Nelson Minar blogs at http://www.nelson.monkey.org/~nelson/weblog/ 
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nelson : $8 for plane blanket - Commercial air travel just gets more and more hideous
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nelson : Eve ship costs - What the various ships in Eve cost, in terms of hours of play or US dollars. The crazy thing about Eve is these ships can be destroyed, value obliterated
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nelson : Mouse tracking pictures - Simple data visualization, looks fun
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Jeremy Zawodny : How do we kick our synchronous addiction? - How do we kick our synchronous addiction?: I've been wondering about this too...
nelson : Async programming is hard - Nice overview of current inadequate options for asynchronous programming
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nelson : Alaska Nanooks video - Awesome hockey intro video: polar bears in fighter jets!
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nelson : Tiny Speck / Glitch - Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson's new game company
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nelson : GroupTweet - Twitter reflector: set up an account that broadcasts tweets to a group
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nelson : Pedobear at the Olympics - 4chan's lulzy pedophile mascot shows up in a Polish paper as part of the Vancouver Winter Olympics
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nelson : How VORs work - PDF describing this effective navigation beacon
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nelson : Super Bowl as film - Super Bowl produced in the style of Tarantino, Lynch, Anderson, etc
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nelson : mathowie's photo work flow - Very simple, not too intensive. Key thing is Matt has a great eye
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nelson : Twitter's code swarm - Amazing visualization of project checkin activity at Twitter
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nelson : Apple Bandai Pippin - Apple's foray into settop box hardware in 1996
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nelson : WoW auction house in browser? - Blizzard is opening up the economic part of Warcraft to players outside the game. Web browser or iPhone based trading
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nelson : War and Peace - The game Civilization, reduced to one button
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nelson : Cat Massage - When is the best time for cat massage? Whenever!
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nelson : iPhone Explorer - Lets you mount your iPhone as a USB drive
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nelson : Curt Schilling's game startup - A baseball star funds a gaming company. What could possibly go wrong? Oh, other than the $28 million.
Rod Begbie : A business school grilling for Curt Schilling? - Curt, we'll always love you for "the bloody sock" and 2004. Always. But you? Are a fucking idiot with all the business sense of my right nut. [via] #
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nelson : Shackleton's expedition - Amazing Google Earth annotated map
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nelson : FAA location identifiers - Database of all airport, VOR, and intersection locations. In charming HTML format!
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nelson : NZSP weather - More readable take on the weather at the South Pole
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