Nelson's Linkblog 2005-11

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Scammy camera dealer gets lambasted (via Metafilter)

2005-11-30 blog • blogs • business • camera • fraud • news • photo • photography • scam • shopping • web

Work and leisure

Interesting analysis of European and American work patterns (via Marc)

2005-11-30 article • business • culture • economics • europe • labor • money • politics • productivity • usa • work

Serious Burgundy taster guy

2005-11-30 appellation • burgundy • france • french • pinot • reference • travel • wine • winecritic • winewriter

Drifts Flash game

Relaxing and surprisingly deep

2005-11-28 action • flash • fun • game • games

Hidden game gems

Nice roundup of good lesser known games

2005-11-28 article • game • games • gaming • list • lists • ps2 • review • reviews • video • videogames

MySQL insert delayed

Faster inserts; wish I knew about this before running my giant job

2005-11-27 database • delayed • insert • mysql • performance • programming • reference • sql

Canal timelapse

Beautiful movie made from webcam grabs (via BoingBoing)

2005-11-27 art • canal • cool • google • interesting • movies • panama • timelapse • travel • video • webcam

My Two Front Teeth

My friend runs this Christmas charity, it's quite good

Nice games blog (via Metafilter)

2005-11-26 blog • blogs • flash • flashgames • free • fun • game • games • gaming • reviews • web

Sonya Thomas' home page

2005-11-25 eating • etc • food • fun • funny • gross • humor • koreanamerican • sonyathomas • weird

16M+ downloads of this free excellent media player

Blog of one of my favourite former Googlers, Doug E. (via John Battelle)

2005-11-25 blog • blogs • business • geek • google • history • internet • marketing • search • technology • web

Ah Pook is here

Excellent animation for a William S Burroughs riff

2005-11-24 animation • burroughs • film • poetry • videos

From an old NYT story

Civilization IV demo

The new UI is great

Shooting open locks

Harder than it looks (via jwz)

2005-11-23 cool • experiment • fun • guns • howto • lock • locks • movies • research • science • security

MotoModders.net

more RAZR hacking

2005-11-23 cell • cellphone • hack • hacking • hacks • mobile • mods • motorola • phone • razr • software

New phone, new hacking

2005-11-23 cellphone • hacks • hardware • mobile • moto • motorola • razr • reference • tech • toread • v3

Jewel thief profile

Poignant story (via Metafilter)

2005-11-21 article • crime • jewelthief • life • neat • theft • weird • writing • writingideas

WoW pricefixing

Some techniques (via amitp)

2005-11-21 ah • bubblegeneration • economics • economy • eve-online • farming • games • mmorpg • orlybot • worldofwarcraft • wow

dictionary tagged with parts of speech

2005-11-20 dictionary • english • language • lists • programming • reference • security • tools • word • wordlist • words

Can't flee the news conference (via Metafilter)

2005-11-20 bush • funny • humor • news • politics

Thunderbird folders

By default it only checks inbox for new mail; this is dumb

2005-11-20 computing • email • imap • mozilla • read_later • software • thunderbird • tips • tricks • tutorial • web

Very high marks, so far it looks good to me too.

2005-11-20 computers • games • show17 • tech • videogames

Amazon bank debit

New payment option, interesting

WoW ninja looting

Interesting interview on page 2 (via wonderland)

2005-11-12 gaming • parasites • sociology

MySQL Blackhole

supports all kinds of indexing! (via Zawodny)

2005-11-12 blackhole • dummy • mysql • replication

Took long enough

Poll: Most Americans Doubt Bush's Honesty

A Paris drive, map

Here's the route

2005-11-11 car • cars • ferrari • france • google • map • maps • movie • paris • rendezvous • video

Famous 1978 video of someone driving insane through Paris

2005-11-11 amazing • car • cars • cool • film • mefi • movies • post • racing • underground • video

Pigeon nightmare

Cold sweats, nice photo

Fundie whacko Pat Robertson on the warpath

Biggest boss in WoW, 40 samples of his l00t

Giant game maps

Displaying video game pixel art at 3000x6000 resolution

2005-11-11 cool • games • tv • video

Freaky found photo

Takei interview

Refreshingly detailed interview with Mr. Sulu on coming out

2005-11-10 #geeks • beth • gay • history • main • people • politics • race • sex • social • television

