Nelson's Linkblog 2006-10

about • archive • mastodon • feed

Google/YouTube info

Some anonymous gossip on legal issues; I have no idea if it's true. (via Waxy)

2006-10-31 acquisition • blog • business • copyright • google • law • media • news • video • web2.0 • youtube

Examples of the twisted logic that make this game brilliant

2006-10-30 death • funny • game • games • geek • history • humor • internet • nethack • rpg • videogames

Paris traffic mess

The traffic here is pretty stressful

Whitney music box

Funky sound demo (via We Know)

2006-10-30 animation • art • audio • cool • design • flash • fun • harmonics • math • music • visualization

DST October 29 2006

France is the same as the US this year

2006-10-29 internet • webtools

Skinning baby boar

More tails of terror from one of Paris' best restaurants

FBI seizes computers

2AM raid on the fake boarding pass guy. what a farce.

2006-10-29 america • civil • commands • freespeech • law • news • politics • rights • security • terrorism • travel

Let's pretend there's no security flaw!

2006-10-28 airport • fbi • hack • podcast • politics • reference • security • terrorism • transport • tsa • whistleblowing

These little Moo cards are awesome

2006-10-28 cool • design • flickr • howto • magnets • moo • photo • photography • photos • projects • tips

Line rider video

No, really, this one is amazing

2006-10-28 fun • line-rider • linerider • video • videos • youtube

Contest winners

2006-10-28 machinima • readlater • warcraft

Expat survival guide

Focussing on the emotional side of being in France

Clever game concept (via MeFi)

2006-10-28 cool • flash • free • fun • funny • game • games • juegos • online • physics • web

Disillusionment in US

Rushkoff opines on a frightening line (via MeFi)

2006-10-28 article • culture • democracy • fascism • government • news • politics • propaganda • rushkoff • society • toread

Wikipedia lat/long

Database of spatial coordinates for Wikipedia articles. Cool! (via Waxy)

2006-10-27 earth • geo • geotagging • google • googleearth • location • mapping • maps • web2.0 • wiki • wikipedia

Crematorium fire

Human candles (via jwz)

2006-10-27 600 • cooking • crematorium • death • fat • fire • food • funny • health • lbs • oddly

Lik-Sang closing?!

Damn, the #1 site for importing games from Asia is gone

Insightful retrospective on iPod success

Mending a Picasso

How to fix a torn painting (via kottke)

2006-10-24 8inches • art • crafts • holyfuckingshit • mistakes • painting • picasso • repair • slate • wtf • xblog

Bush and "the Google"

He likes to look at his ranch

2006-10-24 bush • fun • funny • google • googlemaps • humor • internet • maps • politics • video • videos

Paris chef stress

Fantastic post about the stress of working in a Paris kitchen

Chocolate chip caper

This chef's blog has been awesome

visitors to Paris go insane (via Marc)

2006-10-23 bizarre • culture • france • human • humor • japan • news • phenomena • psychology • shock • travel

Klingon pumpkin

A truly international holiday (via Boingboing)

2006-10-23 carving • funny • geek • halloween • heh • humor • klingon • pumpkins • sara • sf • startrek

CSRF vulnerabilities

Fundamental web authentication flaw

2006-10-22 csrf • http • javascript • security • web

NYT on restaurants worth travelling to (via Marc)

2006-10-22 destinations • eatery • food • joiedevivre • life • restaurant • restaurants • rwapple • travel

Pop / Soda / Coke

Excellent visualization map (via zawodny)

2006-10-22 drinks • food • interesting • language • map • maps • misc • pop • soda • statistics • trivia

avocat = lawyer

Perils of autotranslation (via Ken)

Second Life backlash?

I wish SL were as cool in practice as it sounds

Blizzard does nice seasonal events

2006-10-21 guide • hallowsend • warcraft • wow

French periodic table

10 essential elements

Paris city wine auction

2006-10-20 food • halfass • wine • yum

MeFi user writes from a 90 day sentence in jail

2006-10-20 blog • blogs • interesting • jail • journal • mefi • metafilter • prison • sociopolitical • topicblog • toread

Signing ceremony

Wickedly nasty political cartoon

Paris walking tours

This sounds great!

