Nelson's Linkblog 2005-06

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Magic hidden device settings

Christians for sale

Jesus oriented marketing lists (via Metafilter)

Fashion accessories for your rainbow party (via ...)

2005-06-30 crafts • jewelry • recycling

John Maeda Flickr

I love that Flickr lets interesting people post simple snapshots

2005-06-30 design • flickr • images • john • maeda • photo • photography • photos • shapes • story • stream

War casualty map

Google Maps app that shows where soldiers who died are from

2005-06-30 casualties • gmaps • google • googlemaps • iraq • map • maps • military • politics • reference • war

"Rainbow Parties"

I can't believe anyone believes this is actually true

Microsoft Gator?

Interesting rumour

Show and tell music

Great collection of weird records (via BoingBoing)

2005-06-30 art • covers • design • funny • history • humor • images • music • records • retro • vinyl

Scientology free zone

Who knew the CoS had heretics?

2005-06-30 scientology • trivia

Detached (retina)

2005-06-30 *read • *to-read • art • comics • fun • funny • health • medical • toread • webcomics

Linux on the NSLU2

Hacking a little Linksys NAS box to be a more general server

2005-06-30 embedded • hack • hacking • hacks • hardware • linksys • linux • nas • networking • nslu2 • storage

Chappelle plays WoW

2005-06-30 4gwen • articles • chappelle's • davechappelle • games • of • show • warcraft • world • wow • www

Flickr + Google Earth

See geotagged photos in the Google Earth viewer

2005-06-29 api • cool • flickr • geo • google • googlemaps • hack • hacks • howto • maps • photos

Bizarro Spanish/English hybrid native to Gibraltar

rsync based backup tool, very nicely put together

2005-06-28 admin • backup • linux • opensource • osx • perl • rsync • software • sysadmin • tools • unix

Gibraltar runway

Is the only road into Gibraltar really across a runway?! (via Google Sightseeing)

Michael Jackson NES

MJ owns all NES games (via Waxy)

2005-06-28 animation • flash • fun • funny • games • humor • music • nintendo • retro • video • weird

Atom and RSS users

Different demographics. odd.

2005-06-28 2read • atom • blogisphere • comparison • mycomments • radar • rss • syndication • traffic • unread • via:revgeorge

Strawberry Shortcake

on LSD (via Metafilter)

A friend of mine blogs about her first time visiting France. It's really great stuff.

2005-06-28 blogs • friends

Barbary apes run wild in Gibraltar, an unusually funny NYT article

Some good advice

2005-06-27 battlefield2 • bf2 • ea • games

Dynamic yield curve

Quick historical visualization of interest rates

2005-06-27 bonds • business • curve • economics • economy • finance • investing • realestate • reference • yield • yieldcurve

One button games

What you can do with limited UI (via Slashdot)

2005-06-27 button • design • flash • game • gamedesign • games • gaming • interaction • interface • programming • ui

breaking news, right here on the linkblog

A falling dream

Hypnotic Flash art, mildly NSFW. (via Waxy)

2005-06-27 animation • art • cool • flash • fun • funny • game • games • humor • physics • weird

More options for putting storage on the network

Linkstation NAS

From Buffalo; add a hard drive to your network

2005-06-26 50quid • bue • hardware • home • linux • mp3 • msc • network_hd • tech • wireless

Shirky on ontology

Clay writes up some excellent talks

2005-06-26 article • classification • del.icio.us • folksonomy • metadata • ontology • shirky • tagging • tags • taxonomy • web

all you need to know about the game

2005-06-26 battlefield • battlefield2 • bf2 • fps • games • gaming • guide • pc • tips • tricks • wiki

QStat game stats

Query various FPS game servers for stats in real time

2005-06-26 .imported • development • download • game-info • games • jeux • monitoring • quake2 • reference • software • todo

The game is pretty open to modding

2005-06-26 battlefield2

BF2 Commander docs

Great game, but has almost no documentation. Here's how to play commander.

