China hacks NYT

Foreign military vs US newspaper company

2013-01-31 badtech • china • hacking • nytimes

multiprocessing Basics

Nice Python tutorial

2013-01-31 concurrency • multiprocessing • python • via:kelso

Rails / YAML security flaw

The far reaching impact of a basic security design flaw

2013-01-31 badtech • rails • security • via:mbostock • yaml

Lens/Camera sharpness

Interesting use of data from photographers

2013-01-31 cameras • lenses • photography • photos

Mercator Puzzle!

Funny demo of projection distortions

2013-01-30 distortions • funny • maps • projections

Zonebox

A simple time management app for timeboxing

2013-01-30 mac • productivity • timemanagement • via:onethingwell

Infinite Street View

Simple viewer for Google Street View images as flat photos

2013-01-30 cities • google • maps • streetview

Unicode table

Nicely done presentation of all of Unicode

2013-01-30 table • unicode

Modem spectogram

Nice visualization of acoustic modem signalling

2013-01-30 modem • spectogram • via:hackernews

Digg

Redesigned, remarkably good link aggregator

2013-01-30 digg • news • via:kottke • web

migurski/d3map

Alternate D3 map tiles implementation

2013-01-30 d3js • maps • slippy • stamen

Why D3.js is so great

Nice summary of why this Javascript library has been so successful

2013-01-30 d3 • d3js • javascript • visualization

Tweet ping

Real time map visualization of live tweets

2013-01-30 firehose • map • realtime • twitter

Get Big Dick

"Boys --- a real rapid fire machine gun"

2013-01-29 ads • funny • guns • history • penis

Javascript Promises

Simple examples of a new asynchronous Javascript idiom

2013-01-29 async • asynchronous • javascript • via:hackernews

PHP: a fractal of bad design

A summary rant of all the things wrong with PHP

2013-01-29 badtech • php • programming • rant • via:mbostock

Google Map Maker is closed data

The problem with Google's map making

2013-01-29 freedom • google • maps • opendata • openstreetmap • osm

Being general counsel, by @amac

Twitter's amazing in house lawyer talks about the job

2013-01-29 ethics • legal • twitter

Lykovs of Siberia

Isolated family living alone

2013-01-29 hermits • russia • siberia • sovietunion • taiga

Google Maps North Korea

Citizen cartographers, proprietary edition

2013-01-29 google • maps • northkorea • openstreetmap • osm

Instagram vs Vine

It's funny because it's true!

2013-01-29 comic • funny • instagram • twitter • via:torrez • vine

Donuts on I-880

Saturday afternoon, middle of Oakland, major freeway shut down

2013-01-28 batshitinsane • cars • drifting • oakland

jsongeo

Github repository of various useful geographic data files

2013-01-28 geo • geojson • gis • json • topojson

FotoForensics

Online tool to try to detect manipulated images

2013-01-27 analysis • jpeg • photography • photos • photoshop

Newegg vs patent troll

Successfully litigated against a claim to own shopping carts

2013-01-27 newegg • patents • via:hackernews

Technoviking lawsuit

When memes go to court

2013-01-27 legal • technoviking • via:metafilter • youtube

$20,000 space game fight

Major brawl in Eve Online blows up a whole lot of ships

2013-01-27 ccp • eve • eveonline • games • goonswarm

Delphi compiler malware

Interesting virus targets a Windows compiler

2013-01-27 delphi • malware • strangeloop • thompson • virus

Central Valley broadband project

Bringing a big ass fiber cable through lots of rural california

2013-01-26 broadband • california • cvngbip • internet • nevadacounty

@BeijingAir

US embassy's unauthorized air quality monitoring from Beijing

2013-01-26 beijing • china • embassy • pollution

America's housing patterns

Great collection of aerial imagery

2013-01-25 aerial • architecture • housing • urbanism • via:metafilter

A Month with Apple's Fusion Drive

Some data on how it performs

2013-01-25 apple • ssd • storage

forwarding mail to Gmail

Tips on how to not confuse Gmail's spam filter

2013-01-24 email • forwarding • gmail • smtp • spam

Moonpath to Elsweyr

Skyrim fan quests, supposed to be good

2013-01-24 games • skyrim

Cheers from space

Invader's blog; French street artist

2013-01-24 art • france • invader • paris • spaceinvader • streetart

Actual Facebook Graph Searches

Search engines can be creepy

2013-01-23 facebook • privacy • search

Trendnet Exposed

Webcam is insecure by default; here's a map of a bunch of public access cameras

2013-01-22 maps • panopticon • security • webcams

Brewster Engineering

Blog from the New York startup doing better address books

2013-01-22 blog • brewster • code • engineering

New Eden Behind the Great Firewall

Notes from the Chinese version of Eve Online

2013-01-22 ccp • china • eveonline • games

Github blocked from China

Possibly the whole site was blocked to take down a single Javascript file

2013-01-22 china • freedom • github • programming

OldSchoolCool

A surprisingly good Reddit collection of photos

2013-01-21 cool • history • photos

Tron Legacy graphics

Notes from a visual artist

2013-01-21 tron • art • movies • via:hackernews

Why flat design?

