Doctypes vs browsers

Browsers layout pages based on the declared doctype

2006-08-31 web • reference • doctype • standards • webdesign • html • design • webdev • xhtml • css • browser • nelson:autotagged

RoboGeo

Could this be the turnkey geotagging software I've been looking for?

2006-08-31 flickr • geotagging • exif • maps • photo • photography • photos • tools • gps • geo • software • nelson:autotagged

FuzzyOCR spam sw

Scan the images embedded in spam; nuts! (via Cray)

2006-08-31 picture • spam • spamassassin • amavis • fuzzy • ocr • nelson:autotagged

Image spam surge

Everyone I know is getting way more stock pumping image spam lately

2006-08-30 gmail • spam • nelson:autotagged

Takei roasts Shatner

NSFW: This is pretty intense, even for the genre

2006-08-30 nelson:autotagged

Exploring Amazon EC2

notes from an early user

2006-08-30 howto • hosting • rails • server • amazon • api • grid • virtualization • linux • tutorial • ec2 • nelson:autotagged

Comcast mail disaster

Randomly throwing away email from major sites

2006-08-30 nelson:autotagged

Flickr Geotag API

Official announcement

2006-08-30 search • geotagging • geoip • photography • mapping • yahoo • api • webservices • flickr • geo • geocode • nelson:autotagged

Fear the Swiss cows

Hiking mishaps abound

2006-08-29 europe • funny • humor • entertainment • travel • offbeat • moos • pets • news • swiss • animals • nelson:autotagged

Danny Sullivan leaves

Moving on from SEW. Too bad, he's given many years of great coverage.

2006-08-29 sew • search • google • media • blogs • search.engine.watch • blog • conversational+media • seo • sem • dannysullivan • nelson:autotagged

Ev on web metrics

No easy way to measure how popular a site is

2006-08-29 web2.0 • web • statistics • stats • business • myspace • metrics • ajax • advertising • internet • pageviews • nelson:autotagged

Housing bubble graph

This is so extreme it must be lying

2006-08-29 visualization • statistics • house • housing • economics • money • home • economy • bubble • realestate • history • nelson:autotagged

Andy Kaufman SNL: Mighty Mouse

Still gives me chills

2006-08-29 funny • videos • interesting • video • fun • history • nelson:autotagged

Sony geotag device

No interface, just makes GPS tracks

2006-08-29 hardware • geotagging • photo • photography • mapping • gadgets • photos • camera • sony • review • gps • nelson:autotagged

Poultry killer

Old-timey and horrifying, all at once!

2006-08-29 nelson:autotagged

Eve Online bugs

Of interest even if you don't care about games; random list of bugs in the latest patch

2006-08-29 nelson:autotagged

Flickr Geotagging

Mainstream feature now!

2006-08-28 web2.0 • geotagging • maps • photo • photography • mapping • blog • photos • flickr • geo • tagging • nelson:autotagged

Amazon computing

Rent Amazon's servers for $72/month. Useful, but how does it really help Amazon?

2006-08-27 web2.0 • web • programming • hosting • ec2 • amazon • virtualization • linux • webdev • technology • architecture • nelson:autotagged

Fluffy soapy mouse

Put a mouse in a sock, make an untethered pointing device

2006-08-27 nelson:autotagged

Foo Camp schedule

Not there this year

2006-08-26 foocamp • nelson:autotagged

Man!festo Games live

Congratulations, Greg!

2006-08-26 development • gaming • games • business • indie • free • game • computer • design • videogames • gamedev • nelson:autotagged

I am not a terrorist

A protest t-shirt

2006-08-26 funny • shopping • activism • tshirt • design • politics • fun • humor • terrorism • clothing • travel • nelson:autotagged

Troitsky Church fire

Looks bad

2006-08-26 disaster • todescribe • fire • photography • daily • architecture • news • church • • churches • russia • nelson:autotagged

RAZR V3 hacking

looks like a good collection

2006-08-24 cellphone • motorola • mobile • razr • howto • hacks • phone • v3 • hack • hacking • software • nelson:autotagged

Tarot deck scans

Hundreds of tarot design samples (via Metafilter)

