Nelson's Linkblog 2004-07

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Better game narratives

Spot-on when it comes to MMOGs. I've been playing City of Heroes; it's profoundly boring.

Why 13 digit ISBNs

It's to fit the UPC namespace (via Steve)

2004-07-31 isbn

MMOG music videos

Really amazing music videos made with in-game footage and clever editing

2004-07-30 cool • humour • imported • mmog • random • static • video

Katamaridamashi art

Beautiful cover for the game (via Waxy)

Age of Mythology

Reflections from Xemu, one of the development team

London after the war

in an alternate universe (via BoingBoing)

2004-07-30 art • austrian • funny • german • humour • language • london • maps • tube • u-bahn • underground

QuickSilver / Atom

Post to your blog from the Mac app launcher (via Joi)

2004-07-30 blog • movabletype • osx • software • stom • typepad

VMs for security

PDF overview of using virtualization technology as a security tool

RIP Francis Crick

SignOnSanDiego.com News Nation -- Francis Crick, 1916 %u2013 2004

And... it's Kerry!

I mean, the suspense had been killing me.

Wage slave games

Designing games that are good for people who don't have hours a day to play (via Slashdot)

2004-07-28 articles • design • favorites • game • gamebiz • games • gaming • geekery • ps2 • usability • work

Case modding that Man was not meant to Know. (via BoingBoing)

2004-07-28 2006 • articles • computerhardware • computers • fun • imported • linklog • lovecraft • new_mods • pc • tech

Photos of things found in the trash, surprisingly poetic. (via BoingBoing)

2004-07-27 art • blog • blogs • culture • fun • photo • photoblog • photography • photos • trash • weird

Movies from books

Fark takes on travesties of book/movie adaptations

Nice visualization of English word frequency (via MetaFilter)

2004-07-26 art • cool • design • english • flash • fun • language • reference • visualization • words • writing

It's TN3270 all over again!

Solar photograph

APOD: 2004 July 26 - A Large Active Region Crosses the Sun

2004-07-26 images • science • space

Falling building

who knew buildings could just fall down?

Gillmor on Microsoft

Dan's been consistently critical, but this is more severe than usual

Good online shoe store

2004-07-24 accessories • clothes • clothing • fashion • handbags • retail • shoes • shop • shopping • sneakers • store

Marble rolling game, nicely done

2004-07-24 ballance • cool • directx • fun • game • game.computer • games • gaming • list • puzzle

K.I.T.T. dashboard

Obsessive fan recreates the Knight Rider dashboard. Without irony. (via Waxy)

2004-07-24 1informationscience • awesome • childhood • coooool • dashboard • hollyweird • knight-rider • obsess • oldschool • transportation • tv

Wacky voting / genetic algorithm thing for colors. (via muxway)

2004-07-24 art • color • colors • colour • css • design • graphics • tools • web • webdesign • webdev

Electoral vote predictor

Round-up of state polls

2004-07-23 election • elections • government • news • politics • polls • reference • statistics • usa • vote • voting

Kevlar kids' clothes

Airport screen failed

4 of the 5 hijackers from Dulles were given a special screening at airport security. Why didn't this find anything?

When averaging historical facts, don't forget to include the things that are now dead

Jenna Bush tongue

Katamaridamashi US

Confirmation that it'll be released in the US

Bottle cap tripod

Now that's wacky. (via BoingBoing)

2004-07-21 camera • cool • design • diy • gadget • gadgets • hardware • photo • photography • photos • useful

Silver City trailer

New John Sayles film, looks like fun. (via MeFi)

Monty Hall demo

Play the game, see the statistics (via MeFi)

2004-07-20 choose • fun • goat • math • mathematics • monty • montyhall • probability • problem • statistics • whs-forum

Kim Bauer is gone!

Rumour is only Keifer's coming back for the next season of 24. I think this show is over.

On the rise. Unlike credit card fraud, you're probably screwed if someone misuses your account number.

Netflix as platform

Reasonably insightful editorial

2004-07-19 blogs • business • commerce • entertainment • geek • information • movie • movies • netflix • trends • web

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

2004-07-19 cynical • fun • funny • human • humor • law • murphy • murphy's • philosophy • quote • quotes

New Doom 3 screens

Note: SNES version may not be the same as PC version

Kerry kitesurfing

Wow, that's pretty hardcore

2004-07-18 cool • politics

Machinima dancing

reifying motion capture

MMOG subscriptions

Great data analysis of popularity of various games

2004-07-18 business • chart • game • games • gaming • mmog • mmorpg • reference • research • statistics • stats

Olympic village action

"athlete village, with its tightly packed collection of firm young bodies" (via Zawodny)

2004-07-18 a • articles • athletes • culture • games • humor • nifty • olympics • sex • sport • sports

