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@lowflyingrocks
Twitter account for near-misses from asteroids
2013-05-31
space • twitter • via:metafilter
d3.keybinding.js
The MapBox folks' idea of a sane keybinding library for javascript
2013-05-31
javascript • keyboard • mapbox
airframes.org
database of ICAO24 addresses, sort of like a MAC address for airplane transponders
2013-05-30
1090 • 1090es • adsb • airplanes • aviation • transponder
Facebook IPO failure
How Nasdaq screwed it up
2013-05-30
economics • facebook • markets • nasdaq
svg.js
SVG manipulation library for javascript
2013-05-28
d3 • d3js • javascript • svg
Beer in Nevada City
Nice roundup of local drinking options
2013-05-28
beer • california • grassvalley • nevadacity
Frontal David
Seeing the famous statue from a different perspective
2013-05-28
art • david • michelangelo
WeiboScope
Image board of what's popular on Sina Weibo (a Chinese Twitter-like thing)
2013-05-28
china • sinaweibo • twitter • via:metafilter • weibo
Chinese equivalent websites
List of Chinese equivalents to American websites
2013-05-28
china • culture • internet • via:metafilter
OpenResty
Nginx + Lua + lots of libraries, for fast web app servers
2013-05-27
lua • nginx • performance • servers
IE market share vs murder rate
Obvious correlation here
2013-05-27
funny • msie • murder • statistics • via:twitter
GPS art poster
OpenStreetMap founder started a little business printing map posters
2013-05-27
maps • openstreetmap • osm • poster
Curiosity winner
Molyneux's clicking game experiment ends, winner only played it for an hour
2013-05-26
cowclicker • curiosity • games • molyneux
WikiLeaks response to documentary
Line by line refutation of the transcript of the film. Interesting use of the Internet.
2013-05-26
documentary • gibney • politics • wikileaks
Liberty Reserve shutdown
Another black market electronic currency has been ended
2013-05-26
badtech • bitcoin • currency • fraud • libertyreserve • malware • money • via:hackernews
US effective tax rates
Excellent visualization of complex data
2013-05-25
apple • google • taxes
sonic.net 2012 transparency report
My awesome ISP publishes how many law enforcement requests they answer
2013-05-25
isp • sonicnet
StruttingLeo
A Reddit user who pastes in Leonardo DiCaprio in otherwise on-topic photo comments
2013-05-25
funny • leodicaprio • photos
Rapportive
Integration brings Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc into Gmail
2013-05-25
facebook • gmail • hack • integration • socialmedia • twitter
Making a 4k intro
What it's like to program impossibly tiny demos
2013-05-25
4k • demoscene • hacking • scene • via:prismatic
IAmA downhill skateboarder, now parapalegic
I love the direct honesty of Reddit IAmAs.
2013-05-24
extremesports • handicap • parapalegic • reddit
Origins of tumbelogs
Remembering Anarchia, Projectionist
2013-05-24
blogs • startups • tumblr • via:hackernews
Tom Lane (Postgres)
Honoring an excellent contributer to the open source database
2013-05-23
opensource • postgres • via:hackernews
Pin-Up Queens
Lovely article about women who painted classic pin-up girls
2013-05-23
art • eroticism • illustration • via:metafilter
HEALPix
Another approach to tiling raster images across a globe
2013-05-23
healpix • maps • nasa • projections
World wind map tile system
One way to handle raster tiled maps of the entire globe
2013-05-23
maps • projections • worldwind
Reprojected Raster Tiles
Jason Davies doing some masterful cartography
2013-05-22
d3js • geography • maps • projections
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Funny, spoiler-filled plot recap
2013-05-22
funny • jjabrams • startrek • takedown
Tumblr payouts
Analysis of who makes what in the Tumblr sale. No idea if it's accurate, but it's plausible.
