Nelson's Linkblog 2004-08

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Another source for the Unicode database, nice organization

2004-08-31 characters • encoding • entities • html • programming • reference • typography • unicode • utf-8 • webdesign • webdev

Liberated Games

Commercial games that have been given away by their creators (via Waxy)

2004-08-31 abandonware • download • downloads • free • freeware • fun • game • games • gaming • opensource • software

Voting backdoor

Diebold put a backdoor in their freakin' voting machines. Crooks. (via BoingBoing)

2004-08-31 activism • computer • democracy • election2004 • evil • evoting • fromirc • managment • politics • security • voting

Gay representative

Hypocrtite resigns. The comments here include a link to phone sex audio

2004-08-31 politics

MIT search: thesis

According to Google, my master's thesis is one of the top 10 theses from MIT :-)

Looks pretty nice

2004-08-30 api • development • flickr • photo • photography • programming • reference • rest • web • web2.0 • webservices

CoH: Statesman posts

Lead designer for the MMORPG regularly posts to the forums

Harry Potter slash

those crazy fans

2004-08-29 fic • hp • hpfics • hpsites

Who watches the watchmen? (via BoingBoing)

2004-08-29 bush • civil_liberty • court • freedom • government • law • liberty • news • political • politics • usa

Elegant visualization of the moon over the course of a month

Josh's Polaroid is a time travel machine. His photos are beautiful.

Cotati accordian fest

2004-08-28 music

XBox Fable review

Molyneux's new game. Good, but maybe not groundbreaking.

Just like it sounds (via Metafilter)

2004-08-27 bantown • collections • culture • emotion • gender • img • phixed • photo • posted • psychology • strange

Where is the shame?

Bob Herbert on the bizarro-world nature of the Bushies criticizing people on their Vietnam record

Flight 1047 blog

Information from Siberia airlines about one of the Russian flights that crashed (via Anil Dash)

2004-08-27 toblog

Dense data spoilers for City of Heroes

CoH hero logger

Wacky add on for City of Heroes cuts-and-pastes data out of your client so you can track statistics

Video without the American broadcasters bleating over it (via Waxy)

2004-08-26 bjork • download • movies • music • olympic • olympics • video

Virtual worlds syllabus

Castronova gets to teach his course, sure looks like fun

2004-08-26 -imported • 104 • books • courses • games • mmogs • mmorpg • reference • terranova • virtual_environments • virtualworlds

Winamp worm exploit

Nice analysis (via Slashdot)

Fantasy novel HOWTO

Your guide to cliche

2004-08-26 books • fantasy • fiction • fun • funny • howto • humor • humour • literature • novel • writing

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Tracking the All Your Base Meme with Usenet

Weird character encoding

Search belt buckle

This is downright silly! But quite cool.

2004-08-25 funny • geekery • tech

the latest extreme sport (via MetaFilter)

2004-08-25 firediving • internet_fads • urban_legends

Olympic medal metal

They use real gold, silver, bronze

I love bees GPS visit

A phone rang, that is all. (via Waxy)

2004-08-25 best • bestest • fun • geek • hipster • tech

Tricks of the trade

funny on the Morning News (via kottke)

2004-08-25 business • fun • funny • howto • humor • interesting • jobs • reference • tips • tricks • work

There now Forterra

Stupidest company name ever now changed. And they got more money!

Olympic TV on the net

Andy rounds up the ways you can watch the Olympics via the Internet

2004-08-25 downloading • nntp • olympics • p2p • usenet

I learned in the SFChron today that these images are montages of little strips

I love bees GPS event

This Halo marketing thing really seems quite clever

2004-08-23 misc

Vegas lightning

Nice photo of a Wynn tower being struck

ChowNAT: TCP between two NATs

Clever hack that takes advantage of leaky UDP routing with NATs. (via muxway)

2004-08-22 nat • net • network • networking • p2p • perl • programming • security • software • sysadmin • tools

And how to find them via their computer activity

Mark Fletcher on how starting a company involves progressively giving up responsibility

2004-08-21 biz • blog • business • career • company • industry • job • reading

Yahoo! News - World Photos - AP

2004-08-21 origami

Actual MD5 collision

download the example if you want

2004-08-18 crypto • cryptography • cryptology • encryption • fun • geek • imported-ie-favorites • javascript • md5 • network • security

Some great pictures of the construction of the world's biggest bridge (via Metafilter)

2004-08-18 best • millaubridge • photography

Website of Chinese man with freakish hair growth

See, I wasn't kidding about the synchronized diving

Fbucks VGA ratings

Chart of FPS / $ for various video cards

Cute little toy physics game (via Metafilter)

2004-08-17 flash • flashgame • free • fridayflash • fun • game • games • geek • jeux • online • web

Survival time on net

Graph of how long an unpatched Windows box survives on the Internet (via Slashdot)

2004-08-17 hacking • internet • network • networking • security • sysadmin • technology • top • web • windows • xp

Child Pimp and Ho

Costumes (via Sutter)

