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BowMaster
charming little Flash game (via Metafilter)
2006-09-30
funny • web • flash • free • game • games • online • fun • gaming • software • cool • nelson:autotagged
Gay congress scandal
Republican Foley resigns for flirting with pages
2006-09-30
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Rushing off a cliff
Strongly worded NYT editorial against the disastrous new torture bill
2006-09-29
america • securitystupidity • democracy • rights • bullshit • bush • terror • politics • fear • law • terrorism • nelson:autotagged
Google Earth / Paris
Lots of useful overlays and placemarks
2006-09-29
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Paris map w/ Metro
Google Maps overlay; Poskanzer comes through again
2006-09-28
map • google • metro • paris • mashup • mapping • france • maps • subway • googlemaps • travel • nelson:autotagged
Warcraft lore comic
Amazing fan setting of the WoW story (via We Know)
2006-09-28
comics • games • nelson:autotagged
Sidewalk power play
Social dynamics of getting out of the way in public
2006-09-28
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Google maps KML
Easy way to make a custom map with lots of waypoints; Google Maps just reads KML directly
2006-09-27
geotagging • mormonhacker • googleearth • kml • mapping • hacks • google-maps • tocheckout • googlemaps • tips • geocoding • nelson:autotagged
Silence / signal ratio
How many emails do you not return?
2006-09-27
blog • simplicity • productivity • communication • genius • nelson:autotagged
Middle East history
Clever animated map (via jwz)
2006-09-27
visualization • reference • map • flash • middleeast • maps • animation • politics • history • war • geography • nelson:autotagged
Web 2.0 losers
I disagree with a couple, but some thoughtful criticism (via kottke)
2006-09-27
web2.0 • web • business • interesting • blogs • top10 • startup • lists • list • internet • microsoft • nelson:autotagged
Mouse Print
weasely marketing footnotes (via Metafilter)
2006-09-27
information • shopping • business • marketing • blogs • blog • advertising • media • news • tips • consumer • nelson:autotagged
Old Paris photos
Lots and lots of interesting images
2006-09-24
paris • photography • nostalgia • history • nelson:autotagged
Space Invaders Paris
Exhaustive catalog site, this is my key
2006-09-24
art • urbanisme • lang_fr • photo • arts_visuels • paris • monde • cartes_geographiques • space_invaders • spaceinvaders • nelson:autotagged
Guns for TSA safety
Prevent airport goons from stealing your cameras by packing a gun with them
2006-09-24
luggage • photography • flying • howto • tsa • guns • camera • lifehacks • security • hacks • travel • nelson:autotagged
Pages Jaunes
French yellow pages of a sort
2006-09-22
search • paris • travel • living-in-france • internationaldirectories • french • france • phone • yellow • b_task_yp • pages • nelson:autotagged
La vache qui regarde
Odd bit of public art in Brussels
2006-09-22
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Hide of the Drama Queen
WoW ha ha
2006-09-22
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Python 2.5 highlights
Not much here excites me (via Zawodny)
2006-09-21
python_2.5 • language • python • programming • languages • new • release • news • 2.5 • nelson:autotagged
Eve Online GDP
Some new financial statistics
2006-09-20
mmorpg • eveonline • economics • nelson:autotagged
Google hosts photos
Flickr competitor?
2006-09-20
web2.0 • web • google • photo • photography • picasa • photos • online • flickr • tools • software • nelson:autotagged
20,000 Myspace pwds
Analysis of some found passwords
2006-09-20
statistics • privacy • phishing • myspace • analysis • research • blog • passwords • hack • security • password • nelson:autotagged
2006 Macarthur grants
25 recipients
2006-09-20
arts • literature • art • people • science • jazz • genius • research • music • awards • macarthur • nelson:autotagged
Agh, get it off me!
