Nelson's Linkblog 2008-03

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Famous LEGO photos

Nice recreations

2008-03-31 lego • photos • photography • rephotography

I miss the old "What's new with NCSA Mosaic"

2008-03-31 via:jwz • mosaic • mcom • netscape • history • web • blog • weblog

Marc writes up notes on a code review tool

2008-03-31 software • coding • process • review • codereview • django

Laptopless meetings

LA Times article on distractions in meetings, including a quote from me!

2008-03-31 me • nelson • laptops • distractions • attention • meetings • zaowdny

Bad things happen trucking dead whales around

2008-03-29 via:metafilter • truck • taiwan • spill • whale • disgusting

Beijing olympics poster

The promotion starts

2008-03-27 china • humanrights • olympics • beijing

Google language models

An example of how they use user session data to make better search results

2008-03-27 search • google • ai • linguistics • computationallinguistics

Someone's got an early print run

2008-03-27 games • gta • grandtheftauto • map • leak

funny little edited image

2008-03-25 sinistar • games • dickandjane • books • parody

We never walked very far

2008-03-24 space • moon • astronauts • maps

More XBLA criticism

N+ developers explain what they meant

2008-03-24 xbla • xbox • xbox360 • games • n+

Handle with care

Quirky little guide to living in Paris

2008-03-24 paris • france • culture • nytimes

Andy Warhol on The Love Boat

Odd little clip

2008-03-23 warhol • art • tv • loveboat

Thanks, Easter Bunny!

2008-03-23 advertising • m&ms • mnms • easter • tv

Simpsons paintings

Side by side comparison of Simpsons scenes and famous paintings

2008-03-23 art • simpsons • tv • via:blort

Paris by Blizzard

City of Light rendered in a Warcraftish way

2008-03-23 warcraft • wow • maps • paris • france

Vidal on Buckley

Righteous, nasty rant against the dead conservative. "o society so marinated in falsity can long survive in a real world"

2008-03-22 gorevidal • vidal • buckley • wfb • conservative • liberal • obituary • rant

N+ devs on XBLA quality

Trashing all the crappy Xbox Live games

2008-03-21 xbla • games • n+ • xbox • xbox360

Drug deal on Google Street View

Sure looks like one, at least

2008-03-21 maps • google • drugs • crime

Gawker's payroll

Details of what Gawker pays their bloggers; $80k / year for the top ones

2008-03-21 gawker • blogs • payroll • economics • editorial

Legend of Zelda in N+

Crazy mashup, translating classic RPG into a vertical platformer

2008-03-21 zelda • n+ • games

War protest, slightly incomplete

2008-03-20 protest • war • wap • spelling

Striped icebergs

2008-03-20 via:metafilter • icebergs • ocean • nature

Portishead / Machine Gun

From the new album; great song, crappy video

2008-03-20 portishead • music • third • machinegun • video

Abort, retry, or EPIC FAIL

Andy writes a post so I don't have to

2008-03-20 lolcats • fail • criticism • culture

"Stained blue dress day"

The press stoops to a new low, pinpointing Hillary Clinton's whereabouts the day her husband ejaculated on someone else's clothing

2008-03-19 sex • scandal • politics • clintons • media • press

Good Paris / Bad Paris

Amusing expat diary

2008-03-19 via:kottke • paris • france • expat

Art and meat ...together again

2008-03-19 art • meat • via:aboutblank • for:merlin

Spam botnet sources

6 botnets account for most of the Internet's spam

2008-03-18 badtech • spam • botnet • worm • srizbi • email • internet

Bear Stearns deal

Day by day account of the negotiation

2008-03-18 money • finance • economics • bearstearns • collapse • crisis • via:peter

Clever data structure for very efficiently working with spare sets

2008-03-16 datastructures • algorithms • computerscience • code • via:metafilter

XNA / Xbox 360 connect

How to download homebrew code to your console

2008-03-15 xbox • games • xna • xbox360 • homebrew

Spitzer vs. Craig

A little perspective

2008-03-15 funny • politics • larrycraig • eliotspitzer

Webkinz explained

Yet another virtual world I know nothing about

2008-03-14 webkinz • games • kids

Getting started with XNA

I thought I'd see what it'd take to write an Xbox 360 game

2008-03-14 xna • xbox • .net • games • ide

Major browser exploit

I know two people whose WoW accounts were stolen recently; this javascript attack may be how

2008-03-14 security • badtech • keylogger • wow • malware

Clever little indie game, very simple

2008-03-14 meritous • games • roguelike

Waxweb, 1995 demo

Digital video, MOO, VRML, user authoring, all put together and delivered. in 1995. It was pretty cool.

2008-03-14 via:waxy • waxweb • multimedia • moo • vrml

Project Xanadu has a web site, complete with cornea-searing design.

2008-03-14 xanadu • tednelson • windmills • lol • hypertext

Google Zurich playground

Google's Swiss office. A bit infantilized, but it's kinda neat.

