Nelson's Linkblog 2004-03

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Drifting: car stunts

The pure essence of drifting is to never appear to have control of the vehicle, while always having complete control over the vehicle

Spring break news

This just in: young people like to get drunk and have sex on spring break

Hearts and minds

Iraqis Drag Four Corpses Through Streets

WiFi at Pacbell Park

Call me crazy, but I don't want to have a laptop at the ballpark

Gamble away debt!

Yahoo! News - Casino Pulls Ad Aimed at Those in Debt

very small, yet very fast HTTP server for UN*X systems

2004-03-30 http • httpd • linux • minimal • opensource • performance • server • small • software • unix • web

Kraftwerk sound toy

mix your oin Boing Boom Tschak (via MetaFilter)

2004-03-30 music • musick

For when a Segway isn't silly enough

2004-03-30 articles • tobuyexcess

Ah, the glamour of being a druggy

Condi to testify

Finally the White House can't stonewall any longer

RIP Alistair cooke

Letters from America was really great

Harbin ice festival

Beautiful photos of ice sculptures, particularly the lit ones. (Via MetaFilter)

2004-03-30 art • china • culture • festival • ice • photo • photography • photos • sculpture • snow • travel

Best NY restaurants

A Quick Guide to the Best Restaurants in New York (via Kottke, Muxway)

2004-03-30 entertainment • food • metaproject • ny • nyc • recommendations • restaurant • restaurants • safari_export • travel • york

Nice little rant about how complex Java makes things with factories and SPIs and crap. (via Zawodny)

2004-03-30 articles • blogmarks • complexity • dev • fucked • java • perl • php • social • software • tech

Game music history

Gamespot feature (via Slashdot)

2004-03-30 article • folk • folklore • game • gamemusic • gaming • history • music • technology

Craigslist scams

craigslist: counterfeit cashier's check wire transfer scams

Internet Archive: FreeCache. Wacky automatic / free way to cache site content

2004-03-30 bandwidth • cache • caching • free • internet • net • network • p2p • tech • tools • web

California quarter

Not bad as these things go. But Muir better watch out, that condor is about to eat his eyeball.

Pledge allegiance.ppt

MSN Slate Magazine (via mathowie)

2004-03-29 education • funny • humor • info • laugh • meta • nationalism • office • politics • powerpoint • tech

Tyco jury farce

Dissident juror's identity revealed in the press

Gary Danko cheeses

It's wonderful that US restaurants are finally taking cheese seriously

2004-03-29 cheese • reference

There are probably 1000 different versions of this

2004-03-28 editors • xml

SpycyRoll / pyblagg

Simple Python aggregator

2004-03-28 aggregator • aggregators • blagg • blosxom • ebe06 • programming • python • rss • software • taller • web

Condi unaccountable

spineless panel refuses to subpoena

"a child of this age shouldn't have a choice"

Hyenas as guard dogs (via BoingBoing)

2004-03-28 interesting • why

feedparser examples

RssLibraries - PythonInfo Wiki

2004-03-28 harvester • python • read • rss • versions

Pickled Pig's Feet

One taste and you'll know why we are one of the leading producers of pickled pigs feet

2004-03-28 barfood

FAR CRY SINGLE PLAYER DEMO TWEAKS, CHEATS AND MODS

2004-03-27 imported • spiele

Scramjet success

Making History: NASA's X-43A Scramjet Streaks Across Sky

Psychic cancels plane

The freakin' TSA is listening to psychics?!

Rumstud says "you"

Such a photogenic person, too bad he's evil

Stanley Kubrick's stuff

Interesting article looking at Kubrick's house after his death. Obsessive detail.

Adept home page

Missed this at first

adept python testing

A Declarative, Eval()-based Program Tester

ACM: Code of Ethics

Didn't know they had one!

2004-03-27 acm • associations • business • code • ethics • info520 • it • programming • research • school • teaching

Southern hurricane

Freaky - apparently hurricanes are a northern hemisphere thing

If you're young, this might make more sense than a normal IRA

favicons of the web

nice roundup of 16x16 design (via cameron)

2004-03-27 art • coding • collection • design • favicon • favicons • graphics • icon • icons • web • web-design

PCWorld.com - HDTV Answer Guide (via engadget)

Devil's playground

Goldman reviews a movie about Amish teenagers. He writes well, too.

