Andy Baio

There should be an EGOT for dubious awards. I propose the BIRD: Bulwer-Lytton (writing), Ig Nobel (science), Razzies (film), and Darwin Awards (lifetime achievement)

Does anyone know what this scam is? My wife just got an confirmation email from a Domino's Pizza in New Jersey for a carry-out order for a 2-liter of Sprite. It was sent to her personal email with her full name and cell phone number. We called the store and the CC# used isn't any of ours. WTF?

She's never had a Dominos.com account, we did a forgot password to check. Double-checked our bank/cards, no unusual transactions. We live on the other side of the country. The store didn't seem to know anything.

An excellent new submission to Supercut.org: Monty Python and the Holy Grail in alphabetical order. supercut.org/video/724/mo...

Over the last few months, I've quietly been updating some of my old sites, a distraction from a unusually difficult first half of the year. I'm writing a series of small posts about the changes, starting yesterday with Waxy itself, which got improved archives, search, and other little fixes.

Today, I wrote about the updates to Supercut.org, my 15-year-old archive of nearly 600 tightly-edited video remixes. While cleaning up dead/deleted videos, I couldn't help but notice how many Vimeo videos are now gone. Things are bad over there and only getting worse since its acquisition last year.

Watching The Odyssey as Nolan intended: as an AI-upscaled camcorder recording with line-in audio from the theater seat, burned-in Spanish subtitles, and moving blurred patches to hide the forensic digital watermarks.

I wrote about how I discovered that a new site for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig's long-running Tumblr project-turned-book, was a bootleg made by a marketing agency. They published the complete book verbatim, then added AI-generated art and new AI words, entirely without permission.

I confirmed from Koenig himself that he wasn't involved, and found Simon & Schuster issued DMCA takedowns to Google with little effect. The AEO/SEO-optimized site dominates every search related to the book, including the book title and author's name. ChatGPT and Gemini say it's the official site.

Last chance to get the XOXO merch before we shut it down forever!

Razor 1911 made a PC demo for Revision 2026 that's a whirlwind retrospective of the group, touching on a lot of warez/art/demoscene tech, tools, and history since they started in 1985. It won the PC Demo category and clearly earned it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Anb...

Like all demos, you're losing something watching a video on YouTube. It was meant to be viewed running real-time on your computer. If you have a Windows PC with a good graphics card, give the party-optimized executable a try, or wait for the proper release. www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...

20 years ago today.

Ze Frank's The Show was self-hosted QuickTime videos on a blog with comments and an RSS feed. A community forum, wiki, and series of interactive web pages tied it all together. Social media was a bunch of blogs linking to each other.

20 years ago today.

For the last two weeks, a Sicilian Redditor named ItalianSausage2023 has been digitizing classic musical SNL performances from their own VHS collection. The audio and video quality's great, better than most copies of these recordings online—if they exist at all. www.reddit.com/user/Italian...

IT'S HERE!