Nelson's Linkblog 2005-02

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46 best freeware

Nice list (via AxMe)

2005-02-28 best • computer • download • downloads • free • freeware • reference • software • tools • utilities • windows

The African cliff

What happens to a society where 40% of the adults die? (via Marc)

2005-02-28 africa • aids • death • economics • health • hiv • interesting • lifeexpectancy • politics • sex • statistics

Iraqi street cleaning

Streets are literally running with blood

Waiter rant on Numa

Nicely explains what's great about Numa Numa

Sims 2: Nightlife

Rumour about the next Sims 2 expansion, a scan of the box for University

BTK reused a floppy?

Rumour that he was caught because someone undeleted some files on a disc he mailed

Creepy message board posts from someone trying to get BTK to contact him

16 colour tapestry

Beautiful pixel art

2005-02-27 design • safari_export

If you're into djb's way of building Unix tools, this site is for you

2005-02-27 djb • dns • email • howto • linux • networking • qmail • software • sysadmin • tools • unix

"Jamie Zawodny"

Should crossbreed two bloggers

Miniplug/RCA adapter

Why is this cable so hard to find?

Flash game (via amitp)

2005-02-27 anime • crash • flash • fun • funny • game • games • gaming • japan • japanese • nanaca

Demoscene nominees

Cutting edge computer art (via Waxy)

2005-02-27 @toreview • cool • demo • fuji • gaming • graphics • media • pc • scene • towatch • upload

BTK suspect page

Google cache of a web page about Dennis Rader

Sad interview! Then again, both ToEE and Vampire were really buggy on release.

Mr, Mrs Roger Ebert

I always assumed he was gay

Condy Rice fashion

She looks *hot* (via Bo)

2005-02-25 condirice • fashion • media • people • politics • society

Roller derby uniforms

At least, that's what I thought at first

Michael Jackson frightens children

We are a group of bacon/pork enthusiasts, who firmly believe that bacon and affiliated eats are way underrepresented on-line. (via Marc)

2005-02-24 bacon • blog • blogs • cooking • cool • food • friends • fun • funny • humor • pork

Photos from a dead couple (via Metafilter)

2005-02-24 #geeks • alexandru • amazing • neg-sad • news • photography • photos • tsunami

Robot Wisdom is back

I missed Jorn. (via Waxy)

2005-02-23 blog • blogs • culture • daily • history • links • news • politics • read • technology • weblog

The Progress Quest of falling block games (via Grumdrig)

2005-02-23 1d • flash • fun • funny • game • games • geek • humor • javascript • tetris • web

This is beautiful: someone hand transcribed some encoding gibberish

2005-02-22 character • charset • encodings • humor • i18n • mojibake • postal • russian • transcode • typography • uiclass

the result of trying to display text in character encodings which a piece of software is not configured to deal with

2005-02-22 character • character-encoding • english • humor • japanese • language • mojibake • unicode • utf-8 • wiki • wikipedia

RIP Dr. Gene Scott

Dr. Gene Scott and Hunter S Thompson in some sort of cosmic duality

99.999 is five minutes a year

Ericsson s700i/s710a

First cell phone with a decent camera

2005-02-22 710a • gadget • gadgets • mobile • phone • reviews • sonyericsson • spouse • telephone • want

Goban: MacOS IGS

Looks like a beautiful client (via Marc)

2005-02-22 application • game • games • go • osx

$500 for the 2001FP or 2005FPW

2005-02-21 computers • lcd • monitors

The classic Internet Go Server

2005-02-21 entertainment • fun • game • games • gaming • go • igs • online • server • software • tutorial

Katamaridamashi

Done for real, in play-doh (via BoingBoing)

2005-02-21 art • cool • funny • games • humor • katamari • katamaridamacy • play-doh • via:boingboing • videogames • wierd

Baby name voyager

Cool visualization

2005-02-20 baby • cool • flash • fun • java • name • names • reference • statistics • tools • visualization

Anti-Grain Geometry

Rendering library; like gd, but not ugly

2005-02-20 2d • c++ • graphics • image • libraries • library • opensource • programming • rendering • software • svg

make a favicon.ico with transparency

2005-02-19 design • favicon • graphics • ico • icon • icons • png • software • tools • web • windows

Bathroom attendants

Guerilla theater in a McDonalds (via Metafilter)

2005-02-18 art • bathroom • fun • funny • humor • humour • improv • interesting • mcdonalds • nyc • pranks

Koko's nipple fetish

Talking gorilla named in lawsuit

2005-02-18 breasts • freakingweird • funny • greyfaced • lawsuits • news • paulfear • science • sex • web-heads • weird

Unicode script mixing

Mashing Greek with Roman is an abomination. But it can be useful, too.

