Nelson's Linkblog 2007-08

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Hysterical Avenue Q / Fiddler happening

2007-08-31 jewish • gay • musical • funny • via:goldman

Burning man looks fun!

Suicide mistaken for an art project, a duststorm white out. Man, why am I not there?

2007-08-31 burningman • nevada • crazyhippies • desert • dust • misery • suicide • despair • taz

Disowning Senator Craig

NYT calls out the Republicans for how fast they dump Craig

2007-08-31 gay • politics • editorial • larrycraig • scandal

Larry Craig arrest audio

Such horrible public humiliation

2007-08-30 arrest • politics • gay • larrycraig • scandal

Ah, the 60s, with its innocent homoerotic advertising

2007-08-30 gay • via:boingboing • advertisement • ads • funny

Bathroom cruising explained

What men cruising bathrooms are thinking

2007-08-30 sex • tearoom • politics • scandal • gay • cruising • bathroom

Idaho paper on Larry Craig

they're doing a decent job covering angles on the story

2007-08-30 politics • gay • larrycraig • senator • republican • scandal

Smear the queer

Republicans abandon their senator

2007-08-29 gay • politics • larrycraig • hypocrisy • senator

Tiger Woods launch bug

New Xbox 360 game crashes, and EA knew when they launched it. "EA bugs: it's in the game"

2007-08-29 games • golf • bug • badtech • ea • monopoly

Interesting site for Warcraft raid progression tracking

2007-08-28 warcraft • wow • games • guilds • data • armory • mmog

Small Net Builder

Website for networking that looks a bit more technical. Maybe I'll finally find a good router?

2007-08-28 network • nas • internet • technology • review

More Senator Larry Craig

Another story on the latest Republican hypocrite scandal

2007-08-28 gay • senator • politics • entrapment • tearoom

Another closeted Republican senator

Poor man, so conflicted, I almost feel bad for him

2007-08-27 via:metafilter • politics • gay • closeted • tearoom

Space Giraffe video

Amazingly fucked up new XBox Live Arcade game, real work of art

2007-08-27 spacegiraffe • video • games • minter • llamasoft

RSS to Twitter gateway

2007-08-27 rss • atom • twitter • update • web

iPhone accelerometer hack

Short little video of what would be possible if only Apple would open up the iPhone to third party developers

2007-08-27 iphone • hack • via:mathowie • games • ui • userinterface • accelerometer

The great Iraq swindle

Awesomely angry bit of investigative journalism

2007-08-27 iraq • war • profiteering • haliburton • kbr • scam • via:metafilter • politics

Lemmings history

Story of making a groundbreaking game

2007-08-26 via:metafilter • lemmings • game • history

Windows validation fix

armageddon averted

2007-08-26 windows • drm • wga • activation • license

Bioshock soundtrack

2007-08-24 xbox • games • bioshock • music • free • download

XBox 360 timing attack

The hack relies on measuring how long a memcmp() takes before failing. First timing attack used in public on a real target?

2007-08-24 hack • timing • xbox • games • drm

The XBox 360 has been pretty resistant to running unauthorized code

2007-08-24 drm • hacking • games • xbox

Science radio program, came recommended

2007-08-24 science • radio • program • npr • publicradio

JAVA ticker comments

Swartz's blog has open comments, hilarity over Sun's marketing stupidity ensues

2007-08-24 marketing • java • via:valleywag • sun • stock • ticker

Free Pingdom for 1 year

Great uptime web service is free for a full year for firefox users

2007-08-24 Pingdom • uptime • monitoring • free • webservice

About time, should be quite handy

2007-08-23 via:zawodny • mysql • database • loadbalancing • code • opensource • proxy

Shirtless Putin

The man is *buff*

2007-08-23 putin • russia • image • media • shirtless • torso • chest • hottie • hunk

Sun brand desparation

They're changing their ticker to JAVA. Good lord.

2007-08-23 sun • stock • java • finance • sunw • brand

"Sexy girls moaning your IP!"