2004-08-17 amusing • crazy • culture • fun • funny • humor • kids • weird • worldwideweird • wtf

Swallowing iridium

Don't do it. (via BoingBoing)

2004-08-16 curio • evil • funny • geek • geekery • humor • metallurgy • physics • science • weird • writing

Olympics link policy

From the 'information wants to be free' department (via inbetween)

2004-08-16 blogmarks • copyright • fuckwittery • humor • interesting • olympics • opensource • rights • trademark • web • website

How to tie a tie

Surprisingly useful little website (via delicious)

2004-08-16 business • clothes • clothing • fashion • howto • life • lifehacks • reference • tie • tips • tutorial

Bible fragrances

Smell like the world of the Bible! I think they mean the frankincense and myrrh part, not the pestilence and dung

2004-08-16 bible • health • medical • oil

Microsoft report rectify

Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - How History Gets Twisted

Olympics schedule

Decent infodesign in an otherwise awful site

2004-08-15 *reference • sports

Nimoy / Baggins

A music video that should have been lost forever

2004-08-14 2k6 • bilbo • fun • funny • geek • humor • music • nimoy • pre • video

Elektronik Supersonik

Music video from the future past

2004-08-14 flash • fun • funny • humor • movie • music • supersonik • video • videos • weird • zlad

Really, really gay

Olympic spectacles are an art genre to themselves

Giant photo (via Kottke)

2004-08-14 aerospace • flying • general • image • photography • satellite • transportation

Urquhart interview

One of the best RPG authors talks some trash

Tristan da Cunha

Newspaper for a remote island (via BoingBoing)

2004-08-13 cyberculture • digitaldivide • islands • liminal_places • lol • news • odd • travel

Kiteboard hurricane

This guy's a freakin idiot

Craig on Craigslist

craigblog: eBay and craigslist

2004-08-13 -imported • business • commerce • community • ebay • markets • news • people • socialsoftware • vc

eBay / Craigslist

25 percent investment

RIP Julia Child

WashPost critique

Not exactly a retraction, but an admission their pre-war Iraq coverage sucked

2004-08-12 criticism • debate • empire • iraq • oif • politics • press

Livejournal continues to be creepy

Microsoft / Nintendo

Slash art from Fark

2004-08-10 blog • fark • humor • photoshop

Email disclaimers

Yes, they're idiotic. They're also apparently not real.

2004-08-10 article • email • fallo • geek • imported • info-archives • law • legal • mail-documents • work

Robotic mission approved (via Slashdot)

Javascript demos

Ridiculous technical demonstration

2004-08-10 dhtml • geek • javascript • tech • web

2004-08-10 collection • design • fun • geek • geekiness • images • interesting • photography • retro • shopping • watches

Mozilla bugfix timeline

32 hours to fix a security hole

2004-08-09 apps • blog • firefox • foss • internet • mozilla • opensource • security • software • tech • web

Refer to a list comprehension inside itself. How evil!

2004-08-09 comprehension • cookbook • help • list • listcomprehension • listcomprehensions • locals() • programming • python • trick

SciAm on Voynich

One of the fun crypto puzzles, may turn out to be gibberish (via CryptoGram)

2004-08-09 language • safari_export • script • voynich

MHTMLRedir.Exploit

Some #$(*#$ website just threw this at me in a banner ad

2004-08-08 security

Get away from it all

Hugely crowded Korean beach

Pitcairn Island

Just now reading "Serpent in Paradise", it's creepy

2004-08-08 favorites • holidays • interesting • island • islands • language • pitcairn • travel • unfiled • world • турызм

30 mile stiched-together photo of SF (via Sutter)

2004-08-07 architecture • art • gis • good • panorama • photo • photography • sanfrancisco • sf

Some old friends of mine finally tie the knot after 25+ years

Use a kite to haul the line out

Old art form, not many samples left

or evil clones?

'lez': 12 points

Yahoo! News - 3-Letter Word Sparks Scrabble Scramble

Live HTTP headers

2004-08-06 development • extension • extensions • firefox • headers • http • mozilla • programming • tools • web • webdev

Directed by Aronofsky!

SUVs illegal on streets

In California 6000 pounds is the usual limit for residential streets (via MetaFilter)

2004-08-05 activism • business • california • car • health • la • law • news • planning • politics • suv

Yeah. Stick it. There.

Bush menaces the public with corn

Lesbians kill grandma

Just like the movies!

Goldschlager gold

How Much is Inside Goldschlager? (via Waxy)

2004-08-04 alcohol • booze • cockeyed • food • fun • geek • humor • liquor • money • science • vroom

Giant gypsum crystals

I saw a cave like this in Eastern Germany. It was really boring.

2004-08-04 strange

Squeezebox display

New bitmapped display for this great MP3 player

Good ol' crude president (via MetaFilter)

2004-08-04 aanm_resource • audio • fun • funny • general • history • humor • lyndon • politics • subj-politics • usa

Ultima reminiscence

Another fan inspired by the Ultima Classics collection (via muxway)

2004-08-01 games • tl • ultima