EverQuest II - /pizza

Any respect I had for this game is lost (via BoingBoing)

2005-02-18 business • everquest • food • funny • game • games • gaming • geek • mmorpg • pizza • videogames

The C10K problem

How to build a server that can handle 10,000 clients

2005-02-17 architecture • concurrency • linux • network • networking • performance • programming • scalability • server • unix • web

Portable freeware

Software you can run off a USB thumb drive

2005-02-17 apps • download • downloads • free • freeware • opensource • portable • software • tools • usb • windows

SCO to be delisted?

They're late with their 10-K. Couldn't happen to nicer people.

Make Python operators

It is an abomination (via Daily Python URL)

2005-02-17 cookbook • cool • development • hack • hacks • infix • language • operators • programming • python • recipe

l33tspeak guide

Hysterically earnest primer for parnets (via Waxy, or a search on microsoft.com for 'l33t')

2005-02-17 1337 • computer • fun • funny • humor • internet • language • leet • microsoft • reference • slang

Wikipedia goatse.cx

Amazingly thorough accounting

2005-02-17 culture • disturbing • fun • goatse • goatse.cx • internet • photo • sex • web • wiki • wikipedia

Thottbot is IGE?

Interesting rumour, would explain how Thottbot affords 40 servers

Sunset metamorphosis

Nice astronomy picture of the day

2005-02-16 amusing • astronomy • goatse • slashdot

SHA-1 compromised

Collisions take 2^69, not 2^80. This is significant.

2005-02-16 crypto • cryptography • encryption • hash • news • schneier • security • sha-1 • sha1 • tech • web

Dell 1920x1200 LCD

$1100 is a lot, but I bet it's nice

2005-02-16 advice • buy • cool • dell • geek • hardware • lcd • monitor • peripherals • shopping • wishlist

Bush from both ends

Why is that man smiling?

2005-02-16 american • funny • heh • humour • politics

jwz groupware rant

Most insightful thing I've read about product design in a long time (via HotLinks)

2005-02-16 calendar • calendaring • collaboration • design • groupware • hula • jwz • opensource • programming • socialsoftware • software

Michael Jackson "flu"

Mysterious illness

wacky tabletop game console: features holograms!

Purge the gene pool

Now available for subscription. Congratulations!

2005-02-15 blog • diy • geek • hack • hacking • hacks • magazine • magazines • make • tech • technology

English tailor blog

I love blogs like this (via BoingBoing)

2005-02-15 bespoke • blog • blogs • clothes • clothing • design • english • fashion • london • suits • tailor

Security workaround

Great photo (via RISKS)

2005-02-14 driving • duh • fun • funny • hacking • humor • images • photo • photos • pictures • security

diskpart: WinXP fdisk

For some dumb reason they removed fdisk from WinXP, so you use diskpart instead

2005-02-14 cli • disk • windows

Formatting a USB drive

Not as easy as you think if it's not partitioned

Looks like an awesome hack

2005-02-13 cool • hacks • nintendo • web/tech

"Family values"

Alan Keyes disowns lesbian daughter. Lovely. (via Metafilter)

2005-02-13 activism • alankeyes • angry_neurotic_isms_and_ists • conservatism • entertainment • gay • lgbtq • mike • politics • sexuality • washpost

= failure. So much for my new router :-(

Getting MTU size

Test what your MTU by pinging with do-not-fragment

2005-02-12 mtu • troubleshooting • wrt54g

Recovering a wrt54g

What to do if you flash a bad ROM (I didn't!)

