Nelson's Linkblog 2005-07

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Nintendo Database

Like IMDB, but for Nintendo

2005-07-31 classic • computer • games • nintendo • oldschool • reference • retro • videogames

Sprite scaling algorithm

2005-07-31 . • algorithms • game • games • graphics • image • images • opensource • programming • scaling • vis

Coolest shoe ad ever

Soccer in the Thunderdome

2005-07-30 ads • fussball • mov • werbung

Skype: $3 billion?!

Sure wish Cringely sourced his rumour

2005-07-30 business • cringely • dinheiro • ebay • internet • murdoch • newscorp • phone • skype • software • voip

PS: Torment full install

Some tweaks for modern systems

2005-07-30 full • games • install • planescape • the.nine.hells

NYT: Cats on the Web

2005-07-30 internet

Handy tool for managing your ssh-agent

2005-07-29 authentication • gentoo • howto • keychain • linux • security • software • ssh • ssh-agent • sysadmin • unix

Liberality for All

Turns conservatives and liberals into comic book characters (via Metafilter)

2005-07-29 art • bin-laden • comic • comics • culture • funny • liebrial • paranoid • politics • sean-hannity • stupid

Dad 'n Me Flash game

Great new game from the folks behind Alien Hominid

2005-07-29 flash • free • fun • funny • game • games • gaming • humor • web • webgame • webgames

6 yr old game designer

David helps his son program in Python

2005-07-29 children • education • funny • game • games • kids • learning • parenting • programming • python • tutorial

Adventure update

Atari 2600 classic, now with 3d graphics!

Beats the alternative

Shuttle "OK to fly home"

Swiss survival book

How to do basic stuff in Switzerland

2005-07-28 switzerland • travel • via-nelson

Lovely photo (via BoingBoing)

2005-07-28 africa • finance • gnaa • irc • travel

36,750 yen, wow! (via BoingBoing)

2005-07-27 "hello • *drool • *wishlist • chess • games • hello.kitty • hello_kitty • japanese • katg • kawaii • kids

Think of the children!

Grandma sues Rockstar

2005-07-27 gaming • stoopid

Shuttle bird strike

I'm in total fear of this everytime I land at KPAO

Pocketheaven/releases

Another comprehensive list of ROM pirate releases

2005-07-27 ds • emulation • gameboy • games • gba • nds • nintendo • release • releases • roms • videogames

Clever condom ads

About 2% of these could run in the US (via BoingBoing)

2005-07-26 advertising • art • commercial • condom • condoms • design • durex • fun • humor • photography • sex

Windows lockdown

MS working to enforce licenses

Konfabulator Komic

All startups should do an illustrated history of themselves

2005-07-26 apple • art • comic • comics • drawing • history • konfabulator • software • tools • widgets • yahoo

Unicode character DB

Canonical list of all characters in all writing systems

2005-07-25 ascii • categories • development • reference • unicode

Alternative to VNC, but more like an efficient X protocol

2005-07-25 desktop • linux • network • nx • proxy • remote • software • terminalserver • thinclient • vnc • x11

Minitru in action

US military mixes up quotes, raising questions on their credibility (via Metafilter)

2005-07-25 govt • iraq • media • middle-east • military • news • nwo • political • politics • propaganda • war

Top 50 game songs

Focussing on end-of-game songs. (via Waxy)

2005-07-25 audio • game • games • gaming • list • lists • mp3 • music • nintendo • retro • videogames

Colorimetric intent 2

There's always a second take on things

2005-07-24 colormanagement • photoshop

Colorimetric intent

Making your print look like what's on screen

2005-07-24 color • color-management • design-resources • photography • photoshop • resources • tutorials

Canon i80 ICC profiles

Who knew what SP2 or PR3 meant?

Debian and Ubuntu

Simple statement of the differences

2005-07-24 .imported • debian • software

Sandstorm patrol

Delicious Library

Physical to virtual bridge: scan books, DVDs, etc

100 oldest .com names

Registry records (via robotwisdom)

2005-07-24 .com • domain • domainnames • history • interesting • internet • lists • network • technology • web • whois

Must be fun being a sports photographer

2005-07-23 crash • diving • kunstspringen • sport

KAWF: PHP forum

I think audiworld.com uses this. Very light weight and clean UI.

