Nelson's Linkblog 2005-04

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Luxury travel experience, looks lovely

Judicial sabotage

The extreme right's attempts to neuter the courts is really frightening

2005-04-23 funny • politics • scary

Small Values of Cool: Windows system tray icons with Python (via Daily Python URL)

2005-04-22 coding.python • gui • library • programming • python • systemtray • tips • toread • trayicon • win32 • windows

Uncooked finger

What's worse than finding a finger in your chili? A raw finger.

Kleiner Perkins hires Bill Joy.

Next generation tiny digital Canon. I'm feeling envy.

2005-04-21 <darren_> • camera • canon • canon+sd500 • digitalcameras • ixus • photography • review • shopping • ukquake

New blog from the guys at O'Reilly. Looks really great so far. (via mathowie)

2005-04-21 blog • blogs • daily • news • oreilly • programming • software • tech • technology • web • web2.0

Hysterical read on the Adobe/Macromedia press release

2005-04-21 adobe • blog • business • design • fun • funny • humor • macromedia • news • pr • software

Xybernaut meltdown

Wearable computer company fires its CEO and COO

Best computer game ever is looking good on the PC

"Titanic in Space"

Right there, sums up why the new Star Wars movie will suck (via Metafilter)

Snap stats page

Revenue graph shows about $200/day

2005-04-19 advertising • adwords • clicks • cpc • eigenbedrijf • meta • reporting • search • statistik • stats • transparency

Crazy Zurich tradition (via Douwe, Ken)

Artificial languages

Game designers make up languages

2005-04-19 gaming • language • ludology

GameStop + EBGames

The only two US retail game outlets are merging

Adobe + Macromedia

Wow, huge news (via Niall)

2005-04-18 [en] • adobe • business • flash • fusion • it • macromedia • news • software • web • wow

Dell 1900x1200 LCD

Matt likes his new monitor

2005-04-17 awesome • buy • dell • lcd • monitors

Reprogram the car

On building CodeZoo

Thoughtful essay about launching a new web site / service

2005-04-15 article • business • code • design • development • programming • software • toread • web • webdesign • webdev

It's not always so simple

Awesome comic from Half Life 2 screenshots (via BoingBoing)

2005-04-14 blogs • cartoons • comic • comics • cool • game • games • gaming • toread • webcomic • writing

Bad marketing tie-ins

Lucasfilm has totally lost all shame (via BoingBoing)

2005-04-14 @email • cerealbox • endoresement • fantastic4 • funny • humor • jedi • marketing • marvel • smacks • superhero

Binary Flow 64k demo

This is jawdropping

Favourite demos

From someone who liked aether (via Waxy)

Myoclonic twitch

One of the many things you'll learn reading Ask Metafilter

2005-04-14 body • science • words

Planes in flight

Google Sightseeing » Blog Archive roundup of satellite images of flying planes

2005-04-14 airplanes • aviation • big_optics • fun • google • googlemaps • map • maps • misc • travel • web

Flickr architecture

Slides from a talk last September

2005-04-14 architecture • database • design • development • flickr • mysql • php • presentation • tagging • tags • web

More like a music video than a tech demo, but beautiful (via Waxy)

2005-04-13 3d • demo • graphics • tosee • video

iPod shuffle hack

Get rid of the need to use iTunes

2005-04-13 apple • hacks • ipod • itunes • mac • mp3 • music • python • shuffle • software • tools

Xbox Jade Empire

Looks like another winner from Bioware

Trying to raise money? Leave the fingernail clipper at home.

