Nelson's Linkblog 2007-01

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Snap previews suck

Glad someone wrote this down

2007-01-31 snappreview • snap • javascript • accessibility • blog • webdesign • wordpress • internet • widgets • blogging • usability • nelson:autotagged

Bush above the law

No penalty for violating the first and fourth amendments

2007-01-31 nelson:autotagged

Amazon S3 in practice

How to outsource storage when it's not 100% reliable

2007-01-31 s3 • programming • storage • aws • hosting • blog • amazon • reliability • webservices • performance • smugmug • nelson:autotagged

VC, VCs, Tech VC

Doin my bit for venture capitalists who haven't hired SEOs :-)

2007-01-30 webrankings • nelson:autotagged

Jim Gray is missing

Turing Prize winner hasn't been seen since going sailing on Sunday

2007-01-30 jimgray • • turingprize • nelson:autotagged

Disable snap previews

Get rid of those horrible popups (via kottke)

2007-01-30 web • browser • firefox • javascript • howto • disable • troubleshooting • snap • preview • annoying • advertising • nelson:autotagged

Reggie Watts is awesome with a sampler

2007-01-30 art • beatbox • sampling • amazing • video • reggiewatts • performance • fun • music • audio • cool • nelson:autotagged

Limelight Networks

Bandwidth providers for about half the streaming video on the Internet

2007-01-30 content • network • podcasting • media • cdn • hosting • delivery • streaming • video • audio • technology • nelson:autotagged

Vista DRM crack?

Still early stages on this, but it's inevitable

2007-01-30 vista • windows • hacking • hacks • computer • tech • hack • drm • security • news • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

Mutant fungus ants

NSF anyone afraid of their brains being eaten by fungus

2007-01-29 science • imported • animals • nelson:autotagged

Yahoo login / OpenID

Interesting idea of authentication by proxy (via Waxy)

2007-01-28 web2.0 • openid • web • bbauth • privacy • yahoo • simonwillison • authentication • api • internet • identity • nelson:autotagged

2007-01-28 apod • saturn • fotos • espacio • science • photography • moon • crater • photos • astronomy • hyperion • nelson:autotagged

Po-210 in the teapot

ABC News reports rumours from the investigation

2007-01-28 murder • assassination • secret • kgb • uk • russian • politics • security • russia • espionage • litvinenko • nelson:autotagged

Driving in Baghdad

Arrogance or essential safety, either way it's interesting.

2007-01-27 driving • blogs • youtube • humvee • bush • meta:delete • video • fun • politics • iraq • war • nelson:autotagged

Good slideshow display of Flickr photos

2007-01-27 windows • photo • photography • slickr • photos • screensaver • freeware • download • flickr • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Death Star trench

Famous space battle, manually re-enacted (via MeFi)

2007-01-26 funny • humor • videos • starwars • youtube • movies • animation • video • hands • fun • cool • nelson:autotagged

SL Economy rebuttal

Castronova argues that Second Life's economy is ok, just very small

2007-01-26 antihype • secondlife • interesting • economics • metaverse • debunk • second_life • hype • world • market • economy • nelson:autotagged

Horrifying dentistry

Cute smiles for your dentist mask, auuugh!

2007-01-26 horror • dentistry • nelson:autotagged

53 CSS Techniques

Lots of random things you can do with web page design

2007-01-26 development • web • reference • howto • webdesign • html • design • tutorial • webdev • tips • css • nelson:autotagged

Structured Flickr tags

Machine tags are triples: namespace, keyword, value

2007-01-26 web2.0 • tags • rdf • machinetags • folksonomy • microformats • api • flickr • semanticweb • tagging • metadata • nelson:autotagged

Election machine keys

Someone makes a working Diebold election machine key from a photograph

2007-01-26 funny • zukunft • democracy • paranoia • hacks • wingnuts • hack • politics • security • voting • technology • nelson:autotagged

When you're too cheap to buy your ho real coke (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-26 funny • ads • videos • drugs • youtube • commercial • video • 80s • cocaine • adversary • synthcoke • nelson:autotagged

An autistic's account

The video is interesting but a bit irritating; it's singificantly humanized when the woman speaks for herself in the Metafilter comments

2007-01-26 autism • asperger's • mental • psychology • metafilter • nelson:autotagged

Light Criticism

Beautiful Eyebeam criticism of new NYC ad medium

2007-01-26 grafitti • marketing • youtube • ideas • graffiti • advertising • art • technology • inspiration • nelson:autotagged

WGA false positives?

