Nelson's Linkblog 2006-12

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Finishing Guy Savoy

Our intrepid stagiare finishes her tour in kitchen hell

Saints Row Bugs: The Musical

Surprisingly funny montage of videogame bugs with original soundtrack

2006-12-31 #guild • fun • funny • games • humor • music • quickbits • tobin • video • videogames

Hot Type (NSFW)

Pin-up girls made from type samples

2006-12-31 art • calendar • creative • design • fonts • fun • funny • humor • nude • type • typography

PS3 eBay prices

Grey market speculation collapse

2006-12-30 articles • ebay • economics • games • interesting • kotaku • ps3 • sony • videogame • videogames • wii

Google overadvertising

Tips are apparently even prefix matched. ugh.

2006-12-30 advertising • business • ethics • firefox • google • internet • search • strategy • tips • trust • web

New in Photoshop CS3

Simple list of new stuff

2006-12-27 articles • cs3 • design • information • photo • photography • photoshop • review • software • toread • webdesign

Hard Gay forums

fans only (via UMMO)

2006-12-25 comedy • hardgay • japan

Amit figures out how to do Flash development with open source command line tools

2006-12-25 blog_post • coding • development • flash • opensource • programming • simblob.blogspot.com • tools • tutorial • webdesign • webdev

Amazing photograph

The Last Starfighter

Was just thinking of this awesome 80s movie

Yahoo search API

Since Google no longer offers the service, try Yahoo instead

2006-12-23 api • apis • fill • google • platforms • provide • search • webos • webservices • yahoo • ydn

Google SOAP rationale

Something like an official explanation

2006-12-23 api • apis • blog • google • news • search • soap • updates • work

Line Rider / Urban Run

Amazing how far this little toy can be taken

2006-12-23 animation • art • flash • fun • game • games • line • linerider • rider • video • youtube

Salvation Mountain

Official site of the folk art installation

even little toys have significant gameplay impact

Defcon Christmas

2006-12-18 gaming • geekery • laughs • mod • strategy • videogames

beautiful art game

2006-12-18 design • evolution • flash • flow • fun • game • games • gaming • life • online • science

Dangerous roads

Amazing round of 10 roads, with pics (via Metafilter)

2006-12-18 blog • cool • dangerous • fun • funny • interesting • photography • photos • roads • travel • weird

Security theater

NYT editorial on the mess the TSA has made

NAT UDP bridging

Obscure technique for working around annoying firewalls

2006-12-16 firewall • hacking • howto • internet • nat • network • networking • p2p • security • skype • voip

Colour management

Overview hands on article

2006-12-16 color • colormanagement • colourmanagement • graphics • management • photo • photography • printing • profile • resources • review

First ever gay film

5 boxing WoW PVP

Crazy guy plays 5 Warcraft characters at once

2006-12-16 games • interviews • news • warcraft • worldofwarcraft • wow • wtf

Happy Holidays / 24

Funny spoof / marketing

2006-12-15 24 • amusing • net • santa • tv • video

Xmas lights photos

Waiting for magic hour

2006-12-14 camera • christmas • howto • lighting • lights • photo • photography • photos • tips • tutorial • tutorials

Benny Hinn's power

Bowling over the faithful (via We Know)

2006-12-13 awesome • entertainment • evangelist • funny • tv • video

Second Life debunk

Clay Shirky casts a cold look at the hype

2006-12-13 analysis • clayshirky • community • metaverse • secondlife • shirky • sl • social • socialsoftware • statistics • trends

They're kinda cute rascals!

Mark Foley's IM logs

Bits of this have leaked, but here's the full set straight from Congress

2006-12-13 election • gross • politics • wtf

Canon lens reviews

Excellent detailed reviews, with ISO 12233 samples

2006-12-13 camera • canon • eos • imported • lens • lenses • photo • photography • review • reviews • shopping

Left Behind reviews

Freaky apocoChristian game is not popular

Japanese show's own web site

2006-12-12 comedy • funny • gay • hard • hard_gay • hardgay • japan • razorramonhg • skit

funny take on gender issues in WoW

Another awesome blog post by the stagiere at Guy Savoy

WoW Gold Tricks

Various clever tricks and some exploits

2006-12-12 game • games • gold • hacks • how-to • money • temp • tips • virtualworld • warcraft • wow

Google ad plagiarism?