2006-08-24 nacho • art • reference • image • illustration • tarot • design-research • images • archetype • gallery • history • nelson:autotagged

Vista DRM failure

Microsoft drops support for BluRay and HD-DVD DRM

2006-08-24 media • vista • copyright • windows • money • ms.vista • hdtv • tech • :-( • dvd • drm • nelson:autotagged

Big new Eve scam

The Eve Investment bank was a scam afterall

2006-08-24 funny • wizzel • • scam • thread • forum • imported • eveonline • inventions • gaming • online • mmorpg • nelson:autotagged

Math personalities

Long New Yorker, but great story about Perelman

2006-08-24 newyorker • toread • perelman • culture • china • poincare • mathematics • politics • article • news • math • nelson:autotagged

Steal browse history

Very clever CSS tomfoolery lets a server learn whether a user has visited some set of URLs before

2006-08-24 web • tracking • privacy • javascript • hacks • ajax • hack • security • browser • css • usability • nelson:autotagged

Semantic Web: 1.7M

OK, so I was wrong about 10,000.

2006-08-23 nelson:autotagged

Search 10,000 docs!

No, really, this semantic web thing is gonna take off any day now

2006-08-23 web2.0 • owl • search • semantic • web • searchengine • rdf • ontology • tools • semanticweb • metadata • nelson:autotagged

Six horrifying parasites

Gross out science (via BoingBoing)

2006-08-23 gross • biology • animals • interesting • medical • parasites • health • science • weird • horror • cool • nelson:autotagged

More on AOL firings

What a mess

2006-08-22 nelson:autotagged

Ryanair protest

This is extraordinary, it'd be like Southwest airlines publically criticizing the TSA

2006-08-22 funny • humor • humour • ryanair • travel • satire • airlines • naked • airport • fun • security • nelson:autotagged

Goldman's legacy

If anything, Evan's understating the amount Jason has done for Blogger in Google

2006-08-22 entrepreneurship • nelson:autotagged

WoW 1.12 patch

Finally a download that's not awful

2006-08-22 nelson:autotagged

Percent encoding

Detailed Wikipedia article may have an answer to my URL question (via Greg)

2006-08-22 web • www • http • reference • url • wikipedia • uri • internet • encode • percent-encoding • url-encoding-percent-encoding • nelson:autotagged

Cab Calloway / tap

From the movie Stormy Weather (via Metafilter)

2006-08-22 nelson:autotagged

AOL CTO fired

Fallout from data release (via P)

2006-08-21 aol • privacy • nelson:autotagged

Apostate Scientologist

the Free Zone

2006-08-21 magie • hubbard • scientology • free • religion • fz.scientology • freezone • alternative • nelson:autotagged

AllowEncodedSlashes

for some reason Apache doesn't let you have an escaped slash in the path by default

2006-08-20 apache • gotchas • nelson:autotagged

Lunatic Python

lua/python integration

2006-08-20 python • lua • odd • nelson:autotagged

Lessons from Kiko

Good run, guys, good luck in next projects

2006-08-19 web2.0 • toread • business • startup • strategy • blog • failure • kiko • calendar • entrepreneurship • tips • nelson:autotagged

Skatefall

Space bar is your ollie

2006-08-19 awesome • flash • free • game • games • retro • atari • online • fun • pitfall • cool • nelson:autotagged

Goldman's moving on

Jason leaves Blogger and Google.

2006-08-19 google_employees • toread • blogs • back • blog • ajax • backbutton • nelson:autotagged

Making crayons

Awesome short video documentary (via kottke)

2006-08-19 crayons • art • sesamestreet • tv • howto • awesome • youtube • video • fun • music • children • nelson:autotagged

Pancakes are tasty

Clever little video (via Flickr)

2006-08-19 funny • short • videos • cute • food • youtube • pancakes • video • fun • music • audio • nelson:autotagged

URL length limits

Practical limits of browsers. Spec says 1024 bytes.

2006-08-17 development • limitation • http • get • asp.net • uri • standards • url • length • limit • post • nelson:autotagged

Terrorists for Democratic Party

Hatch says terrorists "waiting for the Democrats here to take control, let things cool off and then strike again."

