Nelson's Linkblog 2011-09

about • archive • mastodon • feed

A Google Earth-like app fully in HTML

2011-09-30 browser • html • maps • webgl

Goonswarrm vs Eve economy

Player alliance threatens to shut down all fuel production in the game

2011-09-30 economy • eve • eveonline • goonswarm • mmos

Kelihos takedown details

How to subvert the command and control of a botnet

2011-09-30 badtech • botnet • kelihos • microsoft

The *other* Python webapp framwork

2011-09-30 code • development • django • pyramid • python • web • webapp

Lambda Literary

Source for reviews of gay, lesbian, etc literature

2011-09-30 book • gay • lgbt • reading • reviews • writing

Waxy's PDX geek guide

Great suggestions for food, geek sights, etc in Portland

2011-09-30 food • guide • portland • travel • waxy

Jemiah on her new book

College friend just published a new book

2011-09-30 books • jemiah • novels • reedcollege • vampires

US assassination politics

It's difficult to murder people around the world

2011-09-30 assassination • civilrights • terrorism • us • yemen

github's workflow

A simple way to use git in a group

2011-09-29 development • git • github • workflow

Python micro-web framework

2011-09-29 html • http • python • web

Raffi's famous, in The Economist!

2011-09-29 economist • raffi • tweet • twitter

Visualization of people swearing on Twitter

2011-09-29 d3 • javascript • language • swearing • twitter • visualization

node.js syntax proposal

Clever little syntactic sugar to hide some callbacks

2011-09-29 async • c# • callback • javascript • nodejs • syntax

PostGIS nearest search

Database can now efficiently search for N nearest things

2011-09-28 gist • index • postgis • postgres • search

Student airplane crash

Friend of mine had an engine quit on takeoff

2011-09-28 accident • aviation • beech • flying • musketeer

All about pearls

Detailed guide from a random Metafilter user

2011-09-28 guide • jewelry • pearls

Kelihos botnet killed

Microsoft is doing amazing work prosecuting organized crime

2011-09-27 badtech • botnet • internet • microsoft • security

Glitch is live!

Some of the original Flickr team made an online game

2011-09-27 flickr • games • glitch • mmos • stewartbutterfield

Browser versions

The graphs of IE vs Chrome and Firefox upgrades are great

2011-09-27 browsers • html5 • statistics • web

Reflections on the Netflix / Kwikster split

2011-09-27 business • focus • netflix • startups

All sorts of fun GPS health info

2011-09-27 aviation • flying • gps • navigation • waas

How accurate is your GPS altitude today?

2011-09-27 aviation • flying • gps • map • waas

Remaking classic visualizations for the Web with D3

2011-09-26 d3 • javascript • visualization

Excellent documentation

2011-09-26 databases • manual • mongo • mongodb • nosql • opensource

The streaming video game service actually works

2011-09-26 games • gaming • mac • onlive • streaming

A research tool from before the computer era

2011-09-26 bible • books • index

Bread & Circuses

Photos from the Spotify party

2011-09-26 decadence • party • sanfrancisco • seanparker • spotify • startups

Newspaper on Folsom

SFW: our annual fetish / S&M street festival was yesterday

2011-09-26 bondage • fetish • folsom • folsomstreetfair • journalism • kink

Piecemeal geodata

Migurski's thoughts on making OpenStreetMap more accessible

2011-09-26 data • mapping • maps • openstreetmap • osm • usability

MacOS command line tool for web page screenshots

2011-09-25 mac • macos • safari • screenshot • webkit

It's too hard to use Google's fast HTTP replacement

2011-09-25 google • http • optimization • servers • spdy • via:hackernews

Project T-B.A.C

High school kid's balloon photography project

2011-09-25 aerial • mapping • photography • school • via:metafilter

Dispelling a bit of FUD

2011-09-24 chrome • google • privacy

Chrome AppleScript

Google's browser is sort of scriptable on MacOS

2011-09-24 apple • applescript • browser • chrome • google • macos

A clock for robots.

