Rotten: "Bongs"

An unusually funny entry in the Rotten Library

2006-04-30 nelson:autotagged

RAID Reconstructor

Data forensics. RAID 0 is a bad thing. (via AxMe)

2006-04-30 nelson:autotagged

Domain squatting with Google AdSense

An unpleasant side of the online ads business

2006-04-30 typos • google • ads • business • adwords • marketing • culture • advertising • internet • domains • spelling • nelson:autotagged

Poor MSN showing

Surprising that MSN has had such a hard time accelerating (via Zawodny)

2006-04-30 web • search • google • money • yahoo • strategy • msn • advertising • internet • microsoft • msft • nelson:autotagged

CDi: the ugly duckling

Feature on the forgotten console

2006-04-30 article • games • retro • history • nelson:autotagged

Sun's business plan

Sad to watch them slowly die (via jwz)

2006-04-29 funny • humor • java • sun • debian-zh • pnt • bibot • solaris • nelson:autotagged

ganguro

Freaky Japanese style (via Evan Martin)

2006-04-29 nelson:autotagged

Where's the head?

via Daily Rotten

2006-04-28 nelson:autotagged

Secret torture flights

Over 1000 CIA flights in Europe

2006-04-26 nelson:autotagged

Knife geekery

Interesting and detailed

2006-04-26 reference • food • cooking • howto • tutorial • sharpening • knives • diy • tools • knife • kitchen • nelson:autotagged

Mother 3 Preview

Out in Japanese now

2006-04-25 nelson:autotagged

Anti-Oblivion review

Rare negative comments. Mostly ones I agree with, but I still like the game.

2006-04-24 critique • funny • oblivion • article • game-article • nelson:autotagged

Why MySpace sucks

Somewhat amusing investigation of vapidity (via Digg)

2006-04-23 funny • google • humor • web • science • internet • myspace • blog • culture • social • article • nelson:autotagged

Single player games

GalCiv author speaks in favour of good AI. The whole blog is quite interesting.

2006-04-22 galciv • gaming • games • gamedesign • article • nelson:autotagged

Miracle of Birth NSFW

if mommy and baby are synthetic (via jwz)

2006-04-22 funny • training • artificialbirth • medical • robot • simulation • birth • baby • weird • sf • realdoll • nelson:autotagged

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Awesome Pointer Sisters / Sesame Street video (via Hotlinks)

2006-04-21 funny • television • sesamestreet • tv • youtube • nostalgia • animation • video • numbers • music • education • nelson:autotagged

Oblivion sales advice

Suggesting Bethesda be more generous to build a market

2006-04-21 nelson:autotagged

Server-side <blink>

Web 2.1 has arrived! (via Waxy)

2006-04-20 web2.0 • funny • humor • web2.1 • web • programming • blink • geek • ajax • html • fun • nelson:autotagged

Bosnian pyramid

I'd been thinking this would be a hoax, but apparently they've found masonry

2006-04-20 nelson:autotagged

G-Speak

startup from some friends working on gestural interfaces

2006-04-20 capture • interaction • jobs • underkoffler • gui • gestural • ui • user-interface • hand-gesture • interface • technology • nelson:autotagged

Gas price map

Lovin the visualization (via Metafilter)

2006-04-20 map • shopping • usa • money • energy • gas • maps • prices • tools • travel • cool • nelson:autotagged

PhilG on EOS system

General overview of Canon SLR camera equipment

2006-04-20 lens • reference • photo • photography • canon • eos • hardware • camera • digital • article • guide • nelson:autotagged

Google Calendar API

An extension of Atom and RSS

2006-04-20 xml • web • gdata • google • programming • rest • api • atom • calendar • data • rss • nelson:autotagged

Intensive French class

Sounds exhausting, but maybe this is what I should do next week

2006-04-19 nelson:autotagged

Alliance Française

I need to learn French, is this the way?

2006-04-19 education • nelson:autotagged

Why Reboot?

