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@pilottools
Twitter bot for pilots, private beta
2010-01-31 twitter • pilot • aviation
Shackleton's expedition
Amazing Google Earth annotated map
2010-01-31 googleearth • geography • antarctica • shackleton • southpole
FAA location identifiers
Database of all airport, VOR, and intersection locations. In charming HTML format!
2010-01-31 faa • aviation • pilot • database • googleearth • 7350.8
NZSP weather
More readable take on the weather at the South Pole
2010-01-30 nzsp • metar • weather • antarctica
NZSP METAR
Weather at the geographical South Pole. For real.
2010-01-30 southpole • antarctica • aviation • flying • cold
PhoneGap
build apps for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry in HTML and Javascript
2010-01-29 phones • mobile • programming • iphone • android • google • apple • blackberry • rim
Tinkerer’s Sunset
Mark Pilgrim's eloquent statement of the importance of open computing platforms
2010-01-29 computers • ipad • apple • tinkering • hacking • software • learning
Ice Pilots NWT
Fun Canadian documentary about pilots up in the frozen north
2010-01-29 canada • flying • icepilots
Apple vs. Flash
Gruber's thoughtful essay on exactly why Apple has not allowed Flash on the iPhone
2010-01-29 flash • adobe • apple • iphone • ipad • macosx
Unhappy Hipsters
Funny captions on design photos
2010-01-29 hipsters • architecture • photography • photos • funny
Vulgar Chinese internet slang
Lots of fun neologisms
2010-01-29 slang • language • via:metafilter • china • chinese
Calacanis iPad hoaxes
The echo chamber of tech reporting reprints anything they read
2010-01-29 calacanis • rumor • truth • ipad • apple • journalism
Unicode 6.0 and Emoji
Japanese emoticons are codified in Unicode. Seems crazy, but Apple and Google wanted it
2010-01-29 apple • google • unicode • characters • emoji
The fate of Spirit
Poignant little cartoon
2010-01-29 nasa • space • mars • spirit • rover • marsrover • cartoon
Perfect cubes
Interesting collection of photos of sculpture
2010-01-29 sculpture • art • photos • photography
Eclipse corona photo
Beautiful bit of photography during an eclipse
2010-01-29 astronomy • sun • eclipse • photography
MMO flameouts
Quick rundown of disasters in multiplayer game history
2010-01-28 mmos • fail • games
Book pirate
Interview with someone in the scene of scanning and OCRing books
2010-01-26 piracy • books • drm • copyright • via:kottke • ip
OpenStreetMap in Haiti
OSM is the only map you can download and manipulate freely
2010-01-26 osm • openstreetmap • maps • mapping • google • haiti
White House photo snark
Surprisingly amusing
2010-01-26 whitehouse • politics • government • photos • photography • snark • humor • via:metafilter
Google change tracker
Google Reader can now provide updates on pages without feeds
2010-01-26 via:mathowie • reader • google • pagetracking
Historical browser stats
Interesting visualization
2010-01-26 browsers • msie • firefox • chrome • safari • visualization • web • stats
GDC talk on Eve
The Mittani will speak at the big Game Developer Conference on his skullduggery in Eve Online.
2010-01-25 games • eveonline • eve • ccp
Mass Effect in 5 minutes
In case you are thinking of playing the sequel
2010-01-25 games • masseffect • bioware • ign
HTML5 video licensing
Very thoughtful post about Mozilla's position in the H.264 and HTML video kerfuffle
2010-01-25 html5 • video • h.264 • licenses • ogg • theora • vorbis • firefox • mozilla • patents
Aviation weather requirements
Notes on how to be an official weather briefing site on the Internet. Bottom line: reliable, SSL, and logged
2010-01-25 aviation • flying • weather • regulations • faa • qicp
Gettin' by in Liberia
Amazing series of blog posts about the informal economy of Liberia
2010-01-24 liberia • journalism • economics
Terrorball
Lancing editorial about the ridiculousness of current domestic antiterrorism policy
2010-01-23 terrorism • politics • security • oped
Ditching in the Irish Sea
First person account of losing both engines and landing next to an oil platform
2010-01-22 planes • aviation • ditching • ireland • irishsea • survival
Airbus for sale
Note: water damage from the Hudson River
2010-01-21 sullivan • usairways • airbus • insurance • sully
Tickery
Flickr social network explorer built on top of FluidDB
2010-01-21 twitter • tickery • fluidinfo • fluiddb • software • code • data
Leno v. Conan explained
By a remarkably colourful Chinese video
2010-01-21 animation • leno • conan • tv • television • via:monteiro
Google Earth API
Script Google Earth in Javascript, by embedding it in a browser
2010-01-20 googleearth • mapping • cartography • google
Oakland SkewT
Interesting visualization of weather data, focussed on showing conditions in a column of air
2010-01-20 weather • forecasting • balloon • skewt • meteorology
Eve's planet generation
The space MMO has always had really beautiful graphics
2010-01-20 eveonline • eve • games • ccp • procedural
Ideal for Night Blogging
Party Rats
2010-01-18 lights • blogging • wtf • toys
James Cameron's Laser Cats
Lovely SNL spoof
2010-01-18 cameron • spoof • snl • lasercats • cats • catswhoshootlasersoutoftheirmouths
NES Mr. Gimmick
Great annotated playthrough of an obscure Nintendo game. Sort of Kirby aesthetics
2010-01-18 via:waxy • games • nes • kirby • mrgimmick • famicom
Guantanamo murders
Detailed investigative journalism into the three simultaneous deaths of prisoners at Guantanamo. The suicide story doesn't hold much water.