2011-09-24 clock • qrcode • qrtime • time • via:waxy

Follow the Money video

Well produced 5 minute summary

2011-09-24 maps • mobility • money • us

Follow the bill

Mapping US mobility via Where's George

2011-09-24 maps • mobility • money • us • wheresgeorge

It's not as simple as just typing "pip install"

2011-09-24 badtech • compile • fortran • gcc • lion • macos • python

First World Gripes

Cartoons for petty vexations

2011-09-24 cartoon • comic • firstworldproblems • reddit

Groupon fiascos

COO out, forced to restate their revenue to less than half

2011-09-23 coupon • fraud • groupon • internet • ipo

Mister Rogers 1967-2000

Lovely little montage, also a poem on aging

2011-09-23 children • kids • misterrogers • tv • via:kottke

Abandoned airfields

Great historical resource for the US

2011-09-23 airports • aviation • history • landuse

Deleting Klout account

Not clear if they keep tracking you

2011-09-23 ads • advertising • klout • privacy

Voice controlled ATC game

2011-09-22 atc • aviation • games

uninstall homebrew

The current mechanism for removing HomeBrew

2011-09-22 homebrew • macos • unix

Homebrew and Python

So many gotchas for doing dev on MacOS

2011-09-22 brew • homebrew • lion • macos • python

Ordered by tweets

2011-09-22 ericfisher • maps • treemap • twitter • world

Bookmarklet to turn a web page into an HTML5 offline page

2011-09-22 appcache • bookmarklet • html5 • javascript • offline

D3 force directed layout

Crazy set of talk slides from Mike, really beautiful

2011-09-22 d3 • forcedirected • layout • visualization

Some basic tips for building Google-friendly pages

2011-09-21 publishing • seo • web

Laws don't make sense in the age of rapid fabrication

2011-09-21 3dprinting • fab • guns • legal • politics

Santorum and Google

Detailed analysis of the politician's SEO problem

2011-09-21 controversy • google • politics • santorum

storm: Rationale

Simple explanation for the new real time distributed computing system

2011-09-20 distributed • hadoop • realtime • storm • twitter

A fast Python WSGI server

2011-09-20 nonblocking • python • server • wsgi

Debian backports

Solution for installing a few new packages on a mostly-stable Debian system

2011-09-20 debian • opensource • packages • software

Website assholes

Anil's very useful essay on community management

2011-09-20 community • culture • online • standards • web

Flip-side of the placebo effect

2011-09-20 death • health • hmong • medicine • nocebo • placebo • via:metafilter

Comic on Cherokee

Great illustration of the writing system

2011-09-20 cherokee • comic • unicode • via:metafilter • writing

2011 MacArthur Fellows

Annual "genius grant"

2011-09-20 fellow • grant • macarthur

Mac OS security hole

Any logged in user can change any other user's password. D'oh.

2011-09-19 badtech • lion • macos • security

Submarine Cable Map

Details of data links between continents

2011-09-19 cables • internet • maps • telecomm

Thief rendering

Notes from a 1998 PC game

2011-09-19 games • graphics • lookingglass • thief

Homesick Texan blog

It's a great cooking blog

2011-09-19 cookbook • cooking • food • texas • texmex

Homesick Texan Cookbook

New cookbook from a blogger, looks great

2011-09-19 cookbook • cooking • food • texas • texmex

Melt any cheese

Secret is starch + water

2011-09-19 cheese • chileconqueso • food • melt

Oktoberfest 2011

Only in Europe can tens of thousands of people getting drunk together work out OK

2011-09-19 beer • germany • munich • octoberfest • oktoberfest • party

A replacement for Xlib for Unix graphics programming

2011-09-19 optimization • x11 • xlib

BotNet mines BitCoins

Yet more thievery on the Internet

2011-09-19 badtech • bitcoin • botnet • tdl4 • tdss • virus

PostGIS in Action

Solid book on the spatial database

2011-09-18 book • database • gis • postgis • postgres • postgresql

OS designed to be host to VMs

2011-09-18 cloud • joyent • linux • opensource • os • virtualization • vm

Alternative to plutil for command line hacking with Mac preferences

2011-09-18 apple • mac • macos • plutil • preferences • software

Simple way to have a central repo for git

2011-09-18 dropbox • git • versioncontrol

Windows app passwords

How various programs store passwords

2011-09-18 badtech • passwords • security • windows

autofs on MacOS

Apple's doc for how to use the automounter

2011-09-18 afs • autofs • automounter • filesystem • network • nfs • samba • smb

Library for writing roguelike games

2011-09-18 games • goblincamp • roguelikes • via:amitp

Crazy CT scan of 1kg of drugs in the GI tract

2011-09-18 catscan • cocaine • ctscan • health • smuggling • via:metafilter

Amazing video from space

2011-09-18 earth • iss • space • via:metafilter

Denver demon horse

Truly amazing sculpture

2011-09-17 airport • art • denver • horse • sculpture

Le Mans disaster

Terrible crash at a car race in 1955

2011-09-17 accident • carcrash • lemans • racing • tragedy

EFF on DigiNotar

The way we do web security is fundamentally broken

2011-09-17 badtech • diginotar • iran • security • ssl

node.js based server for image tiles with mapnik

2011-09-16 mapnik • maps • nodejs • rendering • server • tiles

Helicopter video shot from the spinning blade

2011-09-16 aviation • flying • helicopter • video

Voynich Manuscript Voyager

Slippy map interface to scans of the mysterious manuscript

2011-09-16 manuscript • polymaps • voynich

Google manages leap seconds with clock slewing

2011-09-16 google • hack • ntp • time

Persistent connections between web server and browser, cross-platform

2011-09-15 http • node.js • web • websockets

Time series database for making dashboards, from the Protovis / Polymaps / D3 author