2005-02-12 2005 • firmware • hacking • hacks • howto • linksys • openwrt • router • wifi • wireless • wrt54g

default passwords

Awesome list of the default logins for a bunch of network equipment

2005-02-12 computers • hacking • hardware • network • networking • passwords • reference • router • routers • security • wifi

Best info site I've found

2005-02-12 hack • hacking • hacks • hardware • linksys • linux • networking • router • wifi • wireless • wrt54g

Amazing interactive toy (via Metafilter)

2005-02-10 awesome • car • draw • interesting • post • science • technology • toy • toys • vid • video

Fake reporter is gay?

Amazing story; Bush-friendly reporter turns out to also run gay porn sites (via Metafilter)

2005-02-10 blogs • daily • grassrootsmedia • media • npr • npr.heardithere • politics • watch • watch.press

Handy little standalone distributed in-memory cache (via Titus Brown)

2005-02-10 cache • caching • database • distributed • memcached • memory • performance • php • programming • software • web

This seemed hysterical to me

2005-02-09 hack • humor • wow

Unofficial site for hacking the mostly-open wireless router

2005-02-09 firmware • hacks • hardware • linksys • linux • network • networking • router • wifi • wireless • wrt54g

Disabling XP Services

simple instructions

2005-02-09 geek • reference • services • useful • windows • winxp • xp

Marc on Bloglines

Thoughtful piece on the Ask Jeeves acquisition

2005-02-08 acquisitions • ask • askjeeves • blog • bloglines • business • corporate_strategy • rss • search • web

Ashcroft's troops

jwz - freedom is on the march

2005-02-08 film • government • irc • law • macintosh • politics • starwars

Essential 50 games

Nice list from 1up (via Joystiq)

2005-02-06 articles • computer • culture • game • games • gaming • history • list • lists • reviews • videogames

Mark Fletcher's cat

I know how he feels (via ...)

2005-02-06 blogging • ideas

The Cuddly Menace

Nicely recaptioned child's picture book (via BoingBoing)

2005-02-05 art • book • books • fun • funny • humor • humour • religion • remix • weird • zogg

Just now listening to Hiphopera again (via BoingBoing)

2005-02-05 bittorrent • cool • download • free • kleptones • mashup • mashups • media • mp3 • music • torrent

Athlon 64 drivers

Various chip features

2005-02-05 amd • athlon • cpu • download • driver • drivers • hardware • software • tools • utilities • utility

Suicide bomber vest

2005-02-05 article • bomb • news • palestinian • photo • photograph/article • suicide • terrorism • vest

Spheres of Chaos

Funky psychedelic shooter game (via Cedric)

2005-02-04 asteroids • cool • game • games • gaming • linux • pagerank5 • psychedelic • rez • software • windows

Microserf's iPods

Foolishness; managers are criticising iPods on the Microsoft campus (via Waxy)

2005-02-04 apple • free • ipod • irony • market • microsoft • msft • music

Zappos.com growth

$300M is a lot of shoes. (via Eric Case)

2005-02-04 business • zappos

Torture A.G. OK!

Hey, what's a little human rights abuses between Republicans?

Firefox vs AdSubtract

Marc's notes on how AdSubtract is screwing their own customers

2005-02-03 none

Dispatch War Rocket Ajax to bring back his body

MOTM: Flash Gordon Sounds

Amazing, a journalist actually reported

2005-02-03 news • politics

IGE pres. interview

IGE is a secondary market for MMOG items

Yes, more Amazing Race washouts have web sites (via Jonathan and Victoria, naturally)

Distributed systems job

Best job description ever (via Steve J)

2005-02-03 amazon • development • distributed • distributed-systems • entry • job • jobs • network • programming • scalability • system

Didn't know Python could do this. Work with large data efficiently.

How to cut things

Kitchen prep notes (via Metafilter)

2005-02-02 cooking • cut • cutting • food • howto • kitchen • knife • knives • reference • tips • tutorial

North Korea collapse?

Hints that things are falling apart (via Metafilter)

2005-02-02 article • foreign • international • korea • north • policy • politics

Action figure hostage

Pathos (via Mark)

2005-02-02 humor

Thinking with type

Beautiful site and book about good typography

2005-02-01 art • books • design • font • fonts • graphics • reference • type • typography • web • webdesign