Nelson's Linkblog 2005-10

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Ultima VII design docs

Interesting collection of Origin documents

2005-10-31 game_design • nelson:autotagged

Pink Floyd / John Peel

unreleased sessions? (via metachat)

2005-10-31 pink • art • pink_floyd • cool • bbc • johnpeel • music • mp3 • download • pinkfloyd • john_peel • nelson:autotagged

Rusty is a homosexual

Heart-warming ending (via Metafilter)

2005-10-31 funny • humor • gay • humour • comics • satire • writing • homosexuality • queer • fun • comic • nelson:autotagged

Pumpkin case mod

2005-10-31 case • funny • humor • halloween • pc • computer • design • diy • mod • technology • pumpkin • nelson:autotagged

Google ad business

Detailed article from the NYT

2005-10-31 google • advertising • privacy • nelson:autotagged

Group rumoured to have helped former SS escape prosecution

2005-10-31 jews • ss • wikipedia • conspiracy • germany • espionage • dsrp • odessa • nazis • history • nelson:autotagged

Make games in 1 week

Rapid prototyping lessons

2005-10-29 development • gaming • gamedev • productivity • programming • creativity • game • games • article • design • software • nelson:autotagged

Fredericksburg, TX

Be a tourist in the Hill Country

2005-10-28 nelson:autotagged

Denny Hastert blog

2005-10-28 republican • toread • commontimes • interesting • blogs • later • us • blog • blog.political • politics • u.s.-news • nelson:autotagged

Frauenkirche opening

Official consecration this Sunday

2005-10-28 nelson:autotagged

George Takei officially comes out, although people have known for years.

2005-10-28 nelson:autotagged

Dismal and excellent

Archie comics gets hip, ca. 1987 (via Waxy)

2005-10-28 archie • funny • subculture • wtf?! • humor • web • comics • goth • veronica • betty • um... • nelson:autotagged

SF UFO sightings

Strange lights (via Eric)

2005-10-28 news • ufo • nelson:autotagged

Jed's Other Poem

Pretty volunteer video (via Kevin Fox)

2005-10-28 art • grandaddy • music • programming • typography • geek • video • retro • design • cool • apple • nelson:autotagged

2005-10-27 zurich • nelson:autotagged

Jenisch, with their own history of oppression.

2005-10-27 nelson:autotagged

WoW travel guide

Postcard series from World of Warcraft (via Kotaku)

2005-10-27 vgames/general • funny • humor • reference • wow • koreatalk • mmo • worldofwarcraft • games • warcraft • travel • nelson:autotagged

Updates for 20d and 350d

2005-10-26 foto • dslr • photo • photography • firmware • canon • camera • graphics • download • 350d • software • nelson:autotagged

Gloria verdad the sparkle, that it was bona.

2005-10-26 nelson:autotagged

Men posting personal ads as women

2005-10-26 nelson:autotagged

Vegas dining scene

Still the best concentration of chefs anywhere

2005-10-26 nelson:autotagged

Gitmo desperation

Hunger striker wants to die

2005-10-26 politics • bush • iraq • usa • guantanamo • nelson:autotagged

UVic students catch and eat campus bunnies (via MeFi)

2005-10-26 food • linkblog • canada • college • nelson:autotagged

Chain reaction game

Beautiful presentation (via Metafilter)

2005-10-26 flash • art • entertainment • puzzle • toys • puzzles • game • games • internet • fun • cool • nelson:autotagged

Sun's empty Grid

No customers, big surprise (via stevej)

2005-10-26 embarassment • theregister • news • sun • nelson:autotagged

Joining a startup?

Questions to ask (via populicious)

2005-10-25 vc • jobs • business • career • startup • entrepreneurship • job • management • questions • interview • tips • nelson:autotagged

Liberia history

America's forgotten colony

2005-10-25 wikipedia • nelson:autotagged

Mexican-American war

Great waiterrant

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Beating the market

It's easy, just be a senator and beat it 12% / year! (via kottke)

2005-10-25 finance • government • investing • economics • x_reminded_me_of_y • lies • politics • corporate-state-corruption • end_of_rome • corruption • bigend • nelson:autotagged

Network MP3 player. Now! Not ugly!

2005-10-25 wireless • shopping • network • wifi • gadgets • streaming • hardware • music • mp3 • linux • audio • nelson:autotagged

Looks very good!

