Nelson's Linkblog 2006-09

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charming little Flash game (via Metafilter)

2006-09-30 funny • web • flash • free • game • games • online • fun • gaming • software • cool • nelson:autotagged

Gay congress scandal

Republican Foley resigns for flirting with pages

2006-09-30 nelson:autotagged

Rushing off a cliff

Strongly worded NYT editorial against the disastrous new torture bill

2006-09-29 america • securitystupidity • democracy • rights • bullshit • bush • terror • politics • fear • law • terrorism • nelson:autotagged

Google Earth / Paris

Lots of useful overlays and placemarks

2006-09-29 nelson:autotagged

Paris map w/ Metro

Google Maps overlay; Poskanzer comes through again

2006-09-28 map • google • metro • paris • mashup • mapping • france • maps • subway • googlemaps • travel • nelson:autotagged

Warcraft lore comic

Amazing fan setting of the WoW story (via We Know)

2006-09-28 comics • games • nelson:autotagged

Sidewalk power play

Social dynamics of getting out of the way in public

2006-09-28 nelson:autotagged

Google maps KML

Easy way to make a custom map with lots of waypoints; Google Maps just reads KML directly

2006-09-27 geotagging • mormonhacker • googleearth • kml • mapping • hacks • google-maps • tocheckout • googlemaps • tips • geocoding • nelson:autotagged

Silence / signal ratio

How many emails do you not return?

2006-09-27 blog • simplicity • productivity • communication • genius • nelson:autotagged

Middle East history

Clever animated map (via jwz)

2006-09-27 visualization • reference • map • flash • middleeast • maps • animation • politics • history • war • geography • nelson:autotagged

I disagree with a couple, but some thoughtful criticism (via kottke)

2006-09-27 web2.0 • web • business • interesting • blogs • top10 • startup • lists • list • internet • microsoft • nelson:autotagged

weasely marketing footnotes (via Metafilter)

2006-09-27 information • shopping • business • marketing • blogs • blog • advertising • media • news • tips • consumer • nelson:autotagged

Old Paris photos

Lots and lots of interesting images

2006-09-24 paris • photography • nostalgia • history • nelson:autotagged

Space Invaders Paris

Exhaustive catalog site, this is my key

2006-09-24 art • urbanisme • lang_fr • photo • arts_visuels • paris • monde • cartes_geographiques • space_invaders • spaceinvaders • nelson:autotagged

Guns for TSA safety

Prevent airport goons from stealing your cameras by packing a gun with them

2006-09-24 luggage • photography • flying • howto • tsa • guns • camera • lifehacks • security • hacks • travel • nelson:autotagged

French yellow pages of a sort

2006-09-22 search • paris • travel • living-in-france • internationaldirectories • french • france • phone • yellow • b_task_yp • pages • nelson:autotagged

La vache qui regarde

Odd bit of public art in Brussels

2006-09-22 nelson:autotagged

Hide of the Drama Queen

2006-09-22 nelson:autotagged

Python 2.5 highlights

Not much here excites me (via Zawodny)

2006-09-21 python_2.5 • language • python • programming • languages • new • release • news • 2.5 • nelson:autotagged

Some new financial statistics

2006-09-20 mmorpg • eveonline • economics • nelson:autotagged

Google hosts photos

Flickr competitor?

2006-09-20 web2.0 • web • google • photo • photography • picasa • photos • online • flickr • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

20,000 Myspace pwds

Analysis of some found passwords

2006-09-20 statistics • privacy • phishing • myspace • analysis • research • blog • passwords • hack • security • password • nelson:autotagged

2006 Macarthur grants

2006-09-20 arts • literature • art • people • science • jazz • genius • research • music • awards • macarthur • nelson:autotagged

Agh, get it off me!

World's first transplanted penis removed because of psychological rejection

2006-09-20 content • interesting • medicine • sex • plueballs • nelson:autotagged

The Shire / Bend, OR

Live like Tolkein! (via Metafilter)

2006-09-18 development • home • house • housing • community • fantasy • shire • oregon • hobbit • lotr • design • nelson:autotagged

"france": Google Maps

I'm in France, but the map I get is of the US

2006-09-17 nelson:autotagged

Win traffic shaper

cFosSpeed, looks sophisticated

2006-09-17 gaming • networking • network • bittorrent • tool • utilities • internet • collection:windows_tools • software • coolapz • cool • nelson:autotagged

Architecture of Control

Blog about design that intentionally makes things difficult (via HotLinks)

2006-09-16 control • environment • psychology • blogs • blog • culture • design • architecture • politics • technology • theory • nelson:autotagged

Pre Catalan for free

2006-09-16 nelson:autotagged

Amazon Unbox DRM

More anti-consumer products

2006-09-16 boingboing • shopping • business • rights • unbox • privacy • movies • amazon • video • internet • drm • nelson:autotagged

