Nelson's Linkblog 2005-09

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Nikon SLR history

Pictures of camera bodies (via Kottke)

2005-09-30 reference • photo • photography • cameras • slr • nikon • camera • fotografia • images • gallery • history • nelson:autotagged

AJAX using images

Server response in cookie (via O'Reilly Radar)

2005-09-30 web • xmlhttprequest • image • javascript • programming • ajax • html • hack • webdev • php • css • nelson:autotagged

7 habits of highly successful people

2005-09-29 funny • humor • success • humour • list • lists • gtd • business • culture • fun • mcsweeneys • nelson:autotagged

This has been a bad month for the Republicans

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Movie DL charges

Folks charged with illegally making available Star Wars, other films before they came out

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Brain surgery photoblog

Fairly graphic (via Flickrblog)

2005-09-28 photos • photography • flickr • art • brain • nelson:autotagged

Good luck with the new venture!

2005-09-28 management • talent • business • mobile • blogs • cs_gameprg • blog • indie • games • transparency • software • nelson:autotagged

MySQL 5.0 nutshell

Nice list of new features, but did they fix the data-corruption-by-design? (via Zawodny)

2005-09-28 5.0 • docs:reference • mysql5 • triggers • mysql • database • 2read • sql • stored_functions • stored_procedures • nelson:autotagged

StartupSound.prefPane

Never make that obnoxious noise again on your Mac

2005-09-28 sound • osx • apple • startup • tool • apps • utilities • mac • freeware • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Revolution leak

Someone had a picture before the announcement, no one believed him

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Lovable but obscure Nintendo game to get a sequel?

2005-09-27 videogames • humor • games • nelson:autotagged

2005-09-27 hardware • art • photo • photography • lens • photos • camera • fun • shopping • wishlist • lenses • nelson:autotagged

Google Maps zipcodes

2005-09-27 xml • map • google • gis • zip • mapping • zipcode • maps • api • googlemaps • geocoding • nelson:autotagged

Doug Cutting implements some Google distributed systems technology, open source

2005-09-26 lucene • search • google • java • nutch • distributed • programming • mapreduce • blog • architecture • parallel • nelson:autotagged

Japanese toilet

Wikipedia is endless (via Populicious)

2005-09-25 articles • toilet • culture • wikipedia • gadgets • society • japon • fun • japan • technology • history • nelson:autotagged

How the US contracted planes to take prisoners to countries where they could be tortured

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Tree Full of Secrets

18 cds of Pink Floyd bootlegs (via m)

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Pets In uniform

2005-09-24 funny • humor • wtf • web • uniform • cats • photoshop • pets • animals • weird • dogs • nelson:autotagged

Longhorn rewrite

Fascinating story of Microsoft development methodology (via Slashdot)

2005-09-24 development • vista • google • business • windows • programming • management • news • article • microsoft • software • nelson:autotagged

Lots of useful Photoshop info here

2005-09-24 photoshop • photo • photography • howto • camera • fotografia • digital • tutorials • tips • tools • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Curves in PS Elements

Adobe took the curves tool out of Photoshop Elements; add it back

2005-09-24 photoshop • elements • photo • photography • howto • curves • images • tutorials • tools • tutorial • software • nelson:autotagged

BitTorrent: $8.75M

Not so bad (via Waxy)

2005-09-24 toblog • dlsq • intellectual-property • opensource • law • technology • nelson:autotagged

WinAMP for MacOS

Justin drops another bomb

2005-09-24 web • code • winamp • osx • awesome • tech • music • foss • tools • to_download • software • nelson:autotagged

Zürichsee schedule

Various boats on the lake

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Leprechaun baby

"slipped me his little green shamrock" (via MetaFilter)

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Evacuation failure

12 hour traffic jams are bad too

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1954 iPod design

Great designers steal (via BoingBoing)

2005-09-23 design • apple • music • ipod • bbc • ipodmini • gadgets • tech • radio • technology • history • nelson:autotagged

Wikipedia: top posting

Great article (via Merlin)

2005-09-23 web • top-posting • top-quoting • interesting • wikipedia • refactor • netiquette • etiquette • daily • infojunkie • email • nelson:autotagged

XHTML characters

What a dumb list of random things (via Hot Links)

2005-09-23 xml • web • reference • character • webdesign • html • design • webdev • xhtml • tools • css • nelson:autotagged

Canon 5d field report

Gets into details of usability, very interesting. No flash is a deal breaker for me.

