Nelson's Linkblog 2011-11

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Multimedia authoring environment Apple never released

2011-11-30 sk8 • apple • programming • hypercard • development • ide

Gentlemanly summary of a nerd shitstorm; his technical comments are interesting

2011-11-30 yammer • programming • java • languages • scala • codahale • coda

Chinese organ harvesting

Horrifying stories of doctors taking organs from still living people

2011-11-30 china • civilrights • uighurs • organs • transplant • via:metafilter

Third party Android firmware

2011-11-30 android • mobile • phone

Skyrim's narrative problems

Thoughtful criticism

2011-11-30 skyrim • games • tes • storytelling • rpg

Books of Ultima VII

Text of in-game books from the classic rpg

2011-11-30 games • books • fantasy • rpgs • rpg • ultima

Glider SF bay tour

Unusual flying achievement: flew below 4000' in a glider

2011-11-29 glider • soaring • flying • aviation • pilot • sanfrancisco • california • baytour

Browser plug-in showing you the tracking beacons, bugs, cookies, etc on the web

2011-11-29 privacy • web • browser • plugin • cookie • http • beacon • bug

Björk interview

The Economist, of all places, gets a good music interview

2011-11-29 music • bjork • Björk • interview • economist • biophilia

Printer exploit

HP Laserjets accept firmware from anywhere? /facepalm

2011-11-29 security • badtech • hp • printers • laserjet • via:hackernews

jwz vs arrington

Legendary hacker calls bullshit on a VC blogger

2011-11-29 jwz • arrington • startups • netscape • vc • entrepreneurship

Paris street art walk

Good guide to seeing stuff in the 20th

2011-11-29 20th • 20eme • paris • streetart • walk • tour • tourism • france • graffiti

Amazon warehouse photos

2011-11-28 amazon • shipping • logistics

Requests for Python

HTTP client library with a simple api

2011-11-28 python • http • httplib2 • urllib • urllib2 • web

Python Ecosystem

Excellent introduction to libraries and environments

2011-11-28 python • programming • via:hackernews • pip • virtualenv

Chess and Occupy

Nice essay about hustling chess in Zuccotti park

2011-11-28 games • occupy • via:metafilter • ows • chess • gambling

Drives me crazy too: browsers need a page of whitespace at the bottom

2011-11-28 scrolling • whitespace • design • web • browser

Funny rage comic

2011-11-28 portal • games • macintosh • mac • mouse • rage • ragecomic • 4chan

Behaim's Erdapfel

Oldest surviving globe, coincidentally made in 1492

2011-11-28 mapping • maps • globe • erdapfel • nurenberg • behaim • columbus • 1492

More Strauss-Kahn

Sofitel's response to the NYRB article

2011-11-27 drk • strauss-kahn • politics • rape • imf • sofitel

Good Mac app for auditing disk usage. On sale for $10

2011-11-27 mac • daisydisk • du • xdu • audit

Elevate the quality of what you read online

2011-11-27 essays • journalism • articles • writing

Strauss-Kahn anomalies

Odd details from the French politician's downfall in New York

2011-11-27 newyork • scandal • france • sarkozy • dsk • strausskahn • rape

Rise and Fall of Bitcoin

Nice overview of the crypto currency

2011-11-27 bitcoin • currency • money • finance

Dovahkiin Gutenberg

All the in-game Skyrim books in eBook format

2011-11-27 games • skyrim • uesp • tes • bethesda

A new terrain map

Mike Migurski has been working on a big open map project

2011-11-27 maps • google • terrain • openstreetmap • osm • tilestache • stamen • migurski

detailed analysis of the awful community

2011-11-25 community • wiki • wikipedia • expertise

Google Maps alternatives

doubly important now that Google is charging for Maps stuff

2011-11-22 maps • google • polymaps • leaflet • openstreetmap • osm

India's top fakir

Crazy game show TV

2011-11-22 india • tv • via:kottke

Pepper Spray x4

Multiple angles of video

2011-11-22 police • civilrights • ows • occupy • ucdavis • brutality • crime

A Skyrim video showing NPC AI, for your amusement

2011-11-21 skyrim • ai • video • screenshot • lydia • trap • funny

Skyrim Timelapse

Game engines are getting beautiful

2011-11-21 games • skyrim • engine • timelapse • screenshot

Notch on Prince Harry

Notes on a royal encounter for the press

2011-11-20 notch • minecraft • princeharry • press • journalism • funny

Since 2005 the vast majority of the top 500 have been running Linux on x86

2011-11-20 supercomputers • x86 • linux • intel • architecture

30 days 30 cups

Experiments in rapid fabrication

2011-11-20 3dprinting • coffee • cups • design

Great little vissualization

2011-11-20 nyc • ny • maps • newyork • startups

Romensko's story

The messy world of business

2011-11-20 journalism • business • romensko • poynter • contracts

20s German portraits

Nice photos (and 100% SFW)

