Nelson's Linkblog 2012-06

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Linux leap second bug

Kernel doesn't handle the leap second adjustment correctly

2012-06-30 bug • kernel • leapsecond • linux • ntp • time • via:hackernews

Deus Ex Soundtrack

Original game soundtrack resampled and converted to MP3

2012-06-30 deusex • games • music

January 1, 4713 BC

The epoch for Julian Dates

2012-06-30 astronomy • calendar • date • julian

Interactive multiplayer music toy / Chrome demo

2012-06-29 chrome • javascript • music • via:gamefilter

Paris by Mouth restaurant guide

Looks useful and relatively up to date

2012-06-29 dining • food • france • paris • travel

Paths to Graceland

Amazing 80s African pop mixtape, music that inspired Paul Simon's "Graceland"

2012-06-29 graceland • gumboots • kleptones • music • paulsimon • via:waxy

Excellent summary of the current state of the Python ecosystem

2012-06-29 python • py3k • via:hackernews • coding • code • unicode

Eyeo Twitter connections

Visualization of new Twitter relationships after a conference

2012-06-28 eyeo • eyeo2012 • paperjs • twitter • visualization

MapBox terrain preview

Yay, another free terrain map!

2012-06-27 cartography • mapbox • maps • terrain

Soviet Army map of SF

Lovely bit of nostalgia

2012-06-27 coldwar • maps • russia • sanfrancisco • soviet

3D London Underground stations

Nice little web viewer

2012-06-26 3d • london • maps • subway • underground

PC hardware failures

Excellent study showing horribly high hardware failure rates in consumer PCs

2012-06-26 hardware • microsoft • mtbf • reliability • via:hackernews

Facebook slams emails

Outrageous; they just changed all their users' profiles' email addresses

2012-06-25 data • email • facebook • privacy • stupid

The Paris Embassy of Texas

Hotel I like in Paris used to be the Texas embassy!

2012-06-25 history • paris • texas • vendome

Mac command line program for taking pictures

2012-06-24 camera • mac • macos • picture • software

PostgreSQL cluster

Hint to the database how to order the rows

2012-06-23 database • performance • postgres

Yours in distress, Alan

Heartbreaking letter from Turing just before being convicted of homosexuality

2012-06-23 alanturing • computing • gay • history • turing

Alan Turing statue

Lovely little gay pride thing in Manchester

2012-06-23 alanturing • computing • gay • turing

Pinboard DB schema

The MySQL schema for the popular bookmarking service

2012-06-23 awesome • code • delicious • mysql • pinboard • schema • sql

A novel solution to Javascript errors

2012-06-23 funny • javascript • programming • via:waxy

A messy but useful visualization of city sizes

2012-06-22 cities • data • visualization

2012-06-22 animatedgifs • art • gifs • glitch • via:metafilter

400,000 Android tablets

Thailand is giving every schoolkid a tablet computer

2012-06-22 android • scopad • tablet • thailand

bulk.resource.org

Simple downloads for various US government data

2012-06-22 data • government • malamud

sonic.net log policy

My ISP doesn't keep logs forever, to protect user privacy

2012-06-22 copyright • freedom • isp • privacy • sonicnet

Aesthetic fun with maps

2012-06-22 cartography • chernobyl • maps • movies • stamen

Internet absurdity (some NSFWIsh)

2012-06-22 4chan • dolan • funny • meme • reddit

Sigur Ros - Fjögur Píanó (NSFW)

Lovely music video / arty film. A bit of nudity.

2012-06-22 music • shialaboeuf • sigurros • video

Very simple inline charts

2012-06-21 canvas • charts • javascript • jquery • sparklines • via:hackernews

Traditional cheesemaking in central Europe

2012-06-21 cheese • europe • photography • poland • slovakia • tatras

Women on StackOverflow

Comments on gender issues on the software forum

2012-06-20 diversity • engineers • gender • stack • stackexchange • women

The Million Dollar Homepage

It's still online!