2011-09-15 code • dashboard • javascript • metrics • mongodb • node • opensource • rrd

Camera lens falls from sky

When aerial mapping goes bad

2011-09-15 accident • aerial • aviation • camers • mapping • maps

California Coastal Records

Generating aerial maps with overflights

2011-09-15 airplanes • aviation • flying • foss4g • gis • maps • photography

Broadband map developer

More REST APIs from FCC

2011-09-15 api • broadband • fcc • foss4g • gis • map

Simple, free REST APIs for geodata from FCC (and census etc)

2011-09-15 api • data • fcc • foss4g • geo • gis

Very well packaged map generator: code and data all turnkey

2011-09-14 foss4g • gis • maps • opengeo

Apache module for caching image tiles

2011-09-14 apache • cache • code • geo • gis • opensource

Flying while brown

Harrowing story of a woman detained off a flight

2011-09-14 civilrights • dhs • security • tsa

interview with the producer on Das Racist's awesome new track "Girl"

2011-09-14 dasracist • music • via:anil

Olympic Salt Water Company

Odd bit of SF history

2011-09-14 ocean • olympicclub • sanfrancisco • sutro

Diablo 3 beta thoughts

Notes from a beta tester

2011-09-12 blizzard • diablo • games • tobold

Mintner's latest wacky iOS game

2011-09-12 games • ios • iphone

Historical topo maps

USGS releases 90,000 old maps

2011-09-12 history • maps • topo • topography • usgs

1912 tabletop wargame from HG Wells

2011-09-12 boardgames • games • miniatures • wargames • wells

Comodohacker profile

NYT email interview, research

2011-09-12 badtech • comodohacker • diginotar • hacking • iran • ssl

$2k a month, 15k users

2011-09-11 hosting • pinboard • startup • via:hackernews

Tape Generations

Stop motion art piece

2011-09-11 animation • movie • stopmotion • tape • via:metafilter

Another GPS tracking iPhone app, designed for runners

2011-09-11 gps • iphone • motionx • tracking

Emacs 24 preview

Scrollbars on the right! The innovation never ceases.

2011-09-11 editors • emacs • via:hackernews

When can I use...

support for modern HTML features in various browsers

2011-09-11 browser • css • html • html5 • javascript • reference • web

Healing through TragiCrafting

2011-09-10 crafts • etsy • funny

Google's Javascript plan

Details of the thinking behind the new Dash language

2011-09-10 chrome • dash • google • harmony • javascript • via:hackernews

Technical details on why Mac laptops get on the network so fast

2011-09-10 dhcp • goodtech • mac • macos • optimization

I want to retrieve

2011-09-10 4chan • dog • imagemacro • lolcats

Windows 8 fast boot

Instead of restarting the kernel they hibernate it

2011-09-09 boot • kernel • optimization • windows

programming language comparison

2011-09-09 clu • concurrency • go • languages • lua • programming

Apple vs DigiNotar

12 days and still no security fix from Apple

2011-09-09 apple • badtech • diginotar • security • ssl

Tile maps for Processing

2011-09-09 design • java • maps • processing

True Javascript history

With Animal Planet analogies

2011-09-08 funny • javascript • languages

ComodoHacker boasting

The guy behind the SSL certificate exploits brags about what else he can do

2011-09-08 badtech • hacking • security • ssl

Chrome extension

2011-09-08 code • json • jsonview • programming

There's a new TLD.

2011-09-08 dns • porn • sex • tld

License redesign

Student makes a better iTunes license clickthrough. Charming that he thinks lawyers want you reading the document.

