Nelson's Linkblog 2011-11

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Multimedia authoring environment Apple never released

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

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

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

Chinese organ harvesting

Horrifying stories of doctors taking organs from still living people

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

Third party Android firmware

2011-11-30 android • mobile • phone

Skyrim's narrative problems

Thoughtful criticism

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

Books of Ultima VII

Text of in-game books from the classic rpg

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

Glider SF bay tour

Unusual flying achievement: flew below 4000' in a glider

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

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

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

Björk interview

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

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

Printer exploit

HP Laserjets accept firmware from anywhere? /facepalm

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

jwz vs arrington

Legendary hacker calls bullshit on a VC blogger

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

Paris street art walk

Good guide to seeing stuff in the 20th

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

Amazon warehouse photos

2011-11-28 amazon • logistics • shipping

Requests for Python

HTTP client library with a simple api

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

Python Ecosystem

Excellent introduction to libraries and environments

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

Chess and Occupy

Nice essay about hustling chess in Zuccotti park

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

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

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

Funny rage comic

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

Behaim's Erdapfel

Oldest surviving globe, coincidentally made in 1492

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

More Strauss-Kahn

Sofitel's response to the NYRB article

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

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

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

Elevate the quality of what you read online

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

Strauss-Kahn anomalies

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

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

Rise and Fall of Bitcoin

Nice overview of the crypto currency

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

Dovahkiin Gutenberg

All the in-game Skyrim books in eBook format

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

A new terrain map

Mike Migurski has been working on a big open map project

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

detailed analysis of the awful community

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

Google Maps alternatives

doubly important now that Google is charging for Maps stuff

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

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 brutality • civilrights • crime • occupy • ows • police • ucdavis

A Skyrim video showing NPC AI, for your amusement

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

Skyrim Timelapse

Game engines are getting beautiful

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

Notch on Prince Harry

Notes on a royal encounter for the press

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

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

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

30 days 30 cups

Experiments in rapid fabrication

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

Great little vissualization

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

Romensko's story

The messy world of business

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

20s German portraits

Nice photos (and 100% SFW)

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

Web Symbols typeface

Wingdings for the web

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

StarCraft as sport

Why people like this game

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

The Black Hours

Lavish 15c manuscript

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

Playable Daggerfall

patched, with a dosbox config

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

San Francisco 1853

Amazing survey map

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

The Decorated Bride

Beautiful Kosovar custom

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

Better UI for enabling Google verbatim search

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

Google Verbatim demo

Wow the default search is lousy

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

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

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

Amundsen: Cold Recall

Amazing photos + letters from Antarctic explorers

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

Terminator DOS 1990

Gameplay video from an early Bethesda game

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

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 deadendthrills • games • screenshots • skyrim

The Imperial Library

A collection of in-game Elder Scrolls books

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

US cyberwar policy

Clear statement we will go on the offense on the Internet

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

Dog vs Godzilla

I love this multi-panel animated gif thing

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

A Minecraft-like game for iOS

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

Kindle Fire teardown

what's inside for $200?

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

ThinkUp Hits 1.0!

Archive Twitter, Facebook, Google+

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

Verbatim search

Seems hidden away, but at least it's there

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

Instructions using offlineimap

2011-11-15 backup • gmail • offlineimap

Backup data from many Google services (but not mail)

2011-11-15 backup • google

Twitter's real time URL fetcher

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

Great series of photos from recent evictions

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

2016 Ghanaian movie

Trailer for an awesome looking adventure sci-fi film

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

NY airspace restriction

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

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

More info on the cyberwar program

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

Twitter 11:11 11/11/11

Clever visualization

2011-11-14 calendar • twitter • visualization

Social network privacy

Public data, when aggregated, feels like it violates privacy

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

AeroNav to charge

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

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

Kitchen Computer

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

Reading Rainbow by The Doors

As interpreted by Jimmy Fallon

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

Another lovely time lapse movie

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

iPhone https sniffing

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

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

Python stemming

Useful library for english

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

Oppenheimer on Feynman

World's best letter of recommendation

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

A Parisian Thanksgiving

So many parts of this story sound familiar

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

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 appengine • code • framework • gae • google • http • python • webapp

