Nelson's Linkblog 2005-03

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Nice alarm clocks

Read the comments for some pointers

2005-03-31 consumerism • buy • shopping • review • gadgets • clocks • design • interieur • home • alarm • cool • nelson:autotagged

Josh comes through with another amazing photo

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Star Trek geeks only (via AxMe)

2005-03-30 shatner • humor • lone-ranger • chocolate • nimoy • tonto • art • isabel-samaras • besame-mucho • sublogit • nelson:autotagged

Cycling the Holy Road

Blog account of a bike trip - start at the bottom

2005-03-30 blog • good • cycling • nelson:autotagged

del.icio.us full time

Joshua announces funding and a new concentration

2005-03-30 web • vc • funding • business • tags • community • del.icio.us • delicious • news • tools • folksonomy • nelson:autotagged

Vintage educational video on the dangers homosexuals pose to young boys

2005-03-30 gss • nelson:autotagged

Squared circle poster

Collaborative art on flickr almost done

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upcoming.org ++

Lots of nice new features, including an API!

2005-03-29 xml • web • upcoming • toread • service • tags • startup • social • calendar • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Carmack on games for cell phones

Good details on why programming Java on cell phones is awkward (via Slashdot)

2005-03-29 development • java • people • blogs • programming • carmack • blog • game • games • graphics • 3d • nelson:autotagged

Gaylord 60s robot dog

"Gaylord comes with a bone of his own". Man have robot dogs evolved. (via BoingBoing)

2005-03-28 funny • humor • video • wtf • movies • nelson:autotagged

Simple technique for showing one person in an image multiple times

2005-03-28 hobby/crafts • cool • nelson:autotagged

Giant NTP clock

Crazy overprovisioned blade system for serving time (via comp.protocols.time.ntp)

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This is a great photo

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A6 / IceLink rumour

Most concrete rumour I've seen that IceLink may yet support my car

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New Audi A6 forum

Finally some people who know about MP3 integration

2005-03-27 audi_a6 • car • auto • audi • nelson:autotagged

mathowie on etech and sxsw

Nicely written, but his criticism of etech is probably exactly why I like it.

2005-03-27 sxsw • conferences • technology • ideas • etech • odeo • im • entry • presentation • tech • thoughts • nelson:autotagged

Hellgate: London

New game from the Diablo guys who left Blizzard (via Gametab)

2005-03-26 games • nelson:autotagged

Bad interactive sites

Jeff Veen tears into crappy Flash sites, etc (via everyone)

2005-03-26 interactivity • web • marketing • flash • accessibility • webdesign • design • internet • webdev • interactive • usability • nelson:autotagged

Jon's Python modules

Servlet-like classes for Python

2005-03-25 cgi • web • mod_python • database • python • code • programming • session • development • webdev • fastcgi • nelson:autotagged

Remember when this protocol was going to change the world?

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Stick figures in peril

I love flickr groups

2005-03-25 funny • art • photography • nifty • stickfigures • photos • stick • signs • fun • humor • flickr • nelson:autotagged

Jeff Weise video

Why is it so fascinating to look at rampage killers' Internet content?

2005-03-25 flash • web • violence • killer • paranoia • creepy • crime • culture • news • shooting • _jason • nelson:autotagged

Any good games for the new handheld?

2005-03-25 temp • review • reviews • video • sony • onsafari • games • psp • nelson:autotagged

Wendy's chili garnish

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Picture of the a9.com yellow pages driver?

2005-03-24 proj:a9 • pictures • local • proj:flickr • nelson:autotagged

Yahoo Feed Seeker

learn how many my yahoo users read your blog

2005-03-24 analytics • syndication • nelson:autotagged

Designed incompatibile

Things that are made nonstandard on purpose

2005-03-24 followup • metafilter • mefi • standards • engineering • design • ask.metafilter • destandardized • nelson:autotagged

New release of Python for .NET

2005-03-24 development • python • mono • .net • programming • windows • opensource • dotnet • ironpython • microsoft • software • nelson:autotagged

Convert Latin-1 to nearest neighbour ascii. Ugly, but may be useful.