2007-08-23 ipaddress • internet • ip • sex • bimbo • via:metafilter • funny

Amazing "content aware" technique, simple idea that works well. Watch the linked video.

2007-08-22 siggraph • graphics • photography • photos • editing • photoshop • merl

Left meets Right on 24

Janeane Garofalo to join right wing boy fantasy show. Will she do torture porn?

2007-08-22 garofalo • 24 • keifer • tv • television • torture

Illidan Stormrage

MySpace page for a big bad guy from World of Warcraft

2007-08-22 parody • wow • warcraft • games • blizzard • via:wowinsider

Is Accoona a scam?

Underwriter just walked on their IPO. No one's heard of their search engine. Founder is a fraudster.

2007-08-22 accoona • ipo • business • scam • fraud • search

Barry Bonds' legacy

The Onion writes the article I wish every newspaper had

2007-08-20 barrybonds • sports • baseball • humor • satire • scandal

$10-$13/month for a VPN tunnel

2007-08-20 via:twitter • via:joi • security • encryption • vpn • pptp • wifi • hotspot • network • internet

Soundwave: The Touch

The heartwarming story of one Transformer's journey to the bottom, and back up again

2007-08-20 transformers • soundwave • via:anildash • spoof • parody

LJ: Am_I_Pregnant

Amazingly intimate web community

2007-08-20 pregnancy • blogs • via:metafilter • privacy • sex

W: "like, totally"

Bush's colloquialism is actually age appropriate

2007-08-20 language • bush • slang • valleygirl

Skype outage cause

Windows update causes reboots causes Skype overload

2007-08-20 systems • failure • sysadmin • skype • windowsupdate • crash

Educational MMOG, two parts cheesy, one part interesting

2007-08-20 wolfquest • game • education • edugame • mmog • mmorpg

iPhone / Linux PPTP

Simplest set of instructions I've seen for doing basic VPN stuff

2007-08-19 vpn • security • iphone • linux • debian • poptop • pptp

Riyadh solar time

Python timezone database gave up trying to cope with a weird time zone definition tried in Saudi Arabia for three years

2007-08-18 saudiarabia • law • timezone • time • tzinfo • database • unix • python • pytz • via:raffi

Nice absurdist machinima video from Warcraft

2007-08-17 machinima • absurd • warcraft • wow • funny • acronym • 1337

BioShock via Steam?!

Big news that the best looking game of the year is also available via online delivery

2007-08-17 steam • games • distribution • bioshock • take2

Facebook app: $3M

good lord, that's a lot of money for a simple app.

2007-08-17 facebook • business • venture • acquisition • whereivebeen • travel • tripadvisor

Fuzzwich Mini-vids.

Clever little animation creation toy, one of the Y-Combinator crop

2007-08-17 animation • flash • via:techcrunch • viral • funny

Software awards scam

Guy makes a fake program, wins many 5 star awards

2007-08-17 via:metafilter • download • pagerank • seo • spam • scam • software • shareware

monit: barking at daemons

System to keep daemons running smoothly

2007-08-16 monit • system • sysadmin • ops • management • daemon • scripting

1907 Street View maps

Early road atlases included photographs

2007-08-16 via:waxy • maps • autos • cars • photographs • photography • photo

Kongregate funding

$5M series A for casual games

2007-08-16 kongregate • funding • vc • venturecapital • games

ARM reset schedule

View into what's going to happen to mortgages

2007-08-16 mortgage • housing • interest • loan • finance

Xbox Live Arcade data

Microsoft is quietly revolutionizing game distribution

2007-08-16 games • xbox • xbla • data • sales

SF real estate map

Good heat map visualization of prices

2007-08-15 via:marc • heatmap • visualization • mapping • realestate • property • houses • data • sanfrancisco

Beautiful book from my childhood

2007-08-14 games • mazes • via:metafilter • koziakin

SCOX, a study in fraud

Crappy IP lawyers pumped this stock up for years with fradulent claims about ownership of Linux IP. Now the company is truly over.

