Nelson's Linkblog 2004-09

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Slave Leia costume

Obsession with outre costume (via Memepool)

2004-09-30 <bagronken> • ukquake

"When NULL is not NULL" (via Eric Case)

2004-09-30 database • databases • db • development • gotchas • mysql • programming • reference • sql • tips • web

West Coast trail

Hike the entire length of the US

Kleptones interview

Took only five weeks to build the album! (via BoingBoing)

2004-09-29 art • bootleg • dj • interview • kleptones • mashup • music • remix

Bloglines - is it REST?

Sam Ruby points out that GETs shouldn't be state transforming.

2004-09-29 bloglines • flames • fun • http • programming • rest • samruby • soap • web • webservices • xml

2006 Olympic mascots

Man, these are ugly

Language popularity

Data mining Google and Craigslist to see what languages are popular (via Daily Python URL)

2004-09-28 coding • comparison • development • java • language • languages • popularity • programming • python • ruby • statistics

Marc on Bloglines API

Including Groovy samples. Cool stuff!

2004-09-28 api • blog • bloglines • groovy • java • programming • rest • rss • syndication • web • webservices

Men's fashion site (via NYT)

2004-09-28 fashion • forum • imported

Andy about clothes

Men's fashion site (via NYT)

2004-09-28 blogs • clothes • clothing • fashion • imported • men • reference • shopping • style • tips • wardrobe

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3

Demo is out today!

2004-09-28 free • games

Finally, a reason to have a stupid photomosaic (via BoingBoing)

2004-09-27 comedy • politics • wbs

Flickr investment

Esther ponies up. Her reasons are good.

2004-09-25 business • digital_life • dyson • esther • flickr • photo • photography • privacy • social • social-net • vc

Interesting spin on the Bush/Halo meme

2004-09-25 bush • lol • w

Unsolicited love story

Following a woman from Stockphotopia through her spam journey (via mathowie)

2004-09-25 advertising • funny • humor • humorous • humour • internet • marketing • photography • spam • storytime • web

Hiphopera dismantled

Waxy collecting sources for the Kleptones new album. I just ordered the Detroit Grand Pubahs albums.

2004-09-25 audio • cool • copyright • free • ip • kleptones • mashup • mashups • mp3 • music • queen

Sequel lookin good (via Anil Dash)

2004-09-24 games • warioware

Christine Linnenbach

She's running for supervisor in my district in SF. Met her campaigning, she's quite forthright.

Very sad story about how they can't release a new version of Watson after Sun bought it

2004-09-24 alameda • karelia • rich-client • sun • sun_d • watson • xblog

Python 2.4 highlights

Summary of the summary (via Daily Python URL)

2004-09-23 programming • python

Abu Ghraib torture

First hand account from a female victim

2004-09-23 abughraib • blogmarks • bush • civil • iraq • politics • prisoner • rumsfeld • torture • us • war

Bay area traffic

More data than TANN (via Zawodny)

2004-09-23 bayarea • news • traffic • useful

Transformers history

Mythology behind the awesome TV cartoon (via memepool)

2004-09-23 animation • cartoons • comics • fun • geek • history • reference • television • toys • transformers • tv

free software to split your copy of the Kleptones into multiple mp3s

2004-09-23 audio • freeware • license/gpl • linux • mp3 • music • opensource • software • tools • unix • windows

R.I.P. Russ Meyer

Faster, Pussycat is one of my favourite movies. (via Metafilter)

2004-09-23 obit

Really awesome mix / mash / plunderphonic. Seriously, it's good.

2004-09-23 audio • culture • download • free • hiphop • kleptones • mashup • mashups • mp3 • music • queen

Cheap kite photos

Old camera, 555 timer chip (via Slashdot)

2004-09-21 diy • hack • hacks • hardware • kite • photo • photography • photos • projects • tech • technology

Easily invoke shared libraries from Python

2004-09-21 c • c++ • ctypes • development • library • opensource • programming • python • software • windows • wrapper

MSNBC - Are poker %u2018bots%u2019 raking online pots?

2004-09-21 ai • bots • cards • cheating • culture • gambling • games • hack • internet • poker • robots

Sims 2 hostile code

Yet another game refusing to run if you have a virtual CD installed

AOL time passwords

They're offering RSA tokens to their users!

Google [nelson] images

Crazy diversity of pictures

Long look at Paul Crouch's Christian broadcasting empire

2004-09-20 media • news • religion • scams • via:mefi • words

Hurrican Ivan surfing

Monster wave (via kraneland)

2004-09-19 amazing • awesome • fun • nature • sports • surf • surfing • v-cool • video • videoclip • whoa!

Partial binding for a graphing package

2004-09-19 code • driver • grace • mouse • programlama • python • reference • software • visualization

1954 home computer

Fortran will make it easy to use! (via Metafilter)

2004-09-19 computer • computers • fun • funny • future • geek • history • hoax • humor • images • technology

Windward / leeward

Post-hurricane road destruction

Nice visualization of one user's spam (via Slashdot)

2004-09-18 email • fun • geek • graph • history • internet • mail • spam • tech • virus • web

Macaulay Culkin 4:20

Arrested for marijuana!

X server for Windows, phree!

2004-09-17 cygwin • free • linux • opensource • software • tools • unix • windows • x • x11 • xwindows

Safire says 'shiznit'

He's a right wing bastard, but his writing on language is fun.

