Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog aboutarchivemastodonfeed
Nantais elephant
New insane mobile sculpture
2007-06-30 france • nantes • art • elephant • sculpture
If fire were water
Clever photoshopping
2007-06-30 via:digg • photoshop • image • fire • flames
Netgear FWG114P
Another candidate for a more robust wireless router
2007-06-29 netgear • router • internet
Bad routers (Azureus)
A list of routers that have problems with too many network connections, as per BitTorrent
2007-06-29 routers • internet • hardware • review • bittorrent • utorrent
DrayTek routers
recommended via a blog reader. $200+ for a home router, but apparently higher quality. 2800G specifically recommended
2007-06-29 router • internet • broadband • adsl
DSL speed test
Zillions of these widgets on the net, but this one lets you compare to other ISPs
2007-06-29 bandwidth • dsl • speed • test • network • internet
Microsoft and Facebook
I'd forgotten that Microsoft has an exclusive ad deal on Facebook
2007-06-28 facebook • cpc • ads • advertising • adwords
Old english money
Sovereigns, pence, shillings, crowns
2007-06-28 money • victorian • england • pound • currency
Bush above the law
Executive privilege means you can break the law and it's hard to catch you
2007-06-28 spying • nsa • fbi • cia • bush • president
SREA.OB chart
Latest email spam pumped stock. Why don't the people who trade this go to jail?
2007-06-28 scam • email • worm • botnet • stock
Pokemon rave
A great description of why people love Pokemon games. For me, I can't stand them, but that makes me sad.
2007-06-28 pokemon • games • pikachu • collecting • rpg
PDF stock spam
International criminals are now using PDF attachments to pump stocks
2007-06-27 pdf • worm • badtech • stock • scam • acrobat • email • deathofinternet
Ganglia monitoring
Monitor a cluster of servers easily
2007-06-26 admin • code • cluster • monitoring • sysadmin
GraphClick
Extracts numerical data from graph images.
2007-06-26 graph • data • recovery • reverseengineering • code
subcon
Check in system config files to Subversion, then push to production servers
2007-06-26 code • subversion • system • management • server
Flickr capacity talk
Lots of details about how a big webapp cluster works
2007-06-26 flickr • scaling • performance • mysql • database
Cocaine cornfield
Dumb high guy plows down corn
2007-06-26 via:boingboing • drugs • cocaine • police • cornfield • corn
Conversational marketing
Mark Pilgrim calls bullshit on the FM / Microsoft nonsense
2007-06-24 advertising • battelle • microsoft • payola • blogs
Wowhead sold for $1M
Warcraft database bought by same company that owns the other two WoW databases. $1M seems too low.
2007-06-23 via:peter • games • warcraft • wow
Fallout 2 patch
Bug fixes for the classic game
2007-06-23 fallout • games • blackisle • rpg
Grumpy Old Bookman
Amazing blog by a man who knows his books
2007-06-21 weblog • blog • books • library • bookstore
UPC Database
Collaborative effort to build a database of various barcodes
2007-06-21 cuecat • barcode • upc • database • product
HTTP proxy caching
Study finds that in practice, the basic HTTP stuff works pretty well through proxy caches
2007-06-21 via:hotlinks • http • web • caching
Photoshop solves mazes
Amazing hack
2007-06-20 via:waxy • photoshop • hack • maze • games
Spore delayed to 2009
Sometimes concept art is not a game
2007-06-20 games • spore • willwright
Scalia confuses 24 for reality
US Supreme Court justice actually cites Jack Bauer
2007-06-19 via:metafilter • horrifying • 24 • jackbauer • habeascorpus • scalia • justice • torture • geneva • supremecourt
Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching
2005 complaint about advertising on BoingBoing
2007-06-18 boingboing • advertising • web • cpc
Screengrab! for Firefox
Get a screenshot of a web page bigger than one window's worth
2007-06-18 firefox • addon • extensions • screenshot • web • webpage • png
eBay moves ads to BoingBoing
So that's how they're replacing the Google ad traffic; targeted blog posts
2007-06-18 ads • satire • 2001 • model • ebay • boingboing
Street fight on Google
Street view cameras capture a fight in progress
2007-06-18 fight • google • maps • photos • privacy • sanfrancisco • street
Opentable profile
I'm impressed with their tenacity
2007-06-18 opentable • restaurant • web • reservations • dining • startup
Gold farms
Dibbell's stuff published on Chinese game grinding as a long NYT article.
