Nelson's Linkblog 2006-04

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Rotten: "Bongs"

An unusually funny entry in the Rotten Library

RAID Reconstructor

Data forensics. RAID 0 is a bad thing. (via AxMe)

Domain squatting with Google AdSense

An unpleasant side of the online ads business

2006-04-30 ads • advertising • adwords • business • culture • domains • google • internet • marketing • spelling • typos

Poor MSN showing

Surprising that MSN has had such a hard time accelerating (via Zawodny)

2006-04-30 advertising • google • internet • microsoft • money • msft • msn • search • strategy • web • yahoo

CDi: the ugly duckling

Feature on the forgotten console

2006-04-30 article • games • history • retro

Sun's business plan

Sad to watch them slowly die (via jwz)

2006-04-29 bibot • debian-zh • funny • humor • java • pnt • solaris • sun

Freaky Japanese style (via Evan Martin)

Where's the head?

via Daily Rotten

Secret torture flights

Over 1000 CIA flights in Europe

Interesting and detailed

2006-04-26 cooking • diy • food • howto • kitchen • knife • knives • reference • sharpening • tools • tutorial

Mother 3 Preview

Out in Japanese now

Anti-Oblivion review

Rare negative comments. Mostly ones I agree with, but I still like the game.

2006-04-24 article • critique • funny • game-article • oblivion

Why MySpace sucks

Somewhat amusing investigation of vapidity (via Digg)

2006-04-23 article • blog • culture • funny • google • humor • internet • myspace • science • social • web

Single player games

GalCiv author speaks in favour of good AI. The whole blog is quite interesting.

2006-04-22 article • galciv • gamedesign • games • gaming

Miracle of Birth NSFW

if mommy and baby are synthetic (via jwz)

2006-04-22 artificialbirth • baby • birth • funny • medical • realdoll • robot • sf • simulation • training • weird

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Awesome Pointer Sisters / Sesame Street video (via Hotlinks)

2006-04-21 animation • education • funny • music • nostalgia • numbers • sesamestreet • television • tv • video • youtube

Oblivion sales advice

Suggesting Bethesda be more generous to build a market

Server-side <blink>

Web 2.1 has arrived! (via Waxy)

2006-04-20 ajax • blink • fun • funny • geek • html • humor • programming • web • web2.0 • web2.1

Bosnian pyramid

I'd been thinking this would be a hoax, but apparently they've found masonry

startup from some friends working on gestural interfaces

2006-04-20 capture • gestural • gui • hand-gesture • interaction • interface • jobs • technology • ui • underkoffler • user-interface

Lovin the visualization (via Metafilter)

2006-04-20 cool • energy • gas • map • maps • money • prices • shopping • tools • travel • usa

PhilG on EOS system

General overview of Canon SLR camera equipment

2006-04-20 article • camera • canon • digital • eos • guide • hardware • lens • photo • photography • reference

Google Calendar API

An extension of Atom and RSS

2006-04-20 api • atom • calendar • data • gdata • google • programming • rest • rss • web • xml

Intensive French class

Sounds exhausting, but maybe this is what I should do next week

Alliance Française

I need to learn French, is this the way?

2006-04-19 education

Windows software to display a list of what actions are pending a reboot

2006-04-19 free • freeware • reboot • software • sysadmin • system • tool • tools • utilities • utility • windows

Apple DRM sucks

Great example (via Zawodny)

2006-04-19 apple • ipod • itunes • liberty • sucks • wtf

Message forum for people believing this is the End Times. Come join the Tribulation Force!

2006-04-19 abitcrazy • bible • christian • christianity • cookyrapturechristians • forum • fundie • imported • lunies • rapture • religion

Photomatix HDR tutorial

Nicely illustrated, but HDR is quickly becoming the #1 overused photo cliche

2006-04-19 flickr • hdr • howto • photo • photography • photomatix • photoshop • reference • software • tutorial • tutorials

Billboard liberation

Awesome agitprop

2006-04-18 billboardliberationfront • sanfrancisco

Free MUNI today in SF

Get around town easily

OpenOffice Calc Tips

Great little blog with useful content

2006-04-17 blog • calc • office • ooo • openoffice • opensource • reference • software • spreadsheet • tips • tutorial

Slab City airlines

Great general aviation story

Gigapxl technology

I've seen some of these prints, they are astounding

2006-04-17 articles • cameras • foto • gigapixel • hacks • nifty • photo • photography • photography_highres • photos

