Nelson's Linkblog 2006-11

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BitTorrent gossip

$25M funding, CEO search

2006-11-29 bittorent • bittorrent • business • download • film • funding • internet • music • p2p • startup • video

French "penis" slang

205 colourful expressions

2006-11-29 dumb • france • french • language • linguisitic • penis • vocab

JotSpot partner is mad

Sounds like the acquisition has caused trouble for JotSpot's customers

2006-11-29 acquisition • google • jot • jotspot • political • rape • socialtext • via:revgeorge • via:vielmetti • wiki

Nudie satellite pics

Naked people on Google Earth

2006-11-29 earth • fun • funny • google • googleearth • googlemaps • humor • maps • naked • people • web

Blizzard releases some info from inside their game (via WoW Insider)

2006-11-29 content • games • gaming • interesting • lists • statistics • stats • status • warcraft • worldofwarcraft • wow

RIP Google Answers

Unusual for Google to shut down an old service

2006-11-29 answers • blog • business • google • internet • library • money • news • products • research • yahoo

Science mysteries

Some of the quandries of modern science, heavily physics oriented

2006-11-28 article • articles • astronomy • cool • interesting • physics • research • science • space • toread • weird

Beautiful craft (via kottke)

2006-11-28 culture • gadgets • gifts • gis • history • interesting • map • maps • neph • pocket • science

Paris expat blogs

I'm just about to leave, but here's a nice list

2006-11-28 blogging • expat • france • livingabroad

Second Life escorts

Virtual sex market

2006-11-28 culture • escorts • games • gaming • life • reviews • second • secondlife • sex • sl • virtual

Funny word for France's equivalent of DHS threat levels

Good overview of contributions to change the venerable game

2006-11-27 gaming • nethack • rpg

Some details on the crooks behind the latest spam wave (via Waxy)

2006-11-27 article • articles • botnet • botnets • bots • hacker • hacking • security • spam • tech • toread

Rumsfeld authorization

Direct permission to torture. When's the war crimes trial?

2006-11-26 bush • politics • warcrimes

Pretty pictures

Landscape porn (via Zawodny)

2006-11-26 art • beautiful • cool • gallery • images • nature • photo • photography • photos • pictures • wallpaper

Note on distributed computing (Waldo)

Single best article I've ever read on the topic

2006-11-25 architecture • computing • concurrency • design • distributed • java • network • paper • programming • research • sun

My AdWords API colleague chimes in

2006-11-25 api • community • google • marketing • rv-triage-high • soap • soap-vs-rest • web • webservices • work

10 Holiday Specials

You may not have seen these (via Populicious)

2006-11-25 christmas • culture • funny • holiday • humor • humour • lists • satire • television • tv • xmas

God this is horrible; no more steak tartare (via jwz)

2006-11-24 binnikemask • fun • funny • health • humor • medical • parasites • scary • tapeworm • weird • worm

KGB spy poisoning

Mmmm, Polonium-210

Thanksgiving Prayer

William S Burroughs, a fine video

2006-11-23 2watch • anthem • entertainment • literature • lyrics • medialoper • religion • streaming.video • thanksgiving • video • william.s.burroughs

Data bill of rights

Wesabe takes a provocative user-friendly stance

2006-11-22 cybergovernance • data • finance • financial • money • opendata • privacy • rights • security • usefull • wesabe

Colbert on John Zorn

OK this is very funny, even though at one time I acted like I liked John Zorn (via Waxy)

2006-11-21 *towatch • john+zorn • music • stephen+colbert • zorn

Flickr camera stats

A little data mining shows what cameras are most popular

2006-11-21 camera • cameras • canon • digital • flickr • industryinformation • photo • photography • shopping • via:2lmc • web2.0

Space Invader intvw

Giant Robot interviews Space Invader

2006-11-21 france • rubiks • space_invader • spaceinvaders • street_art • studio • video

I have a feeling this conference will be interesting

2006-11-21 conference • geo • georss • google • mapping • opensource • oreilly • tech • web2.0 • where2.0 • where20

The Tron effect

This movie had a strong impact on me, too

2006-11-20 tron • community • culture • free • geek • geeks • hacker • history • movies • programming • software

Crémerie / l'Ile st Louis

My local cheese shop, it's excellent

AllAdvantage is back!

agloco takes a bad idea and resurrects it

2006-11-20 advertising • ecommerce • fat • marketing • money • mytech • pyramid • servizio • storia • web • web2.0

Belshaw Donut Robot

Fantastic article

2006-11-20 cooking • donut • donuts • food • funny • hardware • humor • industrial • robot • robots • technology

A frightening way to travel paris

Camera lens measurements explained clearly

2006-11-20 canon • hardware • lens • lenses • mtf • mtf_chart • optics • photo • photoarticles • photogrammetry • photography

Fortune's Formula

Interesting proability result about optimal bets in games with positive expectation

The "CEO answers the phone" thing is brilliant

2006-11-18 finance • home • money • productivity • review • reviews • software • tools • web2.0 • wesabe • work

South Park / WoW

The Making Of (via Peter)

2006-11-17 animation • fun • games • gaming • interview • machinima • southpark • tv • warcraft • worldofwarcraft • wow

Wesabe launches!