Argument that high DPI displays end the need for skeuomorphic chicanery

2013-01-19 apple • design • ios

Subway pls respond

viral anti-advertising

2013-01-17 facebook • food • subway

js.geo wrapup

Nice notes from the Javascript/geography hacking event

2013-01-17 geo • gis • javascript

Is Scientology Self-Destructing?

Detailed investigation into Ideal Org real estate fundraising scams

2013-01-16 fraud • realestate • scientology • via:metafilter

OAuth in Javascript

The MapBox guys just don't stop delivering amazing code

2013-01-15 javascript • mapbox • oauth

Facebook graph search

Overview of Facebook finally doing search

2013-01-15 facebook • google • search

Migurski moving on

Reflections from a former Stamen guy

2013-01-15 career • design • migurski • stamen

Archive.is

Web service for archiving web pages at a specific moment. Handles Javascript

2013-01-15 archive • javascript • web

NGC / IC project

Cleaning and improving an important database of deep sky objets

2013-01-14 astronomy • data • dss • stars

Commonwealth of America

Alternate map based on watersheds

2013-01-14 america • maps • water

Drawing Water

Visualization of watershed flows and usage

2013-01-14 maps • visualization • water • watershed

IAmA a former nuclear missile officer

Fascinating questions for a guy who lived in a bunker with the death of the world at his fingers

2013-01-14 airforce • bunker • nuclear • reddit

Stamen changes

SF's smartest design firm has some turnover

2013-01-14 migurski • software • stamen

Aaron Swartz details

WSJ gets an interview, more background

2013-01-14 aaron • aaronswartz • justice • suicide

Deslidefied HTML

Web tool for turning a stupid web slideshow into a single web page

2013-01-14 content • slides • slideshow • web

Beijing smog pictures

China's own LA!

2013-01-13 beijing • china • pollution

Eric Schmidt looking at things

In the North Korean tradition

2013-01-13 ericschmidt • google • northkorea

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

An unauthorized collection of public domain papers

2013-01-12 academics • copyright • jstor • publishing • science

Lessig on Aaron Swartz

Righteous anger

2013-01-12 aaronsw • aaronswartz • justice • lessig

The HYG Database

A simple list of 120,000 important stars

2013-01-11 astronomy • data

Death Gambling

Crazy China story about gambling on when terminal patients die

2013-01-11 china • death • gambling

SunCalc

Simple overlay on Google Maps showing sun position during the day

2013-01-10 astronomy • maps • photography • sun

Working with Lindsey Lohan

Great story from the set of a microbudget film

2013-01-10 lilo • linseylohan • movies • via:metafilter

MonoGame

open source XNA implementation; used to build .NET games for Macs

2013-01-09 .net • games • macos • mono

When your house is burning down, you should brush your teeth

Particularly poignant web comic

2013-01-09 cats • comic

MCServer

Alternate Minecraft server in C++

2013-01-09 games • minecraft • server

Women as Academic Authors

Great data / visualization

2013-01-08 gender • infovis • via:flowingdata • writing

iOS Google Maps glitches

Interesting analysis of how Google does the rendering

2013-01-08 google • ios • maps

Guide to Reddit

Metafilter user has useful tips for making Reddit better

2013-01-07 community • metafilter • reddit

ASCIIcam

Webcam turned to ASCII art, all Javascript

2013-01-06 asciiart • cam • fun • hack • javascript

PlayOnMac

Another WINE packager for PC games on Macs

2013-01-06 games • mac • pc • wine

Beamer for Mac

Simple way to play video on AppleTV

2013-01-05 appletv • mac • via:onethingwell • video

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

a clever bit of Python

2013-01-05 code • python • via:migurski

CartoDB + D3

Nice embracing of D3 by a geo company

2013-01-05 cartodb • d3 • geodata • gis • javascript

Node.js memory leak tools

Ways to track Javascript leaks

2013-01-05 debugging • javascript • memory • performance

Long live IRC

Stats on the Other Internet system

2013-01-04 chat • irc • via:hackernews

Microsoft astroturfing

Some of the dirty PR tricks Microsoft employs

2013-01-04 antitrust • ftc • google • microsoft • pr

Warhol Geldzahler Hockney Goodman

Amazing photo by Dennis Hopper

2013-01-04 art • hockney • photo • warhol

20 Apple ][ games

Great little bit of nostalgia

2013-01-03 apple • apple2 • games

Another SSL cert disaster

Turkish authority issues too powerful CA certificates

2013-01-03 badtech • google • security • ssl

Keybindings for D3

easy code

2013-01-03 code • d3 • javascript

Homosockuality

Old network protocol error; sockets had to have different parity on the port number

2013-01-02 funny • gay • network

Kibera life

Narrative of life in a Nairobi slum

2013-01-01 kenya • kibera • nairobi • slums