2012-06-20 ads • history • internet • pixels

Dynamic code generation for Protocol Buffers and Thrift in Python

2012-06-20 code • protobuf • protocolbuffers • python • thrift

Approachable notes on how to display a simple visualization well

2012-06-20 charts • data • via:prismatic • visualization

Playfic Geography

A US geography quiz disguised as an Infocom game

2012-06-20 games • infocom • inform • playfic • text • v7 • via:waxy

Steep SF streets

OpenStreetMap + NED 1/3 = map of crazy SF streets

2012-06-20 maps • sanfrancisco • streets

Nice demo of building a custom overlay layer in Leaflet using D3

2012-06-20 d3 • javascript • leaflet • maps • visualization

Eyeo Festival 2012 on Vimeo

Channel for all the talks, posting over the next few weeks

2012-06-19 conference • eyeo • eyeo2012 • talks

General Zod in 2012

2012-06-19 kneebeforezod • obama • obey • shepardfairy • superman • zod

Funny story; researching a virus, the author pops up a chat window

2012-06-19 badtech • funny • via:hackernews • virus

Netflix API lockdown

Removes features, tightens terms of service

2012-06-18 api • business • netflix

Induction DB client

Polyglot DB explorer for MacOS

2012-06-17 database • mac • macos • postgres • sql

Video, pictures, etc of the space drone

2012-06-17 aviation • drones • shuttle • space • x-37b • x37b

Gastón Viñas video

Interesting animation for a Radiohead song

2012-06-16 animation • cows • nsfw • pigs • radiohead

Motion stabilized yo-yo video

2012-06-16 trick • via:metafilter • video • yoyo

SF Muni Maintenance

Our public transit system has terrible maintenance

2012-06-16 muni • sf • transit • transportation

Trulia analyzes gay real estate

2012-06-15 gays • lesbians • realestate • trulia

Year of the Glitch

Degraded digital art

2012-06-15 art • design • glitch

A year of hermit hacking

Pamela Fox's awesome presentation on working alone for a year

2012-06-15 coding • happiness • tech • working

Gods and Kings details

Civilization V expansion comes out in a few days

2012-06-15 civilization • games • godsandkings

Reporkalypse map

A beautifully crafted map of a Minecraft server

2012-06-15 games • maps • minecraft

Apple vs Google Maps

Good set of side by side screenshots

2012-06-14 apple • google • ios • maps

Rage comic remix

2012-06-14 4chan • comic • language • ragecomic

Rage comic remix

2012-06-14 4chan • comic • language • ragecomic

Sina Weibo in Windows 8

Microsoft integrates one of China's big Twitter-analog services

2012-06-14 china • microsoft • sinaweibo • twitter • weibo • windows

Olympic IP idiocy

Trying to ban people sharing photos online.

2012-06-14 intellectualproperty • ip • olympics • photos

JWZ permit update

What it takes to create a public business in San Francisco

2012-06-14 bureaucracy • dnalounge • jwz • sanfrancisco • stupid

MacBook Pro Retina teardown

Fascinating detail; these systems are so tightly packed

2012-06-13 apple • hardware • macbook • teardown

Web page performance analyzer, runs both Google PageSpeed and YSlow

2012-06-13 optimization • pagespeed • performance • web • yslow

Readability change

Great, clear essay about how a business model didn't work and what they're doing about it

2012-06-13 business • publishing • readability

Clever international domain name

2012-06-13 dns • domain • idn

gTLD applications

The list of how ICANN is destroying DNS

2012-06-13 brands • dns • domains • internet • via:metafilter

Indie Game: The Movie

It's out now, $10 for a DRM free download

2012-06-12 braid • documentary • fez • games • indiegames • movies • supermeatboy

