Nelson's Linkblog 2005-05

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Audi + Spinning rims

= racial discomfort on the Audi forums

Game controllers

Evolution of the hardware interface (via Waxy)

2005-05-28 console • controller • design • game • games • gaming • hardware • history • reference • retro • videogames

"Invited to Iraq"

Astounding (via Metafilter)

2005-05-28 goodies • govt • iraq • news • politics • propaganda • war • whitehouse

Virtual objects

Looking at Magic: The Gathering as inspiration for MMOs

Freakin hysterical (via Waxy)

2005-05-28 funny • game • games • gaming • geek • humor • lost • television • tv • zork

Happy Birthday!

awesome comic (via Metafilter)

2005-05-27 birthday • comics • morbid

Potemkin pothole

Governator, adding value

Some sort of TV streaming service

2005-05-26 general-tv

Random streaming video, kinda cool (via Metafilter)

2005-05-26 articulos • blog • channels • free • humour • internet-tv • mp3 • tv • useful • web • winamp

Bacon flavoured beer

Rauchbier (via Marc)

2005-05-26 .imported • alcohol • beer • eats • food • meat • sf

"gaga over google"

2100 results, maybe this phrase is overplayed?

Learning to write

Charming story about a friend's kid learning to write

2005-05-25 baby • child • language • learning • mind • phonics • word

Phil Spector's hair

He had this done specifically for the trial.

2005-05-25 crime • fame • linkblog • media • music • wack

Gamegal's hall of shame (via Slashdot)

2005-05-24 biates • computer • funny • games • gaming • geek • jogos • m • photo

Merlin on Canon A95

Nice camera review

2005-05-24 43folders • a95 • camera • cameras • digital • friends • interesting • matty'sstuff • photo • photography • reviews

Flocking paragliders

Gamers' manifesto

Righteous rant (via MetaFilter)

2005-05-23 article • design • fun • funny • game • games • gaming • humor • manifesto • rant • videogames

Sexy food in Paris

charming piece (via Marc)

2005-05-22 chocolate • food • food.paris • markets • paris • restaurants • shopping • travel • travel.paris

Python implemented in Python

2005-05-22 comp.lang.python • dwurzyg • nativecode • oop • programming • programming.python • programming.python.tools.fasterthanc • project • pypy • python • software

Rosie O'Donnell Flickr

2005-05-21 actors • art • celebrities • celebrity • flickr • photography • photos • rosie • rosieo'donnell • rosieodonnell • themuy

Worst company name ever

2005-05-21 bookmarksfordaviddodge • david • horticulture • horticulture&gardening • irrigation

Joel learns that Wall Street brokers know more than he does

2005-05-21 blog • bonds • economics • finance • improvement • interessantes • investing • investments • money • stufftoread • toread

2005-05-20 nsfw

Simple list of all the GBA ROMs

2005-05-19 delivery • food • indian • local • pizza • restaurant • sanfrancisco • sf • sfo • vegan • via-nelson

I bent my Wookiee

2005-05-18 2005 • 2005-05 • bent • capture • pause • quote • screen • simpsons • still • video • wookie

E3 is overwhelming, but here's a good one

2005-05-18 civilization • discussion • fun • games • gaming • strategy

Goodbye, Chef Charlie

He's an amazing chef, both culinary and logistic.

2005-05-18 chef • cooking • google • heh

Rusty amusement park

Great photos (via BoingBoing)

2005-05-17 abandoned • amusement • architecture • art • cool • japan • park • photo • photography • photos • rollercoaster

Slave Leia pet costume

Buy, buy, buy! (via Metafilter)

2005-05-17 costume • disturbing • dogs • fun • funny • leia • pet • pets • shopping • starwars • wtf

Trusting Quicken

or not (via Zawodny)

2005-05-17 bah • lessons • money • morons • quicken

Star Wars on BT?

Waxy thinks this isn't real, but it's only a matter of hours either way

2005-05-17 bittorrent • episodeiii • georgelucas • hunt • p2p • peer2peer • sith • spy • starwars • starwarsiii • torrent

Puzzle Pirates review

Been hearing good things about this game for awhile..

