Nelson's Linkblog 2005-09

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Nikon SLR history

Pictures of camera bodies (via Kottke)

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

AJAX using images

Server response in cookie (via O'Reilly Radar)

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

7 habits of highly successful people

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

This has been a bad month for the Republicans

Movie DL charges

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

Brain surgery photoblog

Fairly graphic (via Flickrblog)

2005-09-28 art • brain • flickr • photography • photos

Good luck with the new venture!

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

MySQL 5.0 nutshell

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

2005-09-28 2read • 5.0 • database • mysql • mysql5 • sql • stored_functions • stored_procedures • triggers

StartupSound.prefPane

Never make that obnoxious noise again on your Mac

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

Revolution leak

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

Lovable but obscure Nintendo game to get a sequel?

2005-09-27 games • humor • videogames

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

Google Maps zipcodes

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

Doug Cutting implements some Google distributed systems technology, open source

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

Japanese toilet

Wikipedia is endless (via Populicious)

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

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

Tree Full of Secrets

18 cds of Pink Floyd bootlegs (via m)

Pets In uniform

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

Longhorn rewrite

Fascinating story of Microsoft development methodology (via Slashdot)

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

Lots of useful Photoshop info here

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

Curves in PS Elements

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

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

BitTorrent: $8.75M

Not so bad (via Waxy)

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

WinAMP for MacOS

Justin drops another bomb

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

Zürichsee schedule

Various boats on the lake

Leprechaun baby

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

Evacuation failure

12 hour traffic jams are bad too

1954 iPod design

Great designers steal (via BoingBoing)

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

Wikipedia: top posting

Great article (via Merlin)

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

XHTML characters

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

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

Canon 5d field report

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

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

Debt vs president

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

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

Houston evacuations

Low lying areas told to get out

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

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

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

Digital picture frame

New product from Philips, sounds promising (via amitp)

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

Grim meathook future

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

PNG Alpha in MSIE

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

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

Frist is crooked?

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

Yael Maguire TR35

Another amazing Media Lab student made good

Saul Griffith in TR35

MIT Media Lab, Squid Labs, recognition

Bram Cohen in TR35

Stewart in TR35!

Wow, congratulations!

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

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

2005 MacArthur fellows

I love this foundation

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

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

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

In defense of big

Mena talks about why SixApart isn't a small company

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

Swiss local foods

Various regional specialities

Ellison's yacht

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

Photo of the future

2005-09-20 funny • gadgets • photos • retro

Improving the screw

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

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

Whither Chef Charlie?

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

Euro OSCon Oct 17-20

In Amsterdam, I'm planning on going

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

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

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

See what people look like in Thunderbird

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

WoW: online plague

A sickness spreads in World of Warcraft

2005-09-19 gaming • wow

... natural causes

It happens sometimes, people just explode.

2005-09-19 electricity • urbanlegend

Oktoberfest noise

Quieting the music

Thunderbird tips

Very useful stuff in here

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

Revolution trailer

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

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

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

2005-09-16 atari • gaming • retro • weird

Debian SMTP auth 2

Newer instructions

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

Debian SMTP auth

This seems awfully complicated

2005-09-16 auth • linux • mail • nuix • postfix • reference • sasl • smtp • ssl • sysadmin

Firefox exploit count

More published sploits than MSIE

2005-09-16 browsers • firefox • ie • security • vulnerabilities

Revolution controller

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

Been waiting for someone to do this (via Waxy)

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

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

2005-09-16 europe • skype • vc

RoundCube Webmail

Intereting looking free webmail system

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

How to tell MacOS to not worry about the certificate signature

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

"I sure need to pee"

Bush looking irritated at a UN meeting

GYWO / New Orleans

We always love Get Your War On

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

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

2005-09-15 apps • email • help • hold • mail

JUnit 4 preview

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

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

Thunderbird / Dovecot

Patch to enable secure authentication

tags: Tivo spin bullshit

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

2005-09-15 blog • drm • oreilly • tivo

Bush potty break

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

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

5 ways to save games

Some interesting criticism (via Slashdot)

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

More TiVo stupidity

Matt breaks it down (via Marc)

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

N.O. horror roundup

jwz has great pull quotes

2005-09-14 hurricanekatrina • katrina

Stupid TiVo choice

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

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

N.O. euthanasia

Killing people rather than evacuating them (via Metafilter)

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

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

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

Planet skulduggery

Tale of data theft in the world of minor object astronomy

The secret code to Planet X

Y Combinator report

This program seems to have worked out quite well

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

How many FEMAs?