Some data suggesting Microsoft's anti-piracy measure doesn't work right

2007-01-25 wga • windows • drm • natn • news • bol • security • software • microsoft • oops • nelson:autotagged

More SL economy

Longer version of the valleywag article

2007-01-24 gaming • life • business • secondlife • money • economics • virtual • blog • second • community • economy • nelson:autotagged

Real economics of Second Life

This analysis applies to all online games, not just SL

2007-01-24 finance • business • secondlife • money • economics • culture • games • sl • article • technology • economy • nelson:autotagged

Textual analysis of State of the Union

Awesome visualization tool (via Jeff McManus)

2007-01-24 information • design • language • visualization • stateoftheunion • flash • bush • speech • words • news • politics • nelson:autotagged

Crowd control science

I was wondering why stoning the pillars went so smoothly this year

2007-01-24 religion • simulation • pedestrian • design • architecture • physics • islam • nelson:autotagged

clever Firefox extension to deal with the trivial password problem

2007-01-24 web • notice • passwords • firefox • generator • dequoijememail • extensions • add-on • security • password • software • nelson:autotagged

Google Groups redone

It no longer tastes like burning!

2007-01-24 google • group • service • blogger • sentido6 • blog • usenet • groups • newsgroups • discuss • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Penis evolution

"It's a kind of glorified water balloon."

2007-01-24 evolution • genetics • quaint • biology • sex • genetic • research • nelson:autotagged

Vagina evolution

Quite well written (via Metafilter)

2007-01-24 articles • biology • toread • interesting • human • evolution • sex • blog • vagina • reproduction • science • nelson:autotagged

Pirating the Oscars

Waxy researches the downloads of Oscar nominated films

2007-01-23 business • copyright • bittorrent • piracy • media • movies • oscars • drm • p2p • culture • film • nelson:autotagged

Andy Griffith/PATRIOT

Back when the US understood civil liberties (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-23 patriot • privacy • justice • youtube • surveillance • tv • bush • video • culture • politics • law • nelson:autotagged

Now all we need is the decryption program (via diveintomark)

2007-01-23 blueray • video • bluray • aacs • drm • security • nelson:autotagged

Second Life rebuttal

See, if you just spend 20+ hours there you'll start to find it interesting

2007-01-23 web • clayshirky • culture • secondlife • general • sears • opensource • sl • hype • technology • wagnerjamesau • nelson:autotagged

Public transit carpets

Great collection of photos, alas with flash vignetting (via kottke)

2007-01-23 art • fabric • pattern • photography • textile • patterns • train • design • bus • transportation • flickr • nelson:autotagged

Drag Queen AC/DC

Purports to actually be Celine Dion, but I think it's a pickle surprise (via kottke)

2007-01-23 funny • humor • music • youtube • celinedion • toshare • video • wtf • fun • anastacia • weird • nelson:autotagged

Ninja Warrior TV

pure awesome. "spidawakku!"

2007-01-22 fromwork • nelson:autotagged

Woman keeps journal at work of how she avoids work by journaling

2007-01-22 goofingoff • funny • laziness • rants • incompetence • work • nsfw • employment • showoff • bad_behavior • nelson:autotagged

Get a First Life

obvious response to second life (via mathowie)

2007-01-22 web2.0 • funny • humor • humour • secondlife • satire • community • culture • second_life • fun • parody • nelson:autotagged

Burning Crusade notes

Some insight on how the expansion is doing, seems about right to me

2007-01-21 nelson:autotagged

The ad generator

1997 is calling to you (via Techcrunch)

2007-01-21 art • ads • generator • marketing • mashup • flash • design • advertising • fun • flickr • cool • nelson:autotagged

Black is the new black

Interesting visualization of a cliche (via Kottke)

2007-01-21 funny • art • language • information • media • diagram • culture • design • visualization • graphics • humor • nelson:autotagged

Odd photos (via Kottke)

