Nelson's Linkblog 2005-05

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Audi + Spinning rims

= racial discomfort on the Audi forums

2005-05-28 nelson:autotagged

Game controllers

Evolution of the hardware interface (via Waxy)

2005-05-28 gaming • console • reference • game • hardware • controller • games • retro • videogames • design • history • nelson:autotagged

"Invited to Iraq"

Astounding (via Metafilter)

2005-05-28 iraq • goodies • war • news • govt • politics • whitehouse • propaganda • nelson:autotagged

Virtual objects

Looking at Magic: The Gathering as inspiration for MMOs

2005-05-28 nelson:autotagged

Freakin hysterical (via Waxy)

2005-05-28 funny • television • humor • lost • gaming • tv • geek • game • games • to:cyren • zork • nelson:autotagged

Happy Birthday!

awesome comic (via Metafilter)

2005-05-27 comics • birthday • morbid • nelson:autotagged

Potemkin pothole

Governator, adding value

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Some sort of TV streaming service

2005-05-26 general-tv • nelson:autotagged

Random streaming video, kinda cool (via Metafilter)

2005-05-26 blog • useful • winamp • humour • web • tv • articulos • free • channels • internet-tv • mp3 • nelson:autotagged

Bacon flavoured beer

Rauchbier (via Marc)

2005-05-26 alcohol • food • eats • beer • .imported • sf • meat • nelson:autotagged

"gaga over google"

2100 results, maybe this phrase is overplayed?

2005-05-26 nelson:autotagged

Learning to write

Charming story about a friend's kid learning to write

2005-05-25 word • language • mind • phonics • learning • child • baby • nelson:autotagged

Phil Spector's hair

He had this done specifically for the trial.

2005-05-25 wack • media • linkblog • crime • music • fame • nelson:autotagged

Gamegal's hall of shame (via Slashdot)

2005-05-24 funny • gaming • photo • biates • m • jogos • geek • computer • games • nelson:autotagged

Merlin on Canon A95

Nice camera review

2005-05-24 cameras • interesting • photography • digital • matty'sstuff • 43folders • reviews • camera • photo • a95 • friends • nelson:autotagged

Flocking paragliders

2005-05-23 nelson:autotagged

Gamers' manifesto

Righteous rant (via MetaFilter)

2005-05-23 funny • humor • gaming • fun • game • manifesto • design • article • videogames • games • rant • nelson:autotagged

Sexy food in Paris

charming piece (via Marc)

2005-05-22 shopping • food • food.paris • travel • chocolate • paris • travel.paris • markets • restaurants • nelson:autotagged

Python implemented in Python

2005-05-22 dwurzyg • python • programming • programming.python • nativecode • project • oop • programming.python.tools.fasterthanc • comp.lang.python • pypy • software • nelson:autotagged

Rosie O'Donnell Flickr

2005-05-21 rosieo'donnell • rosie • art • photography • celebrities • photos • themuy • rosieodonnell • actors • flickr • celebrity • nelson:autotagged

Worst company name ever

2005-05-21 horticulture • bookmarksfordaviddodge • irrigation • david • horticulture&gardening • nelson:autotagged

Joel learns that Wall Street brokers know more than he does

2005-05-21 stufftoread • toread • bonds • investing • money • economics • improvement • blog • interessantes • investments • finance • nelson:autotagged

2005-05-20 nsfw • nelson:autotagged

Simple list of all the GBA ROMs

2005-05-19 nelson:autotagged

2005-05-19 via-nelson • sanfrancisco • restaurant • food • vegan • delivery • sfo • indian • local • sf • pizza • nelson:autotagged

I bent my Wookiee

2005-05-18 wookie • capture • pause • bent • quote • screen • simpsons • video • 2005-05 • 2005 • still • nelson:autotagged

E3 is overwhelming, but here's a good one

2005-05-18 gaming • discussion • strategy • civilization • games • fun • nelson:autotagged

Goodbye, Chef Charlie

He's an amazing chef, both culinary and logistic.

2005-05-18 chef • google • heh • cooking • nelson:autotagged

Rusty amusement park

Great photos (via BoingBoing)

2005-05-17 art • abandoned • photo • photography • park • photos • architecture • rollercoaster • japan • amusement • cool • nelson:autotagged

Slave Leia pet costume

Buy, buy, buy! (via Metafilter)

2005-05-17 funny • shopping • wtf • starwars • pet • costume • pets • fun • disturbing • leia • dogs • nelson:autotagged

Trusting Quicken

or not (via Zawodny)

2005-05-17 lessons • money • morons • bah • quicken • nelson:autotagged

Star Wars on BT?

Waxy thinks this isn't real, but it's only a matter of hours either way

2005-05-17 sith • spy • bittorrent • starwars • hunt • georgelucas • p2p • episodeiii • starwarsiii • torrent • peer2peer • nelson:autotagged

Puzzle Pirates review

Been hearing good things about this game for awhile..

