Nelson's Linkblog 2004-03

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Drifting: car stunts

The pure essence of drifting is to never appear to have control of the vehicle, while always having complete control over the vehicle

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Spring break news

This just in: young people like to get drunk and have sex on spring break

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Hearts and minds

Iraqis Drag Four Corpses Through Streets

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WiFi at Pacbell Park

Call me crazy, but I don't want to have a laptop at the ballpark

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Gamble away debt!

Yahoo! News - Casino Pulls Ad Aimed at Those in Debt

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very small, yet very fast HTTP server for UN*X systems

2004-03-30 httpd • http • web • server • unix • opensource • linux • small • performance • minimal • software • nelson:autotagged

Kraftwerk sound toy

mix your oin Boing Boom Tschak (via MetaFilter)

2004-03-30 music • musick • nelson:autotagged

For when a Segway isn't silly enough

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Ah, the glamour of being a druggy

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Condi to testify

Finally the White House can't stonewall any longer

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RIP Alistair cooke

Letters from America was really great

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Harbin ice festival

Beautiful photos of ice sculptures, particularly the lit ones. (Via MetaFilter)

2004-03-30 art • culture • festival • photo • photography • snow • ice • photos • china • sculpture • travel • nelson:autotagged

Best NY restaurants

A Quick Guide to the Best Restaurants in New York (via Kottke, Muxway)

2004-03-30 ny • restaurant • food • travel • entertainment • metaproject • safari_export • york • recommendations • nyc • restaurants • nelson:autotagged

Nice little rant about how complex Java makes things with factories and SPIs and crap. (via Zawodny)

2004-03-30 articles • php • java • dev • blogmarks • complexity • tech • social • fucked • perl • software • nelson:autotagged

Game music history

Gamespot feature (via Slashdot)

2004-03-30 gaming • gamemusic • game • music • folklore • article • technology • folk • history • nelson:autotagged

Craigslist scams

craigslist: counterfeit cashier's check wire transfer scams

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Internet Archive: FreeCache. Wacky automatic / free way to cache site content

2004-03-30 web • network • cache • free • bandwidth • tech • p2p • internet • caching • net • tools • nelson:autotagged

California quarter

Not bad as these things go. But Muir better watch out, that condor is about to eat his eyeball.

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Pledge allegiance.ppt

MSN Slate Magazine (via mathowie)

2004-03-29 info • funny • humor • office • meta • tech • laugh • politics • education • nationalism • powerpoint • nelson:autotagged

Tyco jury farce

Dissident juror's identity revealed in the press

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Gary Danko cheeses

It's wonderful that US restaurants are finally taking cheese seriously

2004-03-29 cheese • reference • nelson:autotagged

There are probably 1000 different versions of this

2004-03-28 xml • editors • nelson:autotagged

SpycyRoll / pyblagg

Simple Python aggregator

2004-03-28 web • taller • blagg • python • aggregator • programming • aggregators • ebe06 • rss • blosxom • software • nelson:autotagged

Condi unaccountable

spineless panel refuses to subpoena

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"a child of this age shouldn't have a choice"

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Hyenas as guard dogs (via BoingBoing)

2004-03-28 interesting • why • nelson:autotagged

feedparser examples

RssLibraries - PythonInfo Wiki

2004-03-28 python • read • rss • harvester • versions • nelson:autotagged

Pickled Pig's Feet

One taste and you'll know why we are one of the leading producers of pickled pigs feet

2004-03-28 barfood • nelson:autotagged

FAR CRY SINGLE PLAYER DEMO TWEAKS, CHEATS AND MODS

2004-03-27 imported • spiele • nelson:autotagged

Scramjet success

Making History: NASA's X-43A Scramjet Streaks Across Sky

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Psychic cancels plane

The freakin' TSA is listening to psychics?!

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Rumstud says "you"

Such a photogenic person, too bad he's evil

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Stanley Kubrick's stuff

Interesting article looking at Kubrick's house after his death. Obsessive detail.

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Adept home page

Missed this at first

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adept python testing

A Declarative, Eval()-based Program Tester

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ACM: Code of Ethics

Didn't know they had one!

2004-03-27 associations • school • code • business • programming • it • acm • research • teaching • ethics • info520 • nelson:autotagged

Southern hurricane

Freaky - apparently hurricanes are a northern hemisphere thing

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If you're young, this might make more sense than a normal IRA

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favicons of the web

nice roundup of 16x16 design (via cameron)

2004-03-27 web • favicons • art • icons • coding • collection • favicon • web-design • design • graphics • icon • nelson:autotagged

PCWorld.com - HDTV Answer Guide (via engadget)

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Devil's playground

Goldman reviews a movie about Amish teenagers. He writes well, too.

