Nelson's Linkblog 2005-08

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Strumming while New Orleans drowns (via Metafilter)

2005-08-31 news_katrina • bush • katrina • hurricane • blog_this • nelson:autotagged

Hurricane updates

Bits of news as they happen

2005-08-31 disaster • neworleans • tv • media • blogs • hurricane • blog • hurricanekatrina • katrina • news • louisiana • nelson:autotagged

Exterminate all rational thought

2005-08-31 theonion • funny • search • google • humor • humour • onion • satire • internet • fun • news • nelson:autotagged

sIFR web typography

Transparently substituting flash for display type on web pages

2005-08-31 flash • web • fonts • javascript • typography • webdesign • design • webdev • sifr • font • css • nelson:autotagged

The Onion redesign

From the designer (via Waxy)

2005-08-31 theonion • web • humor • onion • drupal • blog • webdesign • design • webdev • news • css • nelson:autotagged

New Orleans flooding

Real time water level graph (via Kedrosky)

2005-08-31 flood • hurricane • usgs • neworleans • nelson:autotagged

Trusted computing info

Schneier has an interesting update on the odious "trusted computing" initiative

2005-08-30 trusted-computing • schneier • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

Floating oil rig

Floats to a road bridge

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Flickr: puke clusters

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Another character chooser. $30, but may be easier to use?

2005-08-30 windows • character • software • tools • map • nelson:autotagged

Win character map

Here's a way to pick characters out of a font

2005-08-30 windows-characters • nelson:autotagged

More on Win IME

Mostly works for me, but something odd is happening with my setting timing out

2005-08-30 reference • language • windows • computers • howto • accessibility • geek • computer • keyboard • international • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

Windows non-ascii input methods

Why is it so freakin hard to type Zürich?

2005-08-30 codes • reference • computing • windows • • accents • typing • spanish • keyboard • international • keyboards • nelson:autotagged

Always wash your nostrils in the morning

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Tapestry comics RSS

Yes, there is a site that links to comics RSS

2005-08-30 funny • humor • webcomics • comics • blogs • directory • web • fun • feeds • comic • rss • nelson:autotagged

Is there a site that links to all comics RSS somewhere?

2005-08-30 feeds\comics\image • comics • comic_strip • feeds\comics\unofficial • del.icio.us • news • rss • nelson:autotagged

Teddy Summer 2005

Bears all over Zurich

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Tim's Mom's Mac

Great writeup of the computer for the rest of us

2005-08-30 osx • macmini • apple • funny • toblog • macosx • mac • design • ui • technology • usability • nelson:autotagged

Superdome misery

Out of the hurricane, but no air conditioning and a leaky roof

2005-08-29 nelson:autotagged

ZH weekend trips?

Help me find places to go!

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Interesting list from a site that's looking like it's dying

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Cheap flights from ZH

A bit spammy, but useful

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Events in Zurich

Guide to happenings

2005-08-29 urban • magazine • lifestyle • calendar • zurich • nelson:autotagged

2005 leap second

Phew, the earth isn't speeding up (via RISKS)

2005-08-29 tideräkning • leap.second • toread • skottsekund • science • time • leapsecond • second • measurement • astronomy • physics • nelson:autotagged

Burning out cancer

Quack suggests eating flesh away to bone, now under investigation

2005-08-29 cancer • nelson:autotagged

WorldTime WinXP

Too many features, but a reasonable way to display multiple timezones on your desktop

2005-08-29 computing • windows • clock • utilities • daily • desktop • freeware • clocks • time • timezone • software • nelson:autotagged

Cameras at Black Rock?

Advised against bringing fancy photo gear to hostile environment

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Overnight trains

Private sleeping cabins!

2005-08-28 europe • travel • trains • nelson:autotagged

Py NAT traversal

Little UPnP library (via Daily Python URL)

2005-08-28 networking • python • programming/python • programming • twisted • library • traversal • source • algorithms • nat • open • nelson:autotagged

British army gay pride

Uniformed recruiters march in parade, what a difference from the US

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MacOS 10.3.9 fans

New version of the OS seems to have changed fan behaviour

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Server side RSS aggregator (via waxy)

2005-08-27 feed • web • xml • aggregator • tool • atom • blog • reblog • php • tools • rss • nelson:autotagged

Hot biscuit mod

Nintendoggy style (via Waxy)

2005-08-27 funny • videogame • humor • nintendo • hacks • games • nintendogs • hot-biscuit • mod • ha • parody • nelson:autotagged

ZH monthly tram pass

50CHF for free rides in the city

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Swiss half price trains

Pay 150CHF in advance, go half price the whole year

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Tram tickets in ZH

Always complicated to figure this stuff out

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China MMOG regs

Mandating that games encourage people to only play a few hours a day?!