2005-06-26 battlefield • battlefield2 • bf2 • games • gaming • guide • technerd

BF2 Game monitor

Tracking server behaviour

2005-06-26 bf2 • game • games • multiplayer • online • search • server

Iraq war fatalities

Very effective visualization - wait for the Flash (via MetaFilter)

2005-06-26 animation • flash • history • iraq • map • maps • news • politics • statistics • visualization • war

U.S. Attorney General on Yahoo! News Photos

Dogs At Work And Play on Yahoo! News Photos

Missing N.J. Boys Found Dead on Yahoo! News Photos

bodytag: web art

Nice collection (via ckline)

2005-06-25 art • css • design • dhtml • flash • java • javascript • processing • programming • web • webdesign

Video game boss rant

2005-06-25 read_later

Scientology brainwash

Doing the job on Katie Holmes (via Waxy)

2005-06-24 celebrity • conspiracy • funny • gossip • katieholmes • media • news • people • scientology • tomcruise • weird

Wikipedia disputes

Some of the formal way they deal with controversy

2005-06-22 wikipedia

BF2 hardware guide

Battlefield 2 sets a new high bar for system performance

2005-06-22 computing • gaming

turasantana.com

She has a website!

2005-06-21 b-movies • cinema • fame • film • groovy • movies • people • retro • russ_meyer • trashy • vintage

Bram on Avalanche

BitTorrent author comments on latest MS announcement (via Waxy)

2005-06-21 articles • avalanche • bittorrent • blog • internet • microsoft • network • p2p • rant • software • technology

Barcena volcano

Volcano in the middle of nowhere, off Baja

Edsac Simulator

retro computing goes way back (via Make blog)

2005-06-21 computer • computers • creative_computergame • edsac • emulation • game • games • hardware • history • os • software

Credit card markets

Great NYT piece on how stolen credit cards are marketed

2005-06-21 blackmarket • business • ny

Sawzall from Google

New systems paper from Google

2005-06-21 data • database • distributed • google • language • mapreduce • paper • parallel • programming • research • sawzall

Kite photog on Flickr

Big pool (via mathowie)

MIni-stream RM to MP3

Simple converter software, supports batch translation

2005-06-20 audio

Software that makes it relatively painless to covert RealAudio to MP3 on Windows

2005-06-19 audio • mp3 • music • radio • recorder • recording • software • sound • streaming • tools • windows

PhilG on Digital SLR

Good overview guide

2005-06-19 camera • cameras • canon • digital • howto • photo • photography • reference • slr • tips • tutorial

Good web startups

Bloglines founder on how to launch a web service company the right way

2005-06-19 advice • blog • blogs • business • entrepreneurship • ideas • marketing • startup • startups • stealth • web

WoW demographics

Random data (via amitp)

2005-06-19 blog • blogs • games • gaming • mmog • mmorpg • parc • research • social • statistics • wow

Majestik Magnificent

Michael Jackson's personal magician

5% of US smokes pot

2005-06-17 games • noisier • politics • rant • technology

Neal Stephenson NYT opinion piece on Star Wars

2005-06-17 cool • culture • geek • india • media • movies • nealstephenson • nyt • outsourcing • starwars • stephenson

wine-searcher.com

Good metasearch engine for wine stores

2005-06-16 comparison • food • merchant • price • reference • reviews • search • shopping • tools • vino • wine

Taraval Okazu Ya

Good sushi in the Sunset (via Merlin, Marc)

OpenSolaris comments

Careful what you put in your comments, coders.

2005-06-16 code • codetalk • comments • fun • grisanzio • opensolaris • opensource • source • sun • techie • unix

Autism and vaccines

Detailed and damning story about a link between mercury preserved vaccines and autism (via Metafilter)

2005-06-16 autism • autistic • cdc • coverup • education • health • money • politics • science • thimerosal • vaccination

Woman kept alive in hopes of saving baby

Squared circle posters

Collaborative Flickr project is now in print form

2005-06-16 biz • flickr • form • mapping • nifty • photo • photography • photos • poster • shopping • squaredcircle

Helvetica meditations

White paint takes on significance (via everyone)

2005-06-16 art • design • font • fonts • fun • helvetica • photo • photography • photos • type • typography

Anarchist Cookbook author retraction

Author regrets his own book (via Robot Wisdom)

Frayssinet resistance

I was wondering what this May 21, 1944 memorial was about

MJ sleeps alone

Um, good idea, dude

Nintendogs analysis

Great critique of a game design (via Waxy)

2005-06-14 blog • creativity • design • game • gamedesign • games • gaming • nintendo • nintendogs • social • videogames

So nice to have an open game architecture

2005-06-13 andreas • san

GTA: SA sex mod

Yay for the PC version!

2005-06-13 entertainment • fishmongers • fun • games • grand-theft-auto • gta • irc • mods • mods/outros • pc • tricks