Nelson's Linkblog 2012-10

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Remote control software for Macs

2012-10-31 av • mac • macos • remote • tv

OGR bindings for Python

2012-10-31 gis • maps • ogr • python

CrossOver: free

Commercial Wine for games on Macs, free for today

2012-10-31 crossover • games • macos

Santa Fe Institute online courses

Famous complexity research center is offering free online courses

2012-10-31 complexity • science • sfi

Creative little generative music MacOS toy

2012-10-31 art • macos • music • software

Swift-winged Rumor

Single Twitter account spread a lot of fake stories about Sandy in NY

2012-10-30 newyork • romney • rumor • twitter

Handy little program for slicing and dicing JSON data

2012-10-29 commandline • javascript • json • programming

GoSkyWatch Planetarium for iOS

Good iOS software for star maps

2012-10-29 astronomy • ios • iphone • stars

Good intro to backyard astronomy

2012-10-29 astronomy • book • stars

about SF shuttle map

Migurski on the process behind Stamen's map of private shuttles in the Bay Area

2012-10-29 google • maps • sf • stamen

Demo of D3's topology simplification

2012-10-29 cartography • d3 • javascript • maps

App Engine outage

Cascading outage cascades

2012-10-28 appengine • failure • google • postmortem

MLG game videos

A series of ridiculously over the top videos for bad games

2012-10-26 funny • games • via:metafilter

Speed Racer appreciation

Reconsideration of the Wachowski's failed film. (I loved it.)

2012-10-26 film • movies • speedracer • wachowskis

Google App Engine outage

Google's turn to have a cloud outage; similar to the Amazon EC2 problems in impact

2012-10-26 amazon • cloud • google • outage • systems

A new global elevation model based on a German satellite

2012-10-25 dem • germany • maps • satellite

Farlow Scientific Glassblowing

Grass Valley company making glass anatomical models

2012-10-25 anatomy • models • science • via:metafilter

Glass circulatory models

Beautiful craftsmanship, in Grass Valley, CA

2012-10-25 anatomy • glass • medicine • model • via:metafilter

Aramco cybertage

Someone wiped a Saudi oil company's computer network; US is blaming Iran

2012-10-24 aramco • iran • shamoon • us

Fix MacOS subpixel rendering

Their monitor identification code wrongly disables font smoothing on many lcds

2012-10-24 antialiasing • fonts • lcd • macos • macs • subpixel

Dayvan Cowboy / Baumgartner

Fan remake of the Boards of Canada video, using Baumgartner's space jump instead of Kittinger's

2012-10-23 baumgartner • boardsofcanada • music • redbull • space • stratos • via:metafilter

ancestry.com bought for $1.6B

Private equity deal

2012-10-22 acquisition • ancestry • genealogy • via:hackernews

@مجتهد (mujtahidd)

Twitter account of a vocal Saudi dissident

2012-10-22 saudi • saudiarabia • twitter

Interesting Paint art from Hungary

2012-10-20 art • hungary • painting • via:waxy

Small places in North Dakota

Lovely photo series

2012-10-19 america • northdakota • photos

A Kickstarter failure

$25,000 game project may never deliver

2012-10-19 games • kickstarter

Blending projections

Interesting demo of dynamically blending map projections based on what area is in view

2012-10-19 cartography • maps • projections

Google datacenter images doctored

Photos are so symmetric because they're edited

2012-10-18 datacenter • google • photos

Binders fulla women

New album by R-Money

2012-10-18 funny • politics • romney

Google Compute Engine

Google's VM hosting service

2012-10-17 aws • cloud • google

Only 1/5 of Bitcoin in circulation

Analysis of the transaction log

2012-10-17 bitcoin • crypto • currency • via:metafilter

Fatty Boom Boom

Latest vide from Die Antwoord; something to offend everyone

2012-10-17 antwoord • ladygaga • music • southafrica

Google Maps Tracks API

Support for GPS tracks; mostly about breadcrumbs and geofences

2012-10-17 api • gis • google • maps • tracks

Inside Google data center

Lots of pictures

2012-10-17 datacenter • google • ops

One of the coolest places I've visited

2012-10-16 denmark • faroes • photos • travel

A pirate's guide

2012-10-16 download • piracy • tv • via:waxy • video

"Illegal maps" in China

Threat to confiscate phones at customs that put the wrong label on disputed islands

