Nelson's Linkblog 2006-08

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Doctypes vs browsers

Browsers layout pages based on the declared doctype

2006-08-31 browser • css • design • doctype • html • reference • standards • web • webdesign • webdev • xhtml

Could this be the turnkey geotagging software I've been looking for?

2006-08-31 exif • flickr • geo • geotagging • gps • maps • photo • photography • photos • software • tools

FuzzyOCR spam sw

Scan the images embedded in spam; nuts! (via Cray)

2006-08-31 amavis • fuzzy • ocr • picture • spam • spamassassin

Image spam surge

Everyone I know is getting way more stock pumping image spam lately

2006-08-30 gmail • spam

Takei roasts Shatner

NSFW: This is pretty intense, even for the genre

Exploring Amazon EC2

notes from an early user

2006-08-30 amazon • api • ec2 • grid • hosting • howto • linux • rails • server • tutorial • virtualization

Comcast mail disaster

Randomly throwing away email from major sites

Flickr Geotag API

Official announcement

2006-08-30 api • flickr • geo • geocode • geoip • geotagging • mapping • photography • search • webservices • yahoo

Fear the Swiss cows

Hiking mishaps abound

2006-08-29 animals • entertainment • europe • funny • humor • moos • news • offbeat • pets • swiss • travel

Danny Sullivan leaves

Moving on from SEW. Too bad, he's given many years of great coverage.

2006-08-29 blog • blogs • conversational+media • dannysullivan • google • media • search • search.engine.watch • sem • seo • sew

Ev on web metrics

No easy way to measure how popular a site is

2006-08-29 advertising • ajax • business • internet • metrics • myspace • pageviews • statistics • stats • web • web2.0

Housing bubble graph

This is so extreme it must be lying

2006-08-29 bubble • economics • economy • history • home • house • housing • money • realestate • statistics • visualization

Andy Kaufman SNL: Mighty Mouse

Still gives me chills

2006-08-29 fun • funny • history • interesting • video • videos

Sony geotag device

No interface, just makes GPS tracks

2006-08-29 camera • gadgets • geotagging • gps • hardware • mapping • photo • photography • photos • review • sony

Old-timey and horrifying, all at once!

Eve Online bugs

Of interest even if you don't care about games; random list of bugs in the latest patch

Flickr Geotagging

Mainstream feature now!

2006-08-28 blog • flickr • geo • geotagging • mapping • maps • photo • photography • photos • tagging • web2.0

Amazon computing

Rent Amazon's servers for $72/month. Useful, but how does it really help Amazon?

2006-08-27 amazon • architecture • ec2 • hosting • linux • programming • technology • virtualization • web • web2.0 • webdev

Fluffy soapy mouse

Put a mouse in a sock, make an untethered pointing device

Foo Camp schedule

Not there this year

2006-08-26 foocamp

Man!festo Games live

Congratulations, Greg!

2006-08-26 business • computer • design • development • free • game • gamedev • games • gaming • indie • videogames

I am not a terrorist

A protest t-shirt

2006-08-26 activism • clothing • design • fun • funny • humor • politics • shopping • terrorism • travel • tshirt

Troitsky Church fire

2006-08-26 architecture • church • churches • daily • disaster • fire • news • photography • russia • todescribe

RAZR V3 hacking

looks like a good collection

2006-08-24 cellphone • hack • hacking • hacks • howto • mobile • motorola • phone • razr • software • v3

Tarot deck scans

Hundreds of tarot design samples (via Metafilter)

2006-08-24 archetype • art • design-research • gallery • history • illustration • image • images • nacho • reference • tarot

Vista DRM failure

Microsoft drops support for BluRay and HD-DVD DRM

2006-08-24 copyright • drm • dvd • hdtv • media • money • ms.vista • tech • vista • windows

Big new Eve scam

The Eve Investment bank was a scam afterall

2006-08-24 eveonline • forum • funny • gaming • imported • inventions • mmorpg • online • scam • thread • wizzel

Math personalities

Long New Yorker, but great story about Perelman

2006-08-24 article • china • culture • math • mathematics • news • newyorker • perelman • poincare • politics • toread

Steal browse history

Very clever CSS tomfoolery lets a server learn whether a user has visited some set of URLs before

2006-08-24 ajax • browser • css • hack • hacks • javascript • privacy • security • tracking • usability • web

Semantic Web: 1.7M

OK, so I was wrong about 10,000.

Search 10,000 docs!

