Nelson's Linkblog 2005-03

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Nice alarm clocks

Read the comments for some pointers

2005-03-31 alarm • buy • clocks • consumerism • cool • design • gadgets • home • interieur • review • shopping

Josh comes through with another amazing photo

Star Trek geeks only (via AxMe)

2005-03-30 art • besame-mucho • chocolate • humor • isabel-samaras • lone-ranger • nimoy • shatner • sublogit • tonto

Cycling the Holy Road

Blog account of a bike trip - start at the bottom

2005-03-30 blog • cycling • good

del.icio.us full time

Joshua announces funding and a new concentration

2005-03-30 business • community • del.icio.us • delicious • folksonomy • funding • news • tags • tools • vc • web

Vintage educational video on the dangers homosexuals pose to young boys

Squared circle poster

Collaborative art on flickr almost done

upcoming.org ++

Lots of nice new features, including an API!

2005-03-29 calendar • service • social • software • startup • tags • tools • toread • upcoming • web • xml

Carmack on games for cell phones

Good details on why programming Java on cell phones is awkward (via Slashdot)

2005-03-29 3d • blog • blogs • carmack • development • game • games • graphics • java • people • programming

Gaylord 60s robot dog

"Gaylord comes with a bone of his own". Man have robot dogs evolved. (via BoingBoing)

2005-03-28 funny • humor • movies • video • wtf

Simple technique for showing one person in an image multiple times

2005-03-28 cool • hobby/crafts

Giant NTP clock

Crazy overprovisioned blade system for serving time (via comp.protocols.time.ntp)

This is a great photo

A6 / IceLink rumour

Most concrete rumour I've seen that IceLink may yet support my car

New Audi A6 forum

Finally some people who know about MP3 integration

2005-03-27 audi • audi_a6 • auto • car

mathowie on etech and sxsw

Nicely written, but his criticism of etech is probably exactly why I like it.

2005-03-27 conferences • entry • etech • ideas • im • odeo • presentation • sxsw • tech • technology • thoughts

Hellgate: London

New game from the Diablo guys who left Blizzard (via Gametab)

2005-03-26 games

Bad interactive sites

Jeff Veen tears into crappy Flash sites, etc (via everyone)

2005-03-26 accessibility • design • flash • interactive • interactivity • internet • marketing • usability • web • webdesign • webdev

Jon's Python modules

Servlet-like classes for Python

2005-03-25 cgi • code • database • development • fastcgi • mod_python • programming • python • session • web • webdev

Remember when this protocol was going to change the world?

Stick figures in peril

I love flickr groups

2005-03-25 art • flickr • fun • funny • humor • nifty • photography • photos • signs • stick • stickfigures

Jeff Weise video

Why is it so fascinating to look at rampage killers' Internet content?

2005-03-25 _jason • creepy • crime • culture • flash • killer • news • paranoia • shooting • violence • web

Any good games for the new handheld?

2005-03-25 games • onsafari • psp • review • reviews • sony • temp • video

Wendy's chili garnish

Picture of the a9.com yellow pages driver?

2005-03-24 local • pictures

Yahoo Feed Seeker

learn how many my yahoo users read your blog

2005-03-24 analytics • syndication

Designed incompatibile

Things that are made nonstandard on purpose

2005-03-24 ask.metafilter • design • destandardized • engineering • followup • mefi • metafilter • standards

New release of Python for .NET

2005-03-24 .net • development • dotnet • ironpython • microsoft • mono • opensource • programming • python • software • windows

Convert Latin-1 to nearest neighbour ascii. Ugly, but may be useful.

2005-03-24 ascii • cpo • development • latin1 • maturarbeit • programming • python • recipe • unicode

Awful. Awful, awful

Right to life; any kind of life, even zombie life

13 things that do not make sense

Science mysteries (via Metafilter)

2005-03-23 article • articles • astronomy • cool • interesting • news • physics • research • science • space • toread

Get your Schiavo on

As always, right on message (via jwz)

2005-03-23 bush • comic • comics • culture • fun • funny • getyourwaron • humor • on • politics • your

Monumental projectors

Nice images, follow the links

Jeff Weise LiveJournal

You gotta love the Internets (via mathowie)

2005-03-23 angst • bloggers • blogs • crazy • failure • foreshadowing • news • paranoia • violence • web • weblogs

Python on Rails?

Nice description of what it'd take

2005-03-22 comparison • dev • development • mvc • programming • python • rails • ruby • rubyonrails • toread • web

Ajax + Ruby on Rails

it's all over (via Waxy)

2005-03-22 ajax • design • dom • javascript • programming • rails • ruby • rubyonrails • web • webdev • xmlhttprequest

Color name universals

Whether or not colours have the same names in different cultures (via Waxy)

Nice visual chart (via Slashdot)

2005-03-22 gui • icons • os • unsorted

Jeff Weise, Nazi

Cached forum posts from the teenager who killed 10 yesterday (via Metafilter)

2005-03-22 adolescence • crime • human_tragedy • native • nazi • nazis • news • paranoia • politics • secret • teen

Autechre interview

Great discussion with my favourite musicians (via AxMe)

2005-03-21 audio • autechre • electronic • idm • interview • maxmsp • music • software • sound • technology • tools

The granddaddy of IM applications

Video game atlas

I always wanted to do this; pixel perfect dumps from ROMs

2005-03-21 art • game • games • gaming • map • maps • nintendo • reference • retro • video • videogames

Links to people's presentations, including mine

2005-03-17 2005 • downloadme • etech • music • o'reilly • oreillynet • presentation_slides • slide • slides • stacks • technologies

Toasting Dame Edna

Lessig at ETech

Best presenter I've ever heard, great talk (MP3)

Molyneaux: The Room

When game designers experiment. Sounds cool.

