Nelson's Linkblog 2005-08

about • archive • mastodon • feed

Strumming while New Orleans drowns (via Metafilter)

2005-08-31 blog_this • bush • hurricane • katrina • news_katrina

Hurricane updates

Bits of news as they happen

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

Exterminate all rational thought

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

sIFR web typography

Transparently substituting flash for display type on web pages

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

The Onion redesign

From the designer (via Waxy)

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

New Orleans flooding

Real time water level graph (via Kedrosky)

2005-08-31 flood • hurricane • neworleans • usgs

Trusted computing info

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

2005-08-30 microsoft • schneier • trusted-computing

Floating oil rig

Floats to a road bridge

Flickr: puke clusters

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

2005-08-30 character • map • software • tools • windows

Win character map

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

2005-08-30 windows-characters

More on Win IME

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

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

Windows non-ascii input methods

Why is it so freakin hard to type Zürich?

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

Always wash your nostrils in the morning

Tapestry comics RSS

Yes, there is a site that links to comics RSS

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

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

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

Teddy Summer 2005

Bears all over Zurich

Tim's Mom's Mac

Great writeup of the computer for the rest of us

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

Superdome misery

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

ZH weekend trips?

Help me find places to go!

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

Cheap flights from ZH

A bit spammy, but useful

Events in Zurich

Guide to happenings

2005-08-29 calendar • lifestyle • magazine • urban • zurich

2005 leap second

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

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

Burning out cancer

Quack suggests eating flesh away to bone, now under investigation

2005-08-29 cancer

WorldTime WinXP

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

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

Cameras at Black Rock?

Advised against bringing fancy photo gear to hostile environment

Overnight trains

Private sleeping cabins!

2005-08-28 europe • trains • travel

Py NAT traversal

Little UPnP library (via Daily Python URL)

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

British army gay pride

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

MacOS 10.3.9 fans

New version of the OS seems to have changed fan behaviour

Server side RSS aggregator (via waxy)

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

Hot biscuit mod

Nintendoggy style (via Waxy)

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

ZH monthly tram pass

50CHF for free rides in the city

Swiss half price trains

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

Tram tickets in ZH

Always complicated to figure this stuff out

China MMOG regs

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

Robertson video

Watch the preacher call for assassination!

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

Is it public domain?

1923 is the magic year (via BoingBoing)

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

Google Talk / Trillian

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

Machinae supremacy

Swedish metal band with game music (via Mark)

2005-08-23 industrial • metal • music

Reed College: #1

According to Princeton Review

2005-08-23 amusement • misc

Detecting fake photos

Detailed examples

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

Long, but amusing (via shellen)

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

Lua player for PSP

Unauthorized programming environment for the handheld

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

Islamic swimwear

Fascinating fashions (via Metafilter)

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

Rise of Legends

Nice preview, the game is looking beautiful

2005-08-23 davinci • game • rts

Massive rain, bad scene

Saudi oil reserves

NYT Magazine article, was on Fresh Air today

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

Waxy.org: links

My favourite linkblog

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

Only in Cologne, not inside my head

simple beautiful clock (via Metafilter)

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

Beautiful little Flash games

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

Alternate to TCP, used in some DHT networks

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

Customs meltdown

Travellers trapped five hours because of Windows virus

SF Bay island for sale

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

2005-08-19 sanfrancisco

The real RSS 3.0

Aaron's been on this for years.