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Robotic overloads

jwz digs into the underwater chainsaw bot

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War Rationale 10.0

TOMPAINE.com - War Rationale: Version 10.0 (via MetaFilter)

2004-03-26 funny • humor • anti-bush • top • anti-war • amusing • politics • fun • regimechange • iraq • war • nelson:autotagged

Game Developers Conf

Game Developers Conference 2004

2004-03-26 development • gaming • conferences • programming • conference • game • computer • gamedev • news • games • technology • nelson:autotagged

The Spread of the Witty Worm - CAIDA : ANALYSIS : security : witty (via Slashdot)

2004-03-26 malware • code • network • iss • worms • worm • firewall • virus • tech • security • technology • nelson:autotagged

Steve: developing on the edge: NTP Attacks

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Steve, Don't Eat It!

Guy eats various odd things, blogs about it. (via MetaFilter)

2004-03-26 blog • funny • food • humor • bulk-import • nelson:autotagged

Frowny Condy Rice

She's still refusing to testify publically

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Yahoo! News - NASA Again Plans to Fly Jet 5,000 Mph

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Attu Island (Aleutians), Alaska Gallery

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More on translator

CBS News | Lost In Translation | July 13, 2003 20:08:42

2004-03-25 dept_fbi • terrorism • 911 • fbi • tv_60minutes • nelson:autotagged

Transation coverup

Contract translator claims she was told to alter translations

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Latest effort from Microsoft to unify XBox and PC game development. Entertainment: Big Changes Are Planned in Game-Software Strategy: NYT

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More on Richard Clarke

Dick Clarke Is Telling the Truth - Why he's right about Bush's negligence on terrorism. By Fred Kaplan, Slate (via Anil Dash)

2004-03-25 usa • bushco • news • politics • terrorism • war • nelson:autotagged

Fiddling, Iraq burns

Boing Boing: Bush thinks looking for weapons of mass destruction is a hoot

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Thanks to everyone who told me "My Eyes! The goggles, they do nothing" comes from this Simpson's episode.

2004-03-24 simpsons • do • goggles • transcript • nothing • nelson:autotagged

Far Cry reviews

new FPS for PCs. I didn't much like the demo, but the buzz is good

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Virtual value loss

Terra Nova: Financial Cost of E B's Closure

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Hard drive scavenging

What's on that old disk? Simson finds out. (via BoingBoing)

2004-03-24 funny • risk • sci/tech • heyurl • storage • hardware • hard-disk • news • security • software • nelson:autotagged

Anticipating RSS spam

Nice little essay by Marc Heldund, getting ahead of the issue

2004-03-24 _(敘)_projections • >(rss) • spam • linkblog • greenmallard • _(隨)*musing • _blog_articles • *科_internet • rss • blogging • toread • nelson:autotagged

Need an NTP server? Try one of these.

2004-03-24 networking • network • reference • ntp • time • internet • free • server • sysadmin • unix • linux • nelson:autotagged

California legislators

Hard at work kicking Buddhists in the nuts

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Lists of five things

2004-03-23 funny • humor • humour • blogs • random • list • lists • blog • daily • fun • cool • nelson:autotagged

The goggles, they do nothing

from where does this phrase originate? beats me, but it's cool.

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PEP 320 -- Python 2.4 Release Schedule

2004-03-23 python • reference • nelson:autotagged

Python 2.4 string subst

PEP 292 -- Simpler String Substitutions. This is going into Python 2.4!

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Wipe your hard drive

Autoclave - Secure Disk Deletion (via Marc)

2004-03-23 teknik • secure • harddisk • hardware • diskwipe • tech • hack • security • software • tools • d • nelson:autotagged

Half Life 2 technology

Computer Graphics World - graphics, 3d modeling, cad and visual computing (via Slashdot)

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Why use subversion?

From the Apache foundation

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Yahoo Feed Seeker

Cool usage reporting! (Jeremy Zawodny's blog)

2004-03-23 weblogs • nelson:autotagged

Kermit Lynch has a great search function

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Colonoscopy parties

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"worth a special trip"

This phrase is part of the definition of a Michelin 3 star restaurant

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still no mp3 download, but here's the schedule

2004-03-22 music • media • daily • culture • radio • social • interview • politics • news • audio • npr • nelson:autotagged

Slashdot | Nasty New Virus Variants

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9-11 greenbacks

Interesting bit of protest art

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Worm escalation

Bagle only requires the user read the email, not open attachments.

