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The Blast Shack
Absolute must-read on WikiLeaks, the cypherpunks history
2010-12-30 wikileaks • assange • cypherpunks
aether,phlogiston
Google Books text analysis
2010-12-17 books • language • google
OpenAerialMap
Open data of overhead images, like Google Earth
2010-12-17 maps • imagery • googleearth • googlemaps • opensource
Ghost cities of China
Overhead photos of empty overdevelopment
2010-12-16 china • via:metafilter • bubble • realestate • development
Apple + OnLive
Interesting speculation on how the streaming video game startup could be a good match to Apple
2010-12-16 apple • onlive • business • streaming • acquisition
Web server technologies
Great writeup of all the techs a startup from a smart guy is using
2010-12-16 technology • opensource • software
Gay Vatican acrobats
A rare glimpse into the preference the Vatican has for homosexualist entertainment
2010-12-16 via:metafilter • gay • catholic • pope • vatican • acrobats
Foie gras production
Well written article about why foie gras isn't as hideous as you might initially think
2010-12-16 foiegras • food • ducks • farming • via:anildash
DHS seizing domain names
Customs is asking VeriSign to transfer domain names to them
2010-12-15 verisign • dns • dhs • ice • customs • via:waxy
BitTorrent snapshot
Data on what people use BitTorrent for
2010-12-15 via:waxy • piracy • movies • music • media • filesharing • bittorrent
Facebook friendships
Nice visualization
2010-12-14 facebook • visualization • data • socialmedia
10 powerful tweets
Nice roundup of places Twitter was influential
2010-12-14 twitter • news • journalism • 2010
Birth of git
Mailing list thread where Linus gives up on BitKeeper, writes his own VCS
2010-12-14 git • bitkeeper • vcs • scm • versioncontrol • linux
Disconnect
Chrome extension to disable third party cookie tracking
2010-12-13 google • facebook • privacy • security • chrome
Visualizing TCP
A simple time schematic of a TCP exchange
2010-12-13 tcp • internet • visualization
Gawker hack rundown
Details of what the hack is
2010-12-13 gawker • hack • badtech • security
The Gawker mess is bad
Rundown of various bad things that are going to come from the Gawker breach
2010-12-13 gawker • security • badtech
Gawker PW analysis
Gawker's user database got stolen, and lots of people are using weak passwords
2010-12-13 security • badtech • gawker • hackers
What are Cow Magnets?
Why, they help prevent Hardware Disease!
2010-12-13 via:metafilter • wtf • cows • farming
QuakeNet
The largest IRC network, some 85,000 people. Gaming oriented.
2010-12-12 networks • irc • chat
freenode statistics
largest IRC network still has 65,000 users on it
2010-12-12 irc • users • statistics
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 travel • geodesy • gis • geography • survey • datum
NOAA weather radio
Primarily marine oriented, but useful to aviation too
2010-12-12 weather • noaa • vhf
Apache mod_pagespeed
Google packaged a bunch of performance improvements for Apache into a loadable module
2010-12-11 apache • web • google • speed • http • optimization
Eve profiling pt 2
Optimizations that follow the profiling
2010-12-11 eve • games • optimization • eveonline • mmos • performance
Meeting Assange
Journalist's account of visiting WikiLeaks temporary headquarters in England
2010-12-11 wikileaks • england • assange
Butt drag
"it's not like your sole purpose is trying to insert your finger in their butt."
