Nelson's Linkblog 2007-10

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5.6 near San Jose

hopefully not big enough to really hurt much

2007-10-31 earthquake • usgs • sanfrancisco • california

Plush cube origins

Fan made, with patterns

2007-10-30 via:waxy • via:mike • portal • halflife • games • valve

Plush companion cube

But no details on its origin

2007-10-30 portal • doll • plush • games • valve • halflife

3 steps to Objectivism

Simple as A B C

2007-10-29 funny • parody • comic • aynrand • objectivism • bioshock

MacOS preferences evolution

That old Susan Kare design still rocks

2007-10-29 via:swissmiss • apple • design • preferences • macos • history • evolution

funny little screenshot

2007-10-29 porn • pr0n • hiding • desktop

Waterboarding is torture

Insane we even have to debate this, but here's an expert

2007-10-29 via:metafilter • torture • iraqwar • humanrights • warcrimes

2006 Internet map

xkcd's webcomic did the map thing first, as a sketch

2007-10-29 xkcd • map • internet • comic

Lovely simple visualization of who owns what addresses on the net

2007-10-29 map • internet • via:metafilter • cidr • tcpip

Russian Business Network

The ISP of choice for online criminals

2007-10-29 russian • gangster • rbn • isp • badtech • security • spam

Another PDF hole

Adobe has gotten Reader installed on every computer in the world; don't they bear some responsibility?

2007-10-29 spam • hacker • botnet • pdf • reader • adobe • badtech

Koran recitation

Beautiful young voice

2007-10-29 religion • islam • koran • via:metafilter

Anil calls out Apple for annoying smugness. And the guy can write.

2007-10-29 apple • samba • arrogance

6 minutes of pure awesome video; 80s arcade games and pinball backscreens brought to life

2007-10-28 via:waxy • games • 80s • arcade • pinball • movie

Good introductory article about quantitative finance and the recent mortgage market fiasco

2007-10-28 quants • wallstreet • investment • finance • economics • mortgage

Wikipedia donors

Interesting list. Nice to see Google matching figure highly

2007-10-27 wikipedia • charity • donation • google

Hysterical World of Warcraft "tips" video frmo some guy who gets way too excited about healing

2007-10-27 warcraft • games • silly • funny • via:digg

Comcast's talking points

User support script about BitTorrent; note the lack of any actual statement

2007-10-27 bittorrent • comcast • badtech • internet • netneutrality • sandvine • usersupport • via:digg

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

An amazing maritime exploration story of survival and heroism

2007-10-27 shackleton • antarctica • exploration

Gaza kidnap ordeal

First person account from BBC journalist

2007-10-27 via:metafilter • bcc • gaza • kidnap • palestine • israel • politics

Hysterically accurate analogy

2007-10-26 seo • google • cargocult

Global warming is healthy!

She failed to address damage to the sweater industry

2007-10-26 climate • globalwarming • politics • whitehouse • stupid • via:goldman

FEMA fakes news

Poses its own employees as reporters on a press call

2007-10-26 fraud • fema • government • journalism

Abstraction comic NSFW

Crazy comic style, pretty neat

2007-10-26 via:metafilter • comics • japan • manga • sex • ShintaroKago

High performance ssh

OpenSSH has some weird buffering that causes problems on long 100Mbps links

2007-10-25 via:metafilter • ssh • openssh • opensource • tcpip • performance • networking • software

Mister Rogers and Donkey Kong

Awesome Neighbourhood segment looking at an arcade game

2007-10-25 via:metafilter • misterrogers • arcade • games

Tech Review on Twitter

Great long article, mostly profiling Evan. Fantastic photos.

2007-10-25 evanwilliams • evhead • twitter • obvious • technology • mit

$500M more for Facebook?

Rumours of hedge fund investment, but seems pretty thinly sourced so far; Fake Steve Jobs is the other source

2007-10-25 facebook • hedgefund • investment • rumour

This year's homeless protest is right in the middle of the city

2007-10-25 paris • france • homeless • politics

Valve intl sales problem

If you bought the game in Thailand and play it in the US, Valve deactivates it.

2007-10-25 via:digg • games • international • market • price • steam • portal

Not positive, but it looks like a blog from the folks who ran OiNK

2007-10-25 torrent • bittorrent • scene • pirate • oink • p2p • arrest

Aquatic funicular

Not exactly, but this is a crazy way to lift a boat

2007-10-24 canal • boat • lock • navigation • elevator • funicular

Pizza orientation test

Totally silly, but made me laugh

2007-10-24 pizza • via:zawodny • silly • funny • dominos

Songbird for Developers

Congratulations to Jeff on a launch!