Zombie parasites

This can't be true, can it? (via Biz)

2006-09-16 funny • humor • wtf • scary • science • hoax • zombies • news • article • weird • zombie • nelson:autotagged

Google phishing bug

The dangers of hosting content from other sites

2006-09-15 web • google • xss • phishing • javascript • hacks • exploit • hack • security • gmail • browser • nelson:autotagged

Craigslist hookers

Smoking Gun has mugshots (via Daily Rotten)

2006-09-15 #guild • nelson:autotagged

Awesomest thing ever

2006-09-15 funny • humor • media • mashup • youtube • startrek • spock • video • nineinchnails • slash • music • nelson:autotagged

Reno balloon race

Time lapse creativity

2006-09-15 funny • art • balloon • timelapse • youtube • amazing • video • fun • balloons • film • cool • nelson:autotagged

Viral video chart

Currently popular Internet videos (via Waxy)

2006-09-15 web2.0 • web • videos • viral • aggregator • myspace • youtube • chart • blog • video • fun • nelson:autotagged

US dishonest on Iran

Remarkable public disagreement

2006-09-15 iran • usa • nuclear • dishonest • outrageous • un • nelson:autotagged

Wheelchairs for healthy people can hurt you

2006-09-14 nelson:autotagged

Burning man hate

Hysterical nasty review of Burning Man (via Zawodny)

2006-09-14 funny • humor • toread • business • culture • review • reviews • rant • blog • opinion • burningman • nelson:autotagged

Helvetica man tarot

Cool design (via jwz)

2006-09-14 occult • humor • icons • illustration • cards • tarot • design • images • art • wishlist • cool • nelson:autotagged

Just say d'accord

David Sedaris (via kottke)

2006-09-14 essay • funny • humor • toread • language • sedaris • davidsedaris • french • france • culture • writing • nelson:autotagged

amusing writing

2006-09-14 frankreich • paris • blogs • expat • collaboration • blog • culture • english • france • photography • travel • nelson:autotagged

Hot Captcha (Web 2.0)

"I met my wife on your captcha" (via Metatalk)

2006-09-14 funny • humor • web • mashup • javascript • hotornot • captcha • internet • fun • security • cool • nelson:autotagged

SNCF in English

French train schedules

2006-09-13 travel • france • sncf • trains • berck • holidays • nelson:autotagged

Brian, I was wrong, you helped birth a fantastic product

2006-09-12 scm • svn • notes • programming • sysadmin • development • opensource • subversion • release • tools • software • nelson:autotagged

Olbermann / YouTube

Another online video

2006-09-12 commentary • 9/11 • olbermann • nelson:autotagged

Olbermann video

2006-09-12 9/11 • political • news • bush • olbermann • video • opinion • politics • terrorism • 911 • war • nelson:autotagged

Hypothesis is the air travel ban in the US slowed down the spread of flu

2006-09-12 nelson:autotagged

Sounds powerful, looking for video

2006-09-12 9/11 • toread • bush • olbermann • speech • news • politics • terrorism • 911 • war • history • nelson:autotagged

Simple web service for adding GPS tracks to your Flickr photos

2006-09-12 map • geotagging • maps • photo • photography • geotag • photos • flickr • tools • tagging • gps • nelson:autotagged

Google cokewash

Google used to be too smart to do dumb things like this

2006-09-12 funny • google • hide • google_stuff • pepsi • digg • coke • nelson:autotagged

L#: Lisp on .NET

A Lisp with useful libraries!

2006-09-11 development • l# • lisp • .net • programming • functional • languages • c# • lsharp • dotnet • scripting • nelson:autotagged

Slate's hot investigative journalism

2006-09-11 funny • ads • tv • tw • brand:research • commercial • forehead • advertising • advertisement • head.on • weird • nelson:autotagged

Apply directly to forehead (via Merlin)

2006-09-10 nelson:autotagged

Very gay Nintendo

Singlet-wearing construction man shakes his butt in the air

2006-09-10 videogames • video • nintendo • nelson:autotagged

Au revoir Advogato

Social sites have a lifespan. Thanks, Raph!

2006-09-10 discussiongroups • open-source • metric • advogato • community • trust-metrics • floss • internet • raph-levien • trust • history • nelson:autotagged

Fred Phelps video

Preaching against Stewart/Colbert. He sounds just like Wliliam S Burroughs! (via jwz)

2006-09-10 progressivechristianity • colbert • youtube • fundamentalists • video • jonstewart • nelson:autotagged

Russ Meyer tarot

The Beyond The Valley of The Dolls Tarot Deck

2006-09-10 occult • funny • humor • tarot • movie • ebert • movies • readme • images • cult • film • nelson:autotagged

Amazon Unbox: bad?

