Romney abroad

scathing editorial

2012-07-31 politics • romney

Leaflet 0.4

New version of the awesome map library

2012-07-30 javascript • leaflet • maps

Doggerland

Climate change around 7000 BC flooded a bunch of human settlements around Great Britain

2012-07-30 archeology • climatechange • history

Ubisoft DRM security hole

Bullshit browser plugin a game company secretly installs puts your computer at risk

2012-07-30 badtech • drm • exploit • security • ubisoft

Facebook Shares Outstanding

A summary on the confusion about Facebook's valuation

2012-07-28 facebook • investing • stock

Olympics pixel paddles

How the live video from the stadium seats worked

2012-07-28 crowd • jumbotron • olympics • performance • pixels

Romney's tax returns graphed

Stark visualization

2012-07-27 politics • romney • taxes • visualization

Peter De Rome NSFW

Interview with the gay porn movie maker from the 70s

2012-07-27 gay • newyork • peterderome • porn

The Internet map

A 2d representation of 350,000 sites and their connections

2012-07-27 cartography • internet • map • via:metafilter • visualization

Google's Perforce server

One massive code base: 10,000 commits a day

2012-07-27 google • perforce • vcs

Trulia files IPO?

Rumoured; new law allows them to keep the S-1 secret for awhile

2012-07-27 finance • investing • ipo • realestate • s-1 • trulia

UTF-8 using SIMD

Using parallel instructions on Intel CPUs to do faster string processing

2012-07-27 optimization • programming • simd • sse • unicode

Bezos supporting gay marriage

$2.5M for Washington marriage equality, wow

2012-07-27 amazon • bezos • gays • marriage • politics

Blue Marlin ship

A ship that ships ships

2012-07-27 boats • shipping • ships • via:metafilter

Google IPO investment advice

Jonathan Rosenberg helped educate the soon-to-be-rich about investment advice

2012-07-27 finance • google • investment • ipo • malkiel • sharpe

Kim Jong Un's wedding

as imagined by Next Media Animation

2012-07-27 funny • korea • nma • northkorea • wedding

DefCon 20 Badges

Elaborate electronic toys

2012-07-26 art • badges • defcon • hacker • medialab • security

Advanced CSS Tabs

Clever use of CSS and anchors to do tabbed navigation with no javascript

2012-07-26 css • html • javascript • tabs

Drone airspace dangers

Near collision with passenger aircraft over Somalia

2012-07-26 airspace • aviation • drones • flying • somalia • war

Ralphisms

Everyone's favorite Simpsons character

2012-07-26 ralph • simpsons

just ping

Very simple service to ping a site from many places

2012-07-26 icmp • internet • monitoring • network • ping • tcpip

Mac App Store woes

Apple's restrictions are too much

2012-07-26 apple • appstore • gatekeeper • mac • sandbox

Greenland melt

Some science behind a recent ice melt event in Greenland

2012-07-25 climate • globalwarming • greenland • via:metafilter

Instagram World Viewer

Nice map interface to recent photos

2012-07-25 instagram • maps • photos

Norvig v. Chomsky

Nice summary of a fundamental debate in AI research: statistical vs. theory

2012-07-25 ai • chomsky • computerscience • google • norvig • via:hackernews

Alamo Drafthouse in SF!

Austin's legendary brewpub / rep movie theater to come to SF!