2013-05-21
finance • tumbr • vc • venturecapital
Cosmic distance ladder
The various ways we measure distances in astronomy
2013-05-21
astronomy • distance • inference • physics
Tumblr architecture
Nicely detailed article about how Tumblr operates
2013-05-20
architecture • systems • tumblr
Distributed consensus in practice
Detailed examination of how various distributed data stores actually deal with network partitions
2013-05-20
cap • consistency • databases • mongodb • network • postgres • redis • riak
Marco Arment on Tumblr
Really sweet take on Tumblr from its first employee
2013-05-20
marco • tumblr • yahoo
"massless exploration"
Intriguing idea: instead of sending mass from Earth to space, we should use mass already in space
2013-05-20
mass • nasa • physics • space
Random Access Memories review
Good writeup of Daft Punk's new album
2013-05-20
daftpunk • disco • music
Viewport Inversion
Jason Davies' amazing slippy map in Albers projection, using my vector rivers
2013-05-20
d3js • maps • projection • rivers • tiles • vectors
Modern GPU
NVidia publishes notes on how to use GPUs to do general purpose computing
2013-05-20
code • gpu • nvidia • performance • via:hackernews
How Yahoo killed Flickr
Amazingly sourced, insidery analysis of Yahoo's failed acquisition
2013-05-20
acquisition • flickr • mathonan • yahoo
Neverwinter economy broken
Stupid bug in auction house leads to real money being lost
2013-05-20
badtech • games • neverwinter • rmah
tracing.js
Simple way to hook before and after a function is called in Javascript
2013-05-19
code • javascript • performance • via:hackernews
Mighty Faggot
A lul from the Simpsons
2013-05-18
funny • gay • simpsons • via:reddit
Doodal
Awesome little fractal drawing program
2013-05-18
art • drawing • portal • via:waxy
Tumblr community guidelines
"We're not in the business of profiting from adult-oriented videos and hosting this stuff is fucking expensive"
2013-05-18
policy • pornography • tumblr
Tumbalog
Merlin Mann and I dredged up our idea to build something like Tumblr, just before Tumblr launched
2013-05-18
blogs • internet • startup • tumblr • weblog
Beidou
China's equivalent of GPS
2013-05-18
china • gps • navigation • satellite
Tumblelogs (Oct 2005)
Kottke talking about Tumblr a year before Tumblr was founded
2013-05-18
blogging • blogs • tumblr
Dymaxion maps in D3
Jason Davies amazing projection work continues
2013-05-17
buckminsterfuller • d3 • d3js • dymaxion • maps
NMA on Toronto mayor crackhead
Particularly good edition of animated journalism
2013-05-17
canada • funny • nma • toronto
Welcome to Google Island
Lovely fever dream journalism by @Mat Honan
2013-05-17
google • privacy
AirNZ Flight 901
Controlled flight into terrain; in VFR, on a commercial scheduled flight. Just awful.
2013-05-17
accident • antarctica • aviation • vfr
UTA Flight 772 memorial
Beautiful earthworks memorial in a remote desert
2013-05-16
aviation • earthworks • memorial • uta772 • via:reddit
Equation of time
Solar noon drifts from day to day
2013-05-15
analemma • clock • time
Mike Miguiski: coding for America
Nice blog post by Mike explaining why he's working at CfA
2013-05-15
codeforamerica • design • migurski • politics
hoverapi.py
Code to use Hover's undocumented, unsupported, unofficial dynamic DNS API
2013-05-15
dns • dynamicdns • hover
DynDNS policy change
Popular dynamic DNS service is crippling their free product
2013-05-15
dns • dyndns
Bro-sie the Riveter
Fun story about turning pinup art on its feminist head
2013-05-15
art • feminism • funny • games • gender • hawken • via:metafilter
Machines for Life
Daft Punk feature, fun HTML presentation
2013-05-14
daftpunk • html5 • music
Saudi Arabia tries to hire Moxie
A country explicitly hiring someone to hack and eavesdrop
2013-05-13
blackhat • civilrights • hackers • moxie • saudiarabia
MapBox Vector Tiles
Big announcement from the awesome mapping company
2013-05-13
mapbox • maps • tilemill • vectors
pgtune
Script to magically configure PostgreSQL to your hardware
2013-05-12
database • performance • postgres • server • tuning
Indie Game: the Movie: the Case Study
Report on how their direct distribution worked out.
