Nelson's Linkblog 2004-07

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Better game narratives

Spot-on when it comes to MMOGs. I've been playing City of Heroes; it's profoundly boring.

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Why 13 digit ISBNs

It's to fit the UPC namespace (via Steve)

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MMOG music videos

Really amazing music videos made with in-game footage and clever editing

2004-07-30 imported • humour • random • mmog • static • video • cool • nelson:autotagged

Katamaridamashi art

Beautiful cover for the game (via Waxy)

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Age of Mythology

Reflections from Xemu, one of the development team

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London after the war

in an alternate universe (via BoingBoing)

2004-07-30 funny • art • language • humour • german • tube • maps • london • u-bahn • underground • austrian • nelson:autotagged

QuickSilver / Atom

Post to your blog from the Mac app launcher (via Joi)

2004-07-30 movabletype • osx • blog • stom • typepad • software • nelson:autotagged

VMs for security

PDF overview of using virtualization technology as a security tool

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RIP Francis Crick

SignOnSanDiego.com News Nation -- Francis Crick, 1916 %u2013 2004

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And... it's Kerry!

I mean, the suspense had been killing me.

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Wage slave games

Designing games that are good for people who don't have hours a day to play (via Slashdot)

2004-07-28 articles • gamebiz • gaming • work • game • games • geekery • favorites • ps2 • design • usability • nelson:autotagged

Case modding that Man was not meant to Know. (via BoingBoing)

2004-07-28 articles • imported • pc • new_mods • computers • computerhardware • linklog • tech • fun • 2006 • lovecraft • nelson:autotagged

Photos of things found in the trash, surprisingly poetic. (via BoingBoing)

2004-07-27 art • photoblog • culture • photo • photography • blog • photos • fun • weird • trash • blogs • nelson:autotagged

Movies from books

Fark takes on travesties of book/movie adaptations

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Nice visualization of English word frequency (via MetaFilter)

2004-07-26 visualization • art • reference • language • flash • writing • design • words • english • fun • cool • nelson:autotagged

It's TN3270 all over again!

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Solar photograph

APOD: 2004 July 26 - A Large Active Region Crosses the Sun

2004-07-26 images • science • space • nelson:autotagged

Falling building

who knew buildings could just fall down?

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Gillmor on Microsoft

Dan's been consistently critical, but this is more severe than usual

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Good online shoe store

2004-07-24 shop • fashion • shopping • shoes • handbags • accessories • sneakers • retail • clothing • store • clothes • nelson:autotagged

Marble rolling game, nicely done

2004-07-24 gaming • puzzle • list • ballance • game • game.computer • games • fun • directx • cool • nelson:autotagged

K.I.T.T. dashboard

Obsessive fan recreates the Knight Rider dashboard. Without irony. (via Waxy)

2004-07-24 1informationscience • transportation • coooool • tv • awesome • hollyweird • knight-rider • dashboard • oldschool • childhood • obsess • nelson:autotagged

Wacky voting / genetic algorithm thing for colors. (via muxway)

2004-07-24 web • art • color • colour • webdesign • colors • design • graphics • webdev • tools • css • nelson:autotagged

Electoral vote predictor

Round-up of state polls

2004-07-23 statistics • reference • usa • government • polls • elections • election • news • vote • politics • voting • nelson:autotagged

Kevlar kids' clothes

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Airport screen failed

4 of the 5 hijackers from Dulles were given a special screening at airport security. Why didn't this find anything?

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When averaging historical facts, don't forget to include the things that are now dead

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Jenna Bush tongue

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Katamaridamashi US

Confirmation that it'll be released in the US

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Bottle cap tripod

Now that's wacky. (via BoingBoing)

2004-07-21 hardware • useful • photo • photography • gadgets • photos • camera • design • diy • gadget • cool • nelson:autotagged

Silver City trailer

New John Sayles film, looks like fun. (via MeFi)

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Monty Hall demo

Play the game, see the statistics (via MeFi)

2004-07-20 statistics • probability • monty • whs-forum • montyhall • choose • fun • mathematics • problem • goat • math • nelson:autotagged

Kim Bauer is gone!