2012-07-25 mission • movies • sanfrancisco • sf

Yung Jake - E.m-bed.de/d

Terribly clever; let the browser do its thing

2012-07-25 javascript • music • video • youtube • yungjake

MapBox Javascript

ModestMaps + other goodness for making web maps

2012-07-25 javascript • mapbox • maps • modestmaps

Yung Jake - Datamosh

The music's a bit flat but it's a nice video manipulation

2012-07-25 glitch • music • newaesthetic • via:metafilter • video

The Astronaut Bride

Nuanced view of Sally Ride's complicated story

2012-07-25 astronaut • gay • gayrights • nasa • sallyride • space

Inflate game

Clever little puzzle game

2012-07-24 games

ngrep

pcap + grep: show network traffic

2012-07-24 grep • libpcap • networking • ngrep • pcap • tcpip • wireshark

Twitter API status

Not a bad little dashboard

2012-07-24 api • performance • twitter

CoCom limit

Consumer GPSes stop working at 60,000 feet in order to thwart ICBM construction

2012-07-24 defense • drm • gps

Robotron enemies by wave

Structure of the classic arcade game

2012-07-23 games • robotron • via:karl

Twitter search idea

Kottke recommends a clever product idea for Twitter

2012-07-23 google • search • twitter

IUMA back online

Banner work by archive.org

2012-07-22 archiveorg • history • internet • iuma • music

PiCloud

Cloud computing for compute intensive jobs, buy CPU by the millisecond

2012-07-22 amazing • aws • cloud • computing • cpu • ec2 • performance

Python performance tuning

Great series of tips for big data / scientific Python

2012-07-22 optimization • performance • python • via:hackernews

Spelunky XBLA tips

Hints for the insanely hard platform game

2012-07-20 games • hints • spleunky • xbla • xbox

GitHub's importance

Every coder knows it, no one outside the coding world does

2012-07-20 coding • collaboration • github • opensource

iWitness

Javascript map / picture view into live twitter stream

2012-07-19 adaptivepath • javascript • twitter • via:anildash

This Exquisite Forest

Ambitious art project, collaborative story telling from Google Data Arts

2012-07-19 art • google • tate

CityTracking maps

Update on who all is using Stamen's awesome maps

2012-07-19 citytracking • geo • maps • stamen

Government geodata sources

A list of links from a library

2012-07-18 datagov • geo • geodata

Nuclear holocaust movies

Great roundup of 80s cold war tv

2012-07-17 coldwar • holocaust • movies • nuclearwar • tv

Toner updates

Stamen / CityTracking map gets some nice updates

2012-07-16 citytracking • mapping • maps • stamen

Nexus 7 unboxing

Every fine Apple-like product has lovely packaging, no?

2012-07-16 funny • google • nexus7 • unboxing

Solar system infographic

An graphic which actually informs

2012-07-16 graphics • infographic • space • via:metafilter

Eve Online: what to do

Handy chart of options for playing the MMO

2012-07-16 eve • eveonline • games • mmo

Spam content database

Cory gets a dumb of bland compliments software uses to spam blogs

2012-07-15 seo • spam • via:waxy

Goldman Sachs failure

The sad story of Dragon Dictate and not doing enough due diligence

2012-07-15 dragon • dragondictate • finance • fraud • goldmansachs • via:hackernews

