Nelson's Linkblog 2013-04

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PhoneSat packets

Hey @raffi: NASA launched some tiny satellites and relied on hams to decode the data

2013-04-30 nasa • radio • satellite

Twitter Ads open to public

Anyone in the US can run a Twitter ad campaign now

2013-04-30 advertising • twitter

Space exploration history

Takes a bit of effort, but an amazing amount of space mission history in one interactive infographic

2013-04-30 astronomy • infovis • satellites • space • via:metafilter

Wikipedia has a structured database behind it

2013-04-29 data • wikipedia

Alibaba buys 18% of Weibo

Huge news in the Chinese Internet scene; as if eBay bought a bunch of Twitter

2013-04-29 alibaba • china • ebay • internet • investment • twitter • weibo

NBA player comes out

Nicely personal, honest story

2013-04-29 basketball • comingout • gay • nba

The world of online courses, who's investing and funding

2013-04-29 coursera • education • khanacademy • mooc • udacity

OpenStreetMap edits visualized

Cartograms show where people make edits

2013-04-29 enf • ericfischer • maps • openstreetmap

8-bit color palettes

Amazing collection of how early computers did color

2013-04-28 8bit • apple • color • via:migurski

For when you want a really hard to solve CAPTCHA

2013-04-28 captcha • funny • via:metafilter

Perry Van Arsdale maps

Interesting, idiosyncratic maps of US history

2013-04-28 history • indians • newmexico

Exploration of the cheap software radio devices

2013-04-28 gnuradio • radio • rtlsdr • sdr

HomeBrew GNURadio

make it easier to build GNURadio on a Mac

2013-04-26 gnuradio • mac • radio • rtlsdr • sdr

How Selections Work

Mike explains the central mystery of D3.js

2013-04-26 #d3js • d3 • javascript

Homecoming — Queer Life

Dana Danger talks about being queer and transgendered to her highschool

2013-04-26 gay • highschool • lgbtq • queer

Vile Rat profile

Lovely story about the Eve Online machinations of a State Department employee killed in Benghazi

2013-04-26 benghazi • eve • eveonline • games • terrorism • vilerat

Jones Street Tank

Attn @enf: Details of San Francisco's emergency firefighting water supply.

2013-04-25 firefighting • history • maps • sanfrancisco • water

Facebook social stats

Wolfram takes a crack at visualizing various social statistics

2013-04-25 facebook • socialmedia • visualization

5 baseball pitches

Nice use of overlaid video

2013-04-25 baseball • gif • pitching

John le Carré profile

A recent update on the novelist

2013-04-25 books • lecarre • spies

a bash prompt loaded to the gills, but tasteful

2013-04-24 bash • commandline • unix • via:onethingwell

Skyrim level design

Transcript of a GDC talk on modular dungeons

2013-04-24 bethesda • fallout • games • gdc • skyrim

Beijing air over 9 days

simple to understand image

2013-04-24 beijing • china • pollution • via:reddit

How to choose between two possible network protocols. Try both!

2013-04-24 internet • ipv6 • network • tcpip

Google IPv6 stats

Over 1% of Google's users now have IPv6 capability

2013-04-24 google • internet • ipv6 • tcpip

Raspberry Pi on QEMU

Simple way to get an Raspberry Pi running in emulation

2013-04-24 emulation • qemu • raspberrypi • raspbian • rpi

Transparent DNS proxy

Evil ISPs hijack all your DNS queries, substituting their own answers

2013-04-24 comcast • dns • evil • isp

software defined radio script for tracking airplane transponders

2013-04-23 1090s • aviation • radio • sdr • transponder

World Until Yesterday review

Anthropologist comments on Jared Diamond's new book

2013-04-23 anthropology • books • review

A Python interpreter written in Javascript, suitable for browser embedding

2013-04-23 code • javascript • programmign • python

Legality of Boston lockdown

Exploration of the constitutional issues of "shelter in place" and police searches

2013-04-23 boston • civilrights • police • safety

see.js debug tool

Simple shim to let you debug local state in a closure

2013-04-21 debugging • javascript • programming

Code for extracting the images from an .mbtiles file

2013-04-21 mapbox • maps • mbtiles

FM Radio Stations

List of US radio stations by location, frequency, power

2013-04-21 fcc • fm • radio • sdr • us

Edwardian England, 1900

great enhanced video

2013-04-20 edwardian • england • history • movie

Anatomy of false Boston rumor

Excellent analysis of how social media story went wrong

2013-04-20 boston • ethics • journalism • reddit • twitter

Twitter account alleged to belong to the younger of the Boston bombers

2013-04-20 boston • terrorism • twitter

Death of Upcoming.org

Another web product killed

2013-04-19 upcoming • waxy • yahoo

Ubuntu on a Mac Mini

Ubuntu 12.04 on a late-2012 Mac Mini. It's never simple.

2013-04-19 linux • mac • ubuntu

Boston under lockdown

Insane photos of what martial law in the US could look like

2013-04-19 boston • military • photos

Reddit lynch mob

Some thoughts on the irresponsible actions of Internet wannabes

2013-04-19 boston • journalism • reddit • rumor • socialmedia • via:waxy

A GUI for Git / Mercurcial

2013-04-18 code • dcvs • git • mac • mercurial • via:dan

findbostonbombers subreddit

when crowdsourcing goes horribly wrong

2013-04-18 boston • reddit • terrorism

MapBox + Leaflet

Innovative open source mapping folks working together

2013-04-18 javascript • leaflet • mapbox • maps

YousableTubeFix

Patches to Youtube UI to give more control to sizes, buffering, downloads, etc

2013-04-18 browser • chrome • download • extension • greasemonkey • youtube

Standalone program for burning CDs, better than the MacOS built-in stuff

2013-04-18 burning • cd • dvd • mac

Gonkai ecosystem

Chinese version of open source, sharing some IP in an unusual way

2013-04-18 china • hardware • opensource • phones • via:jeff

Future of Google Voice?

