Nelson's Linkblog 2005-10

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Ultima VII design docs

Interesting collection of Origin documents

2005-10-31 game_design

Pink Floyd / John Peel

unreleased sessions? (via metachat)

2005-10-31 art • bbc • cool • download • john_peel • johnpeel • mp3 • music • pink • pink_floyd • pinkfloyd

Rusty is a homosexual

Heart-warming ending (via Metafilter)

2005-10-31 comic • comics • fun • funny • gay • homosexuality • humor • humour • queer • satire • writing

Pumpkin case mod

2005-10-31 case • computer • design • diy • funny • halloween • humor • mod • pc • pumpkin • technology

Google ad business

Detailed article from the NYT

2005-10-31 advertising • google • privacy

Group rumoured to have helped former SS escape prosecution

2005-10-31 conspiracy • dsrp • espionage • germany • history • jews • nazis • odessa • ss • wikipedia

Make games in 1 week

Rapid prototyping lessons

2005-10-29 article • creativity • design • development • game • gamedev • games • gaming • productivity • programming • software

Fredericksburg, TX

Be a tourist in the Hill Country

Denny Hastert blog

2005-10-28 blog • blog.political • blogs • commontimes • interesting • later • politics • republican • toread • u.s.-news • us

Frauenkirche opening

Official consecration this Sunday

George Takei officially comes out, although people have known for years.

Dismal and excellent

Archie comics gets hip, ca. 1987 (via Waxy)

2005-10-28 archie • betty • comics • funny • goth • humor • subculture • um... • veronica • web • wtf?!

SF UFO sightings

Strange lights (via Eric)

2005-10-28 news • ufo

Jed's Other Poem

Pretty volunteer video (via Kevin Fox)

2005-10-28 apple • art • cool • design • geek • grandaddy • music • programming • retro • typography • video

2005-10-27 zurich

Jenisch, with their own history of oppression.

WoW travel guide

Postcard series from World of Warcraft (via Kotaku)

2005-10-27 funny • games • humor • koreatalk • mmo • reference • travel • vgames/general • warcraft • worldofwarcraft • wow

Updates for 20d and 350d

2005-10-26 350d • camera • canon • download • dslr • firmware • foto • graphics • photo • photography • software

Gloria verdad the sparkle, that it was bona.

Men posting personal ads as women

Vegas dining scene

Still the best concentration of chefs anywhere

Gitmo desperation

Hunger striker wants to die

2005-10-26 bush • guantanamo • iraq • politics • usa

UVic students catch and eat campus bunnies (via MeFi)

2005-10-26 canada • college • food • linkblog

Chain reaction game

Beautiful presentation (via Metafilter)

2005-10-26 art • cool • entertainment • flash • fun • game • games • internet • puzzle • puzzles • toys

Sun's empty Grid

No customers, big surprise (via stevej)

2005-10-26 embarassment • news • sun • theregister

Joining a startup?

Questions to ask (via populicious)

2005-10-25 business • career • entrepreneurship • interview • job • jobs • management • questions • startup • tips • vc

Liberia history

America's forgotten colony

2005-10-25 wikipedia

Mexican-American war

Great waiterrant

Beating the market

It's easy, just be a senator and beat it 12% / year! (via kottke)

2005-10-25 bigend • corporate-state-corruption • corruption • economics • end_of_rome • finance • government • investing • lies • politics • x_reminded_me_of_y

Network MP3 player. Now! Not ugly!

2005-10-25 audio • gadgets • hardware • linux • mp3 • music • network • shopping • streaming • wifi • wireless

Looks very good!

2005-10-24 civ • civ4 • computergames • game • games • játék • read • review • reviews

Boondocks on TV

My favourite comic strip is going to be animated?!

2005-10-24 article • boondocks • cartoon • cartoons • comics • media • politics • review • television • tv • webcomics

Saturn moon / rings

2005-10-21 cool • dione • photos • science • space

Yet more on the meltdown, nothing very interesting here though.

High dynamic range

Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro: digital camera with two sets of sensors, one for subtle detail

2005-10-21 foto • fotografia • hdr • monitor • photo • photography

Creepy color illusion

I want a new visual cortex, this is too freaky

2005-10-21 animation • art • color • cool • fun • games • illusion • illusions • images • optical • science

Tom DeLay mugshot

As seen in dictionary, under "shit-eating grin"

2005-10-21 corruption • delay • funny • humor • law • news • photo • photography • photos • politics • tomdelay

419 scam details

Profile of a scammer in Nigeria

Level3 outage again

Another link that's only good for 24 hours, but see the big event around 00:00

2005-10-21 analyze • develop • europe • internet • isp • network • report • tools • traffic

This link will only for another 18 hours, but here's the outage

2005-10-21 damage • dns • health • internet • isps • latency • metrics • networking • route • sysadmin • tools

Major internet outage

Don't have a better reference than this, but definitely felt it around 8am GMT

2005-10-21 internet • outage

Unreleased game, no ROMs available. Guy claims to have a copy.

2005-10-21 console • games • nes • nintendo • prototype • weird • zelda

US war atrocity

Allegation US troops desecrated Taliban corpses (via MeFi)

2005-10-20 afghanistan • current_events • iraq • torture • twot • war

Making South Park

6 days an episode! (via MeFi)

2005-10-20 entertainment

Beignets are back!

Small pastry, big smile

Scooter Turd Blossom

What a surprise, Libby and Rove colluded.