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Mouth urinals scotched

Finally, someone at Virgin came to their senses

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Why do they call it 4.0 megapixels when the 2272x1704 images are actually 3.87 million pixels (or 3.7 megapixels)?

2004-03-22 photos • vicki-camera • nelson:autotagged

FundRace San Fran

Amazing geographic maps of donors by party. I'll try not to get offended that my half of SF isn't on this map

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SpamAssassin virus

Rules to filter out the horrible virus warnings that get bounced to you. Looks a bit unsafe to me.

2004-03-21 qmail • security • spam • spamassassin • antivirus • opensource • sa • technology • email • nelson:autotagged

SpamAssassin custom rules howto

How to write custom rules; I'm using this now to block mail sent to my old addresses

2004-03-21 spam • rules • howto • spamassassin • server • linux • mail • security • antispam • tools • email • nelson:autotagged

Sonoma is so much more relaxing than Napa

2004-03-20 wine.sonoma • sonoma • beverages • trabajo • wine • nelson:autotagged

APOD: 2004 March 20 - Equinox 1

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Kempa.com: Vinyl Data (via MetaFilter)

2004-03-19 sound • software • code • computers • programming • history • games • retro • music • audio • vinyl • nelson:autotagged

What colour is Mars?

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: What Color is Mars?

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Wacky color cognitive experiment

2004-03-19 color • comparison • game • word • nelson:autotagged

Icon components

Visual history of GUI icons across different OSes

2004-03-19 art • reference • icons • windows • gui • design • graphics • ui • icon • os • history • nelson:autotagged

ATT wireless hell

Greg Costikyan tries to register his NGage on ATT wireless, hilarity ensues.

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Gay porn stars...

... with links to their Friendster profiles.

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Fun composite image (APOD: 2004 March 19 - Going Wild)

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Jim Murphy's weblog

One of the guys at MindReef who makes the great SOAPScope tool

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Poland breaks ranks

Yahoo! News - Poland 'Misled' on Iraq, President Says

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Courney Love is back!

Proving that there's value in being the antiMadonna

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Rove's evil plan

What amazes me about Rove is how visible he is

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Appoint someone to the White House, then pal around with them, then rule on the court cases that involve your friends

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Japanese smileys

Hiroette.com ||| Japanese Facemarks(smileys) |||

2004-03-18 web • emoticons • reference • language • japanese • culture • smileys • internet • fun • japan • cool • nelson:autotagged

1982 origin of :-)

Full discussion thread. I wonder why they decided on (^_^) in Japan? (via Kottke).

2004-03-18 informatique • web • language • humour • misc • tl • geekery • words • messaging • history • net_history • nelson:autotagged

Review of a book that praises people having a bit of free time in their workdsays (Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools)

2004-03-18 development • management • slack • business • time • efficiency • books • innovation • book • demarco • cool • nelson:autotagged

XML escaping fiasco

Even Tim f'in Bray isn't quite sure how to produce XML correctly

2004-03-18 xml • html • rss • nelson:autotagged

Vermont foot fetishist

well, not really, but this photo is pretty wacky

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Iditarod winner

Yahoo! News - Mitch Seavey Wins Iditarod Sled Dog Race

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Take-Two fraud?

Take-Two Interactive Founder Resigns Top Posts

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"imminent threat"

All the times the Bush Administration called Iraq an imminent threat (Center for American Progress)

2004-03-17 articles • usa • mesopotamia • cheney • bush • commentary • politics • ethics • rumsfeld • war • rummy • nelson:autotagged

"semiotic statecraft"

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Iraq on the record

Searchable database of statements about Iraq

2004-03-16 iraq • usa • congress • government • lies • bush • news • politics • america • war • history • nelson:autotagged

Healdsburg dining

Healdsburg Restaurant and Dining Guide

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Another person who's unhappy with the ugliness of site syndication

2004-03-16 blog • funny • design • nelson:autotagged

11 ways to valid RSS

different ways to do RSS 2.0 (via diveintomark)

2004-03-16 info • xml • web • aggregator • harvester • :web • syndication • tech • xhtml • blogging • rss • nelson:autotagged

Capuchin loyalty

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Identity theft hell

MSNBC - ID theft victims face tough bank fights (via Cryptogram)

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EverQuest is 5 yrs old

Terra Nova: Happy Birthday EQ

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wry diveintomark, in which he puts out a new version of his feed parser that deals with some malformed XML that occurs in the wild and reflects on his personality

2004-03-15 xml • syndication • atom • nelson:autotagged

smart mon article

Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART (Linux Journal)

