Nelson's Linkblog 2011-10

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Google Reader Social

history of social features from a Googler

2011-10-31 google • reader • social

Dropboxish cloud storage from an interesting group of hackers

2011-10-29 bradfitz • cloud • danga • dropbox • evanm • storage

nice visualization of color problems

2011-10-29 color • via:sha • visualization

[new york thundersnow]

2011-10-29 newyork • snow • thundersnow • twitter • weather

Another NY street artist

2011-10-29 art • asvp • newyork • streetart

Well known New York street art gallery may be bulldozed

2011-10-28 aerosol • art • graffiti • newyork • streetart

Dimitri Drjuchin

Saw some street art in NY by this guy

2011-10-28 art • newyork • streetart

RSA attack cousins

Other companies attacked by the hackers who attacked RSA, presumably Chinese

2011-10-28 badtech • china • hacking • rsa • security

Fine Street Art in NYC

Another good map

2011-10-28 art • map • newyork • streetart

NY street art map

Handy guide for a walk

2011-10-28 art • map • newyork • streetart

Google Maps pricing

Soon to not be free

2011-10-27 api • google • googlemaps • maps • pricing

Orphan Androids

Software support for Android phones is lacking

2011-10-27 android • google • iphone • mobile • software

Duqu vs Stuxnet

More differences than similarity

2011-10-27 badtech • duqu • malware • stuxnet

QR Codes are Robot Barf

2011-10-26 funny • qrcode • via:gruber

Halloween or Williamsburg

2011-10-26 costume • funny • newyork • via:kottke

Unfinished obelisk

interesting Egyptian artifact

2011-10-26 archaeology • architecture • egypt • obelisk

Democracy and Art

A nice outing to Occupy Wall Street

2011-10-26 friends • kids • occupywallstreet • ows • protest

Face ear game rubber sport

Goofy 4chan image (SFW)

2011-10-26 4chan • face • funny • rubberband

Schrodinger's cat lives

2011-10-25 4chan • cats • funny • lolcats • photoshop • quantummechanics

Daniel Humm: Ten Essentials

Another little bit with the chef

2011-10-25 11madison • danielhumm • dining • elevenmadison • food

Daniel Humm Q&A

Chef at the amazing 11 Madison

2011-10-25 11madison • danielhumm • dining • food • newyork

Twitter languages

More amazing visualizaton by Eric Fisher

2011-10-24 culture • ericfisher • europe • language • twitter • visualization

Interactive shapefile simplifier

2011-10-24 flash • maps • shapefiles

Fix Lion trackpad drag

They hid the sensible old drag gesture under Universal Access

2011-10-24 drag • lion • mac • macos • mouse • trackpad • ui

Fluidinfo Explorer

another browser into FluidDB

2011-10-23 database • fluiddb • fluidinfo

A Web Command Line for Fluidinfo

2011-10-23 database • fluidinfo

Google vs Referer

Recent HTTP change is kind of ugly

2011-10-23 ads • advertising • google • http • privacy • referer

RIP Carlos Santana

I love this 4chan RIP thing

2011-10-23 4chan • carlossantana • funny • gaddafi

Das Racist in Spin

better just to listen, but if you want to read

2011-10-22 dasracist • music

Google Reader social

I didn't know anyone used Reader this way.

2011-10-22 google • reader • shutdown • social • socialmedia

Virgin Galactic Spaceport

I'm glad someone's funding this kind of thing

2011-10-20 airplane • aviation • space • suborbital • travel • virgin

Nice spatial histogram layout

2011-10-20 d3 • hexbin • histogram • layout • map

AD&D Coloring Book

so much awesome

2011-10-20 ad&d • d&d • games • rpgs • via:metafilter

Funniest diagram I've seen all month

2011-10-20 funny • keytar • platypus • venndiagram

Mail delivery by airplane, without landing

2011-10-19 aviation • flying • mail • stinson

Big indie music thing in New York

2011-10-19 cmj • indie • music • newyork

+google +now +more "awkward"

Now you have to type two characters to make it search for what you want

2011-10-19 badtech • google • search • via:waxy

ASTER v2 released

New digital elevation model

2011-10-19 asterm • mapping • maps • srtm • terrain • topo

Evidence of a variant of the sophisticated computer weapon

2011-10-18 badtech • cyberwar • cyberwarfare • israel • security • stuxnet • us

Hudson VFR corridor

How to flightsee Manhattan.

2011-10-18 aviation • flying • manhattan • newyork • vfr

Twitter corp update

Stats from the CEO

2011-10-18 business • startup • twitter

Laplacian terrain shading

An alternative to the usual hillshading

2011-10-18 maps • math • shading • terrain

American photographs

2011-10-17 americana • photography • photos

Offsite Backups matter

indie game company loses their source

2011-10-17 backips • games • indie

17 octobre 1961

the Paris massacre

2011-10-17 algeria • france • paris • piednoir • politics

Roosevelt Island Tramway

An unusual bit of New York public transportation

2011-10-16 gondola • newyork • rooseveltisland • tramway

Playa Time Lapse

Burning Man, from a distance, over many days

2011-10-16 burningman • photography • photos • timelapse • video

1938 SF aerial photos

2011-10-15 1930s • aerial • photos • sanfrancisco

Ballard Geocoded

Map of JG Ballard writing

2011-10-15 fiction • jgballard • maps • via:metafilter • writing

Parachuting through thunderstorm

Pilot ejected above an anvil cloud, 40 minutes up and down

2011-10-14 aviation • flying • parachute • skydive • thunderstorm • weather

Justin John Bieber

An awkward name collision (contains pottymouth)

2011-10-13 bieber • facebook • funny • justin • justinbieber • via:4chan

iOS 5 cache cleaning

Apple may be a bit too aggressive about disk management

2011-10-13 apple • caching • foreflight • icloud • ios • ipad • iphone

iCloud explained

Readable overview of the services

2011-10-13 apple • cloud • dropbox • icloud • ios • ipad • iphone

Google offshoring probe

International tax games, did they follow the rules?

