Nelson's Linkblog 2006-05

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Hitman review...

.. as seen via the device of the 10 commandments

MMOGchart update

New data published (via Slashdot)

2006-05-31 game • games • gaming • mmo • mmog • mmorpg • online • reference • research • statistics • stats

Laundry hieroglyphics

Those little symbols mean something? (via Populicious)

2006-05-30 cleaning • guide • hieroglyphics • howto • icons • laundry • misc • reference • symbols • usability • useful

Sinking a carrier

Photo series (via Digg)

2006-05-30 cool • history • images • interesting • military • nature • photo • photography • photos • pictures • ship

Three arms are better than two

Private phone records

Someone bombs an ATT billboard

2006-05-29 minilinks • surveillance

Travel time maps

Fantastic transportation visualization (via Kottke)

2006-05-28 gis • london • map • mapping • maps • time • transport • travel • uk • visualisation • visualization

Detailed data from Ethnologue database (via Kottke)

2006-05-28 geography • gis • language • languages • linguistics • map • mapping • maps • reference • visualization • world

Pat Robertson insane

Claims he can lift an impossible amount of weight (via Daily Rotten)

2006-05-28 articles • dick • exercise • funny • health • idiot • legpress • patrobertson • religion • weight

Amazon MTurk art (via Waxy or Kottke, ya know)

2006-05-24 amazon • art • collaboration • cool • design • drawing • flash • fun • funny • humor • sheep

Peter Cho's experimental typography and design

2006-05-23 art • conceptional • cool • design • experimental • interactive • newmedia • programming • text • typography • visualization

Oblivion dominoes

Silly physics demonstration in the game

2006-05-23 cool • domino • fun • funny • game • games • humor • machinima • oblivion • physics • video

Stripper polaroids

Collection of 60s/70s photos (via Merlin)

2006-05-23 flickr • photography

Keyword arbitrage

Buy ads on Google to sell ads for Google

2006-05-21 adsense • advertising • business • google • howto • money • seo • spam • strategy • tips • web

HDR explanation

Nice detailss, an entreaty to not abuse the technology

2006-05-21 art • digital • graphics • hdr • howto • photo • photography • photos • photoshop • tutorial • tutorials

The kit you need to run unauthorized software (via Waxy)

2006-05-20 ds • dslite • emulation • game • games • hack • hacks • hardware • homebrew • howto • nintendo

Eve corporate scandal

Friendly-sounding newbie fleeces her investors two months later

Eve Intergalactic Bank

Everytime I think I understand this game, I find some new amazing thing someone's created

Howto play the spoons

look simpler than it must be

2006-05-19 cool • entertainment • fun • history • howto • instruments • lifehacks • music • spoons • toread • tutorial

Hot gay soldiers

Freaky old advertising (via BoingBoing)

2006-05-19 fun • funny • homoerotic • interesting • kitsch • propaganda • retro • subj-gay_issues • triton • usados • war

Inflation adjusted, nice data view (via Waxy)

2006-05-19 business • console • consoles • economics • games • gaming • hardware • history • prices • statistics • videogames

Performance gap

2006-05-19 europe • ir • performance • usa • vc

Remnants of a railroad track as seen in overhead photos

2006-05-19 aerial • architecture • cities • cool • design • history • maps • photography • photos • sanfrancisco • urban

Typesetting PDF

Designer's notes on creating humane Acrobat files

2006-05-19 design • ease • fonts • graphic • layout • online • planb • publishing • tips • toread • typography

AYD'S Diet pills 1982

You have to hope this naming was unintentional

2006-05-19 commercial • commercials • fun • google • health • humor • humour • media • retro • tv • video

Reading WoW for race

Complex, subtle issues

2006-05-19 article • articles • colonialism • culture • games • gaming • kultur • omginternets • race • research • wow

Eve developer update

All the projects they're working on; ambitious company

Eve Online stories

Nice MeFi wrapup of some game writing

2006-05-15 toread

Govt vs. ABC News

Investigative reporter told that their phone records are being spied on

2006-05-15 bush • cia • government • journalism • media • news • nsa • politics • privacy • security • spying

Snap said they'd put their financial results online, but they've been offline for weeks now.

Not your computer

Schneier breaks down all the people trying to control your machine

2006-05-15 computing • drm • economics • issues • legal • lore • ownership • rights • schneier • security • secutiry

Seeing in the dark

Two photos, one without flash, one with. Then combine.