2005-09-23 digitalphotography • photography • canon • christmas • eos • photos • camera • 5d • review • nelson:autotagged

Debt vs president

Nice graph; the general curve to me is more interesting than the red/blue thing (via AmitP)

2005-09-23 usa • government • money • economics • taxes • bush • economy • news • politics • debt • history • nelson:autotagged

Houston evacuations

Low lying areas told to get out

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DJ Shadow Endtroducing by live percussion, amazing how they play the glitch track (via Waxy)

2005-09-22 art • music • hiphop • blog • live • video • mp3 • djshadow • dj • shadow • cool • nelson:autotagged

Why didn't they do this a long time ago?

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Digital picture frame

New product from Philips, sounds promising (via amitp)

2005-09-22 hardware • crazy • photo • photography • read_later • gadgets • photos • digital • via:engadget • digital_camera • gadget • nelson:autotagged

Grim meathook future

2005-09-22 jwz • joshua-ellis • meathook • reality • rant • grimmeathookfuture • future • wired • politics • technology • grim • nelson:autotagged

PNG Alpha in MSIE

There's some funky way to load transparent images in IE afterall (via Metafilter)

2005-09-21 web • javascript • howto • webdesign • html • design • css • graphics • webdev • ie • png • nelson:autotagged

Frist is crooked?

Or maybe just really lucky. Amazing that a blind trust allows a directed sale.

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Yael Maguire TR35

Another amazing Media Lab student made good

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Saul Griffith in TR35

MIT Media Lab, Squid Labs, recognition

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Bram Cohen in TR35

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Stewart in TR35!

Wow, congratulations!

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MacOS program to let you remap a bunch of the modifier keys

2005-09-21 osx • apple • macosx • utilities • mac • opensource • keyboard • freeware • utility • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

2005 MacArthur fellows

I love this foundation

2005-09-21 good • genius • money • creativity • science_awards • grants • awards • prizes • fun • education • cool • nelson:autotagged

Halftoning via NP hard problems (via Eric? Evan?)

2005-09-21 art • programming • thermodynamics • tsp • travellingsalesman • nerdy • art.and.physics • weird • randomwalk • math • nelson:autotagged

In defense of big

Mena talks about why SixApart isn't a small company

2005-09-20 development • 37signals • management • business • startup • community • culture • small • sixapart • corporate • blogging • nelson:autotagged

Swiss local foods

Various regional specialities

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Ellison's yacht

450+ yards long, $200M. And he's selling it.

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Photo of the future

2005-09-20 gadgets • photos • retro • funny • nelson:autotagged

Improving the screw

Re-engineering a thousands-year-old technology (via amitp)

2005-09-20 science • innovation • creativity • hardware • engineering • design • inventions • screws • history • technology • cool • nelson:autotagged

Whither Chef Charlie?

He's truly a good person and a good chef, glad he's finding something interesting to do.

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Euro OSCon Oct 17-20

In Amsterdam, I'm planning on going

2005-09-19 europe • conference • conferences • oscon • 2005 • oreilly • opensource • linux • eu • technology • event • nelson:autotagged

Like X-Face, but in colour and even less supported

2005-09-19 gnus • x-face • xface • img • face • usenet • emacs • mail • net • .imported • email • nelson:autotagged

See what people look like in Thunderbird

2005-09-19 x-face • extension • mozilla • thunderbird • photos • extensions • mail • software • email • png • cool • nelson:autotagged

WoW: online plague

A sickness spreads in World of Warcraft

2005-09-19 gaming • wow • nelson:autotagged

... natural causes

It happens sometimes, people just explode.

2005-09-19 electricity • urbanlegend • nelson:autotagged

Oktoberfest noise

Quieting the music

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Thunderbird tips

Very useful stuff in here

2005-09-19 reference • howto • tricks • mozilla • thunderbird • email • hack • tips • imap • tutorial • software • nelson:autotagged

Revolution trailer

OK, this is a great ad. Still skeptical about the free floating hands. (via Waxy)

2005-09-19 revolution • nintendo • game • trailers • controller • video • news • videogames • games • technology • trailer • nelson:autotagged

Precedent for the Revolution controller? I used one; it sucked.

2005-09-16 gaming • weird • retro • atari • nelson:autotagged

Debian SMTP auth 2

Newer instructions

2005-09-16 postfix • mysql • howto • hosting • debian • sysadmin • linux • mail • server • email • tutorial • nelson:autotagged

Debian SMTP auth

This seems awfully complicated

2005-09-16 nuix • mail • reference • postfix • smtp • auth • sysadmin • ssl • linux • sasl • unix:linux:config:smtpd • nelson:autotagged

Firefox exploit count

More published sploits than MSIE

2005-09-16 vulnerabilities • security • browsers • ie • firefox • nelson:autotagged

Revolution controller

This looks like a disaster. Your two hands need to be physically connected.