2010-12-11 wrestling • via:zawodny • batshitinsane • funny • analsex
Tic-Tac-Toe
Visual representation of the optimal strategy
2010-12-11 via:karl • xkcd • visualization • games • tictactoe
Lego Antikythera Mechanism
Super-awesome
2010-12-11 legos • via:metafilter • antikythera • calculator • gears • technics
PasswordMaker
Generate unique passwords for every website with a single master password
2010-12-11 pwdhash • passwords • security
Telemetry profiler
Performance analysis tool for realtime games
2010-12-10 performance • optimization • games • realtime
Eve profiling
Detailed real-time performance analysis of the online game, cool profiling tools
2010-12-10 realtime • games • eve • eveonline • ccp • mmos • optimization • profiling • performance • scalability
Head JS
Javascript library to optimize loading of scripts. Does a bunch of other stuff, too
2010-12-10 javascript • optimization • internet • http
Patent troll kills pilot site
The best online flight planning site going offline because of a patent suit
2010-12-09 flying • pilot • patents • badtech • aviation • legal
About Wikileaks
Good factual summary
2010-12-09 wikileaks • journalism
Slashdong NSFW
An entire news blog about technological sex toys
2010-12-09 sex • dildos • teledildonics • userinterface • hci
Apache quits JCP
If you care about Java, this is big news. Then again, who cares about Java anymore?
2010-12-09 java • oracle • apache • freesoftware
XML as API is dying
FourSquare says "by dropping XML support, we’ve been able to make the server more responsive"
2010-12-09 apis • foursquare • xml • json • api • javascript
SMB bandage guide
Visual guide to all the hidden bandages in Super Meat Boy
2010-12-09 games • supermeatboy • smb • bandages • cheats
Super Meat Boy ad
Who knew this game goes back to the 1990s?
2010-12-09 supermeatboy • games • platformer • funny
Duo Security launch
Startup selling two factor authentication using a mobile phone
2010-12-09 security • twofactor • dugsong • monkey • goodtech
Now you're thinking with portals.
There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly
2010-12-09 portal • games • valve • halflife
List of Star Trek races
Wikipedia proves encyclopedic completeness is a virtue
2010-12-09 startrek • fiction • scifi
Anonymous operation
Some insight into the IRC group behind various acts of Internet vandalism
2010-12-09 4chan • anonymous • wikileaks • irc
Graphite
real time database that Etsy uses for monitoring their servers
2010-12-09 etsy • graphite • rrd • rrdtool • graphs • database
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 • technology • production • graphite • instrumentation
Night at the Hip-Hopera breakdown
Kleptones' awesome mashup album now annotated
2010-12-09 music • kleptones • annotation • breakdown • mashup
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 twitter • scale • performance
Tor seeded WikiLeaks
Buried deep in the article is an interesting thing; Tor helped create the first WikiLeaks publication
2010-12-08 wikileaks • Tor • privacy • security
Tor leaks data
Actual attacks that use the fact that one Tor endpoint is non-anonymized
2010-12-08 Tor • privacy • security
EasyDNS is not EveryDNS
Wrong company gets blamed for Wikileaks cowardice. I made this mistake myself
2010-12-08 dns • wikileaks • confusion
Jason Goldman profile
Twitter VP steps down, great profile. Jason's a good friend of mine, he's very impressive
2010-12-08 twitter • goldman • jasongoldman
Sulfur mine at night
Crazy photos
2010-12-08 photos • photography • sulfur • mining • indonesia
More web font rendering
Great notes about the challenge of cross-browser fonts
2010-12-08 fonts • typography • truetype • postscript • woff
NYTimes: Chrome
A fancy HTML5 user interface for the newspaper
2010-12-08 nytimes • chrome • html5 • javascript • journalism
Twitter not censoring WikiLeaks
Twitter's trends seem to favour new topics, WikiLeaks is constantly popular
2010-12-08 wikileaks • twitter • censorship
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 sanfrancisco • politics • attfail • wireless • health
What are Chrome Apps?
Docs on what it means to be a Google Chrome app
2010-12-08 google • chrome • javascript • store
food iPhone cases
From Japan, make your phone look like sushi, or fried deliciousness
2010-12-08 food • japan • iphone • case • funny
John Waters + Justin Bieber
Together at last!