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Linux tool to read the monitoring data off your hard drives

2004-03-15 osx • monitoring • windows • storage • sysadmin • hardware • linux • disk • tools • smart • software • nelson:autotagged

Better government through citizen surveillance

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Guantanamo condition

"My Hell in Camp X-Ray" from a recently released prisoner. (via Dan Gillmor)

2004-03-14 on • cuba • camp • bay • news • terror • guantanamo • empire • war • x-ray • nelson:autotagged

He's got the whole world in his hands

Rumsfeld has the most amazing gestures when he speaks

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Car alarms are stupid

All That Noise for Nothing, The New York Times, December 11, 2003 (via mbostock)

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Bush medicare lies

Yahoo! News - Official Says He Was Told to Withhold Medicare Data

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Architecture astronaut

Oldie but goodie Joel on Software (via Erik Benson)

2004-03-13 development • articles • toread • web • joel • programming • blog • design • architecture • article • software • nelson:autotagged

Everquest addict blog

Horrifying stories from folks whose loved ones are addicted to online games

2004-03-13 funny • interesting • wow • everquest • geek • computer • games • blog • mmorpg • addiction • mmog • nelson:autotagged

Orang-Utan hands

cool comparison to human (via boingboing)

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Kashmiri mustard

Arresting photo

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Great wall invisible...

...from outer space (via Metafilter)

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Danger: awful puns. (via diveintomark)

2004-03-12 funny • humour • webdesign • blogmarks • geek • jokes • html • ~.domain:htmldog.com • ~.month:03 • webdev • css • nelson:autotagged

Game emulator patent

Nintendo using this patent to shutdown emulators?

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Video codec shootout

DivX and WMV win, QuickTime (Sorenson, MPEG4) loses (via Slashdot)

2004-03-12 mek:untagged • mek:imported • nelson:autotagged

Edinburgh underworld

Yahoo! News - Forgotten city lies beneath Edinburgh

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Bush antigay spew

"The union of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution" - Bush apparently unaware of 50% divorce rate in US

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Serial killer sketch

Creepy image, don't you think?

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Pictures of the two of clubs playing card in various contexts

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AlwaysOn Home - clever name

2004-03-10 web2.0 • network • business • media • blogs • blog • magazine • tech • social • news • technology • nelson:autotagged

I finally finished WarioWare. Good to the end! (via Anil Dash)

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Bug and Insect Photography and Photos by Frank Phillips (via Metafilter)

2004-03-09 photographs • biologietc. • macro • macrofotografia • nature • photo • photography • animais • fotografia • science • bug • nelson:autotagged

William Hung record

We've gone from silly to absurd

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Me, I stopped reading Gizmodo because their RSS feed is truncated. (via Anil Dash)

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News spread on net

Stephen VanDyke » How News Travels on the Internet (via BoingBoing)

2004-03-09 visualization • web • interesting • blogs • topologies • blog • internet • news • rss • blogging • blogosphere • nelson:autotagged

Usermode Linux hosting services

Be r00t on your own virtual box for cheap ($10/month and up)

2004-03-08 uml • vds • user_mode_linux • linux • nelson:autotagged

Ghibli US releases

No more grey market imports required?

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ezSqlObject Python

Extension to a nice Python ORM; does introspection on the tables (via Daily Python URL)

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XML inconsistency

Yet another reason why XML is not that great a format (via diveintomark)

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Aka prosopagnosia. First person account of someone who can't recognize faces. (via Anil Dash)

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New Version (via Niall Kennedy)

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Erotic alphabet NSFW

French series of hand-coloured etchings appeared about 1880. (via Fleshbot)

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Korean poo translation

A handy amateur translation, courtesy of Metafilter

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Korean toilet cartoon

I suspect this is less funny if you understand Korean. (via Metafilter)

2004-03-07 funny • korea • humor • food • flash • poo • animation • video • cartoons • fun • japan • nelson:autotagged

Fashion is its own parody

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NYT: Jay-Z Remixes

Playlist: Silver, Brown, Gray: Jay-Z Every Which Way

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Janet Jackson Mickey

Disney Consumer Products, rumoured to be cancelled

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Panning new MIT dorm

Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler (via Greenspun)

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Trillian RSS feed

Updates on the IM software

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rs232 / infrared link

Computer Controllable Learning IR Remote

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AudioGrabber is free

Good CD ripper / MP3 encoder for Windows now free

2004-03-06 music • windows • free • cd • ripper • mp3 • freeware • audio • tools • ripping • software • nelson:autotagged

