Nelson's Linkblog 2005-11

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Scammy camera dealer gets lambasted (via Metafilter)

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

Work and leisure

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

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

Serious Burgundy taster guy

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

Drifts Flash game

Relaxing and surprisingly deep

2005-11-28 fun • action • game • flash • games • nelson:autotagged

Hidden game gems

Nice roundup of good lesser known games

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

MySQL insert delayed

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

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

Canal timelapse

Beautiful movie made from webcam grabs (via BoingBoing)

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

My Two Front Teeth

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

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Nice games blog (via Metafilter)

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

Sonya Thomas' home page

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

16M+ downloads of this free excellent media player

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

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

Ah Pook is here

Excellent animation for a William S Burroughs riff

2005-11-24 burroughs • animation • film • videos • poetry • nelson:autotagged

From an old NYT story

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Civilization IV demo

The new UI is great

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Shooting open locks

Harder than it looks (via jwz)

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

MotoModders.net

more RAZR hacking

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

New phone, new hacking

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

Jewel thief profile

Poignant story (via Metafilter)

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

WoW pricefixing

Some techniques (via amitp)

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

dictionary tagged with parts of speech

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

Can't flee the news conference (via Metafilter)

2005-11-20 funny • bush • humor • news • politics • nelson:autotagged

Thunderbird folders

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

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

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

2005-11-20 videogames • tech • computers • games • show17 • nelson:autotagged

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Amazon bank debit

New payment option, interesting

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WoW ninja looting

Interesting interview on page 2 (via wonderland)

2005-11-12 gaming • sociology • parasites • nelson:autotagged

MySQL Blackhole

supports all kinds of indexing! (via Zawodny)

2005-11-12 replication • mysql • blackhole • dummy • nelson:autotagged

Took long enough

Poll: Most Americans Doubt Bush's Honesty

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A Paris drive, map

Here's the route

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

Famous 1978 video of someone driving insane through Paris

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

Pigeon nightmare

Cold sweats, nice photo

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Fundie whacko Pat Robertson on the warpath

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Biggest boss in WoW, 40 samples of his l00t

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Giant game maps

Displaying video game pixel art at 3000x6000 resolution

2005-11-11 tv • video • games • cool • nelson:autotagged

Freaky found photo

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Takei interview

Refreshingly detailed interview with Mr. Sulu on coming out

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

Half-way around

12,500 mile flight, 23 hours

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hee hee (via BoingBoing)

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

Full text of MS memos

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

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

A'dam antique wine

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

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CIA gulag response

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

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"Laser-like focus"

54,300 cliches in Google

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Early comments from the development

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

The new source code control hack used in the Linux kernel

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

Debian architectures

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

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Cruise ship used aural weapon?!

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"The Movies" review

Sounds like another Molyneux cool concept, poor gameplay

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

2005-11-07 rhit-cs-biz • nelson:autotagged

Third party software to get data out of GPS units

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

Prison Break: T-Bag

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

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Known bad intel

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

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

Pretty old photo

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Blue ball machine

With sound (via Zawodny)

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

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

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Microfinance gift

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

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

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

Interactive visualization (beware: Java)

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

Voronoi treemaps

Interesting visualization technique (see images in the PDF)

2005-11-03 visualization • article • treemap • acm • research • nelson:autotagged

OpenSource.Nokia

Smart move (via FJ!!)

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

More DRM stupidity

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

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

Hey, the totalitarian prisons were already built!

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

Bridge suicide map

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

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

Michelin 3 star NYC

4 restaurants, wow! (via Marc)

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Scooter on crutches

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Unappetizing Google Maps application

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

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

EXIF / GPS tags

CLosest I've found to a standard

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

Forerunner / G. Earth

integrate data from your GPS into Google Earth display

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

Forerunner software

Handy community supplied list

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

GPS watch hacking

Garmin ForeRunner 201 integration with maps

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

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

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