2010-12-08 photos • celebrity
New Javascript JITC
Chrome's V8 Javascript engine gets an impressive improvement
2010-12-07 javascript • chrome • google • fast • speed • optimization • jitc • jit • goodtech
Charges against Assange
The most detailed review I've read of exactly what crimes Assange is charged with
2010-12-07 assange • wikileaks • sweden • scandal
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 eve • games • eveonline • ccp • characters
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 games • deusex
Assange's editorial
Wikileaks head writes an editorial for The Australian
2010-12-07 wikileaks • assange • news
Microsoft v. Google
ICOMP is Microsoft's semi-secret lobbying group trying to disrupt google
2010-12-07 microsoft • google • internet • icomp • legal • law • antitrust
US cyber command
The central coordinator of our cyberwarfare capability
2010-12-07 internet • security • cyberwarfare • badtech
Corpses on Everest
NSFW: photos of decomposing bodies left on Mt. Everest
2010-12-07 climbing • death • photos • photography • nepal • everest • mountains
Thunderstorm photos
Sean Heavey chases storms and photographs them
2010-12-06 weather • thunderstorms • stormchasing • photos • photography
Glonass launch failure
3 satellites in the Russian equivalent to GPS fail to make orbit
2010-12-06 russia • gps • glonass • launch • satellite • space • fail
EZTV FAQ
World's #1 TV piracy group describes how they operate
2010-12-06 eztv • bittorrent • tv • television
Tim Bray on Wikileaks
Nicely expressed ambiguity
2010-12-06 wikileaks • politics • internet • freedom
Tron and Yori love scene
Deleted scene from the original movie
2010-12-06 tron • movies • cheese • sexytime
FBI provacateurs
FBI sends a nutjob "undercover" to foment jihad in a California mosque. It backfires.
2010-12-05 fbi • islam • muslim • civilrights • terrorism • stupid
Playing card blog
Obsessive reviews of playing cards for design and feel
2010-12-05 cards • playingcards • magic
presenting tilestache
A map server / caching system for complex cartography
2010-12-05 tilestache • mapping • mapnik • openstreetmap • python
Beatles crossing
Great photo just before the famous Abbey Road cover
2010-12-05 beatles • photos • photography • abberyroad
Python suds
SOAP client library, looks lightweight
2010-12-03 soap • python • code • api • ws-i • xml • integration
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 wikileaks • security • dns
Don't use AVG
Popular free anti-virus breaks a bunch of PCs. Use Avast instead
2010-12-03 software • badtech • windows • antivirus • avg • avast
Google maps legibility
Detailed examination of why Google's maps are easier to read
2010-12-03 maps • design • infovis • labelling • via:metafilter
ADDS text weather
Aviation weather service is providing a new web service for weather data
2010-12-02 weather • adds • aviation • metar
Close the Washington Monument
fantastic essay by Schneier on security
2010-12-02 security • washington • securitytheater • fear
Javascript privacy leaks
Practical applications of various data leaks: lots of sites track what other sites you go to
2010-12-02 javascript • privacy • web • badtech • http
Rule 34 NSFW
Archive of pornographic cartoon drawings on various unlikely topics like Warcraft, Futurama, Zelda, etc
2010-12-02 4chan • porn • cartoon • funny
Duck Duck Go blog
Blog by the founder of the new search engine UI
2010-12-01 google • search • tech • startups
Touring North Korea
travelog with lots of photos from an american
2010-12-01 northkorea • dprk • travelog • photos • photography
Photos from North Korea
Excellent collection of images of ordinary scenes from North Korea
2010-12-01 via:metafilter • photos • photography • northkorea • dprk
Xbox Indie uprising
A bunch of indie game developers are making a game release event together
2010-12-01 games • xbox • indie • xbla
UO rares were bugs
First big MMO had rare items that were actually a result of bugs in the code
2010-12-01 games • ultima • ultimaonline • bugs
How cablegate happened
The US stores classified material on central servers which a huge number of people have access to. Duh.
2010-12-01 security • wikileaks • cablegate • badtech • via:waxy
Wikileaks Cablegate Roundup
Andy does a great job summarizing the discussion
2010-12-01 wikileaks • security