Windows software to display a list of what actions are pending a reboot

2006-04-19 system • windows • tool • utilities • free • reboot • sysadmin • freeware • utility • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Apple DRM sucks

Great example (via Zawodny)

2006-04-19 apple • ipod • sucks • liberty • itunes • wtf • nelson:autotagged

Rapture Ready

Message forum for people believing this is the End Times. Come join the Tribulation Force!

2006-04-19 abitcrazy • fundie • bible • christian • cookyrapturechristians • forum • lunies • christianity • religion • rapture • imported • nelson:autotagged

Photomatix HDR tutorial

Nicely illustrated, but HDR is quickly becoming the #1 overused photo cliche

2006-04-19 photoshop • hdr • reference • photomatix • photo • photography • howto • tutorials • flickr • tutorial • software • nelson:autotagged

Billboard liberation

Awesome agitprop

2006-04-18 billboardliberationfront • sanfrancisco • nelson:autotagged

Free MUNI today in SF

Get around town easily

2006-04-18 nelson:autotagged

OpenOffice Calc Tips

Great little blog with useful content

2006-04-17 reference • office • ooo • spreadsheet • blog • openoffice • opensource • tips • calc • tutorial • software • nelson:autotagged

Slab City airlines

Great general aviation story

2006-04-17 nelson:autotagged

Gigapxl technology

I've seen some of these prints, they are astounding

2006-04-17 photography_highres • foto • articles • photo • photography • cameras • hacks • photos • nifty • gigapixel • nelson:autotagged

A Katrina moment

Hard to imagine

2006-04-17 katrina • katrina-rita • hurricane • nelson:autotagged

IP geolocation GPL

Free database of where IP addresses are physically

2006-04-17 gpl • geolocation • useful • webanalytics • ip • mapping • api • location • geodata • 2.0 • geo • nelson:autotagged

WS-(Death)*

Har har (via P@ Chanezon)

2006-04-15 soa • funny • ws-* • humor • toread • starwars • rest • web-services • geek • webservices • deathstar • nelson:autotagged

Land of the Rising Fun

1up feature on quirky Japanese games

2006-04-15 gaming • toread • nintendo • japanese • trainers • contact • games • nifty • videogames • japan • article • nelson:autotagged

Mother 3 / GBA

Highly anticipated RPG; Japanese release is April 20

2006-04-15 nelson:autotagged

Blosxom annotated

Line by line deconstruction of the little blog software that could

2006-04-14 website • diy:blog • annotated • reference • programming • perl • blog • programmierung • useful • annotations • blosxom • nelson:autotagged

OS security picture

A picture is worth a thousand stack frames (via Digg)

2006-04-14 comparison • iis • visualization • windows • server • web • linux • apache • security • microsoft • software • nelson:autotagged

HDR food photography

HDR is the flavour of the month! (via Bostock)

2006-04-14 hdr • food • photo • photography • recetas • nerd • photos • coolinarika • hdr.photography • tips • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Boards of Canada music video

Fantastic! (via Metafilter)

2006-04-14 skydive • surfing • toread • music • warp • musicvideo • skydiving • video • boardsofcanada • boc • nelson:autotagged

Non-shooting shmups

Bending a niche game genre

2006-04-13 blog_post • shmups • shooter • coluna • www.gamesetwatch.com • every_extended_extra • games • shmup • 2006 • nelson:autotagged

Civ4 SDK release

Firaxis is releasing most of the source code for their hit new game

2006-04-13 nelson:autotagged

US religion maps

The maps linked from here are higher quality

2006-04-13 map • reference • usa • maps • culture • interesting • demographics • research • religion • politics • geography • nelson:autotagged

Mapping US Religion

Fascinating view of American religious life (via Populicious)

2006-04-13 visualization • statistics • reference • usa • maps • culture • interesting • demographics • religion • map • politics • nelson:autotagged

DLink NTP abuse #2

Details of how the abuser was tracked down

2006-04-12 network • business • dlink • ntp • d-link • internet • netiquette • dos-attack • abuse • time • software • nelson:autotagged

Argentinian food

Excellent food writing (via just about everyone)

2006-04-12 funny • meat • food • recipes • cooking • blog • culture • article • argentina • steak • travel • nelson:autotagged

Optical illusion

No, it's not animated (via Populicious)