Maybe there's a simple explanation, but this looks pretty bad

2006-12-11 copyright • design • funny • google • ie7 • marketing • plagiarism • searchengine • web • webdesign • yahoo

Twitter profile

Nice little view of what the product is about

2006-12-11 latimes • twitter

Gestural interfaces

Writeup of my friends' startup

2006-12-11 future • ui • userexperience • userinterface

Wide angle lens use

Good advice on how to use this weird tool well

2006-12-11 lenses • photography • wideangle

Early game bots

History of Rog-o-matic and Borg

2006-12-11 computers • gaming • rpg • videogames

Web site with auction prices from many WoW servers

2006-12-10 addon • addons • auction • database • economy • games • gaming • reference • warcraft • worldofwarcraft • wow

Cheney's Google logs

Funny little piece (via Krane)

2006-12-10 article • cheney • comedy • culture • funny • google • humor • list • politics • search • usa

Cleveland surfing

Through ice and sewage

Yap stone money

Interesting interview with a Yapese man (via Metafilter)

One of the marvels from Clash of the Titans

Flickr founding story

Very nice interview; company was founded in barf

2006-12-09 article • business • entrepreneurship • flickr • history • interview • photos • social • startup • web2.0 • yahoo

Simple investments

Too long to read the whole thing, but nice to share this context with my friends

2006-12-09 article • business • economics • economy • finance • google • investing • investment • money • stocks • toread

Wii have a problem

Many images (via Joi)

2006-12-09 blog • blogs • funny • games • hardware • humor • news • nintendo • photos • videogames • wii

REST for Toddlers

Mark Pilgrim is a very funny man

2006-12-08 codes • fun • funny • geek • http • humor • humour • programming • reference • rest • web

Lori Firefox #2

This link actually has the ability to download!

2006-12-06 detailed • development • extension • extensions • firefox • firefox-all • http • optimization • tools • webdesign • webdev

Firefox load time ext.

Add-on shows you how long a page takes to load

2006-12-06 browser • development • extensions • firefox • performance • tools • web

Scary Mary Poppins

Reimagined as a horror film (via BoingBoing)

2006-12-06 disney • fun • funny • horror • humor • mashup • movie • movies • trailer • video • youtube

Depressing spam story

NYT breaks down the disaster that is email

ZIP code scribbles

Interesting visualization of US zip code allocation (via Peter)

2006-12-06 art • cool • design • geography • interesting • map • mapping • maps • usa • visualization • zipcode

Awesome kitsch collection (via Metafilter)

2006-12-05 blog • blogs • clothing • crafts • design • fashion • funny • humor • knitting • retro • vintage

Scared of Santa

Happy holiday memories (via Metafilter)

2006-12-05 art • children • christmas • fun • funny • gallery • humor • images • photography • photos • santa

Firefox always on top

Yay, a new stupid Firefox bug. I wonder if keyboard focus works in 2.0?

Some messy mix of Quicktime, Javascript, cookies

Because it's you

Another lovely blog post from a chef at Guy Savoy

2006-12-04 blog • blogs • chef • cooking • culinary • food • france • paris • recipes • restaurant • weekly

US Army "justice"

Soldiers crush a looter's car (via case)

2006-12-04 america • army • car • carsonm • coalition_soldiers • corruption • destruction • iraq • video • videos • war

Jesus needs a jet

Benny Hinn's latest plea (via Metafilter)

2006-12-03 crooks • evangelical • fundamentalism • fundamentalist • religion • scam • televangelist

Keith Olbermann

Backgrounder on his success as someone who's willing to actually speak out

2006-12-02 news • politics

And intensely fiddly bit of optimized code, and the path it took

2006-12-02 3d • algorithm • algorithms • c • code • development • graphics • history • interesting • math • programming

Didn't know it could really happen (via shellen)

2006-12-02 cars • driving • electricity • fire • gas • read • safety • static • tips

Antarctic dining

Long and rambling, but first part's good