LassPass: Google Auth

Add two factor to the password system

2012-07-13 google • lastpass • passwords

Full-height app layouts

Various forms of CSS trickery to vertically fill the browser screen

2012-07-13 css • html • layout

Tweetchive

A project of mine, various views of your Tweets: map, photos, etc

2012-07-13 localstorage • map • maps • photo • tweet • twitter

Operation Homex

Amazing 1960s story of NYPD and FBI breaking up an anti-gay extortion ring

2012-07-13 1960s • civilrights • gay • via:metafilter

fray v HotWired

Sweet story of the Summer of Web

2012-07-12 1995 • culture • hotwired • internet • wired

Yahoo plaintext passwords

There needs to be financial liability for this egregiously bad security

2012-07-12 badtech • passwords • security • yahoo

Posner on patents

Famous judge explains some of the problems with the US patent system

2012-07-12 apple • ip • motorola • patents • posner

Go AI

Recent update on how computers are starting to win the game of Go

2012-07-12 ai • games • go • via:marc

Twitter Logo in CSS

Nice hack

2012-07-12 css • logo • twitter

Winners Don't Use Drugs

History of the Orwellian FBI campaign to insert messages into games

2012-07-11 drugs • drugwar • fbi • games • history

Just Malaise

Blog of interesting folk music

2012-07-11 music

Excellent Horse-Like Lady

Kim Jong Un's girlfriend is a pop star

2012-07-11 hyonsongwol • kimjongun • korea • music • northkorea

Skobbler OSM map

Nice new world street map from the German mapping company

2012-07-11 cartography • mapping • maps • openstreetmap • osm • skobbler

Plot Python profiler

From Ben Darnell, a very clever engineer

2012-07-10 code • opensource • optimization • profiling • python

Twitter's memcache

Fork of memcached with scalability and management improvements

2012-07-10 code • memcache • opensource • performance • twitter

About oldtweets

Siphoning out a history that Twitter doesn't provide

2012-07-10 archive • history • tweets • twitter

Higgs boson in English

Good explanation for a high school level of understanding

2012-07-10 higgs • higgsboson • particles • physics • science

Pinboard turns Three

Stats from the lovely bookmarking site that drives this linkblog

2012-07-10 business • linkblog • pinboard • startup • stats

Inuit tactile maps

Carved wood for coastlines

2012-07-09 eskimo • inuit • maps • via:sha

Spelunky review

Awesome appreciation of the platform game

2012-07-09 games • roguelike • spelunky • via:waxy • xbox

oldtweets

Search a database of old Tweets that Twitter won't let you access

2012-07-09 archive • history • kellan • twitter

Helicopters blow dry cherries

Pilots fly at 10' above the trees to blow water off of fruit

2012-07-09 aviation • cherries • flying • helicopter

Jedi Stark v. Sith Lannister

Game of Thrones with lightsabers

2012-07-09 gameofthrones • starwars • tv • via:metafilter

Red Rock Island

6 acre privately owned island in San Francisco bay

2012-07-09 island • sanfrancisco • sf

Soda vs. Pop with Twitter

New data on the age old language question

2012-07-09 coke • pop • soda • twitter • visualization

My first tweet

"playing with Twitter", how original. ID 46588

2012-07-09 me • nelson • twitter

LMFAO vs People of Walmart

Photos set to music, it's funny

2012-07-09 funny • lmfao • people • walmart

Sausage

Hysterical blog post from a sausage maker

2012-07-08 cooking • food • funny • sausage

Google Legalize Love

The company is launching an international political campaign in support of gay marriage

2012-07-08 equalrights • gay • google • lgbt • marriage

Blondie: Once I Had Love (1975)

Early version of "Heart of Glass", totally different vibe

2012-07-08 blondie • music • newwave

Software defined radio

Update on state of the art in hacker wireless

2012-07-08 radio • via:metafilter • wireless

Barney Frank marries

Mazel Tov!

2012-07-08 massachusetts • gay • politics • via:metafilter

The LIBOR scandal

Excellent summary of the racketeering by the world's banks to fix interest rates

2012-07-08 banking • barclays • fraud • libor • scandal

Zepto.js

A lightweight JQuery alternative

2012-07-07 ajax • javascript • jquery • library

youtube-dl

Python script to download Youtube videos

2012-07-07 code • download • python • youtube

Rheingold on The Well

Nice reflection

2012-07-07 community • culture • history • internet • thewell

Giant Multiplayer Robot

A Civiliation V play-by-email service

2012-07-07 civilization • games • steam

North Korea Tech

An analysis blog

2012-07-07 internet • korea • northkorea • technology

Kwangmyong

North Korea's private intranet

2012-07-07 censorship • dprk • freedom • internet • korea • northkorea

Blizzard timeline

20 year history of one of the world's most successful game companies

2012-07-06 blizzard • diablo • games • starcraft • timeline • warcraft

Tuning a map tile farm

Tech notes on serving lots of image tiles

2012-07-06 gunicorn • maps • optimization • serving • stamen

London riots memories

The cops' perspective

2012-07-05 england • london • police • riot

WikiLeaks Syria files

Emails pertaining to the ongoing civil war in Syria

2012-07-05 assange • politics • syria • wikileaks

DOTLAN EveMaps

Data about events in Eve Online, the game

2012-07-04 ccp • eve • eveonline • games • maps • mmos

iGoogle end of life

Too bad, I like it

2012-07-04 deadpool • google • igoogle • product

Romney's tax situation

Rich man has shady investments

2012-07-03 bain • investment • politics • romney • taxes

A Kinkade analysis

Kicking the artist when he's dead, but wow, what a takedown

2012-07-03 art • funny • insipid • kinkade • treacle • via:metafilter

Twitter Transparency Report

Love this move to report on government intrusion into citizens' lives

2012-07-02 civilrights • dmca • transparency • twitter

Weather Underground sold

One of the Internet's old nerdy sites, bought by a big company

2012-07-02 business • internet • weather • wunderground

Minecraft dark ride

Nice little video

2012-07-02 darkride • disney • games • minecraft

Apple pays $60M for "iPad"

The name "iPad" was trademarked in China, Apple just bought it

2012-07-02 apple • china • ipad • marketing • trademark