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 radio • nasa • satellite

Twitter Ads open to public

Anyone in the US can run a Twitter ad campaign now

2013-04-30 twitter • advertising

Space exploration history

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

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

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 weibo • twitter • alibaba • ebay • china • internet • investment

NBA player comes out

Nicely personal, honest story

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

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

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

OpenStreetMap edits visualized

Cartograms show where people make edits

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

8-bit color palettes

Amazing collection of how early computers did color

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

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 sdr • radio • rtlsdr • gnuradio

HomeBrew GNURadio

make it easier to build GNURadio on a Mac

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

How Selections Work

Mike explains the central mystery of D3.js

2013-04-26 d3 • #d3js • javascript

Homecoming — Queer Life

Dana Danger talks about being queer and transgendered to her highschool

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

Vile Rat profile

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

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

Jones Street Tank

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

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

Facebook social stats

Wolfram takes a crack at visualizing various social statistics

2013-04-25 facebook • visualization • socialmedia

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 via:onethingwell • bash • commandline • unix

Skyrim level design

Transcript of a GDC talk on modular dungeons

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

Beijing air over 9 days

simple to understand image

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

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

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

Google IPv6 stats

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

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

Raspberry Pi on QEMU

Simple way to get an Raspberry Pi running in emulation

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

Transparent DNS proxy

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

2013-04-24 dns • isp • evil • comcast

software defined radio script for tracking airplane transponders

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

World Until Yesterday review

Anthropologist comments on Jared Diamond's new book

2013-04-23 anthropology • review • books

A Python interpreter written in Javascript, suitable for browser embedding

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

Legality of Boston lockdown

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

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

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 maps • mbtiles • mapbox

FM Radio Stations

List of US radio stations by location, frequency, power

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

Edwardian England, 1900

great enhanced video

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

Anatomy of false Boston rumor

Excellent analysis of how social media story went wrong

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

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 waxy • upcoming • 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 military • boston • photos

Reddit lynch mob

Some thoughts on the irresponsible actions of Internet wannabes

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

A GUI for Git / Mercurcial

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

findbostonbombers subreddit

when crowdsourcing goes horribly wrong

2013-04-18 boston • terrorism • reddit

MapBox + Leaflet

Innovative open source mapping folks working together

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

YousableTubeFix

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

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

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

2013-04-18 cd • dvd • burning • mac

Gonkai ecosystem

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

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

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 twitter • ads • internet

Wingsuit flight through a tiny hole

Insane flying stunt

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

GNU Radio suggested reading

Useful info on software radio, etc

2013-04-17 sdr • radio • ham

Sublime Text 2: remote editing

edit files via an SSH connection

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

Starseed Pilgrim

Interesting little indie game

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

U.S. Practiced Torture

Someone in federal government finally states the obvious

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

Flattr: unclaimed

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

2013-04-16 money • tips • economy

Workaround for 300ms delay in click events in Mobile Safari

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

Hal Finney update

An old cypherpunk gives us an update on life

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

leaflet-tilelayer-geojson

Plugin for the mapping library that adds GeoJSON vector tiles

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

How to get into Blake's 7

A guide for watching the show for newbies

2013-04-11 tv • blakes7 • scifi

Mantis shrimp vision

Possibly the only animal to see circularly polarized light

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

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

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

beautiful animated GIF

2013-04-09 games • snake • gifs • 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 radio • sdr • mac • osx • hack

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 infovis • art • census • population • javascript

New York mapped to Paris neighborhoods

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

Speaking ill of the dead

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

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

Bioshock Infinite: the movie

The game without the gameplay, just cutscenes and story

2013-04-08 games • bioshock • movies

Nice-guy patent troll

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

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

WikiLeaks PlusD

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

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

Best of both worlds for Mac power saving

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

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

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

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

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

bootstrap-wysiwyg

small HTML5 text editor

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

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 geography • funny • foursquare • nullisland

Nice short article about the innovative mapping company

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

Zuckerberg at age 15?

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

2013-04-04 facebook • zuckerberg • java

NASA manual covers

Beautiful design from the Space Age

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

Mac dummy dongle

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

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

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 search • patents • romania • library

WiFi extension strategies

Readable article about wireless repeaters and various wired alternatives

2013-04-03 wifi • network • router

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

2013-04-02 twitter • google • entrepreneurship

3 million Feedly users

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

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

Real Escape Room SF

Computer game trope made into a real place

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

Analyzing mbostock's queue.js

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

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