Nelson's Linkblog 2004-02

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Raffi has a new blog about hacking things, fun read

2004-02-29 blog • useful • interesting • blogs • computers • hacks • geek • hardware • tech • hack • hacking • nelson:autotagged

Some magic that Debian started mounting

2004-02-29 x • posix • virtual • memory • nelson:autotagged

Knife Sharpeners

Chef's Choice: Diamond Hone Electric Sharpeners

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Jesus Chainsaw Massacre

128 hits on Google

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Photo of a different kind of unicycle

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Guantanamo farce

US 'may hold cleared detainees'

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you just have to see it

2004-02-29 art • humor • web-heads • humour • mad • madworld • elvis • music • mp3 • fun • impersonators • weird • nelson:autotagged

Don't Desecrate the Constitution With Anti-gay Bigotry

2004-02-29 gay_marriage • constitution • glbt • marriage • safari_export • politics • nelson:autotagged

Game dev is hard

ACM Queue - Game Development: Harder Than You Think - What makes you think that creating alternative worlds is all fun and games? (via Slashdot)

2004-02-29 development • @to_read • programming • acm • gamedev • article • games • essays • 3d • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Larry King examines Donald Trump for lice

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Only people who agree with Bush allowed on bioethics panel

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ROM Hack reviews

Playable sophomoric spoofs of old game ROMs, reviewed for you

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Ninja Golf Atari 7800

Great animated screenshots (via Waxy)

2004-02-28 funny • golf • atari7800 • fun • humor • games • retro • atari • videogames • ninja • emulation • nelson:autotagged

Joi takes a sauna

Joi Ito's Web: Avantouinti!

2004-02-28 joiito • irc • nelson:autotagged

Origin, Maxis to close

EA consumes two great game development companies

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Defense of marriage

From the last time bigots tried to amend the constitution about marriage (via Waxy)

2004-02-27 privacy • rights • sex • society • politics • history • nelson:autotagged

Mario apocrypha

TMK | The Lost Levels of Super Mario Bros. 3 (via diveintomark)

2004-02-27 fun • roms • gaming • nintendo • hacks • mario • games • retro • hack • readme • vvideo_games • nelson:autotagged

overstated: unit of measurement elected head of standards board

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Transforms for RSS and Atom syndication feeds: add click tracking, Amazon associates IDs, etc to an existing feed

2004-02-27 feed • web • web2.0 • tools • blogs • blog • feeds • podcast • feedburner • blogging • rss • nelson:autotagged

MyDoom.A: 7% of all email. MyDoom.F: 5% of all email.

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US Cuba restrictions

Americans can't travel to Cuba because, you know, the US is a free country

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Tracing a blouse from a charity in England to a woman in Zambia (via Metafilter)

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Terrorism survival

This is just bat-shit insane (via Metafilter)

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Rumsfeld hand jive

POE News: Rumsfeld Fighting Technique (via Metafilter)

2004-02-26 funny • humor • fu • humour • photo • kungfu • fun • kung • images • politics • rumsfeld • nelson:autotagged

California's US map

It's funny because it's true. (via Metafilter)

2004-02-26 essay • funny • humor • culture • forums • blog • maps • california • amusing • import • bboard • nelson:autotagged

White House takedown

Just an ordinary house, with black-clothed bodyguards with high power rifles

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Attosecond stopwatch

Yahoo! News - Scientists measure movement in split of a millionth of a second

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Spying on the U.N.

Tony Blair decried the accusation while neither confirming nor denying the truth of it

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Invented the Internet

Al Gore never said that

2004-02-26 algore • funny • reference • web • quotes • 2000 • gore • al-gore • internet • politics • history • nelson:autotagged

EarthBound : Starmen.Net : Poems and Songs: Fuzzy Pickles

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"I could drink all my friends under the table, and never had a hangover"

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Gay marriage thoughts

"Seeing other people joyfully getting married reminds me of how much joy marriage has brought to my life"

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Green bear photo

Polar bear in Singapore with algae

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Amateur skull cutting, via Metafilter

2004-02-24 gross • psychology • spirituality • medical • trepanation • brain • health • wtf • medicine • weird • odd • nelson:autotagged

Your attorney general

Profile of John Ashcroft (via BoingBoing)

2004-02-24 linkoftheday • imported • usa • privacy • political • religion • govern • policy • politics • the_man • nelson:autotagged

Because, you know what could be worse than homos getting married?

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nullsleep sees the world thru 8bit eyes.

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Animals in Tube maps

Finding constellations in maps of the London underground (via BoingBoing, kottke)

2004-02-23 visualization • humor • humour • map • animals • london • maps • design • graphics • fun • art • nelson:autotagged

Home page of a good electro band

2004-02-23 music • label • nelson:autotagged

Concerning air travel

Notes from Celeste about the world viewed from planes

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Imaginary girlfriends

The website, if eBay isn't enough (via Waxy)

2004-02-22 funny • humor • humour • web • sex • girlfriend • human • online • fun • weird • dating • nelson:autotagged

Shoji Tabuchi show

Branson's finest!

