Nelson's Linkblog 2012-12

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Making a map in D3

From shapefile to Javascript map

2012-12-31 d3 • javascript • maps • projections

Generative music programming

2012-12-31 music • programming • software

Congressional incompetence

Squabbling children fiddle while the empire smolders

2012-12-31 america • fiscalcliff • politics • taxes

Las Cumbres telescopes

Wayne Rosing's project to build a network of robotic telescopes

2012-12-31 astronomy • google • science • telescopes • waynerosing

Plane crash from car

Moscow runway overrun

2012-12-29 aviation • crash • moscow • russia

Old computer ads

Mintner's take on the golden age of 80s computer advertising

2012-12-29 80s • ads • funny

Politicians unhappy they have to be at work since they didn't finish their job last week, or last month, or last year

2012-12-28 fiscalcliff • funny • politics

improved vmstat/iostat/etc

2012-12-28 linux • monitoring • sysadmin • via:onethingwell

The Chinese social game that Farmville ripped off; it's dying too

2012-12-28 china • farmville • games • zynga

Crowdsourced images of Jupiter, building a historical record of the planet's atmosphere

2012-12-28 astronomy • jupiter

Ennio Morricone's awesome soundtrack for Space: 1999

2012-12-27 morricone • music • space1999 • via:celeste

Twitter is an MMO game, who knew?

2012-12-26 games • mmos • twitter

A direct Linus flame

Great email tearing apart someone who broke the Linux kernel and then blamed the user

2012-12-26 flame • funny • kernel • linus • linux

Chrome extension to make the noise stop in other tabs

2012-12-23 ads • chrome • extensions • noise

Long-time GNU contributor explains why he's leaving GNU

2012-12-22 fsf • gnu • opensource • via:hackernews

Saturn’s night side

Details of the amazing Cassini image

2012-12-22 cassini • saturn • spacecraft • via:metafilter

Screenshot-proof images

Clever if horrible idea

2012-12-22 images • screenshots • via:hackernews

Excellent little animated GIF

2012-12-22 baseball • curveball • knuckleball • pitching

JJ Abrams in Six Degrees of Separation

He was an actor!

2012-12-21 acting • jjabrams • movies

Intellectual Ventures' shell companies

Some digging into the patent troll's legal trickery

2012-12-21 badtech • myhrvold • patents

Interesting web design for a multimedia article

2012-12-20 avalanche • multimedia • nytimes • via:mikeb

3am Sutro workers

Beautiful animated GIF

2012-12-20 gifs • images • sanfrancisco • sutro • sutrotower

Dragon's Tale BitCoin game

Gambling MMO from the Tale in the Desert team

2012-12-20 bitcoin • games • mmos

Kodak patent sale

$525M by two patent trolls, including Google and Apple

2012-12-19 apple • google • kodak • patents • via:hackernews

Bulletproof Backpacks.. for kids!

America is an insane nation

2012-12-18 batshitinsane • children • guns • kids • nra

Friendship is Optimal

Fascinating novella about the Singularity as realized via My Little Pony

2012-12-18 fiction • games • mmos • ponies • scifi • singularity

Hangi geography

Rocks from Maori ovens have a record of earth's magnetisation

2012-12-17 earth • geology • hangi • magnetism • maori • newzealand • science

Requests for Python

Humane HTTP library

2012-12-17 code • http • python • requests • web

A pretty butterfly

Great little panel set from Watchmen

2012-12-17 comics • rorschach • watchmen

You Are Not Your Code

Touching reflection from the Prototype developer

2012-12-16 identity • javascript • opensource • prototype

About astrometry.net

Interview with the creator

2012-12-16 astrometrics • astronomy • flickr • photography • via:mattc

Upload a photo of the night sky and it figures out where you were

2012-12-16 astrometrics • astronomy • photography • photos

Instagram chicanery

Questions about the negotiations around the Facebook acquisition

2012-12-16 facebook • instagram • twitter

Lifespan (Atari 400)

Arty game from 1983, the designer now lives in Grass Valley

2012-12-16 atari • games • grassvalley

Mapping with D3

Simple intro to starting with D3's geo capabilities

2012-12-16 d3 • javascript • maps

Fun set of math / programming problems

2012-12-15 exercises • math • programming • science

A/C hum as clock

Pervasive electrical hum is unique, provides timestamps on recordings

2012-12-12 audio • crime • electricity • forensics

Girls of the Internet (1996)