A Katrina moment

Hard to imagine

2006-04-17 hurricane • katrina • katrina-rita

IP geolocation GPL

Free database of where IP addresses are physically

2006-04-17 2.0 • api • geo • geodata • geolocation • gpl • ip • location • mapping • useful • webanalytics

Har har (via P@ Chanezon)

2006-04-15 deathstar • funny • geek • humor • rest • soa • starwars • toread • web-services • webservices • ws-*

Land of the Rising Fun

1up feature on quirky Japanese games

2006-04-15 article • contact • games • gaming • japan • japanese • nifty • nintendo • toread • trainers • videogames

Highly anticipated RPG; Japanese release is April 20

Blosxom annotated

Line by line deconstruction of the little blog software that could

2006-04-14 annotated • annotations • blog • blosxom • perl • programmierung • programming • reference • useful • website

OS security picture

A picture is worth a thousand stack frames (via Digg)

2006-04-14 apache • comparison • iis • linux • microsoft • security • server • software • visualization • web • windows

HDR food photography

HDR is the flavour of the month! (via Bostock)

2006-04-14 coolinarika • food • hdr • hdr.photography • nerd • photo • photography • photos • recetas • tips • tutorial

Boards of Canada music video

Fantastic! (via Metafilter)

2006-04-14 boardsofcanada • boc • music • musicvideo • skydive • skydiving • surfing • toread • video • warp

Non-shooting shmups

Bending a niche game genre

2006-04-13 2006 • blog_post • coluna • every_extended_extra • games • shmup • shmups • shooter • www.gamesetwatch.com

Civ4 SDK release

Firaxis is releasing most of the source code for their hit new game

US religion maps

The maps linked from here are higher quality

2006-04-13 culture • demographics • geography • interesting • map • maps • politics • reference • religion • research • usa

Mapping US Religion

Fascinating view of American religious life (via Populicious)

2006-04-13 culture • demographics • interesting • map • maps • politics • reference • religion • statistics • usa • visualization

DLink NTP abuse #2

Details of how the abuser was tracked down

2006-04-12 abuse • business • d-link • dlink • dos-attack • internet • netiquette • network • ntp • software • time

Argentinian food

Excellent food writing (via just about everyone)

2006-04-12 argentina • article • blog • cooking • culture • food • funny • meat • recipes • steak • travel

Optical illusion

No, it's not animated (via Populicious)

2006-04-12 art • fun • funny • graphics • illusion • illusions • image • images • moving • optical • weird

Top 10 casual games

Synthesizing data from various publishers (via Phil Steinmeyer)

2006-04-11 casual • casualgame • free • games • gameslist • list • logler • rating • shareware • source • top10

5 suggested Flickr tags

Funny funny from Merlin

2006-04-11 5ives • flickr • funny • geeks • ha • humor • humour • list • lists • photography • tags

More on Game 6 video

Blog post from the creator

2006-04-11 baseball • cool • fun • funny • games • mets • nintendo • redsox • sports • video • videogames

Election dirty tricks

Bush White House implicated in election fraud

1986 World Series #6

Epic baseball game retold in NES baseball video (via Metafilter)

2006-04-11 baseball • commentary • esportes • games • humor • kuso • mashup • nes • rbi • video • videogames

Oblivion GPU shootout

$600 video card means you can play at 30fps!

2006-04-11 gaming • graphics • morrowind • performance • rpg

Jack Bauer facts

shouldn't be compared to Jesus. Jack rose from the dead not once, but twice.

2006-04-10 24 • facts • funny • humor • humor_facts • humour • jack_bauer • jackbauer • lists • television • tv

Shadow Highlight tool in Photoshop

Feels like cheating when I use this, but it helps a lot

2006-04-10 articles • design • howto • images • photo • photography • photoshop • reference • shadow • tips • tutorial

Drunk sad clowns

This painting hangs in Joe's of Westlake, Daly City, CA

San Francisco burrito

Wikipedia: a learned article on every topic

2006-04-10 43folders • burrito • burritos • eccentric • food • rl • sanfrancisco • sf • todo • travel • wikipedia

Write game in a week

Fast hack project in Python, nicely documented (via digg)

2006-04-10 design • development • game • gamedev • games • howto • programming • python • rpg • software • tutorial

Air Force One defense

Leak supposedly a security risk, but maybe not really?

2006-04-10 air-force-one • airplane • infos • military • news • reference • sec • secret • sensation

Red Hat + JBoss

$350M, $140M in cash.

Vib Ribbon intro

Wish I could actually play this (via GameSetWatch)

Tokyo impression

Poetic description of the scale of Tokyo

Chromatic aberration

Great detailed article

2006-04-08 cameras • color • digitalkameras • lens • lenses • optics • photo • photography • reel-stream • science • shake

Apple has Palladium?