2010-01-18 guantanamo • bush • murder • crime • suicide • torture • via:metafilter • news
Google v. China
Clever editorial cartoon
2010-01-18 google • china • civilrights • cartoon • sherffius
Shapeways
Company built around selling 3d printing services
2010-01-17 3d • printing • toys • prototyping
Annie Lennox v. Lady Gaga
Great Eurythmics / Gaga video mashup
2010-01-17 music • eurythmics • ladygaga • mashup
Eve ships art
Interesting recontextualization of Eve's video game spaceships as natural objects
2010-01-15 games • eveonline • eve • ccp
ICSI Netalyzr
Fantastic little tool that runs a bunch of network diagnostics
2010-01-15 netalyzr • network • tcpip • internet
Freaky alien model
The Na'Vi have assumed human flesh colours and infiltrated our fashion advertising
2010-01-15 photoshop • model • modelling • wtf
McAfee on Google hack
They name it "Aurora" and say it's an IE exploit
2010-01-15 google • security • china • mcafee • aurora • badtech • malware
First-Person Tetris
Note: not for people inclined to vertigo
2010-01-14 tetris • games • via:metafilter • vertigo
Flash implemented in Javascript
Kinda crazy, but interesting
2010-01-14 flash • javascript • web • programming
Remembering Brad L. Graham
Very personal memorial for a deceased blogger
2010-01-13 memorial • eulogy • rip • bradgraham • bradlands • blogs
Google Wave success
Post from someone for whom Google Wave works well
2010-01-13 google • wave • googlewave • collaboration • email
Second Life MySQL upgrade
Nice war story from an ops team
2010-01-13 secondlife • games • mmos • mysql • databases • ops • performance
PK Dick on Blade Runner
Amazing letter: "I think, BLADE RUNNER is going to revolutionize our conceptions of what science fiction is and, more, can be. "
2010-01-13 movies • bladerunner • pkdick • books • scifi • via:metafilter
Walking through walls
"a kind of militarized parkour.": interesting architectural musings on Die Hard, IDF tactics
2010-01-13 architecture • diehard • movies • via:metafilter • israel • idf
GDrive finally launches
Not really, but Google will now store any document you want. First gig's free.
2010-01-12 google • files • storage • hosting • xdrive
Goats teleported
Google Chrome bug: "About 3*10^6 goats get teleported! I won't be able to pay for teleportation of such huge amount of goats!"
2010-01-12 google • chrome • funny • bug • via:acme
Avatar sex scene
Yes, they were going to go there
2010-01-12 avatar • sex • scifi • cameron • script
MagickJack GSM
Interesting, an unlicensed femotcell for internet telephony on your cell phone
2010-01-10 magicjack • telephone • voip • fcc • mobile • cellphone • gsm
parkour motion reel
Great little animation
2010-01-08 via:metafilter • animation • parkour
Google toilet paper
Is there any product category the Internet giant can't dominate?
2010-01-08 funny • google • toiletpaper • toilet
Bear vs. plane
There's nothing you can't fix with duct tape
2010-01-07 airplane • flying • alaska • wtf • bear
DIY Drones
Why should the military have all the fun? Build your own UAV
2010-01-07 uav • drone • autopilot • hacking
Loran-C shutdown
pre-GPS radio navigation system is being shut down
2010-01-06 navigation • loran • gps • aviation • pilot
Netflix sellout
Have to wait an extra month to watch Warner Bros. movies? Why, oh why, would Netflix agree to this?
2010-01-06 movies • netflix • warnerbros • stupid
Loudness war graph
Great visualization of the decreasing dynamic range of music recordings
2010-01-05 music • loudness • visualization
Grendel: cloud data protection
Wesabe is giving away their innovative technology for protecting data stored on a server. Data is stored encrypted, only decrypted in memory when the user is logged in
2010-01-05 security • wesabe • grendel • cloud • opensource
Body scan = child porn
Get some popcorn, this debate oughtta be fun
2010-01-05 pornography • security • millimeterwave
Apollonia Poilane
Nice little interview with the improbable head of Paris' most famous boulangerie
2010-01-05 bread • boulangerie • paris • france • bakery
Yola language
An English alternative from Ireland, now lost
2010-01-05 languages • english • ireland
Gallagher interview
Jaw dropping, but interesting
2010-01-05 comedy • gallagher • batshitinsane
C215
Interesting Parisien street artist
2010-01-04 c215 • paris • streetart • graffiti
2009 MMO critique
harsh, but spot on critique of the online game industry
2010-01-04 games • mmo • critique • venturecapital
Field
A programming environment for digital artists. Like Processing's big brother?
2010-01-04 art • code • software • processing • python
C.H.U.N.K. 666
Portland's favourite post-apocalyptic bike gang has rebranded. Be sure to click through a few places
2010-01-03 bikes • bicycles • chunk666 • megulonv • tallbike • bikepolo • crazy
GPS error sources
Simple article explaining what makes GPS inaccurate. The #1 source (ionosphere) is correctable with WAAS
2010-01-02 gps • navigation • waas • accuracy
Spamassassin 2010
Hysterical, terrible design choice in spamassassin
2010-01-02 spam • mail • badtech • spamassassin
Avatar and race
Great discussion of race issues in Avatar and District 9.
2010-01-02 race • racism • avatar • movies • district9 • cameron • dune
20 good indie games
Nice roundup of 2009.
2010-01-01 games • indie
Small Worlds
Lovely little indie platformer game
2010-01-01 games • platform • indiegames • music • art
Celestial location
Absolute reference for position: distant quasars
2010-01-01 icrf • gps • navigation • quasars • astronomy