2005-10-24 computergames • read • review • game • játék • reviews • civ4 • games • civ • nelson:autotagged

Boondocks on TV

My favourite comic strip is going to be animated?!

2005-10-24 webcomics • television • boondocks • comics • media • review • tv • cartoons • article • politics • cartoon • nelson:autotagged

Saturn moon / rings

2005-10-21 science • photos • dione • space • cool • nelson:autotagged

Yet more on the meltdown, nothing very interesting here though.

2005-10-21 nelson:autotagged

High dynamic range

Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro: digital camera with two sets of sensors, one for subtle detail

2005-10-21 foto • hdr • photo • photography • fotografia • monitor • nelson:autotagged

Creepy color illusion

I want a new visual cortex, this is too freaky

2005-10-21 art • illusions • color • science • animation • fun • optical • games • images • illusion • cool • nelson:autotagged

Tom DeLay mugshot

As seen in dictionary, under "shit-eating grin"

2005-10-21 funny • humor • tomdelay • photo • photography • delay • photos • news • politics • law • corruption • nelson:autotagged

419 scam details

Profile of a scammer in Nigeria

2005-10-21 nelson:autotagged

Level3 outage again

Another link that's only good for 24 hours, but see the big event around 00:00

2005-10-21 europe • develop • network • isp • traffic • internet • report • analyze • tools • nelson:autotagged

This link will only for another 18 hours, but here's the outage

2005-10-21 latency • metrics • route • damage • isps • sysadmin • health • dns • internet • networking • tools • nelson:autotagged

Major internet outage

Don't have a better reference than this, but definitely felt it around 8am GMT

2005-10-21 outage • internet • nelson:autotagged

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Unreleased game, no ROMs available. Guy claims to have a copy.

2005-10-21 console • zelda • games • nintendo • weird • prototype • nes • nelson:autotagged

US war atrocity

Allegation US troops desecrated Taliban corpses (via MeFi)

2005-10-20 afghanistan • torture • current_events • twot • iraq • war • nelson:autotagged

Making South Park

6 days an episode! (via MeFi)

2005-10-20 entertainment • nelson:autotagged

Beignets are back!

Small pastry, big smile

2005-10-20 nelson:autotagged

Scooter Turd Blossom

What a surprise, Libby and Rove colluded.

2005-10-20 nelson:autotagged

Free lens distortion correction

2005-10-19 photoshop • plugin • windows • photo • photography • utilities • lens • camera • freeware • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Tourist info for watch geeks

2005-10-19 swiss • travel • nelson:autotagged

Clock of the Long Now

nice update on the project, with photos (via Slashdot)

2005-10-19 science • art • clock • interesting • future • design • time • article • history • technology • cool • nelson:autotagged

SF burrito reviews

Man, I'm missing this (via Metafilter)

2005-10-19 bestof • useful • food • eats • burritos • examples • sf • nelson:autotagged

GPS photo linking

Still early stages on this tech

2005-10-19 osx • gis • geotagging • photo • photography • howto • mapping • maps • mac • geo • gps • nelson:autotagged

Mass games video

Not great quality, but it's the real deal (via BoingBoing)

2005-10-19 communism • dance • northkorea • political • asia • festival • korea • video • communist • nelson:autotagged

Destroy hot action

Glitch pr0n (via memepool)

2005-10-18 blog • art • videos • porn • blogs • vlog • sex • geek • video • design • cool • nelson:autotagged

Printer fingerprints 2

Images showing the dots.

2005-10-18 printer • reference • privacy • hardware • code • tech • printers • security • technology • hacking • eff • nelson:autotagged

Printer fingerprints

EFF figures out that Xerox printers stamp output with date, time, serial number

2005-10-18 nelson:autotagged

Bailing out of a plane

Great glider story (via Zawodny)

2005-10-18 aviation • soaring • flying • safety • glider • nelson:autotagged

Fyodor nmap interview

Surprisingly interesting read (via Slashdot)

2005-10-17 toread • hackers • people • nmap • interviews • internet • interview • security • fyodor • tools • hacking • nelson:autotagged

New game styles

More Costik goodness

2005-10-17 acc • videogame • business • home • geek • art-bell • games • www.costik.com • 2005 • politics • presentation • nelson:autotagged

Life hackers NYT

Great article, congrats to Merlin et al!