World's first transplanted penis removed because of psychological rejection
2006-09-20
content • interesting • medicine • sex • plueballs • nelson:autotagged
The Shire / Bend, OR
Live like Tolkein! (via Metafilter)
2006-09-18
development • home • house • housing • community • fantasy • shire • oregon • hobbit • lotr • design • nelson:autotagged
"france": Google Maps
I'm in France, but the map I get is of the US
2006-09-17
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Win traffic shaper
cFosSpeed, looks sophisticated
2006-09-17
gaming • networking • network • bittorrent • tool • utilities • internet • collection:windows_tools • software • coolapz • cool • nelson:autotagged
Architecture of Control
Blog about design that intentionally makes things difficult (via HotLinks)
2006-09-16
control • environment • psychology • blogs • blog • culture • design • architecture • politics • technology • theory • nelson:autotagged
Pre Catalan for free
Warm story
2006-09-16
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Amazon Unbox DRM
More anti-consumer products
2006-09-16
boingboing • shopping • business • rights • unbox • privacy • movies • amazon • video • internet • drm • nelson:autotagged
Zombie parasites
This can't be true, can it? (via Biz)
2006-09-16
funny • humor • wtf • scary • science • hoax • zombies • news • article • weird • zombie • nelson:autotagged
Google phishing bug
The dangers of hosting content from other sites
2006-09-15
web • google • xss • phishing • javascript • hacks • exploit • hack • security • gmail • browser • nelson:autotagged
Craigslist hookers
Smoking Gun has mugshots (via Daily Rotten)
2006-09-15
#guild • nelson:autotagged
NiN Kirk/Spock
Awesomest thing ever
2006-09-15
funny • humor • media • mashup • youtube • startrek • spock • video • nineinchnails • slash • music • nelson:autotagged
Reno balloon race
Time lapse creativity
2006-09-15
funny • art • balloon • timelapse • youtube • amazing • video • fun • balloons • film • cool • nelson:autotagged
Viral video chart
Currently popular Internet videos (via Waxy)
2006-09-15
web2.0 • web • videos • viral • aggregator • myspace • youtube • chart • blog • video • fun • nelson:autotagged
US dishonest on Iran
Remarkable public disagreement
2006-09-15
iran • usa • nuclear • dishonest • outrageous • un • nelson:autotagged
Segway recall
Wheelchairs for healthy people can hurt you
2006-09-14
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Burning man hate
Hysterical nasty review of Burning Man (via Zawodny)
2006-09-14
funny • humor • toread • business • culture • review • reviews • rant • blog • opinion • burningman • nelson:autotagged
Helvetica man tarot
Cool design (via jwz)
2006-09-14
occult • humor • icons • illustration • cards • tarot • design • images • art • wishlist • cool • nelson:autotagged
Just say d'accord
David Sedaris (via kottke)
2006-09-14
essay • funny • humor • toread • language • sedaris • davidsedaris • french • france • culture • writing • nelson:autotagged
The Paris Blog
amusing writing
2006-09-14
frankreich • paris • blogs • expat • collaboration • blog • culture • english • france • photography • travel • nelson:autotagged
Hot Captcha (Web 2.0)
"I met my wife on your captcha" (via Metatalk)
2006-09-14
funny • humor • web • mashup • javascript • hotornot • captcha • internet • fun • security • cool • nelson:autotagged
SNCF in English
French train schedules
2006-09-13
travel • france • sncf • trains • berck • holidays • nelson:autotagged
Subversion 1.4
Brian, I was wrong, you helped birth a fantastic product
2006-09-12
scm • svn • notes • programming • sysadmin • development • opensource • subversion • release • tools • software • nelson:autotagged
Olbermann / YouTube
Another online video
2006-09-12
commentary • 9/11 • olbermann • nelson:autotagged
Olbermann video
via Peter
2006-09-12
9/11 • political • news • bush • olbermann • video • opinion • politics • terrorism • 911 • war • nelson:autotagged
2001 flu delay
Hypothesis is the air travel ban in the US slowed down the spread of flu
2006-09-12
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Olbermann OpEd
Sounds powerful, looking for video
2006-09-12
9/11 • toread • bush • olbermann • speech • news • politics • terrorism • 911 • war • history • nelson:autotagged
GPSTagr
Simple web service for adding GPS tracks to your Flickr photos
2006-09-12
map • geotagging • maps • photo • photography • geotag • photos • flickr • tools • tagging • gps • nelson:autotagged
Google cokewash
Google used to be too smart to do dumb things like this
2006-09-12
funny • google • hide • google_stuff • pepsi • digg • coke • nelson:autotagged
L#: Lisp on .NET
A Lisp with useful libraries!
2006-09-11
development • l# • lisp • .net • programming • functional • languages • c# • lsharp • dotnet • scripting • nelson:autotagged
More on HeadOn
Slate's hot investigative journalism
2006-09-11
funny • ads • tv • tw • brand:research • commercial • forehead • advertising • advertisement • head.on • weird • nelson:autotagged
Head On
Apply directly to forehead (via Merlin)
2006-09-10
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Very gay Nintendo
Singlet-wearing construction man shakes his butt in the air
2006-09-10
videogames • video • nintendo • nelson:autotagged
Au revoir Advogato
Social sites have a lifespan. Thanks, Raph!
2006-09-10
discussiongroups • open-source • metric • advogato • community • trust-metrics • floss • internet • raph-levien • trust • history • nelson:autotagged
Fred Phelps video
Preaching against Stewart/Colbert. He sounds just like Wliliam S Burroughs! (via jwz)
2006-09-10
progressivechristianity • colbert • youtube • fundamentalists • video • jonstewart • nelson:autotagged
Russ Meyer tarot
The Beyond The Valley of The Dolls Tarot Deck
2006-09-10
occult • funny • humor • tarot • movie • ebert • movies • readme • images • cult • film • nelson:autotagged
Amazon Unbox: bad?
