Nelson's Linkblog 2007-06

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Nantais elephant

New insane mobile sculpture

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

If fire were water

Clever photoshopping

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

Netgear FWG114P

Another candidate for a more robust wireless router

2007-06-29 netgear • router • internet

Bad routers (Azureus)

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

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

DrayTek routers

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

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

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

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

Microsoft and Facebook

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

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

Old english money

Sovereigns, pence, shillings, crowns

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

Bush above the law

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

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

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

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

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

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

International criminals are now using PDF attachments to pump stocks

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

Ganglia monitoring

Monitor a cluster of servers easily

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

Extracts numerical data from graph images.

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

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

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

Flickr capacity talk

Lots of details about how a big webapp cluster works

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

Cocaine cornfield

Dumb high guy plows down corn

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

Conversational marketing

Mark Pilgrim calls bullshit on the FM / Microsoft nonsense

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

Wowhead sold for $1M

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

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

Fallout 2 patch

Bug fixes for the classic game

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

Grumpy Old Bookman

Amazing blog by a man who knows his books

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

Collaborative effort to build a database of various barcodes

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

HTTP proxy caching

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

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

Photoshop solves mazes

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

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 via:metafilter • horrifying • 24 • jackbauer • habeascorpus • scalia • justice • torture • geneva • supremecourt

Boing Boing, Ka-Ching Ka-Ching

2005 complaint about advertising on BoingBoing

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

Screengrab! for Firefox

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

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

eBay moves ads to BoingBoing

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

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

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 opentable • restaurant • web • reservations • dining • startup

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

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

Fallout 3 preview

Scans of the Game Informer article

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

Remarkably good article

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

Paris flashmob dinner

Formal dining at the Arc d'Triomphe

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

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

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

eBay armageddon

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

2007-06-14 advertising • cpc • google • ebay • 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 via:wowinsider • warcraft • games • wow • census

Keyloggers winning

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

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

President approval ratings

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

Bush's watch stolen

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

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

States renamed as countries, by GDP

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

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

Amazing video for Hitachi

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

An alternative to Rails for high performance

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

Tower defense with a modern aesthetic

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

Childrens zombie books

"Clifford the Big Dead Dog"

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

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 • spam • ocr • recognition • security

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

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

Generative art on Flickr

Overview of where to look on Flickr for interesting art

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

Automated traffic shaping for home routers

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

Lovely music video. We need music without irony again.

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

excellent, simple webapp for tracking billable hours

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

The camera we want

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

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

No raw milk camembert?

The big cheese producers both switch to using treated milk

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

C is not a registered protocol

Ridiculously stupid Thunderbird bug

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

beautiful little physics game

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

LA celebrity culture

Funny, clever rant

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

Guitar Hero / Ironman

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

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

Credit piggybacking

Gaming credit scores

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

earnest vs. cool

A fantastic essay on the emptiness of hip

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

Clever physics based game

2007-06-03 games • physics • platformer

A very early RTS game from Unix is being maintained

2007-06-02 games • unix • rts

AACS key leaked?

Sounds like an inside job, very weird

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

Using Google Gears

Step by step instructions on gearsifying Google Reader

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

Google maps sightings

Giant photo databases have odd things in them

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

LOL: Nelson's Weblog

Everything's better with lolcats.

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