Rumour is only Keifer's coming back for the next season of 24. I think this show is over.

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On the rise. Unlike credit card fraud, you're probably screwed if someone misuses your account number.

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Netflix as platform

Reasonably insightful editorial

2004-07-19 information • business • web • movie • blogs • entertainment • commerce • geek • netflix • trends • movies • nelson:autotagged

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

2004-07-19 funny • philosophy • humor • cynical • quote • murphy • quotes • human • fun • law • murphy's • nelson:autotagged

New Doom 3 screens

Note: SNES version may not be the same as PC version

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Kerry kitesurfing

Wow, that's pretty hardcore

2004-07-18 politics • cool • nelson:autotagged

Machinima dancing

reifying motion capture

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MMOG subscriptions

Great data analysis of popularity of various games

2004-07-18 gaming • statistics • stats • business • reference • chart • research • mmog • game • games • mmorpg • nelson:autotagged

Olympic village action

"athlete village, with its tightly packed collection of firm young bodies" (via Zawodny)

2004-07-18 a • articles • sport • humor • sports • culture • olympics • nifty • games • sex • athletes • nelson:autotagged

Works of HP Lovecraft

Complete and online (via HotLinks)

2004-07-18 literature • horror • cthulhu • fiction • books • stories • free • writing • ebooks • book • lovecraft • nelson:autotagged

GTA: SA soundtrack

I've always loved the soundtracks in Grand Theft Auto

2004-07-18 gaming • music • nelson:autotagged

Code optimization

Is it relevant? Bill Pugh ponders in this PDF slideshow. (via Ted Leung)

2004-07-18 lang • programming • research • optimization • talks • pdf • software • compilers • nelson:autotagged

These people sell everything hardware related

2004-07-18 shopping • parts • hardware • catalog • materials • design • diy • supplies • electronics • tools • engineering • nelson:autotagged

Map of gays in NY

Census data about gay and lesbian couples mapped in New York

2004-07-18 homosexual • love • gay • bisexual • transgendered • sexuality • gender • lesbian • population • nelson:autotagged

Fiesta de Santa Fe

Fun local celebration, much nicer scale than Indian Market

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First person shooter in 5k of javascript (via Joystiq)

2004-07-17 gaming • wolfenstein • java • javascript • coding • game • webgame • games • 5k • internet • nelson:autotagged

Summer in West Virgina, it happens to all of us.

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Fallout 3 gossip

Interview with the new licensees at Bethesda. This could work out.

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Isometric pixel art

How-to guide (via Sutter)

2004-07-17 photoshop • isometric • art • pixelart • howto • illustration • design • graphics • tutorials • pixel • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

I, Robot reviews

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Social virtual worlds

Brilliant roundup of all the failures at creating the Metaverse online. There and Second Life are the most recent ones.

2004-07-16 mmog • business • virtual_geographic • secondlife • virtualworlds • blog • game • games • vgames/psych • metaverse • game_theory • nelson:autotagged

Mono on MacOS X

open source .NET (via Steve)

2004-07-16 development • osx • .net • apple • c# • mono • macosx • programming • dev • mac • software • nelson:autotagged

Maps taken from the classic Origin game

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Sell startup twice

Ev remembers that this is the second time someone bought WebShots

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Giant Ultima 7 map

24576 x 24576 pixel map of the U7 world

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All code points in a single poster. I want this, but this is too big!

2004-07-15 art • reference • language • poster • fonts • chart • typography • geek • design • unicode • images • nelson:autotagged

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Down the spiral

Courtney Love institutionalized

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Torres Strait map

This is where the castaways happened. Didn't realize how close PNG was to Australia

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Castaway children

Who knew these stories were true?

