The Blast Shack

Absolute must-read on WikiLeaks, the cypherpunks history

2010-12-30 assange • cypherpunks • wikileaks

aether,phlogiston

Google Books text analysis

2010-12-17 books • google • language

OpenAerialMap

Open data of overhead images, like Google Earth

2010-12-17 googleearth • googlemaps • imagery • maps • opensource

Ghost cities of China

Overhead photos of empty overdevelopment

2010-12-16 bubble • china • development • realestate • via:metafilter

Apple + OnLive

Interesting speculation on how the streaming video game startup could be a good match to Apple

2010-12-16 acquisition • apple • business • onlive • streaming

Web server technologies

Great writeup of all the techs a startup from a smart guy is using

2010-12-16 opensource • software • technology

Gay Vatican acrobats

A rare glimpse into the preference the Vatican has for homosexualist entertainment

2010-12-16 acrobats • catholic • gay • pope • vatican • via:metafilter

Foie gras production

Well written article about why foie gras isn't as hideous as you might initially think

2010-12-16 ducks • farming • foiegras • food • via:anildash

DHS seizing domain names

Customs is asking VeriSign to transfer domain names to them

2010-12-15 customs • dhs • dns • ice • verisign • via:waxy

BitTorrent snapshot

Data on what people use BitTorrent for

2010-12-15 bittorrent • filesharing • media • movies • music • piracy • via:waxy

Facebook friendships

Nice visualization

2010-12-14 data • facebook • socialmedia • visualization

10 powerful tweets

Nice roundup of places Twitter was influential

2010-12-14 2010 • journalism • news • twitter

Birth of git

Mailing list thread where Linus gives up on BitKeeper, writes his own VCS

2010-12-14 bitkeeper • git • linux • scm • vcs • versioncontrol

Disconnect

Chrome extension to disable third party cookie tracking

2010-12-13 chrome • facebook • google • privacy • security

Visualizing TCP

A simple time schematic of a TCP exchange

2010-12-13 internet • tcp • visualization

Gawker hack rundown

Details of what the hack is

2010-12-13 badtech • gawker • hack • security

The Gawker mess is bad

Rundown of various bad things that are going to come from the Gawker breach

2010-12-13 badtech • gawker • security

Gawker PW analysis

Gawker's user database got stolen, and lots of people are using weak passwords

2010-12-13 badtech • gawker • hackers • security

What are Cow Magnets?

Why, they help prevent Hardware Disease!

2010-12-13 cows • farming • via:metafilter • wtf

QuakeNet

The largest IRC network, some 85,000 people. Gaming oriented.

2010-12-12 chat • irc • networks

freenode statistics

largest IRC network still has 65,000 users on it

2010-12-12 irc • statistics • users

Cool Story Bro

An amusing image search

2010-12-12 4chan • images • macro

Grids & Datums

A column about geographic surveynig in various farflung countries. It's like a travel guide for geodesic nerds

2010-12-12 datum • geodesy • geography • gis • survey • travel

NOAA weather radio

Primarily marine oriented, but useful to aviation too

2010-12-12 noaa • vhf • weather

Apache mod_pagespeed

Google packaged a bunch of performance improvements for Apache into a loadable module

2010-12-11 apache • google • http • optimization • speed • web

Eve profiling pt 2

Optimizations that follow the profiling

2010-12-11 eve • eveonline • games • mmos • optimization • performance

Meeting Assange

Journalist's account of visiting WikiLeaks temporary headquarters in England

2010-12-11 assange • england • wikileaks

Butt drag

"it's not like your sole purpose is trying to insert your finger in their butt."

2010-12-11 analsex • batshitinsane • funny • via:zawodny • wrestling

Tic-Tac-Toe

Visual representation of the optimal strategy

2010-12-11 games • tictactoe • via:karl • visualization • xkcd

Lego Antikythera Mechanism

Super-awesome

2010-12-11 antikythera • calculator • gears • legos • technics • via:metafilter

PasswordMaker

Generate unique passwords for every website with a single master password

2010-12-11 passwords • pwdhash • security

Telemetry profiler

Performance analysis tool for realtime games

2010-12-10 games • optimization • performance • realtime

Eve profiling

Detailed real-time performance analysis of the online game, cool profiling tools

2010-12-10 ccp • eve • eveonline • games • mmos • optimization • performance • profiling • realtime • scalability

Head JS

Javascript library to optimize loading of scripts. Does a bunch of other stuff, too

2010-12-10 http • internet • javascript • optimization

Patent troll kills pilot site

The best online flight planning site going offline because of a patent suit

2010-12-09 aviation • badtech • flying • legal • patents • pilot

About Wikileaks

Good factual summary

2010-12-09 journalism • wikileaks

Slashdong NSFW

An entire news blog about technological sex toys

2010-12-09 dildos • hci • sex • teledildonics • userinterface

Apache quits JCP

If you care about Java, this is big news. Then again, who cares about Java anymore?