2005-03-24 development • latin1 • cpo • python • recipe • programming • unicode • ascii • maturarbeit • nelson:autotagged

Awful. Awful, awful

Right to life; any kind of life, even zombie life

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13 things that do not make sense

Science mysteries (via Metafilter)

2005-03-23 articles • toread • space • interesting • research • science • article • news • astronomy • physics • cool • nelson:autotagged

Get your Schiavo on

As always, right on message (via jwz)

2005-03-23 funny • humor • on • comics • culture • bush • getyourwaron • fun • politics • comic • your • nelson:autotagged

Monumental projectors

Nice images, follow the links

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Jeff Weise LiveJournal

You gotta love the Internets (via mathowie)

2005-03-23 web • crazy • failure • angst • blogs • violence • paranoia • bloggers • news • foreshadowing • weblogs • nelson:autotagged

Python on Rails?

Nice description of what it'd take

2005-03-22 development • comparison • toread • web • python • programming • dev • mvc • rails • ruby • rubyonrails • nelson:autotagged

Ajax + Ruby on Rails

it's all over (via Waxy)

2005-03-22 web • xmlhttprequest • rubyonrails • dom • javascript • programming • rails • ajax • design • webdev • ruby • nelson:autotagged

Color name universals

Whether or not colours have the same names in different cultures (via Waxy)

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Nice visual chart (via Slashdot)

2005-03-22 gui • os • unsorted • icons • nelson:autotagged

Jeff Weise, Nazi

Cached forum posts from the teenager who killed 10 yesterday (via Metafilter)

2005-03-22 teen • human_tragedy • paranoia • crime • secret • news • politics • native • nazi • nazis • adolescence • nelson:autotagged

Autechre interview

Great discussion with my favourite musicians (via AxMe)

2005-03-21 sound • electronic • maxmsp • autechre • idm • music • interview • technology • audio • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

The granddaddy of IM applications

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Video game atlas

I always wanted to do this; pixel perfect dumps from ROMs

2005-03-21 map • art • reference • gaming • maps • game • video • retro • nintendo • videogames • games • nelson:autotagged

Links to people's presentations, including mine

2005-03-17 etech • slides • oreillynet • slide • music • 2005 • downloadme • technologies • stacks • presentation_slides • o'reilly • nelson:autotagged

Toasting Dame Edna

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Lessig at ETech

Best presenter I've ever heard, great talk (MP3)

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Molyneaux: The Room

When game designers experiment. Sounds cool.

2005-03-16 gaming • games • sureal • nelson:autotagged

via irc.freenode.net/#etech

2005-03-16 funny • humor • humour • on • rael • geek • wrong • ruby • original • nelson:autotagged

Funny pun on folksonomy

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Spore screenshots

interesting visual style (via Waxy)

2005-03-16 gaming • mmos • eames • spore • dev • games • wilwright • willwright • images • news • emergence • nelson:autotagged

"All Complex Ecosystems have Parasites"

2005-03-16 etech • media • economics • boingboing • network • nelson:autotagged

George Dyson...

...is Senator Palpatine. Awesome photo from etech.

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experimental gameplay

Nice student project making lots of quick games (via Metafilter)

2005-03-14 development • flash • programming • free • game • design • fun • games • cool • experimental • software • nelson:autotagged

Romanian game farm

Someone found people actually paid to farm game items (via Guardian Games)

2005-03-14 gaming • romania • travail • wow • offshoring • games • china • mmorpg • article • sweatshop • economy • nelson:autotagged

Costik on distribution

Followup to his rant, talking about alternate models for selling games

2005-03-14 development • archangel • read • p2pcommerce • daily • game • games • design • bigend • area/code • games_opinion • nelson:autotagged

Civilization IV details

Nice roundup of what's known about the highly anticipated game

2005-03-13 xml • games:civ • games • civ • gaming • nelson:autotagged

Costik's game rant

Great rant against the greed and expense in the game business

2005-03-13 gaming • archangel • writing • blog • culture • games • gamedesign • nintendo • design • area/code • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

MythTV + Squeezebox

Alex figures out how to make his MythTV act like a Slimp3

2005-03-13 multimedia • mythtv • stream • slim • mythmusic • pvr • music • meta:ref • meta:hacks • audio • tools • nelson:autotagged

WoW gold crackdown

Blizzard suspends accounts for farming gold and items

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Will Wright: Spore

Latest game from the sim genius, sounds very ambitious

2005-03-12 futureshock • spore • ideas • simulation • blogthis • game • games • willwright • emergence • nelson:autotagged

Battlefield 2 trailer

Sent to me by spam, but looks pretty cool

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Bizou confirmation

Alas (via Marc)

