Nelson's Linkblog 2007-06

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Nantais elephant

New insane mobile sculpture

2007-06-30 art • elephant • france • nantes • sculpture

If fire were water

Clever photoshopping

2007-06-30 fire • flames • image • photoshop • via:digg

Netgear FWG114P

Another candidate for a more robust wireless router

2007-06-29 internet • netgear • router

Bad routers (Azureus)

A list of routers that have problems with too many network connections, as per BitTorrent

2007-06-29 bittorrent • hardware • internet • review • routers • utorrent

DrayTek routers

recommended via a blog reader. $200+ for a home router, but apparently higher quality. 2800G specifically recommended

2007-06-29 adsl • broadband • internet • router

Zillions of these widgets on the net, but this one lets you compare to other ISPs

2007-06-29 bandwidth • dsl • internet • network • speed • test

Microsoft and Facebook

I'd forgotten that Microsoft has an exclusive ad deal on Facebook

2007-06-28 ads • advertising • adwords • cpc • facebook

Old english money

Sovereigns, pence, shillings, crowns

2007-06-28 currency • england • money • pound • victorian

Bush above the law

Executive privilege means you can break the law and it's hard to catch you

2007-06-28 bush • cia • fbi • nsa • president • spying

Latest email spam pumped stock. Why don't the people who trade this go to jail?

2007-06-28 botnet • email • scam • stock • worm

A great description of why people love Pokemon games. For me, I can't stand them, but that makes me sad.

2007-06-28 collecting • games • pikachu • pokemon • rpg

International criminals are now using PDF attachments to pump stocks

2007-06-27 acrobat • badtech • deathofinternet • email • pdf • scam • stock • worm

Ganglia monitoring

Monitor a cluster of servers easily

2007-06-26 admin • cluster • code • monitoring • sysadmin

Extracts numerical data from graph images.

2007-06-26 code • data • graph • recovery • reverseengineering

Check in system config files to Subversion, then push to production servers

2007-06-26 code • management • server • subversion • system

Flickr capacity talk

Lots of details about how a big webapp cluster works

2007-06-26 database • flickr • mysql • performance • scaling

Cocaine cornfield

Dumb high guy plows down corn

2007-06-26 cocaine • corn • cornfield • drugs • police • via:boingboing

Conversational marketing

Mark Pilgrim calls bullshit on the FM / Microsoft nonsense

2007-06-24 advertising • battelle • blogs • microsoft • payola

Wowhead sold for $1M

Warcraft database bought by same company that owns the other two WoW databases. $1M seems too low.

2007-06-23 games • via:peter • warcraft • wow

Fallout 2 patch

Bug fixes for the classic game

2007-06-23 blackisle • fallout • games • rpg

Grumpy Old Bookman

Amazing blog by a man who knows his books

2007-06-21 blog • books • bookstore • library • weblog

Collaborative effort to build a database of various barcodes

2007-06-21 barcode • cuecat • database • product • upc

HTTP proxy caching

Study finds that in practice, the basic HTTP stuff works pretty well through proxy caches

2007-06-21 caching • http • via:hotlinks • web

Photoshop solves mazes

2007-06-20 games • hack • maze • photoshop • via:waxy

Spore delayed to 2009

Sometimes concept art is not a game

2007-06-20 games • spore • willwright

Scalia confuses 24 for reality

US Supreme Court justice actually cites Jack Bauer

2007-06-19 24 • geneva • habeascorpus • horrifying • jackbauer • justice • scalia • supremecourt • torture • via:metafilter

Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching

2005 complaint about advertising on BoingBoing

2007-06-18 advertising • boingboing • cpc • web

Screengrab! for Firefox

Get a screenshot of a web page bigger than one window's worth

2007-06-18 addon • extensions • firefox • png • screenshot • web • webpage

eBay moves ads to BoingBoing

So that's how they're replacing the Google ad traffic; targeted blog posts

2007-06-18 2001 • ads • boingboing • ebay • model • satire

Street fight on Google

Street view cameras capture a fight in progress

2007-06-18 fight • google • maps • photos • privacy • sanfrancisco • street

Opentable profile

I'm impressed with their tenacity

2007-06-18 dining • opentable • reservations • restaurant • startup • web

Dibbell's stuff published on Chinese game grinding as a long NYT article.