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Been waiting for someone to do this (via Waxy)

2005-09-16 web2.0 • web • yahoo • aim • msn • ajax • im • chat • messenger • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Interesting story on how the investments were made (via Kedrosky)

2005-09-16 europe • vc • skype • nelson:autotagged

RoundCube Webmail

Intereting looking free webmail system

2005-09-16 web2.0 • web • email • webmail • ajax • opensource • mail • php • tools • imap • software • nelson:autotagged

How to tell MacOS to not worry about the certificate signature

2005-09-15 osx • apple • certificate • howto • mac • sysadmin • ssl • mail.app • mail • security • email • nelson:autotagged

"I sure need to pee"

Bush looking irritated at a UN meeting

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GYWO / New Orleans

We always love Get Your War On

2005-09-15 funny • humor • disaster • humour • comics • satire • hurricane • bush • katrina • cartoons • politics • nelson:autotagged

I want to get new email software. Help me decide what to use!

2005-09-15 mail • hold • apps • email • help • nelson:autotagged

JUnit 4 preview

Annotations, per-suite setup methods, etc (via Slashdot)

2005-09-15 development • java • unittesting • testing • programming • test • article • tools • junit • unit • software • nelson:autotagged

Thunderbird / Dovecot

Patch to enable secure authentication

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tags: Tivo spin bullshit

Marc calls TiVo on their mealy mouth defense of their stupid DRM software

2005-09-15 tivo • blog • drm • oreilly • nelson:autotagged

Bush potty break

President writes a note to Secy of State (via Dibona)

2005-09-15 funny • bathroom • humor • photo • yahoo • photos • bush • news • images • politics • president • nelson:autotagged

5 ways to save games

Some interesting criticism (via Slashdot)

2005-09-14 gaming • design • criticicism • silly • culture • games • commentary • ie • women • nelson:autotagged

More TiVo stupidity

Matt breaks it down (via Marc)

2005-09-14 hardware • pvr • copyright • rights • tv • media • tivo • copyfight • drm • politics • tech • nelson:autotagged

N.O. horror roundup

jwz has great pull quotes

2005-09-14 hurricanekatrina • katrina • nelson:autotagged

Stupid TiVo choice

Not letting me save shows is going to make me hate your product

2005-09-14 digitalmedia • television • pvr • copyright • tv • morons • tivo • idiocy • drm • intellectualproperty • dvr • nelson:autotagged

N.O. euthanasia

Killing people rather than evacuating them (via Metafilter)

2005-09-14 disaster • nola • euthanasia • hurricane • katrina • health • 2005 • medicine • politics • ethics • news • nelson:autotagged

One party's account of the discovery. Quite informative, even outside the controversy.

2005-09-13 ub313 • astronomy • planet • space • science • astronomia • science.outer • planets • 10th • physics • ciencia • nelson:autotagged

Planet skulduggery

Tale of data theft in the world of minor object astronomy

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The secret code to Planet X

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Y Combinator report

This program seems to have worked out quite well

2005-09-13 vc • business • angel • boston • nbusiness • startup • ycombinator • creativity • startups • technology • software • nelson:autotagged

How many FEMAs?

What other agencies are a total disaster?

2005-09-13 politics • stupidity • dubya • nelson:autotagged

Willful Bush ignorance

Damning piece on why Bush failed to react to New Orleans. I knew things were bad for 24 hours before he did!

2005-09-13 disaster • neworleans • government • media • hurricane • bush • katrina • article • politics • news • newsweek • nelson:autotagged

Community site for building info on TV shows. Brilliant idea. (via Slashdot)

2005-09-13 wiki • television • episode • reference • entertainment • tv • media • search • video • news • guide • nelson:autotagged

Brownie resigns

Long way from "hell of a job" to "disgraced, moved aside, resigned"

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Shows you where your disk space is going, nice graphical du

2005-09-13 utility • osx • apple • macosx • utilities • free • mac • freeware • disk • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

2005-09-12 eos350d • reference • forum • photography • faq • canon • eos • camera • fotografia • digital • nelson:autotagged

Their obligation is to the company, not American people

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Oracle / Siebel $5.85B

Siebel is worth 1.5 Skypes

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Der Schützenkönig

The king of Knabenschiessen

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Six Flags underwater

Another crazy photo from New Orleans

2005-09-12 photo • news • hurricane • cool • nelson:autotagged

Format Project Gutenberg texts into something printable, via HTML and PDF

2005-09-12 latex • literature • publishing • text • writing • tex • gutenberg • books • pdf • tools • ebooks • nelson:autotagged

eBay/Skype: $2.6-4.1B

Stock Market News and Investment Information | Reuters.com

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Vasectomy schwag

Har har (via BoingBoing)

2005-09-12 vasectomy • humor • blogs • gifts • medicine • advertising • sendtoray • images • boingboing • blogs.procrastination • cool • nelson:autotagged

A hotel for masochists?