2007-01-21 fun • art • photo • photography • hands • photos • interesting • images • animals • gallery • cool • nelson:autotagged

419 county treasurer

Government official scammed by Nigerians (via Merlin)

2007-01-21 article • humour • nelson:autotagged

Clever video (via Metafilter)

2007-01-21 tricky • funny • humour • samsung • mobile • movies • phone • video • music • cool • rundmc • nelson:autotagged

North Korea travelogs

Collection of first person accounts of visits to the DPRK

2007-01-21 Északkorea • korea • north • interesting • kommunista • northkorea • list • collection • north_korea • dprk • travel • nelson:autotagged

Meat is #1 stolen item in grocery stores

2007-01-20 meat • usa • food • interesting • slate • daily • crime • society • theft • article • steal • nelson:autotagged

MySpace quick start

The official site docs are awful

2007-01-20 sac • web.resources • myspace • web.admin • nelson:autotagged

iPhone ringtone

"sounds like holy angels peeing"

2007-01-19 smartphones • apple • sdr • mobile • ringtone • gadgets • music • iphone • gizmodo • news • audio • nelson:autotagged

lotus eaters, all

2007-01-19 nelson:autotagged

Dealing with mudflation

Excellent game design insights from Raph Koster

2007-01-19 mudflation • money • economics • geek • mmorpg • games • gamedesign • article • videogames • design • mmog • nelson:autotagged

Unfortunate CAPTCHA

The handicap icon is sort of the icing on the cake (via Peter)

2007-01-19 funny • google • userpic • darrend • humour • lol • captcha • irc/channel/php.thinktank • images • humor • fun • nelson:autotagged

IP address icons

Simple transform of IP address to tiny icon

2007-01-19 blogs • security • identity • comments • icons • nelson:autotagged

Delicious custom cake

Just a small problem (via Waxy)

2007-01-19 funny • code • humor • humour • food • programming • html • printing • error • cake • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

problems for fictional economies

2007-01-18 economics • wikipedia • virtual • mmog • mmorpg • videogames • nelson:autotagged

AACS: DRM for video

Overview of the encryption/antipiracy tech in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray

2007-01-18 nelson:autotagged

J-Pop-Lock music video

2007-01-18 dancing • dance • awesome • youtube • robot • animation • video • advertising • fun • music • uniqlo • nelson:autotagged

DVD protection history

Sad, sorry story. Glad to have Mark back!

2007-01-17 reference • copyright • encryption • protection • video • dvd • fun • drm • security • tech • history • nelson:autotagged

1st Star Wars trailer

Wow, this is awful; only indication the movie would be good is the effects quality

2007-01-17 funny • film • starwars • star+wars • youtube • trailers • movies • video • geekery • star_wars • trailer • nelson:autotagged

Pickle Surprise!

Like Brini Maxwell, only 10x psychedelic

2007-01-16 funny • vid • humour • youtube • drag • humourous • video • rubnitz • surprise • weird • music-videos • nelson:autotagged

Process Explorer

Show what resources a program is using in Windows

2007-01-15 explorer • windows • programming • utilities • free • process • freeware • security • tools • microsoft • software • nelson:autotagged

Devlin Internet trail

Kids have Internet presence, even kidnapped ones

2007-01-15 malware • social_networks • usa • myspace • stuff • abductors • news • tech • ibt4im • nelson:autotagged

visiting goggle.com

Awesome little video (via Marc)

2007-01-15 funny • humor • windows • heh • computers • youtube • video • fun • security • ie • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

Yet another stupid DRM system is broken

2007-01-15 firefly • bittorrent • piracy • dvd • hddvd • movies • hd-dvd • serenity • news • hacking • hd • nelson:autotagged

Google office in SF

If they'd done this a year ago, I might still be there

2007-01-14 officespace • google • gap • nelson:autotagged

Escalation to Iran?