2006-05-14 algorithm • design • digital • digital_photography • flash • lighting • microsoft • photo • photography • photoshop • research

Arrested for dancing

Crazy tourist story (via Zawodny)

2006-05-11 blog • dance • funny • greece • holycrap • humor • police • project • society • travel • trouble

Banding in Canon 5d?

Apparently a CMOS noise problem

Secret CIA prisons

Our polity is sick (via Metafilter)

2006-05-11 911 • cia • impeachment • news • politics • prison • prisons • terror • torture • usa • war

As seen on Lost. I eat this crap up, whatever it is. Spoilers?

2006-05-11 advertising • flash • funny • game • hanso • interesting • lost • marketing • sublymonal • television • tv

Amazingly detailed example of gullibility (via Metafilter)

2006-05-10 419 • article • email • internet • money • newyorker • nigeria • nigerian • scam • spam • toread

Tournament brackets

Pre-generated double elimination tournament arrangements

2006-05-09 bracket • brackets • games • library • programs • sports • tez • tournament • tournaments • work • ya

CIA gay hookers

Lots of whispers that CIA resignations have to do wtih Cunningham's taste for boys (via RobotWisdom)

2006-05-09 blog • gay • politics • washington

Google candygate

Snack scandal, leaked memos! (via an anonymous source)

2006-05-09 google • google_speciali • m&ms

Hard drives have oustripped archival media

2006-05-09 advice • backup • blog • data • hardware • howto • security • software • storage • sysadmin • tips

This blog continues to be awesome

2006-05-09 blog • blogs • daily • gawker • gossip • humor • journalism • media • news • politics • tabloid

Fedex arrivals..

..during a thunderstorm (via mathowie)

2006-05-09 airline • aviation • cool • fedex • fun • funny • interesting • radar • video • visualization • weather

Game media torrents

E3 videos here (via Digg)

2006-05-09 bittorrent • e3 • game • games • gaming • p2p • torrent • torrents • video • videogames • videos

Very close pass

Crazy aviation stunt

Google Maps w/tanks

Military operation caught on photo

2006-05-09 blog • cool • google • googleearth • googlemaps • intelligence • interesting • iraq • maps • politics • war

Search ad technology

This article is good

2006-05-08 advertising • google • panama • search • yahoo

First Fuel Bank

Gas hoarders save money

Galacticsimpsons

Battlestar Galactica characters drawn in Simpsons style (via Metafilter)

2006-05-07 art • battlestargalactica • bsg • cartoons • comics • funny • humor • illustration • scifi • simpsons • tv

Pretty pixel fonts

Tiny but with style (via Digg)

2006-05-06 design • download • flash • font • fonts • free • pixel • pixelfonts • typography • web • webdesign

Search spider test

If I understand right, the best crawlers would crawl no pages here

2006-05-06 bots • google • msn • research • search • searchengine • seo • statistics • visualization • web • yahoo

Airplane routing

Interesting way to deal with a moving Internet node

2006-05-06 crazy • holycrap • internet • networking • terrorism

Edelman sues Yahoo

Spyware investigator gets formal

2006-05-05 fraud • google • news • portal • spyware • syndication • web2.0 • yahoo

Vladislav Delay album

Glitch with a Creative Commons license

2006-05-05 ambient • dub • experimental • music

Teenage websites

Where 30somethings think teenagers go online

Intense probe display

Amazing visualization of lots of data as a probe heads to Titan

2006-05-05 astronomy • cool • design • huygens • movie • nasa • science • space • titan • video • visualization

Hookworm healing

Insane self-doctoring (via Metafilter)

2006-05-05 asthma • disease • diy • hayfever • health • hookworm • medical • medicine • science • travel • weird

Real Star Wars DVDs

Without the abominable extra material from the past few years. No need to steal laserdisc rips anymore.

2006-05-05 cool • culture • dvd • film • movies • news • scifi • shopping • star_wars • starwars • video

In part because of a third party unlock; lame!

2006-05-05 controversy • esrb • game • games • news • oblivion • ranking • ratings

Customize "Send To"

easy Windows modification lets you open any file in notepad, etc

2006-05-01 computer • hacks • howto • lifehack • lifehacker • lifehacks • productivity • sendto • tips • tutorial • windows

GalCiv2 developer

Lead programmer is a woman! May be the only modern game headed by a woman.

2006-05-01 gaming • michigan • plymouth

#1 nothing bummer

Some stupid content site bug results in mathowie getting outrage spam

2006-05-01 dos • dumb • fox • friends • html • matthaughey • search • web • weblogs

[nothing]: Google

mathowie is the #1 nothing