2006-08-17 nelson:autotagged

NSA loses in Detroit

Not much info yet

2006-08-17 nelson:autotagged

Bling Bling kitty

Disturbing, but it's a funny picture

2006-08-17 nelson:autotagged

Google and privacy

Thoughtful Guardian editorial

2006-08-17 web • search • google • privacy • guardian • reads • clusty • security • antigoogle • data • browser • nelson:autotagged

BizDev 2.0

Flickr API enabled QOOP to do their thing without bizdev overhead

2006-08-17 web2.0 • bizdev • bizdev2.0 • business • caterina • mashup • ideas • api • enterprise • businessdevelopment • flickr • nelson:autotagged

Eve Economics

Developer shows some basic financial data about inflation

2006-08-16 mmorpg • eveonline • economics • eve • nelson:autotagged

Crazy baleen whales

A little view of evolution (via Metafilter)

2006-08-16 zeitgeist • biology • animals • toread • paleontology • whales • science • nature • evolution • research • article • nelson:autotagged

Poincare conjecture

NYT on a proof (via Peter)

2006-08-16 nelson:autotagged

Satie Gnossiennes

Insightful article

2006-08-15 nelson:autotagged

Synthesis Studios blog

My old friend Raffi is up to some good new stuff

2006-08-14 project • code • ipod • programming • engineering • hacks • geek • hardware • blog • nerd • subscription • nelson:autotagged

Countries by cash

Japan has 165B dollars. US has -829B. (via Metafilter)

2006-08-14 statistics • money • reference • government • interesting • economics • world • politics • news • debt • history • nelson:autotagged

ExpoDisc colour temp

White balance device; or you could use a $3 grey card

2006-08-14 nelson:autotagged

Nintendo DS emulation

no$gba has NDS emulation good enough to be useful

2006-08-14 gba • emulation • gameboy • games • emulator • nintendo • videogames • freeware • nds • ds • software • nelson:autotagged

Counterstrike crates

From virtual world to real (via Digg)

2006-08-14 funny • design • art • gaming • interesting • game • games • counterstrike • fun • humor • inspiration • nelson:autotagged

Heathrow untenable

Demand that airlines reduce traffic 20% right now. Security has gotten ridiculous.

2006-08-13 nelson:autotagged

Project workflow

Marc has a nice software development system where checkins, server pushes, bug reports, and chats all integrate in one common human readable log

2006-08-13 api • 37signals • campfire • nelson:autotagged

Practical Subversion

Best quick-start guide I've found

2006-08-13 svn • reference • howto • programming • cvs • subversion • opensource • linux • tutorials • tools • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Debian python 2.4

Yay, the transition is happening. Having to change the way all Debian Python packages work though.

2006-08-13 nelson:autotagged

Adobe / RawShooter

Adobe bought pixmantec, I wonder why

2006-08-12 nelson:autotagged

Lebanon/Iraq disaster

This oped makes me ill to even think about

2006-08-12 iran • usa • diplomacy • bush • mideast • news • politics • terrorism • iraq • war • history • nelson:autotagged

Bike messenger race

Helmetcam in NYC (via Populicious)

2006-08-12 bike • crazy • bicycle • cycling • newyork • youtube • bikes • video • fun • nyc • cool • nelson:autotagged

RIAA sues the dead

Even the grim reaper doesn't keep you from being sued

2006-08-12 sharing • rdodd • itbwmain2 • legal • parasites • riaa • stupid • music • p2p • file • law • nelson:autotagged

Assisting in death

Heartbreaking story of a man helping his wife die

2006-08-12 life • suicide • psychology • euthanasia • society • death • health • uk • article • politics • ethics • nelson:autotagged

Kinetic harpoons

Rods from God

2006-08-10 weapons • kinetic • futuretech • nelson:autotagged

Top AOL searches

With counts; the first non-navigational query is "weather"

2006-08-09 nelson:autotagged

Top 10 AOL searches

Navigational queries FTW

2006-08-09 nelson:autotagged

AOL user 4417749

NYT reporter chases down one of the people AOL betrayed

2006-08-09 web • search • google • humor • privacy • identidad • work • internet • privacidad • ba215 • aol • nelson:autotagged

Cat in a bottle

America's funniest home pet videos!

