Nelson's Linkblog 2009-10

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What various online games do as special holiday events

2009-10-31 games • mmos • halloween

Sounds like there's finally decent Android hardware

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

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

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

VT220 rendering

I love all the weird hacks of old graphics hardware

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

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 ssd • performance • hardware • harddrive • atom

$200 XBMC system

Looks promising as a settop PC.

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

iTunes blocks Palm Pre

when is that anti-trust investigation starting?

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

Bay Bridge details

Great explanation and photos of what broke on the Bay Bridge

2009-10-29 bridge • engineering • baybridge

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

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

More game sales stats

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

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

Game completion data

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

2009-10-28 games • data • xbox

Torchlight game

Great new $20 game, well executed Diablo clone

2009-10-28 games • diablo • rpg

Bay area live traffic

Travel gets ugly when the Bay Bridge is closed

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

Masculine Halloween costumes

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

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

Spam on Google Groups

jQuery author is fed up with Google Groups spam

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

Jerusalem artichokes

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

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

Heel-toe wakling robot

Didn't these people watch Terminator?!

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

The lost Shatner music treasures never stop appearing

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

Nice analysis of Facebook casual games from a traditional MMO perspective

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

Acoustic cell modem

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

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

Google maps reskinned

Nice explanation of some rendering and layout changes Google recently made

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

iPhone app piracy

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

2009-10-24 games • iphone • piracy • drm • copyright • 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 • freakonomics • feminism • gender • prostitution

Windows 7 torrent party

Celebrate the launch of Microsoft's newest operating system!

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

Wilbur Wright uand his Flying Machine

1909 aviation video, including plane-mounted film camera

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

GitHub architecture

Nice summary of various server technologies the site uses

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

Worker and Parasite

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

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

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 • via:metafilter • marketing • sales