Nelson's Linkblog 2006-02

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Surprisingly interesting article

2006-02-28 food • military • stargate • reference • nelson:autotagged

PhilG on Canon 5D

He seems to like it

2006-02-27 cameras • photo • photography • digital • canon • daily • reviews • camera • slr • review • digitalphotos • nelson:autotagged

I find the laptop scene odious, but may be convenient

2006-02-26 web2.0 • coffee • wifi • sanfrancisco • business • office • culture • mobile • work • startup • food • nelson:autotagged

Top Flickr cameras

Based on upload stats; wish I'd thought of this! (via Populicious)

2006-02-25 statistics • shopping • photo • photography • cameras • list • hardware • camera • digital • flickr • top • nelson:autotagged

early 60s homoculture (via Metafilter)

2006-02-25 funny • comedy • gay • culture • music • retro • queer • fun • download • history • mp3 • nelson:autotagged

WinXP: UltraMon

System tweak software for multiple monitors

2006-02-25 productivity • monitor • windows • utilities • desktop • hardware • video • utility • tools • monitors • software • nelson:autotagged

The Evolution of Link

Zelda graphics through time (via Joystiq)

2006-02-25 gaming • iumage • zelda • tshirt • games • nintendo • videogames • history • nelson:autotagged

Scanner Darkly production problems

Apparently the animation process has been difficult (via Digg)

2006-02-25 scanner • movie • rotoscoping • philipkdick • movies • animation • wired • pkd • linklater • article • film • nelson:autotagged

Legend of Zelda ad

embarassing 1987 rap

2006-02-24 funny • joystiq • zelda • nostalgia • video • video_games • nelson:autotagged

Poke: game cheats

Generic memory modification engine

2006-02-23 gaming • poke • windows • game • free • cheat • cheats • games • hack • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Half Moon Bay tides

Unusually low tides this weekend

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Bad game controllers

Funny collection of failed HID

2006-02-22 the_80s • funny • gaming • game_controllers • imported_from_blue_dot • video_games • nelson:autotagged

Two decades of Zelda

One of the most important console RPGs

2006-02-22 gaming • games • nintendo • zelda • game • tech • article • videogames • video • nes • history • nelson:autotagged

Test game prototypes

Interesting window into an independent developer's process

2006-02-22 prototype • casualgames • speciale • nelson:autotagged

LEGOd Video Games

Classic video game scenes recreated in lego (via Digg)

2006-02-21 gaming • art • lego • photography • photos • games • videogames • humor • flickr • katamari • legos • nelson:autotagged

Python EasyInstall

Finally: one line command to download and install a Python package

2006-02-21 development • package • python • egg • documentation • programming • opensource • install • installer • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Canon 85mm f1.2L

Fancy new prime, freakin' huge 72mm filter

2006-02-21 photography/lenses/canon • gear • photo • photography • canon • portraiture • lens • camera • photoreviews • nelson:autotagged

EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS

Interesting, but I still think EF-S is a dead end

2006-02-21 lens • dslr • 17 • mm • photography • canon • eos • 17-55 • ef-s • review • is • nelson:autotagged

they've done a good job seeding the web sites

2006-02-21 shopping • dslr • photo • photography • canon • eos20d • camera • 30d • review • nelson:autotagged

New camera, so far the buzz is it's disappointing

2006-02-21 reviews • canoneos30d • gear • photo • photography • cameras • canon • eos • camera • 30d • review • nelson:autotagged

Don't mess with Cory

He's got a blog of doom

2006-02-21 funny • crazy • humor • humour • web • legal • crime • internet • boingboing • law • bosh54 • nelson:autotagged

Dogpatch photos

Funky old SF neighbourhood, fun images

2006-02-20 cityscape • photo • sanfrancisco • landscape • nelson:autotagged

Scanner Darkly trailer

A new trailer! This looks so incredibly good.

