Nelson's Linkblog 2004-12

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Browser security test

Automated suite of various attacks (via Slashdot)

2004-12-31 browser • browsers • computer • firefox • internet • security • software • test • tools • web • windows

The shadow Internet

Nice Wired article about how pirate groups work (via Waxy)

2004-12-31 article • copyright • culture • internet • media • p2p • piracy • security • technology • web • wired

Fake tsunami panic

This is horrifying

Three projects funded

2004-12-30 programming • python • scientists

End of eBay/Passport

Only major site to support Passport is stopping

2004-12-30 ebay • futuretech • microsoft

Max AMD CPU temps

I had no idea that 85 degrees C was OK!

NYT year in pictures

2004-12-29 2004 • images • journalism • lagg • listing • news • nyt • nytimes • photo • photography • photos

Fixing Mom's computer

Great list of things to repair Windows boxes (via Waxy)

2004-12-29 computer • computers • howto • pc • reference • security • software • spyware • tech • tips • windows

Clay's Flickr notes

Worth a read (via Waxy)

2004-12-29 flickr • folksonomy • itp • media • nyu • photography • shirky • social-software • socialsoftware • web • webservices

Whole airline shuts down because of a 15 bit counter

2004-12-28 #geeks • airlines • anecdote • bug • computer • computers • computing • devzero • logistics • programming • travel

My neighbourhood

Nice little article

Invader Sneaker

I love this guy's thing

2004-12-28 cool • games

R.I.P. Susan Sontag

2004-12-28 obituary • sontag

N379P: torture plane

Mystery airplane the US uses to whisk off high value prisoners

Nice to have a red ribbon, but is a staple the best idea? (via Waxy)

2004-12-28 condom • fun • funny • humor • nifty • pos-homina • roflmaopmp • sex • stupid • web-heads

Surveys 330,000 players in World of Warcraft

2004-12-27 games • mmorpg • warcraft

Coming up in March

2004-12-27 api • google • powerpoint • soap • webservice • webservices • ws

WoW time to level

It's like a job!

Crazy shots of water coming in and leaving (via Waxy)

2004-12-27 <nic0> • earthquake • hashcunts • india • photo • photography • photos • phuket • toread • tsunami

dot dot is dead

Photoblog of a friend of mine, haunting

Scheduling virus scan

How to change when Norton Antivirus does its full scan. Friday 8pm is a dumb default.

Yet another WoW UI customization

2004-12-26 add_ons • customui • games • mods • safari_export • warcraft • worldofwarcraft • wow

More WoW UI customization

2004-12-26 -imported • @inbox • computer • mod • shallow • worldofwarcraft • wow

WoW Interface Customization

2004-12-26 mods • worldofwarcraft • wow

HDTV in Plain English

Explains the basic concepts

2004-12-26 articles • bit200f06 • dtv • edtv • geek • hdtv • information • interesting • tech • tv • video

This article gets it right

2004-12-26 bayarea • food • google • work

Panasonic plasma

Professional displays

Advertisement for an old computer (via Metafilter)

2004-12-26 images

Massive tsunami, thousands dead

Little Windows utility to manage what's run at boot time. Like msconfig, only better.

2004-12-24 bin/tools • freeware • software • startup • sysadmin • system • tools • utilities • windows • windowssystem • xp

Guide to small PC software (via Ask Metafilter)

2004-12-24 applications • apps • download • free • freeware • portable • software • tools • usb • utilities • windows

Macquarie location

Really is middle of nowhere

Macquarie webcam

Middle of nowhere and you get live pictures

2004-12-24 aq.foto

Macquarie Island

1000 miles of Australia, where the earthquake was.

South of Australia

Davey and Goliath

Classics for download (via Metafilter)

2004-12-24 project2 • video

WoW: BitTorrent

Blizzard is using BitTorrent to distributed World of Warcraft stuff! (via Jeffrey)

Less airport groping

What has the US come to?

eharmony.com $110M

That's a lot of money

Cell phone Python

Official release of Python for Series 60. Woohoo!

