Contextual privacy

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

2012-03-31 context • facebook • privacy

Etsy deployment

A tour of the company revolutionizing how web apps are written

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

Null Island

a little known island off the coast of Africa

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

Android 3d maps demo

Android's map app is significantly more advanced than iPhone

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

8-Bit Cities

Earlier 8 bit map joke, from a few years ago

2012-03-31 8bit • google • maps • nes

Google Maps 8 bit

An April Fool's joke that's actually funny

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

Stamen terrain map

How Migurski put together his awesome terrain map

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

Peter Dinklage profile

An actor who takes himself seriously

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

Migurski map interview

Discussion about Stamen's awesome maps

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

Major US credit card breach

The system is insecure by design

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

It's not "theft"

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

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

Railroad logos

Nice collection of graphic design

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

Scalable Wordpress

Quick instructions on setting up nginx, varnish, etc

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

Internet operationing instructions

Adventures in Chinese -> English translation

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

0install

package manager that's language/OS agnostic

2012-03-29 distribution • installer • software

DuckDuckGo traffic

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

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

RIP Earl Scruggs

Pioneer of three fingered banjo picking dead at 88

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

Sealand data haven

A history of what happened

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

Conformateur

A forgotten hat fitting technology

2012-03-28 clothing • hats • via:jwz

Python Itty

small web app framework

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

Python Bottle

small web app framework

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

Python Flask

small web app framework

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

Vixie on DNS hacks

Reports from trying to clean up after a worm

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

Assassin’s Creed III preview

One of my favourite game franchises

2012-03-27 assassinscreed • games

BrowserQuest

Web tech demo

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

Condom or Android?

A branding quiz

2012-03-26 android • brands • 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 ads • advertising • twitter

irqbalance

Linux daemon that load balances interrupts

2012-03-26 linux • performance

Omgpop story

Background on an improbable startup success

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

Wikipedia: Yaoi

6000 words about Japanese boy love comics

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

Martian dawn

Amazing images from the HiRISE orbiter

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

Danger: 400 Volts of Eel

"For Men Only"

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

python-mbtiles

A simple server for the map tile format

2012-03-25 geo • mbtiles • python

Hating the Goldberg Variations

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

2012-03-25 bach • funny • music • npr

Perpetual ocean

Visualization of surface currents

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

Online rumors in China

Gossip in microblogs vs restricted state media

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

SMS cramming

Cell phone fraud

2012-03-25 consumer • fraud • sms

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 • grugq • hacking • security

BATS IPO fail

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

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

iOS and large images

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

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

Turing's permanent record

Teenage school reports

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

ST:TNG fashion

Jumpsuits for half Klingon hotties

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

Gangstas in China

Never photograph the evidence. Also, Ventu, seriously?

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

Tech in Asia

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

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

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 • encryption • nsa • security • utah

Trans-arctic cable

London to Tokyo without going through the US

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

Stamen Maps

Collection of various cartography projects

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

San Francisco Archipelago

Lovely map of post-flood San Francisco

2012-03-20 globalwarming • map • sanfrancisco

Passagebalt

Two indie games even better together!

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

Ukranian girls unbox iPad NSFW

Topless lesbians open their new iPad. No, really.

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

Tesseract

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

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

Everywhere I've Been

3 years of data collected by Geoloqi

2012-03-19 geolocation • gps • maps

Linux 3.3 notes

Summary of what's in the new kernel version

2012-03-19 kernel • linux • software

Shortest Path Tree

Nice visualization of map routing

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

Patent lie

greatliege eat editorial about Yahoo

2012-03-13 facebook • patents • yahoo

Yahoo crosses the line

Strongly worded but on point.

2012-03-13 facebook • patents • yahoo

Ground level power supply

Novel way to power a tram, a safe third rail

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

France departments

good map

2012-03-09 france • maps

Wolfram personal Analytics

amazing data and analysis

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

Scene release rules

standards for pirate video

2012-03-07 scene • video

Giant stick insect

crazy story

2012-03-01 insect • nature