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Making a map in D3
From shapefile to Javascript map
2012-12-31 maps • projections • d3 • javascript
SuperCollider
Generative music programming
2012-12-31 music • software • programming
Congressional incompetence
Squabbling children fiddle while the empire smolders
2012-12-31 america • politics • taxes • fiscalcliff
Las Cumbres telescopes
Wayne Rosing's project to build a network of robotic telescopes
2012-12-31 astronomy • telescopes • science • google • waynerosing
Plane crash from car
Moscow runway overrun
2012-12-29 moscow • russia • aviation • crash
Old computer ads
Mintner's take on the golden age of 80s computer advertising
2012-12-29 ads • funny • 80s
Whiny senators
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 politics • fiscalcliff • funny
dstat
improved vmstat/iostat/etc
2012-12-28 via:onethingwell • monitoring • linux • sysadmin
Happy Farm
The Chinese social game that Farmville ripped off; it's dying too
2012-12-28 zynga • games • china • farmville
JUPOS
Crowdsourced images of Jupiter, building a historical record of the planet's atmosphere
2012-12-28 jupiter • astronomy
Spazio 1999
Ennio Morricone's awesome soundtrack for Space: 1999
2012-12-27 music • morricone • space1999 • via:celeste
Tweeria
Twitter is an MMO game, who knew?
2012-12-26 twitter • mmos • games
A direct Linus flame
Great email tearing apart someone who broke the Linux kernel and then blamed the user
2012-12-26 linux • kernel • linus • flame • funny
MuteTab
Chrome extension to make the noise stop in other tabs
2012-12-23 chrome • noise • ads • extensions
On leaving GNU
Long-time GNU contributor explains why he's leaving GNU
2012-12-22 gnu • fsf • opensource • via:hackernews
Saturn’s night side
Details of the amazing Cassini image
2012-12-22 cassini • saturn • via:metafilter • spacecraft
Screenshot-proof images
Clever if horrible idea
2012-12-22 images • screenshots • via:hackernews
Knuckle ball
Excellent little animated GIF
2012-12-22 baseball • pitching • curveball • knuckleball
JJ Abrams in Six Degrees of Separation
He was an actor!
2012-12-21 movies • acting • jjabrams
Intellectual Ventures' shell companies
Some digging into the patent troll's legal trickery
2012-12-21 patents • badtech • myhrvold
Snow Fall
Interesting web design for a multimedia article
2012-12-20 multimedia • nytimes • via:mikeb • avalanche
3am Sutro workers
Beautiful animated GIF
2012-12-20 images • gifs • sutrotower • sutro • sanfrancisco
Dragon's Tale BitCoin game
Gambling MMO from the Tale in the Desert team
2012-12-20 games • mmos • bitcoin
Kodak patent sale
$525M by two patent trolls, including Google and Apple
2012-12-19 google • apple • kodak • patents • via:hackernews
Bulletproof Backpacks.. for kids!
America is an insane nation
2012-12-18 children • nra • kids • guns • batshitinsane
Friendship is Optimal
Fascinating novella about the Singularity as realized via My Little Pony
2012-12-18 ponies • games • mmos • scifi • singularity • fiction
Hangi geography
Rocks from Maori ovens have a record of earth's magnetisation
2012-12-17 science • newzealand • maori • hangi • magnetism • earth • geology
Requests for Python
Humane HTTP library
2012-12-17 python • code • requests • http • web
A pretty butterfly
Great little panel set from Watchmen
2012-12-17 watchmen • comics • rorschach
You Are Not Your Code
Touching reflection from the Prototype developer
2012-12-16 javascript • prototype • identity • opensource
About astrometry.net
Interview with the creator
2012-12-16 via:mattc • photography • astronomy • astrometrics • flickr
Astrometry.net
Upload a photo of the night sky and it figures out where you were
2012-12-16 photography • photos • astronomy • astrometrics
Instagram chicanery
Questions about the negotiations around the Facebook acquisition
2012-12-16 facebook • twitter • instagram
Lifespan (Atari 400)
Arty game from 1983, the designer now lives in Grass Valley
2012-12-16 games • grassvalley • atari
Mapping with D3
Simple intro to starting with D3's geo capabilities
2012-12-16 maps • d3 • javascript
Project Euler
Fun set of math / programming problems
2012-12-15 math • programming • science • exercises
A/C hum as clock
Pervasive electrical hum is unique, provides timestamps on recordings
