Nelson's Linkblog 2007-05

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squirrels with lightsabers

Ah, Internet, you never end

2007-05-31 starwars • squirrels • lightsabers • photo • photoshop

Blogging Ultima

A completist plays all the Ultima games and blogs about them. The writing isn't great, but he's really thinking about the games. This post I'm linking is typical.

2007-05-30 games • emulation • ultima • garriott • lordbritish

Google developer day

Schedule for the Mountain View session

2007-05-30 google • code • developer

Chalk indie game

Clever gameplay idea, level design could be a bit better

2007-05-29 game • games • nds • interaction

Collection of videos on how they make systems scale

2007-05-29 scaling • architecture • ruby • php • web • server • caching • database

Flag colours chart

Clever visualization

2007-05-28 via:metafilter • visualization • graphs • charts • color

RIP Charles Nelson Reilly

a great raconteur

2007-05-28 obituary • rip • gay • fabulous

blinkx IPO $355M

really? what do they do?

2007-05-28 blinkx • search • ipo • finance

Warcraft dances

Amazing video superimposing in-game animations with their pop culture sources

2007-05-27 machinima • wow • warcraft • /dance • animation

Ernie Kovacs credits

Bizarrely creative

2007-05-27 via:boingboing • video • tv • television

No parking amnesty

Sarkozy breaks with tradition and does not dismiss all minor traffic tickets

2007-05-27 france • traffic • sarkozy • politics • driving • tickets

Turns out it's an obscure error message in a map editor. Someone's gonna get fired.

2007-05-26 via:digg • esrb • ratings • games • halo • nudity

Eve Online scandal

More community problems: it's really hard to have devs play their game

2007-05-26 scandal • games • eve • eveonline

Buffalo vs. Lions

witih crocodiles in the mix

2007-05-24 wildlife • africa • safari • lion • crocodile • buffalo • fight

Simpsons spoof WoW

Nicely detailed, although as with all simpsons the joke wears thin after about 90 seconds

2007-05-24 warcraft • simpsons • games • parody • spoof

Cliche tourist photos are better with dogs in them

2007-05-24 photos • dogs • paris • tourist • photography

Domain name scams

Profile of a guy who makes money buying and selling names, including *.cm

2007-05-23 via:metafilter • scam • dns • badtech • cameroon • .cm • verisign • wildcard

The Vela incident

1979 explosion in the South Atlantic; presumed to be a nuclear bomb test, but no one is sure

2007-05-23 bomb • nuclear • history • southafrica • israel • antarctica • satellite

Sarkozy portrait

The official portrait, full of crazy vignetting and major lens distortion

2007-05-23 portrait • france • photography • sarkozy

Hot Trends: WoW

At this very moment the Google Hot Trends display is dominated by Warcraft search terms. Today's WoW 2.1 patch day and people are searching for new content and addons.

2007-05-23 warcraft • google • zeitgeist • wow • trends • via:amit

Linux software to tell you what parts of your OS are using the most electricity

2007-05-22 power • acpi • apm • linux • kernel • green

Lovely little puzzle game with interesting ui

2007-05-22 via:digg • game • games • flash • interaction • art • puzzle

Scratch monkey #2

An alternate version of the story. I know Laura Creighton, I should ask her.

2007-05-22 creighton • sysyadmin • folklore • unix • pdp • vax

Always mount a scratch monkey

The story behind the sysadmin wisdom

2007-05-22 folklore • sysadmin • unix • pdp • vax

Gays steal babies

Homosexual flamingos, that is

2007-05-22 flamingo • gay • silly

A syncretic religion in northern Iraq, sadly in the news now for an "honor killing'.

2007-05-22 yezidi • islam • iraq • kurd • kurdistan • syncretic • syncretism • peacock • malaktaus • religion

Firefox growing pains

Good NYT article on how $100 million makes Mozilla something big

2007-05-21 mozilla • firefox • google • cpc • opensource

nice demo of a tangible music interface

2007-05-21 music • synthesizer • video • tangible • hci • ui • userinterface • Interface

brackup 1.0 released

genius hacker Brad Fitzpatrick releases a 1.0 of his encrypted offsite backup tool

2007-05-21 backup • bradfitz • perl • opensource • s3

US civil war in 4:24

Nice animated map of the changing front; really highlights the role of New Orleans and the Mississippi river

2007-05-21 via:metafilter • history • map • animation • civilwar • usa • confederacy • union • lincoln • sherman

Christian domestic discipline

"Loving Wife Spanking in a Christian Marriage"

2007-05-20 via:metafilter • bdsm • kinky • christian • batshitinsane • bible

boingboing doesn't just report the news, they make the news

2007-05-19 virgin • airplane • unicorn • ponyunicorn • omg

Colourmanagement Doggy

Photo with a really whacked out colour profile; if you have colour managed software you'll see a very unnatural image. Good test case.

