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PriceRitePhoto
Scammy camera dealer gets lambasted (via Metafilter)
2005-11-30
web • fraud • shopping • business • photo • photography • blog • camera • news • scam • blogs • nelson:autotagged
Work and leisure
Interesting analysis of European and American work patterns (via Marc)
2005-11-30
europe • economics • productivity • business • usa • money • work • labor • culture • article • politics • nelson:autotagged
Burghound
Serious Burgundy taster guy
2005-11-30
winewriter • winecritic • appellation • reference • travel • french • france • pinot • burgundy • wine • nelson:autotagged
Drifts Flash game
Relaxing and surprisingly deep
2005-11-28
fun • action • game • flash • games • nelson:autotagged
Hidden game gems
Nice roundup of good lesser known games
2005-11-28
gaming • review • list • lists • reviews • videogames • game • video • article • ps2 • games • nelson:autotagged
MySQL insert delayed
Faster inserts; wish I knew about this before running my giant job
2005-11-27
insert • reference • database • sql • programming • delayed • mysql • performance • nelson:autotagged
Canal timelapse
Beautiful movie made from webcam grabs (via BoingBoing)
2005-11-27
canal • webcam • google • art • interesting • panama • timelapse • movies • video • travel • cool • nelson:autotagged
My Two Front Teeth
My friend runs this Christmas charity, it's quite good
2005-11-26
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Jay is games
Nice games blog (via Metafilter)
2005-11-26
blog • web • blogs • flash • free • reviews • flashgames • game • games • fun • gaming • nelson:autotagged
Speed eater
Sonya Thomas' home page
2005-11-25
funny • humor • gross • food • sonyathomas • koreanamerican • etc • fun • eating • weird • nelson:autotagged
VLC downloads
16M+ downloads of this free excellent media player
2005-11-25
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Xooglers
Blog of one of my favourite former Googlers, Doug E. (via John Battelle)
2005-11-25
blog • search • google • business • web • marketing • blogs • geek • internet • technology • history • nelson:autotagged
Ah Pook is here
Excellent animation for a William S Burroughs riff
2005-11-24
burroughs • animation • film • videos • poetry • nelson:autotagged
Turkey graphic
From an old NYT story
2005-11-24
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Civilization IV demo
The new UI is great
2005-11-23
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Shooting open locks
Harder than it looks (via jwz)
2005-11-23
movies • lock • howto • research • locks • experiment • science • fun • security • guns • cool • nelson:autotagged
MotoModders.net
more RAZR hacking
2005-11-23
cellphone • motorola • mobile • razr • hacks • cell • phone • mods • hack • hacking • software • nelson:autotagged
RAZR modding
New phone, new hacking
2005-11-23
cellphone • motorola • toread • reference • mobile • razr • moto • hardware • v3 • tech • hacks • nelson:autotagged
Jewel thief profile
Poignant story (via Metafilter)
2005-11-21
life • jewelthief • writing • neat • theft • article • weird • crime • writingideas • nelson:autotagged
WoW pricefixing
Some techniques (via amitp)
2005-11-21
bubblegeneration • orlybot • ah • wow • economics • worldofwarcraft • eve-online • mmorpg • games • farming • economy • nelson:autotagged
Word lists
dictionary tagged with parts of speech
2005-11-20
wordlist • word • reference • language • programming • lists • dictionary • words • english • security • tools • nelson:autotagged
Bush trapped
Can't flee the news conference (via Metafilter)
2005-11-20
funny • bush • humor • news • politics • nelson:autotagged
Thunderbird folders
By default it only checks inbox for new mail; this is dumb
2005-11-20
web • computing • tricks • mozilla • thunderbird • read_later • email • tips • imap • tutorial • software • nelson:autotagged
Civ IV reviews
Very high marks, so far it looks good to me too.
2005-11-20
videogames • tech • computers • games • show17 • nelson:autotagged
Mustard PacMan
Silly, funny
2005-11-19
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Amazon bank debit
New payment option, interesting
2005-11-12
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WoW ninja looting
Interesting interview on page 2 (via wonderland)
2005-11-12
gaming • sociology • parasites • nelson:autotagged
MySQL Blackhole
supports all kinds of indexing! (via Zawodny)
2005-11-12
replication • mysql • blackhole • dummy • nelson:autotagged
Took long enough
Poll: Most Americans Doubt Bush's Honesty
2005-11-11
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A Paris drive, map
Here's the route
2005-11-11
map • google • paris • car • cars • france • maps • video • rendezvous • movie • ferrari • nelson:autotagged
A Paris drive
Famous 1978 video of someone driving insane through Paris
2005-11-11
car • mefi • movies • amazing • video • cars • underground • post • racing • film • cool • nelson:autotagged
Pigeon nightmare
Cold sweats, nice photo
2005-11-11
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Man of God
Fundie whacko Pat Robertson on the warpath
2005-11-11
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Nefarian drops
Biggest boss in WoW, 40 samples of his l00t
2005-11-11
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Giant game maps
Displaying video game pixel art at 3000x6000 resolution
2005-11-11
tv • video • games • cool • nelson:autotagged
Corpse bride
Freaky found photo
2005-11-11
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Takei interview
Refreshingly detailed interview with Mr. Sulu on coming out
2005-11-10
television • main • gay • people • #geeks • sex • race • social • politics • beth • history • nelson:autotagged
Half-way around
12,500 mile flight, 23 hours
2005-11-10
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Katamari sushi
hee hee (via BoingBoing)
2005-11-10
gaming • flickr • humor • food • katamaridamacy • photography • sushi • games • beth • katamari • cool • nelson:autotagged
Full text of MS memos
No need to just read the NYT and WSJ stories (via Waxy)
2005-11-09
web2.0 • web • google • business • windows • strategy • ajax • internet • technology • microsoft • software • nelson:autotagged
A'dam antique wine
Shop in Amsterdam we went to a few years ago, very interesting stuff
2005-11-09
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CIA gulag response
A criminal investigation.. into the leak, not the prisons
2005-11-09
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"Laser-like focus"
54,300 cliches in Google
2005-11-09
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Notes on git
Early comments from the development
2005-11-09
scm • kernel • git • programming • research • engineering • version-control • linux • article • patch • software • nelson:autotagged
GIT: SCM
The new source code control hack used in the Linux kernel
2005-11-09
scm • kernel • git • versioncontrol • distributed • programming • development • opensource • linux • tools • software • nelson:autotagged
Debian architectures
In order of popularity. PPC and Sparc are main non-x86
2005-11-09
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Sound cannon
Cruise ship used aural weapon?!
