Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
[If you used Google Reader and got an archive of your feeds, why not pitch in and help out ArchiveTeam?][link] via ([@waxpancake][waxy])
[link]: http://allyourfeed.ludios.org:8080/index.html “ArchiveTeam needs OPMLs and feed URLs to grab cached data from Google Reader”
[waxy]: http://twitter.com/waxpancake “Andy Baio on Twitter”
>[Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.][link]
Sounds useful for the system admins and hacker types out there.
[link]: http://www.packer.io/ “Packer”
[Hey guess what, Warner Bros?][link] Pirates show you what consumers want because *they are consumers*. They just don’t consume in the way you want them to.
The most interesting thing about this article is that WB admits to selectively enforcing copyright based on how beneficial it is to them from an analytics standpoint. Which means they’re admitting, in public, that piracy can be beneficial.
[link]: http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-pirates-show-us-what-consumers-want-130624/ “Warner Bros: Pirates Show Us What Consumers Want | TorrentFreak”
[Where was this when I needed it 2 years ago?][link]
[link]: http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/ “Learn Lua in 15 Minutes”
>The revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance apparatus, if true, represent a stunning abuse of our basic rights. We demand the U.S. Congress reveal the full extent of the NSA’s spying programs.
[Sign the letter to congress][link], follow them on [Twitter][twitter].
[link]: https://optin.stopwatching.us/ “Stop Watching Us | Stop Watching Us”
[twitter]: http://twitter.com/stopwatchingus “Stop Watching Us on Twitter”
[Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion, LOOM, Indiana Jones, Monkey Island, all of the classics now playable in HTML5][link]. The audio is Firefox-only for now, but this is damned impressive. And cool.
[link]: http://clb.demon.fi/html5scummvm/dott/dott.html “HTML5 Day of the Tentacle”
[The Guardian:][link]
>The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order.
Funny how government only uses the word “patriot” when they want to do something awful, isn’t it?
[link]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order “Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling | World news | guardian.co.uk”
[Really slick timeline visualization that can pull in data from a Google Spreadsheet, Flickr, etc.][link] I plan on using this for some weird stuff.
[link]: http://timeline.verite.co/ “Timeline JS – Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use.”
[A web-based IDE built for remote pair programming, uses Google Hangouts.][link]
[link]: http://madeye.io/ “MadEye”