2012-12-12 audio • crime • forensics • electricity
Girls of the Internet (1996)
SFW edit of embarrassingly bad Playboy video
2012-12-11 playboy • internet • 1996 • porn • funny
SpatiaLite
Bring GIS to Sqlite
2012-12-11 sqlite • gis • geo • database
box2d-jquery
Physics + DOM = lol
2012-12-11 via:hackernews • box2d • dom • jquery • games
Glitch shutdown
Honoring the players
2012-12-10 games • glitch • mmos • flickr
Express
node.js webapp framework
2012-12-10 webapp • nodejs • node • javascript • server • via:mbostock
Red Star OS
North Korea's customized KDE/Linux distro
2012-12-10 linux • korea • northkorea • dprk
Arduino power meter monitor
Watches the flashing light on his power meter
2012-12-10 arduino • hacks • power • pge
Power plant map
Interesting data, too bad they didn't scale by production
2012-12-09 maps • power • energy
Ultima Ratio Regum
Roguelike from the Dwarf Fortress school of complexity; very early alpha
2012-12-08 games • dwarffortress • roguelike • via:metafilter
Game of Thrones visualization
Ambitious depiction of characters through the books
2012-12-08 visualization • d3 • books • gameofthrones
selfspy
Mac/Unix daemon recording data on how you use your computer
2012-12-07 quantifiedself • data • via:mariuswatz
usgs-api
Python wrapper for USGS river data
2012-12-07 maps • rivers • usgs • hydrography • python
Twitter: @ottoperezmolina mcafee
People asking the president of Guatemala to give asylum to a man wanted for murder
2012-12-06 McAfee • belize • guatemala • twitter • batshitinsane
X3DOM
3d graphics in the DOM, implemented as WebGL
2012-12-06 webgl • graphics • 3d • d3 • dom
bl.ocks.org - mbostock
Mike's amazing collection of hacks, mostly D3 visualizations
2012-12-06 d3 • javascript • mbostock • examples • code
Red Rogue
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 games • china • eveonline • eve • ccp
Vectrex Regeneration
iOS emulator for the funky old console game platform
2012-12-06 games • vectrex • ios • iphone
hurl.it
Web-based HTTP client useful for debugging
2012-12-06 via:onethingwell • http • web • debugging
MIG in the middle
Practical MITM attack involving air defense
2012-12-05 southafrica • military • mitm • security • iff • aviation
on{X}
Script your Android phone to automatically do things based on your location. Small Microsoft side project
2012-12-05 android • microsoft • mobile • geolocation • geo
Nevada County tech companies
Not complete, but a good list
2012-12-05 grassvalley • nevadacounty • california
Borderlando Calrissian
Funny game comic
2012-12-05 games • borderlands • starwars • lando
iOS app price history
Search for the historical pricing on apps
2012-12-05 apps • ios • pricing • market
Google Earth Engine
Access Google's geospatial data warehouse and write code to analyze it
2012-12-05 google • maps • gis
emacs vs vim
Search trends
2012-12-04 via:peter • editors • emacs • vim
RegiStax
Software for combining multiple astronomical exposures
2012-12-04 astronomy • software • images • exposure
MapBox Satellite
Free, open satellite/aerial imagery of the earth
2012-12-04 mapbox • maps • osm • openstreetmap
Git Immersion
Set of worksheets teaching git
2012-12-03 git • tutorial
South Yuba running high
Whole lot of water after this storm
2012-12-03 water • river • flood • yubariver • grassvalley
NHD Plus
Cleaned up hydrography GIS data
2012-12-02 gis • rivers • hydrography • nhd
John McAfee update
Crazily detailed NYT report on the man's recent life
2012-12-02 mcafee • belize • batshitinsane
Civilian drone crashes
Terrible report of US malfeasance in civilian airspace in other countries
2012-12-01 via:hackernews • drones • uavs • aviation • seychelles • djibouti • q
The Prediction and The Result
Thoughtful comments on Nate Silvers and Sandy flood predictions
2012-12-01 visualization • prediction • probability • statistics
Glitch Postmortem
Great interview with Stewart
2012-12-01 glitch • games • shutdown • flickr
Drowning California
Timely article about massive amounts of moisture that comes in to California
2012-12-01 california • weather • flooding
Scroogled
Harsh Bing ad against Google, specifically Google Shopping
2012-12-01 ads • google • bing • microsoft • search
iTunes needs to die
Never ceases to amaze me how awful Apple's gateway software is
2012-12-01 itunes • badtech • software • apple