Stupid DRM tricks
2006-09-10
complaint • privacy • unbox • review • amazon • video • article • readme • drm • security • amazonunbox • nelson:autotagged
English/French
excellent online dictionary
2006-09-09
language • reference • french • dico • dictionary • francais • dictionnaire • english • dictionnary • translation • anglais • nelson:autotagged
Faster Windows boot
Clear explanation of some reasonable tweaks to make Windows boot faster (via Digg)
2006-09-09
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Truckstop hookers
Sad, good reporting (via Metafilter)
2006-09-09
crime • police • dallas • prostitute • trucker • nelson:autotagged
WoW EU/US switch
How to bypass Blizzard's continent restrictions
2006-09-08
tip • wow • howto • internationalisation • worldofwarcraft • gameworlds • nelson:autotagged
Paris Metro KML
Add metro stops to Google Earth
2006-09-08
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More Paris markets
Here's the list I needed
2006-09-08
food • paris • nelson:autotagged
Paris markets
Open air shopping
2006-09-08
shopping • food • travel • travel.paris • paris • markets • nelson:autotagged
Paris metro tickets
Monthly passes explained a Anglais
2006-09-08
transportation • reference • metro • paris • travel • subway • eurotrip06 • nelson:autotagged
Stupid C bugs
Analysis of a large C codebase shows bugs that have been obsolete for 10 years in modern programming languages
2006-09-08
code • firefox • klocwork • bugs • analysis • geek • opensource • security • browser • hacking • software • nelson:autotagged
Family tech support
Mail a computer neophyte VNC so you can help them with their computer
2006-09-07
vnc • network • reference • support • howto • computer • tech • ultravnc • remote • tutorial • software • nelson:autotagged
PrePaid GSM France
Simple site comparing prepaid plans
2006-09-07
mobile • price • france • nelson:autotagged
Weed thieves caught
Clever marketing for a good TV show
2006-09-07
viral • jwz • showtime • video • weeds • billboard • nelson:autotagged
Search log editorial
Eloquent call for search engines to not retain user search history
2006-09-07
search • google • privacy • government • aol • storage • yahoo • msn • opa • data • retention • nelson:autotagged
Wheaties for your Wallet
My friend Marc's new personal finance company has a blog, off to a good start
2006-09-06
financial • finance • business • money • blogs • economics • personalfinance • blog • tips • consumer • advice • nelson:autotagged
AOL Resrch: closed?
So the rumour goes (via Inside Google)
2006-09-04
search-engines • search • nightmare • aol • research • 2006 • from_bloglines • nelson:autotagged
6 years of self photos
The music on this is very nice (via Populicious)
2006-09-04
media • art • interesting • photo • photography • youtube • video • time • fun • film • cool • nelson:autotagged
Who writes Wikipedia?
Aaron's campaigning, an interesting result on Wikipedia edits
2006-09-04
web2.0 • web • statistics • wiki • interesting • collaboration • wikipedia • community • research • culture • technology • nelson:autotagged
Usability problems
Response to my post about copying favourites
2006-09-04
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32G flash hard drives
Solid state IDE hard drives are here
2006-09-03
flash • ssd • vista • shock • drives • nelson:autotagged
GeoReTagr
Goes through Flickr photos and geotags them if you have EXIF geotags. Only needed for old photos.
2006-09-03
geotagging • redskaber • tools • photography • photos • spaceplace • flickr • geo • mashup • tagging • gps • nelson:autotagged
gpsPhoto.pl
Hackerware for geotagging photos. Supports CR2!
2006-09-02
flickr • geotagging • exif • photo • photography • perl • photos • gpx • gps • geo • software • nelson:autotagged
Flickr geo/exif
By default Flickr won't geotag from your EXIF data; have to turn it on
2006-09-02
flickr • geotagging • exif • maps • photography • mapping • photos • location • metadata • geo • gps • nelson:autotagged
Browzar is a scam
Claims to be a lightweight privacy preserving browser, actually just ad crap
2006-09-02
web2.0 • malware • browzar • spyware • browsers • adware • internet • security • software • technology • browser • nelson:autotagged
KITT vs KARR
TV never got any better than this
2006-09-02
karr • villians • humor • tv • youtube • video • retro • kitt • comedy • knightrider • hasselhoff • nelson:autotagged
Eve bug: hash collision
32 bits is not a big enough hash function
2006-09-01
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Olbermann / Rumsfeld
Forceful editorial calling out a bully (via M)
2006-09-01
government • culture • journalism • fascism • olbermann • video • news • politics • iraq • rumsfeld • war • nelson:autotagged
Disable caps lock
Registry hacks for Windows
2006-09-01
windows • keyboard • howto • hacks • hardware • tweaks • capslock • hack • tips • tools • software • nelson:autotagged