2006-02-20 nelson:autotagged

BotNet business

Interview with a young criminal (via Kedrosky)

2006-02-20 hacker • malware • hackers • spyware • hacks • botnet • internet • article • security • news • hacking • nelson:autotagged

Six Apart: $12M more

they sure are spending a lot of money

2006-02-20 six-apart • vc • business • 6a • server • blog • design • ommalik • rssnews • sixapart • blogging • nelson:autotagged

Photomatix tutorial

Giant screenshots

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Wikipedia: Aborigines

2006-02-19 wikipediapage • australia • wikipedia • history • nelson:autotagged

Neutrinos detected

Antarctica detector gets a hit

2006-02-19 science • antarctica • blackhole • nelson:autotagged

yy-chr tile ripper

Extract graphics from old ROMs

2006-02-18 nes • nelson:autotagged

Cheney shooting lies

Most of what we were told at first was false

2006-02-18 nelson:autotagged

Block Fasterfox

Millions of users all pre-fetching links is bad

2006-02-18 web • firefox • robots.txt • howto • hacks • blog • webhosting • extensions • fasterfox • apache • server • nelson:autotagged

Google DoJ response

I think it's amazing they're posting all these documents

2006-02-18 doj • search • google • usa • privacy • interesting • surveillance • bush • politics • law • response • nelson:autotagged

Pics of shot by Cheney

Damage right by his eye

2006-02-18 nelson:autotagged

You got your AJAX in my API!

2006-02-17 web2.0 • mashup • ajax • del.icio.us • delicious • social • news • bookmarks • digg • tools • cool • nelson:autotagged

Firefox clipboard bug

This is driving me nuts!

2006-02-17 problem • clipboard • firefox • bug • nelson:autotagged

Jeeves is watching

Thank god humour is alive in Silicon Valley (via Waxy)

2006-02-17 mattcutts • funny • by__az • seo • fromirc • nelson:autotagged

More American shame

Salon gets the full set of Abu Ghraib data, presumably via a leak (via Metafilter)

2006-02-16 torture • ghraib • salon.com • photos • abuse • abughraib • abu • news • politics • iraq • war • nelson:autotagged

Blueprint flash game

Nice little puzzle (via Metafilter)

2006-02-16 blueprint • puzzle • flash • free • puzzles • game • games • online • fun • physics • cool • nelson:autotagged

Shut down Gitmo

UN asks US to close down torture prison

2006-02-16 nelson:autotagged

Can NSA read email?

Yahoo declines to answer (via Zawodny)

2006-02-16 nelson:autotagged

Stupid nude calendars

Girls of curling! (via Kottke)

2006-02-16 humor • humour • photography • sex • stupidity • nsfw • advertising • fun • calendar • nude • cool • nelson:autotagged

Earthquake prep

San Francisco city site for preparing for disasters

2006-02-16 security • disaster • emergency • survival • howto • sf • preparedness • tips • kit • earthquake • reference • nelson:autotagged

1000 points of light, guerilla style

2006-02-15 art • throwies • make • howto • hacks • graffiti • diy • fun • led • electronics • cool • nelson:autotagged

More snaps from Abu Ghraib

2006-02-15 gross • iraq • torture • ghraib • evil • photos • bush • aclu • law • rumsfeld • abu • nelson:autotagged

John Frum cargo cult

In depth Smithsonian story (via BoingBoing)

2006-02-15 cargo • cargocult • toread • articles • culture • interesting • smithsonian • anthropology • religion • cult • history • nelson:autotagged

Flickr: pillowfight

From yesterday's SF mob

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Valenswine's Day

Feb 13 is the day to take your mistress out for dinner

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Merlin's office-away-from-home

2006-02-15 localstuff • cafe • sanfrancisco • wifi • nelson:autotagged

Jeff Veen to Google

2006-02-15 web • statistics • stats • adaptivepath • blogs • blog • analytics • google • measuremap • veen • acquisition • nelson:autotagged

Gamespot spam leak

I think it's more likely Gamespot was hacked than they were giving out address

2006-02-15 nelson:autotagged

10 best sci-fi films that never existed

Terrific bit of writing about current scifi films (via Populicious)

2006-02-14 funny • humor • sci-fi • movie • list • movies • scifi • interesting • article • sf • film • nelson:autotagged

Near killing is funny!