2011-11-19 art • photography • photos • portraits • germany • weimar • 1920s

Web Symbols typeface

Wingdings for the web

2011-11-19 fonts • web • design • via:metafilter

StarCraft as sport

Why people like this game

2011-11-19 games • sports • starcraft • via:metafilter • blizzard

The Black Hours

Lavish 15c manuscript

2011-11-19 bruges • book • art • blackhours • morgan • via:metafilter

Playable Daggerfall

patched, with a dosbox config

2011-11-18 games • daggerfall • skyrim • elderscrolls • tes • bethesda

San Francisco 1853

Amazing survey map

2011-11-18 sanfrancisco • maps • 1850s • 1853 • history

The Decorated Bride

Beautiful Kosovar custom

2011-11-18 marriage • makeup • women • via:metafilter • tradition • custom • bride

Better UI for enabling Google verbatim search

2011-11-18 google • search • verbatim • userscript • greasemonkey • via:waxy

Google Verbatim demo

Wow the default search is lousy

2011-11-18 google • search • waxy • synonyms

Collection of terrible sites that direct iPad users to bad mobile pages

2011-11-17 web • mobile • ipad • ios • design • badtech

Amundsen: Cold Recall

Amazing photos + letters from Antarctic explorers

2011-11-17 amundsen • antarctica • exploration • polar • poles • southpole • adventure • photos

Terminator DOS 1990

Gameplay video from an early Bethesda game

2011-11-17 games • skyrim • bethesda • tes • terminator • dosbox

Exports to Mars

Reported import and export numbers don't add up

2011-11-17 economics • trade • tradedeficit

Skyrim screenshots

Nice set from Dead End Thrills

2011-11-16 games • deadendthrills • skyrim • screenshots

The Imperial Library

A collection of in-game Elder Scrolls books

2011-11-16 games • elderscrolls • skyrim • oblivion • morrowind • tes

US cyberwar policy

Clear statement we will go on the offense on the Internet

2011-11-16 internet • cyberwar • malware • military • us • policy

Dog vs Godzilla

I love this multi-panel animated gif thing

2011-11-16 dog • godzilla • funny • gif • animatedgif • puppy

A Minecraft-like game for iOS

2011-11-16 junkjack • games • ios • iphone • ipad • minecraft

Kindle Fire teardown

what's inside for $200?

2011-11-15 kindle • teardown • hacking • fire • android • amazon

ThinkUp Hits 1.0!

Archive Twitter, Facebook, Google+

2011-11-15 twitter • facebook • googleplus • thinkup • google+ • archive

Verbatim search

Seems hidden away, but at least it's there

2011-11-15 google • search • plus • via:waxy

Instructions using offlineimap

2011-11-15 offlineimap • gmail • backup

Backup data from many Google services (but not mail)

2011-11-15 google • backup

Twitter's real time URL fetcher

2011-11-15 twitter • http • spider • web

Great series of photos from recent evictions

2011-11-15 occupywallstreet • ows • police • civilrights • photography • photos

2016 Ghanaian movie

Trailer for an awesome looking adventure sci-fi film

2011-11-15 ghana • movies • wtf • alien • predator • 2016

NY airspace restriction

Unusual VIP TFR; Occupy thinks it's to suppress the press

2011-11-15 ows • occupywallstreet • aviation • flying • tfr • freedom

More info on the cyberwar program

2011-11-15 duqu • stuxnet • hacking • badtech • via:metafilter • malware

Twitter 11:11 11/11/11

Clever visualization

2011-11-14 twitter • visualization • calendar

Social network privacy

Public data, when aggregated, feels like it violates privacy

2011-11-14 privacy • social • klout • aggregate • datamining

AeroNav to charge

Government is proposing to charge for data it produces with taxpayer funding

2011-11-14 aeronav • aviation • maps • charts • faa

Kitchen Computer

2011-11-14 kitchen • sexism • computer • lifestyle

Reading Rainbow by The Doors

As interpreted by Jimmy Fallon

2011-11-14 music • funny • via:metafilter • thedoors • parody • jimmyfallon

Another lovely time lapse movie

2011-11-13 space • iss • earth • nasa • via:metafilter

iPhone https sniffing

How to reverse engineer network traffic from your iPhone via a proxy

2011-11-13 iphone • https • ssl • http • proxy • network

Python stemming

Useful library for english

2011-11-13 via:mcroydon • python • language • english • porter • stemming • parsing