What other agencies are a total disaster?

2005-09-13 dubya • politics • stupidity

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 article • bush • disaster • government • hurricane • katrina • media • neworleans • news • newsweek • politics

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

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

Brownie resigns

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

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

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

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

Their obligation is to the company, not American people

Oracle / Siebel $5.85B

Siebel is worth 1.5 Skypes

Der Schützenkönig

The king of Knabenschiessen

Six Flags underwater

Another crazy photo from New Orleans

2005-09-12 cool • hurricane • news • photo

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

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

eBay/Skype: $2.6-4.1B

Stock Market News and Investment Information | Reuters.com

Vasectomy schwag

Har har (via BoingBoing)

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

A hotel for masochists?

New Orleans failures

NYT breaks down various problems

2005-09-11 katrina • news • politics

Quicksilver / Google

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

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

Lost at Tora Bora NYT

How the US let bin Laden escape

2005-09-11 bushadministration • news • polis

US health economics

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

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

First digital camera

30 years ago at Kodak (via

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

As a web page (via AmitP)

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

Roy Horn lives!

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

Google, Yahoo changes

Thumbnails of home pages of each site

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

Second Life now free

An account is free; virtual currency is not

Fuck yourself, Cheney

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

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

Second hand store

It's like modern vaudeville!

Disappearing mouse

MacOS bug, apparently I'm not the only one

Debian and UTF-8

Some notes trying to make things work

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

OS X key shortcuts

PDF, but a good listing

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

Hide the MacOS Dock

Wish I knew about orientation top a long time ago

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

JavaScript guide

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

Smoking prevalance

In developed countries

Red Cross denied

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

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

Ohio voting mess

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

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

Swiss language requirements?

Switzerland considers requiring language study for residency permits

Brushed metal's end

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

MacOS intl input

Various ways to type non-ASCII

NTP mgmt scripts

Uses tcpdump to track time server stats

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

More eBay / Skype

summary of the WSJ article

and me a long way from my gaming PC

Swiss import duties

What it costs to import something you buy online

New digital SLR: full frame, $3300

2005-09-08 5d • <pixie> • camera • canon • dslr • hardware • photo • photography • read-later • review

Zuni's prep chefs

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

eBay / Skype / $5B?

Another Skype rumour

iPod phone looks dumb

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

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

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

B+H grey market

Direct explanation

Cairo graphics lib

Graphics code that works on many output targets

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

N.O junkie market

Shit's gotta flow

2005-09-07 drugs • katrina • linkblog • news • nola

Language startup secs

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

Greg tells a story of a new business model for games

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

Saturn moon image

Arresting picture

JavaScript debug logs

log4j like thing for JS (via Hot Links)

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

Web 2.0 API list

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

Feathered dinosaurs?!

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

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

Swiss rail maps

Lenses for beginners

Good overview of the camera lens market

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

Safe, but despair

Py Subway milestone

Another Rails-like effort; has reached milestone 1

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

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

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

Astrodome photos

Interesting set from someone volunteering there (via Waxy)

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

Seashore Mac images

Cocoa app that uses GIMP technology

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

Red Cross not in N.O.

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

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

Long live games

Costikyan turns his GDC rant into a good article

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

Failed presidency

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

N.O.: race class

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

2005-09-02 equality • hurricane_katrina • imported_from_blue_dot • news • race_issues • social_commentary

New Orleans photos

Excellent set (via Metafilter)

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

Red Cross donation

Amazon is hosting a page for donations

Zermatt tourist site

First weekend excursion

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

Good man on the street story (via Waxy)

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

No embedded fonts

I always wondered why this didn't work.

2005-09-02 typography • web • webdesign

More locals, a bit more upbeat (via Lynn)

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

Superdome gunfire

Sounds like freakin' Mad Max. How awful.

New Orleans satellite

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

Superdome horror

Rapes, a suicide, and imprisonment

New Orleans flooded

Best photo I've seen so far

2005-09-01 flood • katrina • neworleans • photos

Individual tragedy

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

N.O. local reports

Google map annotated with site specific reports in New Orleans

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