2012-10-16 china • customs • diaoyu • japan • maps • senkaku

Highly stylized ideographic script

2012-10-16 china • chinese • design • khitan • language • writing

Endeavour road trip time lapse

Beautiful but sad

2012-10-16 nasa • shuttle • space • via:metafilter

Shuttle through LA

2012-10-15 la • losangeles • nasa • photos • shuttle

Stamen terrain maps

Some slides on creating the terrain map

2012-10-15 cartography • maps • sotm • stamen • terrain

eBook price fixing settlement

Amazon Kindle refunds

2012-10-13 amazon • books • kindle

iOS 6 ad-tracking

Yet another hostile feature defaulted on

2012-10-12 ads • advertising • apple • ios • privacy

Pincus' stock deal

Zynga CEO cashed out unusually early

2012-10-11 ethics • ipo • pincus • zynga

Patent defense organization

2012-10-10 intellectualproperty • ip • law • legal • patents

Simpsons opening in real life

Cool re-enactment with live people

2012-10-10 simpsons • tv • via:kottke

How cork is made

Nice set of pictures

2012-10-10 cork • portugal • via:metafilter • wine

International tax dodge used by Google, Apple, etc

2012-10-09 apple • google • ireland • taxes

Air traffic control for simulator pilots; a commercialized VatSim

2012-10-09 atc • aviation • flying • pilots • vatsim

NTP pool DNS uses Go

Interesting application of the new systems language

2012-10-09 dns • go • ntp • ntppool • via:hackernews

SpaceX is bad-ass

Rocket fails during launch? No problem, achieve orbit anyway

2012-10-09 engineering • orbit • space • spacex

Blue Collar Coder

Argument for vocational tech training for software

2012-10-08 education • jobs • programming • software

Heretic's telescope guide

for beginning amateur astronomers

2012-10-07 astronomy • telescope

Making Cloud Atlas

Profile of the Wachowskis

2012-10-07 cloudatlas • films • movies • wachowski

OpenStreetMap / PostGIS options

Mike lays out the ways to get data from OSM into a database

2012-10-07 imposm • maps • osm • osm2pgsql • postgis

A Wild Week in Lagos

Annoying article, but fascinating

2012-10-07 lagos • nigeria • tourism

GeoJSON validation

I've been wanting this for awhile

2012-10-06 geojson • lint • maps • validation

MapBox Mars map

Story of the fun side project with TileMill

2012-10-06 mapbox • maps • mars • nasa • tilemill

Dick Costolo profile

Nick Bilton covers the Twitter CEO

2012-10-06 costolo • feedburner • twitter

Mike Migurski interview

Thoughts from the maps / visualization / interaction expert

2012-10-06 design • maps • migurski • stamen

Yandex map redesign

Russian web site does new maps for Moscow

2012-10-06 cartography • maps • russia • via:migurski • yandex

Suisun mothball fleet

unauthorized photoshoot

2012-10-05 bayarea • navy • photos • suisun

Project: Gorgon MMO

Kickstarter from a blog I like, haven't looked at the project details yet

2012-10-03 games • kickstarter • mmos

Super Meat Boy postmortem

Direct reflections from the indie game team

2012-10-03 games • supermeatboy • via:hackernews • xbla • xbox

Salesforce + Klout

Job listing asks for the bogus social media score

2012-10-02 douchebag • klout • marketing • salesforce

Decent online map of US zip codes

2012-10-02 america • map • postoffice • us • zipcode

Stop Bosch beeping

#1 FAQ for dishwasher brand; how to turn off a horrible beeping noise that plays continuously after the cycle is done. UI disaster.

2012-10-01 bosch • dishwasher • kitchen • noise • ui • usability

About Mozilla Persona

Nice writeup of the new authentication system

2012-10-01 identity • login • mozilla • openid • persona • via:hackernews