2005-11-08
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"The Movies" review
Sounds like another Molyneux cool concept, poor gameplay
2005-11-08
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Three Rings
Cool "about this company" page; these are the guys behind Puzzle Pirates
2005-11-07
rhit-cs-biz • nelson:autotagged
EasyGPS
Third party software to get data out of GPS units
2005-11-07
gis • maps • geocaching • garmin • free • windows • opensource • freeware • gps • tools • software • nelson:autotagged
Prison Break: T-Bag
I'm loving this show, and this is my favourite character
2005-11-06
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Known bad intel
White House was told statements were likely false, yet used them as justification for war on Iraq
2005-11-06
torture • intelligence • bush • misleading • doubts • politics • news • iraq • nelson:autotagged
Pretty old photo
2005-11-06
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Blue ball machine
With sound (via Zawodny)
2005-11-06
funny • humor • web • flash • gif • animation • design • graphics • fun • art • cool • nelson:autotagged
Mother 3 GBA
Finally, hard news a sequel to one of the coolest RPGs ever is coming
2005-11-05
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Microfinance gift
eBay founder gives $100M to Tufts, but they have to invest in microloans
2005-11-04
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Marius Watz
I've been following this computational artist for years. Once every few months I look at all his cool new stuff.
2005-11-04
visualization • art • artist • processing • programming • design • graphics • generative • portfolio • interactive • inspiration • nelson:autotagged
Voronoi applet
Interactive visualization (beware: Java)
2005-11-03
visualization • java • geometry • science • research • triangulation • voronoi • applet • graphics • delaunay • math • nelson:autotagged
Voronoi treemaps
Interesting visualization technique (see images in the PDF)
2005-11-03
visualization • article • treemap • acm • research • nelson:autotagged
OpenSource.Nokia
Smart move (via FJ!!)
2005-11-03
development • cellphone • java • mobile • nokia • programming • community • symbian • opensource • linux • software • nelson:autotagged
More DRM stupidity
Sony puts DRM to hinder iTunes; DRM provider emails cracking instructions to hapless user (via shellen)
2005-11-03
p2p • apple • copyright • ipod • itunes • drm • mp3 • sony • music • security • software • nelson:autotagged
CIA gulags
Hey, the totalitarian prisons were already built!
2005-11-02
afghanistan • cia • toread • torture • articles • rights • news • politics • terrorism • iraq • war • nelson:autotagged
Bridge suicide map
SF Chron is running a great series on Golden Gate Bridge suicides right now (via BoingBoing)
2005-11-02
bridge • statistics • sanfrancisco • death • map • interesting • maps • suicide • design • visualization • architecture • nelson:autotagged
Michelin 3 star NYC
4 restaurants, wow! (via Marc)
2005-11-01
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Scooter on crutches
Awesome photo
2005-11-01
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SF Fast Food
Unappetizing Google Maps application
2005-11-01
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Magnalogs
Web representation of a journey: GPS track, photos, maps, etc. Nice integration.
2005-11-01
google • gis • geotagging • googleearth • mapping • maps • googlemaps • social • earth • gps • software • nelson:autotagged
EXIF / GPS tags
CLosest I've found to a standard
2005-11-01
cartography • reference • exif • tags • photo • photography • standard • photos • time • metadata • gps • nelson:autotagged
Forerunner / G. Earth
integrate data from your GPS into Google Earth display
2005-11-01
run • cycling • googleearth • forerunner • gpx+tools • running • googlemaps • freeware • sport • garmin • gps • nelson:autotagged
Forerunner software
Handy community supplied list
2005-11-01
forerunner • sport • .restored • gps/garmin/forerunner • running • gps/running • hack • forerunner_sw • laufen • gps • nelson:autotagged
GPS watch hacking
Garmin ForeRunner 201 integration with maps
2005-11-01
xml • satellite • tools • photography • howto • mapping • maps • running • gps • geo • software • nelson:autotagged
Evil Sony DRM
Lots of rootkit crap just to play a crappy CD (via BoingBoing)
2005-11-01
copyright • privacy • windows • blog • rootkit • drm • sony • music • security • hacking • software • nelson:autotagged