Nelson's Linkblog 2013-02

about • archive • mastodon • feed

New Stuxnet info

dates back to 2005

2013-02-28 badtech • iran • malware • stuxnet

North Dakota fracking

good map + graphics

2013-02-28 energy • environment • maps • oil

d3js + GeoJSON + WebGL

another way to draw maps

2013-02-25 d3js • maps • migurski

Bypassing Google Two-Factor Auth

Security startup finds some design flaws in Google's security protocols

2013-02-25 badtech • security • startup • tfa • twofactor

Make for visualization data

Some times the old tools are the best tools

2013-02-24 data • management • visualization

Nokia Maps developer

Provider of maps to Bing has a direct developer program

2013-02-23 developer • maps • nokia

Possible FAA cuts

List of ATC towers at risk of sequestration; pretty much all the smaller airports in NorCal, among others

2013-02-23 aviation • budget • faa • flying

Pertussis spreading

Negligent parents don't vaccinate their kids, other kids get sick.

2013-02-22 batshitinsane • pertussis • vaccine

Nearly finished book on how to use the Javascript visualization library

2013-02-22 alignedleft • book • d3 • d3js • javascript

Fantastic talk slides giving an overview of D3

2013-02-22 d3 • javascript • mapbox • presentation • tmcw

A More Perfect Union

Smithsonian exhibit on Japanese-American internment

2013-02-22 america • civilrights • japan • ww2

US Census screwed Japanese Americans

Old story, but the US Census gave up information for the horrible detention of 100,000 American citizens

2013-02-22 america • census • civilrights • internment

archive.org and BitCoin

Brewster's going to pay employees partially in BitCoin

2013-02-22 archiveorg • batshitinsane • bitcoin • brewsterkahle

Run arbitrary programs by generating page faults on an x86 MMU

2013-02-22 clever • hack • rootkit • via:hackernews • x86

Duke Nukem 3D Code Review

Looking at the source for an old, important game

2013-02-22 dukenukem • games • source

NMA on Chinese hacks

As usual, NMA sets the record straight

2013-02-21 china • hack • nma

A new Javascript library for consistent object manipulation

2013-02-20 javascript • programming • underscorejs

Rope factory vs SF map

Interesting history of a weird corner of Dogpatch

2013-02-20 dogpatch • history • maps • railroad • sanfrancisco • sf

Amit Patel profile

Friend from Google had history developing BBS games

2013-02-19 amitp • games • google • solarrealmselite

The US Needs A New Spectrum Policy

Wise words from Fred Wilson

2013-02-19 bandwidth • spectrum • vc

Suter (computer program)

Air Force cyberwar program to disrupt air defenses

2013-02-19 badtech • cyberwar • military • usaf

Kicking off 2013 at MapBox

Roundup of what the hot mapping company has been doing lately

2013-02-19 developmentseed • mapbox • maps • osm • tilemill

Mandiant reports

Security firm's research; featured item today is the Chinese Army attackers (APT 1)

2013-02-19 badtech • china • mandiant • security

Chinese Army hackers

amazing, detailed overview of the activities of one Chinese Army unit hacking US companies and infrastructure

2013-02-19 61398 • badtech • china • commentcrew • cyberwarfare • mandiant • military • security

Hadoop for OSM data

Migurski breaks down how to use parallel EC2 instances to do big work on OSM data

2013-02-19 aws • ec2 • hadoop • maps • osm

Right Zoom for Mac

Fix the stupid green window button to do something consistent

2013-02-18 macos • via:onethingwell • windows

Travis continuous integration

Cloud service that runs tests for GitHub projects

2013-02-18 integration • javascript • programming • python • testing • tests

Ode to Crusader Kings II

Overlooked strategy game has some interesting story telling

2013-02-18 europe • games • medieval • stories

How the idea of code is lost

@tmcw goes diving into an unpublished paper to recover a statistical algorithm

2013-02-18 code • javascript • jenks • mapbox • research • statistics

Unicode art via Twitter

2013-02-18 art • twitter • unicode

Chris Hadfield AMA

Canadian astronaut on the ISS does an awesome "ask me anything"

2013-02-18 ama • astronaut • hadfield • iama • reddit • space

A blog collecting rumors of Blizzard's new MMO

2013-02-17 blizzard • games • mmo • projecttitan

Cretan pederasty

Ancient form of courtship

2013-02-17 crete • gay • sex

Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte

16th century boy-toy for Pope Julius III

2013-02-17 gay • history • pope • scandal • sex • vatican

Sexually active popes

Celibacy is not eternal

2013-02-17 catholic • celibacy • gay • pope

Randomized GIFs from Youtube videos

2013-02-16 generative • gifs • via:metafilter

ISO 12233 Test Chart

Standard image for examining cameras an lenses

2013-02-16 camera • iso12233 • lens • sharpness

Harlem Shake explained

Great research into the history of the meme

2013-02-16 harlemshake • memes • music • via:waxy • videos

Gay Porn Lo-Fi mix

music from 70s/80s gay porn films made into a mixtape. It's pretty good! Mostly SFW.

