Nelson's Linkblog 2006-07

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2006-07-31 ***** • comics • community • cosplay • fun • funny • hellokitty • merideth.f • popculture • star-wars • starwars

Spam stock chart

Got 20 pieces of spam for this penny stock over the weekend

Traffic device for swapping sides of road

2006-07-30 geowanking • map • maps • society

GM Crop Circles

Greenpeace modifies real world so it shows on Google Maps

2006-07-30 activism • environment • france • gis • google • greenpeace • maps • mashup • media • net2 • protest

Handheld device uses GPS, magnetic, gravitometric sensors to determine where it's pointed

Rules for fair sharing in games, quite complex

2006-07-29 dkp • gaming • mmorpg • socialcontract • weknow • wikipedia • wikipedia.entry • wow

Beautiful little animation (via Metafilter)

2006-07-28 animation • art • awesome • clipart • design • fun • funny • illustration • movie • movies • video

Warner Bros spyware

Stupid deal with 180 Solutions (via Digg)

2006-07-27 ads • adware • kids • news • porn • spyware • tech-tips • the • tv • week10 • zango

Pay money to play the game you're paying to not play

2006-07-26 automation • bot • games • games.wow • mmorpg • potential-partner • software • wow

Going to the movies

Nice little short story disguised as a blog post

2006-07-26 blog • elderly • humor • mathowie • movies • seniorcitizens • stereotypes

Translator's musings

Every profession has experts blogging

Spoof of traditional logos. (note: site is a mirror; main is down)

2006-07-25 2.0 • cool • design • fun • funny • humor • logo • logos • media • redesign • web2.0

City wealth maps

Fascinating cartography (via kottke)

2006-07-25 cartography • cities • city • demographics • economics • income • mapping • maps • money • urban • visualization

California power

Nice status graph (via Merlin)

2006-07-25 california • electricity • energy • government • home • iso • power • reference • statistics • utilities • visualization

North Korea counterfeit cash

Confirmation that DNK prints US currency

Leaders in Youth

Pictures of famous world leaders as young people

2006-07-22 fun • history • images • interesting • leaders • people • photo • photography • photos • politics • world

Gah! Her head is gone!

Freaky gymnastics photo

More Bush bad touch

He needs a time-out

Callgirl of Cthulhu

it writes itself!

Link middle of a video

Simple but very smart, surprised no one else has done this

2006-07-20 blog • google • googlevideo • howto • link • linking • links • tools • video • videos • vlogging

Cthulhu the Movie

Shadow out of Innsmouth becomes a film? (via Metafilter)

2006-07-20 cthulhu • cthulu • culture • film • fthagn • horror • ia • lovecraft • movie • movies • trailer

De Blob indie game

Katamaridamashi with colours

2006-07-20 3d • game • games • urban

Behind Valve/Portal

High concept game started as IGF student winner

Make a flaming whip

"can be dangerous. You will be dealing with a flaming metal chain which gets extremely hot."

2006-07-19 diy • fire • flame • funny • how-to • howto • humor • humour • interesting • weapons • whip

50 Influential albums

Thoughtful list of music in the last 35 years

2006-07-19 albums • art • culture • history • influential • list • lists • music • reference • top • toread

Blackjack odds calc

Various game rules (via Chris Rohrs)

2006-07-19 blackjack • gambling

Bush / Merkel / creepy

video of Bush acting scary

2006-07-19 4dp • bush • fun • funny • massage • mediashift • merkel • relationships • video

Valve Portal video

High concept small game (via Waxy)

2006-07-19 cool • game • games • gaming • hl2 • portal • trailer • valve • video • videogames • youtube

Vonage / spyware

Vonage ads help fund spyware

2006-07-18 benedelman • bit200f06 • ethics • group101 • marketplace • spam • spyware • spyware-vonage • voip • vonage • way

Every Extend demo

One of the best shmups has gone commercial, here's a PC demo

Roundup of J-pop videos from the game; YouTube searches work best

2006-07-17 ds • games • gaming • humor • music • nintendo • ouendan • video • videogames • videos • youtube

Double XP Weekend

Weird City of Heroes promotion

Big tournament this weekend, watch the fights

Trillian / Gmail disable

Stop Trillian from spamming you every time you get new mail at Gmail

Bush and Putin BFF

Even world leaders are metrosexual

Osu Tatakae Ouendan!

My first ever Japanese import game; wacky rhythm game

2006-07-14 ds • game • import

Japanese show with crazy domino-like chain reactions from random objects

2006-07-13 domino • found • funny • games • interesting • japan • japanese • toread • video • videos • youtube

Zidane's apology

well, half an apology

2006-07-12 europe • fifa • football • france • heroes • history • people • sports • worldcup • zidane • zinedinezidane

Notebook Review

Looks to be a good review site

2006-07-12 computer • computers • forum • hardware • laptop • laptops • notebook • review • reviews • shopping • tech

Notebook Review

Forums for hardware obsessed

2006-07-12 buy • forum • gadgets • laptop • laptops • notebook • portátiles • reviews • tutorial

without thinking; you too can be an algorithm

2006-07-12 fun • game • games • hacks • howto • puzzle • puzzles • reference • sudoku • tips • tutorial

MD5 rainbow table

Reverse lookup lists; beware your unsalted info

2006-07-12 crypto • cryptography • database • encryption • hack • hacking • hash • md5 • password • security • tools

IGB: an Eve scam?