Robotic overloads

jwz digs into the underwater chainsaw bot

War Rationale 10.0

TOMPAINE.com - War Rationale: Version 10.0 (via MetaFilter)

2004-03-26 amusing • anti-bush • anti-war • fun • funny • humor • iraq • politics • regimechange • top • war

Game Developers Conf

Game Developers Conference 2004

2004-03-26 computer • conference • conferences • development • game • gamedev • games • gaming • news • programming • technology

The Spread of the Witty Worm - CAIDA : ANALYSIS : security : witty (via Slashdot)

2004-03-26 code • firewall • iss • malware • network • security • tech • technology • virus • worm • worms

Steve: developing on the edge: NTP Attacks

Steve, Don't Eat It!

Guy eats various odd things, blogs about it. (via MetaFilter)

2004-03-26 blog • bulk-import • food • funny • humor

Frowny Condy Rice

She's still refusing to testify publically

Yahoo! News - NASA Again Plans to Fly Jet 5,000 Mph

Attu Island (Aleutians), Alaska Gallery

More on translator

CBS News | Lost In Translation | July 13, 2003 20:08:42

2004-03-25 911 • dept_fbi • fbi • terrorism • tv_60minutes

Transation coverup

Contract translator claims she was told to alter translations

Latest effort from Microsoft to unify XBox and PC game development. Entertainment: Big Changes Are Planned in Game-Software Strategy: NYT

More on Richard Clarke

Dick Clarke Is Telling the Truth - Why he's right about Bush's negligence on terrorism. By Fred Kaplan, Slate (via Anil Dash)

2004-03-25 bushco • news • politics • terrorism • usa • war

Fiddling, Iraq burns

Boing Boing: Bush thinks looking for weapons of mass destruction is a hoot

Thanks to everyone who told me "My Eyes! The goggles, they do nothing" comes from this Simpson's episode.

2004-03-24 do • goggles • nothing • simpsons • transcript

Far Cry reviews

new FPS for PCs. I didn't much like the demo, but the buzz is good

Virtual value loss

Terra Nova: Financial Cost of E B's Closure

Hard drive scavenging

What's on that old disk? Simson finds out. (via BoingBoing)

2004-03-24 funny • hard-disk • hardware • heyurl • news • risk • sci/tech • security • software • storage

Anticipating RSS spam

Nice little essay by Marc Heldund, getting ahead of the issue

2004-03-24 *科_internet • >(rss) • _(敘)_projections • _(隨)*musing • _blog_articles • blogging • greenmallard • linkblog • rss • spam • toread

Need an NTP server? Try one of these.

2004-03-24 free • internet • linux • network • networking • ntp • reference • server • sysadmin • time • unix

California legislators

Hard at work kicking Buddhists in the nuts

Lists of five things

2004-03-23 blog • blogs • cool • daily • fun • funny • humor • humour • list • lists • random

The goggles, they do nothing

from where does this phrase originate? beats me, but it's cool.

PEP 320 -- Python 2.4 Release Schedule

2004-03-23 python • reference

Python 2.4 string subst

PEP 292 -- Simpler String Substitutions. This is going into Python 2.4!

2004-03-23 python

Wipe your hard drive

Autoclave - Secure Disk Deletion (via Marc)

2004-03-23 d • diskwipe • hack • harddisk • hardware • secure • security • software • tech • teknik • tools

Half Life 2 technology

Computer Graphics World - graphics, 3d modeling, cad and visual computing (via Slashdot)

2004-03-23 flagged

Why use subversion?

From the Apache foundation

Yahoo Feed Seeker

Cool usage reporting! (Jeremy Zawodny's blog)

2004-03-23 weblogs

Kermit Lynch has a great search function

Colonoscopy parties

"worth a special trip"

This phrase is part of the definition of a Michelin 3 star restaurant

still no mp3 download, but here's the schedule

2004-03-22 audio • culture • daily • interview • media • music • news • npr • politics • radio • social

Slashdot | Nasty New Virus Variants

9-11 greenbacks

Interesting bit of protest art

Worm escalation

Bagle only requires the user read the email, not open attachments.

