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 maps • migurski • obama • precincts

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

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

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

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

Syria Internet shutdown

Trying to retain control in civil war

2012-11-29 freedom • internet • syria

New jewelry design app from Nervous Design

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

Kickstarter games analysis

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

2012-11-28 crowdfunding • games • kickstarter

Fox News: lying with statistics

Catalog of various deceptions used to make political points

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

Slow motion cheetah

Amazing video of 60mph kitties

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

OnStar / Chevy Volt hacking

Open data from your car!

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

Comparison of European road signs

The grid in the middle of the article is awesome

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

Quick roundup of how the press release site is actively harmful

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

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

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

Details of the time interval synchronization in a massive Google database

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

amac and free speech

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

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

Nice profile of the Homeland actor

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

The Recode Project

Reimplement 1970s computer art in Processing

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

National Hydrography Dataset

USGS data for rivers, ditches, etc

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

iPad Mini viewport

Continuing scaling problems for web pages

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

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 • rudolph • sting • thepolice

Extension of geojson to support efficient topology

2012-11-16 geojson • json • maps

When the Nerds Go Marching In

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

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

San Pedro Sun on McAfee

Local Belize newspaper in English

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

Seattle police on marijuana

Amazingly level headed description of legal pot in Washington

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

Gerrymandering!

Simple visualization of how the Republicans won the House of Representatives

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

Box2D Javascript

Too many choices

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

Free physics library for games. Used in Angry Birds

2012-11-15 c++ • games • physics

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 airshipventures • aviation • brianhall • flying • zeppelin

Kill the Password

Mat Honan talks about how broken online authentication is

2012-11-15 badtech • passwords • security

Yes Men Kickstarter

Culture jammers raise funds for a film

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

The poor in America

Humbling news article

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

Pointillist election map

Dot sparsity conveying population

2012-11-14 election • maps • visualization

PC Engines ALIX

Small PCs that run Linux

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

clever browser audio game / demo

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

Hong Kong gay pride

Photos and comments from Chinese social media

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

Cargo Commander sound process

Indie game has a great little soundtrack

2012-11-13 games • music • sound

Infinite Jukebox

Really interesting music remixer program

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

Cowgirl Creamery

Nice little profile

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

Tomato by Shibby

Updated version of the popular router firmware

2012-11-11 firmware • router • tomato

About OpenStreetMap

Great, detailed article about the recent OSM conference

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

World Color Survey visualization

Fun data on how people perceive and talk about color

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

Natural Earth v2.0.0

Fantastic global mapping dataset gets a major revision

2012-11-09 cartography • maps • stamen

McAfee Aerotrekking

crazy low flying sport

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

Project Orca failure

Republican vote-turnout app failed on election day

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

A really useful local news website, citizen journalism

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

Software for simulating color blindness

2012-11-09 accessibility • color

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

NMA on the elections

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

Early picture transmission technologies

2012-11-08 fax • images • technology

Maps Before Maps

Cartography 1000-1300

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

PG&E Green Button Connect

Third party data access to energy usage

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

AT&T leaving copper

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

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

Clever physics / locomotion game

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

Sandy network outages

Visualization of hurricane's impact on the Internet

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

China hacking report

Global attacks drop by more than half during Chinese national holidays

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

Nevada City observatory

Enthusiast builds a serious astronomy site in the Sierra foothills

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

Making 512 Paths

Mike Bostock divulges some of his D3 visualization process

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

Monkeybrains - Wireless

An urban wireless ISP, using 5.8GHz links

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

512 Paths to the White House

All the possibilities for the election

2012-11-03 d3js • election • visualization