Nelson's Linkblog 2011-01

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Nice video from a little plane

2011-01-31 flying • aviation • camera • sanfrancisco • aerial

spotted this in the air the other day, near Carmel. Not a public airport

2011-01-31 airports • california

Car j’ai un sale caractère

Heartbreaking story of an old woman who was the caretaker for an apartment building in Paris

2011-01-31 france • paris • apartment • urban

RC helicopter weaponized

Funny video of a toy helicopter shooting fireworks at hydrogen filled balloons

2011-01-31 rchelicopter • rc • radiocontrolled • flying • via:metafilter • fireworks • boys

Approach Control

iPhone air traffic control game with a somewhat realistic design

2011-01-30 games • iphone • atc • flightcontrol

Twitter profile

Good overview of where the business stands

2011-01-30 twitter • costolo

A discreet organization that does high end Internet security research

2011-01-30 internet • security • botnets

google.org update

Charitable side of Google is still finding its way

2011-01-30 philanthropy • google • charity

call.jsonlib.com

A simple JSONP proxy to allow circumventing same origin policy

2011-01-29 javascript • json • jsonp • programming • code • appengine

Clean, simple Google Maps style interface to aviation charts

2011-01-28 flying • maps • aviation • sectionals

A political arty game about Wikileaks

2011-01-28 games • wikileaks

Earthrounder, twice

Guy flies a 182 around the world, twice

2011-01-28 flying • pilot • aviation • travel • earthrounder

Egypt goes offline

How to remove a whole country from the Internet

2011-01-28 internet • egypt • freedom • bgp

Where people swear

Analysis of tweets for profanity. Not very clear, other than Utah is polite

2011-01-28 swearing • language • twitter • visualization

Pirating the 2011 Oscars

Andy's roundup of the movie piracy scene

2011-01-28 movies • piracy

Paste in some text geometry describing a space, it maps it!

2011-01-28 pastebin • geo • gis • geojson • wkt

Central coast in California. Tasty, but expensive.

2011-01-27 abalone • shellfish • food • california

State of the Union

Nicely annotated real time

2011-01-26 obama • president • politics • sotu

Simple site for viewing geographic data

2011-01-26 pastebin • geopastebin • wkt • ewkt • geojson • maps • hacking

sausage pork beef cheese whole milk butter margarine nuts and

2011-01-25 via:metafilter • funny • food

A tool to convert LLVM to javascript, to run in a browser. gcc emits LLVM, so you can run pretty much any C code in a browser

2011-01-25 languages • code • javascript • llvm • gcc • python • lua

Early networked gaming

2011-01-25 games • plato • computers

Friend recommends this backup software

2011-01-25 backup • windows

Keep My Opt-Outs

Google Chrome extension to opt out of some online advertising tracking

2011-01-24 privacy • ads • advertising • google • chrome

Smallest planes

A little history on the competition to have the smallest planes

2011-01-24 flying • aviation • airplanes • smallest • record

World's smallest plane

The Bumble Bee II. Stalls at 75kts, that's awfully scary.

2011-01-24 flying • aviation • bumblebee • scary

Operation Eagle Claw

The failed attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran in 1980. Lots of interesting special ops aviation

2011-01-24 aviation • iran • flying • specialops • deltaforce • fail

Video of some unusually small planes

2011-01-24 airplanes • cricri • cricket • video • flying • aviation

Worth1000: Minecraft

Screenshots of various creations. Quality varies.

2011-01-24 games • minecraft

Launch your own satellite for $8000. Some restrictions and limitations apply.

2011-01-23 space • satellite • radio

Multi-use radio service

Spectrum available to any and all. Like CB.

2011-01-23 radio • murs • cb

Great article about Renaissance doctor costumes

2011-01-23 via:pb • doctor • costume • renaissance • plague • assassinscreed

Python 3.x compatible code

Nice notes on how to write Python 2.6 code that should work in 3.x

2011-01-22 python • programming • code • unicode

event driven programming for python

2011-01-22 python • asynchronous • performance • concurrency • code

Python coroutines

2011-01-22 coroutines • concurrency • python • code

A webapp service for collecting error logs from other webapps

2011-01-22 webapps • development • software • code

Trapster was hacked

FAQ about the incident: 10M accounts compromised

2011-01-22 badtech • passwords • security

808 micro cameras

Super-cheap Chinese video cameras

2011-01-22 camera • china • hacking • video

Joseph Smith photograph

Interesting story; the prophet of the LDS lived at just the edge of time where photographs were possible. Is this him?