2007-05-19 color • colour • colormanagement • photo • adobe • photoshop • srgb • adobergb

A bit of early Internet history

2007-05-18 anonymous • internet • culture • finland

Microsoft / Aquantive

They paid a huge amount of money

2007-05-18 ads • cpc • google • microsoft • acquisition • business

Tseric leaves Blizzard

One of Warcraft's best community managers has left. Go hire him!

2007-05-18 tseric • warcraft • blizzard • "customer • support" • forums

Page load times matter

nicely written little essay, I wish more sites got this

2007-05-17 alexa • smugmug • performance • web • metrics

AAPL stock scam

Maybe an honest mistake, or maybe someone manipulating the market

2007-05-17 stock • via:metafilter • fraud • apple • engadget

HD-DVD cracked again

Key revocation does not work

2007-05-17 via:boingboing • drm • hacking • dvd • hddvd • content

Warcraft small pets

This guide is amazingly detailed and well written

2007-05-16 warcraft • wow • games • pets

Io volcano eruption

Amazing animated image

2007-05-16 via:metafilter • astronomy • volcano • space • io • jupiter

Falwell in hell

Some quotes to remember the man's legacy by

2007-05-16 religious • bigotry • gay • aids • falwell

Mark shares his feelings about being caught up in the stupid US patent system

2007-05-16 patent • legal • eff

The real story of JPG magazine

Founder troubles mean the ouster of the original JPG magazine editors

2007-05-16 business • startup • ceo • founders • photography • photos

Apparently the criminal syndicates who run the botnets are fighting for territory

2007-05-14 via • security • hacking • worm • virus • botnet

Wikipedia unravels the mystery of the various steak-frites places in Paris

2007-05-14 paris • france • steak • restaurant • dining • family • feud

formalizing loans to family and friends. I know some folks who use this service and like it.

2007-05-14 loan • family • lending • money • finance • interest • taxes

Gadget bill of lights

Amusing rant against the stupid decorative LEDs on electronics.

2007-05-14 rant • annoyance • lights • design • via:digg

Free Windows file recovery

A no nonsense free tool for recovering deleted files

2007-05-14 software • Recovery • windows • undelete • recover • fat32 • ntfs • compactflash

French AIDS PSAs

Lovely and funny animations (NSFW)

2007-05-14 nsfw • animation • aids • psa • france • via:metafilter • for:skwirl

Telephoto is for cowards

Interesting article on how to best shoot candids

2007-05-14 photography • photos • candids • lens

gmail / trillian spam

Seems to be difficult to stop getting irritating popups saying "you've got mail!"

2007-05-13 trillian • gmail • jabber • notification • disable

Amazing ad for a dating service skewering eharmony.com

2007-05-13 via:mcmanus • gay • dating • eharmony • bigotry

Estampes Martinez Fleurot

shop in Paris selling old prints

2007-05-13 print • engraving • gravures • antique

Event driven Mongrel

Ruby gets a working non-blocking IO server?

2007-05-13 mongrel • ruby • rubyonrails • rails • nonblocking • performance

Google log reasons

Straightforward explanation of why Google logs data

2007-05-13 google • privacy • policy

Flickr: Technique

Each photo has a link to a description of how it was made

2007-05-12 photo • photography • technique • instructions • howto

Taillevent blog

Blog by an English speaking employee of Talilevent

2007-05-11 paris • france • blog • taillevent • food • wine

Turning off an API?

How to cleanly shut down a service

2007-05-11 api • web • endoflife • webservices • rest • soap

Redhat liberation fonts

New free fonts commissioned. The sans looks ok.

