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 california • earthquake • sanfrancisco • usgs

Plush cube origins

Fan made, with patterns

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

Plush companion cube

But no details on its origin

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

3 steps to Objectivism

Simple as A B C

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

MacOS preferences evolution

That old Susan Kare design still rocks

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

funny little screenshot

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

Waterboarding is torture

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

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

2006 Internet map

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

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

Lovely simple visualization of who owns what addresses on the net

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

Russian Business Network

The ISP of choice for online criminals

2007-10-29 badtech • gangster • isp • rbn • russian • 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 adobe • badtech • botnet • hacker • pdf • reader • spam

Koran recitation

Beautiful young voice

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

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

2007-10-29 apple • arrogance • samba

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

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

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

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

Wikipedia donors

Interesting list. Nice to see Google matching figure highly

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

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

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

Comcast's talking points

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

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

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

An amazing maritime exploration story of survival and heroism

2007-10-27 antarctica • exploration • shackleton

Gaza kidnap ordeal

First person account from BBC journalist

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

Hysterically accurate analogy

2007-10-26 cargocult • google • seo

Global warming is healthy!

She failed to address damage to the sweater industry

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

FEMA fakes news

Poses its own employees as reporters on a press call

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

Abstraction comic NSFW

Crazy comic style, pretty neat

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

High performance ssh

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

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

Mister Rogers and Donkey Kong

Awesome Neighbourhood segment looking at an arcade game

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

Tech Review on Twitter

Great long article, mostly profiling Evan. Fantastic photos.

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

$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 france • homeless • paris • politics

Valve intl sales problem

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

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

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

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

Aquatic funicular

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

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

Pizza orientation test

Totally silly, but made me laugh

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

Songbird for Developers

Congratulations to Jeff on a launch!

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

Firefox 2006 revenue

Search box was worth $57 million

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

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 complexity • computerscience • mathematics • turing • universal • wolfram

Fry's Pantographia

1799 catalog of world's writing systems

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

Online kidney market

Screw the article; check the comments

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

20% of iPhones unlocked?

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

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

Vista still a disaster

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

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

Majority security problem at the MMO

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

Dumbledore pride

Cashing in quickly

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

Kill General British

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

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

MSWord redaction

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

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

This week Radiohead is way ahead of the pack

2007-10-22 music • radiohead

What you need to know about git

Amazingly smart investigation in what makes git different

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

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

2007-10-20 games • mmo • mmog

Sex offender trailer park

A "little piece of paradise"

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

Dumbledore is gay!

Best news all night

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

George W. Bush is Jesus

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

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

Van Halen disaster

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

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

Firefox license problem

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

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

SVN time lapse view

Cool new client view!

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

Charts and graphs

nice rundown of software options

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

Know Thine Enemy

incredible video op/ed about the Iraqi insurgency

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

Old Man Murray wrote Portal

The folks behind the Crate Review System helped write Portal!

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

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 bittorrent • internet • isp • netneutrality • throttling

Sarkozy on divorce

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

75% of bombs can board the plane

Meanwhile, we're not allowed a bottle of water

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

China subverts DNS

Rumours that all search engine DNS requests now end at Baidu

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

Online poker cheating

The house is crooked

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

Half Life gnome achievement

Funny story of a special game challenge

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

Portal credits song

Sadly the text isn't quite readable

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

Coulton on Portal

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

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

CircleLending bought

I have friends who love this personal loan management app

2007-10-17 circlelending • finance • loans • 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 advertising • via:waxy • video

Playing it straight

Larry Craig calls it entrapment

2007-10-17 gay • larrycraig • politics

Portal storytelling

Nice, overly long explication on Portal as good storytelling

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

I agree with Jason this game is great

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

Brooklin Syrian Jews

interesting subcommunity

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

awesome gallery of ham radio calling cards

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

what your friends are reading

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

Everyday shooter video

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

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

Portal porn (sorts SFW)

Rule 43 persists

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

Portal walkthroughs

Complete spoiler videos

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

Larry Craig fights back

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

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

lovely little interactive music video

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

Halo 3 bad review

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

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

NSA spied before 9/11

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

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

Unicorn kingdom club

I was wrong; YouTube is creating fantastic amateur video

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

Good looking video from the game, nice editing

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

Simple old games

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

Assassin's Creed video

Games are getting astonishingly realistic human figures

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

Acrobat security hole

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

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

cheap bulk scanning

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

EA buys Bioware

bad news all around

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

Water lightshow

Clever artist installation

2007-10-11 art • led • light • water

GI Jonny vs Capt. Bareback

Mind bloggling BBC public service announcement

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

operation: pedopriest

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

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

congratulations to the little startup

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

The US doesn't torture

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

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

BioShock translation?

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

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

The DIMES project

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

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

Simple graphs of router interconnectivity

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

TiVo + PayPerPost

Ah, conversational marketing

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

Storm superworm

The other way to build a supercomputer

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

A wacky cyclical elevator

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

New US torture policy

When do the war crimes investigations start?

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

Marius Watz discovers some amazing map visualizations

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

Evolution of BioShock

A talk by lead programmer Chris Kline

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

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

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

Clean is Happy (NSFW)

Freaky Toto washlet advertising site

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

Proce55ing book

Congratulations, Ben!

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

One of the older and more significant virtual worlds

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

Halo 3 and BioShock

Eric Tilton weighs in with his comparison

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

Library of Congress data

Freeing public records

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