2011-01-22 photography • photos • mormons • lds • josephsmith • religion • history • daguerrotype

Larry Page profile

Reasonably good article

2011-01-22 google • larrypage • founders

Clarus the Dogcow

A little funny Apple history

2011-01-22 apple • dogcow • moof • icons • susankare

MacRumors Buyer's Guide

reads the tea leaves on when new Apple products may be released

2011-01-21 apple • macs • macos • iphone • ipad

A Java decompiler used by the folks reverse engineering Minecraft

2011-01-21 java • decompiler • obfuscation • badtech • games • minecraft

Sunfire Offices

Co-working space in Mountain View, optimized for keeping interesting people together

2011-01-21 google • office • coworking

A funny review of an unreleased awful Nintendo game

2011-01-21 via:metafilter • aliens • games • famicom • fds

A sort of metalibrary for Javascript maps

2011-01-21 maps • mapping • javascript • code

Making The Glif

Fantastic blog post describing how to prototype, manufacture, and ship a physical object

2011-01-20 via:waxy • make • iphone • manufacturing

Interactive analytic grapher, neat Javascript demo

2011-01-20 javascript • browser • html • math • via:metafilter

Super Mario Bros. X

Fan-made SMB-style game, contains a huge variety of beloved Mario references

2011-01-20 games • smb • nes • snes • supermario • via:metafilter

Really good guy, great security engineer

2011-01-20 google • neilsprovos • security • openssh • libevent

A new map base layer designed for compositing

2011-01-19 maps • cartography • openstreetmap • gis

An API of sorts

2011-01-19 spot • xml • gps • tracking

crazy, well illustrated story

2011-01-19 via:metafilter • kids • play

Heroku for Django?

Current state of the value added Django hosting world

2011-01-19 django • python • hosting • servers

Weird internals of browsers

2011-01-19 via:metafilter • dom • html • programming • javascript • browser

A guy flying solo around the world

2011-01-19 cessna • flying • aviation • adventure

A website for people who've flown small planes around the world

2011-01-19 aviation • pilots • flying • travel

First ever carrier landing

100th anniversary of the first guy to land on a boat. Great photos.

2011-01-18 aviation • flying • sanfrancisco • navy • carrier • photos

Leave Steve alone!

Journalist calls for privacy for Jobs

2011-01-18 apple • stevejobs • ethics • journalism • privacy

Flickr releases a large database of geodata

2011-01-17 flickr • geodata • geojson • polymaps • shapefiles • gis

Data scraping guide

Tips on using Google Refine, getting data out of Flash, PDF, HTML

2011-01-17 via:waxy • data • scraping • pdf • database • excel

Girl's Guide To Having An Abortion

Direct, no-nonsense description of procedures

2011-01-17 abortion • women • sex • pregnancy • via:metafilter • civilrights

Minecraft reverse engineering

The game code is released as obfuscated Java binaries, so there's a team that decompiles and deobfuscates it

2011-01-17 code • java • obfuscation • drm • minecraft • games

History of Gaming

Sweet video showing classic game consoles

2011-01-17 gaming • history • nes • snes

Nicely complex sequencer

2011-01-16 minecraft • games • music

Stuxnet development

stuxnet cyberwarfare iran israel

A website streaming live television, seemingly without any permission from the copyright holders

2011-01-16 tv • television • copyright • video

Jared Loughner forum collection

He posted regularly to a game forum as "Dare". The posts are full of crazy

2011-01-15 loughner • murder • games • internet

Visualization failure

Interesting attempt to do something that fails entirely; combining colours to represent data is a bad idea

2011-01-15 visualization • fail • via:metafilter • data • income

1972 Internet map

Interesting turnover

2011-01-14 1972 • internet • map

Minecraft music: Portal

Minecraft's new music feature. Each block triggers a single note, so there's a lot of sequencing

2011-01-14 music • portal • minecraft

A modern Usenet client, optimized for downloading binaries

2011-01-14 usenet • nntp • binaries

Death wears bunny slippers

What it's like to be staff in a nuclear missile silo

2011-01-14 weapons • military • airforce • missiles • nukes • snuggie

Tolkien elf sex

Meticulously researched notes from the source

2011-01-14 elves • tolkien • fantasy • sex • lotr

Cee Lo / Fuck You in ASL

Nice sign language performance

2011-01-13 language • music • ceelo • performance • asl • sign

Tea Party Jesus

Political rhetoric from the mouth of Jesus

2011-01-13 jesus • teaparty • politics • satire

A nice course in a bunch of open source geographic apps

2011-01-13 opengeo • gis • postgis • geoserver • openlayers

Applebaum's immigration abuse

Security expert who works with Wikileaks is harassed at the border

2011-01-13 border • civilrights • wikileaks • tor • security • customs • immigration