2004-12-22 cellphone • development • mobile • nokia • opensource • programming • python • s60 • series60 • software • symbian

Second life contagion

Viruses are part of the real world, so why not the virtual? (via Waxy)

2004-12-22 cyberculture • funny • via:waxy • virtuality

More kayak trip

2004-12-22 crazy

2200 mile kayak trip

California to Hawaii (via Ask MetaFilter)

2004-12-22 adventure • california • crazy • hawaii • interesting • kayak • kayaking • story • travel

Web site of the woman who was murdered and had her baby cut out

Yorkshire pudding

Great photos (via Ask Metafilter)

Game $ vs Movie $

Grumpy Gamer debunks the myth (via shellen)

2004-12-21 2004 • 2004-12 • business • debunk • film • games • gaming • movie.industry • movies • pop.culture • videogames

Wrong side of the road

Cameron learns his memory edits itself

2004-12-20 mindhack • psych • psychology • travel • weird

"A caring fellow"

You know it's bad when your best defense is being called "a caring fellow"

slimp3 on Debian

Useful user notes

2004-12-19 debian • slimserver

R.I.P. Suprnova

Biggest BitTorrent site goes down

President cowboy

Real people in Texas do not dress this way

Bittorrent analysis

Some good metrics (via Slashdot)

2004-12-19 analysis • bittorent • bittorrent • bt • internet • news • p2p • research • sharing • tech • torrent

Fake Santa photos

Very Blade Runner (via Metafilter)

2004-12-19 beforeafter • photo • photography • photos • photoshop • santa

The people who search your bags steal things (via Ask Metafilter)

2004-12-19 data • infographics • multiple • table • travel • webdesign

Michael Jackson Xmas

Fun for all the boys and girls. Well, boys at least. And not fun.

Sir Bruce's graphs now have a proper home

2004-12-19 chart • game • games • gaming • internet • mmo • mmog • mmorpg • reference • research • statistics

Man, jwz finds the best images

WinXP autologin

Dumb that this isn't the default

2004-12-18 administration • login • logon • pc • software • tips • tricks • windows • windowsxp • winxp • xp

Scared of Santa

Happy childhood photos (via Metafilter)

2004-12-18 christmas • fun • funny • humor • images • kids • photo • photography • photos • santa • xmas

Theme Park Maps

2004-12-18 design • disney • fun • geek • mapping • maps • reference • resources • retro • themepark • themeparks

Nice analysis by a small time trader (via lots of places)

2004-12-18 commerce • economics • games • installed • mmorpg

Nice images (via MetaFilter)

2004-12-17 advertising • art • cool • culture • design • logo • logos • photo • photography • photos • photoshop

Nice photo of lenticular clouds in Antarctica

GameSpy PC awards

GameSpy.com - Game of the Year - 2004

Ask Google Images questions, see the answers

2004-12-16 .imported • ask • funny • google • hobbies • humor • image • project • quiz • search • test

Web service impls

Useful list of various implementations

2004-12-16 catalog • development • internet • programming • soa • soap • tech • technical • toolkits • webservice • webservices

Amazing video of people jumping off high spots

2004-12-16 insane

Python subprocess

New 2.4 module replaces spawn, popen etc

1-800-201-7575 again

According to Google Amazon.com has their own number on their site six times, but it's all member comments

Amazon's customer service number (via Metafilter)

Yahoo! News - Top Stories World Photos - AFP

Because after the rousing success of .aero and .museum, we need more TLDs

Pierced eyeglasses

Who needs earpieces? (via BoingBoing)

2004-12-15 art • bodymod • cool • design • eyeglasses • fashion • fun • geek • glasses • piercing • weird

EA/NFL deal: $300M!

EA now has an exclusive license to publish NFL games, basically killing the competition in computer football games. But $300 million!