2006-08-09 funny • videos • cats • video • wtf • weird • nelson:autotagged

AOL search database

Easy access to AOL's massive data leak (via Digg)

2006-08-09 web • search • google • database • aol • research • privacy • user • security • data • resources • nelson:autotagged

AOL user profiles

What you can learn about people based on their search logs

2006-08-08 profile • funny • search • google • privacy • information • aol_search_data • aol • searchengine • surveillance • record • nelson:autotagged

Why no pig butter?

jwz explains it

2006-08-08 nelson:autotagged

Good luck Jeffrey

Moving out on his own

2006-08-08 ! • yahoo • nelson:autotagged

Omega the crazy #

Complexity theory yields some weird numbers

2006-08-08 toread • reference • interesting • programming • blog • computer • science • maths • mathematics • math • theory • nelson:autotagged

AOL data release

Stupid, stupid, stupid

2006-08-08 search • database • technology • aol • news • privacy • stupid • internet • article • security • data • nelson:autotagged

Ago.NET timestamps

Jeffrey ported my little javascript library to .NET for servers

2006-08-07 .net • library • nelson:autotagged

Global warming chart

The linked PDF graph is astounding

2006-08-06 environment • visualization • nelson:autotagged

Big Lies work

Half of Americans still believe there were WMD in Iraq

2006-08-06 nelson:autotagged

Blink of an Eye results

5 winners; I only like two though

2006-08-06 exhibit • flickr • eye • color • of • photography • blink • photos • images • an • inspiration • nelson:autotagged

Giant girl doll

Crazy beautiful

2006-08-06 art • cool • nelson:autotagged

Tonypa Flash games

Great aesthetics (via Metafilter)

2006-08-06 web • flash • entertainment • online • free • game • games • webgames • fun • design • cool • nelson:autotagged

Starry Lego Night

Van Gogh in Duplo (via kottke) (yes, not really Duplo)

2006-08-05 toys • art • lego • legos • vangogh • design • mosaic • crafts • cool • projects • inspiration • nelson:autotagged

Google Maps flight sim

Amazing way to browse a map

2006-08-05 map • google • flight • mashup • flash • maps • game • games • googlemaps • fun • cool • nelson:autotagged

TECO

The editor more arcane than Emacs

2006-08-02 programming • emacs • editor • reference • nelson:autotagged

Consolas screenshot

I don't care much for the style

2006-08-02 code • console • programming • fonts • fontography • monospaced • blog • font • cleartype • software • nelson:autotagged

Consolas fixed font

ClearType hinted

2006-08-02 fonts • windows • .net • programming • typography • consolas • vs2005 • download • visualstudio • font • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

Hosting disasters

DreamHost's cascade of problems (via EvanM)

2006-08-02 datacenter • disaster • business • web • marketing • outage • hosting • blog • power • internet • dreamhost • nelson:autotagged

Long Experiments

100+ year scientific installations (via kottke)

2006-08-02 reference • clock • science • drop • research • experiments • pitch • fun • history • physics • cool • nelson:autotagged

Thinkpad key beep

Stupid misfeature, how to fix it

2006-08-02 ibm • thinkpads • fix • t40 • beep • problem • nelson:autotagged

Internet Timeline

Summary of growth of the net (via kottke)

2006-08-02 web • reference • timeline • computers • research • computer • tech • internet • education • technology • history • nelson:autotagged

Safe for work

Proxy reformats web pages to look like Office (via Digg)

2006-08-02 funny • office • web • work • privacy • proxy • internet • fun • cool • tools • browser • nelson:autotagged

Freedom fries gone

Childish tantrum ends after three years

2006-08-02 funny • bscr • humor • congress • food • freedom • fries • france • stupid • fun • politics • nelson:autotagged

Fresh Thinkpad install

How to wipe the drive and start over.

2006-08-01 ibm • windows • laptop • computers • howto • hardware • install • thinkpad • xp • reinstall • recovery • nelson:autotagged

Thinkpad T60 forum

Got my new laptop, now to hack it

2006-08-01 ibm • laptop • hardware • computer • thinkpad • t60p • nelson:autotagged

Asteroids as RPG

Clever blend of two game genres

2006-08-01 games • nelson:autotagged