2013-02-16 disco • gay • music • porn • via:metafilter

Photo calibration targets

Artifacts on the ground for testing aerial and satellite imagery

2013-02-16 aerial • googlemaps • newaesthetic • photography • satellite

Mapping Twitter in African cities

Emergent maps of major cities in Africa

2013-02-16 accra • africa • cairo • lagos • maps • mogadishu • twitter

Boomerang for Gmail

Take a message out of your inbox, bring it back later.

2013-02-15 email • gmail • google • productivity

Roku/Plex slow start

Remarkably useful thread about a video performance problem. (Known bug, fix not yet released)

2013-02-15 plex • roku • video

Games in Mac Parallels

Benchmarks on how games play via virtualization. (Still badly, it looks.)

2013-02-15 games • mac • parallels • vm

Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs

3000 year old art in northwestern China; highly erotic

2013-02-15 archaeology • art • china • erotic • petroglyphs • sex

wrk http load tool

Modern version of abench, generate lots of HTTP load

2013-02-15 benchmarking • http • performance • testing • via:nat • webserver

Michael Paul Cole

Photographic artist

2013-02-14 art • frames • hannibal • photography • photos • pnw

Woodcut print artist

2013-02-14 art • california • print • woodblock • woodcut

Nice list of properties, etc

2013-02-14 d3 • d3js • javascript • reference • svg

Useless and unreliable

2013-02-14 badtech • compass • funny • geo • iphone

"Chubby Checker"

Funniest trademark case I've heard of in years

2013-02-14 chubbychecker • funny • hp • legal • penis • trademark

Startup gets screwed by a VC never quite wiring the funds

2013-02-14 benchmark • startups • venturecapital • via:hackernews

System Shock 2 Comes To GOG

Interview with the game preservationists

2013-02-13 games • gog • systemshock • systemshock2

Steve Coast (the OSM guy) is making prints of GPS traces

2013-02-13 art • gps • maps • osm

CocktailTime archive

Someone's made a copy of Wired's awesome old cocktail website

2013-02-13 cocktails • harrington • hotwired • wired

Official DPRK reports on nuclear test

KCNA / Korea News Service, the official North Korean press release outfit

2013-02-13 korea • northkorea • nuclear

Fake screenshot used to promote a computer game

2013-02-13 bullshit • games • screenshots

Javascript to work around the annoying CSS prefix process

2013-02-13 css • javascript • via:onethingwell

Nouveau riche in North Korea

Interesting update on the impact of the black market in Pyongyang

2013-02-12 korea • northkorea • pyongyang

Inside the Battle of Hoth

"While I’m not comparing the Rebel Alliance to al-Qaida or the Galactic Empire to the United States"

2013-02-12 funny • movies • starwars

Color generator

2013-02-11 color • design • via:hackernews • visualization

National Atlas 1:1m

Collected geodata sets from the US government

2013-02-11 geodata • gis • maps • usgs

US Atlas TopoJSON

Bostock's tools for making map data

2013-02-11 geodata • geojson • gis • maps • topojson

Death of the 4th Amendment

Complete privacy invasion by Homeland Security

2013-02-11 civilrights • constitution • dhs • homeland • privacy

Raster Reprojection in D3

Quick demo of a straightforward raster reprojection

2013-02-11 d3 • d3js • geo • javascript • maps • projection

Slippy map library based on D3

2013-02-11 d3 • d3js • maps • migurski

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Lovely collection of stills

2013-02-11 movies • russmeyer • varla • via:metafilter

Open Weather Map

Open weather data, nice overlay maps

2013-02-10 maps • opendata • weather

ESRI shapefile parser in JS

Nice bit of work from Mike Bostock

2013-02-10 esri • geo • geojson • gis • javascript • ogr2ogr • shapefile

node.js / v8: 1GB limit

Buffers are limited to about 1GB in size

2013-02-10 javascript • nodejs • v8

Close your HTML tags!