Followup to the "new scam" post

2006-07-12 eve • gaming

Detailed description of a con game run by an Eve newbie

2006-07-12 eve • gaming

Auto Assault dying

Consolidating all players to one server; not a good sign

Traffic log patterns

Jakob Nielsen finds no change in statistics of visitors to his web site in 10 years

2006-07-11 analysis • google • longtail • nielsen • search • seo • statistics • stats • traffic • usability • web

Mr. Yuk is mean

Mr. Yuk is green (via Waxy)

2006-07-10 ads • commercial • design • kids • retro • toread • tv • upsetting • video • youth • yuk

Zidane footwork

Highlight clips

2006-07-10 football • video • worldcup • youtube • zidane • zinédinezidane

Materazzi fouls

Zidane's victim plays rough, too

2006-07-10 video

World Cup dive stats

Dives, tantrums, etc

2006-07-10 cup • football • fun • soccer • sports • statistics • stats • table • web • world • worldcup

Working ornithopter

2006-07-09 article • aviation • da • flapper • flight • flying • history • news • ornithopter • science • technology

Root DNS locations

Surprised there's not one in Australia (via Digg)

2006-07-09 dns • google • interesting • internet • maps • network • reference • root • server • technology • web

Velcro at 94x zoom

2006-07-09 art • cool • flickr • fun • images • interesting • photo • photography • photos • science • velcro

Joan Collins vs. Linda Evans. Fight!

ignore the cheesy soundtrack

2006-07-09 culture • fight • fun • heh • video • women • youtube

The apotheosis of technology

2006-07-08 cars • culture • geek • led • pimp • pimpstar • pov • rims • technology • video • youtube

Car Killer MySpace

Page of the girl who killed Tongan prince

Galileo sats cracked

European GPS equivalent now open

2006-07-08 cornell • crack • galileo • geo • geomatica • gps • hack • hacking • news • satellite • security

Sheraton St. Louis

Comics / MySpace tie-in

California Extreme

Video game / pinball expo this weekend

Google "party plane"

2006-07-07 funny • future • google • humor • news • obsessive • plane • search • technology • שטויות

Monopod technique

Who knew holding a stick was so hard?

2006-07-07 camera • equipment • fotografia • guide • monopod • photo • photography • techniques • tips • tripod • tutorial

Faking depth of field

Lens Blur filter in Photoshop

2006-07-07 blur • design • dof • graphics • howto • photo • photography • photoshop • tips • tutorial • tutorials

How the sausage is made (via kottke)

2006-07-07 blog • book • books • design • fonts • howto • layout • print • publishing • typography • writing

How to Bypass BIOS Passwords

2006-07-07 bios • bypass • computer • hack • hacking • hacks • hardware • password • passwords • reference • security

How to cut a mango

Extra tip: Yellow manila mangos are better than the red/green ones

2006-07-06 cooking • cutting • diet • food • health • healthydietforlife • howto • interesting • mango • produce • tips

Here is my skull

Clogging the tubes of the Internets

Eve Online interview

First page has some interesting comments on MMOG design

The Design of Everyday Games

Observations on what makes for good games

2006-07-04 blog • design • development • gameprogramming • games • gaming • productivity • programming • toread • usability • via:amitp

WoW impressions

Latecomer has some insight into WoW game dynamics

2006-07-04 toread

Google tech insights

NYT article with some details on how it builds computing capability

Newspeak dictionary

List with some interpretation

2006-07-02 1984 • cool • dictionary • english • fun • language • linguistics • movies • newspeak • politics • reference

Bypass China censors

TCP chicanery to avoid the Great Firewall of China

2006-07-02 blog • censorship • china • encryption • firewall • gfw • hacks • internet • networking • privacy • security

Movie shot on SLR

Zillions of shots strung together (via BoingBoing)

2006-07-02 animation • art • camera • cool • digital • film • inspiration • movie • photography • video • youtube

Tornado + Rainbow

Dramatic weather

2006-07-02 cool • images • interesting • maninblac • photo • pics • rainbow • storm • tornado • weather • 写真

Firefox made $72M?

4 month old rumour that Mozilla made $72M in a year via Google ads

2006-07-02 advertising • browser • browsers • firefox • google • ia • model • money • mozilla • search • software

Alexa's data went wonky a few months ago; someone thinks it was Digg users (I doubt it)

2006-07-02 alexa • blog • culture • digg • interesting • internet • search • slashdot • statistics • technology • web