No, really, this semantic web thing is gonna take off any day now

2006-08-23 metadata • ontology • owl • rdf • search • searchengine • semantic • semanticweb • tools • web • web2.0

Six horrifying parasites

Gross out science (via BoingBoing)

2006-08-23 animals • biology • cool • gross • health • horror • interesting • medical • parasites • science • weird

More on AOL firings

Ryanair protest

This is extraordinary, it'd be like Southwest airlines publically criticizing the TSA

2006-08-22 airlines • airport • fun • funny • humor • humour • naked • ryanair • satire • security • travel

Goldman's legacy

If anything, Evan's understating the amount Jason has done for Blogger in Google

2006-08-22 entrepreneurship

Finally a download that's not awful

Percent encoding

Detailed Wikipedia article may have an answer to my URL question (via Greg)

2006-08-22 encode • http • internet • percent-encoding • reference • uri • url • url-encoding-percent-encoding • web • wikipedia • www

Cab Calloway / tap

From the movie Stormy Weather (via Metafilter)

Fallout from data release (via P)

2006-08-21 aol • privacy

Apostate Scientologist

2006-08-21 alternative • free • freezone • fz.scientology • hubbard • magie • religion • scientology

AllowEncodedSlashes

for some reason Apache doesn't let you have an escaped slash in the path by default

2006-08-20 apache • gotchas

lua/python integration

2006-08-20 lua • odd • python

Lessons from Kiko

Good run, guys, good luck in next projects

2006-08-19 blog • business • calendar • entrepreneurship • failure • kiko • startup • strategy • tips • toread • web2.0

Space bar is your ollie

2006-08-19 atari • awesome • cool • flash • free • fun • game • games • online • pitfall • retro

Goldman's moving on

Jason leaves Blogger and Google.

2006-08-19 ajax • back • backbutton • blog • blogs • google_employees • toread

Awesome short video documentary (via kottke)

2006-08-19 art • awesome • children • crayons • fun • howto • music • sesamestreet • tv • video • youtube

Pancakes are tasty

Clever little video (via Flickr)

2006-08-19 audio • cute • food • fun • funny • music • pancakes • short • video • videos • youtube

URL length limits

Practical limits of browsers. Spec says 1024 bytes.

2006-08-17 asp.net • development • get • http • length • limit • limitation • post • standards • uri • url

Terrorists for Democratic Party

Hatch says terrorists "waiting for the Democrats here to take control, let things cool off and then strike again."

NSA loses in Detroit

Not much info yet

Bling Bling kitty

Disturbing, but it's a funny picture

Google and privacy

Thoughtful Guardian editorial

2006-08-17 antigoogle • browser • clusty • data • google • guardian • privacy • reads • search • security • web

Flickr API enabled QOOP to do their thing without bizdev overhead

2006-08-17 api • bizdev • bizdev2.0 • business • businessdevelopment • caterina • enterprise • flickr • ideas • mashup • web2.0

Developer shows some basic financial data about inflation

2006-08-16 economics • eve • eveonline • mmorpg

Crazy baleen whales

A little view of evolution (via Metafilter)

2006-08-16 animals • article • biology • evolution • nature • paleontology • research • science • toread • whales • zeitgeist

Poincare conjecture

NYT on a proof (via Peter)

Satie Gnossiennes

Insightful article

Synthesis Studios blog

My old friend Raffi is up to some good new stuff

2006-08-14 blog • code • engineering • geek • hacks • hardware • ipod • nerd • programming • project • subscription

Countries by cash

Japan has 165B dollars. US has -829B. (via Metafilter)

2006-08-14 debt • economics • government • history • interesting • money • news • politics • reference • statistics • world

ExpoDisc colour temp

White balance device; or you could use a $3 grey card

Nintendo DS emulation

no$gba has NDS emulation good enough to be useful

2006-08-14 ds • emulation • emulator • freeware • gameboy • games • gba • nds • nintendo • software • videogames

Counterstrike crates

From virtual world to real (via Digg)

2006-08-14 art • counterstrike • design • fun • funny • game • games • gaming • humor • inspiration • interesting

Heathrow untenable

Demand that airlines reduce traffic 20% right now. Security has gotten ridiculous.

Project workflow

Marc has a nice software development system where checkins, server pushes, bug reports, and chats all integrate in one common human readable log

2006-08-13 37signals • api • campfire

Practical Subversion

Best quick-start guide I've found

2006-08-13 cvs • howto • linux • opensource • programming • reference • subversion • svn • tools • tutorial • tutorials

Debian python 2.4

Yay, the transition is happening. Having to change the way all Debian Python packages work though.