2006-04-12 funny • art • illusions • image • fun • optical • moving • graphics • images • weird • illusion • nelson:autotagged

Top 10 casual games

Synthesizing data from various publishers (via Phil Steinmeyer)

2006-04-11 rating • casualgame • logler • top10 • list • free • gameslist • source • games • shareware • casual • nelson:autotagged

5 suggested Flickr tags

Funny funny from Merlin

2006-04-11 funny • flickr • humor • humour • tags • geeks • list • lists • 5ives • ha • photography • nelson:autotagged

More on Game 6 video

Blog post from the creator

2006-04-11 funny • baseball • mets • nintendo • sports • fun • video • redsox • videogames • games • cool • nelson:autotagged

Election dirty tricks

Bush White House implicated in election fraud

2006-04-11 nelson:autotagged

1986 World Series #6

Epic baseball game retold in NES baseball video (via Metafilter)

2006-04-11 baseball • esportes • kuso • mashup • humor • video • rbi • commentary • videogames • games • nes • nelson:autotagged

Oblivion GPU shootout

$600 video card means you can play at 30fps!

2006-04-11 morrowind • gaming • performance • rpg • graphics • nelson:autotagged

Be like Mike

Nice shoe ad

2006-04-10 nelson:autotagged

Jack Bauer facts

shouldn't be compared to Jesus. Jack rose from the dead not once, but twice.

2006-04-10 24 • funny • television • humor • humour • tv • humor_facts • lists • facts • jack_bauer • jackbauer • nelson:autotagged

Shadow Highlight tool in Photoshop

Feels like cheating when I use this, but it helps a lot

2006-04-10 photoshop • reference • articles • photo • photography • howto • design • images • shadow • tips • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Drunk sad clowns

This painting hangs in Joe's of Westlake, Daly City, CA

2006-04-10 nelson:autotagged

San Francisco burrito

Wikipedia: a learned article on every topic

2006-04-10 burrito • food • eccentric • travel • wikipedia • 43folders • burritos • rl • sanfrancisco • todo • sf • nelson:autotagged

Write game in a week

Fast hack project in Python, nicely documented (via digg)

2006-04-10 development • games • python • howto • programming • game • design • rpg • gamedev • tutorial • software • nelson:autotagged

Air Force One defense

Leak supposedly a security risk, but maybe not really?

2006-04-10 air-force-one • reference • sensation • secret • sec • news • military • infos • airplane • nelson:autotagged

Red Hat + JBoss

$350M, $140M in cash.

2006-04-10 nelson:autotagged

Vib Ribbon intro

Wish I could actually play this (via GameSetWatch)

2006-04-10 nelson:autotagged

Tokyo impression

Poetic description of the scale of Tokyo

2006-04-10 nelson:autotagged

Chromatic aberration

Great detailed article

2006-04-08 color • photo • photography • cameras • reel-stream • lens • shake • digitalkameras • optics • lenses • science • nelson:autotagged

Apple has Palladium?

Questioning whether Intel Macs have "trusted computing" crap in them

2006-04-08 apple • copyright • privacy • tpm • hardware • mac • drm • news • security • palladium • intel • nelson:autotagged

Climbing icebergs

is a bad idea (via Steve)

2006-04-08 nelson:autotagged

GalCiv II Postmortem

Awesomely frank article about developing the new indie game

2006-04-08 galciv • gaming • resource • galciv2 • support • economics • budget • game • games • design • stratigy • nelson:autotagged

D-Link NTP abuse

Another vendor screws up the NTP client

2006-04-07 networking • network • business • ntp • legal • hardware • dlink • abuse • internet • security • software • nelson:autotagged

Oblivion updates

Humae message from developers on the next patches and updates to come

2006-04-07 nelson:autotagged

New in Python 2.5

Quick summary (via Zawodny, who really should learn some Py)

2006-04-06 toread • language • python • programming • 2.5 • future • python25 • new • news • reference • features • nelson:autotagged

