Nelson's Linkblog 2011-06

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1905 SF Sanborn Maps

2011-06-29 maps • sanborn

Silver Lake sleaze?

Allegations of how a private equity firm screwed Skype employees

2011-06-24 equity • silverlake • skype • startups

Andy's fair use nightmare

Homage project for love turns into copyright nightmare

2011-06-23 copyright • fairuse • milesdavis • waxy

Midair refueling

great set of photos

2011-06-23 aviation • fuel • kc135

TechCrunch blackmail

Mat calls out Arrington's sleaze

2011-06-23 arrington • flickr • journalism • techcrunch

Realm of the Mad God release

Great casual browser MMO, lots of fun

2011-06-23 flash • games • mmos

Bitcoin disaster

2011-06-21 bitcoin • crypto • money

Is Mike Arrington a dick?

This whiny blog post answers the periodic question.

2011-06-20 arrington • journalism • techcrunch

Vagar airport charts

Crazy airport in the Faroe Islands.

2011-06-20 aviation • faroes • flying • vagar

Vancouver riot photo

2011-06-16 photography • photos • vancouver

Game of Thrones chiptune

2011-06-15 8bit • chiptune • gameofthrones • music

American Bison map

Amazing 1800s conservation story, with a great map

2011-06-15 bison • conservation • endangered • infovis • maps • species • via:metafilter

Trulia Insights

Great data visualization team is publishing stuff from the real estate site

2011-06-15 infovis • polymaps • realestate • sha • trulia

Amazon's first employee

Interesting history from the beginning of the company

2011-06-15 amazon • startups

Data about what 4 digit passcodes iPhone users choose

2011-06-15 badtech • iphone • passwords • pins • security

B-17 Liberty Belle statement

Details on the in-flight fire. Long story short, it wasn't as dramatic as the photos. So sad, though.

2011-06-15 aviation • b-17 • b17 • fire • flying • libertybelle • warbird

Yet another Flash zero day

Seriously, why do we all install this crap?

2011-06-15 adobe • badtech • flash • security

Amazing: PR agency publically threatens to blacklist people who wrote "venom" about Duke Nukem Forever

2011-06-15 games • jounalism • pr • press

An ISP that doesn't suck

My awesome ISP's CEO just answered a bunch of questions on Reddit

2011-06-15 internet • isp • santarosa • sonicnet

Data SIM prices

Great wiki with basic info on what 3G costs

2011-06-15 3g • data • gsm • internet • wiki

Access Main Computer File

Images from movie computer interfaces

2011-06-15 hci • interface • movies • via:hotlinks

Funny image macro

2011-06-14 billgates • funny • stevejobs

Work for ForeFlight

Interesting opportunity for software / pilot geeks. The company is doing great

2011-06-13 aviation • flying • foreflight • jobs • software

Telehack interview

Andy gets an interview with the anonymous creator of the retro Internet site

2011-06-13 games • internet • telehack • textfiles

Biscuit embossing

Lovely study of the designs of things like Oreo cookies

2011-06-13 baking • biscuits • cookies • design • food

Satellites by nation

Graphic showing who has how many satellites in orbit

2011-06-13 orbit • satellite • space

turntable.fm down image

Pretty funny image for when the site is down

2011-06-12 cat • funny • lolcat • turntablefm

More Groupon ugly

Is this IPO a disaster in the making?

2011-06-11 groupon • ipo • startups

Pinboard vs Google

Maciej declares war against Google Analytics bullshit URL tracking

2011-06-11 google • pinboard • url

interesting info on wireless network usage at a conference

2011-06-10 apple • wifi • wwdc

New privacy idea

Tim O'Reilly has a new take on privacy. See also Transparent Society

2011-06-10 facebook • privacy

Decompiling E Coli

famous hacker Bunnie reverse engineers some bacteria

2011-06-10 bioinformatics • biotech • genetics • hacking

2011-06-09 comics • funny

Profile of @raffi

Nice honoring of one of the smartest guys I know

2011-06-08 mit • raffi • twitter • wattzon

Detecting ISP traffic shaping

2011-06-08 internet • isp • tcpip

Wind history map

A project of mine; a map that shows prevalent winds. Try it out!

2011-06-07 history • weather • windrose • winds

White bread origin

The horrible industrial bread we eat now is a result of rationing-era British food engineering

2011-06-07 bread • food • via:metafilter

Bitcoin rich list

Record of who owns the most Bitcoins. Well, anonymous IDs at least

2011-06-07 bitcoin • cryptography • money

the true story of audion

Amazingly detailed story of a Mac shareware music program and getting rolled over by apple

2011-06-06 apple • business • itunes • startup • via:waxy

Amazing service; runs your web page in one of several browsers and gives a performance report, screenshots, etc

2011-06-06 http • optimization • performance • testing • web

Chicago to NYC: 13.33ms

press release from a network company offering lower latency trades between Chicago and New York

2011-06-06 chicago • finance • nyc • trading • via:raffi

Aphex Twin vs. jazz drummer

Amazing live acoustic performance of Flim

2011-06-05 aphextwin • drummer • flim • music

Venezuela's party prison

Crazy situation where the prisoners control the prison

2011-06-05 drugs • gangs • prison • venezuela • via:metafilter

Bitcoin mining profit

Table showing profitability of various Bitcoin mining setups

2011-06-05 bitcoin • gpu • hardware

Gaming then and now

Funny because it's true

2011-06-05 4chan • games

Nice article on the simple utility site for sharing text

2011-06-05 hackers • pastebin • text • web

Groupon's weird use of funds

They raised $946M then paid $810M right back to investors. WTF?

