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Reno air race postmortem
Details on the nasty airshow crash
2012-09-29 flying • aviation • reno • airraces • ntsb
Tokyo Jungle
Insane looking Playstation game
2012-09-28 games • playstation • tokyo • funny
Suicidal Tendencies: Institutionalized
1983 is calling!
2012-09-28 music • punk • via:reddit
Vai syllabary
West African script from 1833; intricate symbols!
2012-09-28 language • liberia • vai • alphabet • unicode
Mozilla Persona
First beta of Mozilla's new authentication system. Not Firefox specific
2012-09-27 authentication • mozilla • firefox • openid • passwords
Vagrant
Virtual development environments made easy
2012-09-27 virtualization • linux • development • software
PSY v. Eric Schmidt
Teaching Gangnam style
2012-09-27 google • psy • gangnam • korea
Ryugyong hotel photos
Giant North Korean hotel is finally completed
2012-09-27 pyongyang • hotel • northkorea
Is Barack Obama the President?
Clever little visualization
2012-09-26 politics • obama • d3 • visualization • funny
xckd-1110 as MMO
Move around inside the giant scrollable cartoon
2012-09-26 xkcd • mmos • games • cartoons • via:hackernews
Billiant Jerk
Terminate problem employees, even if they're technically great
2012-09-26 jobs • startups • employment • culture
Skyrim : Gangnam Style
Machinima with motion cap
2012-09-26 skyrim • gangnam • funny • games
The City from the Valley, 2012
Stamen surveys the private bus lines bringing tech workers from SF to Silicon Valley
2012-09-22 transit • transportation • siliconvalley • stamen • maps • design
AirParrot
Mirror a Mac display to AppleTV via AirPlay
2012-09-22 airplay • appletv • macos • mirroring • display
PlaneFinder
Uses ADS-B to track aircraft
2012-09-21 planes • aviation • maps • ads-b • tracking
Runway Series
Lovely airport diagrams as posters
2012-09-21 airports • posters • flying • aviation
AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean
Java!
2012-09-20 java • programming • via:hackernews • funny
MapBox / OSM grant
Knight Foundation gives $575k to a great mapping company
2012-09-20 maps • osm • openstreetmap • mapbox • developmentseed • tilemill
Congressional districts GeoJSON
Suitable for visualizations!
2012-09-19 geojson • geo • politics • america • congress
iOS6 crappy maps
Analysis of what Apple's up to
2012-09-19 apple • maps • google • ios • iphone
Auto fatalities chart
Amazing visualization
2012-09-19 charts • visualization • nytimes • graphics • cars
Roman Empire map
Lovely map of classical Greco-Roman world
2012-09-19 maps • history • rome • greece
Chola Romney
It's funny because he's now one of the 47%
2012-09-19 47% • romney • politics • stereotypes • chola
Sina Weibo ads
How the Chinese Twitter makes money
2012-09-18 china • twitter • weibo • sinaweibo • ads • advertising
Renren history
Details of the messy founding of China's Facebook
2012-09-18 facebook • renren • china • startups
Muslim Rage
Funny collection of images
2012-09-18 muslims • newsweek • prejudice • religion • funny
Portland playing cards
Great little deck of illustrated cards from Portland landmarks. SF and Paris too!
2012-09-18 cards • drawing • art • aarontrotter • portland
Wikipedia Gender
Scatterplot of gender of editors
2012-09-18 wikipedia • gender • via:metafilter • visualization
TV Powww
Late 70s TV video game show
2012-09-17 games • tv • television
Knots on Mars
cable lacing
2012-09-16 knots • nasa • mars
Church of Robotron
A bit of performance art in Portland
2012-09-12 robotron • games • portland
Major Bitcoin thefts
List of significant instances of fraud, heists, etc against the cryptocurrency
2012-09-12 fraud • badtech • bitcoin
Magic:TG is Turing Complete
Tortured computer construction
2012-09-12 games • magic • via:metafilter • computerscience
Dana Contreras / Twitter
Nice LGBT profile of a great Twitter engineer
2012-09-12 dana • danadanger • twitter • lgbt • transgender • gay
RIP: Vile Rat
Sweet, sad remembrance of an Eve Online player who was just killed in Libya
2012-09-12 benghazi • libya • community • eve • eveonline • games • mmos
Aerial film over SF 1941
United Airlines shot some film flying around the Bay Area
2012-09-11 1941 • sanfrancisco • united • aviation • flying • aerial
How to be Gay
Review of Halperin's new queer studies book
2012-09-11 gay • identity
Engineer Exchange
Twitter and Etsy swap folks for a week
2012-09-10 twitter • etsy • engineering • education
Reaction Diffusion patterns
Fun graphics patterns
2012-09-09 stamen • reactiondiffusion • graphics • pattern
Administrative subpoena abuse
No judicial oversight
2012-09-08 privacy • civilrights • via:hackernews
Sina Weibo API
Chinese Twitter-equivalent has an API
2012-09-08 api • twitter • china • weibo
Gangnam Style mashup
Nice mix with LMFAO, etc
2012-09-08 music • lmfao • psy • gangnamstyle • mashup
Constitution Day
Yearly civic celebration in Nevada City
2012-09-08 california • government • parade • constitution • america
Silver Dollar Jim
An eccentric and loved character from Houston history
2012-09-08 oilmen • history • houston • texas
Windows 8 vulnerability
Won't patch until Oct 26, making this a minus 48 day vulnerability
2012-09-08 flash • adobe • windows • badtech • security
Gamera II crash
Human powered helicopter suffers structural failure at 9.4 feet
2012-09-07 helicopter • flying • aviation • crash
Stripe cross-origin hacks
Details on how the payment provider works around the browser security model
2012-09-07 security • json • jsonp • cors • xss • javascript
Shitstarter
The fail side of Kickstarter
2012-09-07 funny • kickstarter
Space Shuttle low passes!
Endeavor is travelling cross-country on the back of a 747 and making 1500 low passes
2012-09-07 nasa • spaceshuttle • endeavor • sanfrancisco
Zero-day cyberwar factory
The "Elderwood Group" is turning out a lot of very sophisticated hacks
2012-09-07 badtech • cyberwar • china • elderwood • google
Quiet Birdmen
Lady pilot sneaks into the old boys club for pilots
2012-09-06 qb • quietbirdmen • aviation • gender • funny
Nick Bilton » Burning Man 2012
NYT tech journalist on the playa, great photos
2012-09-06 burningman • nyt • nytimes • photography • photos
Elnathan John
Funny Nigerian journalist, biting satire
2012-09-06 via:metafilter • nigeria • journalism • abuja • satire
Gene regulation networks
Major new publications on "junk DNA" and how gene regulation works
2012-09-06 genes • dna • science • biology
Reed vs Cheating
Former Reed College president talks about the academic culture that helps prevent cheating
2012-09-06 cheating • university • education • reed • reedcollege
Baidu 3d map update
More detail for the crazily idiosyncratic Chinese maps
2012-09-03 maps • baidu • cartography • china
Alex Macgillivray
Nice profile of @amac, Twitter's chief lawyer
2012-09-03 freedom • amac • twitter • lawyer
Serving BBC Olympics
Details on how they built the hugely successful site
2012-09-02 olympics • tv • via:hackernews • architecture • bbc