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Nintendo Mother series

cute little obscure RPG for NES, SNES

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Flash Mob Computing

bring your own piece of the Grid (via Marc)

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Xport interview

interview with guy behind all the great XBox emulator ports

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Tacky wedding photo

Does anyone really want to see this in 20 years time?

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Gay Marriage exists

Nasty, funny rumour commentary

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SNES level editors

Modify your old SNES games

2004-02-21 gaming • emulador • nelson:autotagged

More descriptions of classic games

2004-02-21 gaming • help • reference • howto • emu • video • retro • rpg • videogames • games • guide • nelson:autotagged

Nice review site

2004-02-21 antigo • jogos • nelson:autotagged

for young and old alike!

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Atom2RSS service

2004-02-21 feed • web • atom2rss • tool • syndication • atom • feedville • feeds • rss • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Zawodny gimp nerd

I know exactly how he feels, owning a house but not being able to go to it.

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Tina Turner is Kali

two souls enter, one soul leaves

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Weekly World News editor dies

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Interesting defense and status update for subversion (via diveintomark)

2004-02-20 scm • svn • toread • programming • subversion • fud • vcs • article • opinion • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

What's New in Python 2.4, a preview

2004-02-20 development • toread • changelog • python • programming • blogmarks • programación • -referencias-y-tutoriales-de-código • via:slashdot • news • .imported • 2.4 • nelson:autotagged

Amazing APOD of a supernova blast wave

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Enron perp walk

Skilling didn't bother with a tie

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Linux dev process

Kernel comparison: Improvements in kernel development from 2.4 to 2.6

2004-02-19 mek:untagged • kernel • toread • programming • mek:imported • tech • opensource • linux • software • nelson:autotagged

Unmaintainable Code

How To Write Unmaintainable Code

2004-02-19 development • funny • code • humor • humour • programming • coding • dev • fun • java • software • nelson:autotagged

Sputnik maybe not

alt.folklore.urban thread debunks this idea

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sputnik garage door

Sputnik set off garage door openers?!

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Claim that IBM knew their hard drives were faulty

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Wired conferences

U-blog / loic / Back from the future: there were more speakers in the room than on stage at E-tech conference

2004-02-18 geek • conference • blogs • stories • nelson:autotagged

Debugging war story

Programming is *just like this*

2004-02-18 xml • funny • story • python • programming/python • programming • syndication • markpilgrim • geekery • atom • technical • nelson:autotagged

Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show

2004-02-18 shopping • heyurl • bushco • social • nyc • law • war • nelson:autotagged

craphound: For Sale Archives

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Democrats market

IEM 2004 US Democratic National Convention Market Price Graph

2004-02-17 politics • nik • nelson:autotagged

FeedDemon styles

Radek's Newspaper Styles for FeedDemon

2004-02-17 styles • rss • feeddemon • newsreader • computer • safari_export • software • css • cool • nelson:autotagged

Tech News Watch - Channels - Lockergnome

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Clever way to put a shareware fee into an app. Easy to use!

2004-02-17 merchant • web • business • marketing • startup • ecommerce • mac • online • shareware • payment • software • nelson:autotagged

Iraq civil war?

Yahoo! News - Iraq May Be Slipping Into Civil War

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Clever use of gravitational lensing to spot something only 750M year old

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Kerry rumours false

Yahoo! News - Woman Denies Rumors of Kerry Affair

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Wiki roundup, very useful

2004-02-16 wiki • web • readers • aggregator • apps • blog • mac • rss • tools • resources • software • nelson:autotagged

on the awasu site

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So far, so fast

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Christian pilot

God and the American Airlines pilot ... an Advocate.com exclusive

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automatic list of interesting books

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cute little free game

2004-02-16 osx • windows • mac • free • game • games • opensource • linux • fun • freeware • software • nelson:autotagged

Kerry rumourmongering, the unfortunate woman

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Gameboy Ebook 2

fancy book software for GB/GBA (via waxy)

2004-02-15 ebook • gba • gbm • networld/ebooks • ebooks • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

reader software for GBA

2004-02-14 gba • nelson:autotagged

Mario theme on piano

Video game music is good. (via Anil's daily links)

2004-02-14 funny • humor • music • skills • mario • video • geekery • fun • games • piano • nes • nelson:autotagged

Yahoo! News - World Photos - AP

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Kerry denies...

...without saying what he's denying

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Character encodings

Determining the character encoding of a feed [dive into mark]

2004-02-13 xml • web • http • encoding • characterencoding • programming • html • utf-8 • unicode • feeds • rss • nelson:autotagged

Halliburton waste

Yahoo! News - Halliburton Accused of Wasting Tax Money

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Half US thinks Bush lies

Yahoo! News - Poll: Public's Trust in Bush Hits New Low

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Trainwreck spotting

Tracking the Kerry rumours

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Programmable matter

Programmable Matter FAQ

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Yahoo! News - Barbie and Ken 'Split' After 43 Years

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the electric sheep screen-saver

2004-02-12 art • fractals • graphics • free • screensaver • opensource • linux • fun • freeware • software • cool • nelson:autotagged

File Sharing%u2019s New Face

2004-02-12 bittorrent • collaboration • community • geek • p2p • file_sharing • nelson:autotagged