Top selling games

Of all time.. different list than you expect (via VGO)

2005-07-23 business • computer • computers • game • game_sales • games • list • salesfigures • technology • videogames • wikipedia

Wikipedia charts

Various statistics on database growth

2005-07-22 ads • charts • graphs • metrics • reference • statistics • stats • usage • web • wiki • wikipedia

Bob the Millionaire becomes a pirate

Scroll down to the comic

2005-07-22 bittorrent • comics • copyright • download • fun • lost • media • p2p • piracy • tv • web

arty shoot-em-up by the guy who did QQQ (via Costik)

2005-07-22 art • cool • download • free • game • games • indie • news • programming • review • shmup

Nice images (via BoingBoing)

2005-07-21 art • competition • cool • design • gallery • images • photo • photography • photos • pictures • science

Hire contractors cheap. I keep hearing success stories here.

2005-07-21 business • career • coder • dev • freelance • job • jobs • outsourcing • programming • resources • webdev

The guy behind Hot Links makes a fancy social bookmarks site

2005-07-21 blog • bookmark • bookmarking • bookmarks • del.icio.us • folksonomy • social • tagging • tags • web • web2.0

Complete with pictures

2005-07-20 funny • games • geek • humor • irc • leetspeak • own • pwn • wikipedia • word • words

Source, not a target

Ho ho ho, that Rove sure is funny

Seen, not heard

Top games in Korea

Survey of PC-bangs. So different from popular US games!

2005-07-20 design • games • models • money

Tour de France Cuisine

What a great way to tour the culinary country! (via Marc)

Jython 2.2a1 release

New Jython is finally out! Well, an alpha.

2005-07-19 java • python

freenode irc channels

Where the cool geeks hang out

2005-07-19 irc • linux • sysadmin

Cleaning a dSLR

ways to clean the sensor

2005-07-19 camera • ccd • cleaning • digital • diy • howto • photo • photography • sensor • tips • tutorial

Free Culture, phree!

Lessig's book available for download

2005-07-19 book • books • copyright • creativity • drm • ebook • free • free_culture • law • opensource • teaching

GreaseMonkey hole

Whee! Greasemonkey lets anyone download files from your hard drive (via HotLinks)

2005-07-19 browser • extensions • firefox • greasemonkey • javascript • mozilla • news • security • software • web

Some notes from actual hands on usage. Momentum is building fast!

2005-07-19 coding • development • django • framework • frameworks • mobile • programming • python • web • webapp • webdev

Shop the States

Maildrop service to get stuff shipped outside the US (via Ask Metafilter)

2005-07-18 ebay • forwarding • international • online • shipping • shop • shopping • states • tools • usa • web

Flickr meta HTML

I was wondering where that text came from in Google searches

Harry Potter on NES

Fan-made game, looks awful (via Waxy)

2005-07-18 8bit • blog • cinema • game • games • harrypotter • review • snes • via:waxy • videogame • videogames

Hooter Shooters NSFW

Prosthetic booze breasts (via jwz)

2005-07-18 alcohol • drugs • fun • humour • sex • shopping • smut

Playing an Xbox 360

There are lots of 360s in the wild, particularly dev kits

2005-07-18 alisdair • games • hoax • microsoft • public • relations • technology • videogame • videogames • xbox • xbox360

First adult games for PSP (via robotwisdom, via Waxy)

2005-07-17 funny • japan • phone • porn • psp • reviews • sex • sony • toread • videogames • weird

Funny story, nice photo. Terro.

Photo editing software that corrects various common distortions

2005-07-17 camera • correction • distortion • freeware • photo • photography • photos • photoshop • plugin • software • tutorials

UFRaw Gimp plugin

Said to be the best way to work with RAW images in Gimp

2005-07-17 camera • gimp • linux • nikon • opensource • photo • photography • plugin • raw • software • tools

Funny debate on dpreview

Rumoured to be best Exif parser for Unix (Perl)

2005-07-17 exif • gps • metadata • opensource • perl • photo • photography • programming • software • tool • tools

Gimp preview sizes

Default is 150x150, but you can edit it

Photo exposure intro

Simple explanation of f-stop, shutter, ISO

2005-07-17 camera • digital_photography • howto • photo • photography • recommendations • reference • review • slr • technique • tips

Nikon D70 under Linux

Useful notes on using Gimp to work with RAW images

2005-07-17 d70 • d70s • gimp • howto • linux • nikon • photo • photography • raw • software • tools