Mouth urinals scotched

Finally, someone at Virgin came to their senses

Why do they call it 4.0 megapixels when the 2272x1704 images are actually 3.87 million pixels (or 3.7 megapixels)?

2004-03-22 photos • vicki-camera

FundRace San Fran

Amazing geographic maps of donors by party. I'll try not to get offended that my half of SF isn't on this map

SpamAssassin virus

Rules to filter out the horrible virus warnings that get bounced to you. Looks a bit unsafe to me.

2004-03-21 antivirus • email • opensource • qmail • sa • security • spam • spamassassin • technology

SpamAssassin custom rules howto

How to write custom rules; I'm using this now to block mail sent to my old addresses

2004-03-21 antispam • email • howto • linux • mail • rules • security • server • spam • spamassassin • tools

Sonoma is so much more relaxing than Napa

2004-03-20 beverages • sonoma • trabajo • wine • wine.sonoma

APOD: 2004 March 20 - Equinox 1

Kempa.com: Vinyl Data (via MetaFilter)

2004-03-19 audio • code • computers • games • history • music • programming • retro • software • sound • vinyl

What colour is Mars?

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: What Color is Mars?

Wacky color cognitive experiment

2004-03-19 color • comparison • game • word

Icon components

Visual history of GUI icons across different OSes

2004-03-19 art • design • graphics • gui • history • icon • icons • os • reference • ui • windows

ATT wireless hell

Greg Costikyan tries to register his NGage on ATT wireless, hilarity ensues.

Gay porn stars...

... with links to their Friendster profiles.

Fun composite image (APOD: 2004 March 19 - Going Wild)

Jim Murphy's weblog

One of the guys at MindReef who makes the great SOAPScope tool

Poland breaks ranks

Yahoo! News - Poland 'Misled' on Iraq, President Says

Courney Love is back!

Proving that there's value in being the antiMadonna

Rove's evil plan

What amazes me about Rove is how visible he is

Appoint someone to the White House, then pal around with them, then rule on the court cases that involve your friends

Japanese smileys

Hiroette.com ||| Japanese Facemarks(smileys) |||

2004-03-18 cool • culture • emoticons • fun • internet • japan • japanese • language • reference • smileys • web

1982 origin of :-)

Full discussion thread. I wonder why they decided on (^_^) in Japan? (via Kottke).

2004-03-18 geekery • history • humour • informatique • language • messaging • misc • net_history • tl • web • words

Review of a book that praises people having a bit of free time in their workdsays (Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools)

2004-03-18 book • books • business • cool • demarco • development • efficiency • innovation • management • slack • time

XML escaping fiasco

Even Tim f'in Bray isn't quite sure how to produce XML correctly

2004-03-18 html • rss • xml

Vermont foot fetishist

well, not really, but this photo is pretty wacky

Iditarod winner

Yahoo! News - Mitch Seavey Wins Iditarod Sled Dog Race

Take-Two fraud?

Take-Two Interactive Founder Resigns Top Posts

"imminent threat"

All the times the Bush Administration called Iraq an imminent threat (Center for American Progress)

2004-03-17 articles • bush • cheney • commentary • ethics • mesopotamia • politics • rummy • rumsfeld • usa • war

"semiotic statecraft"

Iraq on the record

Searchable database of statements about Iraq

2004-03-16 america • bush • congress • government • history • iraq • lies • news • politics • usa • war

Healdsburg dining

Healdsburg Restaurant and Dining Guide

Another person who's unhappy with the ugliness of site syndication

2004-03-16 blog • design • funny

11 ways to valid RSS

different ways to do RSS 2.0 (via diveintomark)

2004-03-16 aggregator • blogging • harvester • info • rss • syndication • tech • web • xhtml • xml

Capuchin loyalty

Identity theft hell

MSNBC - ID theft victims face tough bank fights (via Cryptogram)

EverQuest is 5 yrs old

Terra Nova: Happy Birthday EQ

wry diveintomark, in which he puts out a new version of his feed parser that deals with some malformed XML that occurs in the wild and reflects on his personality