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New Orleans failures

NYT breaks down various problems

2005-09-11 politics • katrina • news • nelson:autotagged

Quicksilver / Google

Launching searches from Quicksilver; harder than it needs to be, but it works

2005-09-11 osx • search • web • quicksilver • mac • tips • utility • nelson:autotagged

Lost at Tora Bora NYT

How the US let bin Laden escape

2005-09-11 polis • news • bushadministration • nelson:autotagged

US health economics

Malcolm Gladwell boils down the crazy US health insurance system to our obsession with "moral hazard" (via Danah)

2005-09-11 toread • government • economics • medicine • health • gladwell • healthcare • policy • politics • insurance • history • nelson:autotagged

First digital camera

30 years ago at Kodak (via

2005-09-11 techhistory • photo • photography • kodak • geek • photos • camera • tech • digital • technology • history • nelson:autotagged

As a web page (via AmitP)

2005-09-11 web • code • reference • language • tool • fonts • programming • html • design • unicode • tools • nelson:autotagged

Roy Horn lives!

And walks on his own. Where's the photo?

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Google, Yahoo changes

Thumbnails of home pages of each site

2005-09-10 web • search • google • simplicity • maeda • yahoo • webdesign • design • ui • history • usability • nelson:autotagged

Second Life now free

An account is free; virtual currency is not

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Fuck yourself, Cheney

The guy who said that got detained for 20 minutes by guys with big guns

2005-09-10 neworleans • usa • freedom • cheney • society • bush • katrina • media • politics • news • corruption • nelson:autotagged

Second hand store

It's like modern vaudeville!

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Disappearing mouse

MacOS bug, apparently I'm not the only one

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Debian and UTF-8

Some notes trying to make things work

2005-09-09 utf8 • fonts • howto • languages • utf-8 • unicode • linux • i18n • software • debian • opensource • nelson:autotagged

OS X key shortcuts

PDF, but a good listing

2005-09-09 osx • apple • reference • shortcuts • keyboard • keys • mac • mouseless • cheatsheet • combo • macintosh • nelson:autotagged

Hide the MacOS Dock

Wish I knew about orientation top a long time ago

2005-09-09 osx • appple • hacks • terminal • dock • mac • docthis • tips • macintosh • nelson:autotagged

JavaScript guide

2005-09-09 development • web • javascript • reference • mozilla • programming • ajax • webdev • guide • tutorial • documentation • nelson:autotagged

Smoking prevalance

In developed countries

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Red Cross denied

More on how the Red Cross was kept out of New Orleans (via MeFi)

2005-09-09 neworleans • redcross • hurricanekatrina • katrina • new_orleans • red_cross • politics • fema • nelson:autotagged

Ohio voting mess

Lots of detail on misbehaviour in Ohio's 2004 presidential election (via MeFi)

2005-09-09 fraud • usa • elections • bush • election • 2004 • news • politics • voting • harpers • history • nelson:autotagged

Swiss language requirements?

Switzerland considers requiring language study for residency permits

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Brushed metal's end

2005-09-09 funny • humor • apple • osx • gui • itunes • geek • mac • design • interface • ui • nelson:autotagged

MacOS intl input

Various ways to type non-ASCII

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NTP mgmt scripts

Uses tcpdump to track time server stats

2005-09-08 ntppool • pool.ntp.org • service • ntp • internet • scripts • time • tools • protocols • nelson:autotagged

More eBay / Skype

summary of the WSJ article

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and me a long way from my gaming PC

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Swiss import duties

What it costs to import something you buy online

2005-09-08 tax • nelson:autotagged

New digital SLR: full frame, $3300

2005-09-08 dslr • photo • photography • canon • hardware • camera • 5d • <pixie> • ukq:irc • review • read-later • nelson:autotagged

Zuni's prep chefs

Neat article about the back of the kitchen (via Marc)

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eBay / Skype / $5B?