2005-08-24 nelson:autotagged

Robertson video

Watch the preacher call for assassination!

2005-08-24 oil • pat • media • pat_robertson • religion • chavez • video • politics • robertson • venezuela • gop • nelson:autotagged

Is it public domain?

1923 is the magic year (via BoingBoing)

2005-08-24 media • reference • copyright • ip • legal • culture • copyfight • flowchart • politics • law • tools • nelson:autotagged

Google Talk / Trillian

2005-08-24 google • trillian • howto • im • googletalk • chat • tutorials • gmail • jabber • tutorial • software • nelson:autotagged

Machinae supremacy

Swedish metal band with game music (via Mark)

2005-08-23 metal • industrial • music • nelson:autotagged

Reed College: #1

According to Princeton Review

2005-08-23 misc • amusement • nelson:autotagged

Detecting fake photos

Detailed examples

2005-08-23 photoshop • reference • photo • photography • fake • howto • photos • design • graphics • images • security • nelson:autotagged

Long, but amusing (via shellen)

2005-08-23 funny • hardware • humor • geek • gadgets • tech • retro • blog • fun • technology • history • nelson:autotagged

Lua player for PSP

Unauthorized programming environment for the handheld

2005-08-23 development • embedded • lua • programming • framework • game • games • diy • homebrew • psp • opensource • nelson:autotagged

Islamic swimwear

Fascinating fashions (via Metafilter)

2005-08-23 swim • east • humor • culture • middle • fashion • dumbass • politics • islam • women • nelson:autotagged

Rise of Legends

Nice preview, the game is looking beautiful

2005-08-23 game • rts • davinci • nelson:autotagged

Massive rain, bad scene

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Saudi oil reserves

NYT Magazine article, was on Fresh Air today

2005-08-22 articles • oil • nytimes • technology • energy • environment • peak • politics • peakoil • crisis • pollution • nelson:autotagged

Waxy.org: links

My favourite linkblog

2005-08-22 web • links • waxy • blogs • daily • blog • culture • tech • news • technology • cool • nelson:autotagged

Only in Cologne, not inside my head

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simple beautiful clock (via Metafilter)

2005-08-21 art • clock • timeline • flash • animation • design • time • fun • calendar • tools • cool • nelson:autotagged

Beautiful little Flash games

2005-08-20 web • art • entertainment • flash • free • game • games • cute • fun • design • cool • nelson:autotagged

Alternate to TCP, used in some DHT networks

2005-08-20 udp • protocol • toread • airhook • ip • reliable • tcp • wireless • networking • software • network • nelson:autotagged

Customs meltdown

Travellers trapped five hours because of Windows virus

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SF Bay island for sale

unique, if you have $6M to blow (via Luxist)

2005-08-19 sanfrancisco • nelson:autotagged

The real RSS 3.0

Aaron's been on this for years.

2005-08-19 feed • geeky • rss3 • specification • documentation • programming • fun • feeds • rss • semanticweb • blosxom • nelson:autotagged

F1 steering wheel

Zillions of knobs (via BoingBoing)

2005-08-19 f1 • technical • cars • textos • geek • motor • auto • irc • ciencia • fishmongers • cool • nelson:autotagged

Top black metal pics

I had no idea there were so many metal bands

2005-08-19 funny • stupid • humor • music • metafilter • nelson:autotagged

Wikipedia has *everything*

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Man, I love the wikipedia

2005-08-19 swiss • nelson:autotagged

2005-08-19 fun • pope • upskirt • nelson:autotagged

Mildred, church gossip

Funny joke from rec.humor.funny

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Crack pipe solution

"Please, take this pipe"

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EQ2 20% inflation

Automated monitors catch dupe bug (via Slashdot)

2005-08-18 games • everquest • nelson:autotagged

That's just what we need (via BoingBoing)

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Driver to read Linux filesystem on a Mac

2005-08-18 osx • ext3 • apple • filesystem • macosx • driver • ext2 • mac • linux • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

The Goddess Bunny

Intensely disturbing

2005-08-17 disturbing • tosee • creepy • cool • nelson:autotagged

CalTrans at work

Painting lanes in rush hour traffic (via Eric Case)

2005-08-17 caltrans • sfbayarea • cars • photography • 101 • sf • nelson:autotagged

2005-08-16 funny • stupid • apple • riot • ibook • photography • sale • hardware • ibooks • news • henricocounty • nelson:autotagged

