Contextual privacy

An interesting new way to look at privacy in the digital age

2012-03-31 privacy • context • facebook

Etsy deployment

A tour of the company revolutionizing how web apps are written

2012-03-31 etsy • webapp • software • testing • ops

Null Island

a little known island off the coast of Africa

2012-03-31 geography • funny • nullisland • island • africa • maps

Android 3d maps demo

Android's map app is significantly more advanced than iPhone

2012-03-31 google • android • maps • iphone • via:amitp

8-Bit Cities

Earlier 8 bit map joke, from a few years ago

2012-03-31 maps • 8bit • nes • google

Google Maps 8 bit

An April Fool's joke that's actually funny

2012-03-31 funny • google • maps • 8bit • nes • via:hackernews

Stamen terrain map

How Migurski put together his awesome terrain map

2012-03-31 maps • terrain • osm • openstreetmap • hillshading

Peter Dinklage profile

An actor who takes himself seriously

2012-03-30 gameofthrones • acting • littlepeople • dinklage

Migurski map interview

Discussion about Stamen's awesome maps

2012-03-30 stamen • maps • cartography • design

Major US credit card breach

The system is insecure by design

2012-03-30 visa • mastercard • creditcard • fraud • badtech • banking

It's not "theft"

Well argued essay saying that online piracy is different from physical theft

2012-03-30 property • ip • piracy • theft • law • legal

Railroad logos

Nice collection of graphic design

2012-03-30 design • logos • via:kottke • railroad • trains

Scalable Wordpress

Quick instructions on setting up nginx, varnish, etc

2012-03-30 wordpress • performance • webserver • server • nginx • varnish • via:hackernews

Internet operationing instructions

Adventures in Chinese -> English translation

2012-03-29 funny • engrish • english • language • translate • techsupport

0install

package manager that's language/OS agnostic

2012-03-29 installer • software • distribution

DuckDuckGo traffic

Web stats for the alternate search engine; 1.5M queries / day right now

2012-03-29 search • traffic • statistics • duckduckgo

RIP Earl Scruggs

Pioneer of three fingered banjo picking dead at 88

2012-03-29 music • bluegrass • earlscruggs • obituary

Sealand data haven

A history of what happened

2012-03-28 via:jwz • crypto • liberty • sealand • micronations

Conformateur

A forgotten hat fitting technology

2012-03-28 hats • via:jwz • clothing

Python Itty

small web app framework

2012-03-28 web • webapp • python • via:adamfast

Python Bottle

small web app framework

2012-03-28 python • webapp • http • web

Python Flask

small web app framework

2012-03-28 python • webapp • http • web

Vixie on DNS hacks

Reports from trying to clean up after a worm

2012-03-28 dns • security • badtech • via:hackernews

Assassin’s Creed III preview

One of my favourite game franchises

2012-03-27 games • assassinscreed

BrowserQuest

Web tech demo

2012-03-27 html5 • demo • games • mozilla

Condom or Android?

A branding quiz

2012-03-26 brands • android • funny

Woodcut Maps

Maps turned into inlay wood veneer

2012-03-26 maps • wood

Twitter for Small Business

Twitter's ad product explained

2012-03-26 twitter • ads • advertising

irqbalance

Linux daemon that load balances interrupts

2012-03-26 performance • linux

Omgpop story

Background on an improbable startup success

2012-03-26 games • zynga • bubble • startups

Wikipedia: Yaoi

6000 words about Japanese boy love comics

2012-03-26 gay • yaoi • manga • comics • japan

Martian dawn

Amazing images from the HiRISE orbiter

2012-03-26 mars • astronomy • via:dcarlton

Danger: 400 Volts of Eel

"For Men Only"

2012-03-26 books • pulpfiction • funny • gay

python-mbtiles

A simple server for the map tile format

2012-03-25 python • mbtiles • geo

Hating the Goldberg Variations

"If the Handel Variations are Last Year at Marienbad, the Goldbergs are Die Hard."

2012-03-25 music • funny • bach • npr

Perpetual ocean

Visualization of surface currents

2012-03-25 oceanography • via:metafilter • nasa • current • ocean

Online rumors in China

Gossip in microblogs vs restricted state media

2012-03-25 china • rumor • news • twitter • freedom

SMS cramming

Cell phone fraud

2012-03-25 fraud • sms • consumer

Obamaville

Santorum's insane political ad

2012-03-24 obama • politics • santorum

Zero-Day market

Middlemen for exploits; not sure I fully believe this story

2012-03-24 badtech • security • grugq • hacking

BATS IPO fail

Stock market maker BATS goes public, suffers catastrophic system failure same day

2012-03-24 stocks • trading • ipo • fail

iOS and large images

There's some undocumented limit to image size that is smaller than the iPad 3 screen

2012-03-22 ipad • retina • webkit • browser • bug

Turing's permanent record

Teenage school reports

2012-03-22 turning • school • via:metafilter • computerscience

ST:TNG fashion

Jumpsuits for half Klingon hotties

2012-03-21 startrek • fashion • funny • tv

Gangstas in China

Never photograph the evidence. Also, Ventu, seriously?

2012-03-21 ventu • china • gangster • photos • funny

Tech in Asia

Good general news blog focussed on China, Japan, etc.

2012-03-21 asia • china • tech • journalism

My magnetic implant

Straightforward description of someone with a small body modifcation

2012-03-21 bodymod • magnet • via:hackernews

NSA expansion

Update on electronic spying and codebreaking

2012-03-21 civilliberties • nsa • encryption • utah • security

Trans-arctic cable

London to Tokyo without going through the US

2012-03-21 telecom • cable • tokyo • bandwidth

Stamen Maps

Collection of various cartography projects

2012-03-21 maps • stamen • cartography • design

San Francisco Archipelago

Lovely map of post-flood San Francisco

2012-03-20 sanfrancisco • map • globalwarming

Passagebalt

Two indie games even better together!

2012-03-20 games • canabalt • passage • funny

Ukranian girls unbox iPad NSFW

Topless lesbians open their new iPad. No, really.

2012-03-20 boobies • ipad • apple • funny • unboxing

Tesseract

Data visualization from Square, and Mike Bostock (of D3)

2012-03-19 d3 • square • tesseract • programming • javascript • infovis

Everywhere I've Been

3 years of data collected by Geoloqi

2012-03-19 maps • geolocation • gps

Linux 3.3 notes

Summary of what's in the new kernel version

2012-03-19 linux • kernel • software

Shortest Path Tree

Nice visualization of map routing

2012-03-19 maps • routes • visualization • geo • via:hackernews

Patent lie

greatliege eat editorial about Yahoo

2012-03-13 yahoo • Facebook • patents

Yahoo crosses the line

Strongly worded but on point.

2012-03-13 yahoo • Facebook • patents

Ground level power supply

Novel way to power a tram, a safe third rail

2012-03-11 power • thirdrail • Bordeaux • aps • tramway

France departments

good map

2012-03-09 maps • france

Wolfram personal Analytics

amazing data and analysis

2012-03-08 wolfram • life • measurements • quantifiedself

Scene release rules

standards for pirate video

2012-03-07 video • scene

Giant stick insect

crazy story

2012-03-01 insect • nature