2010-12-09 apache • freesoftware • java • oracle

XML as API is dying

FourSquare says "by dropping XML support, we’ve been able to make the server more responsive"

2010-12-09 api • apis • foursquare • javascript • json • xml

SMB bandage guide

Visual guide to all the hidden bandages in Super Meat Boy

2010-12-09 bandages • cheats • games • smb • supermeatboy

Super Meat Boy ad

Who knew this game goes back to the 1990s?

2010-12-09 funny • games • platformer • supermeatboy

Duo Security launch

Startup selling two factor authentication using a mobile phone

2010-12-09 dugsong • goodtech • monkey • security • twofactor

Now you're thinking with portals.

There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly

2010-12-09 games • halflife • portal • valve

List of Star Trek races

Wikipedia proves encyclopedic completeness is a virtue

2010-12-09 fiction • scifi • startrek

Anonymous operation

Some insight into the IRC group behind various acts of Internet vandalism

2010-12-09 4chan • anonymous • irc • wikileaks

Graphite

real time database that Etsy uses for monitoring their servers

2010-12-09 database • etsy • graphite • graphs • rrd • rrdtool

Tracking every release

Great summary of how Etsy instruments their production systems. Every Internet company needs tools to do this. I'm available for hourly work :-)

2010-12-09 etsy • graphite • instrumentation • production • technology

Night at the Hip-Hopera breakdown

Kleptones' awesome mashup album now annotated

2010-12-09 annotation • breakdown • kleptones • mashup • music

Twitter: 1100 tweets/second

Great post about why #wikileaks is not an identified trend. Towards the end they drop that Twitter's handling 95M tweets / day. That's a lot of update broadcasts.

2010-12-09 performance • scale • twitter

Tor seeded WikiLeaks

Buried deep in the article is an interesting thing; Tor helped create the first WikiLeaks publication

2010-12-08 privacy • security • tor • wikileaks

Tor leaks data

Actual attacks that use the fact that one Tor endpoint is non-anonymized

2010-12-08 privacy • security • tor

EasyDNS is not EveryDNS

Wrong company gets blamed for Wikileaks cowardice. I made this mistake myself

2010-12-08 confusion • dns • wikileaks

Jason Goldman profile

Twitter VP steps down, great profile. Jason's a good friend of mine, he's very impressive

2010-12-08 goldman • jasongoldman • twitter

Sulfur mine at night

Crazy photos

2010-12-08 indonesia • mining • photography • photos • sulfur

More web font rendering

Great notes about the challenge of cross-browser fonts

2010-12-08 fonts • postscript • truetype • typography • woff

NYTimes: Chrome

A fancy HTML5 user interface for the newspaper

2010-12-08 chrome • html5 • javascript • journalism • nytimes

Twitter not censoring WikiLeaks

Twitter's trends seem to favour new topics, WikiLeaks is constantly popular

2010-12-08 censorship • twitter • wikileaks

SF NIMBYs and cell towers

Part of why San Francisco's wireless infrastructure sucks is nutjobs who think wifi, microwave, and cell towers pose a health threat

2010-12-08 attfail • health • politics • sanfrancisco • wireless

What are Chrome Apps?

Docs on what it means to be a Google Chrome app

2010-12-08 chrome • google • javascript • store

food iPhone cases

From Japan, make your phone look like sushi, or fried deliciousness

2010-12-08 case • food • funny • iphone • japan

John Waters + Justin Bieber

Together at last!

2010-12-08 celebrity • photos

New Javascript JITC

Chrome's V8 Javascript engine gets an impressive improvement

2010-12-07 chrome • fast • goodtech • google • javascript • jit • jitc • optimization • speed

Charges against Assange

The most detailed review I've read of exactly what crimes Assange is charged with

2010-12-07 assange • scandal • sweden • wikileaks

Eve's character creator

Tech details of how CCP implemented the new "make a character" software. It's a bit weird, since you never see your character.