2007-08-14 sco • linux • business • finance • patent

Alaska bush flying

Awesome photography, crazy landing spots

2007-08-14 aviation • airplane • alaska • pipercub • travel • via:metafilter • photo • photography • wilderness • flying

Bioshock art book

Free download; this game has beautiful design

2007-08-14 games • bioshock • irrational • levine

2007-08-14 vmware • finance • ipo

It's out on Xbox 360. Download now!

2007-08-13 bioshock • systemshock • xbox • xbox360 • games • irrational

Dwarf Fortress article

Mainstream gaming magazine covers this incredibly innovative indie game

2007-08-12 games • windows • simulation • dwarffortress • nethack • roguelike • via:metafilter

TheOpenCD programs

Great compilation of open source applications

2007-08-12 windows • software • free • opensource • application • tools • cdrom

Scene NFO DB dump?

Rumour has it there's a database of 2.6 million warez scene releases

2007-08-12 warez • scene • demoscene • via:digg • pirate • database

Mortgage lending problems

Good explanation of the current mess of mortgage problems; too much financial engineering

2007-08-11 mortgage • money • economy • housing • lending • credit • loan

Behavioral health court

Alternative courts for mentally ill folks in San Francisco

2007-08-10 sanfrancisco • california • homeless • politics • mentalillness • court

Fred Phelps still insane

He's picketing the I-35W funerals because god hates fags

2007-08-10 gay • politics • phelps • batshitinsane • funeral

Second Life lawsuit

A test of ownership of virtual property

2007-08-10 games • secondlife • virtual • property • law • legal • lawsuit • sex

Facebook Data Store API

Interesting where Facebook is going

2007-08-09 facebook • api • developer • web • properties

A stool for gentlemen

Vaguely vulgar, really funny

2007-08-09 stool • design • via:digg • furniture • funny

Barry Bonds, cyborg

It's not just the steroids, he has a mechanical assist too?!

2007-08-09 baseball • sports • homerun • scandal • bonds • barrybonds • steroids • cyborg

Professionally designed free font with coverage of extended Latin, Greek.

2007-08-09 font • free • software • typography • unicode

They come in peace

Giant lego men appear on Holland beach

2007-08-09 legos • holland • sculpture • ocean • beach

Nude jogging priest

A bit of weird news for you

2007-08-09 via:dailyrotten • catholic • priest • nude • jogging • running

the hack parade continues

2007-08-07 via:digg • games • nes • emulator • iphone • hack

Yahoo vs Google

product matrix, pretty good

2007-08-06 via:zawodny • yahoo • google • web • analysis • research

Google search API for research

There is a supported way to do search requests to Google, for research purposes. It's a simple RESTish API

2007-08-06 via:marc • google • search • api • rest

Balancing Puzzle Fighter

Nicely detailed description of a game designer rebalancing a class game

2007-08-06 games • design • puzzlefighter • puzzle • xbox

How the US tortures

Detailed, carefully written New Yorker piece

2007-08-06 torture • guantanamo • iraq • usiraqwar • alqaeda • immoral • politics • via:metafilter

Anil calls out FSJ

Fake Steve Jobs author wrote a hit piece against blogs a few years ago; Anil calls him on hypocrisy

2007-08-06 sixapart • blogs • fakestevejobs • anonymity

Amazing Google API app that plots locations of fast food chains

2007-08-05 innout • fastfood • map • googlemaps • api • google • obesity • fat

More Blizzcon costumes

really, some were pretty awesome

2007-08-04 blizzard • blizzcon • warcraft • wow • costume • cosplay

Blizzcon costumes

Starting with the Paladin at starbucks

2007-08-04 games • warcraft • costume • cosplay • wow

insane stick figures in peril

2007-08-02 photo • boating • boat • sign • warning • stickfiguresinperil

Cocaine consumption

NYC has the most cocaine in the waste water

2007-08-02 via:metafilter • drugs • cocaine • statistics • sewage • water • analysis

propertyshark.com

The best online real estate database I've seen yet

2007-08-01 property • realestate • zillow • house • realtor • research • reference

elevator camera obscura

Neat effect in Joshua's elevator

2007-08-01 camera • elevator • video