White House Finds Humor in Hunting Mishap

2006-02-14 nelson:autotagged

Nintendo DS Lite

Great article explaining all the changes

2006-02-14 gaming • dslite • nintendods • nintendo • videogames • news • nelson:autotagged

Calculating exposure

The math behind f-stops, shutter speeds, and film ISO

2006-02-14 toread • reference • technical • photo • photography • howto • tutorials • mathematics • looksee • tutorial • exposure • nelson:autotagged

Photoshop for photogs

Sample chapter on HDR is pretty useful

2006-02-14 photoshop • photography • hdr • graphics • nelson:autotagged

High dynamic time range photography

Combining exposures taken across a day into a single image

2006-02-14 howto • photoshop • hdr • photo • photography • dynamic • photos • hdtr • time • tutorial • cool • nelson:autotagged

In depth exploration of HDR tech

2006-02-14 photoshop • hdr • reference • photo • photography • graphics • imaging • digital • article • technology • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Flickr: Feb 12 2006

I'm famous, I'm famous! At least at the for the moment, my HDR experiment is the #1 interestingness photo today.

2006-02-13 nelson:autotagged

Scout: Flickr Explorer

Helps you find your photos in interestingness on Flickr

2006-02-13 web • search • photo • photography • interestingness • photos • explore • scout • flickr • tools • tool • nelson:autotagged

CodeCon 2006 notes

Ryan took some great notes, wish I'd gone to the event.

2006-02-13 nelson:autotagged

No harm in being prepared, right? When do we hear about Al Qaeda in Iran?

2006-02-12 nuke • iran • usa • diplomacy • nuclear • strategy • bush • military • politics • news • war • nelson:autotagged

Planning Iran war

"no no, it's just routine"

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Star Wars valentines

2006-02-11 funny • art • humour • photoshop • starwars • valentines • somethingawful • geek • fun • humor • valentine • nelson:autotagged

Web development 2.0

Insights into how software is written in contemporary Web companies

2006-02-11 web2.0 • web • toread • business • programming • blog • development • webdev • 2.0 • oreilly • software • nelson:autotagged

No single player games

Provocative and thoughtful essay on the social aspects of gaming

2006-02-11 gaming • blogs • games • psychology • nelson:autotagged

Unix tool to pull bits off a bad disk

2006-02-11 recovery • backup • dd • sysadmin • unix • opensource • linux • software • tools • tool • rescue • nelson:autotagged

HL2 Rube Goldberg

Amazing little physics game video (via everyone)

2006-02-10 halflife2 • funny • humor • games • halflife • hl2 • rube • goldberg • video • physics • cool • nelson:autotagged

Buying search traffic?

Yahoo considering offering incentives to its search users

2006-02-10 deals • search • google • offer • yahoo • free • imported_from_blue_dot • searchengine • seo • news • reward • nelson:autotagged

Current web style

Great explication of good design trends (via Populicious)

2006-02-09 web2.0 • web • style • reference • webdesign • trends • design • graphics • webdev • css • inspiration • nelson:autotagged

WoW: alone together

Preliminary social analysis of the MMOG

2006-02-09 socialsoftware • gaming • statistics • wow • anthropology • alone • worldofwarcraft • mmorpg • social • videogames • games • nelson:autotagged

Physics-Based Games: Reviews, Game Downloads, and Developer Interviews ? The Pinnacle of Breakout Games: BreakQuest

2006-02-06 gaming • downloadblog • flash • pc • breakout • games • physics • software • nelson:autotagged

Celebrity manga

Beautifully done (via BoingBoing)

2006-02-06 photoshop • art • photo • photography • photos • anime • images • weird • fun • manga • cool • nelson:autotagged

Great church photo

I aspire to take photos as good as this guy

2006-02-06 photoblog • photoblog-posts • visited • nelson:autotagged

Canon focus system

The magic is polarization

2006-02-06 howto • lens • toread • photo • photography • canon • focus • eos • camera • lenses • dslr • nelson:autotagged

Nerdy photo articles

Science as applied to photography (via Peter)