Trying to read tea leaves

2007-01-14 imported • iran • usa • bush • abuse • military • politics • fear • iraq • war • occupation • nelson:autotagged

jackbauer killcount

Breaking eggs to defend America from terrorist omelettes

2007-01-14 tv • 24 • amusing • nelson:autotagged

Remap WinXP keyboard via registry, with a GUI

2007-01-14 remap • windows • tool • utilities • free • hardware • keyboard • freeware • xp • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Apple bullies bloggers

Stupid lawyer tricks

2007-01-14 apple • windows • legal • techcrunch • blog • mobile • blogosfera • iphone • law • blogging • software • nelson:autotagged

Naughty NASA prank

Apollo 12 moonwalk checklist included pr0n

2007-01-14 funny • playboy • humour • space • digg • pranks • moon • nasa • images • apollo • history • nelson:autotagged

Free culture? Or Apple fanboy?

2007-01-14 itunes • boingboing • apple • cellphone • ipod • geek • phone • drm • iphone • music • technology • nelson:autotagged

Robbing a liquor store

Hijinks video, pretty funny (via Metafilter)

2007-01-14 funny • humor • videos • humour • liquor • youtube • crime • video • robber • fun • store • nelson:autotagged

Econbrowser: The distribution of world income

2007-01-14 gdp • visualization • statistics • map • economics • maps • economy • world • politics • history • geography • nelson:autotagged

MMOG 2006 review

Good roundup of what happened

2007-01-13 nelson:autotagged

Terrified mummy

note the tied hands (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-13 mummies • mummy • photo • southamerica • halloween • creepy • culture • amazon • peru • science • history • nelson:autotagged

R2D2 and Chewbacca ran the show

A retcon of the original Star Wars movie

2007-01-13 funny • humor • starwars • culture • movie • analysis • geek • movies • scifi • interesting • film • nelson:autotagged

Let's go to Tehran!

When you escalate, don't screw around

2007-01-12 nelson:autotagged

Passwords are broken

We need a new security technology

2007-01-11 passwords • computer • reference • privacy • computers • bruceschneier • wired • article • tips • password • security • nelson:autotagged

WoW Addon intro

Simple explanation to what was a major game design innovation

2007-01-11 wow • later • worldofwarcraft • videogame • nelson:autotagged

Gates at Hooters

Hangin with Warren Buffet; money does not buy class

2007-01-11 irc/nick/vard • business • money • linkblog • buffet • microsoft • bikini • fun • girl • hooters • cool • nelson:autotagged

Goldman on iPhone

Good point: the "you can't use it yet" helps the hype

2007-01-11 nelson:autotagged

Paris homeless camp

Looks like the settlement on Canal St. Martin is becoming permanent

2007-01-10 blog • nelson:autotagged

Notes on photography lighting in blog form

2007-01-10 flash • reference • photo • photography • technique • howto • blog • camera • lighting • tutorials • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Google 3d Warehouse

Contributed 3d models for Google Earth, others

2007-01-10 search • google • models • free • googleearth • sketchup • design • architecture • graphics • 3d • software • nelson:autotagged

Salton Sea film

narrated by John Waters!

2007-01-10 kitch • dissresearch • :::_great_shit_::: • movies • california • nelson:autotagged

An effective tout

WSJ: Analyst beats Vegas point spreads (via Metafilter)

2007-01-10 via:metafilter • story • statistics • toread • business • gaming • to_read • sports • money • gambling • article • nelson:autotagged

AdWords API criticism

Analysis of licensing costs (via Battelle)

2007-01-10 search • google • ads • api • adwords • mashup • analysis • analytics • vc • adsense • advertising • nelson:autotagged

Swallowed by Google

small startups disappear when acquired

2007-01-10 google • jot • jotspot • evhead • assimilation • googleacquisitions • nelson:autotagged

fj: On The iPhone

fj worked at Nokia/mobile for a long time, so I trust his insights

2007-01-10 nelson:autotagged

Freaky British poster

Surely this is a joke? (via Terry)

2007-01-10 1984 • privacy • photo • liberty • photos • london • uk • images • politics • security • propaganda • nelson:autotagged

looks like a particularly good Windows key remapper

2007-01-09 productivity • windows • macro • utilities • free • automation • opensource • keyboard • freeware • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Flash Element TD

Nicely implemented tower defence game

2007-01-09 web • defence • flash • free • game • warcraft • online • fun • games • tower • cool • nelson:autotagged

Colemak keyboard

Alternative layout; fast like Dvorak, but not as radical a change

2007-01-09 dvorak • layout • ergonomic • keyboard • hardware • qwerty • colemak • typing • interface • usability • software • nelson:autotagged

Webapp keyboard

Easy input of characters in any language

2007-01-09 useful • language • keyboard • travel • internet • virtual • teclado • online • tools • tool • hebrew • nelson:autotagged

US attacks Somalia

But that's ok, it's the terrristrs.