2011-09-08 clickthrough • design • itunes • lawyer • legal

Duncan Riley on TechCrunch

former TechCrunch writer criticizes their editorial process

2011-09-08 crunchfund • scandal • techcrunch

Brewster on Michael

Brewster Kahle posts some email and rememberance of the Gutenberg founder

2011-09-08 gutenberg • obituary

Fake Patois lyrics

Grooving on Das Racist

2011-09-08 dasracist • funny • music • patois

RIP Michael Hart

Project Gutenberg founder, a visionary, dead at 64

2011-09-08 culture • ebooks • gutenberg • obituary

Handy chart of bigots with personal tragedies

2011-09-07 gay • homophobia • politics

More Arrington sleaze

Details explaining how he sells good coverage

2011-09-07 arrington • journalism • techcrunch

Iron Eagle: motorcycle vs plane

80s movie with some great stunt flying

2011-09-07 80s • aviation • flying • movies

Sparks: Mickey Mouse

a half-remembered SNL performance

2011-09-07 music • punk • snl • sparks

system stats daemon, for use with rrd, etc

2011-09-07 monitoring • mrtg • performance • rrd • system

Facebook account recovery

You can use your friend network to get access back to a stolen account

2011-09-07 facebook • passwords • security

Apple and Reed calligraphy

Nice tracing of Jobs' personal history with lettering

2011-09-06 apple • design • fonts • jobs • reed • reedcollege • stevejobs

Replacement font renderer for Windows

2011-09-06 fonts • typography • windows

DigiNotar hacker

Notes from the guy who busts CAs.

2011-09-06 badtech • diginotar • hacker • iran • ssl

Diginotar & Iran: 2

Antivirus evidence the attack was aimed against Iranians

2011-09-06 badtech • diginotar • iran • mitm • security • ssl

DigiNotar and Iran: 1

Animated map shows revocation queries for the bogus SSL cert

2011-09-06 badtech • diginotar • iran • mitm • security • ssl

Linux on GitHub

Linus temporarily moves the kernel source to github

2011-09-05 git • github • kernel • linus • linux • security

Planescape: Torment novel

Great CRPG writing, text ripped from the game into a readable book.

2011-09-05 blackisle • games • planescape • pst • rpgs • torment

Arrington shakedown

Some notes on his journalistic method

2011-09-05 arrington • ethics • journalism

NYT on CrunchFund

Scathing exploration of what the conflict means

2011-09-05 arrington • crunchfund • ethics • evil • journalism • techcrunch

Open source word processor, spread sheet, etc. KDE spinoff?

2011-09-05 draw • kde • linux • opensource • paint • software • spreadsheet • wordprocessor

DigiNotar: 537+ certs

Latest tally of the damage the Dutch CA has done to the world's Internet security. A cert for *.*.com!

2011-09-04 badtech • diginotar • security • ssl

Mac app for putting basic text and image data on your desktop

2011-09-04 apple • desktop • geektool • mac • macos • monitoring

repositoryhosting

Cheap hosting for private git repositories

2011-09-03 code • git • github • hosting

DigiNotar detail

Mozilla engineer talks in detail about how badly the CA failed

2011-09-03 badtech • diginotar • firefox • hacks • ssl

Google Housecleaning

Can't just fail often; need to fail fast, too

2011-09-02 google • management • products • shutdown

Google Correlate

finds queries that match the trend you drew for the last seven years

2011-09-02 google • search • trends • via:metafilter

Kara Swisher on CrunchFund

pass the popcorn

2011-09-02 arrington • ethics • journalism • techcrunch

Huxtable Hotness

Detailed critique of Cosby Show fashion

2011-09-02 batshitinsane • cosby • fashion • television • tv • via:metafilter

Kaminsky on Bitcoin

Nice overview of some of the technical limitations

2011-09-02 bitcoin • crypto • payments • security

iOS vs Android dev

comparison of what it's like to write GUI apps

2011-09-02 android • code • developers • ios • iphone • via:tbray

Bitcoin swindle?

Over $800,000 is missing and a known con-man is a likely perpetrator

2011-09-01 bitcoin • currency • money • scam

Geofence details

How to do spatial queries without a spatial database

2011-09-01 flickr • geofence • mysql • postgis

Evolution of web

Fancy SVG graphic from Google

2011-09-01 google • history • html5 • http • raphael • svg • web

Chromium OS builds

Regularly compiled and packaged for booting live or in a VM

2011-09-01 bootable • chrome • chromeos • chromiumos • usb • vm

From @jack to Twitter devs

sincere request for feedback, keyed to the iOS integration

2011-09-01 api • developer • ios • iphone • twitter

WikiLeaks leak #2

A different, anonymous account directly blames Domscheit-Berg

2011-09-01 security • stupid • wikileaks

WikiLeaks leak timeline

Simple explanation of how the unredacted cables got leaked.

2011-09-01 cablegate • encryption • security • stupid • wikileaks

WikiLeaks cables mess

not clear who's leaked what when, but apparently all the cables are public now

2011-09-01 cables • via:metafilter • wikileaks