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Sanrio Vader
Kawaii Sith
2006-07-31
funny • cosplay • starwars • comics • hellokitty • community • merideth.f • ***** • fun • star-wars • popculture • nelson:autotagged
Spam stock chart
Got 20 pieces of spam for this penny stock over the weekend
2006-07-31
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Lotus bridge
Traffic device for swapping sides of road
2006-07-30
society • maps • geowanking • map • nelson:autotagged
GM Crop Circles
Greenpeace modifies real world so it shows on Google Maps
2006-07-30
google • gis • media • activism • greenpeace • net2 • environment • maps • protest • france • mashup • nelson:autotagged
Star locator
Handheld device uses GPS, magnetic, gravitometric sensors to determine where it's pointed
2006-07-30
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Wikipedia: DKP
Rules for fair sharing in games, quite complex
2006-07-29
wikipedia.entry • gaming • dkp • wow • wikipedia • socialcontract • weknow • mmorpg • nelson:autotagged
Clip art loop
Beautiful little animation (via Metafilter)
2006-07-28
funny • art • clipart • movie • awesome • illustration • movies • animation • video • fun • design • nelson:autotagged
Warner Bros spyware
Stupid deal with 180 Solutions (via Digg)
2006-07-27
zango • week10 • kids • ads • porn • tv • tech-tips • spyware • adware • news • the • nelson:autotagged
WoW Glider
Pay money to play the game you're paying to not play
2006-07-26
wow • bot • automation • games.wow • games • mmorpg • potential-partner • software • nelson:autotagged
Going to the movies
Nice little short story disguised as a blog post
2006-07-26
humor • elderly • blog • movies • mathowie • seniorcitizens • stereotypes • nelson:autotagged
Translator's musings
Every profession has experts blogging
2006-07-25
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Web 2.0 logos
Spoof of traditional logos. (note: site is a mirror; main is down)
2006-07-25
web2.0 • funny • humor • logos • media • design • logo • fun • redesign • 2.0 • cool • nelson:autotagged
City wealth maps
Fascinating cartography (via kottke)
2006-07-25
visualization • cartography • city • money • demographics • economics • mapping • maps • income • cities • urban • nelson:autotagged
California power
Nice status graph (via Merlin)
2006-07-25
visualization • statistics • power • reference • government • electricity • energy • utilities • california • home • iso • nelson:autotagged
North Korea counterfeit cash
Confirmation that DNK prints US currency
2006-07-24
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Leaders in Youth
Pictures of famous world leaders as young people
2006-07-22
fun • leaders • world • people • interesting • photography • photos • photo • images • politics • history • nelson:autotagged
Gah! Her head is gone!
Freaky gymnastics photo
2006-07-22
heh • nelson:autotagged
More Bush bad touch
He needs a time-out
2006-07-21
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Callgirl of Cthulhu
it writes itself!
2006-07-20
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Link middle of a video
Simple but very smart, surprised no one else has done this
2006-07-20
google • links • videos • howto • googlevideo • linking • blog • video • link • vlogging • tools • nelson:autotagged
Cthulhu the Movie
Shadow out of Innsmouth becomes a film? (via Metafilter)
2006-07-20
culture • movie • horror • cthulhu • cthulu • movies • film • fthagn • ia • trailer • lovecraft • nelson:autotagged
De Blob indie game
Katamaridamashi with colours
2006-07-20
urban • game • games • 3d • nelson:autotagged
Behind Valve/Portal
High concept game started as IGF student winner
2006-07-20
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Make a flaming whip
"can be dangerous. You will be dealing with a flaming metal chain which gets extremely hot."