Etsy's hiring stategy

Details of Marc Hedlund's work to recruit more women engineerings

2012-06-12 diversity • etsy • hiring • marc • precipice • women

MacBook Pro retina

Excellent analysis; Apple is finally allowing resolution independent scaling

2012-06-12 apple • lcd • macbook • quality • retina • screen

A vector based OSM map for iOS

2012-06-12 gps • ios • maps • osm

Chrome: Do Not Track

A very simple extension to opt-out of the toothless privacy request

2012-06-11 chrome • dnt • donottrack • extension • privacy

Wildcard DNS for everyone: test virtual hosts without your own DNS setup

2012-06-11 apache • dns • ip • service • vhost • via:onethingwell

Pointer Pointer

cute little image hack

2012-06-11 funny • image • javascript • pointer • via:metafilter • voronoi

Cow Clicker Molyneux parody

Ian Bogost tweaks his absurd game to parody Peter Molyneux

2012-06-11 cowclicker • games • molyneux • parody

Amanda Cox interview

Some thoughts from the superstar of NYTimes graphics and visualization

2012-06-11 amandacox • graphs • infovis • nyt • nytimes • statistics

Flame → Stuxnet

Evidence that Stuxnet shared source code with Flame

2012-06-11 badtech • duqu • espionage • flame • malware • stuxnet • virus

Flight404's Eyeo work

Interesting physics demos, with source code

2012-06-11 art • cinder • eyeo • flight404 • visualization

LinkedIn weasels

Disgusting they didn't come clean with the NYT about their abysmal security

2012-06-11 badtech • bcrypt • hash • linkedin • passwords • security

MongoDB and CouchDB

A straightforward comparison

2012-06-10 couchdb • database • db • mongodb • nosql

SF public art mapper

Code for America project showing where public art is in SF

2012-06-10 art • codeforamerica • map • sanfrancisco

La Gaîté Lyrique

Paris gallery focussed on digital art

2012-06-10 art • creativecode • digitalart • gallery • museum • paris

Paris metro, geographic

Map of the Paris subway system with geographic layout

2012-06-10 maps • metro • paris • transportation

3d printing service, alternative to ShapeWays

2012-06-10 design • fab • fabrication • modeling • printing • shapeways

Joe Paradiso's synthesizer

Amazing audio sculpture / analog synth, now with live streaming!

2012-06-10 medialab • music • paradiso • synthesizer

Gevent Tutorial

Handy summary of how to use coroutines in Python

2012-06-10 concurrency • gevent • greenlet • python • tutorial • via:matt

System for tracing a web request through multiple backend services

2012-06-10 code • infrastructure • monitoring • optimization • performance • twitter

OKCupid enemies

Creepy dating profiles

2012-06-10 dating • funny • okcupid • via:waxy

Eve economics update

Game changes lead to major changes in commodities prices in the online game

2012-06-10 ccp • economics • eve • eveonline • games • mmos

Google search URL

A guide to all the garbage Google stacks on searches

2012-06-10 google • privacy • search • tracking • url • via:hackernews

Gay, Mormon, married, happy

Interesting alternative perspective of sexuality and religion

2012-06-09 gay • mormon • sexuality • via:metafilter

Google guts Meebo

Buy awesome startups, shut down all their products. It's bad for the world.

2012-06-09 google • meebo • shutdown

Tiananmen Square

Great photo retrospective

2012-06-04 tiananmen • china • democracy • massacre • protest

Wonderful essay by Anil on how to productively counter racism

2012-06-04 bigotry • culture • race • racism

Brief history of video games

Lovely 3 minute montage by Polygon

2012-06-04 games • history • polygon • via:waxy

Microsoft malware oops

Flame subverts some of Windows' own trusted code

2012-06-04 badtech • cyberwar • flame • malware • microsoft • windows

Mac software for video recoding; unlike Handbrake, it has video passthrough

2012-06-04 handbrake • m4v • mac • mkv • mp4 • transcode • video

Historical aviation maps

Airways, etc in the US from around 1930

2012-06-04 airway • aviation • history • map • maps

1928 US Airway map

Some of the earliest routes across the US by plane

2012-06-04 1928 • airway • aviation • history • map

Halsey Minor's fall

Story of overextension of the well known venture capitalist

2012-06-04 cnet • downfall • fraud • halseyminor • taxes

25% of US is gay

Not really, but people think so!

2012-06-04 america • demographics • gay • polling

Classic article about fonts embedding racist stereotypes

2012-06-04 chingchong • font • fonts • typography

Javascript module pattern

Nice writeup of an alternative way to do object encapsulation

2012-06-04 javascript • modules • objects • programming

A new map / visualization library that draws fully vector data, with configurable projection

2012-06-03 infovis • javascript • maps • projections • svg

2012-06-02 cats • funny • money

Visvalingam line simplification

Nice visualization of a geography algorithm

2012-06-01 d3 • geo • visvalingam

Google / China perspective

Skeptical analysis of Google's recent anti-censorship move

2012-06-01 baidu • censorship • china • google

San Francisco snafu

Detailed story of how one music event relocated to Mountain View

2012-06-01 bureaucracy • music • sanfrancisco

Iran Air Flight 655

In 1988 the US military killed 290 civilians on a commercial airliner

2012-06-01 aviation • iran • military • war

Stuxnet is a US program

Amazingly researched details on the malware that targeted Iran

2012-06-01 badtech • cyberwar • iran • malware • olympicgames • stuxnet • warfare