2007-06-17 china • games • goldfarm • rmt • via:evan • warcraft • wow

Fallout 3 preview

Scans of the Game Informer article

2007-06-17 fallout • gameinformer • games • magazine • via:digg

Remarkably good article

2007-06-17 browser • hacking • html • javascript • security • web • xss

Paris flashmob dinner

Formal dining at the Arc d'Triomphe

2007-06-16 flashmob • france • happening • paris

ok, lolcats is totally played out, but this is genuinely funny

2007-06-14 html • humor • lolcats • nerdy

eBay armageddon

eBay yanks all its ads from Google, apparently out of spite

2007-06-14 advertising • cpc • ebay • google • via:mcmanus

Warcraft dropping off?

Third party sees evidence that fewer people are playing WoW than in February. Still up above the pre-expansion number in january

2007-06-13 census • games • via:wowinsider • warcraft • wow

Keyloggers winning

Warcraft accounts are valuable enough they are regularly attacked. Sometimes, they win

2007-06-13 hack • keylogger • warcraft • wow

President approval ratings

2007-06-12 approval • bush • poll • president • via:kottke

Bush's watch stolen

Video sure makes it look like someone in the crowd stripped his watch off

2007-06-12 albania • bush • president • stolen • thief • watch • wristwatch

States renamed as countries, by GDP

2007-06-12 economics • gdp • map • politics • visualization

Mr. T is the "T" in I.T.

Amazing video for Hitachi

2007-06-12 advertising • funny • mrt • via:waxy

An alternative to Rails for high performance

2007-06-11 code • framework • mongrel • rails • ruby • rubyonrails • server • webapp

Tower defense with a modern aesthetic

2007-06-11 flash • game • games • towerdefence • via:jayisgames

Childrens zombie books

"Clifford the Big Dead Dog"

2007-06-11 books • funny • parody • zombies

Space invader thief

Some ass in Paris is stealing the mosaics off the walls

2007-06-11 art • spaceinvader • streetart • thief

Breaking captchas

Some random guy in Ukraine attacks captchas and publishes results

2007-06-11 captcha • hacking • ocr • recognition • security • spam

Crazy Iraqi project to launch things into orbit via a projectile cannon

2007-06-11 cannon • gun • iraq • orbit • satellite

Generative art on Flickr

Overview of where to look on Flickr for interesting art

2007-06-10 algorithmic • amoeba • art • generative • golanlevin • mariuswatz • proce55ing • processing

Automated traffic shaping for home routers

2007-06-10 bandwidth • firewall • internet • qos • router • tcp • tcpip • trafficshaping

Lovely music video. We need music without irony again.

2007-06-07 beatles • music • via:metafilter • video

excellent, simple webapp for tracking billable hours

2007-06-06 consulting • lifehack • productivity • rubyonrails • task • timer • tracking • webapp

The camera we want

Excellent summary of what's wrong in compact digital camera design

2007-06-06 camera • design • lens • photo • photography • ui

No raw milk camembert?

The big cheese producers both switch to using treated milk

2007-06-06 camembert • cheese • food • france • safety

C is not a registered protocol

Ridiculously stupid Thunderbird bug

2007-06-05 badtech • bug • email • thunderbird

beautiful little physics game

2007-06-05 games • physics • via:gamesetwatch

LA celebrity culture

Funny, clever rant

2007-06-05 celebrity • culture • fashion • losangeles • oswalt • suv

Guitar Hero / Ironman

Clearly I'm late to the party, but damn this looks awesome

2007-06-04 awesome • guitarhero • ironman • metal • rock • via:mathowie

Credit piggybacking

Gaming credit scores

2007-06-04 credit • fairisaac • money • mortgage • scam

earnest vs. cool

A fantastic essay on the emptiness of hip

2007-06-03 cool • culture • life • mrrogers • philosophy • society

Clever physics based game

2007-06-03 games • physics • platformer

A very early RTS game from Unix is being maintained

2007-06-02 games • rts • unix

AACS key leaked?

Sounds like an inside job, very weird

2007-06-01 drm • encryption • hacking • hddvd • movies • security

Using Google Gears

Step by step instructions on gearsifying Google Reader

2007-06-01 ajax • gears • google • javascript • offline • sqlite • via:digg

Google maps sightings

Giant photo databases have odd things in them

2007-06-01 funny • google • privacy • via:digg

LOL: Nelson's Weblog

Everything's better with lolcats.

2007-06-01 lolcats • macro • via:metafilter • weblog