Yet another much loved but understaffed project

2013-04-17 google • phone

Twitter keyword ads

Twitter's ad platform keeps getting better

2013-04-17 ads • internet • twitter

Wingsuit flight through a tiny hole

Insane flying stunt

2013-04-17 batshitinsane • flying • via:kottke • wingsuit

GNU Radio suggested reading

Useful info on software radio, etc

2013-04-17 ham • radio • sdr

Sublime Text 2: remote editing

edit files via an SSH connection

2013-04-17 editing • remote • rmate • rsub • ssh • sublimetext • unix

Starseed Pilgrim

Interesting little indie game

2013-04-16 games • indie • macos • steam

U.S. Practiced Torture

Someone in federal government finally states the obvious

2013-04-16 america • civilrights • shame • torture

Flattr: unclaimed

Web service accepts tips for people who aren't even members, holds the funds

2013-04-16 economy • money • tips

Workaround for 300ms delay in click events in Mobile Safari

2013-04-15 ios • javascript • mobile • optimization

Hal Finney update

An old cypherpunk gives us an update on life

2013-04-14 als • bitcoin • crypto • cypherpunks • via:hackernews

leaflet-tilelayer-geojson

Plugin for the mapping library that adds GeoJSON vector tiles

2013-04-14 geojson • leaflet • maps • mvt • polymaps

How to get into Blake's 7

A guide for watching the show for newbies

2013-04-11 blakes7 • scifi • tv

Mantis shrimp vision

Possibly the only animal to see circularly polarized light

2013-04-10 arthropod • evolution • light • optics • shrimp • vision

Open source version of Google's Mondrian code review tool. Inline comments, side by side diffs, etc

2013-04-10 code • codereview • google • mondrian • opensource

beautiful animated GIF

2013-04-09 games • gifs • snake • via:twitter

Mozilla's login technology, it looks very promising

2013-04-09 authentication • login • mozilla • passwords

Software defined radio that works off the shelf

2013-04-09 hack • mac • osx • radio • sdr

Software Defined radio primer

Intro to some hackery

2013-04-08 radio • sdr

7,077,000,000 dots

One for every person on earth. Clever implementation.

2013-04-08 art • census • infovis • javascript • population

New York mapped to Paris neighborhoods

2013-04-08 funny • maps • newyork • paris

Speaking ill of the dead

On why it's OK to criticize public figures on the occasion of their death

2013-04-08 ethics • hagiography • obituary • thatcher

Bioshock Infinite: the movie

The game without the gameplay, just cutscenes and story

2013-04-08 bioshock • games • movies

Nice-guy patent troll

Great investigative journalism at the trolls shaking companies down for using scanners

2013-04-08 legal • patents • trolls • via:hackernews

WikiLeaks PlusD

They've augmented their diplomatic cable database with a bunch of 1970s declassified cables

2013-04-08 database • espionage • kissinger • via:hackernews • wikileaks

Best of both worlds for Mac power saving

2013-04-07 dpmc • hibernate • laptop • macos • sleep • via:onethingwell

The Kickstarter project shipped on time, but the product seems unfinished

2013-04-07 android • games • kickstarter • ouya

Latest hotness for calling C from Python; sort of like ctypes in that it's runtime

2013-04-07 api • c • code • ffi • python

bootstrap-wysiwyg

small HTML5 text editor

2013-04-07 editor • html5 • via:hackernews • web

Nice story about the man behind Minecraft

2013-04-06 games • minecraft • via:metafilter

GitX-dev by rowanj

The most active fork of the graphical git client for MacOS

2013-04-06 git • macos • scm

Foursquare vs Null Island

Checkin from 0N 0E, but no image of Null Island to be found

2013-04-05 foursquare • funny • geography • nullisland

Nice short article about the innovative mapping company

2013-04-04 developmentseed • mapbox • maps • osm

Zuckerberg at age 15?

Angelfire page looks like it's juvenalia from the Facebook founder

2013-04-04 facebook • java • zuckerberg

NASA manual covers

Beautiful design from the Space Age

2013-04-03 design • nasa • space • via:metafilter

Mac dummy dongle

Fake out a headless Mac Mini so it activates the GPU card

2013-04-03 apple • display • gpu • mac • macmini • vnc

The Romanian patent from hell

Great story of how hard it can be to find information that's just beyond the Google veil

2013-04-03 library • patents • romania • search

WiFi extension strategies

Readable article about wireless repeaters and various wired alternatives

2013-04-03 network • router • wifi

excellent profile of the guy behind the scenes at Twitter, Google, etc

2013-04-02 entrepreneurship • google • twitter

3 million Feedly users

Some idea how many people were using Google Reader; over 3 million

2013-04-02 feedly • google • reader • rss

Real Escape Room SF

Computer game trope made into a real place

2013-04-01 escape • games • sanfrancisco • via:metafilter

Analyzing mbostock's queue.js

Nice line by line breakdown of a small library of Mike Bostock's

2013-04-01 code • codereview • d3js • javascript