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One of my favourite SF restaurants rumoured to be in trouble (via Marc)

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Lick Jar-Jar's tongue

Lovely Star Wars products (via Marc)

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Beefy men carrying him in

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Microsoft buys Groove

Their only possible exit

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MJ "back problem"

Must be tough to show up in your child molestation trial every day

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Build things (via Make)

2005-03-10 gaming • lego • windows • downloads • free • mmorpg • game • games • fun • legos • software • nelson:autotagged

amazing results (via Metafilter)

2005-03-10 art • color • photo • photography • programming • colorization • video • graphics • software • image • cool • nelson:autotagged

Japan psychiatric art

Beautiful images (via Metafilter)

2005-03-09 art • psychology • culture • photography • japanese • images • design • advertising • psychiatry • japan • weird • nelson:autotagged

John Frum cargo cult

Nice roundup on Metafilter

2005-03-09 cargocult • metafilter • to_read • to-read • religion • interesting • unread • nelson:autotagged

FEC: Bloggers, chill

I love that this article is written blog-style (via BoingBoing)

2005-03-09 via:boingboing.net • weblog • to:read • censorship • politics • via:boingboing • nelson:autotagged

Long hair, kilt, the works.

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Nice price and battery life

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NYT Circuits ending

That's OK, the Monday section is much better anyway (via BoingBoing)

2005-03-08 media • opa • nyt • < • nelson:autotagged

Snatching domains

This is ludicrous, but fascinating (via Waxy)

2005-03-07 expiring • web • domain • business • howto • hosting • blog • dns • internet • domains • tips • nelson:autotagged

Still Seeing Breen

Awesome Half Life 2 machinima music video (via Joystiq)

2005-03-07 machinama • art • music • half-life • movies • games • fun • video • machinima • half-life2 • cool • nelson:autotagged

Apple genius blog

Bitter, bitter (via Waxy)

2005-03-07 blog • humor • apple • tech_support • blogs • computers • livejournal • geek • genius • mac • tech • nelson:autotagged

Nexus: space RTS

The demo is beautiful

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Santa Fe gay bashing

This seems very unlike Santa Fe

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Mike Doughty blog

Former frontman for Soul Coughing (via Kottke)

2005-03-06 mike • art • indie • blogs • doughty • blog • culture • music • soulcoughing • nyc • mikedoughty • nelson:autotagged

Le scandal Michelin

New guide, new criticism. Every year this happens. But Robuchon is a big fish to complain...

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Summary of social differences between the two games. Matches my experience.

2005-03-05 worldofwarcraft • nelson:autotagged

Giant Steps / M. Levy

Beautiful video / visualization (via Waxy)

2005-03-04 flash • art • music • jazz • coltrane • animation • video • graphics • design • 3d • cool • nelson:autotagged

Ukrainian bus shelters

More crazy art (via Metafilter)

2005-03-04 ukraine • art • winter • art_public • bus • photography • photos • architecture • 2005 • public • transport • nelson:autotagged

Pakistani buses

Exuberant (via Metafilter)

2005-03-04 pakistan • art • img • buses • bus • vehicle • misc • photos • auto • weird • transport • nelson:autotagged

Various products to integrate MP3 players to car stereos

2005-03-04 auto • car • ipod • honda • gadgets • music • mp3 • cars • interface • electronics • audio • nelson:autotagged

Another beautiful photo

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Beautiful photo

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Geographic oddity (via warmbrain)

2005-03-03 fun • funny • geography • usa • general • nelson:autotagged

Game built inside Second Life, looks like it's nicely environment appropriate

2005-03-03 reading • toread • secondlife • puzzle • game • virtualworlds • blog • second_life • games • boardgame • tringo • nelson:autotagged

Firefox extension that lets you augment any web page with your own code

2005-03-03 web • javascript • firefox • dhtml • extension • mozilla • programming • extensions • tools • greasemonkey • software • nelson:autotagged

XMLHttpRequest guide

Usability Guidelines (via Kottke)

2005-03-03 xml • web • xmlhttprequest • javascript • programming • accessibility • ajax • design • webdev • development • usability • nelson:autotagged

This is huge news, biggest US MMOG ever

2005-03-02 mmorg • service • gaming • wow • mmorpgs • research • mmo • games • numbers • online • horizonvcop • nelson:autotagged