2011-10-13 finances • google • taxes

Blogger recounts all the horrible threats people make to her

2011-10-13 blogging • culture • feminism • internet • women

Interesting roundup of food photos

2011-10-13 breakfast • dining • food • travel • via:metafilter

IBM buys Platform Computing

Old-school grid (er, cloud) computing company gets acquired

2011-10-12 acquisition • computing • ibm • platform • popularpower

Migurski's database code to manage OpenStreetMap roads for better rendering

2011-10-12 maps • migurski • openstreetmap • rendering • stamen

iPhone 4S unlocked

Sprint and Verizon will let you use your own SIMs internationally

2011-10-12 4s • gsm • international • iphone • travel • unlock

Google Page Speed

Very solid online tool for auditing web site performance

2011-10-12 google • http • optimization • via:hackernews

US wealth inequality

Great collection of charts

2011-10-12 economy • inequality • money • ows • politics

OS X and case sensitive filenames

For some baffling reason, this Unix defaults to case insensitive filesystems

2011-10-12 badtech • casesensitive • filesystem • fs • macos

Apple's less(1)

It's a little broken; doesn't allow custom keybindings

2011-10-11 apple • less • macos

They're trying to increase the depth of the web they crawl?

2011-10-11 google • googlebot • http • post

PMOG / Nethernet post-mortem

Long, sad story of a failed startup by one of the Internet's most promising people

2011-10-11 entrepreneurs • games • justinhall • nethernet • pmom • startups

RSA was double teamed

They don't say "China"

2011-10-11 badtech • china • rsa • securid • security • tfa • twofactor

Python 2.7 on appengine

Hooray, Google finally updated their cloud platform

2011-10-11 appengine • gae • google • python

Nice infographic

2011-10-11 infographic • space • via:flowingdata • visualization

D3 canvas render

Draw arbitrary markup to a Canvas using D3

2011-10-10 canvas • d3 • javascript

Python Requests

Another HTTP client, focus on a humane api

2011-10-10 http • httplib2 • python • urllib2 • via:hackernews

Amateur launched a rocket to 120,000' at Burning Man

2011-10-10 aviation • burningman • flying • rocket • via:metafilter • video

A bad girl game

Funny review of a terrible looking online game

2011-10-10 feminism • games • gender • ladypopular • women

New collection of docs for the Mac launch / search thing

2011-10-10 alfred • alfredapp • apple • docs • macos

sonic.net protects users

Proud of my ISP, they tried to protect their users

2011-10-10 democracy • government • politics • privacy • wikileaks

iOS location methods

How your phone knows where you are

2011-10-10 agps • geolocation • gps • ios • location

sonic.net and privacy

My awesome ISP gets some WSJ coverage

2011-10-10 isp • politics • privacy • sonicnet

Das Racist profile

Some details on Heems

2011-10-10 dasracist • heems • music • rap • via:metafilter

Air traffic activity

Usage stats for airports and ATC services in the US

2011-10-09 aviation • data • flying • ifr • vfr

Django: SchemaEvolution

Django doesn't automatically modify schema

2011-10-09 code • database • django • orm • python • schema

Paris noise map

Basically just all streets

2011-10-09 france • map • noise • paris • visualization

310 ditching track

ATC data on the pilot who just missed landing in Hawaii

2011-10-08 atc • aviation • flying • hawaii

310 ditching in Pacific

Guy ran out of fuel flying from California; lucky to be alive

2011-10-08 aviation • coastguard • flying • fuel • hawaii

Unencrypted drone

Video traffic from our unmanned aircraft is available unencrypted

2011-10-08 aviation • badtech • drone • military • security • uav • video

Janet (airline)

Commuter airline for secret projects at Area 51, etc

2011-10-08 nevada • aviation • lasvegas • military • secret • via:metafilter

Military aircraft are infected with an unknown bit of malware

2011-10-08 badtech • drone • military • security • uav • virus

Gilt Club: cocktails

Really interesting bar

2011-10-07 cocktails • drinks • food • portland

Timezone DB debacle

Bogus copyright claim screws an important database

2011-10-06 olson • copyright • time • tzinfo

Arrington and copyright

He doesn't seem to bother with attribution of the photos he uses

2011-10-05 arrington • copyright • creativecommons • photography • photos

Americans have no clue how to sell cheese

2011-10-05 cheese • food • newyork • via:justin

Cow Clicker denouement

melancholy story of Bogost's satire game

2011-10-05 facebook • games • via:waxy

Source code control lost some work

2011-10-01 bugs • debugging • git

Roud Folk Song Index

Database of folk songs

2011-10-01 culture • music • song