Oblivion titties

The models are topless, so someone removed the bra object from them

2006-04-06 oblivion • mods • nelson:autotagged

Bush implicated

Libby rats out Cheney and Bush

2006-04-06 nelson:autotagged

OpenOffice SUMIF

Helpful blog of tips for the spreadsheet

2006-04-05 openoffice • nelson:autotagged

Shmup contest winner

Yay, new shootem ups

2006-04-05 nelson:autotagged

Oblivion tweak guide

Exhaustive collection of suggestions

2006-04-04 gaming • reference • tweak • howto • game • tweaks • oblivion • games • rpg • guide • software • nelson:autotagged

Processor speeds

Handy chart comparing Intel, AMD, and PowerPC

2006-04-04 comparison • apple • reference • chart • cpu • hardware • pc • mac • computer • tech • processor • nelson:autotagged

Spyware and Yahoo

Ben Edelman's latest

2006-04-04 search • fraud • clickfraud • yahoo • spyware • google • advertising • adware • seo • sem • click-fraud • nelson:autotagged

Speech accent archive

Repository of audio samples of accents (via Mark)

2006-04-03 linguistics • audio • reference • language • accents • accent • speech • english • fun • education • archive • nelson:autotagged

Overvalued

Funny list of real estate ads

2006-04-03 funny • humor • house • blogs • economics • blog • housingbubble • real_estate • bubble • housing • realestate • nelson:autotagged

Present like Lessig

Reverse engineering Larry Lessig's amazing presentation style

2006-04-03 lessig • style • business • communication • howto • presentations • design • tips • presentation • powerpoint • speaking • nelson:autotagged

Little mech sculpture

Beautiful metalwork (via populicious)

2006-04-03 art • photography • metal • robots • robot • photos • design • images • sculpture • gallery • cool • nelson:autotagged

180 Solutions people

Sucks to work for an evil company (via Waxy)

2006-04-03 toread • privacy • interesting • spyware • 180solutions • adware • news • interview • article • security • revenews • nelson:autotagged

Sleep less with pills

Modafinil is $4/pill on the grey market (via Zawodny)

2006-04-03 productivity • drugs • interesting • rest • uberman • health • provigil • modafinil • lifehacks • sleep • read-later • nelson:autotagged

IZArc

Finally, a decent free zip utility for Windows

2006-04-02 compression • zip • windows • tool • utilities • free • rar • freeware • tools • archive • software • nelson:autotagged

Burrito Eater

Reviews of SF taquerias

2006-04-02 bayarea • francisco • burrito • reference • food • mexican • reviews • burritos • sanfrancisco • sf • restaurants • nelson:autotagged

Best Freeware Guide

Yet another list, fairly good for Windows (via Digg)

2006-04-02 windows • list • utilities • free • computer • opensource • download • freeware • tools • guide • software • nelson:autotagged

I'm #7461 on URLFAN

Just between Ann Coulter and Kevin Federline

2006-04-02 nelson:autotagged

://URLFAN top 100

Sites most linked to in RSS feeds (via Populicious)

2006-04-02 web2.0 • web • links • reference • blogs • list • lists • blog • internet • popular • top • nelson:autotagged

OpenEXR HDR format

ILM open sourced their HDR image tools

2006-04-02 hdr • reference • openexr • photography • programming • video • opensource • graphics • 3d • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

HDR slide presentation

Nice academic overview of HDR photo techniques

2006-04-02 photography • hdr • graphics • nelson:autotagged

April Fool's jokes suck

Anil breaks it down

2006-04-01 funny • humor • aprilfools • anildash • blog • jokes • web • internet • rant • commented • aprilfoolsday • nelson:autotagged

Rise of Legends demo

Highly anticipated game

2006-04-01 download • demo • games • nelson:autotagged

Flickr / Interesting

An April Fool's joke that's actually funny

2006-04-01 art • photo • photography • random • daily • photos • interesting • images • pictures • flickr • cool • nelson:autotagged

Wookiepedia

Just like it sounds (via Digg)

2006-04-01 wiki • starwars • reference • culture • wikipedia • geek • movies • encyclopedia • scifi • star_wars • fun • nelson:autotagged

Right old ding dong

Bus driver sex scandal (via Daily Rotten)

2006-04-01 nelson:autotagged