Dan Gillmor's new enterprise

2005-05-16 bayarea • bayosphere • blog • citizenjournalism • drupal • internet • journalism • media • news • sf • technology

Wine shipping opening

Stupid state laws are found unconstitutional

Hellgate: London hype

The team that did Diablo is starting to show their new game around

I may stop linking to Yahoo photos, their new UI is so bad

Have an idea, someone's already done it

Animated graffiti

Flash animation, music (via Metafilter)

2005-05-14 animation • art • cool • design • flash • fun • graffiti • stencil • streetart • urban • video

Web page thumbnails

Sounds like Firefox 1.1 will make this easy. But does it require an X server still? (via kottke)

2005-05-14 canvas • extension • firefox • gecko • image • javascript • mozilla • programming • screenshot • web • xul

Taking Flash out of most of Flickr (via everyone)

2005-05-14 ajax • cool • design • dhtml • flash • flickr • html • javascript • photos • web • web2.0

Attracting developers

Man, this is a great summary

2005-05-14 api • article • business • design • developer • development • marketing • openapi • platform • programming • web

Finger owner found

Owner is not Wendy

Guild Wars review

Very positive, everyone I know loves this game

Stealth in MMOGs

Game balance problems in PvP combat

We need bingo cards, too (via BoingBoing)

2005-05-13 blog • blogging • blogs • fun • funny • game • games • humor • humour • monopoly • web

People with superhuman abilities (via MeFi)

2005-05-12 antarctica • biology • everest • geek • human • humans • news • people • science • sports • via/drudgereport

Threat level scam

White House was telling Homeland Security to raise threat levels (via Metafilter)

2005-05-12 boo • bush • politics • terrorism • tom_ridge • twot

Google Maps UFO

Strange object caught in a Google map

2005-05-12 cool • fun • funny • google • googlemaps • map • maps • satellite • ufo • web • weird

Miss Manners headline

Too rad (via AxMe)

Wigglr stereo photos

Nice Flickr hack to show stereo 3d photos

BHG: Rise of Legends

Rise of Nations is the best RTS ever. Now they're back with an Arabian themed RTS. Looks awesome.

Far Cry / AMD64

First 64 bit PC game? (via GameTab)

No more Mother's Days

Waiter Rant is consistently entertaining

Dive into Greasemonkey

Mark's writing a new book?! (via Waxy)

2005-05-10 book • books • extension • firefox • greasemonkey • howto • javascript • programming • reference • tutorial • web

Are you managing z/OS (MVS) data centers? OS/EM is for you!

Fix corked wine

I'm skeptical, but interesting idea

History of sampling

Nice interactive visualization of who samples who (via BoingBoing)

2005-05-10 art • audio • cool • culture • hiphop • history • java • music • reference • sampling • visualization

Tension, partying

Lamest explanation ever for Chappelle's failure to make a third season

2005-05-09 humor • linkblog • tv

AJaX summit notes

Someone's blogging a techie meeting

2005-05-09 ajax • blog • development • javascript • programming • web • web2.0 • webdesign • webdev • xml • xmlhttprequest

nelson-blog.user.js

I have my own Greasemonkey script!

2005-05-09 cinema • css • extensions • film • firefox • greasemonkey • javascript • movie • telecharger • userscript

Plastic expression

Montage of a bunch of photos of a girl looking unchanging (via Metafilter)

2005-05-08 boingboing • expressionless • metafilter

Vonage: $200M raised

That's a lot of private capital

2005-05-07 auto • blog • blogs

Tim Bray brings up a very important web services topic

Wayne Rosing, fellow

One of my favourite folks from Google, now off to pursue his other passion (via Battelle)

2005-05-07 google • people • trend

Clever insight into the value of anchor text to search engines

2005-05-07 *clippings* • accessibility • f1omerida • google • internet • search • seo • webdesign • webdevelopment • writing • yahoo

Amazing. 20 years after HIV appears, now they want to institute rules against sperm donation.

2005-05-06 people • politics

Serious home theater

Fantastic film geek project (via BoingBoing)

2005-05-05 cool • design • diy • geek • home • hometheater • media • movie • movies • projector • theater

How lightsabers work

Surprisingly funny, particularly the "using at home" section (via Slashdot)

2005-05-05 fun • funny • geek • how • humor • lightsaber • science • scifi • star • starwars • technology

Madagascar migration

Folks moved 4000 miles from Borneo