2010-12-07 ccp • characters • eve • eveonline • games

FarmVille for Dummies

This is real

2010-12-07 books • farmville • wtf

Deus Ex 3 teaser

Sarif Industries, a fancy flash site with details about the anticipated new game

2010-12-07 deusex • games

Assange's editorial

Wikileaks head writes an editorial for The Australian

2010-12-07 assange • news • wikileaks

Microsoft v. Google

ICOMP is Microsoft's semi-secret lobbying group trying to disrupt google

2010-12-07 antitrust • google • icomp • internet • law • legal • microsoft

US cyber command

The central coordinator of our cyberwarfare capability

2010-12-07 badtech • cyberwarfare • internet • security

Corpses on Everest

NSFW: photos of decomposing bodies left on Mt. Everest

2010-12-07 climbing • death • everest • mountains • nepal • photography • photos

Thunderstorm photos

Sean Heavey chases storms and photographs them

2010-12-06 photography • photos • stormchasing • thunderstorms • weather

Glonass launch failure

3 satellites in the Russian equivalent to GPS fail to make orbit

2010-12-06 fail • glonass • gps • launch • russia • satellite • space

EZTV FAQ

World's #1 TV piracy group describes how they operate

2010-12-06 bittorrent • eztv • television • tv

Tim Bray on Wikileaks

Nicely expressed ambiguity

2010-12-06 freedom • internet • politics • wikileaks

Tron and Yori love scene

Deleted scene from the original movie

2010-12-06 tron • cheese • movies • sexytime

FBI provacateurs

FBI sends a nutjob "undercover" to foment jihad in a California mosque. It backfires.

2010-12-05 civilrights • fbi • islam • muslim • stupid • terrorism

Playing card blog

Obsessive reviews of playing cards for design and feel

2010-12-05 cards • magic • playingcards

presenting tilestache

A map server / caching system for complex cartography

2010-12-05 mapnik • mapping • openstreetmap • python • tilestache

Beatles crossing

Great photo just before the famous Abbey Road cover

2010-12-05 abberyroad • beatles • photography • photos

Python suds

SOAP client library, looks lightweight

2010-12-03 api • code • integration • python • soap • ws-i • xml

Don't use EveryDNS

Abandoning a customer in the face of criticism and heavy traffic is no way to run a business

2010-12-03 dns • security • wikileaks

Don't use AVG

Popular free anti-virus breaks a bunch of PCs. Use Avast instead

2010-12-03 antivirus • avast • avg • badtech • software • windows

Google maps legibility

Detailed examination of why Google's maps are easier to read

2010-12-03 design • infovis • labelling • maps • via:metafilter

ADDS text weather

Aviation weather service is providing a new web service for weather data

2010-12-02 adds • aviation • metar • weather

Close the Washington Monument

fantastic essay by Schneier on security

2010-12-02 fear • security • securitytheater • washington

Javascript privacy leaks

Practical applications of various data leaks: lots of sites track what other sites you go to

2010-12-02 badtech • http • javascript • privacy • web

Rule 34 NSFW

Archive of pornographic cartoon drawings on various unlikely topics like Warcraft, Futurama, Zelda, etc

2010-12-02 4chan • cartoon • funny • porn

Duck Duck Go blog

Blog by the founder of the new search engine UI

2010-12-01 google • search • startups • tech

Touring North Korea

travelog with lots of photos from an american

2010-12-01 dprk • northkorea • photography • photos • travelog

Photos from North Korea

Excellent collection of images of ordinary scenes from North Korea

2010-12-01 dprk • northkorea • photography • photos • via:metafilter

Xbox Indie uprising

A bunch of indie game developers are making a game release event together

2010-12-01 games • indie • xbla • xbox

UO rares were bugs

First big MMO had rare items that were actually a result of bugs in the code

2010-12-01 bugs • games • ultima • ultimaonline

How cablegate happened

The US stores classified material on central servers which a huge number of people have access to. Duh.

2010-12-01 badtech • cablegate • security • via:waxy • wikileaks

Wikileaks Cablegate Roundup

Andy does a great job summarizing the discussion

2010-12-01 security • wikileaks