2004-12-14 link

Coledridge poem

2004-12-14 art • poems • poetry • spirituality • xanadu

2004-12-13 humor • photo

2004-12-13 goodies • schild • sign • spooky • wacky

The evil counterpart to Saint Nick. Awesome Xmas.

Finger over ring

I wonder what his wife thinks? Lovely irony, too, they lost the ring.

MacOSX CD ripper. Now how do I stop iTunes from launching?

2004-12-11 audioresources • itunes • mac • macintosh • mp3 • os • pc • podcastresources • ripper • videopalooza • x

Nice Risk clone / expansion

2004-12-11 game • games • indie • mac • online • osx • risk • shareware • software • strategy • windows

Willy Wonka trailer

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, brought to you by Burton / Elfman / Depp. This could rock. (via BoingBoing)

2004-12-11 *temp • booradley • charlie_and_the_chocolate_factory • film • movies • pop_culture • stuff • tim_burton • trailer • trailers • web

Independent games

Roundup of this year's festival submissions

2004-12-11 game • games • independent

Dioxin poisoning

Yuschenko's mystery illness explained

Upload a file, someone else can download it later.

2004-12-10 download • email • file • files • filesharing • free • internet • storage • tools • upload • web

Bush / umbrella

Isometric skyscraper

World's tallest virtual building, collaborative art (via Metafilter)

2004-12-10 architecture • art • building • community • cool • design • fun • graphics • pixel • pixelart • web

Calendar design

Nicely explained (via Metafilter, I think)

2004-12-09 2006 • astronomy • calendar • cool • design • image • lunar • moon • time • visualisation • wheel

Awesome story of a guy winning an online duel against a racist jerk (via Metafilter)

2004-12-09 article • culture • game • games • gaming • journalism • ngj • race • social • videogames • writing

Daikatana history

Romero speaks on the development of one of PC gaming's biggest flops (via VoodooExtreme)

2004-12-09 games • gaming • geekery • t-1000

Just doesn't belong

Soldiers vs AWOL guardsman

KOTOR II review

Sequel to the best game of last year looks good

2004-12-07 games • kotor • review • starwars • xbox

Dukes of Hazzard

Photos from the upcoming film (via MetaFilter)

Mall instructions

Lovely little pictorial (via jwz)

2004-12-06 activism • art • cartoon • comics • consumerism • culture • fun • funny • humor • illustration • revolution

curator image gallery

Simple software to make Web image galleries

2004-12-05 gallery • images • imaging • photo • photography • photos • python • software • via-nelson • web • webapp

MacOSX Java plugin

Java Embedding Plugin allows Firefox to run Java 1.4 on the Mac. Feels hacky, but works for me.

2004-12-05 browser • firefox • java • mac • macosx • mozilla • osx • plug-in • plugin • software • web

Nice interactive Java applet

2004-12-05 andreas • game • games • gaming • gta • java • map • maps • san • sanandreas • videogames

Reffy: spam tool

So this is where all the referer spam is coming from. Urgh.

2004-12-05 blog_comment_spam

Python is not Java

I like his comments about XML (via Daily Python URL)

2004-12-03 article • blog • comparison • dev • development • java • programming • python • tips • toread • xml

Admission of responsibility was a fake

2004-12-03 politics

Subway fire account

Plainly told (via Waxy)

2004-12-03 anecdotes • blog • blogs • fire • matt • mta • news • nyc • story • subway • urban

US: more torture

Nevermind that torture produces notoriously unreliable information

Did he really intend to put himself in this position?!

2004-12-03 george.w..bush • war

Call here to get no more credit card offers

2004-12-02 card • credit • creditcards • finance • howto • money • optout • privacy • reference • spam • useful

Stopping junk mail

FTC hints on ways to get less junk mail

2004-12-02 credit • email • finance • junk • mail • opt-out • optout • privacy • reference • spam • tools