2006-02-06 articles • photoshop • fromfox • photo • photography • writing • technical • cours-photo • article • optics • lenses • nelson:autotagged

ISPs vs BitTorrent

Traffic shapers are throttling BT, so BT will encrypt (via Digg)

2006-02-05 isp • bittorrent • encryption • privacy • azureus • traffic • torrents • internet • security • torrent • p2p • nelson:autotagged

Robida on MySpace

Attempted anti-gay murderer's web site (via Waxy)

2006-02-05 murder • bar • rampage • boston • juggalo • myspace • internetculture • attack • homosexual • gay+bar • hate • nelson:autotagged

Pretty pretty bang bang

Cute little Flash game, prototype for an Xbox Arcade

2006-02-05 webgame • arcade • flash • elemental • game • games • ply • online • fun • flashgames/action • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

Mendocino weather

A little online weather station

2006-02-05 webcam • nelson:autotagged

Share your game idea

Good general advice on why sharing your unique IP inventions is a good idea

2006-02-04 blog • design • games • business • nelson:autotagged

Rise of Legends

Another preview. New word for the search engines: Cuotl

2006-02-04 maryland • local • legends • nelson:autotagged

Jigglypuff! idol

This can't be real, can it? (via Joystiq)

2006-02-03 music • silly • cool • nelson:autotagged

Mario Bros sound

Awesome little soundboard for Super Mario Bros (via kottke)

2006-02-03 sound • gaming • soundboard • funny • flash • mario • game • games • nintendo • fun • music • nelson:autotagged

How to fund a startup

Nice breakdown of the options

2006-02-03 howto • vc • funding • toread • reference • money • startup • entrepreneurship • business • entrepreneur • finance • nelson:autotagged

Google, human rights

Text of a statement to the Human Rights Caucus. This is a lot of detailed disclosure!

2006-02-03 search • google • censorship • google.cn • trade • china • thesis • internet • politics • humanrights • technology • nelson:autotagged

Obsidian profile

Excellent game developer shop, weird article

2006-02-03 games_companys • games_industry • games • rpg • obsidian • black_isle • software • nelson:autotagged

Diablo III hiring?

"The team behind Diablo I and II is looking..." (via just about every game site)

2006-02-03 gaming • game_jobs • business • work.getting_it • geek • games • jobs • meaningful • trabajo • nelson:autotagged

Oblivion: Xbox360 / PC

Xbox version to be more capable than PC?!

2006-02-03 nelson:autotagged

Canon 35D rumours

Nice roundup with pictures. Wheel on the left?!

2006-02-02 memo • canon • defitalcamera • nelson:autotagged

Dave Orchard in Oz

Nice vacation writeup

2006-02-01 travel • australia • nelson:autotagged

ExifPro image viewer

Looks like a very nice image review tool

2006-02-01 exif • winxp • windows • photo • photography • free • desktop • camera • images • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

EXIF InfoTip WinXP

Shows EXIF data in mouseover tooltips (scroll down)

2006-02-01 grafica • exif • windows • photo • photography • utilities • photography-tools • 攝影 • tools • tool • software • nelson:autotagged

Browse the Earth

Insightful article on current map technologies on the Internet

2006-02-01 mobile • media • lbs • mashups • gis • nelson:autotagged

Simple test chart to test calibration

2006-02-01 cameras • photo • photography • testing • canon • chart • focus • lens • camera • test • lenses • nelson:autotagged

Spying on satellites

Amateur spotters vs. stealth satellites (via Mefi)

2006-02-01 spy • satellite • space • science • geek • wired • satellites • article • astronomy • technology • espionage • nelson:autotagged

No more telegrams

Western Union quits the business (via jwz)

2006-02-01 business • science • communication • news • westernunion • tech • telegram • telegrams • article • technology • history • nelson:autotagged

Founder equity splits

50/50 is not always the right idea

2006-02-01 vc • business • startup • entrepreneurship • blog • entrepreneur • split • equity • founders • article • stock • nelson:autotagged

First lawsuit about illegal domestic wiretaps

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