Nelson's Linkblog 2008-03

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Famous LEGO photos

Nice recreations

2008-03-31 lego • photography • photos • rephotography

I miss the old "What's new with NCSA Mosaic"

2008-03-31 blog • history • mcom • mosaic • netscape • via:jwz • web • weblog

Marc writes up notes on a code review tool

2008-03-31 codereview • coding • django • process • review • software

Laptopless meetings

LA Times article on distractions in meetings, including a quote from me!

2008-03-31 attention • distractions • laptops • me • meetings • nelson • zaowdny

Bad things happen trucking dead whales around

2008-03-29 disgusting • spill • taiwan • truck • via:metafilter • whale

Beijing olympics poster

The promotion starts

2008-03-27 beijing • china • humanrights • olympics

Google language models

An example of how they use user session data to make better search results

2008-03-27 ai • computationallinguistics • google • linguistics • search

Someone's got an early print run

2008-03-27 games • grandtheftauto • gta • leak • map

funny little edited image

2008-03-25 books • dickandjane • games • parody • sinistar

We never walked very far

2008-03-24 astronauts • maps • moon • space

More XBLA criticism

N+ developers explain what they meant

2008-03-24 games • n+ • xbla • xbox • xbox360

Handle with care

Quirky little guide to living in Paris

2008-03-24 culture • france • nytimes • paris

Andy Warhol on The Love Boat

Odd little clip

2008-03-23 art • loveboat • tv • warhol

Thanks, Easter Bunny!

2008-03-23 advertising • easter • m&ms • mnms • tv

Simpsons paintings

Side by side comparison of Simpsons scenes and famous paintings

2008-03-23 art • simpsons • tv • via:blort

Paris by Blizzard

City of Light rendered in a Warcraftish way

2008-03-23 france • maps • paris • warcraft • wow

Vidal on Buckley

Righteous, nasty rant against the dead conservative. "o society so marinated in falsity can long survive in a real world"

2008-03-22 buckley • conservative • gorevidal • liberal • obituary • rant • vidal • wfb

N+ devs on XBLA quality

Trashing all the crappy Xbox Live games

2008-03-21 games • n+ • xbla • xbox • xbox360

Drug deal on Google Street View

Sure looks like one, at least

2008-03-21 crime • drugs • google • maps

Gawker's payroll

Details of what Gawker pays their bloggers; $80k / year for the top ones

2008-03-21 blogs • economics • editorial • gawker • payroll

Legend of Zelda in N+

Crazy mashup, translating classic RPG into a vertical platformer

2008-03-21 games • n+ • zelda

War protest, slightly incomplete

2008-03-20 protest • spelling • wap • war

Striped icebergs

2008-03-20 icebergs • nature • ocean • via:metafilter

Portishead / Machine Gun

From the new album; great song, crappy video

2008-03-20 machinegun • music • portishead • third • video

Abort, retry, or EPIC FAIL

Andy writes a post so I don't have to

2008-03-20 criticism • culture • fail • lolcats

"Stained blue dress day"

The press stoops to a new low, pinpointing Hillary Clinton's whereabouts the day her husband ejaculated on someone else's clothing

2008-03-19 clintons • media • politics • press • scandal • sex

Good Paris / Bad Paris

Amusing expat diary

2008-03-19 expat • france • paris • via:kottke

Art and meat ...together again

2008-03-19 art • meat • via:aboutblank

Spam botnet sources

6 botnets account for most of the Internet's spam

2008-03-18 badtech • botnet • email • internet • spam • srizbi • worm

Bear Stearns deal

Day by day account of the negotiation

2008-03-18 bearstearns • collapse • crisis • economics • finance • money • via:peter

Clever data structure for very efficiently working with spare sets

2008-03-16 algorithms • code • computerscience • datastructures • via:metafilter

XNA / Xbox 360 connect

How to download homebrew code to your console

2008-03-15 games • homebrew • xbox • xbox360 • xna

Spitzer vs. Craig

A little perspective

2008-03-15 eliotspitzer • funny • larrycraig • politics

Webkinz explained

Yet another virtual world I know nothing about

2008-03-14 games • kids • webkinz

Getting started with XNA

I thought I'd see what it'd take to write an Xbox 360 game

2008-03-14 .net • games • ide • xbox • xna

Major browser exploit

I know two people whose WoW accounts were stolen recently; this javascript attack may be how

2008-03-14 badtech • keylogger • malware • security • wow

Clever little indie game, very simple

2008-03-14 games • meritous • roguelike

Waxweb, 1995 demo

Digital video, MOO, VRML, user authoring, all put together and delivered. in 1995. It was pretty cool.

2008-03-14 moo • multimedia • via:waxy • vrml • waxweb

Project Xanadu has a web site, complete with cornea-searing design.

2008-03-14 hypertext • lol • tednelson • windmills • xanadu

Google Zurich playground

Google's Swiss office. A bit infantilized, but it's kinda neat.