Wish You Were Here, animated

Classic Pink Floyd art nicely edited

2011-11-11 gif • music • photoshop • pinkfloyd • 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 charlie • charlieayers • chef • google • options • zynga

skywriting keming

it's funny because it's a naughty word

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

Very large gamer social network / commerce site

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

Skyrim NFO (Razor 1911)

Pirate scene has cracked the game one day before release

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

Phoenix (Steam)

Tools for breaking Valve's copy protection

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

Airport obstacle map

Map of UDDF data showing towers, trees, etc

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

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

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

Free IP -> location database

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

Thanksgiving in Paris

Sweet little story about ordering a turkey

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

Zynga employment sleaze

Zynga execs demanded employees return their stock

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

Database schema for non-conventional marriages

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

A fancy screen sampling tool for MacOS

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

Beautiful Flash Orrery, albeit too low contrast

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

Cassini apparent

17th century diagram of the apparent motion of the planets

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

Skyrim achievement completion

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

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

Abstract map of the Aporkalype Minecraft server

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

a test tool for Facebook apps

2011-11-10 facebook • mock • testing

PayPerPost -> Izea

They later "went public" OTC via an acquisition

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

news.announce.important

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

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

Manned space critique

Old but excellent essay criticizing the shuttle and ISS

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

Friend of a Friend Finder

a social graph project I did back in 1997

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

recommended app for viewing NexRad weather on your phone

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

Google Link Cleanup

Greasemonkey script to remove Google's obnoxious URL rewriting

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

Oblivion photo album

Nice collection of screenshots from the game

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

How Dark Sky works

Hacker's approach to predicting weather based on radar trends

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

Maciej on social graph

Ruminations on the complexity of human relationships

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

The Old Spice must flow

2011-11-09 dune • oldspice

clever UI element

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

The membrane between a virtual world and the real world

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

Nice long article from Ars

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

we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin

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

timezone shapefile

Geodatabase of time zones. Remarkably complex

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

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

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

Google+: Direct Connect

Marketing video for Google's new marketing feature

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

Warcraft stat inflation

Lead game designer on WoW talks about a game design problem

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

Codex Seraphinianus

Famously scarce apocryphal art project was briefly online

2011-11-07 apocrypha • art • books

Princess Robot Bubblegum

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

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

whereonearth-airport

A fork of Yahoo's GeoPlanet, data on airports

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

Occupy Oakland (Aerial)

Public Lab flew a balloon over the protest

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

86th Birthday Rage

Totally sweet comic from an older generation

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

MongoDB warning discussion

Responses from the Hacker News crowd

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

MongoDB warning

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

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

We No Speak Americano

Fun little club hit

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

They were generating bogus SSL keys

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

Voice actor for the Elder Scrolls games, particularly female elves

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

Movie poster cliches

Nice collection of images

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

A friend of mine is working on a harder CAPTCHA

2011-11-05 captcha • perception • robots

Sex and Skydiving and the FAA

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

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

like Tivo, but sources from Usenet

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

Meanwhile, 6th And Mission

Poetic, uncomfortable comic about skid row in SF

2011-11-04 mission • sanfrancisco • sro

Goons vs Eve Economy

MMO game economics: read the comments

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

Open source project that apple ships as X11.app

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

Another CA failure

A Malaysian company has lost their ability to issue SSL certificates

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

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 finance • groupon • ipo

Apple supply chain

Details from their innovative logistics

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

Mac 128k: tech specs

I love that this web page exists at Apple

2011-11-04 apple • history • macintosh

The Kitten Covers

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

cw on Google Reader

Another of Reader's initial creators weighs in

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

Beechcraft Starship ride

Plane fan gets a dreamfulfilled

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

nostalgic video mashup of 80s, 90s stuff

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

YouTube: Wadsworth

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

2011-11-03 video • wadsworth • youtube

London City Airport

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

2011-11-03 airport • city • london

Postcards From Panau

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

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

PostgreSQL features

Nice list of advanced database capabilities

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

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

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

Open letter to Oakland

Astonishing, clear letter form Oakland police confused about the leadership

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

Photos from a memorial to Kim Kardashian's wedding

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

Google Reader rant

from the former product manager

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