2007-06-17 china • goldfarm • wow • rmt • warcraft • games • via:evan
Fallout 3 preview
Scans of the Game Informer article
2007-06-17 via:digg • games • fallout • gameinformer • magazine
XSS: Wikipedia
Remarkably good article
2007-06-17 security • xss • browser • web • hacking • javascript • html
Paris flashmob dinner
Formal dining at the Arc d'Triomphe
2007-06-16 paris • france • flashmob • happening
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ok, lolcats is totally played out, but this is genuinely funny
2007-06-14 humor • nerdy • lolcats • html
eBay armageddon
eBay yanks all its ads from Google, apparently out of spite
2007-06-14 advertising • cpc • google • ebay • via:mcmanus
Warcraft dropping off?
Third party sees evidence that fewer people are playing WoW than in February. Still up above the pre-expansion number in january
2007-06-13 via:wowinsider • warcraft • games • wow • census
Keyloggers winning
Warcraft accounts are valuable enough they are regularly attacked. Sometimes, they win
2007-06-13 keylogger • hack • warcraft • wow
President approval ratings
Crazy trends
2007-06-12 via:kottke • president • bush • approval • poll
Bush's watch stolen
Video sure makes it look like someone in the crowd stripped his watch off
2007-06-12 bush • watch • thief • albania • stolen • wristwatch • president
US GDP map
States renamed as countries, by GDP
2007-06-12 map • visualization • economics • politics • gdp
Mr. T is the "T" in I.T.
Amazing video for Hitachi
2007-06-12 advertising • mrt • funny • via:waxy
Ruby / Merb
An alternative to Rails for high performance
2007-06-11 ruby • rails • rubyonrails • framework • webapp • server • mongrel • code
Vector TD
Tower defense with a modern aesthetic
2007-06-11 towerdefence • game • via:jayisgames • games • flash
Childrens zombie books
"Clifford the Big Dead Dog"
2007-06-11 funny • zombies • books • parody
Space invader thief
Some ass in Paris is stealing the mosaics off the walls
2007-06-11 art • spaceinvader • streetart • thief
Breaking captchas
Some random guy in Ukraine attacks captchas and publishes results
2007-06-11 captcha • hacking • spam • ocr • recognition • security
Babylon Gun
Crazy Iraqi project to launch things into orbit via a projectile cannon
2007-06-11 gun • cannon • satellite • orbit • iraq
Generative art on Flickr
Overview of where to look on Flickr for interesting art
2007-06-10 processing • proce55ing • art • mariuswatz • amoeba • golanlevin • generative • algorithmic
StreamEngine
Automated traffic shaping for home routers
2007-06-10 internet • tcp • qos • trafficshaping • firewall • router • tcpip • bandwidth
Beatles / Rain
Lovely music video. We need music without irony again.
2007-06-07 music • beatles • video • via:metafilter
SlimTimer
excellent, simple webapp for tracking billable hours
2007-06-06 consulting • lifehack • productivity • timer • task • tracking • rubyonrails • webapp
The camera we want
Excellent summary of what's wrong in compact digital camera design
2007-06-06 photo • photography • design • camera • ui • lens
No raw milk camembert?
The big cheese producers both switch to using treated milk
2007-06-06 cheese • food • france • safety • camembert
C is not a registered protocol
Ridiculously stupid Thunderbird bug
2007-06-05 bug • thunderbird • badtech • email
Crayon Physics
beautiful little physics game
2007-06-05 via:gamesetwatch • games • physics
LA celebrity culture
Funny, clever rant
2007-06-05 losangeles • oswalt • celebrity • culture • suv • fashion
Guitar Hero / Ironman
Clearly I'm late to the party, but damn this looks awesome
2007-06-04 via:mathowie • ironman • metal • rock • awesome • guitarhero
Credit piggybacking
Gaming credit scores
2007-06-04 money • scam • credit • mortgage • fairisaac
earnest vs. cool
A fantastic essay on the emptiness of hip
2007-06-03 life • philosophy • mrrogers • cool • society • culture
Amberial
Clever physics based game
2007-06-03 games • physics • platformer
XBattle
A very early RTS game from Unix is being maintained
2007-06-02 games • unix • rts
AACS key leaked?
Sounds like an inside job, very weird
2007-06-01 drm • hddvd • hacking • security • encryption • movies
Using Google Gears
Step by step instructions on gearsifying Google Reader
2007-06-01 via:digg • google • gears • javascript • sqlite • offline • ajax
Google maps sightings
Giant photo databases have odd things in them
2007-06-01 via:digg • funny • google • privacy
LOL: Nelson's Weblog
Everything's better with lolcats.
2007-06-01 via:metafilter • weblog • lolcats • macro