Debian ssh passwd

Sarge has a bug where you can't log in with normal passwords

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" Humorist Garrison Keillor tries a bite of pork-chop-on-a-stick"

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Treemap of noun colours (Java) (via Metafilter)

2005-08-15 visualization • art • language • map • color • flash • design • words • english • java • cool • nelson:autotagged

RRDtool w/o SNMP

Monitor bandwidth via ifconfig, simple Perl script

2005-08-14 rrdtool • monitoring • network • admin • rrd • howto • sysadmin • graphs • unix • traffic • linux • nelson:autotagged

Time series database, for tracking stats

2005-08-14 rrdtool • logging • network • programming • sysadmin • graphing • opensource • linux • monitoring • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

mrtg without snmp

Simple way to graph bandwidth usage

2005-08-14 linux.network.bandwidth-monitoring • toread • nelson:autotagged

Apache2 and gzip

Simple HOWTO; why isn't this the default?

2005-08-13 apache • tweaks • www • gzip • nelson:autotagged

Maxwell's Silver Hammer video

Hysterical Flash cartoon (via Metafilter)

2005-08-13 flash • funny • beatles • art • web • song • music • animation • video • humor • hammer • nelson:autotagged

Card 207 (a bit NSFW)

2005-08-12 penis • starwars • nelson:autotagged

PhilG RAW processing

Photoshop scripts he uses to publish his images

2005-08-12 photoshop • script • photo • photography • multimedia • howto • raw • web • scripts • scripting • opensource • nelson:autotagged

Wikipedia: SQL Join

An encyclopedia page for everything

2005-08-12 wiki • join • reference • database • mysql • work • wikipedia • syntax • to:read • sql • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Odd set by SevenCubed

2005-08-11 funny • graphic • humor • blackandwhite • humour • pictogram • sendtojohn • image • design • art • weird • nelson:autotagged

Game designer for Rez

2005-08-11 blog • game • developers • gameblog • nelson:autotagged

"not with Amway"

The two hour cab ride is not suspicious, but not being sold dishsoap is

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"Liberated" version of RedHat Enterprise

2005-08-11 centos • redhat • enterprise • free • server • opensource • linux • distribution • software • os • distro • nelson:autotagged

compare various flavours of CPUs

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More Skype rumours

Still no specific sourcing, but presumably Businessweek does its research

2005-08-11 article • voip • skype • nelson:autotagged

Everyone's raising money

2005-08-11 odeo • podcasting • nelson:autotagged

steven Release 2.0

2005-08-11 web2 • nelson:autotagged

Data format mystery

Fun little puzzle, Bengt Richter got it

2005-08-10 nelson:autotagged

Rute Linux book

User's Tutorial and Exposition, looks useful (via Ask Metafilter)

2005-08-10 reference • howto • computers • manual • gnu/linux • sysadmin • unix • books • linux • book • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Video game totem

2005-08-09 art • sendtojohn • photo • sendtomanny • videogames • sendtoray • nintendo • fun • public • nelson:autotagged

EQ2 dupe exploit story

First person account of stealing thousands of US dollars from EQ2 (via Gamerdad)

2005-08-09 money • eq2 • hacks • mmorpg • exploit • duping • games • everquest • hack • farming • economy • nelson:autotagged

Breaking down the bootstrap (via Slashdot)

2005-08-09 hacking • linux • programming • crypto • xbox • hardware • games • hack • security • hacks • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

c|net buys Metacritic

Good for Metacritic! (via kottke)

2005-08-09 cnet • metacritic • business • media • reviews • movies • critic • books • music • internet • films • nelson:autotagged

Python "import this"

Python Import Easter Eggs : Joe Grossberg

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More allergic response

Increase in allergies suggests a cleaner childhood?

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Knabenschiessen

Zürich holiday where the children shoot their guns

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Most are not sucky (via Joystiq)

2005-08-08 gaming • downloads • list • free • fun • game • games • videogames • freeware • download • software • nelson:autotagged

Nintendo DS emulators

Early in the scene

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fansite for the game

2005-08-07 攻略 • games.fate • games • fate • windowsxp • nelson:autotagged

Seems about right compared to my playing the demo

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Well executed Diablo clone, free demo / $20 to buy online from indie developer

2005-08-07 gaming • computergames • fate • windows • indie • game • games • rpg • nelson:autotagged

Official schedules

2005-08-06 travel_switzerland • europe • schedule • travel • rail • swiss • train • verbier • trains • switzerland • transport • nelson:autotagged

Zürich Tourismus

Official tourist portal is useful

2005-08-06 countries • 瑞士 • zürich • stadtinfo • swiss-tourism • travel • zurich • ch • switzerland • urlaub • tourism • nelson:autotagged

Flying ninja cats

Pictures, pictures! (via Hotlinks)

2005-08-05 ninjas • via:hotlinks • humor • catcontent • photo • photography • photos • cats • wtf • fun • ninja • nelson:autotagged

Digital black and white

Who knew desaturating was so complex?