Yahoo! News - Report: Bush Plans to Endorse Marriage Amendment

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Gravity wave picture

I'm not sure I understand this

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Blog about online games and economics

2004-02-11 gaming • blogs • virtual • research • blog • culture • games • virtual_worlds • mmorpg • news • mmog • nelson:autotagged

Looking out for new words

2004-02-10 linguistics • reference • language • writing • blog • culture • words • english • fun • dictionary • slang • nelson:autotagged

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Changing the subject

Bush Says Saddam Had Capacity for Nukes

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San Diego food 2

San Diego Restaurants , Cafes and Eateries - Guide to Dining in San Diego. Restaurants from casual to fine dining. Reviews, menus, search by cuisine or by neighborhood > Dining . Sign On San Diego . Com

2004-02-08 local • recommendation • california • sandiego • restaurant • nelson:autotagged

Gaslamp Quarter Dining Guide

2004-02-08 food • culture • gaslamp • sd • nelson:autotagged

Supermag gallery

Jan & Jane - Photos :: Geomag

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NYT: Engineer%u2019s Papers Dispute Hubble Decision

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Targeted killing

Kills terrorists and 12 year old boys

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Crazy packrat mom

Sad photos of a house filled with crap. Via BoingBoing

2004-02-07 funny • crazy • ugh • humor • for_barb • blog • photos • strange • procrastination • weird • insanity • nelson:autotagged

Republican thief

Yahoo! News - Key Frist Staffer to Resign Over Leak

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Yahoo! News - World Photos - Reuters

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naughty photos in ice

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TiVo surveillance

TiVo watchers uneasy after post-Super Bowl reports | CNET News.com

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26 Blosxom styles

jasonhoffman.org %u2192 blosxom

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William Hung: A Real American Idol! The Online Tribute to Will Hung a.k.a. Hong Kong Ricky Martin

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Gay NFL trainer

49ers trainer calls closet his painful strategy / Retirement ends decades of silence

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Pigeons follow roads

Yahoo! News - Secret of Homing Pigeons Revealed

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Dio for president

\m/ Ronnie James Dio for America \m/

2004-02-05 funny • humor • usa • metal • culture • music • politics • fun • rawk • people/bands • nelson:autotagged

Clay Shirky, Many-to-Many: Exiting Deanspace

2004-02-05 media • community • meta • internet • politics • article • networks • howard_dean • nelson:autotagged

Crazy photo of a pilot bailing literally at the last second

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Yahoo! News - Scalia Was Cheney Hunt Trip Guest; Ethics Concern Grows

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Just like in South Park - for real!

2004-02-05 funny • casa • bonita • restaurant • food • mexico • park • unfoldthemap:colorado • denver • dining • colorado • nelson:autotagged

Jimmy Carter travelling to West Africa

2004-02-05 carter • usa • blogs • africa • blog • politics • nelson:autotagged

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Two headed baby

The Internet freakshow

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Really, Linksys should just sell hardware and let the software be open source

2004-02-04 information • networking • linksys • network • wifi • hacks • hardware • wrt54g • linux • router • voip • nelson:autotagged

INTERNALMEMOS.COM - to Viacom

2004-02-04 media • nelson:autotagged

Visualization of country affinities as found in web pages

2004-02-04 information • search • google • visualization • collaboration • geek • map • graphic • web • politics • software • nelson:autotagged

MA gay marriage

Looks like it's for real?!

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Rumsfeld watusi

My Way News Photo - RUMSFELD CONGRESS

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in platinum and diamonds

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F-Secure : News from the Lab

2004-02-03 f-secure • blogs • daily • blog • virus • antivirus • internet • news • security • technology • software • nelson:autotagged

Which Browsers to Support in 2004

2004-02-03 browsers • web • support • webdesign • html • design • css • browser • nelson:autotagged

Yahoo! News - TiVo Users Couldn't Get Enough of Janet Jackson

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More streaker ads

Google Search: goldenpalace streaker

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Streaker advertising

Adverblog: web and wireless advertising in a blog

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New proportional order

US bans timed-honoured typeface. 30/01/2004. ABC News Online

2004-02-02 grafica • dummy • humor • typography • comportamenti • design • govern • politics • news • font • type • nelson:autotagged

Yahoo! News - CBS Apologizes for Jackson's Exposure

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Medical Library: How to Read Your Eyeglasses Prescription

2004-02-02 howto • interesting • life • health • reference • nelson:autotagged

TimeForDVD.com - The everyday consumer's guide to DVD & home theater

2004-02-01 stereo • reference • audiophile • dvd • howto • technology • guide • hometheater • nelson:autotagged

The Dolby Guide to Home Theater Sound

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Car Talk anti-Real

Finally, consumer-hostile software gets punished

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sco.com is down

Cannot find server

2004-02-01 sco • humor • computing • technical • thinclients • miguelfa • it • unix • fun • projects • software • nelson:autotagged

cute old school puzzle game

2004-02-01 osx • gaming • windows • puzzle • free • game • games • opensource • linux • freeware • software • nelson:autotagged