2007-10-24 songbird • mozilla • developers • code • opensource

Firefox 2006 revenue

Search box was worth $57 million

2007-10-24 google • firefox • mozilla • cpc • advertising • defaults

Wolfram's huge ego

20 year old student proves a 2,3 Turing machine is universal; Wolfram's blog post uses the word "I" 2,3 times in each sentence

2007-10-24 mathematics • wolfram • turing • universal • complexity • computerscience

Fry's Pantographia

1799 catalog of world's writing systems

2007-10-24 pantographia • writing • book • linguistics • calligraphy

Online kidney market

Screw the article; check the comments

2007-10-23 via:waxy • kidney • organ • comments • blogs

20% of iPhones unlocked?

Apple's numbers indicate only 80% sellthrough to AT&T subscription

2007-10-23 apple • iphone • hack • unlock • at&t

Vista still a disaster

I'm beginning to think Vista is not too big to fail

2007-10-23 vista • microsoft • badtech • software

Majority security problem at the MMO

2007-10-22 mmog • eveonline • ccp • database • security • hack

Dumbledore pride

Cashing in quickly

2007-10-22 gay • harrypotter • via:kottke • commerce • tshirt

Kill General British

New MMOG from Richard Garriott reprises an infamous event from Ultima Online

2007-10-22 lordbritish • generalbritish • tabularasa • games • mmog • ultimaonline

MSWord redaction

Amazing; an add-in to Microsoft Word to remove text

2007-10-22 software • word • office • microsoft • security • privacy • redaction

This week Radiohead is way ahead of the pack

2007-10-22 radiohead • music

What you need to know about git

Amazingly smart investigation in what makes git different

2007-10-21 git • vcs • sourcecontrol • linux • perforce • opensource • code

An alternative MMO I never heard of before. 2d platformer gameplay, free but you pay for extras

2007-10-20 mmog • mmo • games

Sex offender trailer park

A "little piece of paradise"

2007-10-20 housing • home • criminal • sexoffender • sex • via:dailyrotten

Dumbledore is gay!

Best news all night

2007-10-20 harrypotter • jkrowling • novels • books • fiction • via:metafilter • gay

George W. Bush is Jesus

About once a month PhilG posts something really awesome to his blog. Like this.

2007-10-19 politics • bush • satire • us • turkey

Van Halen disaster

Hysterical video of washed up rock band trying to match samples played 8.8% too fast

2007-10-19 vanhalen • cockrock • funny • guitar • samplingrate

Firefox license problem

I had no idea Firefox had this stupid issue with licensing of its artwork

2007-10-19 firefox • opensource • ubuntu • freesoftware • license

SVN time lapse view

Cool new client view!

2007-10-19 subversion • versioncontrol • srm • tools • software • svn

Charts and graphs

nice rundown of software options

2007-10-19 via:digg • charts • graphs • graphing • flash • javascript • code

Know Thine Enemy

incredible video op/ed about the Iraqi insurgency

2007-10-19 usiraqwar • iraq • politics • occupation • via:metafilter • insurgency

Old Man Murray wrote Portal

The folks behind the Crate Review System helped write Portal!

2007-10-19 via:joshua • games • portal • halflife • valve

Bhutto's near assassination

Creepy situation in Pakistan

2007-10-19 bhutto • pakistan • politics • terrorism

Comcast medelling

They have a long history of interfering with their users' traffic

2007-10-19 isp • netneutrality • internet • throttling • bittorrent

Sarkozy on divorce

2007-10-19 politics • france • divorce • privacy • sarkozy • nocomment

75% of bombs can board the plane

Meanwhile, we're not allowed a bottle of water

2007-10-18 securitytheater • lies • tsa • government • incompetence • terrorism • screening

China subverts DNS

Rumours that all search engine DNS requests now end at Baidu

2007-10-18 dns • baidu • google • yahoo • search • badtech • china

Online poker cheating

The house is crooked

2007-10-18 via:goldtoe • poker • cheating • online • games • gambling • fraud

Half Life gnome achievement

Funny story of a special game challenge

2007-10-17 games • halflife • valve • gnome • achievment • challenge

Portal credits song

Sadly the text isn't quite readable

2007-10-17 portal • song • music • credits • games • halflife • valve

Coulton on Portal

the closing song is a surprise hit; here's a note from the songwriter

2007-10-17 games • portal • song • music

CircleLending bought

I have friends who love this personal loan management app

2007-10-17 circlelending • loans • finance • virgin

Tug o' war amputation

Choose your rope carefully?