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Fallout 3, again

This time the Morrowind guys pick up the license

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Bucky Fuller stamps

Issued today (via MetaFilter)

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Mark Mothersbough's freaky photo manipulations (via MetaFilter)

2004-07-12 photo • design • art • original • symmetry • nelson:autotagged

Driving in New Zealand

LTSA: What's on our site for visitors and new residents?

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My birth record

It's sort of creepy this is online

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Kingdom of Loathing

A new level of online gaming experience

2004-07-11 funny • humor • kol • web • mmorpg • game • games • rpg • online • fun • gaming • nelson:autotagged

"complaints from consumers who found a calculator button and a piece of plastic in chili they had purchased"

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Flipped off by W

George must be learning naughty things from Uncle Cheney

2004-07-11 funny • humor • usa • people • activism • weblog • invent • bush • images • politics • cool • nelson:autotagged

My first linkblog

List of links I used to maintain from 1994-1997

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Israel, with US support, ignores the World Court and continues to build its wall

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Another CD burner; this one just burns ISOs, but is tiny (via Kenny)

2004-07-11 portable • windows • backup • utilities • free • iso • linux • download • freeware • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Fan-made sequel to the Atari 2600 classic, only weirdly this will be an Atari 5200 game

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Classic Gamer mag

Pretty decent free online magazine

2004-07-11 gaming • media • game • culture • magazine • gameroom • tech • retro • games • videojuegos • retrogaming • nelson:autotagged

Fully freeware CD mastering / burning software

2004-07-11 windows • dvd • burner • utilities • free • cd • computer • media • freeware • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

CD mastering / burning software, free for non-commercial use

2004-07-11 archiving • :apps/burning • tools • :os/mswin • nelson:autotagged

Gotham is lovely. Times New Roman is awful. At least they're not using Helvetica.

2004-07-10 design • graphicdesign • safari_export • typography • nelson:autotagged

Found P2P photos

Random photos found on the net

2004-07-10 media • photography • p2p • lost+found • nelson:autotagged

Dave McKean / Cory

Cory got an awesome artist for his next novel's cover.

2004-07-10 misc • nelson:autotagged

Photoshop boobs

Digital retouching in a movie poster. Read the comments in jwz's post, they're hysterical.

2004-07-10 amusing • nelson:autotagged

Free means free

Interesting words from someone who made his software public domain instead of GPL

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Residents b(l)og

2004-07-09 blog • musicalblog • podcast • music • nelson:autotagged

Kenny Boy non grata

Suddenly Bush doesn't want anyone to know Enron was his primary campaign contributer in 2000

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Radio retention req

Apparently the FCC wants all radio stations to keep 60-90 days of archives to aid indecency investigations. My college radio station could never manage this much organization.

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Journalist Visa in US

Our border policy is insane

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Get Fired Up! (via jwz)

2004-07-08 culture • idiotic • nelson:autotagged

Virtual Manhattan

NIce article about creating Spiderman 2's world

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VC algebra primer

pre money vs. post money, etc

2004-07-08 vc • funding • finance • deal • economics • startup • entrepreneurship • business • management • venture • valuation • nelson:autotagged

Translucent concrete

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Kiss me, you fool

Kerry and Edwards

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Software piracy 36%

Estimate of the rate of piracy world-wide.

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Living with HIV

Gripping personal blog from someone who just discovered he has HIV

2004-07-06 blog • aa-popular • hiv • nelson:autotagged

NYPost calls it wrong

Couldn't happen to a nicer paper

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Spiderman controller

$20 is too cheap for a good controller, but it sure looks crazy

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Fort Funston weather

webcam and wind readings

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radio clock for most of North America

2004-07-05 time • ham-radio • standard • nelson:autotagged

RSS Fedex tracking

This is a very clever hack

2004-07-05 commerce • rss • web • interesting • syndication • fedex • geekery • feeds • .imported • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Someone's writing a full OS in Python.