2004-03-15 atom • syndication • xml

smart mon article

Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART (Linux Journal)

Linux tool to read the monitoring data off your hard drives

2004-03-15 disk • hardware • linux • monitoring • osx • smart • software • storage • sysadmin • tools • windows

Better government through citizen surveillance

Guantanamo condition

"My Hell in Camp X-Ray" from a recently released prisoner. (via Dan Gillmor)

2004-03-14 bay • camp • cuba • empire • guantanamo • news • on • terror • war • x-ray

He's got the whole world in his hands

Rumsfeld has the most amazing gestures when he speaks

Car alarms are stupid

All That Noise for Nothing, The New York Times, December 11, 2003 (via mbostock)

Bush medicare lies

Yahoo! News - Official Says He Was Told to Withhold Medicare Data

Architecture astronaut

Oldie but goodie Joel on Software (via Erik Benson)

2004-03-13 architecture • article • articles • blog • design • development • joel • programming • software • toread • web

Everquest addict blog

Horrifying stories from folks whose loved ones are addicted to online games

2004-03-13 addiction • blog • computer • everquest • funny • games • geek • interesting • mmog • mmorpg • wow

Orang-Utan hands

cool comparison to human (via boingboing)

2004-03-13 =interesting

Kashmiri mustard

Arresting photo

Great wall invisible...

...from outer space (via Metafilter)

Danger: awful puns. (via diveintomark)

2004-03-12 blogmarks • css • funny • geek • html • humour • jokes • webdesign • webdev

Game emulator patent

Nintendo using this patent to shutdown emulators?

Video codec shootout

DivX and WMV win, QuickTime (Sorenson, MPEG4) loses (via Slashdot)

Edinburgh underworld

Yahoo! News - Forgotten city lies beneath Edinburgh

Bush antigay spew

"The union of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution" - Bush apparently unaware of 50% divorce rate in US

Serial killer sketch

Creepy image, don't you think?

Pictures of the two of clubs playing card in various contexts

AlwaysOn Home - clever name

2004-03-10 blog • blogs • business • magazine • media • network • news • social • tech • technology • web2.0

I finally finished WarioWare. Good to the end! (via Anil Dash)

Bug and Insect Photography and Photos by Frank Phillips (via Metafilter)

2004-03-09 animais • biologietc. • bug • fotografia • macro • macrofotografia • nature • photo • photographs • photography • science

William Hung record

We've gone from silly to absurd

Me, I stopped reading Gizmodo because their RSS feed is truncated. (via Anil Dash)

News spread on net

Stephen VanDyke » How News Travels on the Internet (via BoingBoing)

2004-03-09 blog • blogging • blogosphere • blogs • interesting • internet • news • rss • topologies • visualization • web

Usermode Linux hosting services

Be r00t on your own virtual box for cheap ($10/month and up)

2004-03-08 linux • uml • user_mode_linux • vds

Ghibli US releases

No more grey market imports required?

ezSqlObject Python

Extension to a nice Python ORM; does introspection on the tables (via Daily Python URL)

XML inconsistency

Yet another reason why XML is not that great a format (via diveintomark)

Aka prosopagnosia. First person account of someone who can't recognize faces. (via Anil Dash)

New Version (via Niall Kennedy)

Erotic alphabet NSFW

French series of hand-coloured etchings appeared about 1880. (via Fleshbot)

Korean poo translation

A handy amateur translation, courtesy of Metafilter

Korean toilet cartoon

I suspect this is less funny if you understand Korean. (via Metafilter)

2004-03-07 animation • cartoons • flash • food • fun • funny • humor • japan • korea • poo • video

Fashion is its own parody

NYT: Jay-Z Remixes

Playlist: Silver, Brown, Gray: Jay-Z Every Which Way

2004-03-07 music

Janet Jackson Mickey

Disney Consumer Products, rumoured to be cancelled

Panning new MIT dorm

Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler (via Greenspun)

Trillian RSS feed

Updates on the IM software

rs232 / infrared link

Computer Controllable Learning IR Remote

AudioGrabber is free

Good CD ripper / MP3 encoder for Windows now free

2004-03-06 audio • cd • free • freeware • mp3 • music • ripper • ripping • software • tools • windows