SFW edit of embarrassingly bad Playboy video

2012-12-11 1996 • funny • internet • playboy • porn

Bring GIS to Sqlite

2012-12-11 database • geo • gis • sqlite

Physics + DOM = lol

2012-12-11 box2d • dom • games • jquery • via:hackernews

Glitch shutdown

Honoring the players

2012-12-10 flickr • games • glitch • mmos

node.js webapp framework

2012-12-10 javascript • node • nodejs • server • via:mbostock • webapp

North Korea's customized KDE/Linux distro

2012-12-10 dprk • korea • linux • northkorea

Arduino power meter monitor

Watches the flashing light on his power meter

2012-12-10 arduino • hacks • pge • power

Power plant map

Interesting data, too bad they didn't scale by production

2012-12-09 energy • maps • power

Ultima Ratio Regum

Roguelike from the Dwarf Fortress school of complexity; very early alpha

2012-12-08 dwarffortress • games • roguelike • via:metafilter

Game of Thrones visualization

Ambitious depiction of characters through the books

2012-12-08 books • d3 • gameofthrones • visualization

Mac/Unix daemon recording data on how you use your computer

2012-12-07 data • quantifiedself • via:mariuswatz

Python wrapper for USGS river data

2012-12-07 hydrography • maps • python • rivers • usgs

Twitter: @ottoperezmolina mcafee

People asking the president of Guatemala to give asylum to a man wanted for murder

2012-12-06 mcafee • batshitinsane • belize • guatemala • twitter

3d graphics in the DOM, implemented as WebGL

2012-12-06 3d • d3 • dom • graphics • webgl

bl.ocks.org - mbostock

Mike's amazing collection of hacks, mostly D3 visualizations

2012-12-06 code • d3 • examples • javascript • mbostock

Clever roguelike platformer

2012-12-06 games • roguelike

Eve Online in China

The complex story of bringing the popular space MMO to China

2012-12-06 ccp • china • eve • eveonline • games

Vectrex Regeneration

iOS emulator for the funky old console game platform

2012-12-06 games • ios • iphone • vectrex

Web-based HTTP client useful for debugging

2012-12-06 debugging • http • via:onethingwell • web

MIG in the middle

Practical MITM attack involving air defense

2012-12-05 aviation • iff • military • mitm • security • southafrica

Script your Android phone to automatically do things based on your location. Small Microsoft side project

2012-12-05 android • geo • geolocation • microsoft • mobile

Nevada County tech companies

Not complete, but a good list

2012-12-05 california • grassvalley • nevadacounty

Borderlando Calrissian

Funny game comic

2012-12-05 borderlands • games • lando • starwars

iOS app price history

Search for the historical pricing on apps

2012-12-05 apps • ios • market • pricing

Google Earth Engine

Access Google's geospatial data warehouse and write code to analyze it

2012-12-05 gis • google • maps

2012-12-04 editors • emacs • via:peter • vim

Software for combining multiple astronomical exposures

2012-12-04 astronomy • exposure • images • software

MapBox Satellite

Free, open satellite/aerial imagery of the earth

2012-12-04 mapbox • maps • openstreetmap • osm

Set of worksheets teaching git

2012-12-03 git • tutorial

South Yuba running high

Whole lot of water after this storm

2012-12-03 flood • grassvalley • river • water • yubariver

Cleaned up hydrography GIS data

2012-12-02 gis • hydrography • nhd • rivers

John McAfee update

Crazily detailed NYT report on the man's recent life

2012-12-02 mcafee • batshitinsane • belize

Civilian drone crashes

Terrible report of US malfeasance in civilian airspace in other countries

2012-12-01 aviation • djibouti • drones • q • seychelles • uavs • via:hackernews

The Prediction and The Result

Thoughtful comments on Nate Silvers and Sandy flood predictions

2012-12-01 prediction • probability • statistics • visualization

Glitch Postmortem

Great interview with Stewart

2012-12-01 flickr • games • glitch • shutdown

Drowning California

Timely article about massive amounts of moisture that comes in to California

2012-12-01 california • flooding • weather

Harsh Bing ad against Google, specifically Google Shopping

2012-12-01 ads • bing • google • microsoft • search

iTunes needs to die

Never ceases to amaze me how awful Apple's gateway software is

2012-12-01 apple • badtech • itunes • software