Oppenheimer on Feynman

World's best letter of recommendation

2011-11-13 physics • oppenheimer • feynman • via:hackernews • education

A Parisian Thanksgiving

So many parts of this story sound familiar

2011-11-12 france • paris • thanksgiving • cooking

Lord British on RPGs

Grandaddy game designer looks ready to make a new game

2011-11-11 games • lordbritish • richardgarriott • ultima

Space Colonization

Generative art simulating plant growth

2011-11-11 art • generative • organic • plants

Lightweight Python webapp framework, used in Google AppEngine

2011-11-11 webapp • python • code • framework • http • google • appengine • gae

Wish You Were Here, animated

Classic Pink Floyd art nicely edited

2011-11-11 pinkfloyd • music • photoshop • gif • wishyouwerehere

In defense of the Google chef

It's weird (and wrong) from Pincus to have singled out Charlie as an example of unfair compensation

2011-11-11 google • charlie • charlieayers • chef • zynga • options

skywriting keming

it's funny because it's a naughty word

2011-11-11 language • kerning • fonts • typography • aviation • skywriting

Very large gamer social network / commerce site

2011-11-10 steam • valve • badtech • hack • security

Skyrim NFO (Razor 1911)

Pirate scene has cracked the game one day before release

2011-11-10 games • razor1911 • pirates • warez • skyrim • elderscrolls

Phoenix (Steam)

Tools for breaking Valve's copy protection

2011-11-10 phoenix • steam • valve • piracy • games

Airport obstacle map

Map of UDDF data showing towers, trees, etc

2011-11-10 aviation • airplanes • obstacles • database • towers

Good new tech blog, lots of posts right now on GeoDjango

2011-11-10 python • django • geodjango • blog • code • adamfast • aviation

Free IP -> location database

2011-11-10 via:adamfast • geolocation • geoapi • database

Thanksgiving in Paris

Sweet little story about ordering a turkey

2011-11-10 turkey • paris • food • algeria • france

Zynga employment sleaze

Zynga execs demanded employees return their stock

2011-11-10 zynga • employment • law • legal • ipo

Database schema for non-conventional marriages

2011-11-10 marriage • gender • gay • funny • database • schema

A fancy screen sampling tool for MacOS

2011-11-10 macos • software • color • colour • rgb • digitalcolormeter

Beautiful Flash Orrery, albeit too low contrast

2011-11-10 art • orrery • astronomy • flash

Cassini apparent

17th century diagram of the apparent motion of the planets

2011-11-10 astronomy • history • cassini • epicycles • orbit • geocentric

Skyrim achievement completion

A way to follow along as people play the anticipated new game

2011-11-10 games • skyrim • oblivion • elderscrolls • xbox • achievements

Abstract map of the Aporkalype Minecraft server

2011-11-10 games • metafilter • mefightclub • minecraft • map

a test tool for Facebook apps

2011-11-10 facebook • testing • mock

PayPerPost -> Izea

They later "went public" OTC via an acquisition

2011-11-09 izea • payperpost • stocks • otc • pennystocks

news.announce.important

Usenet's equivalent of the emergency alert system; as far as I know, never legitimately used

2011-11-09 alert • news • emergency • usenet • nntp

Manned space critique

Old but excellent essay criticizing the shuttle and ISS

2011-11-09 space • nasa • iss • shuttle

Friend of a Friend Finder

a social graph project I did back in 1997

2011-11-09 mit • medialab • socialgraph • social • research

recommended app for viewing NexRad weather on your phone

2011-11-09 iphone • radar • nexrad • weather

Google Link Cleanup

Greasemonkey script to remove Google's obnoxious URL rewriting

2011-11-09 google • url • web • greasemonkey

Oblivion photo album

Nice collection of screenshots from the game

2011-11-09 games • oblivion • bethesda • elderscrolls • tes • screenshots

How Dark Sky works

Hacker's approach to predicting weather based on radar trends

2011-11-09 weather • forecasting • wx • darksky • iphone • gpu

Maciej on social graph

Ruminations on the complexity of human relationships

2011-11-09 facebook • socialgraph • social • pinboard • software • culture

The Old Spice must flow

2011-11-09 oldspice • dune

clever UI element

2011-11-08 via:oreilly • slider • ui • control • html5

The membrane between a virtual world and the real world

2011-11-08 games • theory • via:metafilter • social

Nice long article from Ars

2011-11-08 glitch • games • flickr • stewartbutterfield • mmos

we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin

2011-11-08 funny • language • grammar • oxfordcomma

timezone shapefile

Geodatabase of time zones. Remarkably complex

2011-11-08 timezone • time • map • shapefile • geo

Security researcher tries to figure out some weird ssh traffic from China

2011-11-07 china • badtech • security • firewall • greatfirewall • ssh

Google+: Direct Connect

Marketing video for Google's new marketing feature

2011-11-07 google+ • directconnect • ads • realnames • aolkeywords

Warcraft stat inflation

Lead game designer on WoW talks about a game design problem

2011-11-07 warcraft • games • wow • ghostcrawler • design • gamedesign

Codex Seraphinianus

Famously scarce apocryphal art project was briefly online

2011-11-07 art • books • apocrypha

Princess Robot Bubblegum

An entire anime parody buried inside GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony

2011-11-07 games • gta4 • grandtheftauto • anime • parody • funny

whereonearth-airport

A fork of Yahoo's GeoPlanet, data on airports

2011-11-07 flying • aviation • airports • geodata • geo • geojson

Occupy Oakland (Aerial)

Public Lab flew a balloon over the protest

2011-11-06 oakland • occupy • protest • balloon • aerial

86th Birthday Rage

Totally sweet comic from an older generation

2011-11-06 ragecomic • comic • aging • culture

MongoDB warning discussion

Responses from the Hacker News crowd

2011-11-06 nosql • database • mongodb • hacking • code

MongoDB warning

None of these new datastores seem to stand up well under real load

2011-11-06 mongodb • nosql • database • rant • via:hackernews

We No Speak Americano

Fun little club hit

2011-11-05 music • club • pitbull • sample

They were generating bogus SSL keys

2011-11-05 security • badtech • via:hackernews • ruby • ssl • openssl

Voice actor for the Elder Scrolls games, particularly female elves

2011-11-05 acting • games • oblivion • bethesda • elderscrolls

Movie poster cliches

Nice collection of images

2011-11-05 movies • posters • advertising • cliches • via:metafilter

A friend of mine is working on a harder CAPTCHA

2011-11-05 captcha • robots • perception

Sex and Skydiving and the FAA

Details on the ridiculous skydiving porn movie from a few weeks back

2011-11-04 faa • flying • aviation • sex • porn • skydiving

like Tivo, but sources from Usenet

2011-11-04 television • nzb • usenet • tv

Meanwhile, 6th And Mission

Poetic, uncomfortable comic about skid row in SF

2011-11-04 sanfrancisco • mission • sro

Goons vs Eve Economy

MMO game economics: read the comments

2011-11-04 eve • games • eveonline • ccp • goonswarm

Open source project that apple ships as X11.app

2011-11-04 x11 • macos • mac • windows • opensource • software

Another CA failure

A Malaysian company has lost their ability to issue SSL certificates

2011-11-04 badtech • ssl • security • crypto

Cassandra benchmark

Netflix publishes a lot of data

2011-11-04 aws • cassandra • netflix • performance • scalability

Groupon cashout

Detailed accounting of Groupon's unusual use of private financing

2011-11-04 groupon • finance • ipo

Apple supply chain

Details from their innovative logistics

2011-11-04 apple • logistics • business • via:hackernews • hardware

Mac 128k: tech specs

I love that this web page exists at Apple

2011-11-04 apple • macintosh • history

The Kitten Covers

2011-11-03 kittens • funny • music • albums • via:metafilter • photoshop

cw on Google Reader

Another of Reader's initial creators weighs in

2011-11-03 google • reader • rss • cw • chrisw

Beechcraft Starship ride

Plane fan gets a dreamfulfilled

2011-11-03 aviation • flying • beech • beechcraft • starship • via:adamfast

nostalgic video mashup of 80s, 90s stuff

2011-11-03 video • nostalgia • via:metafilter

YouTube: Wadsworth

Apparently skipping 30% into a Youtube video usually gets you to the good part

2011-11-03 youtube • video • wadsworth

London City Airport

Middle of London, built in 1988, 9 miles from the center of town

2011-11-03 london • airport • city

Postcards From Panau

A nice visual guide to Just Cause 2, an excellent game

2011-11-03 games • justcause2 • justcause • panau

PostgreSQL features

Nice list of advanced database capabilities

2011-11-02 postgres • postgresql • postgis • via:hackernews • database

Looks like it spreads via a Microsoft Word zero day, at least

2011-11-02 badtech • virus • duqu • malware • zeroday • word • microsoft

Open letter to Oakland

Astonishing, clear letter form Oakland police confused about the leadership

2011-11-01 oakland • politics • ows • occupywallstreet • protest

Photos from a memorial to Kim Kardashian's wedding

2011-11-01 celebrity • stupid • funny • kimkardashian

Google Reader rant

from the former product manager

2011-11-01 google • reader • rant • design • rss