2007-10-17 via:dailyrotten

Call and Response

Beautiful collage of classic TV ads

2007-10-17 via:waxy • advertising • video

Playing it straight

Larry Craig calls it entrapment

2007-10-17 gay • politics • larrycraig

Portal storytelling

Nice, overly long explication on Portal as good storytelling

2007-10-17 via:slashdot • portal • games • valve • halfife

I agree with Jason this game is great

2007-10-17 games • portal • halflife • valve • clever • review

Brooklin Syrian Jews

interesting subcommunity

2007-10-16 via:metafilter • jewish • jews • culture • sephardic • brooklyn • newyork

awesome gallery of ham radio calling cards

2007-10-16 via:metafilter • folkart • art • card • businesscard • callingcard • hamradio • callsign • ham

what your friends are reading

2007-10-15 via:marc • books • reading • web2.0 • reviews

Everyday shooter video

I'm sad I don't have a PS3 today

2007-10-15 games • everydayshooter • casual • PSN • ps3 • playstation

Portal porn (sorts SFW)

Rule 43 persists

2007-10-15 games • portal • halflife • valve • porn • rule43

Portal walkthroughs

Complete spoiler videos

2007-10-15 via:digg • portal • games • halflife • valve • spoilers • walkthrough

Larry Craig fights back

Republicans pissed he's not being a good little quiet faggot

2007-10-15 gay • politics • larrycraig • republicans • sex • scandal

lovely little interactive music video

2007-10-15 via:metafilter • arcadefire • neonbible • music • video • flash • interaction

Halo 3 bad review

It's not entirely fair, but there's a lot of truth in it

2007-10-14 bungie • halo • halo3 • games • review

NSA spied before 9/11

Their illegal spying on US citizens is opportunism, not response to terrorism

2007-10-13 nsa • spying • government • qwest • privacy • telcos • wiretap

Unicorn kingdom club

I was wrong; YouTube is creating fantastic amateur video

2007-10-13 unicorns • reallyreallygay • youtube • video

Good looking video from the game, nice editing

2007-10-12 skate • games • ea • skateboarding • machinima

Simple old games

2007-10-12 games • conkers • chestnuts • kids

Assassin's Creed video

Games are getting astonishingly realistic human figures

2007-10-12 games • xbox360 • assassinscreed • video

Acrobat security hole

Adobe has a responsibility to fix the software they've compelled millions to install

2007-10-12 via:digg • badtech • adobe • reader • acrobat • security • hack

cheap bulk scanning

2007-10-11 via:kottke • photos • photography • scanning • digital • transfer

EA buys Bioware

bad news all around

2007-10-11 ea • bioware • monopoly • games • gaming • acquisition

Water lightshow

Clever artist installation

2007-10-11 art • light • led • water

GI Jonny vs Capt. Bareback

Mind bloggling BBC public service announcement

2007-10-10 funny • gay • aids • hiv • bbc • television • tv • sex • via:dailyrotten

operation: pedopriest

A satirical computer game "like Diner Dash with child rape"

2007-10-10 vatican • catholicism • church • rape • pedophelia • sex • games • satire • culture

congratulations to the little startup

2007-10-09 jaiku • google • acquisition • mobile

The US doesn't torture

How do we know? Because Supreme Court refuses to hear the cases

2007-10-09 news • torture • humanrights • cia • politics

BioShock translation?

Looks like a transcription of the BioShock script and translation into Japanese

2007-10-07 bioshock • games • transcription • script • japanese • translation

The DIMES project

A distributed effort to map the Internet via traceroutes. Lots of data about network speed and connectivity!

2007-10-07 network • internet • map • data

Simple graphs of router interconnectivity

2007-10-07 via:digg • internet • map • visualization • cartography

TiVo + PayPerPost

Ah, conversational marketing

2007-10-06 tivo • advertising • deceptive • fraud • via:mathowie • conversationalmarketing • payperpost

Storm superworm

The other way to build a supercomputer

2007-10-05 via:digg • malware • worm • trojan • virus • computer • internet • badtech

A wacky cyclical elevator

2007-10-04 paternoster • elevator • building • industrial

New US torture policy

When do the war crimes investigations start?

2007-10-04 shame • torture • war • republicans • humanrights

Marius Watz discovers some amazing map visualizations

2007-10-03 colors • visualization • mapping • moon • space • astronomy • geology • astrogeology • design

Evolution of BioShock

A talk by lead programmer Chris Kline

2007-10-03 video • games • bioshock • chriskline

Golfing during a board meeting. These are the yahoos you want running your company?

2007-10-03 vc • startup • golf • arrogance

Clean is Happy (NSFW)

Freaky Toto washlet advertising site

2007-10-03 toilet • toto • bidet • advertising • flash • animation

Proce55ing book

Congratulations, Ben!

2007-10-02 processing • proce55ing • design • art • digital • code • book • benfry

One of the older and more significant virtual worlds

2007-10-02 mud • moo • lambdamoo • map • games • mmog

Halo 3 and BioShock

Eric Tilton weighs in with his comparison

2007-10-01 games • xbox • halo • halo3 • bioshock • review

Library of Congress data

Freeing public records

2007-10-01 creativecommons • library • libraryofcommons • database • informationwantstobefree