Nelson's Linkblog 2005-01

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Very hard to find this online, but here are the actual updated docs

2005-01-31 database • devel • devel/python • docs • document • documentation • mysql • programming • python • reference • relational

Screenshots from a gnome warrior uprising

2005-01-30 amusing • culture • game • games • mmog • people • politics • protest • sociology • worldofwarcraft • wow

Lots of righteous anger in the comments

Profile of the psychoactive researcher (via Metafilter)

2005-01-30 drugs • health • interview • nyt • science • shulgin • subcultures

Venster: Py GUI

win32 + ctypes + small wrapper = tight little Windows apps

2005-01-30 api • ctypes • gui • lightweight • native • programming • python • to_evaluate • toolkit • win32 • windows

Python single .exe

Combine py2exe and NSIS to make a single small .exe for a Python program

2005-01-30 ctypes • executable • installer • programming • py2exe • python • singlefileexe • toread • win32 • windows • wxpython

Software workaround for flaky memory

2005-01-29 .imported • computers • hacking • hardware • kernel • linux • memory • patch • ram • software • testing

What Mono is written in. Basic combined with fancy DirectX libraries

2005-01-29 3d • darkbasic • dev • development • game • gamedev • games • jogos • programming • software • tools

Mono shooter game

Clever and beautiful little free game

2005-01-29 art • cool • free • freeware • fun • game • games • gaming • shmup • videogames • windows

High school sex graph

Visualization of the recent study. But why is it almost exclusively heterosexual? (via BoingBoing)

2005-01-29 culture • graphic • health • humor • images • math • science • sex • sexuality • sociology • visualization

Great idea - cherry pick the beautiful random photos (via Eric Case)

2005-01-29 a9 • candy • flickr • photos

XPath visualizer

Looks like a nice little tool

2005-01-28 code • development • misc • programmingsystems • sidebar • xml • xmlprogramming • xpath

Cheney warddrobe malfunction

Decides to dress cazh for Auschwitz

Spongebob ain't queer!

Surprisingly enough, the talking sponge isn't straight either.

AoE III designer intvw

Not only does it look great, they've got some good game ideas too

Disgruntled SOAP user

Funniest email ever. www-ws is a very dry web services standards discussion list

Conference spam

I still get invited to third tier conferences, four year after I left The Academy

Bosch action figures

Man, these are better than Kubricks (via jwz, boingboing)

2005-01-27 art • artist • bosch • cool • fun • gifts • sculpture • shopping • toys • weird • wishlist

Rag Doll Kung Fu

trailer video (via Gametab)

Astroturfing Ashlee

You think they'd be smart enough to use a different post in each forum

2005-01-25 ashleesimpson • ashleysimpson • astroturf • business • dog-eared • humour • marketing • music • simpson • spam • web

Firefox clone window

Fixes an obnoxious misfeature in Firefox

2005-01-25 extension • firefox • firefox.extensions • fodder • plugins • software • webdesign • webdev

he.net torrent tracker

Nice ISP service (via mathowie)

2005-01-25 bittorrent • hosting • hostingproviders/he • isp • p2p • podcasting • via:mathowie • web • webhosting

Comments from the folks fighting the fires

Very funky game, neat aesthetic (via Waxy)

2005-01-24 games • innovative • mac • retro • software • windows

Habbo Hotel: $23M

From Benchmark, no less

2005-01-24 business • community • quicklink • software • tech • vc • virtualworld • webapp

Clever hack for making movies of your computer screen (via evanm)

2005-01-24 flash • linux • python • recorder • screen • screencast • software • swf • tools • video • vnc

Someone bows out of the UO gold farming game, tells some stories. Follow the "farewell confessional" link too.

2005-01-23 blog.entry • gaming • geekery • gold • hackery • ultima • uo • virtualworlds

Traffic shaper and bandwidth monitor for Windows, nice per-app control

2005-01-23 bandwidth • computer • internet • monitoring • network • networking • software • tools • traffic • utilities • windows

Firefox: 5848 bugs

These are the ones marked as verified / assigned

Firefox: bookmarklet window on top

Bookmarklet windows are hidden in Firefox.. this is a three year old bug!

2005-01-23 del.icio.us • firefox • foss • meta

Firefox search width

Default box is too narrow; how to make it bigger.

2005-01-23 firefox • mozilla

Classic pixel art extracted and greenscreened for your convenience

2005-01-21 cg • design • free • games • graphics • img • miscellaneous • pixelart • resources • sprites

worth the scroll (via Metafilter)

2005-01-21 bunnies • bunny • cartoon • cartoons • comic • comics • fun • funny • humor • humour • suicide

Fox malreported

Poor Fox, they accidentally let someone criticize Bush (via Metafilter)

2005-01-21 bush • fox • foxnews • inauguration • iraq • media • news • politics • tv • video • war

Dell 2001FP: $570

Great price on a good LCD

Perils of using XHTML

Boy this is complicated. Can someone write "advantages of using XHTML"? I'm skeptical.