"Learn Real Magick"

Witches recruit children via Amazon and Harry Potter

NAV activation bugs

AntiVirus software's online activation system is b0rked

Harry Potter e-book

Scanned and audio copies already available (via kottke)

2005-07-17 books • copyright • ebook • harry_potter • law • literature • news • p2p • piracy • sharing • web

Open source software for RAW images

2005-07-17 camera • digital • graphics • image • linux • opensource • photo • photography • raw • software • tools

Surveillance photo (via robotwisdom)

2005-07-17 77 • bombing • bombings • london • london_terrorists • news • photo • photography • surveillance • terror • war

CompactFlash perf DB

Someone's done careful timings of CF speeds in actual cameras

2005-07-16 camera • cf • compactflash • digital • hardware • memory • performance • photo • photography • reference • reviews

Django: PyWeb code

Maybe this will be The One? Python has really needed a better webapp framework.

2005-07-16 cms • development • django • framework • opensource • programming • python • rails • web • webdesign • webdev

Trinity test site

Eiffel tower fireworks

Bastille Day photo

2005-07-16 eiffel • eiffel_turm • foto • paris • photo

GTA/PS2 Hot Coffee

Cheat code unlocks the content

2005-07-16 games • gta3 • hacks • tutorial • video

Monitor based DRM

Longhorn to support "secure displays". Serious bullshit. (via /.)

2005-07-15 dlsq • downwardslide • drm • hardware • hdcp • longhorn • media • microsoft • stupid • ukquake

rms takes on rowling

Extreme orthodoxy vs. fun (via BoingBoing)

2005-07-15 books • canada • commentary • free_speech • harry_potter • harrypotter • potter • rights • rms • rowling • stallman

Bring back the couch

Yes, the new Daily Show set is awful (via mathowie)

2005-07-15 blog • blogger-new&interesting • blogs • comedy • dailyshow • funny • furniture • humor • mybookmarks • talkshow • tv

Sokoban JVM shootout

Implementing the same game in 9 JVM targeted languages

2005-07-15 comparison • groovy • java • jvm • jython • language • languages • programming • python • ruby • scripting

RSS 2.0 vs Atom 1.0

Tim breaks it down

2005-07-15 atom • comparison • feeds • programming • reference • rss • standards • syndication • web • webdev • xml

Awesome music machine (via Waxy, via BoingBoing)

2005-07-15 art • audio • cool • design • flash • fun • game • games • music • shockwave • sound

Santorum nuttiness

His communication director is gay. (via Metafilter)

2005-07-15 gay • politics

Choices for the EOS cameras

2005-07-14 350d • camera • canon • digital • eos • lens • lenses • photo • photography • review • reviews

London bomber images

Wearing a large backpack

2005-07-14 london • photo

Emulator / refresh for Total Annhilation

2005-07-14 3d • free • freeware • game • games • gaming • linux • opensource • rts • software • windows

The Fountain (2005)

Aronofsky's current project

2005-07-14 action • drama • film • films • movie • movies • romance • todo • towatch • usa • watched2006

Justin Frankel's latest code: make music online with friends

2005-07-13 audio • collaboration • community • internet • music • network • ninjam • p2p • social • software • tools

Wayback lawsuit

Excellent article; I had no idea robots.txt was retroactive

2005-07-13 copyright • fucked • idiocy • internet • internet.archive • internetarchive • law • lawyers • privacy • wayback.machine • web

Rockstar statement

Addressing the GTA sex controversy, they weasel out

Sweet story of a found photograph (mildly NSFW, duh)

Astronomy is cool

2005-07-13 analemma • apod • astronomy • moon • nasa • photography • science • science! • space • spam • wallpaper

DoJ publishes list of groups busted

GTA sex perspective

Someone finally points out how stupid worrying about sex in GTA is

2005-07-12 banned • freedom • gta • guardian • moral • sex • usa

KeyGhost keylogger

PS/2 dongle that records keystrokes

2005-07-12 hacking • hacks • hardware • keylogger • keystroke • logger • placid • security • surveillance • timeseries • tools

Nice luxury place in Ticino

Nice luxury place in Ticino

Nice luxury place in Ticino

2005-07-11 bastards • bush • ciagate • media • newmedia • news • plameaffair • politics • press • rove • whitehouse

Reasonable freeware burner, works better than Nero

2005-07-10 burning • cd • download • dvd • free • freeware • opensource • software • tools • utilities • windows

WinXP: DMA mode

How to force Windows to not use PIO mode

2005-07-10 annoyances • hardware • howto • imported • windows • xp • xpsp2

Miss World 96 Nude

Very freaky adult video game

2005-07-10 archive • aug10 • chipmark

ilovebees: buzzmakers

Article on the team who made the game. His June 2005 Game Developer interview is really great, but not online.