2005-10-17 gtd • business • lifehack • work • productivity • design • lifehacks • article • technology • microsoft • usability • nelson:autotagged

Good deals on photo equipment

2005-10-17 nelson:autotagged

brinimaxwell.com

2005-10-15 decor • fashion • shopping • vlog • homemaking • drag • craft • design • retro • art • brini • nelson:autotagged

Y Combinator wrapup

Great summary of how the startup experiment worked. Very impressive results!

2005-10-14 essay • development • vc • business • investing • programming • startup • entrepreneurship • ycombinator • paulgraham • article • nelson:autotagged

Mass credit card fraud

Lots of people getting $9.99 and $24.99 charges on their cards

2005-10-14 fraud • financial • money • creditcard • creditcards • 43folders • finances • nelson:autotagged

Mass Games montage

Not quite video, but lots of good photos. Flash, sound. (via Metafilter)

2005-10-14 dystopia • flash • north_korea • korea • images • marxism • odd • propaganda • nelson:autotagged

Web 2.0 crankypants

A dissenting view (via ...)

2005-10-14 web2.0 • business • column • technology • maney • web2 • ajax • internet • news • bubble • web2con • nelson:autotagged

My outsourced life

Very funny because the author is such an ass (via kottke)

2005-10-14 funny • humor • business • economics • india • outsourcing • productivity • culture • outsource • fun • article • nelson:autotagged

Staged soldiers

Bush teleconference has questions predetermined

2005-10-14 nelson:autotagged

MySpace js worm

Clever XSS-style hack (via RISKS)

2005-10-14 web • myspace • xss • javascript • programming • worm • hacks • ajax • hack • security • hacking • nelson:autotagged

A state of mind review

Screened in New York in August

2005-10-13 nelson:autotagged

A state of mind

2002 documentary about the North Korea mass games

2005-10-13 communism • north • northkorea • watch • north_korea • korea • games • kim • mass • documentary • dprk • nelson:autotagged

Vote for your ruler

2005-10-13 funny • humor • comics • satire • general • movies • president • politics • zod • superman • cool • nelson:autotagged

no more halo photo crops for W

2005-10-13 images • politics • photography • humor • w • nelson:autotagged

Apple roundup 2

Daring Fireball with some colour commentary (via Kottke)

2005-10-13 blog • apple • business • mobile • ipod • itunes • mac • video • article • tech • technology • nelson:autotagged

All the announcements in one. $2/tv episode is so smart.

2005-10-13 itunes • jobs • apple • ipod • stevejobs • blog • tivo • gadgets • video • 2005 • news • nelson:autotagged

Frist crookedness

Frist held stocks outside his not-blind trust

2005-10-12 nelson:autotagged

Clever collection of icons (via Joystiq)

2005-10-12 funny • design • art • nintendo • mario • games • graphics • videogames • humor • fun • cool • nelson:autotagged

suicide note.ppt

Painfully funny Onion (via kottke)

2005-10-12 funny • management • humor • onion • humour • satire • culture • fun • news • presentation • powerpoint • nelson:autotagged

Interop agreement. (via Waxy)

2005-10-12 technology • yahoo • msn • im • chat • internet • messenger • news • c7 • microsoft • cool • nelson:autotagged

Django + Google Maps

Nice video demo (via Waxy)

2005-10-12 visualization • google • gis • business • maps • python • interesting • programming • django • googleearth • geo • nelson:autotagged

NYT columnist lossage

Great graph showing how stupid the NYT content wall is (via Marc)

2005-10-12 web • humor • via:bkerr • subscriptions • media • journalism • research • biz • nytimes • nicco • garden • nelson:autotagged

Vint Cerf at Google

2005-10-11 google • humor • people • vintoncerf • pictures • batas • photos • internet • nelson:autotagged

Windows PrintFile

dump a postscript file directly to a printer, no drivers required. Simple.

2005-10-11 windows • text • commandline • utilities • win32 • postscript • printing • file • print • freeware • software • nelson:autotagged

Spam stock tracker

Monitoring the pump-n-dump players

2005-10-11 funny • finance • business • spam • investing • interesting • economics • money • stocks • email • stock • nelson:autotagged

Congratulations, Andy.

2005-10-10 socialsoftware • web • business • upcoming • collaboration • yahoo • events • internet • news • upcoming.org • calendar • nelson:autotagged