Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog aboutarchivemastodonfeed
Wal-Mart stampede
Employee killed; grimly funny or just awful?
2008-11-28 walmart • shopping • stampede • christmas
True Blood titles
3 minute version of the True Blood arty titles
2008-11-27 trueblood • tv • trailer • titles
Cthulhu's minions
Squid with elbows filmed by deep sea oil drilling
2008-11-25 lovecraft • ocean • animals • squid
Bad ballots
Great examples of the kinds of things that go wrong in election ballots
2008-11-20 election • politics • via:metafilter • userinterface • hci
Kinkade critique
Amazing deconstruction of Thomas Kinkade's cliches, identifying interesting and disturbing aspects (follow the link anchor; big comment by "suedehead" at the end)
2008-11-20 art • critique • thomas • kinkade
Google Deadly
Only product Google has launched that made me completely think WTF? Guess it's not a success.
2008-11-20 google • lively • deadpool
Fallout design
Interesting commentary on how the game and narrative work
2008-11-19 fallout • games • design • rpg
Fallout 3 rave
Nice commentary on a great game
2008-11-18 fallout • games
Atari Adventure for iPhone
classic Atari 2600 game ported
2008-11-18 iphone • games • adventure • 2600 • atari • via:Waxy
Thomas Kinkade formula
Direction to filmmakers: be insipid in 16 easy steps
2008-11-18 kinkade • painting • movie • art • via:metafilter • thomaskinkade
Danger slide!
Crazy concrete slide in the Castro
2008-11-18 castro • slide • sewardstreet
Electric Avenue
No idea what the hell this is, but I likes it
2008-11-18 ElectricAvenue • music • video • via:merlin
New market slot machines
3x leveraged ETFs
2008-11-16 investing • stocks • etf • speculation • gambling
Obama / Cotton
Interesting correlation
2008-11-16 politics • elections • slavery • cottons • race
No on 8 SF protest
Nationwide protests against the gay marriage ban planned
2008-11-13 gayrights • civilrights • gay • protest • politics • marriage
Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals
An entire Elsevier journal full of nonsense and crap. The old academic journal system is broken.
2008-11-12 elsevier • scandal • science
Java2D fonts
Surprise, turns out rewriting Microsoft and Apple font rendering code doesn't always work out
2008-11-12 via:raffi • java • fonts • typography • design • software
Kittenwar!
A Hot or Not site full of pussies
2008-11-11 cats • kittens • hotornot • photos
MouseJail
For dual monitors: traps the mouse in the primary monitor if the program you're running isn't smart enough to
2008-11-11 mouse • dualview • display • games • windows • software
AVG vs user32.dll
Popular anti-virus software destroys Windows. What's wrong with AVG's quality control?!
2008-11-11 badtech • avg • windows • virus • testing
Spam economics
Researches infiltrate the Storm botnet, get amazing data on the results
2008-11-10 economics • badtech • spam • botnet
VC cash problems
I've been hearing about this from several quarters: limited partners are out of funds to answer capital calls
2008-11-08 vc • venturecapital • investment
Virtual flute
Stairway to Heaven played on the iPhone Ocarina app. Creative endeavour or sign of the apocalypse?
2008-11-07 music • iphone • ocarina • via:waxy
Mechsuit for you legs
Power assisted walking
2008-11-07 cyborg • robotics • handicap • disabled • robot
Prop 8 funding
Database of who funded the anti-gay measure
2008-11-07 gay • politics • civilrights • marriage • proposition8
Why OpenDNS is evil
The DNS system is not the place to be providing application features
2008-11-07 dns • badtech • google • speed • via:merlin
Election change map
good critique of a good NYT visualization
2008-11-06 information • design • graphics • election • map • critique
Twitter stats
2-3 times as much traffic as normal and the site performed very well. Good job, guys.
2008-11-05 goodtech • twitter • scaling • election
Obama photos
Great portraiture
2008-11-05 obama • politics • photography • portrait
Prop 8 detail
Good election map
2008-11-05 politics • civilrights • california • election • map • marriage
1,000 Web APIs
Nice directory of APIs. Surprised that as much as 22% of them are SOAP. Sorry!
2008-11-04 webapis • rest • soap • protocol • internet • technology