GA flying to Europe

Good pilot's site talking abuot a dream trip

2011-01-13 flying • pilot • aviation • europe

AirPrint for Windows

If you have an iOS device and want it to print on a Windows network

2011-01-12 printer • airprint • iphone • ipad • ios

I-gotU GPS logger

Interesting looking GPS logger / tracker. Retails for about $90

2011-01-12 gps • tracking • geography • mapping

I don't get why Google cares, but I'm glad to see them supporting IPv6

2011-01-12 ipv6 • internet • google • isp

March Madness vasectomies

Urologists in Oregon market the idea of having a vasectomy during college basketball, so you can enjoy the weekend off and watch the game

2011-01-12 vasectomy • sports • wtf

Youth Guardian Services

Electronic mailing lists for young people who want to discuss gender / sexual identity

2011-01-12 gay • lesbian • glbt • youth • support

Twitter / Wikileaks subpoena

Great story about Twitter's forcing the subpoena disclosure, including details on their awesome general counsel Alexander Macgillivray

2011-01-11 amac • civilliberties • twitter

Ice Pilots teaser

Great TV show not available in the US (other than BitTorrent). Second season starts tomorrow

2011-01-11 flying • aviation • icepilots

Historic Aerials

Nice UI showing overhead imagery dating back to 1946, or older

2011-01-11 maps • photos • aerial • googlemaps • history • gis

One of my favourite bad movies. "Are you eating it.. or is it eating you?"

2011-01-11 movies • horror • funny

2011-01-11 belllabs • computers • photography • via:metafilter • photos

Sand Collection

Great set of magnified photographs of various kinds of sand

2011-01-10 sand • via:kottke • geology • photos

Hilarious Microsoft product placement in Hawaii Five-0

2011-01-10 google • tv • television • advertising • microsoft • bing

A hierarchical encoding of latitude and longitude; longer codes are more specific

2011-01-09 geocoding • latitude • longitude • maps

Great tool for diagnosing internet link quality

2011-01-09 internet • tcpip • diagnostic

Dive into HTML5 stats

Mark reflects on who bought his book on HTML5. MSIE has been abandoned by the web developer community

2011-01-09 internet • html • html5 • markpilgrim

Amazing analysis of how all the buffering in the Internet is causing degraded network performance

2011-01-09 tcpip • internet • latency • bandwidth • isps

Kenwood TH-D72 review

Interesting new ham radio sends position updates via APRS

2011-01-09 radio • kenwood • amateur • ham

Minter comments on a wacky Christian game

2011-01-09 games • christianity • minter • religion

Terry Richardson's Diary

Tumblr-style blog from the well known photographer

2011-01-09 photography • photos • terryrichardson • art • porn

Twitter wikileaks subpoena

DoJ is working on building a case against Assange and/or other Wikileaks folks

2011-01-08 wikileaks • twitter • civilrights

Great 1860 chloropleth of slavery

2011-01-07 slavery • america • history • maps • visualization

Joust is not coming back

Concise explanation of how certain types of game difficulty are not fun and not used in modern games

2011-01-07 games • difficulty • joust • design

Boba Fett origins

Details of how Lucasfilm marketed a minor character

2011-01-07 via:metafilter • bobafett • starwars • marketing • lucasfilm

Spam count drop

Three botnets stopped sending spam last month

2011-01-07 spam • badtech • botnet • via:metafilter • email

Read the fucking HIG

Good old fashioned rants about bad interface design, from the Apple store

2011-01-07 apple • macos • design • hci • userinterface

Twitter ain't enough

Anil points out that short, ephemeral media is not enough for sharing ideas online

2011-01-06 twitter • blogs • culture • internet

Ascension flightless bird

An odd story of finding skeletons of a flightless bird only seen in 1656

2011-01-06 birds • ascensionisland • ascension

Ascension Island terraforming

Thoughtful piece on a fascinating place

2011-01-06 ecology • terraforming • ascensionisland • islands

Paul's angel investing

Amazingly open disclosure on one ex-Googler's angel investments

2011-01-06 investing • google • angel • facebook • friendfeed • ycombinator • startups