2005-08-05 photoshop • art • photo • photography • howto • photos • b&w • digital • tutorials • tips • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Cute (via Kottke)

2005-08-05 web • kids • golf • 1dig • flash • game • games • online • fun • design • interactive • nelson:autotagged

Programmer's fonts

Nice list of fixed width fonts

2005-08-04 development • code • monospace • fonts • programming • typography • dev • design • free • font • software • nelson:autotagged

Porn in the woods

Interesting Ask Metafilter

2005-08-04 funny • humor • society • culture • porn • mefi • sex • askmefi • woods • askme • weird • nelson:autotagged

6 yr old sound design

Continuing helping his son write a game, the introduction of sound

2005-08-04 kids • _pending • python • toblog • blogs • programming • games • learning • stories • education • cool • nelson:autotagged

Python unicode sucks

Coherent description of the problems (via Daily Python URL)

2005-08-03 articles • encoding • python • utf8 • blogs • programming • blog • default • unicode • i18n • post • nelson:autotagged

Two minute evacuation

Getting off the plane super-fast, sure beats the fire deaths a few years ago in a similar but slower situation

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FLT Che Guevera 64k

Waxy's right, this demo is freakin' amazing.

2005-08-03 nelson:autotagged

Assembly 2005 results

Demoscene love (via Waxy)

2005-08-03 scene • demos • music • graphics • demoscene • software • nelson:autotagged

VBALink emulator

Version of VisualBoy Advance that has link cable support

2005-08-03 vba • games.rom • gba • 9_entertainment • entertainment • game • games • emulator • emulation • software • nelson:autotagged

California Extreme

Classic Arcade Games Show (via Waxy)

2005-08-02 arcade • bay • sanjose • pinball • california • retro • caextreme • videogames • games • etc. • store • nelson:autotagged

Hack into the bluetooth headsets of cars with default PIN

2005-08-02 wireless • laptop • hack • hacks • blog • diy • linux • security • bluetooth • hacking • software • nelson:autotagged

Years after the game's release, Blizzard is still maintaining it

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IGN's Top 100 Games

another list (via Joystiq)

2005-08-02 articles • shopping • toread • gaming • lists • culture • game • games • news • videogames • ign • nelson:autotagged

EverQuest operations

Some details on datacenters (via TerraNova)

2005-08-02 articles • hardware • mmo • games • everquest • mmorpg • tech • article • ie • mmog • software • nelson:autotagged

Aristocrats not a hoax

At least, a claim that the joke has history (via Waxy)

2005-08-02 hoax • documentary • aristocrats • nelson:autotagged

Flickr: interesting

New way to browse random photos on Flickr, looks pretty good

2005-08-02 fun • art • tags • photo • photography • interestingness • photos • interesting • images • flickr • cool • nelson:autotagged

Photo techniques

Check out the tutorials and gallery, too

2005-08-01 reference • photo • photography • technique • howto • photos • camera • digital • tutorials • tutorial • techniques • nelson:autotagged

Documenting games that for some reason were never released (via Metafilter)

2005-08-01 gaming • blog • game • computer • games • retro • nintendo • videogames • news • emulation • history • nelson:autotagged

Phallus impudicus, a funky mushroom

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Contender for a compact XML standard; apparently license terms are fine

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Hendrix draft dodger

Book claims he played gay to avoid the Army

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Aristocrats conspiracy

Is the whole thing a hoax? (via Waxy)

2005-08-01 humor • movies • interesting • aristocrats • hoax • jokes • conspiracy • pennjillette • penn.jillette • thearistocrats • comedy • nelson:autotagged

DEFCON wall of sheep

You've been h4x0r3d

2005-08-01 hacker • sheep • passwords • humor • wall • wifi • defcon • tech • hack • nelson:autotagged

MacOS w/DRM kernel?

Report that they're using the odious "trusted computing" from Intel

2005-08-01 osx • apple • copyright • intel • hardware • mac • drm • corydoctorow • technology • trusted • software • nelson:autotagged

Strategy games in the line that lead to Advance Wars

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