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

F1 steering wheel

Zillions of knobs (via BoingBoing)

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

Top black metal pics

I had no idea there were so many metal bands

2005-08-19 funny • humor • metafilter • music • stupid

Wikipedia has *everything*

Man, I love the wikipedia

2005-08-19 swiss

2005-08-19 fun • pope • upskirt

Mildred, church gossip

Funny joke from rec.humor.funny

Crack pipe solution

"Please, take this pipe"

EQ2 20% inflation

Automated monitors catch dupe bug (via Slashdot)

2005-08-18 everquest • games

That's just what we need (via BoingBoing)

Driver to read Linux filesystem on a Mac

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

The Goddess Bunny

Intensely disturbing

2005-08-17 cool • creepy • disturbing • tosee

CalTrans at work

Painting lanes in rush hour traffic (via Eric Case)

2005-08-17 101 • caltrans • cars • photography • sf • sfbayarea

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

Debian ssh passwd

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

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

Treemap of noun colours (Java) (via Metafilter)

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

RRDtool w/o SNMP

Monitor bandwidth via ifconfig, simple Perl script

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

Time series database, for tracking stats

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

mrtg without snmp

Simple way to graph bandwidth usage

2005-08-14 linux.network.bandwidth-monitoring • toread

Apache2 and gzip

Simple HOWTO; why isn't this the default?

2005-08-13 apache • gzip • tweaks • www

Maxwell's Silver Hammer video

Hysterical Flash cartoon (via Metafilter)

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

Card 207 (a bit NSFW)

2005-08-12 penis • starwars

PhilG RAW processing

Photoshop scripts he uses to publish his images

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

Wikipedia: SQL Join

An encyclopedia page for everything

2005-08-12 database • join • mysql • reference • sql • syntax • tutorial • wiki • wikipedia • work

Odd set by SevenCubed

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

Game designer for Rez

2005-08-11 blog • developers • game • gameblog

"not with Amway"

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

"Liberated" version of RedHat Enterprise

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

compare various flavours of CPUs

More Skype rumours

Still no specific sourcing, but presumably Businessweek does its research

2005-08-11 article • skype • voip

Everyone's raising money

2005-08-11 odeo • podcasting

steven Release 2.0

2005-08-11 web2

Data format mystery

Fun little puzzle, Bengt Richter got it

Rute Linux book

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

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

Video game totem

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

EQ2 dupe exploit story

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

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

Breaking down the bootstrap (via Slashdot)

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

c|net buys Metacritic

Good for Metacritic! (via kottke)

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

Python "import this"

Python Import Easter Eggs : Joe Grossberg

More allergic response

Increase in allergies suggests a cleaner childhood?

Knabenschiessen

Zürich holiday where the children shoot their guns

Most are not sucky (via Joystiq)

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

Nintendo DS emulators

Early in the scene

fansite for the game

2005-08-07 fate • games • games.fate • windowsxp • 攻略

Seems about right compared to my playing the demo

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

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

Official schedules

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

Zürich Tourismus

Official tourist portal is useful

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

Flying ninja cats

Pictures, pictures! (via Hotlinks)

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

Digital black and white

Who knew desaturating was so complex?

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

Cute (via Kottke)

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

Programmer's fonts

Nice list of fixed width fonts

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

Porn in the woods

Interesting Ask Metafilter

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

6 yr old sound design

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

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

Python unicode sucks

Coherent description of the problems (via Daily Python URL)

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

Two minute evacuation

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

FLT Che Guevera 64k

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

Assembly 2005 results

Demoscene love (via Waxy)

2005-08-03 demos • demoscene • graphics • music • scene • software

VBALink emulator

Version of VisualBoy Advance that has link cable support

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

California Extreme

Classic Arcade Games Show (via Waxy)

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

Hack into the bluetooth headsets of cars with default PIN

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

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

IGN's Top 100 Games

another list (via Joystiq)

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

EverQuest operations

Some details on datacenters (via TerraNova)

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

Aristocrats not a hoax

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

2005-08-02 aristocrats • documentary • hoax

Flickr: interesting

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

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

Photo techniques

Check out the tutorials and gallery, too

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

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

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

Phallus impudicus, a funky mushroom

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

Hendrix draft dodger

Book claims he played gay to avoid the Army

Aristocrats conspiracy

Is the whole thing a hoax? (via Waxy)

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

DEFCON wall of sheep

You've been h4x0r3d

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

MacOS w/DRM kernel?

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

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

Strategy games in the line that lead to Advance Wars