2007-01-09 nelson:autotagged

Super Columbine Massacre RPG!

Costik defends the game/art project

2007-01-08 gaming • art • columbine • violence • games • article • politics • bored • digital_storytelling • nelson:autotagged

Markoff on Botnets

Not a very good article, but a strong warning

2007-01-08 security • internet • nelson:autotagged

Dumb Blizzard idea

Threatening to split players apart in the game

2007-01-08 worldofwarcraft • wow • warcraft • gaming • nelson:autotagged

Relativistic Rocket

Some math about space travel; 20 years (subjective) to the center of the galaxy!

2007-01-07 cc_post • relativistic • relativity • lightspeed • complicated • einstein • physics • science • nelson:autotagged

Lessons of James Kim

Father's op/ed on changes that could make a difference

2007-01-07 death • llis • toread • twit • interesting • james-kim • kim • jameskim • print • todo • jc • nelson:autotagged

TSA advertising

Security theater is a revenue center! (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-06 dumbfuck • terrorism • corporatism • government • nelson:autotagged

GOOG CA tax revenue

All those stock sales add up

2007-01-06 google • finance • business • taxes • california • news • nelson:autotagged

BSG / WoW video

2007-01-05 humor • video • toread • tocheck • nelson:autotagged

Who speaks Irish?

"confronted by an unbending foot soldier of the Irish Taliban"

2007-01-05 irish • language • gaelic • culture • gaeilge • writing • languages • society • ireland • guardian • article • nelson:autotagged

Bush reads your mail

Amazing contempt for the legislative process

2007-01-04 mail • government • spying • illegal • privacy • fascism • bush • secrecy • news • security • law • nelson:autotagged

Bezos' spaceship

Some secrecy slightly lifted (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-04 gross • temp • space • blueorigin • blogit • dose • ideafestival • amazon • bezos • wild • cool • nelson:autotagged

PDF security hole

Wow, this is massive (via Evan)

2007-01-04 web • exploits • xss • javascript • adobe • xss_docs • hack • pdf • security • nelson:autotagged

13 photographs that changed the world

Excellent commentary

2007-01-03 art • interesting • photography • list • gallery • blog • photos • photo • images • war • history • nelson:autotagged

America the Overfull

Wistful Theroux op/ed

2007-01-03 toread • culture • travel • opinion • writing • society • world • politics • article • america • population • nelson:autotagged

Month by month animation (via apod)

2007-01-03 educational • full • fotos • space • science • photography • moon • nasa • movie • astronomy • cool • nelson:autotagged

Larry Lessig at 23C3

Hour+ video, but he's a great speaker (via BoingBoing)

2007-01-03 lessig • towatch • copyright • culture • code • video • opensource • creativecommons • politics • law • technology • nelson:autotagged

Firefox: $53M in 2005

Nearly $30M from "search engine relationships"

2007-01-03 web • search • firefox_pillole • money • mytech • mozilla • free • opensource • firefox • financials • browser • nelson:autotagged

God talks to Pat

Robertson predicts mass killing in the US

2007-01-03 politics • nelson:autotagged

Xbox Live's download service

2007-01-02 nelson:autotagged

ephemeral profiles

Dana's notes from field research into how teens use social Internet services

2007-01-02 web2.0 • web • community • socialnetworking • youth • culture • social • teens • technology • identity • usability • nelson:autotagged

Fisting on Metafilter

The discussion is awful, but some of the links are interesting gay history

2007-01-01 read-this • meira • nelson:autotagged

Gay bathhouse history

Factual, but ads NSFW

2007-01-01 nelson:autotagged

Crippling Vista DRM

Detailed analysis of how Windows DRM features will make computers worse

2007-01-01 vista • copyright • windows • analysis • hardware • drm • article • politics • security • microsoft • software • nelson:autotagged

Americans on the Hajj

Hajj an adventure for young Americans - Yahoo! News

2007-01-01 nelson:autotagged