2004-07-05 development • python • technology • computers • programming • computer • design • opensource • unununium • os • software • nelson:autotagged

Giant Robot in NYT

Wonderful Asian pop culture zine is making the bigtime

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LeapSecond time geek

One man's quest for building perfect clocks

2004-07-05 metrology • reference • clock • ntp • internet • geek • clocks • time • gps • obsess • cool • nelson:autotagged

Call from your computer to any phone in the world. About 1.5 cents a minute for most tech-friendly countries (via MetaFilter)

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SF wind forecast

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Ocean Beach webcam

iWindsurf.com - Ocean Beach Windcam

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Bay Area wind pattern

Nice realtime map of which way the wind blows

2004-07-04 surf • surfing • sanfrancisco • san • sailing • flying • kayak • weather • paragliding • sf • wind • nelson:autotagged

More kite flying tips

Another good description

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Sun Dial bridge

crazy cantilever

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$1 million or more in first round

2004-07-04 rss • vc • feedburner • atom • nelson:autotagged

Feed parser 3.2

Now, with EBCDIC support!

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Funny little building toy (via Slashdot)

2004-07-04 design • toy • shopping • lego • toys • games • crafts • fun • art • pixel • cool • nelson:autotagged

Voting machine activist

Voting machines are such an awful idea, why is anyone even thinking of using them?

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Hussein statue lies

Yes, the toppling of the statue was completely staged. Not quite as bad as Jessica Lynch, but still very 1984.

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Cute little Sinistar/Robotron like game. Wacky thing? It's in Java with OpenGL

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As distinct from Roma gypsy

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Oh the irony (via Zawodny)

2004-07-03 osx • apple • photo • macosx • mac • design • opensource • graphics • freeware • software • gimp • nelson:autotagged

Rock Paper Saddam

Captioning hijinks. OK, it's actually pretty funny

2004-07-03 funny • story • humor • humour • saddam • photo • photos • games • fun • import • iraq • nelson:autotagged

GTA: San Andreas

Various collected rumours and info (via Joystiq)

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After VP Potty Mouth said "fuck", most papers wouldn't actually print the quote. (via BoingBoing)

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MacOS process limits

Apparnetly you'r elimited to 100 processes on MacOS. How dumb. Here's how to fix it.

2004-07-03 funny • mac • safari_export • dev • macintosh • nelson:autotagged

Kitelife Magazine - Sport Kite Competition Videos

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Berkeley kite festival

July 31 / Aug 1 2004

2004-07-03 fact_tree/cool_cs_stuff/berkeley_(city) • kids • sanfrancisco • kite • eastbay • berkeley(city) • bayarea • berkeley • fun • event • travel • nelson:autotagged

Where to fly a kite for maximum power

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How to fly a kite

Best guide I've been able to find

2004-07-03 cometas • kite • nelson:autotagged

Ocean Beach wind

iWindsurf.com - Ocean Beach Current Wind

2004-07-03 kite • wind • oceanbeach • nelson:autotagged

Kite Aerial Photos

Kite Aerial Photography by Scott Haefner, cool panoramas. Good articles too.

2004-07-03 aerial • kite • photo • photography • howto • kites • kap • diy • art • projects • cool • nelson:autotagged

YMCA Colin Powell

He's the construction guy (thanks Marc!)

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ICE-Link iPod/car

Another option for plugging in an iPod to a car. Integration is a bit hacky

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Ah, equal opportunity, thy name is smut

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Sony mp3 criticism

The MeFi crowd is really unimpressed. Me too - I have 20+ gigs of MP3. Screw your ATRAC

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Unholy mongrel gene manipulation

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Altoids microgames

Weird clone of WarioWare (via Waxy)

2004-07-01 top • flash • games • game • gba • nelson:autotagged

RSS screen saver

Remember when this was a $400 million dollar company? (via Zawodny)

2004-07-01 feed • development • c • windows • .net • programming • blog • c# • csharp • screensaver • rss • nelson:autotagged

Hussein, no beard dye

Rumour was he dyed his beard for years.

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jwz always gets the coolest photos

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