2004-09-17 dialects • hiphop • humor • izzle • language • mainstream • onlanguage • safire • snoopdogg • square • williamsafire

why does Apple insist on making this difficult?

Hypontizing (via pb)

2004-09-17 art • artist • best • media • movies • politics • technology

Password software with lots of features. Could this be the one? (Thanks, Dave!)

2004-09-16 computer • firefox • password • passwords • security • software • tool • tools • utilities • web • windows

The Jefferson portrait is creepy

Marc Hedlund is blogging his experiences with Groovy, the Java oriented scripting language

2004-09-16 2do • 2read • article • groovy • java • programming • work3

Tajik air safety card

Alien infodesign (via BoingBoing)

2004-09-16 airline • aviation • cripes • foundimages • funny • humor • interesting • linkage • miscellania • safety • terrorism

Slapstick videos

Roundup of wince-inducing video snippets of people hurting themselves

2004-09-15 funny • ha • video

OpenTable promos

Now you can see which SF restaurants are having trouble filling seats!

Kryptonite locks broke

Open a bike lock in 30 seconds (via Metafilter)

2004-09-15 bicycle • bike • bikes • cycling • lock • lockpicking • locks • news • security • toread • wtf

This is a great little tool. Congrats on the new version!

Spam origin map

Cool data visualization (via Kottke)

2004-09-14 email • evil • fun • image • images • internet • mail • maps • spam • tech • web

Inside look at writing the story for a computer RPG

2004-09-14 doktorat • earmark • fable • games • gamescrit • writing

Me! At FOO Camp!

Great photo. But honestly, it's not that bad.

PhotoStamps retraction

Does someone really review every image submitted?! (via jwz)

2004-09-14 political • strange • tech

Matt Drudge is gay?

Silent PC Review

aggregates info on quiet PCs

2004-09-13 computer • computers • hardware • htpc • pc • quiet • reference • review • reviews • silent • tech

Homo Paul Crouch

What is it with televangelists with drag queen wives?

Hysterical story of a sub-par marketing person mishandling some PR

2004-09-12 business • disaster • marketing • pr • tech • theory_x • trends

Designer creation

Fashion for the ugly

Shadow president

Permanent snarl

2004-09-10 a • an • be • earbiter • fight. • he'd • in • yup

Fantastic generator application (via Sutter)

2004-09-10 color • colors • colour • css • design • generator • graphics • html • tools • web • webdesign

$3,000 for 20,000 PCs

Buy your zombie networks now! (via Slashdot)

2004-09-10 geek • news

Planetary fact sheets

Want to know how big a planet is?

2004-09-09 astronomy • creativity • fakten • fun • info • nasa • percents • planets • reference • science • space

1958 TV (via Waxy)

2004-09-09 funny • to-be-cleaned

Getting things done 2

Simple Wiki summary of the system. The book tells you why to work this way.

2004-09-09 gtd • howto • lifehacks • management • organization • productivity • reference • tips • tools • toread • wiki

Getting things done

Merlin on this self-help methodology. I've listened to the audiobook and found it helpful.

2004-09-09 43folders • article • blog • blogs • books • gtd • lifehacks • management • organization • productivity • tips

MySQL lost password

How to recover if you've lost the password

2004-09-08 linux • mysql • password • phpbb2 • recoverpassword • rescue • reset • root_password • softwareanddocumentation • weathercrap • webdev

Cheney warns a vote for Kerry is a vote for the terrorists. These evil men must be stopped.

2004-09-08 cheney • dumbfuck • election • news • politics • usa

Bush blowing bubbles

From the 1974 HBS yearbook

Nebraska State Fair

CoH teleport discuss

Helpful tips if you play the game

Quicken.com disaster

I can buy the software, but I won't be able to run it

Westwood Highlands

this is my neighbourhood

Handy Windows gadget to see where your system spends all its time when booting

2004-09-03 boot • bootvis • diagnostic • howto • software • startup • system • tweaks • utilities • windows • xp

Table tennis collage

Clever assortment (via Kottke)

2004-09-02 2004 • amusing • humor • olympics • photography • pingpong

Give in to your hate

Lovely stills from the RNC (via Zawodny)

5 Things / Burning Man

2004-09-02 #geeks • bman • burningman • clever • culture • devzero • funny • humor • lists • man • snark

Bush's fake ribbons

Smug mug posed for a photo wearing decorations he didn't earn (via MetaFilter)

2004-09-02 <nic0_o> • bush • gop • jenn.j • military • political • politics • ukquake • usa

Python datetime

I didn't realize Python had a standard library for temporal information

Swift boat lies

Amazing - people's names were used without permission to support the attack on Kerry (via MetaFilter)

2004-09-01 politics • swiftvets

Python ClientForm

Client side library for working with forms

2004-09-01 client • form • forms • html • http • opensource • parser • programming • python • testing • web

Eye milk snort squirt

This is what the Internet is all about

Fantastic RNC photo of your overlords

Hooters in India

American cultural imperialism at its finest. (via Fucked Company)

2004-09-01 humour • india

Free Java based MMOG

2004-09-01 community • free • fun • game • games • gaming • java • mmorpg • online • rpg • runescape

IKEA stampede deaths

"IKEA is known for simple, reasonably priced products"

Python/XML HOWTO

Handy little resource

2004-09-01 code • coding • development • documentation • howto • metadata • programming • python • reference • tutorial • xml

Guido on decorators

The great @ debate is now officially over