2005-05-16 nelson:autotagged

Dan Gillmor's new enterprise

2005-05-16 bayarea • citizenjournalism • drupal • media • journalism • blog • bayosphere • internet • news • technology • sf • nelson:autotagged

Wine shipping opening

Stupid state laws are found unconstitutional

2005-05-16 nelson:autotagged

Hellgate: London hype

The team that did Diablo is starting to show their new game around

2005-05-15 nelson:autotagged

I may stop linking to Yahoo photos, their new UI is so bad

2005-05-15 nelson:autotagged

Have an idea, someone's already done it

2005-05-15 nelson:autotagged

Animated graffiti

Flash animation, music (via Metafilter)

2005-05-14 urban • stencil • art • streetart • flash • animation • video • fun • design • graffiti • cool • nelson:autotagged

Web page thumbnails

Sounds like Firefox 1.1 will make this easy. But does it require an X server still? (via kottke)

2005-05-14 web • canvas • javascript • firefox • screenshot • extension • image • mozilla • programming • xul • gecko • nelson:autotagged

Taking Flash out of most of Flickr (via everyone)

2005-05-14 web2.0 • web • flash • dhtml • javascript • photos • ajax • html • design • flickr • cool • nelson:autotagged

Attracting developers

Man, this is a great summary

2005-05-14 development • web • business • marketing • programming • openapi • platform • api • design • article • developer • nelson:autotagged

Finger owner found

Owner is not Wendy

2005-05-13 nelson:autotagged

Guild Wars review

Very positive, everyone I know loves this game

2005-05-13 nelson:autotagged

Stealth in MMOGs

Game balance problems in PvP combat

2005-05-13 nelson:autotagged

We need bingo cards, too (via BoingBoing)

2005-05-13 funny • humor • humour • monopoly • blogs • blog • game • games • web • fun • blogging • nelson:autotagged

People with superhuman abilities (via MeFi)

2005-05-12 biology • people • science • humans • everest • geek • antarctica • human • news • sports • via/drudgereport • nelson:autotagged

Threat level scam

White House was telling Homeland Security to raise threat levels (via Metafilter)

2005-05-12 tom_ridge • bush • boo • politics • twot • terrorism • nelson:autotagged

Google Maps UFO

Strange object caught in a Google map

2005-05-12 funny • satellite • google • map • ufo • maps • web • googlemaps • fun • weird • cool • nelson:autotagged

Miss Manners headline

Too rad (via AxMe)

2005-05-12 nelson:autotagged

Wigglr stereo photos

Nice Flickr hack to show stereo 3d photos

2005-05-11 nelson:autotagged

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BHG: Rise of Legends

Rise of Nations is the best RTS ever. Now they're back with an Arabian themed RTS. Looks awesome.

2005-05-11 nelson:autotagged

Far Cry / AMD64

First 64 bit PC game? (via GameTab)

2005-05-11 nelson:autotagged

No more Mother's Days

Waiter Rant is consistently entertaining

2005-05-11 nelson:autotagged

Dive into Greasemonkey

Mark's writing a new book?! (via Waxy)

2005-05-10 web • firefox • reference • extension • howto • javascript • programming • books • tutorial • book • greasemonkey • nelson:autotagged

Are you managing z/OS (MVS) data centers? OS/EM is for you!

2005-05-10 nelson:autotagged

Fix corked wine

I'm skeptical, but interesting idea

2005-05-10 nelson:autotagged

History of sampling

Nice interactive visualization of who samples who (via BoingBoing)

2005-05-10 visualization • audio • java • reference • sampling • culture • hiphop • music • art • history • cool • nelson:autotagged

Tension, partying

Lamest explanation ever for Chappelle's failure to make a third season

2005-05-09 tv • linkblog • humor • nelson:autotagged

AJaX summit notes

Someone's blogging a techie meeting

2005-05-09 web2.0 • web • xmlhttprequest • xml • javascript • programming • blog • webdesign • ajax • development • webdev • nelson:autotagged

nelson-blog.user.js

I have my own Greasemonkey script!

2005-05-09 firefox • film • cinema • movie • javascript • extensions • greasemonkey • userscript • meta:top • css • telecharger • nelson:autotagged

Plastic expression

Montage of a bunch of photos of a girl looking unchanging (via Metafilter)

2005-05-08 expressionless • boingboing • metafilter • nelson:autotagged

Vonage: $200M raised

That's a lot of private capital

2005-05-07 nelson:autotagged

2005-05-07 blog • auto • blogs • nelson:autotagged

Tim Bray brings up a very important web services topic

2005-05-07 nelson:autotagged

Wayne Rosing, fellow

One of my favourite folks from Google, now off to pursue his other passion (via Battelle)

2005-05-07 trend • google • people • nelson:autotagged

Clever insight into the value of anchor text to search engines

2005-05-07 search • google • *clippings* • accessibility • writing • webdesign • yahoo • internet • seo • f1omerida • webdevelopment • nelson:autotagged

Amazing. 20 years after HIV appears, now they want to institute rules against sperm donation.

2005-05-06 politics • people • nelson:autotagged

Serious home theater

Fantastic film geek project (via BoingBoing)

2005-05-05 theater • projector • movie • geek • movies • design • diy • media • home • hometheater • cool • nelson:autotagged

How lightsabers work

Surprisingly funny, particularly the "using at home" section (via Slashdot)

2005-05-05 funny • humor • starwars • science • geek • how • lightsaber • fun • star • technology • scifi • nelson:autotagged

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Madagascar migration

Folks moved 4000 miles from Borneo

2005-05-04 nelson:autotagged