2013-05-12
distribution • games • indie • indiegame • movies
Hypercards
A tumblr from Wiley Wiggins, one of the stars of the film Dazed and Confused
2013-05-12
art • hypercard • movies • tumblr • wileywiggins
Face transplant IAmA
Third person in the world to get a full face transplant; answering questions on reddit
2013-05-11
medicine • reddit • transplant
iSniff-GPS
Figure out where an iPhone has been before, based on WiFi info. Brilliant.
2013-05-11
apple • badtech • hacks • ios • iphone • via:hackernews
Duran Duran: Rio
Possibly the best music video the 1980s ever produced
2013-05-11
1980s • 80s • duranduran • kitsch • music • rio
Diary of a Misanthrope
Blog from a guy who killed his wife and then travelled the world on her money. Details at http://www.businessinsider.com/husband-killed-and-burnt-wife-then-traveled-around-the-world-on-her-money-2013-5
2013-05-11
blogging • murder • travel
correct answer.gif
For when you need an animated GIF saying someone is right
2013-05-10
correct • correctanswer • funny • gif • via:reddit
Google's authentication plans
Approaching logins as a serious engineering challenge
2013-05-10
authentication • google • login • openid • passwords
Ode to a shipping label
The challenges of printing ó
2013-05-09
encoding • funny • language • ups • utf8 • via:twitter
Hexagonal Grids
Really beautiful, illustrated guide to game grids
2013-05-09
d3js • games • hexagons • programming
Flat Route Finder
Beautiful routing agent that takes into account slope changes
2013-05-09
bicycling • bikes • elevation • hills • maps • slope • walking
High frequency trading animation
Nice visualization of crazy quote stuffing
2013-05-09
hft • markets • via:hackernews • visualization
OpenStreetMap poster updates
Steve Coast decided to do a Kickstarter to print some updates. It's gotten.. complicated. Fun reading, he's doing great.
2013-05-08
art • maps • openstreetmap • posters • production
Hedonometer
Graph of Twitter sentiment
2013-05-08
mood • sentiment • twitter • via:kottke
Diablo 3 auction bug
Integer overflow = broken economy. Rapidly fixed.
2013-05-08
auction • diablo • economy • games
Diablo RMAH failure
Game developer admitted at GDC that the real money auction house hurt the game
2013-05-08
auction • blizzard • economics • games • rmah
Pirate Bay: seed0
Supposedly Trent Reznor's torrent account
2013-05-07
broken • music • nineinchnails • trentreznor
Income along transit lines
Nice little D3 visualization
2013-05-07
bayarea • d3 • d3js • inequality • sanfrancisco • transit
Transferring from GoDaddy to Hover
Difficulty level: hostname was registered via Google. This worked for me.
2013-05-05
appengine • domains • godaddy • google • hover
1897 bicycle superhighway
Transportation that could have been. (Paging @enf)
2013-05-05
bicycles • losangeles • transportation
Eager Pies
Iinfovis advice on turning a boring bar chart into a beautiful animated 3d pie chart
2013-05-04
funny • graphics • infovis
Willamette River poster
LIDAR makes for beauty
2013-05-04
lidar • maps • oregon • portland • willamette
Eve economics
Good interview with the economist for the online game
2013-05-04
ccp • economics • eve • eveonline • games
q.js
Asynchronous promises library for Javascript
2013-05-03
async • javascript • programming • promises
Sleazy eBay affiliates
eBay works with FBI to crack down on affiliates who played games with cookies to get affiliate payments
2013-05-03
advertising • affiliates • ebay • fraud
/r/cablefail
Images of bad network cabling
2013-05-03
fail • funny • network
ESEA = BitCoin slavers
Game utility software secretly mined BitCoins without users consent. Someone belongs in jail.
2013-05-02
bitcoin • esea • fraud • games • theft
US v Paramount
Supreme Court anti-trust case ruled that movie studios couldn't own theaters. Relevant to online distribution today.
2013-05-01
antitrust • cable • internet • movies • netflix
LEGO Breaking Bad
Excellently animated, could use a bit more of the joke
2013-05-01
breakingbad • games • lego • via:rockpapershotgun