2008-03-13 design • google • office • switzerland • zurich

Broker corruption

Great story about how broken the financial services industry is

2008-03-13 blainelourd • broker • dfa • dimensionalfunds • investment • money • wallstreet

Twitter visualizations

Various views into what's going on at Twitter

2008-03-13 twitter • via:waxy • visualization

Lost features of Google

Nice roundup of some dead products

2008-03-13 google • software • via:waxy

Lost Boys 2: The Tribe

A remake that seems wholly unnecessary

2008-03-13 corey • coreyfeldman • feldman • lostboys • movies • vampires

Air Force uber alles

Does no one in the USAF speak German? Or have a clue?

2008-03-12 airforce • facism • slogans • via:metafilter

Burnout: Paradise review

Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation does a great bit of criticism

2008-03-12 burnout • burnoutparadise • games • review

clever little puzzle game

2008-03-12 games • puzzle • riddle

Geosign; ended by Google

Company made money via arbitrage of Google's advertising system. Google eventually took that niche away.

2008-03-11 advertising • cpc • geosign • google • via:anonymousgooglefriend

Echochrome game

This looks amazing

2008-03-11 echochrome • games • playstation • sony • via:metafilter

Corsets (vaguely NSFW)

Catalog of crazy slimming garments

2008-03-11 corsets • culture • fashion • via:metafilter • women

The Wire's final montage

Shot by shot breakdown

2008-03-11 baltimore • thewire • tv • via:metafilter

The new $3 coin

America's currency is being modernized, whether we like it or not

2008-03-10 currency • dollar • humor • via:zawodny

Where Gov. Spitzer shopped

2008-03-10 politics • prostitution • scandal • spitzer

Eliot Spitzer's hos

New York governor, former Attorney General is busted

2008-03-10 newyork • politics • scandal • spitzer • wallstreet

Apple, Google, and you

Elegant presentation of product design

2008-03-10 apple • design • google • simplicity • software • ui

McCain for torture, too

Ridiculous hair splitting on a core human rights issue

2008-03-09 bush • humanrights • mccain • politics • torture

Silly exclave between Netherlands and Belgium

2008-03-09 belgium • europe • exclave • maps • netherlands • taxes

Bush endorses torture

Refuses to sign a bill outlawing torture

2008-03-08 bush • humanrights • politics • torture • veto

G-Archiver theft

Some jerk sells a program that steals your gmail password

2008-03-08 garchiver • gmail • google • seo • theft • via:waxy

This kind of work environment sounds horrible

2008-03-08 brigade • chef • cooking • food • restaurant • salt • terrine

Crazy autonomous submarine design

2008-03-07 ocean • power • seaglider • submarine

Watchmen costumes

Good looking art direction, but all the actors are too young

2008-03-07 comics • movies • via:sutter • watchmen

Convert any truncated RSS feed into a full text feed

2008-03-07 advertising • blogs • rss

Creepy animated art thing

2008-03-06 animation • uncannyvalley • via:metafilter

You're not my father

Many Worlds Hypothesis meets Full House

2008-03-06 adoption • tv • via:waxy • video

Photoshop disasters

awesome collection of image editing mishaps

2008-03-06 art • photography • photoshop • via:metafilter • women

The end of Moose's

SF institution is going entirely away

2008-03-05 moose's • restaurant • sanfrancisco

Auction rate securities

Nice explanation of a wrinkle in the current markets

2008-03-05 auctionratesecurities • bonds • finance • interestrates • investment

Delegate counts

Last night's election looks to have been a tie for delegates, which is bad news for Clinton

2008-03-05 clinton • democrats • election • obama • politics

Sheryl Sandberg to Facebook

Google executive leaves for Facebook

2008-03-04 facebook • google • sherylsandberg

2008-03-04 ad&d • d&d • games • garygygax • rpgs

Annoying UI, but amusing teasers for the new season

2008-03-04 battlestargalactica • bsg • lastsupper • tv

BSG Last Supper

The question is, what painting is this in imitation of? It's not any of the well known Last Suppers.

2008-03-04 advertising • battlestargalactica • bsg • lastsupper • via:boingboing

Dear Mozilla Corporation,

totally charming fan mail

2008-03-04 firefox • mozilla

Another awesome Justice video, fun graphics

2008-03-03 80s • animation • dvno • graphics • justice • video

Golden shield project

How the Great Firewall of China works, both technically and socially

2008-03-03 censorship • china • cisco • firewall • humanrights

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass

Awesome "what if" title sequence

2008-03-03 credits • design • saulbass • starwars • titles • via:kottke

Is your child a tagger?

2008-03-03 graffiti • oldpeopleareclueless • tagger • via:mathowie

Layer Four traceroute

Traceroute that uses TCP and some other fancy network testing stuff

2008-03-03 internet • ip • lft • protocol • tcp • tcpip • traceroute

Andreessen for Obama

nice endorsement, well written

2008-03-03 marca • marcandreessen • obama • politics • via:anildash

Haxed by Megahurtz

incomprehensible Flash game, quite beautiful

2008-03-01 flash • games • via:waxy

BBC on Prince Harry

A blog is a perfect way to explain their thinking behind the embargo

2008-03-01 afghanistan • bbc • journalism • media • military • news • princeharry

Prince Harry agreement

How the British press agreed to am embargo

2008-03-01 afghanistan • embargo • media • military • news • press • prineharry • war

McCain's Daisy ad

One catch; this predates Clinton's ad by a month

2008-03-01 ads • advertisements • mccain • plagiarism • politics • republicans