Nelson's Linkblog 2007-08

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Hysterical Avenue Q / Fiddler happening

2007-08-31 funny • gay • jewish • musical • 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 nevada • burningman • crazyhippies • desert • despair • dust • misery • suicide • taz

Disowning Senator Craig

NYT calls out the Republicans for how fast they dump Craig

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

Larry Craig arrest audio

Such horrible public humiliation

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

Ah, the 60s, with its innocent homoerotic advertising

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

Bathroom cruising explained

What men cruising bathrooms are thinking

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

Idaho paper on Larry Craig

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

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

Smear the queer

Republicans abandon their senator

2007-08-29 gay • hypocrisy • larrycraig • politics • 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 badtech • bug • ea • games • golf • monopoly

Interesting site for Warcraft raid progression tracking

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

Small Net Builder

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

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

More Senator Larry Craig

Another story on the latest Republican hypocrite scandal

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

Another closeted Republican senator

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

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

Space Giraffe video

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

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

RSS to Twitter gateway

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

The great Iraq swindle

Awesomely angry bit of investigative journalism

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

Lemmings history

Story of making a groundbreaking game

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

Windows validation fix

armageddon averted

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

Bioshock soundtrack

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

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 drm • games • hack • timing • xbox

The XBox 360 has been pretty resistant to running unauthorized code

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

Science radio program, came recommended

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

JAVA ticker comments

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

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

Free Pingdom for 1 year

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

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

About time, should be quite handy

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

Shirtless Putin

The man is *buff*

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

Sun brand desparation

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

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

"Sexy girls moaning your IP!"

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

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

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

Left meets Right on 24

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

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

Illidan Stormrage

MySpace page for a big bad guy from World of Warcraft

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

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 • business • fraud • ipo • scam • search

Barry Bonds' legacy

The Onion writes the article I wish every newspaper had

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

$10-$13/month for a VPN tunnel

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

Soundwave: The Touch

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

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

LJ: Am_I_Pregnant

Amazingly intimate web community

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

W: "like, totally"

Bush's colloquialism is actually age appropriate

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

Skype outage cause

Windows update causes reboots causes Skype overload

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

Educational MMOG, two parts cheesy, one part interesting

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

iPhone / Linux PPTP

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

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

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 database • law • python • pytz • saudiarabia • time • timezone • tzinfo • unix • via:raffi

Nice absurdist machinima video from Warcraft

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

BioShock via Steam?!

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

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

Facebook app: $3M

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

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

Fuzzwich Mini-vids.

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

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

Software awards scam

Guy makes a fake program, wins many 5 star awards

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

monit: barking at daemons

System to keep daemons running smoothly

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

1907 Street View maps

Early road atlases included photographs

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

Kongregate funding

$5M series A for casual games

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

ARM reset schedule

View into what's going to happen to mortgages

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

Xbox Live Arcade data

Microsoft is quietly revolutionizing game distribution

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

SF real estate map

Good heat map visualization of prices

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

Beautiful book from my childhood

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

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 business • finance • linux • patent • sco

Alaska bush flying

Awesome photography, crazy landing spots

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

Bioshock art book

Free download; this game has beautiful design

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

2007-08-14 finance • ipo • vmware

It's out on Xbox 360. Download now!

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

Dwarf Fortress article

Mainstream gaming magazine covers this incredibly innovative indie game

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

TheOpenCD programs

Great compilation of open source applications

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

Scene NFO DB dump?

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

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

Mortgage lending problems

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

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

Behavioral health court

Alternative courts for mentally ill folks in San Francisco

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

Fred Phelps still insane

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

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

Second Life lawsuit

A test of ownership of virtual property

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

Facebook Data Store API

Interesting where Facebook is going

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

A stool for gentlemen

Vaguely vulgar, really funny

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

Barry Bonds, cyborg

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

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

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 beach • holland • legos • ocean • sculpture

Nude jogging priest

A bit of weird news for you

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

the hack parade continues

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

Yahoo vs Google

product matrix, pretty good

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

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 api • google • rest • search • via:marc

Balancing Puzzle Fighter

Nicely detailed description of a game designer rebalancing a class game

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

How the US tortures

Detailed, carefully written New Yorker piece

2007-08-06 alqaeda • guantanamo • immoral • iraq • politics • torture • usiraqwar • 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 anonymity • blogs • fakestevejobs • sixapart

Amazing Google API app that plots locations of fast food chains

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

More Blizzcon costumes

really, some were pretty awesome

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

Blizzcon costumes

Starting with the Paladin at starbucks

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

insane stick figures in peril

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

Cocaine consumption

NYC has the most cocaine in the waste water

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

propertyshark.com

The best online real estate database I've seen yet

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

elevator camera obscura

Neat effect in Joshua's elevator

2007-08-01 camera • elevator • video