2008-03-13 google • office • design • switzerland • zurich

Broker corruption

Great story about how broken the financial services industry is

2008-03-13 dfa • dimensionalfunds • broker • money • investment • wallstreet • blainelourd

Twitter visualizations

Various views into what's going on at Twitter

2008-03-13 twitter • visualization • via:waxy

Lost features of Google

Nice roundup of some dead products

2008-03-13 google • via:waxy • software

Lost Boys 2: The Tribe

A remake that seems wholly unnecessary

2008-03-13 lostboys • vampires • movies • corey • feldman • coreyfeldman

Air Force uber alles

Does no one in the USAF speak German? Or have a clue?

2008-03-12 via:metafilter • airforce • facism • slogans

Burnout: Paradise review

Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation does a great bit of criticism

2008-03-12 games • review • burnout • burnoutparadise

clever little puzzle game

2008-03-12 games • riddle • puzzle

Geosign; ended by Google

Company made money via arbitrage of Google's advertising system. Google eventually took that niche away.

2008-03-11 advertising • cpc • google • geosign • via:anonymousgooglefriend

Echochrome game

This looks amazing

2008-03-11 via:metafilter • games • echochrome • sony • playstation

Corsets (vaguely NSFW)

Catalog of crazy slimming garments

2008-03-11 corsets • fashion • women • culture • via:metafilter

The Wire's final montage

Shot by shot breakdown

2008-03-11 thewire • tv • baltimore • via:metafilter

The new $3 coin

America's currency is being modernized, whether we like it or not

2008-03-10 via:zawodny • humor • currency • dollar

Where Gov. Spitzer shopped

2008-03-10 scandal • politics • spitzer • prostitution

Eliot Spitzer's hos

New York governor, former Attorney General is busted

2008-03-10 scandal • politics • newyork • spitzer • wallstreet

Apple, Google, and you

Elegant presentation of product design

2008-03-10 apple • google • software • design • ui • simplicity

McCain for torture, too

Ridiculous hair splitting on a core human rights issue

2008-03-09 torture • humanrights • politics • bush • mccain

Silly exclave between Netherlands and Belgium

2008-03-09 maps • europe • netherlands • belgium • taxes • exclave

Bush endorses torture

Refuses to sign a bill outlawing torture

2008-03-08 torture • bush • politics • humanrights • veto

G-Archiver theft

Some jerk sells a program that steals your gmail password

2008-03-08 via:waxy • garchiver • seo • gmail • google • theft

This kind of work environment sounds horrible

2008-03-08 chef • cooking • food • restaurant • terrine • salt • brigade

Crazy autonomous submarine design

2008-03-07 submarine • ocean • power • seaglider

Watchmen costumes

Good looking art direction, but all the actors are too young

2008-03-07 via:sutter • watchmen • movies • comics

Convert any truncated RSS feed into a full text feed

2008-03-07 rss • advertising • blogs

Creepy animated art thing

2008-03-06 uncannyvalley • via:metafilter • animation

You're not my father

Many Worlds Hypothesis meets Full House

2008-03-06 tv • video • via:waxy • adoption

Photoshop disasters

awesome collection of image editing mishaps

2008-03-06 via:metafilter • women • photoshop • photography • art

The end of Moose's

SF institution is going entirely away

2008-03-05 moose's • restaurant • sanfrancisco

Auction rate securities

Nice explanation of a wrinkle in the current markets

2008-03-05 bonds • auctionratesecurities • finance • investment • interestrates

Delegate counts

Last night's election looks to have been a tie for delegates, which is bad news for Clinton

2008-03-05 clinton • obama • democrats • election • politics

Sheryl Sandberg to Facebook

Google executive leaves for Facebook

2008-03-04 google • facebook • sherylsandberg

2008-03-04 garygygax • d&d • ad&d • games • rpgs

Annoying UI, but amusing teasers for the new season

2008-03-04 battlestargalactica • bsg • tv • lastsupper

BSG Last Supper

The question is, what painting is this in imitation of? It's not any of the well known Last Suppers.

2008-03-04 battlestargalactica • bsg • via:boingboing • advertising • lastsupper

Dear Mozilla Corporation,

totally charming fan mail

2008-03-04 firefox • mozilla

Another awesome Justice video, fun graphics

2008-03-03 justice • dvno • video • 80s • graphics • animation

Golden shield project

How the Great Firewall of China works, both technically and socially

2008-03-03 firewall • censorship • china • humanrights • cisco

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass

Awesome "what if" title sequence

2008-03-03 via:kottke • design • titles • credits • saulbass • starwars

Is your child a tagger?

2008-03-03 via:mathowie • graffiti • tagger • oldpeopleareclueless

Layer Four traceroute

Traceroute that uses TCP and some other fancy network testing stuff

2008-03-03 internet • protocol • tcp • ip • traceroute • lft • tcpip

Andreessen for Obama

nice endorsement, well written

2008-03-03 via:anildash • obama • politics • marca • marcandreessen

Haxed by Megahurtz

incomprehensible Flash game, quite beautiful

2008-03-01 via:waxy • games • flash

BBC on Prince Harry

A blog is a perfect way to explain their thinking behind the embargo

2008-03-01 princeharry • media • journalism • military • afghanistan • news • bbc

Prince Harry agreement

How the British press agreed to am embargo

2008-03-01 prineharry • war • afghanistan • military • press • media • news • embargo

McCain's Daisy ad

One catch; this predates Clinton's ad by a month

2008-03-01 politics • plagiarism • mccain • republicans • ads • advertisements