Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog aboutarchivemastodonfeed
BitTorrent gossip
$25M funding, CEO search
2006-11-29 bittorent • funding • business • bittorrent • startup • video • p2p • internet • download • music • film • nelson:autotagged
French "penis" slang
205 colourful expressions
2006-11-29 vocab • language • french • france • linguisitic • dumb • penis • nelson:autotagged
JotSpot partner is mad
Sounds like the acquisition has caused trouble for JotSpot's customers
2006-11-29 ircnick:jautero • wiki • google • jot • socialtext • jotspot • political • via:revgeorge • rape • via:vielmetti • acquisition • nelson:autotagged
Nudie satellite pics
Naked people on Google Earth
2006-11-29 funny • google • humor • web • googleearth • people • naked • maps • googlemaps • fun • earth • nelson:autotagged
WoW game stats
Blizzard releases some info from inside their game (via WoW Insider)
2006-11-29 status • gaming • statistics • stats • interesting • wow • lists • content • worldofwarcraft • games • warcraft • nelson:autotagged
RIP Google Answers
Unusual for Google to shut down an old service
2006-11-29 google • business • money • yahoo • library • research • blog • products • answers • internet • news • nelson:autotagged
Science mysteries
Some of the quandries of modern science, heavily physics oriented
2006-11-28 articles • toread • space • interesting • research • science • article • weird • astronomy • physics • cool • nelson:autotagged
Pocket globes
Beautiful craft (via kottke)
2006-11-28 pocket • gis • map • culture • interesting • gadgets • maps • science • gifts • neph • history • nelson:autotagged
Paris expat blogs
I'm just about to leave, but here's a nice list
2006-11-28 expat • livingabroad • blogging • france • nelson:autotagged
Second Life escorts
Virtual sex market
2006-11-28 gaming • life • escorts • secondlife • virtual • sex • reviews • culture • second • games • sl • nelson:autotagged
Vigipirate
Funny word for France's equivalent of DHS threat levels
2006-11-27 nelson:autotagged
Nethack hacks
Good overview of contributions to change the venerable game
2006-11-27 gaming • nethack • rpg • nelson:autotagged
Stock spam net
Some details on the crooks behind the latest spam wave (via Waxy)
2006-11-27 hacker • articles • botnets • toread • spam • hacking • tech • botnet • article • bots • security • nelson:autotagged
Rumsfeld authorization
Direct permission to torture. When's the war crimes trial?
2006-11-26 politics • bush • warcrimes • nelson:autotagged
Pretty pictures
Landscape porn (via Zawodny)
2006-11-26 beautiful • art • nature • photo • photography • wallpaper • photos • pictures • images • gallery • cool • nelson:autotagged
Note on distributed computing (Waldo)
Single best article I've ever read on the topic
2006-11-25 distributed • java • network • computing • sun • programming • research • paper • design • architecture • concurrency • nelson:autotagged
P@ on SOAP
My AdWords API colleague chimes in
2006-11-25 web • google • marketing • work • community • api • webservices • soap-vs-rest • rv-triage-high • soap • nelson:autotagged
10 Holiday Specials
You may not have seen these (via Populicious)
2006-11-25 funny • television • humor • humour • tv • satire • lists • christmas • culture • holiday • xmas • nelson:autotagged
Tapeworm story
God this is horrible; no more steak tartare (via jwz)
2006-11-24 funny • humor • scary • medical • binnikemask • worm • parasites • tapeworm • health • fun • weird • nelson:autotagged
KGB spy poisoning
Mmmm, Polonium-210
2006-11-24 nelson:autotagged
Thanksgiving Prayer
William S Burroughs, a fine video
2006-11-23 2watch • literature • lyrics • entertainment • anthem • streaming.video • thanksgiving • religion • william.s.burroughs • video • medialoper • nelson:autotagged
Data bill of rights
Wesabe takes a provocative user-friendly stance
2006-11-22 cybergovernance • financial • finance • rights • money • privacy • usefull • opendata • security • data • wesabe • nelson:autotagged
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 zorn • john+zorn • music • stephen+colbert • *towatch • nelson:autotagged
Flickr camera stats
A little data mining shows what cameras are most popular
2006-11-21 web2.0 • flickr • shopping • photo • photography • cameras • canon • camera • digital • via:2lmc • industryinformation • nelson:autotagged
Space Invader intvw
Giant Robot interviews Space Invader
2006-11-21 space_invader • video • rubiks • street_art • france • studio • spaceinvaders • nelson:autotagged
Where 2.0 CFP
I have a feeling this conference will be interesting
2006-11-21 web2.0 • conference • google • where20 • mapping • georss • tech • opensource • where2.0 • geo • oreilly • nelson:autotagged
The Tron effect
This movie had a strong impact on me, too
2006-11-20 hacker • tron • culture • geeks • programming • community • geek • movies • free • history • software • nelson:autotagged
Crémerie / l'Ile st Louis
My local cheese shop, it's excellent
2006-11-20 nelson:autotagged
AllAdvantage is back!