Questioning whether Intel Macs have "trusted computing" crap in them

2006-04-08 apple • copyright • drm • hardware • intel • mac • news • palladium • privacy • security • tpm

Climbing icebergs

is a bad idea (via Steve)

GalCiv II Postmortem

Awesomely frank article about developing the new indie game

2006-04-08 budget • design • economics • galciv • galciv2 • game • games • gaming • resource • stratigy • support

D-Link NTP abuse

Another vendor screws up the NTP client

2006-04-07 abuse • business • dlink • hardware • internet • legal • network • networking • ntp • security • software

Oblivion updates

Humae message from developers on the next patches and updates to come

New in Python 2.5

Quick summary (via Zawodny, who really should learn some Py)

2006-04-06 2.5 • features • future • language • new • news • programming • python • python25 • reference • toread

Oblivion titties

The models are topless, so someone removed the bra object from them

2006-04-06 mods • oblivion

Bush implicated

Libby rats out Cheney and Bush

OpenOffice SUMIF

Helpful blog of tips for the spreadsheet

2006-04-05 openoffice

Shmup contest winner

Yay, new shootem ups

Oblivion tweak guide

Exhaustive collection of suggestions

2006-04-04 game • games • gaming • guide • howto • oblivion • reference • rpg • software • tweak • tweaks

Processor speeds

Handy chart comparing Intel, AMD, and PowerPC

2006-04-04 apple • chart • comparison • computer • cpu • hardware • mac • pc • processor • reference • tech

Spyware and Yahoo

Ben Edelman's latest

2006-04-04 advertising • adware • click-fraud • clickfraud • fraud • google • search • sem • seo • spyware • yahoo

Speech accent archive

Repository of audio samples of accents (via Mark)

2006-04-03 accent • accents • archive • audio • education • english • fun • language • linguistics • reference • speech

Funny list of real estate ads

2006-04-03 blog • blogs • bubble • economics • funny • house • housing • housingbubble • humor • real_estate • realestate

Present like Lessig

Reverse engineering Larry Lessig's amazing presentation style

2006-04-03 business • communication • design • howto • lessig • powerpoint • presentation • presentations • speaking • style • tips

Little mech sculpture

Beautiful metalwork (via populicious)

2006-04-03 art • cool • design • gallery • images • metal • photography • photos • robot • robots • sculpture

180 Solutions people

Sucks to work for an evil company (via Waxy)

2006-04-03 180solutions • adware • article • interesting • interview • news • privacy • revenews • security • spyware • toread

Sleep less with pills

Modafinil is $4/pill on the grey market (via Zawodny)

2006-04-03 drugs • health • interesting • lifehacks • modafinil • productivity • provigil • read-later • rest • sleep • uberman

Finally, a decent free zip utility for Windows

2006-04-02 archive • compression • free • freeware • rar • software • tool • tools • utilities • windows • zip

Reviews of SF taquerias

2006-04-02 bayarea • burrito • burritos • food • francisco • mexican • reference • restaurants • reviews • sanfrancisco • sf

Best Freeware Guide

Yet another list, fairly good for Windows (via Digg)

2006-04-02 computer • download • free • freeware • guide • list • opensource • software • tools • utilities • windows

I'm #7461 on URLFAN

Just between Ann Coulter and Kevin Federline

://URLFAN top 100

Sites most linked to in RSS feeds (via Populicious)

2006-04-02 blog • blogs • internet • links • list • lists • popular • reference • top • web • web2.0

OpenEXR HDR format

ILM open sourced their HDR image tools

2006-04-02 3d • graphics • hdr • openexr • opensource • photography • programming • reference • software • tools • video

HDR slide presentation

Nice academic overview of HDR photo techniques

2006-04-02 graphics • hdr • photography

April Fool's jokes suck

Anil breaks it down

2006-04-01 anildash • aprilfools • aprilfoolsday • blog • commented • funny • humor • internet • jokes • rant • web

Rise of Legends demo

Highly anticipated game

2006-04-01 demo • download • games

Flickr / Interesting

An April Fool's joke that's actually funny

2006-04-01 art • cool • daily • flickr • images • interesting • photo • photography • photos • pictures • random

Just like it sounds (via Digg)

2006-04-01 culture • encyclopedia • fun • geek • movies • reference • scifi • star_wars • starwars • wiki • wikipedia

Right old ding dong

Bus driver sex scandal (via Daily Rotten)