White van speakers

SCAM SHIELD - Protecting Citizens With Knowledge

2004-03-06 funny

La Corneta taqueria

AOL City Guide: San Francisco - What's Going On - La Corneta Taqueria - Overview

Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs (via muxway)

2004-03-06 blog • blogging • blogs • research • rss • search • statistics • tools • trends • web • web2.0

Seamen ship for love

Wacky video Japanese recruiting ad (via BoingBoing)

2004-03-06 ad • humor • japan • personal • pop

Sun slow death spiral

Wired News: Sun Microsystems' Rating: 'Junk'

The Zorkmid Project

2004-03-06 games • humor • infocom • videogames • whimsical

Chernobyl dead zone

Photos and travelogue of a poisoned land. (via Metafilter)

10 years of spam

Happy 10th anniversary to Canter and Siegel (via Slashdot)

Church of England advertises for a Web pastor.

Cute email app, records your typing and typos in realtime and replays them.

2004-03-05 email • free • fun • internet • mail • social • tool • tools • web • web2.0 • writing

Blog meme spread

Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious (via Waxy)

Glenn against Mars

Yahoo! News - Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush Space Plan

Bit twiddling hacks

Nasty, evil, amusing code snippets. (via Muxway)

2004-03-04 algorithm • algorithms • bit • c • c++ • code • development • hacks • math • programming • reference

Subway maps at scale

Great little info visualization, via BoingBoing

2004-03-04 architecture • design • map • maps • reference • subway • subways • transportation • travel • visualization • world

Real doll review NSFW

Hysterical story of someone testing out a high end sex toy. The metal hook in the back of the skull is the best part.

2004-03-04 culture • doll • nerve.com • real • sex • society • weird

Cuban news site

Granma International

2004-03-03 .imported • 3818 • america • communist • cuba • latin • latinamerica • left • news • politics • socialism

Portland gay marriage

A wave of inevitability

Software recommends

From Dylan, nice list of useful Windows software. Lots of things I hadn't heard of.

2004-03-03 bestof • freeware • musthave • osx • software • sw • tools • windows • x86

How to glue anything - one of my favourite microsites on the Internet, been online for years. (via CoolTools)

2004-03-03 crafts • diy • glue • hardware • home • howto • lifehacks • reference • tips • tools • useful

Tall people in airplanes

No relief for those of us who don't fit in planes.

Calvin and Hobbes

Search descriptions of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. (via Anil Dash)

2004-03-02 art • calvin • cartoons • comic • comics • fun • hobbes • humor • reference • search • tools

Beautiful nebula

APOD: 2004 March 2 - NGC 6960: The Witchs Broom Nebula

2004-03-02 astronomy • image • science • witchesbroomnebula

Smart Voter by the League of Women Voters. Elections in California and Ohio

2004-03-02 activism • california • election • elections • government • local • politics • reference • research • vote • voting

US led coup in Haiti?

People are reporting that Aristide says he was kidnapped at gunpoint

Mars rover debugging

Fairly technical description. EE Times - The trouble with Rover is revealed

2004-03-01 mars • news • os/vxworks • software • space • technical • todo • yonderboy

Complete SMB guide

Exhaustive reference for Super Mario Brothers; check out the maps!

2004-03-01 gaming

Costik on Maxis/Origin

Wistful blog entry about EA's continuing consumption of the game development world

Tacky dress photo

Then again, I don't think it's the dress that's responsible for this being the #1 photo on Yahoo

In case you didn't watch it

2004-03-01 academy_awards • awards • film • lists • movie • movies • news • oscar • oscars

Videogame speed runs

A bit silly, but interesting videos of playing through games really fast (via waxy)

2004-03-01 gaming • videos

Marius Watz / Amoeba

Another computational artist; I was exchanging POVRay notes with him 12 years ago!

2004-03-01 animation • art • code • design • experimental • generative • graphics • inspiration • processing • programming • visualization

Levitated | Everything

Amazing collection of computational art (via muxway)

2004-03-01 animation • art • cool • design • flash • graphics • inspiration • math • programming • visualization • web

My Bloody Valentine

Update on the band that produced one of my favourite records and then, famously, nothing else.