Marc's personal finance site is live. Check it out!

2006-11-17 budget • business • community • finance • money • personal • social • startup • tools • web • web2.0

Cloning virtual objects is free

And that caues problems for Second Life (via Waxy)

2006-11-17 copybot • copyright • games • gaming • internet • ip • mmorpg • second_life • secondlife • social • virtual

Skiing down steep mountains with a paraglider on your back

Transmetropolitan #1

Free download, great comic (via BoingBoing)

2006-11-16 awesome • comic • comics • cyberpunk • download • downloads • free • future • pdf • transmetropolitan • warrenellis

Mosko et associés

Paris street art, beautiful things

Google Maps wizard

About time; easy way to embed a Google map on your web page

2006-11-16 ajax • api • google • googlemaps • map • maps • search • tools • web2.0 • webdesign • widgets

Running across cornstarch liquid (via jwz)

2006-11-15 cool • cornstarch • fluid • funny • humor • liquid • physics • science • video • water • youtube

Bad Paris guests

Hysterical story of an obnoxious American houseguest

Useful roundup of info (in French)

2006-11-15 grève • manifestation • mouvements_sociaux • transport

Knights Templar

A thoroughly detailed site, free of Da Vinci infection

Mary Worth live

Comic strip with live actors, totally awesome (via Metafilter)

2006-11-13 humor • video

Historical maps

Google Earth publishes some old maps; very cool

2006-11-13 cool • earth • geography • google • googleearth • googlemaps • history • map • maps • time • tools

Slaughterhouse NYC

Freaky slideshow of pig carcasses and industrial machines (via various)

2006-11-13 animal_rights • bullshit-company • daily • daily-dos • death • fire • flickr • greusum • news • photography • photos

Google's MySQL use

I spent a lot of time with this database (via zawodny)

2006-11-12 best • camp • database • distributed • distributed+systems • failover • google • mysql • mysqlcamp • performance • scaling

CCP and White Wolf

Bizarre game company merger

2006-11-12 culture • game • games • interesting • mmorpg • rpg-history • rpgs • virtualworld • white • white-wolf • wolf

French TV dinners

National chain of frozen meals

2006-11-12 grub

DR3I flash game

Groovy little game

2006-11-10 flash • flashgame • fun • game • games • games_online • nice • physics • play

Malcolm Miller Chartres

This man is rumoured to be a brilliant tour giude. His book is excellent.

ev on when to sell

I think he's overlooking the benefit of eliminating risks

2006-11-10 acquisition • blog • blogger • business • del.icio.us • delicious • flickr • internet • myspace • vc • web2.0

Birth of an island

Blogged photos from a volcano (via MeFi)

2006-11-10 blog • cool • geography • geology • island • photo • photos • sailing • science • travel • volcano

K-Fed gets dumped

2006-11-10 britney • celebrity • gossip • video • youtube

Overcoming bowel movements

Hysterical video (via Metafilter)

2006-11-09 abstinence • funny • parody • religion • video • youtube

The most popular stolen Windows XP key (via mathowie)

2006-11-09 cool • funny • geek • humour • microsoft • operatingsystems • trivia • warez • wikipedia • windows • winxp

Colbert quits America

It's a bit much, but still pretty funny

2006-11-09 colbert • comedy • election • funny • humor • humour • politics • stephencolbert • tv • video • videos

Calvin and Hobbes

As envisioned on Robot Chicken (via Waxy)

2006-11-09 animation • calvin • calvinandhobbes • cartoons • comics • fun • funny • humor • video • videos • youtube

"It was a thumpin"

Now to just get this evil goon out of the White House

Amazon utility comps

In depth story about Amazon's compute and storage services

2006-11-08 amazon • bezos • business • ecommerce • internet • s3 • startup • strategy • technology • web2.0 • webservices

Colbert on YouTube

Precisely skewering ending (via Krane)

2006-11-04 towatch

Your music expires

Microsoft is abandoning older DRM music

2006-11-04 dadvsi • drm • emi_pitch • microsoft • musique.en.ligne

Flickr spam attack

I was wondering what this scum was about

2006-11-04 attacks • flickr • phishing • spam

What VCs Learned from Odeo and YouTube

2006-11-03 angel • business • capital • funding • interesting • management • odeo • vc • venture • web2.0 • youtube

Anti-gay fundamentalist is hiring gay escorts and snorting meth

2006-11-03 ted-haggard • wire-reports

France expat lightbulb

Funny because it's true

English ideograms

Yingzi: if English were written like Chinese (via Evan)

2006-11-02 china • chinese • design • english • language • languages • linguistics • orthography • typography • words • writing

Winners from some competition

2006-11-02 videogames

Simple software to copy a DVD to hard drive (via Lifehacker)

2006-11-01 backup • download • dvd • dvdshrink • movies • ripping • software • tools • utilities • video • windows

Paris rental hassle

Stories of why it's hard to rent a place in Paris