Nelson's Linkblog 2009-10

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What various online games do as special holiday events

2009-10-31 games • halloween • mmos

Sounds like there's finally decent Android hardware

2009-10-31 android • apple • droid • google • iphone • motorola

Someone makes a TrueType font that looks like an old VT220 terminal

2009-10-31 emulator • fonts • via:zawodny • vt100 • vt220

VT220 rendering

I love all the weird hacks of old graphics hardware

2009-10-31 fonts • graphics • terminal • vt100 • vt220

SSD TRIM command

new drive protocol message tells the SSD when a block is not being used, to help the drive optimize

2009-10-30 atom • harddrive • hardware • performance • ssd

$200 XBMC system

Looks promising as a settop PC.

2009-10-30 hdmi • pc • television • tv • via:zawodny • xbmc

iTunes blocks Palm Pre

when is that anti-trust investigation starting?

2009-10-30 antitrust • apple • badtech • itunes • monopoly • palm

Bay Bridge details

Great explanation and photos of what broke on the Bay Bridge

2009-10-29 baybridge • bridge • engineering

Functional programming library for Javascript. "It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux."

2009-10-29 coding • javascript • library • programming

More game sales stats

World of Goo producers share some extra numbers on their "pay what you want" experiment

2009-10-29 2dboy • games • marketing • worldofgoo

Game completion data

50-70% of people finish the main campaign of big game titles. More data on game completion

2009-10-28 data • games • xbox

Torchlight game

Great new $20 game, well executed Diablo clone

2009-10-28 diablo • games • rpg

Bay area live traffic

Travel gets ugly when the Bay Bridge is closed

2009-10-28 bayarea • baybridge • cars • traffic

Masculine Halloween costumes

For your effeminate son. Wow, this made me uncomfortable.

2009-10-27 funny • gay • gender • halloween • parody

Spam on Google Groups

jQuery author is fed up with Google Groups spam

2009-10-27 google • jquery • spam • usenet

Jerusalem artichokes

Nice description of the topinambour and how to make a soup with it

2009-10-27 artichoke • cooking • food • france • jerusalemartichoke • topinambour

Heel-toe wakling robot

Didn't these people watch Terminator?!

2009-10-27 army • locomotion • military • music • robotics • robots • walking

The lost Shatner music treasures never stop appearing

2009-10-26 funny • gay • music • shatner • startrek • video

Nice analysis of Facebook casual games from a traditional MMO perspective

2009-10-26 facebook • games • mmorpgs • mmos

Acoustic cell modem

Phreaking guide to hacking up an acoustic modem over a cell phone

2009-10-24 cell • hacking • mobile • modem • phreaking • telephone

Google maps reskinned

Nice explanation of some rendering and layout changes Google recently made

2009-10-24 cartography • google • layout • maps • rendering

iPhone app piracy

95% of people playing a specific game stole it. And it's only $2!

2009-10-24 copyright • drm • games • iphone • piracy • via:waxy

Freakonomics sexism

Scathing indictment of their recent bit about prostitution. Also, "Freakonomics, of course, is the science of choosing an appropriately wacky or controversial subject (sumo wrestlers, abortion), applying a little economic analysis to it and coming up with a shocking conclusion that will make people blog about you"

2009-10-24 economics • feminism • freakonomics • gender • prostitution

Windows 7 torrent party

Celebrate the launch of Microsoft's newest operating system!

2009-10-22 funny • marketing • microsoft • parody • via:metafilter • video • windows

Wilbur Wright uand his Flying Machine

1909 aviation video, including plane-mounted film camera

2009-10-22 aviation • flying • movie • planes • via:kottke • wrightbrothers

GitHub architecture

Nice summary of various server technologies the site uses

2009-10-22 architecture • git • github • server • systems

Worker and Parasite

One of my favourite Simpsons bits, a parody of Eastern European 50s animation

2009-10-22 animation • czech • funny • simpsons

PC game price experiment

2d Boy made World of Goo "pay what you want", here's the results. They're good.

2009-10-21 games • marketing • sales • via:metafilter