Another Skype rumour

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iPod phone looks dumb

100 songs, no iTunes ring tones, ... stupid compromises

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Another Emacs port for MacOS, tries to be a nice Mac application (via Brian)

2005-09-08 osx • apple • macosx • programming • free • mac • emacs • opensource • editor • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

B+H grey market

Direct explanation

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Cairo graphics lib

Graphics code that works on many output targets

2005-09-07 development • vector • opengl • cairo • gui • graphics • programming • library • svg • opensource • linux • nelson:autotagged

N.O junkie market

Shit's gotta flow

2005-09-07 drugs • nola • katrina • linkblog • news • nelson:autotagged

Language startup secs

Benchmark for how long it takes a program to start running in various languages

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Greg tells a story of a new business model for games

2005-09-07 gaming • toread • game_business • industry • writing • business • game • design • commentary • videogames • games • nelson:autotagged

Saturn moon image

Arresting picture

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JavaScript debug logs

log4j like thing for JS (via Hot Links)

2005-09-07 development • debugging • logging • dhtml • web • javascript • programming • ajax • debug • webdev • tools • nelson:autotagged

Web 2.0 API list

2005-09-07 web2.0 • web • reference • apis • programming • ajax • api • development • webservices • webdev • software • nelson:autotagged

Feathered dinosaurs?!

Not so tough now, huh? (via Hot Links)

2005-09-07 biology • animals • reference • nature • science • evolution • dinosaurs • interesting • news • birds • history • nelson:autotagged

Swiss rail maps

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Lenses for beginners

Good overview of the camera lens market

2005-09-06 reference • photo • photography • faq • canon • lens • camera • tutorial • digital • guide • lenses • nelson:autotagged

Safe, but despair

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Py Subway milestone

Another Rails-like effort; has reached milestone 1

2005-09-06 development • web • rails • python • programming • dev • framework • subway • webdev • ruby • software • nelson:autotagged

Head of Homeland Security claims no one ever predicted that the levees in New Orleans could fail.

2005-09-06 chertoff • disaster • neworleans • hurricane • bush • hurricanekatrina • katrina • relief • politics • fema • know • nelson:autotagged

Astrodome photos

Interesting set from someone volunteering there (via Waxy)

2005-09-06 houston • shelter • photo • activism • hurricane • formom • photos • hurricanekatrina • katrina • astrodome • flickr • nelson:autotagged

Seashore Mac images

Cocoa app that uses GIMP technology

2005-09-05 osx • apple • image • editor • mac • design • opensource • graphics • freeware • software • gimp • nelson:autotagged

Red Cross not in N.O.

Waiting for Homeland Security to say it's safe. In America.

2005-09-05 wtf? • usa • neworleans • nola • floods • hurricane • redcross • hurricanekatrina • katrina • politics • tragedy • nelson:autotagged

Long live games

Costikyan turns his GDC rant into a good article

2005-09-03 development • gaming • design • business • industry • culture • game • computer • games • politics • history • nelson:autotagged

Failed presidency

If Bush isn't accountable for national relief efforts, who is?

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N.O.: race class

Was waiting for a story like this that references the complicated gumbo of New Orleans

2005-09-02 equality • race_issues • imported_from_blue_dot • hurricane_katrina • news • social_commentary • nelson:autotagged

New Orleans photos

Excellent set (via Metafilter)

2005-09-02 disaster • neworleans • photo • photography • nola • photos • katrina • hurricanes • images • news • tragedy • nelson:autotagged

Red Cross donation

Amazon is hosting a page for donations

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Zermatt tourist site

First weekend excursion

2005-09-02 mountain • travel • snow • holidays • travel/swiss • skiing • switzerland • snowboarding • zermatt • sports • ski • nelson:autotagged

Good man on the street story (via Waxy)

2005-09-02 articles • wtf • neworleans • hurricane • superdome • sad • katrina • human • news • politics • tragedy • nelson:autotagged

No embedded fonts

I always wondered why this didn't work.

2005-09-02 webdesign • typography • web • nelson:autotagged

More locals, a bit more upbeat (via Lynn)

2005-09-01 orleans • neworleans • nola • blogs • hurricane • daily • blog • katrina • new • news • louisiana • nelson:autotagged

Superdome gunfire

Sounds like freakin' Mad Max. How awful.

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New Orleans satellite

2005-09-01 map • satellite • neworleans • maps • interesting • hurricane • katerina • katrina • new_orleans • weather • news • nelson:autotagged

Superdome horror

Rapes, a suicide, and imprisonment

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New Orleans flooded

Best photo I've seen so far

2005-09-01 photos • katrina • neworleans • flood • nelson:autotagged

Individual tragedy

Sad story of a woman whose partner died in New Orleans, could not find anyone to take the body.

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N.O. local reports

Google map annotated with site specific reports in New Orleans

2005-09-01 wiki • map • google • disaster • collaboration • hurricane • maps • katrina • googlemaps • news • technology • nelson:autotagged