2006-07-19
funny • humor • how-to • humour • fire • interesting • howto • weapons • flame • diy • whip • nelson:autotagged
50 Influential albums
Thoughtful list of music in the last 35 years
2006-07-19
art • toread • reference • influential • top • list • lists • culture • music • albums • history • nelson:autotagged
Blackjack odds calc
Various game rules (via Chris Rohrs)
2006-07-19
gambling • blackjack • nelson:autotagged
Bush / Merkel / creepy
video of Bush acting scary
2006-07-19
relationships • funny • merkel • bush • video • fun • mediashift • 4dp • massage • nelson:autotagged
Valve Portal video
High concept small game (via Waxy)
2006-07-19
gaming • valve • youtube • hl2 • game • video • portal • videogames • games • trailer • cool • nelson:autotagged
Vonage / spyware
Vonage ads help fund spyware
2006-07-18
marketplace • spam • spyware-vonage • group101 • bit200f06 • spyware • way • vonage • ethics • voip • benedelman • nelson:autotagged
Every Extend demo
One of the best shmups has gone commercial, here's a PC demo
2006-07-17
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Ouendan videos
Roundup of J-pop videos from the game; YouTube searches work best
2006-07-17
gaming • humor • videos • music • youtube • ds • video • nintendo • videogames • games • ouendan • nelson:autotagged
Double XP Weekend
Weird City of Heroes promotion
2006-07-17
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Eve Online TV
Big tournament this weekend, watch the fights
2006-07-16
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Trillian / Gmail disable
Stop Trillian from spamming you every time you get new mail at Gmail
2006-07-15
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Bush and Putin BFF
Even world leaders are metrosexual
2006-07-15
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Osu Tatakae Ouendan!
My first ever Japanese import game; wacky rhythm game
2006-07-14
import • game • ds • nelson:autotagged
Bakuten Domino
Japanese show with crazy domino-like chain reactions from random objects
2006-07-13
funny • japan • toread • videos • interesting • domino • youtube • japanese • games • found • video • nelson:autotagged
Zidane's apology
well, half an apology
2006-07-12
fifa • europe • zidane • people • worldcup • football • france • zinedinezidane • heroes • sports • history • nelson:autotagged
Notebook Review
Looks to be a good review site
2006-07-12
reviews • shopping • forum • laptop • computers • laptops • hardware • notebook • tech • computer • review • nelson:autotagged
Notebook Review
Forums for hardware obsessed
2006-07-12
gadgets • buy • forum • portátiles • laptop • laptops • reviews • notebook • tutorial • nelson:autotagged
Solving Sodoku
without thinking; you too can be an algorithm
2006-07-12
sudoku • reference • puzzle • howto • hacks • puzzles • game • games • fun • tips • tutorial • nelson:autotagged
MD5 rainbow table
Reverse lookup lists; beware your unsalted info
2006-07-12
hash • cryptography • database • encryption • crypto • hack • security • password • tools • hacking • md5 • nelson:autotagged
IGB: an Eve scam?
Followup to the "new scam" post
2006-07-12
gaming • eve • nelson:autotagged
A new Eve scam
Detailed description of a con game run by an Eve newbie
2006-07-12
gaming • eve • nelson:autotagged
Auto Assault dying
Consolidating all players to one server; not a good sign
2006-07-12
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Traffic log patterns
Jakob Nielsen finds no change in statistics of visitors to his web site in 10 years
2006-07-11
web • search • statistics • stats • nielsen • analysis • seo • google • traffic • longtail • usability • nelson:autotagged
Mr. Yuk is mean
Mr. Yuk is green (via Waxy)
2006-07-10
kids • ads • tv • commercial • youth • upsetting • yuk • video • retro • design • toread • nelson:autotagged
Zidane footwork
Highlight clips
2006-07-10
zidane • zinédinezidane • worldcup • football • youtube • video • nelson:autotagged
Materazzi fouls
Zidane's victim plays rough, too
2006-07-10
video • nelson:autotagged
World Cup dive stats
Dives, tantrums, etc
2006-07-10
web • statistics • stats • cup • worldcup • football • sports • world • fun • table • soccer • nelson:autotagged
Working ornithopter
Flap flap flap
2006-07-09
flapper • flight • science • flying • da • ornithopter • article • aviation • news • technology • history • nelson:autotagged
Root DNS locations
Surprised there's not one in Australia (via Digg)
2006-07-09
web • google • network • reference • interesting • server • maps • dns • internet • root • technology • nelson:autotagged
Velcro at 94x zoom
Awesome photo
2006-07-09
science • fun • art • interesting • photography • photos • velcro • images • flickr • photo • cool • nelson:autotagged
Joan Collins vs. Linda Evans. Fight!