2006-10-19 city • cornwall • europe • france • friends • paris • tours • travel • walk • walking • walks

BF2142 problems

You know, consoles don't have these problems

2006-10-19 battlefield • battlefield2142 • ea • games • hack • microsoft • motherfuckers • rockstarrobot • rootkit • spyware • windows

Google image search, your bounty is endless

WoW addiction danger

Very direct story from someone who quit

2006-10-18 addiction • articles • blog • game • games • gaming • mmorpg • psychology • social • worldofwarcraft • wow

Datacenter in a cargo container

Sun concept for a portable datacenter

2006-10-17 data-centers • hosting • infrastructure • shpping-containers • via:nelson

Some random Paris streetart thing

2006-10-16 art • blog • books • design • expo • graphic • graphicdesign • illustration • inspiration • portfolio • toys

Richard's Paris blog

Old friend of mine is starting to blog

2006-10-16 blogs

Poodle exercise

If Japan did not exist, we would have to invent it

2006-10-15 cool • funny • humor • video • wierd

K.I.T.T. was gay!

Then again, Hasselhoff may have been drunk (via Waxy)

2006-10-15 cars • fun • funny • gay • hoff • humor • knightrider • lgbt • media • television • tv

Michelin SF errors

The inevitable nitpicking (via Merlin)

2006-10-15 books • food • information • sanfrancisco

I gotta go get me some wild meat

Chicken harvester

This is hideous (via jwz)

2006-10-14 automation • chicken_harvester • chickens • cruelty • food • plaggger • tech • technology • vegetarian • video • youtube

Help find Nina Reiser

What a sad story

2006-10-14 missing • nina-reiser

Reiser evidence

2006-10-14 crime • hans • linux • randomness • reiserfs

Hans Reiser arrested

Weirdest open source news of the week

2006-10-14 accused • irc • linux • missiondata • murder • news • opensource • programming • reiser4 • steveny • weird

Awesome cartoon

2006-10-10 cartoon • cartoons • fun • funny • humor • images • internet • online • productivity • research • writing

A Space Invader protege

2006-10-10 amsterdam • art • flickr • games • graffiti • lo-tech • photography • urban

Paris famine need

Starving models need your help - Sally Struthers

Charming video from YouTube founders

2006-10-10 business • fun • google • interview • marketing • money • music • towatch • video • web2.0 • youtube

Catacombes de Paris

The official web page

2006-10-09 avisiter • catacombes • catacombs • france • french • paris • travel • urban_exploration

Foley a scientologist?

Weirdest twist to this story yet.

2006-10-06 congress • gaaaah • politics • religion • republicans • scandal • scientology • sex • whaddafuck

Gaultier's comment on thin debates (via boingboing)

2006-10-06 cool • debate • fashion • fat • funny • gaultier • interesting • model • news • signoftimes • weight

New Orleans at 40%

Not a good sign

Nietzsche family circus

2006-10-06 art • cartoons • comic • comics • fun • funny • humor • literature • nietzsche • philosophy • quotes

Code search: $@*#

Ah, naughty programmers

When I was 16, it was like *this big*

Bush, Foley, and a cheap joke

Gizmondo disaster

Wired detailed article on this crazy business

2006-10-05 bizarre • business • cool-things • corruption • crime • ferarri • ferrari • gizmondo • journalism • wired

Includes a 1223 map (via JY)

Michelin gives out stars in the Bay Area

2006-10-05 restaurants • sanfrancisco

Drunk gay victim

Spin any way you can

Wikimapia / GEarth

Yay for integration!

2006-10-03 blog • earth • google • googleearth • googlemaps • map • mapping • maps • wiki • wikimapia • wikipedia

Leaping to France

Good personal story of some Brits who relocated

France smoking ban?

May be very soon. The sooner the better!

Rainbow Warrior

New scandal; one of the thugs who blew up the Greenpeace boat is in the news

Canon double rebates

Yearly discount program

2006-10-02 cool • entertainment • f-14 • f14 • flyby • fun • humor • nuke • photos • terrorist • tomcat

Street Art, 2d barcodes painted around Paris

2006-10-02 code2d • french • graffiti • graffiti_interactif • géolocalisé • maps • mobile • netz • project • tag • urban

Paris at Night: NYT

Nice article (via Raffy)

2006-10-01 paris • travel

Some of the worst smoking is in France, yay

Skinning a bunny

Parisian chef blog about la chasse