Works of HP Lovecraft

Complete and online (via HotLinks)

2004-07-18 book • books • cthulhu • ebooks • fiction • free • horror • literature • lovecraft • stories • writing

GTA: SA soundtrack

I've always loved the soundtracks in Grand Theft Auto

2004-07-18 gaming • music

Code optimization

Is it relevant? Bill Pugh ponders in this PDF slideshow. (via Ted Leung)

2004-07-18 compilers • lang • optimization • pdf • programming • research • software • talks

These people sell everything hardware related

2004-07-18 catalog • design • diy • electronics • engineering • hardware • materials • parts • shopping • supplies • tools

Map of gays in NY

Census data about gay and lesbian couples mapped in New York

2004-07-18 bisexual • gay • gender • homosexual • lesbian • love • population • sexuality • transgendered

Fiesta de Santa Fe

Fun local celebration, much nicer scale than Indian Market

First person shooter in 5k of javascript (via Joystiq)

2004-07-17 5k • coding • game • games • gaming • internet • java • javascript • webgame • wolfenstein

Summer in West Virgina, it happens to all of us.

Fallout 3 gossip

Interview with the new licensees at Bethesda. This could work out.

Isometric pixel art

How-to guide (via Sutter)

2004-07-17 art • design • graphics • howto • illustration • isometric • photoshop • pixel • pixelart • tutorial • tutorials

I, Robot reviews

Social virtual worlds

Brilliant roundup of all the failures at creating the Metaverse online. There and Second Life are the most recent ones.

2004-07-16 blog • business • game • game_theory • games • metaverse • mmog • secondlife • vgames/psych • virtual_geographic • virtualworlds

Mono on MacOS X

open source .NET (via Steve)

2004-07-16 .net • apple • c# • dev • development • mac • macosx • mono • osx • programming • software

Maps taken from the classic Origin game

Sell startup twice

Ev remembers that this is the second time someone bought WebShots

Giant Ultima 7 map

24576 x 24576 pixel map of the U7 world

All code points in a single poster. I want this, but this is too big!

2004-07-15 art • chart • design • fonts • geek • images • language • poster • reference • typography • unicode

Down the spiral

Courtney Love institutionalized

Torres Strait map

This is where the castaways happened. Didn't realize how close PNG was to Australia

Castaway children

Who knew these stories were true?

Fallout 3, again

This time the Morrowind guys pick up the license

Bucky Fuller stamps

Issued today (via MetaFilter)

Mark Mothersbough's freaky photo manipulations (via MetaFilter)

2004-07-12 art • design • original • photo • symmetry

Driving in New Zealand

LTSA: What's on our site for visitors and new residents?

My birth record

It's sort of creepy this is online

Kingdom of Loathing

A new level of online gaming experience

2004-07-11 fun • funny • game • games • gaming • humor • kol • mmorpg • online • rpg • web

"complaints from consumers who found a calculator button and a piece of plastic in chili they had purchased"

Flipped off by W

George must be learning naughty things from Uncle Cheney

2004-07-11 activism • bush • cool • funny • humor • images • invent • people • politics • usa • weblog

My first linkblog

List of links I used to maintain from 1994-1997

Israel, with US support, ignores the World Court and continues to build its wall

Another CD burner; this one just burns ISOs, but is tiny (via Kenny)

2004-07-11 backup • download • free • freeware • iso • linux • portable • software • tools • utilities • windows

Fan-made sequel to the Atari 2600 classic, only weirdly this will be an Atari 5200 game

Classic Gamer mag

Pretty decent free online magazine

2004-07-11 culture • game • gameroom • games • gaming • magazine • media • retro • retrogaming • tech • videojuegos

Fully freeware CD mastering / burning software

2004-07-11 burner • cd • computer • dvd • free • freeware • media • software • tools • utilities • windows

CD mastering / burning software, free for non-commercial use

2004-07-11 archiving • tools

Gotham is lovely. Times New Roman is awful. At least they're not using Helvetica.

2004-07-10 design • graphicdesign • safari_export • typography

Found P2P photos

Random photos found on the net

2004-07-10 lost+found • media • p2p • photography

Dave McKean / Cory

Cory got an awesome artist for his next novel's cover.

2004-07-10 misc

Photoshop boobs

Digital retouching in a movie poster. Read the comments in jwz's post, they're hysterical.

2004-07-10 amusing

Free means free

Interesting words from someone who made his software public domain instead of GPL

Residents b(l)og

2004-07-09 blog • music • musicalblog • podcast

Kenny Boy non grata

Suddenly Bush doesn't want anyone to know Enron was his primary campaign contributer in 2000

Radio retention req

Apparently the FCC wants all radio stations to keep 60-90 days of archives to aid indecency investigations. My college radio station could never manage this much organization.