Adobe / RawShooter

Adobe bought pixmantec, I wonder why

Lebanon/Iraq disaster

This oped makes me ill to even think about

2006-08-12 bush • diplomacy • history • iran • iraq • mideast • news • politics • terrorism • usa • war

Bike messenger race

Helmetcam in NYC (via Populicious)

2006-08-12 bicycle • bike • bikes • cool • crazy • cycling • fun • newyork • nyc • video • youtube

RIAA sues the dead

Even the grim reaper doesn't keep you from being sued

2006-08-12 file • itbwmain2 • law • legal • music • p2p • parasites • rdodd • riaa • sharing • stupid

Assisting in death

Heartbreaking story of a man helping his wife die

2006-08-12 article • death • ethics • euthanasia • health • life • politics • psychology • society • suicide • uk

Kinetic harpoons

2006-08-10 futuretech • kinetic • weapons

Top AOL searches

With counts; the first non-navigational query is "weather"

Top 10 AOL searches

Navigational queries FTW

AOL user 4417749

NYT reporter chases down one of the people AOL betrayed

2006-08-09 aol • ba215 • google • humor • identidad • internet • privacidad • privacy • search • web • work

Cat in a bottle

America's funniest home pet videos!

2006-08-09 cats • funny • video • videos • weird • wtf

AOL search database

Easy access to AOL's massive data leak (via Digg)

2006-08-09 aol • data • database • google • privacy • research • resources • search • security • user • web

AOL user profiles

What you can learn about people based on their search logs

2006-08-08 aol • aol_search_data • funny • google • information • privacy • profile • record • search • searchengine • surveillance

Why no pig butter?

jwz explains it

Good luck Jeffrey

Moving out on his own

2006-08-08 ! • yahoo

Omega the crazy #

Complexity theory yields some weird numbers

2006-08-08 blog • computer • interesting • math • mathematics • maths • programming • reference • science • theory • toread

AOL data release

Stupid, stupid, stupid

2006-08-08 aol • article • data • database • internet • news • privacy • search • security • stupid • technology

Ago.NET timestamps

Jeffrey ported my little javascript library to .NET for servers

2006-08-07 .net • library

Global warming chart

The linked PDF graph is astounding

2006-08-06 environment • visualization

Half of Americans still believe there were WMD in Iraq

Blink of an Eye results

5 winners; I only like two though

2006-08-06 an • blink • color • exhibit • eye • flickr • images • inspiration • of • photography • photos

Giant girl doll

Crazy beautiful

2006-08-06 art • cool

Tonypa Flash games

Great aesthetics (via Metafilter)

2006-08-06 cool • design • entertainment • flash • free • fun • game • games • online • web • webgames

Starry Lego Night

Van Gogh in Duplo (via kottke) (yes, not really Duplo)

2006-08-05 art • cool • crafts • design • inspiration • lego • legos • mosaic • projects • toys • vangogh

Google Maps flight sim

Amazing way to browse a map

2006-08-05 cool • flash • flight • fun • game • games • google • googlemaps • map • maps • mashup

The editor more arcane than Emacs

2006-08-02 editor • emacs • programming • reference

Consolas screenshot

I don't care much for the style

2006-08-02 blog • cleartype • code • console • font • fontography • fonts • monospaced • programming • software

Consolas fixed font

ClearType hinted

2006-08-02 .net • consolas • download • font • fonts • microsoft • programming • typography • visualstudio • vs2005 • windows

Hosting disasters

DreamHost's cascade of problems (via EvanM)

2006-08-02 blog • business • datacenter • disaster • dreamhost • hosting • internet • marketing • outage • power • web

Long Experiments

100+ year scientific installations (via kottke)

2006-08-02 clock • cool • drop • experiments • fun • history • physics • pitch • reference • research • science

Thinkpad key beep

Stupid misfeature, how to fix it

2006-08-02 beep • fix • ibm • problem • t40 • thinkpads

Internet Timeline

Summary of growth of the net (via kottke)

2006-08-02 computer • computers • education • history • internet • reference • research • tech • technology • timeline • web

Proxy reformats web pages to look like Office (via Digg)

2006-08-02 browser • cool • fun • funny • internet • office • privacy • proxy • tools • web • work

Freedom fries gone

Childish tantrum ends after three years

2006-08-02 bscr • congress • food • france • freedom • fries • fun • funny • humor • politics • stupid

Fresh Thinkpad install

How to wipe the drive and start over.

2006-08-01 computers • hardware • howto • ibm • install • laptop • recovery • reinstall • thinkpad • windows • xp

Thinkpad T60 forum

Got my new laptop, now to hack it

2006-08-01 computer • hardware • ibm • laptop • t60p • thinkpad

Asteroids as RPG

Clever blend of two game genres

2006-08-01 games