2007-05-11 redhat • font • free • opensource • typography • via:digg

Fallout MMOG: $75M

prospectus from interplay

2007-05-10 games • budget • financials • interplay • fallout

Amiet / Paysage de neige

A beautiful, nearly abstract painting at Orsay

2007-05-09 art • painting • neige • snow • amiet • abstract

Delville / School of Plato

this painting is really, really gay

2007-05-09 gay • art • painting • delville • erotic • homoerotic • nude

Lost / Land of the Lost

I'm not the only one making this connection

2007-05-09 lost • television • tv • landofthelost • schlock • scifi

gallery of Paris street art

2007-05-09 france • paris • streetart • graffiti

The Measure Map guys gave Google Analytics a much needed redesign

2007-05-09 veen • google • design • analytics • graphs

Super Mario glitch

This randomness is beautiful

2007-05-09 game • glitch • mario • smb

French chickens

Ms. Glaze explains why chicken tastes better in france

2007-05-09 france • cooking • chicken • poulet • food

jQuery JS library

Library for doing AJAXy stuff

2007-05-09 javascript • code • ajax • opensource

Twitter, Blogger growth

more delving into IDs to give a clue to message traffic

2007-05-08 twitter • blogger • evhead • ev • evan • statistics • traffic

French election map

Round 2 of the vote

2007-05-08 map • election • france • politics

New Flickr slideshows

Yay! I've been hoping they'd do this for a long time. Images finally resize to fill the window.

2007-05-08 flickr • photos • photography • slideshow

David Hasselhoff drunk

What is the extreme opposite of funny? I am very freaked out to be able to see this.

2007-05-08 hasselhoff • drunk • alcoholic • humiliation • via:battelle

distributed filesystem from the brilliant Brad Fitzpatrick

2007-05-07 bradfitz • filesystem • linux • distributed • opensource • code

LeMonde calls it

2007-05-06 france • politics • election • sarkozy

Atari email 1983-1992

A cache of internal corporate email from Atari games

2007-05-05 atari • games • email • archive

Beware the Internets

I think this ad is actually pretty good

2007-05-05 internet • culture • privacy

WoW Armory tools

PHP code to scrape Blizzard's Armory and get data about players. Neat apps, too.

2007-05-05 games • warcraft • code • php • wow

secrettechnology

Gallery from the game, game, game, and again game guy

2007-05-04 art • flash • game • heliopod • gallery

more insane Flash games from the game, game, game, and again game guy

2007-05-04 flash • game • art

French election nastiness

Heating up, the vote is in two days

2007-05-04 france • politics • election • sarkozy • sigolene • royal

Steal passwords out of MacOS keyring, even when the machine is asleep

2007-05-04 security • hacking • macos • password • jwz

Disney international hell

I clicked a link to go.com and ended up in some "You're not in the US" page. Ugh.

2007-05-04 international • web • restriction • copyright

French presidential powers

Details of how French government works

2007-05-03 france • politics • government • president

WoW class specs

Interesting analysis of how people configure their classes

2007-05-03 warcraft • wow • armory • games • spec

"Why it shows up, empty, and why it remains protected by the operating system is, as best we can tell, a mystery."

2007-05-03 windows • xerox • nwwia • software • broken

versioning file system for Linux; cool!

2007-05-03 filesystem • linux • kernel • ext3fs • versioning • scm • ext3

game, game, game and again game

A brilliant bizarre Flash game. Se7en meets Wax (or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees)

2007-05-03 flash • game • batshitinsane • art • dada

World is walking 10% faster

Amazing little study

2007-05-03 via:boingboing • walking • culture • faster

Mark is cynical so I don't have to be

2007-05-03 adobe • microsoft • silverlight • flash • apollo • web • development • software • ajax

Noise cancelling windows

This sounds brilliant

2007-05-02 via:digg • window • silent • quiet

fortuito.us blog

Matt's empire grows with a blog about how he does business

2007-05-02 mathowie • blog • business

Synergy mouse hack

simple client to let you share a mouse and keyboard among different computers. supports linux, windows, mac.

2007-05-02 via:oreilly • mouse • keyboard • virtual • console • software • opensource

Silverlight overview

Techcrunch's love note to Microsoft's latest attempt at owning webapps contains useful data

2007-05-02 .net • clr • ajax • javascript • webdevelopment • web • platform • silverlight • microsoft

jwz's fans give him advice on which service to buy

2007-05-02 fax • gateway • jwz • review

Download the PDF!

2007-05-02 paris • pdf • download • france • bicycle • velo • piste

Old Fallout 3 demo

Sad this never saw the light of day

2007-05-02 via:metafilter • games • fallout • "black • isle"

First of May: WoW, NSFW

Hysterical little machinima: "outdoor fucking starts today"

2007-05-02 video • wow • games • warcraft • machinima • nsfw • sex • "cartoon • nudity"