agloco takes a bad idea and resurrects it
2006-11-20 web2.0 • web • storia • pyramid • mytech • servizio • money • fat • advertising • marketing • ecommerce • nelson:autotagged
Belshaw Donut Robot
Fantastic article
2006-11-20 funny • industrial • humor • food • donuts • cooking • robots • robot • hardware • donut • technology • nelson:autotagged
Moto taxis
A frightening way to travel paris
2006-11-20 nelson:autotagged
MTF charts
Camera lens measurements explained clearly
2006-11-20 photoarticles • lens • photo • photography • canon • photogrammetry • optics • hardware • mtf_chart • mtf • lenses • nelson:autotagged
Fortune's Formula
Interesting proability result about optimal bets in games with positive expectation
2006-11-19 nelson:autotagged
Wesabe update
The "CEO answers the phone" thing is brilliant
2006-11-19 nelson:autotagged
Wesabe praise
Matt likes it!
2006-11-18 web2.0 • productivity • finance • money • review • work • reviews • home • tools • wesabe • software • nelson:autotagged
South Park / WoW
The Making Of (via Peter)
2006-11-17 gaming • tv • wow • interview • animation • games • warcraft • fun • worldofwarcraft • machinima • southpark • nelson:autotagged
Wesabe launches!
Marc's personal finance site is live. Check it out!
2006-11-17 web2.0 • web • finance • business • personal • money • startup • budget • community • social • tools • nelson:autotagged
Cloning virtual objects is free
And that caues problems for Second Life (via Waxy)
2006-11-17 gaming • copybot • copyright • secondlife • ip • internet • virtual • second_life • games • social • mmorpg • nelson:autotagged
Speedflying
Skiing down steep mountains with a paraglider on your back
2006-11-17 nelson:autotagged
Transmetropolitan #1
Free download, great comic (via BoingBoing)
2006-11-16 warrenellis • comics • downloads • free • future • cyberpunk • pdf • download • transmetropolitan • comic • awesome • nelson:autotagged
Mosko et associés
Paris street art, beautiful things
2006-11-16 nelson:autotagged
Google Maps wizard
About time; easy way to embed a Google map on your web page
2006-11-16 web2.0 • map • search • google • webdesign • maps • ajax • api • googlemaps • widgets • tools • nelson:autotagged
Freaky fluid
Running across cornstarch liquid (via jwz)
2006-11-15 funny • humor • liquid • science • youtube • fluid • water • cornstarch • video • physics • cool • nelson:autotagged
Bad Paris guests
Hysterical story of an obnoxious American houseguest
2006-11-15 nelson:autotagged
French strikes
Useful roundup of info (in French)
2006-11-15 grève • mouvements_sociaux • transport • manifestation • nelson:autotagged
Knights Templar
A thoroughly detailed site, free of Da Vinci infection
2006-11-14 nelson:autotagged
Mary Worth live
Comic strip with live actors, totally awesome (via Metafilter)
2006-11-13 humor • video • nelson:autotagged
Historical maps
Google Earth publishes some old maps; very cool
2006-11-13 map • google • googleearth • cool • maps • googlemaps • time • earth • geography • tools • history • nelson:autotagged
Slaughterhouse NYC
Freaky slideshow of pig carcasses and industrial machines (via various)
2006-11-13 animal_rights • fire • greusum • photography • daily • photos • death • daily-dos • news • flickr • bullshit-company • nelson:autotagged
Google's MySQL use
I spent a lot of time with this database (via zawodny)
2006-11-12 google • database • failover • camp • distributed • scaling • distributed+systems • mysql • performance • mysqlcamp • best • nelson:autotagged
CCP and White Wolf
Bizarre game company merger
2006-11-12 culture • rpgs • interesting • white-wolf • rpg-history • game • games • virtualworld • mmorpg • wolf • white • nelson:autotagged
French TV dinners
National chain of frozen meals
2006-11-12 grub • nelson:autotagged
DR3I flash game
Groovy little game
2006-11-10 play • flash • flashgame • game • games • fun • games_online • physics • nice • nelson:autotagged
Malcolm Miller Chartres
This man is rumoured to be a brilliant tour giude. His book is excellent.
