Nelson's Linkblog 2012-11

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gamma shapes for obama

Trying to make an accurate map of voter precincts

2012-11-29 obama • migurski • maps • precincts

Brilliant glitch / Zelda / dubstep game homage. (Also, an ad.)

2012-11-29 skrillex • games • glitch • ads

Consumer Reports once again confirms that AT&T's cell phone network is horrible

2012-11-29 attfail • att • cellular • iphone

Syria Internet shutdown

Trying to retain control in civil war

2012-11-29 syria • internet • freedom

New jewelry design app from Nervous Design

2012-11-29 webgl • jewelry • nervous • generative • threedprinting

Kickstarter games analysis

Looking at how big crowdfunded games are doing vs. their promised release dates

2012-11-28 kickstarter • games • crowdfunding

Fox News: lying with statistics

Catalog of various deceptions used to make political points

2012-11-27 politics • statistics • foxnews • journalism

Slow motion cheetah

Amazing video of 60mph kitties

2012-11-27 cats • cheetahs • nature • film • via:metafilter

OnStar / Chevy Volt hacking

Open data from your car!

2012-11-27 cars • via:metafilter • api

Comparison of European road signs

The grid in the middle of the article is awesome

2012-11-27 europe • signs • icons • design

Quick roundup of how the press release site is actively harmful

2012-11-27 spam • google • pr • pressrelease • prweb • seo

Comic exploring what the Enterprise crew does when the holodeck is broken

2012-11-26 larp • funny • startrek • via:metafilter • comic

Details of the time interval synchronization in a massive Google database

2012-11-26 database • consistency • acid • spanner • f1 • adwords • via:hackernews • google

amac and free speech

Twitter's awesome lawyer gets profiled for his free speech work

2012-11-26 amac • lawyer • twitter • freespeech • politics • q

Nice profile of the Homeland actor

2012-11-24 patinkin • actor • tv • homeland

The Recode Project

Reimplement 1970s computer art in Processing

2012-11-24 processing • art • graphics • code • generative

National Hydrography Dataset

USGS data for rivers, ditches, etc

2012-11-23 maps • cartography • usgs • water • rivers • watersheds

iPad Mini viewport

Continuing scaling problems for web pages

2012-11-21 web • scaling • apple • ipad

Google Algorithm Change

A history of major ranking change functions

2012-11-19 google • search • seo

Rudolph (You Don't Have To Put On The Red Light)

2012-11-18 christmas • music • sting • thepolice • rudolph

Extension of geojson to support efficient topology

2012-11-16 maps • geojson • json

When the Nerds Go Marching In

Long, excellent profile of the Obama campaign's tech team led by Harper Reed

2012-11-16 software • obama • politics • election • harperreed

San Pedro Sun on McAfee

Local Belize newspaper in English

2012-11-16 mcafee • crime • belize • scandal

Seattle police on marijuana

Amazingly level headed description of legal pot in Washington

2012-11-16 marijuana • laws • drugs • seattle • police • washington • via:metafilter

Gerrymandering!

Simple visualization of how the Republicans won the House of Representatives

2012-11-15 politics • visualization • republicans • gerrymandering

Box2D Javascript

Too many choices

2012-11-15 games • physics • javascript • box2d

Free physics library for games. Used in Angry Birds

2012-11-15 games • physics • c++

NetHack top deaths

Stats from a public NetHack Internet server

2012-11-15 games • nethack

Airship Ventures closes

Sad day, the zeppelin company is closing

2012-11-15 flying • aviation • zeppelin • airshipventures • brianhall

Kill the Password

Mat Honan talks about how broken online authentication is

2012-11-15 passwords • security • badtech

Yes Men Kickstarter

Culture jammers raise funds for a film

2012-11-15 movies • protest • politics • yesmen

The poor in America

Humbling news article

2012-11-15 poverty • economics • us • politics

Pointillist election map

Dot sparsity conveying population

2012-11-14 maps • visualization • election

PC Engines ALIX

Small PCs that run Linux

2012-11-13 via:joshu • linux • router • pc • hardware

clever browser audio game / demo

2012-11-13 via:rps • games • sound • music • webaudio

Hong Kong gay pride

Photos and comments from Chinese social media

2012-11-13 gay • china • hongkong • pride

Cargo Commander sound process

Indie game has a great little soundtrack

2012-11-13 games • sound • music

Infinite Jukebox

Really interesting music remixer program

2012-11-13 via:kottke • via:waxpancake • music

Cowgirl Creamery

Nice little profile

2012-11-11 cheese • sanfrancisco • marin • cowgirlcreamery

Tomato by Shibby

Updated version of the popular router firmware

2012-11-11 tomato • firmware • router

About OpenStreetMap

Great, detailed article about the recent OSM conference

2012-11-09 openstreetmap • maps • odbl • licensing

World Color Survey visualization

Fun data on how people perceive and talk about color

2012-11-09 color • perception • culture • language

Natural Earth v2.0.0

Fantastic global mapping dataset gets a major revision

2012-11-09 maps • cartography • stamen

McAfee Aerotrekking

crazy low flying sport

2012-11-09 mcafee • flying • aviation • via:metafilter

Project Orca failure

Republican vote-turnout app failed on election day

2012-11-09 politics • election • republicans • orca • projectorca

A really useful local news website, citizen journalism

2012-11-09 journalism • news • nevadacounty • grassvalley

Software for simulating color blindness

2012-11-09 color • accessibility

U.S. get's a little gayer and higher!

NMA on the elections

2012-11-08 animation • funny • politics • nma

Early picture transmission technologies

2012-11-08 fax • images • technology

Maps Before Maps

Cartography 1000-1300

2012-11-08 maps • cartography • graphics • design

PG&E Green Button Connect

Third party data access to energy usage

2012-11-07 energy • pge • data • integration

AT&T leaving copper

Wired infrastructure is too valuable to leave to a single private company

2012-11-07 broadband • att • rural • internet

Clever physics / locomotion game

2012-11-07 games • via:joshu • karlsims

Sandy network outages

Visualization of hurricane's impact on the Internet

2012-11-06 internet • sandy • newyork • map • visualization

China hacking report

Global attacks drop by more than half during Chinese national holidays

2012-11-06 security • badtech • china • cyberwarfare

Nevada City observatory

Enthusiast builds a serious astronomy site in the Sierra foothills

2012-11-05 astronomy • nevadacity • grassvalley • observatory

Making 512 Paths

Mike Bostock divulges some of his D3 visualization process

2012-11-05 visualization • politics • d3 • d3js

Monkeybrains - Wireless

An urban wireless ISP, using 5.8GHz links

2012-11-04 internet • wireless • broadband • sanfrancisco

512 Paths to the White House

All the possibilities for the election

2012-11-03 election • visualization • d3js