White van speakers

SCAM SHIELD - Protecting Citizens With Knowledge

2004-03-06 funny • nelson:autotagged

La Corneta taqueria

AOL City Guide: San Francisco - What's Going On - La Corneta Taqueria - Overview

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Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs (via muxway)

2004-03-06 web2.0 • web • search • statistics • blogs • research • blog • trends • tools • blogging • rss • nelson:autotagged

Seamen ship for love

Wacky video Japanese recruiting ad (via BoingBoing)

2004-03-06 personal • japan • humor • ad • pop • nelson:autotagged

Sun slow death spiral

Wired News: Sun Microsystems' Rating: 'Junk'

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The Zorkmid Project

2004-03-06 videogames • humor • infocom • games • whimsical • nelson:autotagged

Chernobyl dead zone

Photos and travelogue of a poisoned land. (via Metafilter)

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10 years of spam

Happy 10th anniversary to Canter and Siegel (via Slashdot)

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Church of England advertises for a Web pastor.

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Cute email app, records your typing and typos in realtime and replays them.

2004-03-05 web2.0 • web • tool • internet • free • writing • social • fun • mail • tools • email • nelson:autotagged

Blog meme spread

Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious (via Waxy)

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Glenn against Mars

Yahoo! News - Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush Space Plan

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Bit twiddling hacks

Nasty, evil, amusing code snippets. (via Muxway)

2004-03-04 development • c • code • reference • algorithm • programming • c++ • hacks • algorithms • bit • math • nelson:autotagged

Subway maps at scale

Great little info visualization, via BoingBoing

2004-03-04 map • transportation • reference • visualization • travel • subways • maps • design • subway • world • architecture • nelson:autotagged

Real doll review NSFW

Hysterical story of someone testing out a high end sex toy. The metal hook in the back of the skull is the best part.

2004-03-04 real • nerve.com • society • doll • sex • culture • weird • nelson:autotagged

Cuban news site

Granma International

2004-03-03 latinamerica • america • cuba • 3818 • socialism • latin • news • politics • communist • .imported • left • nelson:autotagged

Portland gay marriage

A wave of inevitability

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Software recommends

From Dylan, nice list of useful Windows software. Lots of things I hadn't heard of.

2004-03-03 osx • bestof • x86 • windows • sw • musthave • freeware • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

How to glue anything - one of my favourite microsites on the Internet, been online for years. (via CoolTools)

2004-03-03 useful • reference • lifehacks • howto • hardware • diy • crafts • home • tips • glue • tools • nelson:autotagged

Tall people in airplanes

No relief for those of us who don't fit in planes.

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Calvin and Hobbes

Search descriptions of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. (via Anil Dash)

2004-03-02 search • humor • reference • comics • calvin • cartoons • fun • art • comic • tools • hobbes • nelson:autotagged

Beautiful nebula

APOD: 2004 March 2 - NGC 6960: The Witchs Broom Nebula

2004-03-02 astronomy • witchesbroomnebula • • science • image • nelson:autotagged

Smart Voter by the League of Women Voters. Elections in California and Ohio

2004-03-02 reference • government • activism • elections • research • california • election • vote • politics • voting • local • nelson:autotagged

US led coup in Haiti?

People are reporting that Aristide says he was kidnapped at gunpoint

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Mars rover debugging

Fairly technical description. EE Times - The trouble with Rover is revealed

2004-03-01 space • technical • yonderboy • mars • news • todo • os/vxworks • software • nelson:autotagged

Complete SMB guide

Exhaustive reference for Super Mario Brothers; check out the maps!

2004-03-01 gaming • nelson:autotagged

Costik on Maxis/Origin

Wistful blog entry about EA's continuing consumption of the game development world

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Tacky dress photo

Then again, I don't think it's the dress that's responsible for this being the #1 photo on Yahoo

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In case you didn't watch it

2004-03-01 academy_awards • oscar • lists • movies • oscars • awards • movie • news • film • nelson:autotagged

Videogame speed runs

A bit silly, but interesting videos of playing through games really fast (via waxy)

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Marius Watz / Amoeba

Another computational artist; I was exchanging POVRay notes with him 12 years ago!

2004-03-01 visualization • code • art • processing • programming • animation • design • graphics • generative • experimental • inspiration • nelson:autotagged

Levitated | Everything

Amazing collection of computational art (via muxway)

2004-03-01 visualization • art • web • flash • programming • animation • design • graphics • inspiration • math • cool • nelson:autotagged

My Bloody Valentine

Update on the band that produced one of my favourite records and then, famously, nothing else.

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