The Senator landed his airplane on a closed runway. Later he took off on a taxiway.

Bunnie, a famous hardware hacker, analyzes the image of the Yemen package bomb

Not sure it's all true, but it's an interesting article

Hideousness for Halloween

Radios aren't required to fly in the US, so no reason deaf people can't fly

Nice randomized Google Street View images

TSA is escalating the personal search and it's hideous

Interesting data on what it costs to operate an airplane

Thoughtful answer from Dug Song, an Ann Arbor startup guy

A real GPS that plugs into the dock connector of an iPhone, iPad, etc. The built in GPS in Apple's device is just a toy, this looks useful

Interesting collection of post-gay places to go in SF

Interesting notes about how Eve manages their giant database. Currently they're down 1 hour out of every day, they're moving to a never-down system.

great description of the challenges of consistent font rendering on different computers

Live code viewer for samples posted to Gist

Hysterical slides for solving a silly syadmin problem

Interesting group of folks

A new search engine, in private beta

Interesting bit of casual photography; view the slideshow for a silent story

Great story of how a system can fail. Takeaway lesson: "fit everything in RAM" is awesome until it fails

Amazing set of photographs showing the coming-of-age rituals for Xhosa men. NSFW

Good, sober overview of what we know about Stuxnet and what is speculation

Sketch of where they're going with turnkey map tile rendering based on Amazon cloud computing

These are spun as "creepy", but Eric is simply articulating the reality of our time

It's funny because it's sad

Amazon's page on how to find free books for your Kindle

High quality free ebooks, most out of copyright

Good article explaining the clusterfuck that is the new aviation radar system

As usual, Danny Sullivan has amazing data

Amazing pictures from the disaster in Hungary

Interesting bit of handicraft

Very simple player; load a directory and play.

Batshit insane outtake of The Beatles (minus George) jamming with a shrieking banshee

experiment with palettes for maps

Elegant acro performance with the engine off

Nice appreciation for what's going on in your head playing the game

Detailed pattern and behavior analysis

Report says a single large, unusually fast trade started a stampede

Lovely short film, watch in 1080p

Nice essay on what it's like growing up gay

Simple analysis of the potentially weaponized malware

Amazing analysis of how a couple of product mistakes at a startup can hurt growth