2005-01-21 css • design • development • html • reference • standards • web • webdesign • webdev • xhtml • xml

Cheney snowballed

Yahoo! News - Top Stories Photos - Reuters

2005-01-21 funny • j20 • photos • politics • republicans

Buy the Wish server

Shut down your MMOG, sell your 88 way blade system on eBay (via Terra Nova)

What is she wearing?

Laura Bush still fits into the bridesmaid dress from her cousin's wedding!

Dynamically draw beautiful charts for web pages

2005-01-20 chart • charts • flash • graph • graphics • php • programming • swf • web • webdesign • webdev

I forgot to get a photo of this in NZ; glad Gen did!

Election 2004 video

Nice edit agitprop (via Metafilter)

2005-01-20 bush-still-sucks • music • politics • usa • video • vote-fraud

Cute geography quiz (via Metafilter)

2005-01-20 darts • europe • flash • fun • funny • game • games • geography • map • maps • travel

Nice photos (via Metafilter)

2005-01-20 cool • dubai • fun • golf • photo • photos • sports • tiger • tigerwoods • whoa • woods

Nice analysis, including details of NAT traversal (via Slashdot)

2005-01-20 messenger • net • network • p2p • pdf • protocol • research • skype • software • sw • voip

Martian meteorite

Jonathan's business

Who would think such an awful aggressive nasty man would peddle new age spa crap?

She's posed for Playboy, and she's an artist!

Jonathan and Victoria

The worst couple of all time on reality TV has a web site! Awesome!

2005-01-20 amazingrace • reality • reality_tv • television

WinAmp/NES plugin

NotSo Fatso plays the NSF music files from NES carts

Zophar NES music

Archive of ripped NES game soundtracks

2005-01-19 8bit • audio • chiptunes • download • emulation • games • music • nes • nintendo • nsf • sound

WinXP error reports

How to disable them.. This is a really smart feature, but I choose not to participate

2005-01-19 annoyance • annoyances • computer • error • format • reference • reporting • tech • windows • winxp • workcomputerhacks

I didn't know this was in San Francisco! (via Metafilter comment)

Inside iPod Shuffle

A disassembly pictorial (via Waxy)

2005-01-19 apple • design • gadgets • hardware • ipod • ipodshuffle • mac • music • shuffle • tech • technology

WoW community mess

Employee of Blizzard gets too deeply into game, anti-gay statements

Thoughtful essay on the presence of gay and lesbian characters in games

2005-01-19 articles_and_random_stuff • games • gender

Cory doesn't go along

I wish more people were able to challenge the inanity of air travel today

2005-01-19 airlines • flight • news • politics • privacy • security • terrorism • travel • tsa • usa • weird

Hasselhoff recursion

The goggles! They do nothing! (via MetaFilter)

2005-01-19 animation • art • flash • fun • funny • hasselhoff • humor • humour • recursion • scary • weird

Justin's dark night

Justin Hall publishes video of him having a nervous break (via Sutter)

2005-01-18 blog • blogging • blogs • depression • emotion • heavy • justinhall • literature • media • video • web

Hong Kong photos

Astonishing images of high rises in HK. (via jwz)

2005-01-18 architecture • art • china • design • gallery • hongkong • images • photo • photography • photos • urban

Comics criticism

Josh Reads, funny blog (via MetaFilter)

2005-01-17 art • blog • blogs • cartoons • comic • comics • daily • fun • funny • humor • reviews

In case you lost this fact in the 60 minutes story (via Metafilter)

2005-01-17 awol • blogs • bush • intellectual-freedom • linktank • politics • scandal • services • war

Bill Gates / Teen Beat

What an awesome find! (via BoingBoing)

2005-01-17 billgates • computers • fun • funny • gates • geek • humor • microsoft • photo • photos • windows

Landover baptist reaches out to the gamer geeks

2005-01-17 crazies • ep14 • funny • games • gaming • humor • humour • mmo • religion • warcraft • wow

Sy Hersh gets the scoop, again

John Maeda blog

He finally succumbed! John's a great designer and excellent teacher.

2005-01-16 art • blog • blogs • design • inspiration • maeda • media • mit • simplicity • technology • usability

Hard drive enclosures

USB enclosures to have external storage

Bad Day (Snopes)

Aw, it's a fake

2005-01-16 <nic0> • fun • funny • humor • internet • malis • photos • pictures • steal • ukquake

amazing photo series

2005-01-15 fun • funny • photos • random • supplement • web • weird

Future of game design

Excellent piece of criticism about the future of game design. Lots of concrete examples. (via Joystiq)

2005-01-15 article • computer • design • gamedev • gamedev/design • games • gaming • software • spiele • videogames • writing

The end of shame at Lucasfilm

Prague taxi fraud

Same problem in Budapest

Albatross circumnavigation

I saw some of these in New Zealand, they're huge

A very sweet story (via Waxy, naturally)

2005-01-14 cute • followup • living • memory • newyork • nyc • perspective • sad • story

Upload a file of up to 20 gigs, let anyone download it. Lots of ads.