Half-way around

12,500 mile flight, 23 hours

hee hee (via BoingBoing)

2005-11-10 beth • cool • flickr • food • games • gaming • humor • katamari • katamaridamacy • photography • sushi

Full text of MS memos

No need to just read the NYT and WSJ stories (via Waxy)

2005-11-09 ajax • business • google • internet • microsoft • software • strategy • technology • web • web2.0 • windows

A'dam antique wine

Shop in Amsterdam we went to a few years ago, very interesting stuff

CIA gulag response

A criminal investigation.. into the leak, not the prisons

"Laser-like focus"

54,300 cliches in Google

Early comments from the development

2005-11-09 article • engineering • git • kernel • linux • patch • programming • research • scm • software • version-control

The new source code control hack used in the Linux kernel

2005-11-09 development • distributed • git • kernel • linux • opensource • programming • scm • software • tools • versioncontrol

Debian architectures

In order of popularity. PPC and Sparc are main non-x86

Cruise ship used aural weapon?!

"The Movies" review

Sounds like another Molyneux cool concept, poor gameplay

Cool "about this company" page; these are the guys behind Puzzle Pirates

2005-11-07 rhit-cs-biz

Third party software to get data out of GPS units

2005-11-07 free • freeware • garmin • geocaching • gis • gps • maps • opensource • software • tools • windows

Prison Break: T-Bag

I'm loving this show, and this is my favourite character

Known bad intel

White House was told statements were likely false, yet used them as justification for war on Iraq

2005-11-06 bush • doubts • intelligence • iraq • misleading • news • politics • torture

Pretty old photo

Blue ball machine

With sound (via Zawodny)

2005-11-06 animation • art • cool • design • flash • fun • funny • gif • graphics • humor • web

Finally, hard news a sequel to one of the coolest RPGs ever is coming

Microfinance gift

eBay founder gives $100M to Tufts, but they have to invest in microloans

I've been following this computational artist for years. Once every few months I look at all his cool new stuff.

2005-11-04 art • artist • design • generative • graphics • inspiration • interactive • portfolio • processing • programming • visualization

Interactive visualization (beware: Java)

2005-11-03 applet • delaunay • geometry • graphics • java • math • research • science • triangulation • visualization • voronoi

Voronoi treemaps

Interesting visualization technique (see images in the PDF)

2005-11-03 acm • article • research • treemap • visualization

OpenSource.Nokia

Smart move (via FJ!!)

2005-11-03 cellphone • community • development • java • linux • mobile • nokia • opensource • programming • software • symbian

More DRM stupidity

Sony puts DRM to hinder iTunes; DRM provider emails cracking instructions to hapless user (via shellen)

2005-11-03 apple • copyright • drm • ipod • itunes • mp3 • music • p2p • security • software • sony

Hey, the totalitarian prisons were already built!

2005-11-02 afghanistan • articles • cia • iraq • news • politics • rights • terrorism • toread • torture • war

Bridge suicide map

SF Chron is running a great series on Golden Gate Bridge suicides right now (via BoingBoing)

2005-11-02 architecture • bridge • death • design • interesting • map • maps • sanfrancisco • statistics • suicide • visualization

Michelin 3 star NYC

4 restaurants, wow! (via Marc)

Scooter on crutches

Unappetizing Google Maps application

Web representation of a journey: GPS track, photos, maps, etc. Nice integration.

2005-11-01 earth • geotagging • gis • google • googleearth • googlemaps • gps • mapping • maps • social • software

EXIF / GPS tags

CLosest I've found to a standard

2005-11-01 cartography • exif • gps • metadata • photo • photography • photos • reference • standard • tags • time

Forerunner / G. Earth

integrate data from your GPS into Google Earth display

2005-11-01 cycling • forerunner • freeware • garmin • googleearth • googlemaps • gps • gpx+tools • run • running • sport

Forerunner software

Handy community supplied list

2005-11-01 .restored • forerunner • forerunner_sw • gps • gps/garmin/forerunner • gps/running • hack • laufen • running • sport

GPS watch hacking

Garmin ForeRunner 201 integration with maps

2005-11-01 geo • gps • howto • mapping • maps • photography • running • satellite • software • tools • xml

Lots of rootkit crap just to play a crappy CD (via BoingBoing)

2005-11-01 blog • copyright • drm • hacking • music • privacy • rootkit • security • software • sony • windows