2011-06-04 groupon • investment • ipo • startups

Groupon founders' $120m

IPO filing reveals the preferred shareholders have taken $120m out of the company. Wow

2011-06-04 groupon • investor • startups • stock

Groupon skeptic

Harsh language, important questions

2011-06-04 business • groupon • ipo

@Mike_FTW vs. @anildash

pretty great Twitter exchange of the dozens

2011-06-04 anildash • funny • insults • mikemonteiro • twitter • yermom • yourmom

Shangaan Electro

Interesting Soweto dance music

2011-06-04 180bpm • music • southafrica • soweto • via:metafilter

Wave At The Bus

Awesome dad waves at his son's schoolbus every day, in costume

2011-06-04 funny • parents • utah • via:metafilter

LulzSec Donations

This Bitcoin account belongs to some 4chan / Anonymous group. You can see donations they've gotten.

2011-06-04 4chan • anonymous • bitcoin • lulzsec • security

Bitcoin critique

Cogent, technical criticism of Bitcoin

2011-06-03 bitcoin • criticism • money

Simple IPv6 fix

Microsoft's solution for problems in IPv6 day? Disable IPv6

2011-06-03 internet • ipv6 • microsoft • support • tcpip • windows

Jason Fried on Groupon

Very direct and honorable response to a bunch of nasty criticism

2011-06-03 groupon • jasonfried • startups

Stats on open source hosting; the remarkable thing to me is how few commits there are in Perl

2011-06-03 languages • opensource • perl • programming

Amanda Franklin tribute

Video memorial for an airshow performer who just passed away

2011-06-03 aerobatics • amandafranklin • flying • wingwalking

June 4: Code for Oakland

Some interesting folks will be there

2011-06-03 code • oakland • service

Port of the popular geographic data library to Javascript

2011-06-03 code • geohacking • geos • javascript • jts

advanced web typography

2011-06-03 fonts • javascript • kerning • web

Syria going offline

Real time traffic graph from Syria: headed to zero as the government blocks the Internet

2011-06-03 freedom • google • internet • syria

LightSquared breaks GPS

Test results are in, and they are negative

2011-06-03 aviation • gps • lightsquared

Flickr date design

Flickr engineer talks about some of the fine design flourishes in the way the database handles time

2011-06-02 design • engineering • flickr • photos

Parachute formation

Lovely photograph

2011-06-02 parachute • photos • sunset

Airplane vs. Giraffe

2011-06-02 accident • airplane • aviation • giraffe

WoW insider: Joi Ito

Profile of the new Media Lab director from a Warcraft site

2011-06-02 games • joiito • medialab • mit • warcraft

"An archive of Bitcoin culture"

2011-06-02 bitcoin • funny • via:metafilter

Real time map of all the modern ADS-B transponders in the air

2011-06-02 ads-b • aviation • flying • tracking

Minecraft timelapse building

Nicely made video

2011-06-02 games • minecraft • timelapse

Going to hell for linking the Daily Mail, but this is an awesome story

2011-06-02 bunnies • cute • dressage • rabbits • showjumping

Chrome extension to show a higher resolution image for a thumbnail, with baked in URL schemes for many popular image services

2011-06-02 chrome • extensions • hack • images

Crypto hash lifespan

Details of how long various cryptographic hash functions have been considered secure. Spoiler: not very.

2011-06-02 cryptography • hash • security • sha1

Weiner's EXIF data

The supposed "lewd" image doesn't match the EXIF of other Weiner photos. So.. can an yone match this EXIF to the right wing jackass's photos?

2011-06-02 exif • politics • scandal • weiner

Northrop Grumman attacked

Another major military company. Seems connected to the RSA SecurID breach

2011-06-01 cyberwar • securid • security

Tor hidden services

How to hide a web site via Tor

2011-06-01 anonymity • internet • tor

Silk Road non-anonymous

Here's a view of Silk Road that doesn't require Tor

2011-06-01 blackmarket • drugs • internet • tor

Silk Road discussion

more info on the Internet black market

2011-06-01 drugs • internet • tor

Silk Road: Tor black market

First I've heard of this; a web site only available via Tor where you can buy narcotics with BitCoins

2011-06-01 drugs • internet • silkroad • tor • via:metafilter

AirBNB spammed Craigslist users?

Pretty strong criticism of unethical behaviour

2011-06-01 airbnb • craigslist • ethics • rentals • spam

Twitter search architecture

Includes a brief description of the original MySQL search system

2011-06-01 mysql • search • twitter

VC against software patents

Not a new argument, but an interesting source

2011-06-01 patents • software • vc • venturecapital

Beautifully implemented visualization of travel times

2011-06-01 javascript • maps • transit