2005-01-14 30kb • fee • file • files • filesharing • hosting • net • sharing • tools • web • webspace

Emulation details

Great Gamasutra article about faithfully emulating the Atari 2600 (via Waxy)

2005-01-14 2600 • 8bit • atari • atari2600 • document • emulation • emulator • gamasutra • games • oldschool • retro

iPod shuffle review

Apparently it really is just like a normal USB drive

2005-01-14 .imported • apple • blogged • ipod • mac • mp3 • music • review • shuffle • software • tech

Blizzard pulls WoW

Rumour is they can't handle the load (via Waxy)

2005-01-14 commerce • games • gaming • mike • mmorpg • odd • rumors • via:joystiq • videogames • warcraft • wow

I don't get it, is this a parody? (via MetaFilter)

2005-01-14 apparel • clothes • clothing • comedy • culture • design • fashion • funny • hiphop • humor • street

Spyware investors

Reports on who is investing in user-hostile adware (via mathowie)

2005-01-13 business • computersecurity • corporation • ethics • internet • investing • list • politics • privacy • security • spyware

Shocking prince

Prince Henry learns that dressing like a Nazi is not a good idea

deepX quickrefs

Good single pagers for XML, etc

2005-01-12 cheatsheet • css • development • programming • reference • web • webdesign • webdev • xml • xsl • xslt

iPod shuffle handson

Sounds like it might still be a music jail (via Waxy)

.08 inches a year

That's how fast the sea is rising

2005-01-11 apple • design • gadgets • hardware • ipod • mac • mp3 • music • shuffle • technology • wishlist

$499, tiny, quiet

2005-01-11 apple • computer • computers • gadgets • hardware • mac • macmini • mini • tech • technology • wishlist

Aaron's Iraq roundup

2005-01-11 aaronswartz • america • iraq • opinion • politics • us • war • world

Call girl chatter

Guestbook chat between employees of a call girl service. (via BoingBoing)

2005-01-11 abuse • boingboing • callgirl • conspiracy • fun • insane • jizz • prostitution • sex • toht • weird

Ascension mail mixup

No mail to the small island in three months

WoW UI programming

What you need to know to write custom plugins for World of Warcraft

2005-01-08 documentation • games • interface • lua • mmorpg • programming • reference • scripting • ui • worldofwarcraft • wow

Elder Scrolls IV

Screenshots. The next wave of games is going to have really artistic rendering.

Get yer swerve on

Random phrase, awesome photo

Commie copyleft

The Aeroflot log is now my background (via BoingBoing)

2005-01-07 art • cc • copyleft • copyright • creativecommies • creativecommons • fun • graphics • logo • politics • wallpaper

Sharing Sims 2 objects can be unhealthy (via Slashdot)

2005-01-06 funny • game • games • gaming • hack • hacking • security • sims • social • technology • virus

Tom Delay shame

Fundamentalist nutball quotes the Bible to explain the tsunami

This is quite beautiful (via BoingBoing)

2005-01-06 art • cool • creativity • design • fun • games • geek • humor • humour • mario • nintendo

Napster on NASDAQ

$300M. How did they go out?

Pricing software

Joel on Software talks about how to set prices for software you sell.

2005-01-05 article • blog • business • economics • economy • management • marketing • money • pricing • sales • software

Half Life re-creations

amazing work (via BoingBoing, Waxy)

2005-01-05 fun • halflife2 • interesting • machinema • photos • pos-cool • projects • subj-games • vgames/general • vgames/psych • video_game_photography

2005-01-04 80s • 867-5309 • fun • funny • humor • interesting • jenny • music • phone • telephone • weird

Creative Muvo Micro

latest tiny flash player from Creative

2005-01-03 flash • mp3 • player

Play classic games by email; this service is at least eight years old!

2005-01-03 board • boardgames • email • game • games • gaming • network • online • pbem • rpg • tools

LCD dead pixel test

Images to help you spot dead pixels, very simple

2005-01-01 computer • dead • hardware • lcd • monitor • pixel • pixels • reference • test • tools • video

Users are thieves

Feeddemon, my favourite RSS reader, had a 90% theft rate last week (via Eric)

2005-01-01 blogging • feeddemon • internet • piracy • software • warez

Top 10 indie games

Nice list (via Slashdot)

2005-01-01 best-of • fun • game • games • gaming • independent • indie • list • software • videogames • windows