Stupid DRM tricks

2006-09-10 complaint • privacy • unbox • review • amazon • video • article • readme • drm • security • amazonunbox • nelson:autotagged

excellent online dictionary

2006-09-09 language • reference • french • dico • dictionary • francais • dictionnaire • english • dictionnary • translation • anglais • nelson:autotagged

Faster Windows boot

Clear explanation of some reasonable tweaks to make Windows boot faster (via Digg)

2006-09-09 nelson:autotagged

Truckstop hookers

Sad, good reporting (via Metafilter)

2006-09-09 crime • police • dallas • prostitute • trucker • nelson:autotagged

WoW EU/US switch

How to bypass Blizzard's continent restrictions

2006-09-08 tip • wow • howto • internationalisation • worldofwarcraft • gameworlds • nelson:autotagged

Paris Metro KML

Add metro stops to Google Earth

2006-09-08 nelson:autotagged

More Paris markets

Here's the list I needed

2006-09-08 food • paris • nelson:autotagged

Open air shopping

2006-09-08 shopping • food • travel • travel.paris • paris • markets • nelson:autotagged

Paris metro tickets

Monthly passes explained a Anglais

2006-09-08 transportation • reference • metro • paris • travel • subway • eurotrip06 • nelson:autotagged

Analysis of a large C codebase shows bugs that have been obsolete for 10 years in modern programming languages

2006-09-08 code • firefox • klocwork • bugs • analysis • geek • opensource • security • browser • hacking • software • nelson:autotagged

Family tech support

Mail a computer neophyte VNC so you can help them with their computer

2006-09-07 vnc • network • reference • support • howto • computer • tech • ultravnc • remote • tutorial • software • nelson:autotagged

PrePaid GSM France

Simple site comparing prepaid plans

2006-09-07 mobile • price • france • nelson:autotagged

Weed thieves caught

Clever marketing for a good TV show

2006-09-07 viral • jwz • showtime • video • weeds • billboard • nelson:autotagged

Search log editorial

Eloquent call for search engines to not retain user search history

2006-09-07 search • google • privacy • government • aol • storage • yahoo • msn • opa • data • retention • nelson:autotagged

Wheaties for your Wallet

My friend Marc's new personal finance company has a blog, off to a good start

2006-09-06 financial • finance • business • money • blogs • economics • personalfinance • blog • tips • consumer • advice • nelson:autotagged

AOL Resrch: closed?

So the rumour goes (via Inside Google)

2006-09-04 search-engines • search • nightmare • aol • research • 2006 • from_bloglines • nelson:autotagged

6 years of self photos

The music on this is very nice (via Populicious)

2006-09-04 media • art • interesting • photo • photography • youtube • video • time • fun • film • cool • nelson:autotagged

Who writes Wikipedia?

Aaron's campaigning, an interesting result on Wikipedia edits

2006-09-04 web2.0 • web • statistics • wiki • interesting • collaboration • wikipedia • community • research • culture • technology • nelson:autotagged

Usability problems

Response to my post about copying favourites

2006-09-04 nelson:autotagged

32G flash hard drives

Solid state IDE hard drives are here

2006-09-03 flash • ssd • vista • shock • drives • nelson:autotagged

Goes through Flickr photos and geotags them if you have EXIF geotags. Only needed for old photos.

2006-09-03 geotagging • redskaber • tools • photography • photos • spaceplace • flickr • geo • mashup • tagging • gps • nelson:autotagged

Hackerware for geotagging photos. Supports CR2!

2006-09-02 flickr • geotagging • exif • photo • photography • perl • photos • gpx • gps • geo • software • nelson:autotagged

Flickr geo/exif

By default Flickr won't geotag from your EXIF data; have to turn it on

2006-09-02 flickr • geotagging • exif • maps • photography • mapping • photos • location • metadata • geo • gps • nelson:autotagged

Browzar is a scam

Claims to be a lightweight privacy preserving browser, actually just ad crap

2006-09-02 web2.0 • malware • browzar • spyware • browsers • adware • internet • security • software • technology • browser • nelson:autotagged

TV never got any better than this

2006-09-02 karr • villians • humor • tv • youtube • video • retro • kitt • comedy • knightrider • hasselhoff • nelson:autotagged

Eve bug: hash collision

32 bits is not a big enough hash function

2006-09-01 nelson:autotagged

Olbermann / Rumsfeld

Forceful editorial calling out a bully (via M)

2006-09-01 government • culture • journalism • fascism • olbermann • video • news • politics • iraq • rumsfeld • war • nelson:autotagged

Disable caps lock

Registry hacks for Windows

2006-09-01 windows • keyboard • howto • hacks • hardware • tweaks • capslock • hack • tips • tools • software • nelson:autotagged