Reno air race postmortem

Details on the nasty airshow crash

2012-09-29 airraces • aviation • flying • ntsb • reno

Tokyo Jungle

Insane looking Playstation game

2012-09-28 funny • games • playstation • tokyo

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 alphabet • language • liberia • unicode • vai

Mozilla Persona

First beta of Mozilla's new authentication system. Not Firefox specific

2012-09-27 authentication • firefox • mozilla • openid • passwords

Vagrant

Virtual development environments made easy

2012-09-27 development • linux • software • virtualization

PSY v. Eric Schmidt

Teaching Gangnam style

2012-09-27 gangnam • google • korea • psy

Ryugyong hotel photos

Giant North Korean hotel is finally completed

2012-09-27 hotel • northkorea • pyongyang

Is Barack Obama the President?

Clever little visualization

2012-09-26 d3 • funny • obama • politics • visualization

xckd-1110 as MMO

Move around inside the giant scrollable cartoon

2012-09-26 cartoons • games • mmos • via:hackernews • xkcd

Billiant Jerk

Terminate problem employees, even if they're technically great

2012-09-26 culture • employment • jobs • startups

Skyrim : Gangnam Style

Machinima with motion cap

2012-09-26 funny • games • gangnam • skyrim

The City from the Valley, 2012

Stamen surveys the private bus lines bringing tech workers from SF to Silicon Valley

2012-09-22 design • maps • siliconvalley • stamen • transit • transportation

AirParrot

Mirror a Mac display to AppleTV via AirPlay

2012-09-22 airplay • appletv • display • macos • mirroring

PlaneFinder

Uses ADS-B to track aircraft

2012-09-21 ads-b • aviation • maps • planes • tracking

Runway Series

Lovely airport diagrams as posters

2012-09-21 airports • aviation • flying • posters

AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean

Java!

2012-09-20 funny • java • programming • via:hackernews

MapBox / OSM grant

Knight Foundation gives $575k to a great mapping company

2012-09-20 developmentseed • mapbox • maps • openstreetmap • osm • tilemill

Congressional districts GeoJSON

Suitable for visualizations!

2012-09-19 america • congress • geo • geojson • politics

iOS6 crappy maps

Analysis of what Apple's up to

2012-09-19 apple • google • ios • iphone • maps

Auto fatalities chart

Amazing visualization

2012-09-19 cars • charts • graphics • nytimes • visualization

Roman Empire map

Lovely map of classical Greco-Roman world

2012-09-19 greece • history • maps • rome

Chola Romney

It's funny because he's now one of the 47%

2012-09-19 47% • chola • politics • romney • stereotypes

Sina Weibo ads

How the Chinese Twitter makes money

2012-09-18 ads • advertising • china • sinaweibo • twitter • weibo

Renren history

Details of the messy founding of China's Facebook

2012-09-18 china • facebook • renren • startups

Muslim Rage

Funny collection of images

2012-09-18 funny • muslims • newsweek • prejudice • religion

Portland playing cards

Great little deck of illustrated cards from Portland landmarks. SF and Paris too!

2012-09-18 aarontrotter • art • cards • drawing • portland

Wikipedia Gender

Scatterplot of gender of editors

2012-09-18 gender • via:metafilter • visualization • wikipedia

TV Powww

Late 70s TV video game show

2012-09-17 games • television • tv

Knots on Mars

cable lacing

2012-09-16 knots • mars • nasa

Church of Robotron

A bit of performance art in Portland

2012-09-12 games • portland • robotron

Major Bitcoin thefts

List of significant instances of fraud, heists, etc against the cryptocurrency

2012-09-12 badtech • bitcoin • fraud

Magic:TG is Turing Complete

Tortured computer construction

2012-09-12 computerscience • games • magic • via:metafilter

Dana Contreras / Twitter

Nice LGBT profile of a great Twitter engineer

2012-09-12 dana • danadanger • gay • lgbt • transgender • twitter

RIP: Vile Rat

Sweet, sad remembrance of an Eve Online player who was just killed in Libya

2012-09-12 benghazi • community • eve • eveonline • games • libya • mmos

Aerial film over SF 1941

United Airlines shot some film flying around the Bay Area

2012-09-11 1941 • aerial • aviation • flying • sanfrancisco • united

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 education • engineering • etsy • twitter

Reaction Diffusion patterns

Fun graphics patterns

2012-09-09 graphics • pattern • reactiondiffusion • stamen

Administrative subpoena abuse

No judicial oversight

2012-09-08 civilrights • privacy • via:hackernews

Sina Weibo API

Chinese Twitter-equivalent has an API

2012-09-08 api • china • twitter • weibo

Gangnam Style mashup

Nice mix with LMFAO, etc

2012-09-08 gangnamstyle • lmfao • mashup • music • psy

Constitution Day

Yearly civic celebration in Nevada City

2012-09-08 america • california • constitution • government • parade

Silver Dollar Jim

An eccentric and loved character from Houston history

2012-09-08 history • houston • oilmen • texas

Windows 8 vulnerability

Won't patch until Oct 26, making this a minus 48 day vulnerability

2012-09-08 adobe • badtech • flash • security • windows

Gamera II crash

Human powered helicopter suffers structural failure at 9.4 feet

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

Stripe cross-origin hacks

Details on how the payment provider works around the browser security model

2012-09-07 cors • javascript • json • jsonp • security • xss

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 endeavor • nasa • sanfrancisco • spaceshuttle

Zero-day cyberwar factory

The "Elderwood Group" is turning out a lot of very sophisticated hacks

2012-09-07 badtech • china • cyberwar • elderwood • google

Quiet Birdmen

Lady pilot sneaks into the old boys club for pilots

2012-09-06 aviation • funny • gender • qb • quietbirdmen

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 abuja • journalism • nigeria • satire • via:metafilter

Gene regulation networks

Major new publications on "junk DNA" and how gene regulation works

2012-09-06 biology • dna • genes • science

Reed vs Cheating

Former Reed College president talks about the academic culture that helps prevent cheating

2012-09-06 cheating • education • reed • reedcollege • university

Baidu 3d map update

More detail for the crazily idiosyncratic Chinese maps

2012-09-03 baidu • cartography • china • maps

Alex Macgillivray

Nice profile of @amac, Twitter's chief lawyer

2012-09-03 amac • freedom • lawyer • twitter

Serving BBC Olympics

Details on how they built the hugely successful site

2012-09-02 architecture • bbc • olympics • tv • via:hackernews