Free lens distortion correction

2005-10-19 camera • freeware • lens • photo • photography • photoshop • plugin • software • tools • utilities • windows

Tourist info for watch geeks

2005-10-19 swiss • travel

Clock of the Long Now

nice update on the project, with photos (via Slashdot)

2005-10-19 art • article • clock • cool • design • future • history • interesting • science • technology • time

SF burrito reviews

Man, I'm missing this (via Metafilter)

2005-10-19 bestof • burritos • eats • examples • food • sf • useful

GPS photo linking

Still early stages on this tech

2005-10-19 geo • geotagging • gis • gps • howto • mac • mapping • maps • osx • photo • photography

Mass games video

Not great quality, but it's the real deal (via BoingBoing)

2005-10-19 asia • communism • communist • dance • festival • korea • northkorea • political • video

Destroy hot action

Glitch pr0n (via memepool)

2005-10-18 art • blog • blogs • cool • design • geek • porn • sex • video • videos • vlog

Printer fingerprints 2

Images showing the dots.

2005-10-18 code • eff • hacking • hardware • printer • printers • privacy • reference • security • tech • technology

Printer fingerprints

EFF figures out that Xerox printers stamp output with date, time, serial number

Bailing out of a plane

Great glider story (via Zawodny)

2005-10-18 aviation • flying • glider • safety • soaring

Fyodor nmap interview

Surprisingly interesting read (via Slashdot)

2005-10-17 fyodor • hackers • hacking • internet • interview • interviews • nmap • people • security • tools • toread

New game styles

More Costik goodness

2005-10-17 2005 • acc • art-bell • business • games • geek • home • politics • presentation • videogame • www.costik.com

Life hackers NYT

Great article, congrats to Merlin et al!

2005-10-17 article • business • design • gtd • lifehack • lifehacks • microsoft • productivity • technology • usability • work

Good deals on photo equipment

brinimaxwell.com

2005-10-15 art • brini • craft • decor • design • drag • fashion • homemaking • retro • shopping • vlog

Y Combinator wrapup

Great summary of how the startup experiment worked. Very impressive results!

2005-10-14 article • business • development • entrepreneurship • essay • investing • paulgraham • programming • startup • vc • ycombinator

Mass credit card fraud

Lots of people getting $9.99 and $24.99 charges on their cards

2005-10-14 43folders • creditcard • creditcards • finances • financial • fraud • money

Mass Games montage

Not quite video, but lots of good photos. Flash, sound. (via Metafilter)

2005-10-14 dystopia • flash • images • korea • marxism • north_korea • odd • propaganda

Web 2.0 crankypants

A dissenting view (via ...)

2005-10-14 ajax • bubble • business • column • internet • maney • news • technology • web2 • web2.0 • web2con

My outsourced life

Very funny because the author is such an ass (via kottke)

2005-10-14 article • business • culture • economics • fun • funny • humor • india • outsource • outsourcing • productivity

Staged soldiers

Bush teleconference has questions predetermined

MySpace js worm

Clever XSS-style hack (via RISKS)

2005-10-14 ajax • hack • hacking • hacks • javascript • myspace • programming • security • web • worm • xss

A state of mind review

Screened in New York in August

A state of mind

2002 documentary about the North Korea mass games

2005-10-13 communism • documentary • dprk • games • kim • korea • mass • north • north_korea • northkorea • watch

Vote for your ruler

2005-10-13 comics • cool • funny • general • humor • movies • politics • president • satire • superman • zod

no more halo photo crops for W

2005-10-13 humor • images • photography • politics • w

Apple roundup 2

Daring Fireball with some colour commentary (via Kottke)

2005-10-13 apple • article • blog • business • ipod • itunes • mac • mobile • tech • technology • video

All the announcements in one. $2/tv episode is so smart.

2005-10-13 2005 • apple • blog • gadgets • ipod • itunes • jobs • news • stevejobs • tivo • video

Frist crookedness

Frist held stocks outside his not-blind trust

Clever collection of icons (via Joystiq)

2005-10-12 art • cool • design • fun • funny • games • graphics • humor • mario • nintendo • videogames

suicide note.ppt

Painfully funny Onion (via kottke)

2005-10-12 culture • fun • funny • humor • humour • management • news • onion • powerpoint • presentation • satire

Interop agreement. (via Waxy)

2005-10-12 c7 • chat • cool • im • internet • messenger • microsoft • msn • news • technology • yahoo

Django + Google Maps

Nice video demo (via Waxy)

2005-10-12 business • django • geo • gis • google • googleearth • interesting • maps • programming • python • visualization

NYT columnist lossage

Great graph showing how stupid the NYT content wall is (via Marc)

2005-10-12 biz • garden • humor • journalism • media • nicco • nytimes • research • subscriptions • via:bkerr • web

Vint Cerf at Google

2005-10-11 batas • google • humor • internet • people • photos • pictures • vintoncerf

Windows PrintFile

dump a postscript file directly to a printer, no drivers required. Simple.

2005-10-11 commandline • file • freeware • postscript • print • printing • software • text • utilities • win32 • windows

Spam stock tracker

Monitoring the pump-n-dump players

2005-10-11 business • economics • email • finance • funny • interesting • investing • money • spam • stock • stocks

Congratulations, Andy.

2005-10-10 business • calendar • collaboration • events • internet • news • socialsoftware • upcoming • upcoming.org • web • yahoo