2005-04-12 links • omg • pitching • presentationskills • vc • venturecapital

First person account of being sent to a teen reeducation camp (via MeFi)

2005-04-11 abuse • blog • blogs • bootcamps • daily • interesting • read_later • story • storyblog • underholdning • youthcamps

Finally someone's going to build a link

2005-04-11 bmw • cars • ipod • shopping

Long Line Flickr

clever photo type (via Waxy)

2005-04-11 art • collaborative • flickr • fun • group • photography • photos • play • software

Grove Street Flickr

GTA3 screenshots, plus a funny map (via mathowie)

2005-04-11 cj • flickr • games • grandtheftauto • grovestreet • gta • humor • humour • photos • sanandreas

WinXP thumbnail size

You can tweak the size of the thumbnails in the folder view

2005-04-10 pc • tips • todo • windows • xp

Richardson mag NSFW

Arty porn; associated with Terry Richardson

2005-04-09 art • culture • design • fashion • flash • magazine • magazines • photo • photographer • photography • sex

Windows DPI setting

Override Windows' idea of your display's DPI

2005-04-09 hacks • nelson • xp

Going to try this new place for delivery. The review cracks me up.

2005-04-09 quick_post

KotOR2 restoration

Fan project to restore the missing content.

KotOR2 missing parts

Great game, shame they had to cut some bits at the end

2005-04-08 content • easter • game • games • gaming • hidden • information • kotor • kotor2 • missing • mods

Py web programming

Argument that the Python community needs to step up and improve things (via Daily Python URL)

2005-04-08 article • development • php • programming • python • rails • ruby • scripting • toread • web • webdev

Google sightseeing

Collecting interesting images from the satellite maps (via Waxy)

2005-04-07 blog • blogs • cool • fun • google • map • maps • photography • photos • satellite • travel

Licks to get to center of a tootsie pop?

Google Search: how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

No need to read Tolkein's epic, this is all you need (via Metafilter)

2005-04-07 books • fandom.lord.of.the.rings • fantasy • fun • funny • humor • post • reference • sf • tolkien

Giraffe confusion

How many are there? I guess giraffe colouring really is camoflauge

Google maps, in the real world

What you see from the ground when someone makes a map

2005-04-07 blogworthy • funny • google • googlemaps • humor • humour • keyhole • maps • photos • realworld • tech

Cornering WoW market

Stuff like this is fascinating (via Slashdot)

2005-04-07 auction • design • economics • economy • games • market • mmorpg • money • world • wow

Complex electronica, etc. Onkyo movement.

2005-04-06 experimental • imported • improv • japan • jazz • label • labels • mp3 • music • noise • static

Merlin Mann interview

Very insightful discussion

2005-04-06 43folders • gtd • hacks • interview • interviews • lifehacks • merlinmann • people • productivity • read • toread

Congratulations to Marc et al on the launch!

2005-04-06 code • dev • development • free • java • opensource • oreilly • programming • reference • search • software

Not rumour, straight from the company

2005-04-06 ads • atom • business • feedburner • feeds • ideas • rss • statistics • svw • toread • vc

go to McDonalds, blog about it.

2005-04-06 blogging • blogs • branding • dinheiro • fastfood • food • marketing • mcdonalds • planetfeedback • restaurant • restaurants

America stand as one

A rock anthem (via Metafilter)

mathowie's childhood

As seen on Google Maps, annotated in Flickr

2005-04-05 annotation • cool • flickr • google • google_maps • ideas • interesting • map • maps • memory • memorymaps

Nasty sounding shareholder lawsuit (via ...)

2005-04-05 groove • rolandtanglao • startingabusiness

Toothing was a hoax

The common sense test apparently no longer applies (via BoingBoing)

2005-04-05 26 • bluetooth • culture • funny • harhar • hoax • sex • tech • toothing • wasting.time • web

2005-04-04 humor • podcasting

GTA:SA car speeds

Some nut took a stopwatch to all the cars in the game

Everyone love pictures of cats. And squared circles.

2005-04-03 cat • fun • photo

Republic of Minerva

Failed attempt at an artificial country

2005-04-03 geography • history • imported • micronation • micronations • minerva • politics • reference • wiki • wikipedia

The Old Negro Space Program (via Another Word for Nerd)

2005-04-03 culture • film • funny • history • humor • movie • movies • parody • satire • space • video

Don't flip the shot

Right arm, left arm, what's the difference? (via Marc)

Copyright nonsense

Clay Shirky can't rip a DVD of his own talk

2005-04-01 content • copyright • drm • economics • freeculture • intellectualproperty • law • media • politics • rights • stupid