Journalist Visa in US

Our border policy is insane

Get Fired Up! (via jwz)

2004-07-08 culture • idiotic

Virtual Manhattan

NIce article about creating Spiderman 2's world

VC algebra primer

pre money vs. post money, etc

2004-07-08 business • deal • economics • entrepreneurship • finance • funding • management • startup • valuation • vc • venture

Translucent concrete

Kiss me, you fool

Kerry and Edwards

Software piracy 36%

Estimate of the rate of piracy world-wide.

Living with HIV

Gripping personal blog from someone who just discovered he has HIV

2004-07-06 aa-popular • blog • hiv

NYPost calls it wrong

Couldn't happen to a nicer paper

Spiderman controller

$20 is too cheap for a good controller, but it sure looks crazy

Fort Funston weather

webcam and wind readings

radio clock for most of North America

2004-07-05 ham-radio • standard • time

RSS Fedex tracking

This is a very clever hack

2004-07-05 .imported • commerce • fedex • feeds • geekery • interesting • rss • software • syndication • tools • web

Someone's writing a full OS in Python.

2004-07-05 computer • computers • design • development • opensource • os • programming • python • software • technology • unununium

Giant Robot in NYT

Wonderful Asian pop culture zine is making the bigtime

LeapSecond time geek

One man's quest for building perfect clocks

2004-07-05 clock • clocks • cool • geek • gps • internet • metrology • ntp • obsess • reference • time

Call from your computer to any phone in the world. About 1.5 cents a minute for most tech-friendly countries (via MetaFilter)

SF wind forecast

Ocean Beach webcam

iWindsurf.com - Ocean Beach Windcam

Bay Area wind pattern

Nice realtime map of which way the wind blows

2004-07-04 flying • kayak • paragliding • sailing • san • sanfrancisco • sf • surf • surfing • weather • wind

More kite flying tips

Another good description

Sun Dial bridge

crazy cantilever

$1 million or more in first round

2004-07-04 atom • feedburner • rss • vc

Feed parser 3.2

Now, with EBCDIC support!

2004-07-04 python

Funny little building toy (via Slashdot)

2004-07-04 art • cool • crafts • design • fun • games • lego • pixel • shopping • toy • toys

Voting machine activist

Voting machines are such an awful idea, why is anyone even thinking of using them?

Hussein statue lies

Yes, the toppling of the statue was completely staged. Not quite as bad as Jessica Lynch, but still very 1984.

Cute little Sinistar/Robotron like game. Wacky thing? It's in Java with OpenGL

As distinct from Roma gypsy

Oh the irony (via Zawodny)

2004-07-03 apple • design • freeware • gimp • graphics • mac • macosx • opensource • osx • photo • software

Rock Paper Saddam

Captioning hijinks. OK, it's actually pretty funny

2004-07-03 fun • funny • games • humor • humour • import • iraq • photo • photos • saddam • story

GTA: San Andreas

Various collected rumours and info (via Joystiq)

After VP Potty Mouth said "fuck", most papers wouldn't actually print the quote. (via BoingBoing)

MacOS process limits

Apparnetly you'r elimited to 100 processes on MacOS. How dumb. Here's how to fix it.

2004-07-03 dev • funny • mac • macintosh • safari_export

Kitelife Magazine - Sport Kite Competition Videos

Berkeley kite festival

July 31 / Aug 1 2004

2004-07-03 bayarea • berkeley • berkeley(city) • eastbay • event • fact_tree/cool_cs_stuff/berkeley_(city) • fun • kids • kite • sanfrancisco • travel

Where to fly a kite for maximum power

How to fly a kite

Best guide I've been able to find

2004-07-03 cometas • kite

Ocean Beach wind

iWindsurf.com - Ocean Beach Current Wind

2004-07-03 kite • oceanbeach • wind

Kite Aerial Photos

Kite Aerial Photography by Scott Haefner, cool panoramas. Good articles too.

2004-07-03 aerial • art • cool • diy • howto • kap • kite • kites • photo • photography • projects

YMCA Colin Powell

He's the construction guy (thanks Marc!)

ICE-Link iPod/car

Another option for plugging in an iPod to a car. Integration is a bit hacky

Ah, equal opportunity, thy name is smut

Sony mp3 criticism

The MeFi crowd is really unimpressed. Me too - I have 20+ gigs of MP3. Screw your ATRAC

Unholy mongrel gene manipulation

Altoids microgames

Weird clone of WarioWare (via Waxy)

2004-07-01 flash • game • games • gba • top

RSS screen saver

Remember when this was a $400 million dollar company? (via Zawodny)

2004-07-01 .net • blog • c • c# • csharp • development • feed • programming • rss • screensaver • windows

Hussein, no beard dye

Rumour was he dyed his beard for years.

jwz always gets the coolest photos