 2004 - View this thread

The Nintendo Controller Belt. (via waxy)
posted on May 6, 2004 - View this thread

RipDigital converts your entire CD collection to 224kbs MP3s for about a $1 per CD. Send them your CD library and they'll ship your library back, organized by artist and album with enhanced song information, as either 50 converted CDs per DVD and for $99 more on a portable hard drive. If only they offered the same service for cassettes. [via jkottke & waxpancake]
posted on Jan 11, 2004 - View this thread

"What a Crappy Present" [via waxpancake]
posted on Dec 17, 2003 - View this thread

Kittens! [via waxy]
posted on Nov 27, 2003 - View this thread