Romney abroad

scathing editorial

2012-07-31 romney • politics

Leaflet 0.4

New version of the awesome map library

2012-07-30 leaflet • maps • javascript

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 drm • badtech • ubisoft • security • exploit

Facebook Shares Outstanding

A summary on the confusion about Facebook's valuation

2012-07-28 facebook • stock • investing

Olympics pixel paddles

How the live video from the stadium seats worked

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

Romney's tax returns graphed

Stark visualization

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

Peter De Rome NSFW

Interview with the gay porn movie maker from the 70s

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

The Internet map

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

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

UTF-8 using SIMD

Using parallel instructions on Intel CPUs to do faster string processing

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

Bezos supporting gay marriage

$2.5M for Washington marriage equality, wow

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

Blue Marlin ship

A ship that ships ships

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

Google IPO investment advice

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

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

Kim Jong Un's wedding

as imagined by Next Media Animation

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

DefCon 20 Badges

Elaborate electronic toys

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

Advanced CSS Tabs

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

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

Drone airspace dangers

Near collision with passenger aircraft over Somalia

2012-07-26 drones • aviation • flying • airspace • 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 ping • network • tcpip • icmp • monitoring • internet

Mac App Store woes

Apple's restrictions are too much

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

Greenland melt

Some science behind a recent ice melt event in Greenland

2012-07-25 greenland • climate • globalwarming • 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 • computerscience • via:hackernews • chomsky • norvig • google

Alamo Drafthouse in SF!

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

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

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

Terribly clever; let the browser do its thing

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

MapBox Javascript

ModestMaps + other goodness for making web maps

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

Yung Jake - Datamosh

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

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

The Astronaut Bride

Nuanced view of Sally Ride's complicated story

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

Inflate game

Clever little puzzle game

2012-07-24 games

ngrep

pcap + grep: show network traffic

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

Twitter API status

Not a bad little dashboard

2012-07-24 twitter • performance • api

CoCom limit

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

2012-07-24 defense • gps • drm

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 twitter • search • google

IUMA back online

Banner work by archive.org

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

PiCloud

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

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

Python performance tuning

Great series of tips for big data / scientific Python

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

Spelunky XBLA tips

Hints for the insanely hard platform game

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

GitHub's importance

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

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

iWitness

Javascript map / picture view into live twitter stream

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

This Exquisite Forest

Ambitious art project, collaborative story telling from Google Data Arts

2012-07-19 google • art • tate

CityTracking maps

Update on who all is using Stamen's awesome maps

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

Government geodata sources

A list of links from a library

2012-07-18 geodata • geo • datagov

Nuclear holocaust movies

Great roundup of 80s cold war tv

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

Toner updates

Stamen / CityTracking map gets some nice updates

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

Nexus 7 unboxing

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

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

Solar system infographic

An graphic which actually informs

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

Eve Online: what to do

Handy chart of options for playing the MMO

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

Spam content database

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

2012-07-15 spam • seo • via:waxy

Goldman Sachs failure

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

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

LassPass: Google Auth

Add two factor to the password system

2012-07-13 lastpass • passwords • google

Full-height app layouts

Various forms of CSS trickery to vertically fill the browser screen

2012-07-13 layout • css • html

Tweetchive

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

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

Operation Homex

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

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

fray v HotWired

Sweet story of the Summer of Web

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

Yahoo plaintext passwords

There needs to be financial liability for this egregiously bad security

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

Posner on patents

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

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

Go AI

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

2012-07-12 via:marc • go • ai • games

Twitter Logo in CSS

Nice hack

2012-07-12 twitter • css • logo

Winners Don't Use Drugs

History of the Orwellian FBI campaign to insert messages into games

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

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 music • northkorea • korea • kimjongun • hyonsongwol

Skobbler OSM map

Nice new world street map from the German mapping company

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

Plot Python profiler

From Ben Darnell, a very clever engineer

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

Twitter's memcache

Fork of memcached with scalability and management improvements

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

About oldtweets

Siphoning out a history that Twitter doesn't provide

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

Higgs boson in English

Good explanation for a high school level of understanding

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

Pinboard turns Three

Stats from the lovely bookmarking site that drives this linkblog

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

Inuit tactile maps

Carved wood for coastlines

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

Spelunky review

Awesome appreciation of the platform game

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

oldtweets

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

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

Helicopters blow dry cherries

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

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

Jedi Stark v. Sith Lannister

Game of Thrones with lightsabers

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

Red Rock Island

6 acre privately owned island in San Francisco bay

2012-07-09 sf • sanfrancisco • island

Soda vs. Pop with Twitter

New data on the age old language question

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

My first tweet

"playing with Twitter", how original. ID 46588

2012-07-09 twitter • nelson • me

LMFAO vs People of Walmart

Photos set to music, it's funny

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

Sausage

Hysterical blog post from a sausage maker

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

Google Legalize Love

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

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

Blondie: Once I Had Love (1975)

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

2012-07-08 music • blondie • newwave

Software defined radio

Update on state of the art in hacker wireless

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

Barney Frank marries

Mazel Tov!

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

The LIBOR scandal

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

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

Zepto.js

A lightweight JQuery alternative

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

youtube-dl

Python script to download Youtube videos

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

Rheingold on The Well

Nice reflection

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

Giant Multiplayer Robot

A Civiliation V play-by-email service

2012-07-07 games • civilization • steam

North Korea Tech

An analysis blog

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

Kwangmyong

North Korea's private intranet

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

Blizzard timeline

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

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

Tuning a map tile farm

Tech notes on serving lots of image tiles

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

London riots memories

The cops' perspective

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

WikiLeaks Syria files

Emails pertaining to the ongoing civil war in Syria

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

DOTLAN EveMaps

Data about events in Eve Online, the game

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

iGoogle end of life

Too bad, I like it

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

Romney's tax situation

Rich man has shady investments

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

A Kinkade analysis

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

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

Twitter Transparency Report

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

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

Weather Underground sold

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

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

Minecraft dark ride

Nice little video

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

Apple pays $60M for "iPad"

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

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