2006-11-10 nelson:autotagged
ev on when to sell
I think he's overlooking the benefit of eliminating risks
2006-11-10 web2.0 • vc • business • blogger • myspace • blog • del.icio.us • delicious • internet • flickr • acquisition • nelson:autotagged
Birth of an island
Blogged photos from a volcano (via MeFi)
2006-11-10 science • sailing • geology • photo • travel • blog • photos • island • volcano • geography • cool • nelson:autotagged
K-Fed gets dumped
On YouTube!
2006-11-10 gossip • celebrity • video • youtube • britney • nelson:autotagged
Overcoming bowel movements
Hysterical video (via Metafilter)
2006-11-09 funny • abstinence • youtube • religion • video • parody • nelson:autotagged
FCKGW
The most popular stolen Windows XP key (via mathowie)
2006-11-09 funny • warez • humour • winxp • windows • wikipedia • geek • operatingsystems • trivia • microsoft • cool • nelson:autotagged
Colbert quits America
It's a bit much, but still pretty funny
2006-11-09 funny • humor • videos • humour • tv • colbert • stephencolbert • video • election • politics • comedy • nelson:autotagged
Calvin and Hobbes
As envisioned on Robot Chicken (via Waxy)
2006-11-09 funny • humor • videos • calvinandhobbes • comics • youtube • calvin • animation • video • cartoons • fun • nelson:autotagged
"It was a thumpin"
Now to just get this evil goon out of the White House
2006-11-08 nelson:autotagged
Amazon utility comps
In depth story about Amazon's compute and storage services
2006-11-08 web2.0 • business • s3 • startup • strategy • amazon • bezos • webservices • internet • technology • ecommerce • nelson:autotagged
Colbert on YouTube
Precisely skewering ending (via Krane)
2006-11-04 towatch • nelson:autotagged
Your music expires
Microsoft is abandoning older DRM music
2006-11-04 emi_pitch • musique.en.ligne • drm • dadvsi • microsoft • nelson:autotagged
Flickr spam attack
I was wondering what this scum was about
2006-11-04 attacks • phishing • flickr • spam • nelson:autotagged
Venture spray
What VCs Learned from Odeo and YouTube
2006-11-03 web2.0 • vc • funding • business • angel • interesting • youtube • odeo • management • venture • capital • nelson:autotagged
Hypocrisy
Anti-gay fundamentalist is hiring gay escorts and snorting meth
2006-11-03 ted-haggard • wire-reports • nelson:autotagged
France expat lightbulb
Funny because it's true
2006-11-03 nelson:autotagged
English ideograms
Yingzi: if English were written like Chinese (via Evan)
2006-11-02 linguistics • chinese • language • orthography • typography • writing • languages • design • words • english • china • nelson:autotagged
WoW costumes
Winners from some competition
2006-11-02 videogames • nelson:autotagged
DVD Shrink
Simple software to copy a DVD to hard drive (via Lifehacker)
2006-11-01 backup • windows • dvd • utilities • movies • dvdshrink • download • video • tools • ripping • software • nelson:autotagged
Paris rental hassle
Stories of why it's hard to rent a place in Paris
2006-11-01 nelson:autotagged