Nelson's Linkblog 2009-09

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900,000 Halo players in one day

2009-09-23 games • halo • odst • xbox

Sydney dust storm

2009-09-22 australia • duststorm • photos • sydney • weather

Lego house demolished

Pictures from dismantling a house built out of Lego

2009-09-22 construction • lego • toys • via:metafilter

AES explained by stick figure

Cute little cartoon

2009-09-22 aes • comic • cryptography • encryption • rijndael

Animated treemap

Neat visualization of how the financial sector shrunk and grew in the past few years

2009-09-22 economy • finance • infographics • via:flowingdata • visualization

American Megaregions

Map highlighting population centers

2009-09-22 america • demographics • maps • via:joegregorio

2009-09-21 beer • germany • munchen • munich • oktoberfest • photography

How long is this game?

Graphs of one gamer's enjoyment of specific games

2009-09-20 data • games • ratings

Peter Pan got married

The Internet's favourite lovable fairy got married

2009-09-20 marriage • meme • peterpan • via:metafilter • wedding

VC company exits

Basic description of the politics of when you sell your venture-backed startup

2009-09-19 acquisition • entrepreneurs • investment • startups • vc • venturecapital

Orbeted comet server

HTTP server optimized for keeping persistent connections open to thousands of clients

2009-09-19 ajax • code • comet • programming • python • server

Elite 25 year anniversary

Big milestone for one of the best computer games ever

2009-09-19 elite • games • retro • space

Millenia Ranger

Champions Online machinima

2009-09-18 anime • champions • championsonline • games • machinima • mmos

Great listing of types of hamburgers

2009-09-18 american • burgers • cooking • food • hamburgers

Promising to bring the complexity of Enterprise Software Integration to the simplicity of RESTful web services

2009-09-17 badtech • internet • programming • rest • soap

Warcraft operations

Notes from a talk about Blizzard does their thing. 13,000 servers with 1 gig of RAM, 4-8 cores each. 4600 people for a game of 12 million.

2009-09-17 blizzard • games • mmos • staffing • warcraft

Flash game, with amazing aesthetics as if Mother/Earthbound were made to be a giant bummer

2009-09-17 games • puzzle • via:waxy

Photos of runners in a world of hurt

2009-09-17 blood • nipples • pain • running

Daft Punk / DJ Hero

Great trailer video

2009-09-16 daftpunk • dj • games • music

Online dating language

Interesting analysis of what to say in your first message

2009-09-15 analysis • data • dating • relationships • via:metafilter

NYTimes malware details

NYTimes was tricked into selling malware ads

2009-09-15 ads • malware • nytimes • virus

Fixing Eve desync

Great article about details of game implementation

2009-09-11 ccp • eve • eveonline • games • mmos

One of the best indie games ever just went on sale

2009-09-10 bargains • braid • games • steam

Malignant patent cancer

Nathan Myrvhold's evil patent trolling company starts to get more aggressive

2009-09-10 intellectualproperty • law • myrvhold • patents

CA Republican sex scandal

Orange County assemblyman Michael Duvall caught on tape talking about having sex with two different lobbyists

2009-09-09 california • orangecounty • politics • scandal • sex

Plura Processing

Idle compute cycles, just like my failed startup. Friend says it's useful!

2009-09-08 computing • crawler • popularpower

Boxed Wine is good

website promoting boxed wine

2009-09-04 convenience • food • wine

Assembly demo highlights

Demoscene gathering selections

2009-09-04 assembly • demos • graphics • via:metafilter

guess what, the network does suck! Sure wish the reporter would talk about why the European experience is better

2009-09-03 apple • att • attfail • cellphone • iphone • mobile

Banned from Tristan de Cunha

Interesting story about a tiny island nation

2009-09-02 britain • journalism • tristan • tristandc • via:metafilter

Backblaze disk pods

Great article about how to build large, cheap systems

2009-09-02 computer • hardware • linux • nas • raid • sysadmin

Buying the news

The Kaycee story is so hot apparently news agencies are paying for exclusives with neighbours

2009-09-02 dugard • ethics • journalism • kaycee • news