2005-07-10 scott_b

GTA: Hot Coffee

Home of the controversial GTA sex mod

2005-07-10 games • personal/patrickw

GTA: SA tracker

Track where people are playing Grand Theft Auto

2005-07-10 gta • sa

View your photos on your (hacked) Xbox

2005-07-10 flickr • freeware • gaming • hack • hacks • media • plugin • python • tech • xbmc • xbox

Now open to the public

2005-07-10 audio • blog • ipod • mp3 • music • odeo • podcast • podcasting • podcasts • web • web2.0

A lovely Steve, don't eat it!

2005-07-09 alcohol • blog • diy • food • funny • howto • humor • humour • prison • reference • wine

WoW: 10% are lvl 60

That's amazing, 10% of the characters in the game have maxed out

Males get spyware

more than females. "recreational surfing", no doubt

2005-07-07 adware • daily • research • security • spyware • surveys • via:hotlinks • web

LJ moods: drunk

Friday, Saturday night (via Waxy)

2005-07-07 blog • blogging • blogosphere • cool • humour • journal • livejournal • sociology • statistics • weird

Aerial shot of nude sunbathers (via BoingBoing)

2005-07-07 aerial • art • beach • boingboing • images • nsfw • nude • photo • photography • strange • weird

Emma: Java code tool

Measure your test coverage, works great

2005-07-07 code • coverage • development • java • junit • programming • software • test • testing • tool • tools

1UP actually talks to third world game labour (via Metafilter)

2005-07-06 business • culture • economics • games • gaming • mmorpg • money • news • technology • videogames • wow

Maps transparency

Google Maps API app that shows both views at once (via Kedrosky)

2005-07-05 ajax • api • cool • google • googlemaps • hack • hacks • map • maps • reference • tools

2005-07-04 art • blog • blogs • found • fun • humor • photo • photography • photos • retro • vintage

Amazing 1957 photo (via Metafilter)

Rollergirl names

(via Ask Metafilter)

Icy Hot Stuntaz

Wikipedia says they were sincere?!

2005-07-04 jason • memexmas • stuff

Land lines only

Stories from people who don't pay their phone company for anything

FireLite portable drives

Tiny portable hard drive, powered directly from USB/FireWire

2005-07-03 backup • drive • harddrive • hardware • ilifezone16 • mac • os • photography • portable • reel-stream • storage

Jorn Barger's life

Creative guy, but sounds like he found himself in a mess (via Metafilter)

2005-07-03 blog • blogging • blogs • google • history • homeless • jornbarger • people • robotwisdom • weblog • wired

Howto GPS tag photos

It'd be nice for cameras to have GPS built in, but I think that may be impractical

2005-07-03 flickr • geotagging • google • googlemaps • gps • howto • map • maps • photo • photography • photos

Politics in network names

2005-07-03 boingboing • goodmagazine • humour • mydailycommute • politics • propoganda • protest • storyideas • war • wifi • wireless

Karl Rove is caught

Newsweek reporting he helped leake the Plame thing (via Metafilter)

2005-07-03 american • boo • disturbing • hiss • media • news • political • politics • rl • rove • via.nelson.monkey.org/linkblog

explore2fs for MSWin

Read ext2fs disks on a Windows box (does it work with USB drives?)

2005-07-02 .imported • ext2 • ext3 • file • filesystem • freeware • fs • linux • partition • software • windows

Iraqi resistance report

Insurgents have their own website (via Wikipedia)

2005-07-02 east • insurgency • iraq • middle • news • politics • resistance • resource • usa • vietnam • war

Iraqi insurgency

Remarkably good Wikipedia article, more background than the NYT ever gave me.

Nice Google maps hack

2005-07-01 google • maps

Weird collection of octopus images, some NSFW. (via jwz)

2005-07-01 animals • art • blogs • livejournal • nature • octopus • photo • photography • photos • strange • weird