2005-03-16 games • gaming • sureal

via irc.freenode.net/#etech

2005-03-16 funny • geek • humor • humour • on • original • rael • ruby • wrong

Funny pun on folksonomy

Spore screenshots

interesting visual style (via Waxy)

2005-03-16 dev • eames • emergence • games • gaming • images • mmos • news • spore • willwright • wilwright

"All Complex Ecosystems have Parasites"

2005-03-16 boingboing • economics • etech • media • network

George Dyson...

...is Senator Palpatine. Awesome photo from etech.

experimental gameplay

Nice student project making lots of quick games (via Metafilter)

2005-03-14 cool • design • development • experimental • flash • free • fun • game • games • programming • software

Romanian game farm

Someone found people actually paid to farm game items (via Guardian Games)

2005-03-14 article • china • economy • games • gaming • mmorpg • offshoring • romania • sweatshop • travail • wow

Costik on distribution

Followup to his rant, talking about alternate models for selling games

2005-03-14 archangel • area/code • bigend • daily • design • development • game • games • games_opinion • p2pcommerce • read

Civilization IV details

Nice roundup of what's known about the highly anticipated game

2005-03-13 civ • games • gaming • xml

Costik's game rant

Great rant against the greed and expense in the game business

2005-03-13 archangel • area/code • blog • culture • design • gamedesign • games • gaming • microsoft • nintendo • writing

MythTV + Squeezebox

Alex figures out how to make his MythTV act like a Slimp3

2005-03-13 audio • multimedia • music • mythmusic • mythtv • pvr • slim • stream • tools

WoW gold crackdown

Blizzard suspends accounts for farming gold and items

Will Wright: Spore

Latest game from the sim genius, sounds very ambitious

2005-03-12 blogthis • emergence • futureshock • game • games • ideas • simulation • spore • willwright

Battlefield 2 trailer

Sent to me by spam, but looks pretty cool

Bizou confirmation

Alas (via Marc)

One of my favourite SF restaurants rumoured to be in trouble (via Marc)

Lick Jar-Jar's tongue

Lovely Star Wars products (via Marc)

Beefy men carrying him in

Microsoft buys Groove

Their only possible exit

MJ "back problem"

Must be tough to show up in your child molestation trial every day

Build things (via Make)

2005-03-10 downloads • free • fun • game • games • gaming • lego • legos • mmorpg • software • windows

amazing results (via Metafilter)

2005-03-10 art • color • colorization • cool • graphics • image • photo • photography • programming • software • video

Japan psychiatric art

Beautiful images (via Metafilter)

2005-03-09 advertising • art • culture • design • images • japan • japanese • photography • psychiatry • psychology • weird

John Frum cargo cult

Nice roundup on Metafilter

2005-03-09 cargocult • interesting • metafilter • religion • to-read • to_read • unread

FEC: Bloggers, chill

I love that this article is written blog-style (via BoingBoing)

2005-03-09 censorship • politics • via:boingboing • via:boingboing.net • weblog

Long hair, kilt, the works.

Nice price and battery life

NYT Circuits ending

That's OK, the Monday section is much better anyway (via BoingBoing)

2005-03-08 < • media • nyt • opa

Snatching domains

This is ludicrous, but fascinating (via Waxy)

2005-03-07 blog • business • dns • domain • domains • expiring • hosting • howto • internet • tips • web

Still Seeing Breen

Awesome Half Life 2 machinima music video (via Joystiq)

2005-03-07 art • cool • fun • games • half-life • half-life2 • machinama • machinima • movies • music • video

Apple genius blog

Bitter, bitter (via Waxy)

2005-03-07 apple • blog • blogs • computers • geek • genius • humor • livejournal • mac • tech • tech_support

Nexus: space RTS

The demo is beautiful

Santa Fe gay bashing

This seems very unlike Santa Fe

Mike Doughty blog

Former frontman for Soul Coughing (via Kottke)

2005-03-06 art • blog • blogs • culture • doughty • indie • mike • mikedoughty • music • nyc • soulcoughing

Le scandal Michelin

New guide, new criticism. Every year this happens. But Robuchon is a big fish to complain...

Summary of social differences between the two games. Matches my experience.

2005-03-05 worldofwarcraft

Giant Steps / M. Levy

Beautiful video / visualization (via Waxy)

2005-03-04 3d • animation • art • coltrane • cool • design • flash • graphics • jazz • music • video

Ukrainian bus shelters

More crazy art (via Metafilter)

2005-03-04 2005 • architecture • art • art_public • bus • photography • photos • public • transport • ukraine • winter

Pakistani buses

Exuberant (via Metafilter)

2005-03-04 art • auto • bus • buses • img • misc • pakistan • photos • transport • vehicle • weird

Various products to integrate MP3 players to car stereos

2005-03-04 audio • auto • car • cars • electronics • gadgets • honda • interface • ipod • mp3 • music

Another beautiful photo

Beautiful photo

Geographic oddity (via warmbrain)

2005-03-03 fun • funny • general • geography • usa

Game built inside Second Life, looks like it's nicely environment appropriate

2005-03-03 blog • boardgame • game • games • puzzle • reading • second_life • secondlife • toread • tringo • virtualworlds

Firefox extension that lets you augment any web page with your own code

2005-03-03 dhtml • extension • extensions • firefox • greasemonkey • javascript • mozilla • programming • software • tools • web

XMLHttpRequest guide

Usability Guidelines (via Kottke)

2005-03-03 accessibility • ajax • design • development • javascript • programming • usability • web • webdev • xml • xmlhttprequest

This is huge news, biggest US MMOG ever

2005-03-02 games • gaming • horizonvcop • mmo • mmorg • mmorpgs • numbers • online • research • service • wow