ignore the cheesy soundtrack
2006-07-09
youtube • fight • culture • video • fun • heh • women • nelson:autotagged
Picture rims
The apotheosis of technology
2006-07-08
led • pimp • rims • pov • cars • youtube • geek • culture • video • pimpstar • technology • nelson:autotagged
Car Killer MySpace
Page of the girl who killed Tongan prince
2006-07-08
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Galileo sats cracked
European GPS equivalent now open
2006-07-08
satellite • cornell • crack • geomatica • hack • galileo • news • security • geo • hacking • gps • nelson:autotagged
Sheraton St. Louis
Comics / MySpace tie-in
2006-07-08
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California Extreme
Video game / pinball expo this weekend
2006-07-07
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Google "party plane"
Tasty gossip
2006-07-07
funny • work:alligator • google • humor • technology • search • plane • news • future • obsessive • שטויות • nelson:autotagged
Monopod technique
Who knew holding a stick was so hard?
2006-07-07
photo • photography • tripod • monopod • equipment • camera • fotografia • tips • guide • tutorial • techniques • nelson:autotagged
Faking depth of field
Lens Blur filter in Photoshop
2006-07-07
photoshop • photo • photography • blur • howto • dof • design • graphics • tutorials • tips • tutorial • nelson:autotagged
Book layout
How the sausage is made (via kottke)
2006-07-07
layout • publishing • fonts • howto • typography • writing • blog • books • design • print • book • nelson:autotagged
BIOS backdoors
How to Bypass BIOS Passwords
2006-07-07
passwords • reference • hacks • hardware • bios • computer • bypass • hack • security • password • hacking • nelson:autotagged
How to cut a mango
Extra tip: Yellow manila mangos are better than the red/green ones
2006-07-06
food • interesting • cooking • howto • diet • mango • cutting • produce • health • healthydietforlife • tips • nelson:autotagged
Here is my skull
Clogging the tubes of the Internets
2006-07-06
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Eve Online interview
First page has some interesting comments on MMOG design
2006-07-04
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The Design of Everyday Games
Observations on what makes for good games
2006-07-04
development • gaming • design • productivity • toread • programming • gameprogramming • blog • via:amitp • games • usability • nelson:autotagged
WoW impressions
Latecomer has some insight into WoW game dynamics
2006-07-04
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Google tech insights
NYT article with some details on how it builds computing capability
2006-07-03
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Newspeak dictionary
List with some interpretation
2006-07-02
linguistics • 1984 • reference • language • dictionary • movies • newspeak • english • fun • politics • cool • nelson:autotagged
Bypass China censors
TCP chicanery to avoid the Great Firewall of China
2006-07-02
networking • privacy • firewall • encryption • gfw • hacks • blog • china • censorship • internet • security • nelson:autotagged
Movie shot on SLR
Zillions of shots strung together (via BoingBoing)
2006-07-02
art • movie • photography • youtube • camera • video • digital • inspiration • animation • film • cool • nelson:autotagged
Tornado + Rainbow
Dramatic weather
2006-07-02
rainbow • 写真 • maninblac • tornado • interesting • pics • weather • storm • photo • images • cool • nelson:autotagged
Firefox made $72M?
4 month old rumour that Mozilla made $72M in a year via Google ads
2006-07-02
search • google • firefox • money • mozilla • browsers • advertising • ia • model • software • browser • nelson:autotagged
Alexa anomaly
Alexa's data went wonky a few months ago; someone thinks it was Digg users (I doubt it)
2006-07-02
web • search • statistics • alexa • interesting • blog • culture • slashdot • internet • digg • technology • nelson:autotagged