Funny little HTML error; text keeps getting bigger

2013-02-09 bug • funny • html

Secret drone base in OSM

OpenStreetMap started mapping the secret drone base in Saudi Arabia 15 minutes after the news was published

2013-02-09 drone • maps • military • openstreetmap • osm • saudiarabia

Amazing 3d-guessing camera demo; pixel brightness translates to depth

2013-02-09 3d • camera • via:hackernews

American drone base

Bing aerial imagery shows a secret base in Saudi Arabia

2013-02-08 america • drones • military • saudiarabia

Linux running in Javascript, via a PC emulator

2013-02-08 emulation • javascript • linux • qemu

So I got really into TRAPSTEP

Even worse than Brostep, and yet you love it

2013-02-08 brostep • dubstep • funny • music • trapstep • via:metafilter

Harlem Shake v3

The dance craze that's sweeping the nation

2013-02-08 funny • maker • music • trap • via:metafilter

Reddit gets one of the deans of American TV journalism

2013-02-08 danrather • journalism • nbc • news • reddit

Chrome extension that shows which tab is making noise and lets you stop it

2013-02-07 chrome • extension • mute • sound

Holovaty on EveryBlock shutdown

He left in August, but seems to be a coincidence

2013-02-07 everyblock • nbc • shutdown • startup

Goonwaffe Stories

Eve Online corp releases a hysterical pulp-scifi style guide to the game

2013-02-07 eveonline • funny • games • pulp

Lil Kim Surgery

Amazing example of body dysmorphia

2013-02-07 batshitinsane • freakshow • lilkim • music • plasticsurgery • surgery

Live Javascript tutorials for 6502 assembly

2013-02-07 6502 • apple2 • assembly • coding • via:hackernews

Beyoncé vs Buzzfeed

lulzy screencaps unpopular with publicist

2013-02-07 beyonce • funny • music • superbowl

Random Cooper Hewitt

A little arty thing I did with the Cooper-Hewitt API

2013-02-06 aaron • aaronstraupcope • cooperhewitt • design • javascript

Good overview of one of my favorite Japanese foods

2013-02-06 drunk • food • japan • okonomiyaki

PGP timestamping service

Someone's been running a crypto timestamp service since 1995!

2013-02-06 cryptography • longevity • pgp • timestamp

New forum software from the StackExchange folks

2013-02-06 community • forum • phpbb

Pirate hacks of Africa

Interesting remix culture

2013-02-06 africa • games • kenya • mashup • remix • via:metafilter

Beautifully detailed analysis of the iOS jailbreak

2013-02-06 apple • ios • iphone • jailbreak • security

A lovely Eric Fischer image; tweets snapped to the OSM street grid

2013-02-06 maps • openstreetmap • osm • sanfrancisco • visualization

An old 4k rendering demo ported to WebGL. All rendered realtime in a tiny amount of code.

2013-02-05 demo • demoscene • javascript • via:waxy • webgl

Gay military academy photo

Sweet pictures of a young couple's date

2013-02-05 dadt • equalrights • gay • military

Mistakes Javascript tool

Show Javascript code along with the output of each line as it executes

2013-02-05 gist • javascript • programming

Iran's fake fighter

Demo of a fighter jet seems to just be a model

2013-02-05 aviation • funny • iran • via:hackernews

HTML5 / Javascript video and audio conferencing. It actually works, at least in Chrome

2013-02-05 chat • chrome • html5 • skype • via:waxy • videophone • webrtc

iOS 6.x jailbreak

Our long national nightmare is finally over

2013-02-04 iphone • jailbreak • via:hackernews

D3 vs Typescript

Notes from Migursky's explorations

2013-02-04 d3 • javascript

Aaron on reverse geocoding

Following on Kellan's thoughts, a sort of plan for action

2013-02-04 flickr • geo • geocoding • gis

2013-02-04 heatmap • javascript • via:hackernews • visualization • webgl

State of reverse geocoding

Notes from Kellan on a hard problem

2013-02-03 flickr • geo • geocoding

Super Bowl snipers

America is a fucked up place

2013-02-03 batshitinsane • guns • security • superbowl

Chrome SPDY indicator

See which sites are using the new protocol

2013-02-03 chrome • http • performance • spdy

High Performance Networking in Google Chrome

Excellent, clear overview of how Chrome goes fast

2013-02-03 chrome • google • networking • performance

Free complete HP Lovecraft

Kindle, EPUB, PDF, etc. All the work is (probably) out of copyright

2013-02-02 books • cthulhu • horror • kindle • lovecraft

Great Circle Arc Intersections

Cute little D3 visualization / test

2013-02-02 d3 • geometry

Notch on being rich

Sweet comment from the game designer who is rolling in money

2013-02-02 games • minecraft • notch • wealth

Super Bowl wifi

The mess trying to make Wifi work for 30,000 people in a small place

2013-02-01 802.11n • superbowl • wifi

Grand Central Terminal

Lovely set of photos

2013-02-01 architecture • grandcentral • newyork • trainstation

Evol street art

Interesting series; little apartment buildings

2013-02-01 art • berlin • streetart • via:metafilter

Microsoft makes it easier to test on their proprietary browser

2013-02-01 browser • ie • microsoft • msie • vm • web

Perspective on Google's North Korea map

National Geographic speaks

2013-02-01 google • maps • nationalgeographic • northkorea