Nelson's Linkblog 2006-06

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Camera lens tests

Detailed geeky data on lens performance

2006-06-30 camera • canon • lens • lenses • nikon • photo • photography • reference • review • reviews • test

Google Checkout video

Actually pretty good! Google used to never do this kind of thing.

2006-06-29 checkout • ecommerce • google • googlecheckout • jordy • movie • news • plaggger • shopping • video • www.loftid.net

Subversion quickstart

Nice crash course in using this version control system

2006-06-29 article • articles • development • howto • programming • reference • software • subversion • svn • tutorial • tutorials

Technical investigation by outsider (via Digg)

2006-06-28 architecture • article • file • filesystem • gfs • google • linux • storage • system • technology • toread

Darik's Boot and Nuke

Floppy for erasing hard drives

2006-06-28 disk • freeware • linux • privacy • security • software • sysadmin • tools • utilities • utility • wipe

Blink of an Eye

Flickr members submit their single best photo

2006-06-28 blink • cool • flickr • flikr • fun • images • photo • photography • photos • pool • popular

Gamer Successories

Inspirational posters (via Joystiq)

2006-06-27 art • blog • funny • games • gaming • humor • mmo • poster • posters • quotes • wow

Doom, the Roguelike

Amazingly detailed Doom-as-Rogue game

2006-06-26 ascii • doom • freeware • fun • game • games • gaming • roguelike • rpg • software • windows

US soldiers hack up Internet access in Iraq (via BoingBoing)

2006-06-26 geek • hardware • innovation • internet • iraq • military • networking • technology • war • wifi • wireless

Notional nation up in flames

2006-06-26 anarchy • cyberpunk • datahaven • fire • geek • high • micronations • news • sad • sealand • tp

Redesign! (via mathowie)

2006-06-26 area • bay • bayarea • cheap • food • restaurant • restaurants • review • reviews • sanfrancisco • sf

Space Invader's studio!

Awesome geurilla artist let someone photograph his work before it's hung

2006-06-25 art • df • flickr • photography • spaceinvader • street-art • streetart • vienna

Video downloader

Helps you download a video from sites like Youtube

2006-06-25 download • firefox • flash • google • googlevideo • ifilm • tools • video • videos • web • youtube

Integration is further away? (via Digg)

2006-06-24 .net • beta • blog • blogs • filesystem • filesystems • microsoft • msdn • software • windows • winfs

Awesome turntable piece (via Metafilter)

2006-06-22 birdy_nam_nam • dj • electronica • mp3 • music • saveforlater • video

Microsoft exec fired?

Odd shakeup in MSN land

2006-06-21 forseattlest • microsoft • msn

7 mile deep hole

Quickie article on a Soviet drilling project (via Populicious)

2006-06-21 deep • drill • drilling • earth • engineering • geo • geology • hole • interesting • science • technology

Typewriter creativity (via Metafilter)

2006-06-21 art • ascii • computers • cool • design • fun • geek • history • retro • typewriter • typography

SF Bay boat positions

Real time tracking of ship traffic (via Digg)

2006-06-20 bayarea • boat • cool • gps • map • maps • sanfrancisco • sf • ships • tracking • visualization

Cool atmosphere effect (via digg)

2006-06-20 clouds • cool • fun • graphics • nature • photo • photography • photos • rainbow • science • weather

Buffalo 802.11 bridge

The Linksys hardware is junk; hoping this works better

Start them early

2006-06-18 fans • soccer • sports

Neptune and Triton

Beautiful space photo

2006-06-18 apod • astronomy • educational • image • nasa • neptune • photography • space

Web 2.0 for the blackmail business

2006-06-17 blackmail • flickr • fun • funny • humor • humour • internet • parody • satire • web • web2.0

Candy Canes for Portraits

How to get some good photos from folks on the street (via Populicious)

2006-06-17 art • flickr • fun • howto • inspiration • photo • photography • portraits • project • tips • tutorial

Online poker report

NYT in depth story

Google Minesweeper

Now if they just do Solitaire then they'll totally put Microsoft out of business

2006-06-10 fun • funny • game • games • google • humor • humour • microsoft • minesweeper • web • web2.0

Weird Mario physics

Exploit bugs in the collision detection algorithms

2006-06-10 funny • game • games • gaming • geek • mario • nintendo • reference • retro • tricks • videogames

Busted speed cameras

Brits are dismantling surveillance devices (via Digg)

2006-06-09 activism • cool • culture • england • freedom • photography • politics • privacy • speed • surveillance • video

Eve model redesign

Great post of what it's like to upgrade a game's graphics

Senate bigot list

49 shameful "yes" votes for anti-gay law

2006-06-08 gay.marriage.ban • gayrights • humanrights • politics • via.somebits.com/linkblog/

Infiltrating a network (via Digg)

2006-06-08 business • engineering • hacking • interesting • network • psychology • security • social • socialengineering • tech • usb

Sensory augment

So simple, so freaky (via BoingBoing)

2006-06-08 article • bodymodification • cool • geek • hack • hacks • hardware • health • magnets • science • technology

Air network for secret prisoner movements

2006-06-07 images • liberation • middleeast • news • politics • usa

Euro collaboration

Investigation finds evidence of assistance to US secret detention program

MyPollingPlace.com

Where do you vote?

2006-06-06 a • elections • find • in • location • my • place • pollingplacelookup • us • voting

Animator's apprentice

Cute animation (via Populicious)

2006-06-05 animation • art • cool • design • flash • fun • funny • humor • humour • movies • video

Vietnamese spiders

Lots of photos (via Metafilter)

2006-06-04 biology • cool • gallery • nature • photo • photography • photos • science • spider • spiders • vietnam

Stockphotopia cliches

Seen these people before?

2006-06-03 business • design • fun • funny • humor • images • marketing • photography • photos • stock • webdesign

Built in XUL by Google

Was the 2004 Election stolen?

Detailed, thoughtful article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

2006-06-02 article • bush • corruption • election • elections • history • media • news • politics • us • voting

Google search API

New API is Javascript oriented

2006-06-02 ajax • api • development • documentation • google • javascript • reference • search • tutorial • web • webservices

DoJ: Internet record

US government extends its authority inappropriately once again

2006-06-02 politics • privacy

Print only the matching capture; I wrote my own version of this way back when, nice to have a real one

2006-06-02 gnu • grep • howto • linux • programming • reference • regex • shell • sysadmin • tools • unix

As it used to be

2006-06-01 aboriginal • aborigine • aiatsis • australia • found-a • history • indigenous • ling-100 • map • maps • tribes