Twitter account for near-misses from asteroids

The MapBox folks' idea of a sane keybinding library for javascript

database of ICAO24 addresses, sort of like a MAC address for airplane transponders

How Nasdaq screwed it up

SVG manipulation library for javascript

Nice roundup of local drinking options

Seeing the famous statue from a different perspective

Image board of what's popular on Sina Weibo (a Chinese Twitter-like thing)

List of Chinese equivalents to American websites

Nginx + Lua + lots of libraries, for fast web app servers

Obvious correlation here

OpenStreetMap founder started a little business printing map posters

Molyneux's clicking game experiment ends, winner only played it for an hour

Line by line refutation of the transcript of the film. Interesting use of the Internet.

Another black market electronic currency has been ended

Excellent visualization of complex data

My awesome ISP publishes how many law enforcement requests they answer

A Reddit user who pastes in Leonardo DiCaprio in otherwise on-topic photo comments

Integration brings Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc into Gmail

What it's like to program impossibly tiny demos

I love the direct honesty of Reddit IAmAs.

Remembering Anarchia, Projectionist

Honoring an excellent contributer to the open source database

Lovely article about women who painted classic pin-up girls

Another approach to tiling raster images across a globe

One way to handle raster tiled maps of the entire globe

Jason Davies doing some masterful cartography

Funny, spoiler-filled plot recap

Analysis of who makes what in the Tumblr sale. No idea if it's accurate, but it's plausible.

The various ways we measure distances in astronomy

Nicely detailed article about how Tumblr operates

Detailed examination of how various distributed data stores actually deal with network partitions

Really sweet take on Tumblr from its first employee

Intriguing idea: instead of sending mass from Earth to space, we should use mass already in space

Good writeup of Daft Punk's new album

Jason Davies' amazing slippy map in Albers projection, using my vector rivers

NVidia publishes notes on how to use GPUs to do general purpose computing

Amazingly sourced, insidery analysis of Yahoo's failed acquisition

Stupid bug in auction house leads to real money being lost

Simple way to hook before and after a function is called in Javascript

A lul from the Simpsons

Awesome little fractal drawing program

"We're not in the business of profiting from adult-oriented videos and hosting this stuff is fucking expensive"

Merlin Mann and I dredged up our idea to build something like Tumblr, just before Tumblr launched

China's equivalent of GPS

Kottke talking about Tumblr a year before Tumblr was founded

Jason Davies amazing projection work continues

Particularly good edition of animated journalism

Lovely fever dream journalism by @Mat Honan

Controlled flight into terrain; in VFR, on a commercial scheduled flight. Just awful.

Beautiful earthworks memorial in a remote desert

Solar noon drifts from day to day

Nice blog post by Mike explaining why he's working at CfA

Code to use Hover's undocumented, unsupported, unofficial dynamic DNS API

Popular dynamic DNS service is crippling their free product

Fun story about turning pinup art on its feminist head

Daft Punk feature, fun HTML presentation

A country explicitly hiring someone to hack and eavesdrop

Big announcement from the awesome mapping company

Script to magically configure PostgreSQL to your hardware

Report on how their direct distribution worked out.

A tumblr from Wiley Wiggins, one of the stars of the film Dazed and Confused

Third person in the world to get a full face transplant; answering questions on reddit

Figure out where an iPhone has been before, based on WiFi info. Brilliant.

Possibly the best music video the 1980s ever produced

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

For when you need an animated GIF saying someone is right

Approaching logins as a serious engineering challenge

The challenges of printing ó

Really beautiful, illustrated guide to game grids

Beautiful routing agent that takes into account slope changes

Nice visualization of crazy quote stuffing

Steve Coast decided to do a Kickstarter to print some updates. It's gotten.. complicated. Fun reading, he's doing great.

Graph of Twitter sentiment

Integer overflow = broken economy. Rapidly fixed.

Game developer admitted at GDC that the real money auction house hurt the game

Supposedly Trent Reznor's torrent account

Nice little D3 visualization

Difficulty level: hostname was registered via Google. This worked for me.

Transportation that could have been. (Paging @enf)

Iinfovis advice on turning a boring bar chart into a beautiful animated 3d pie chart

LIDAR makes for beauty

Good interview with the economist for the online game

Asynchronous promises library for Javascript

eBay works with FBI to crack down on affiliates who played games with cookies to get affiliate payments

Images of bad network cabling

Game utility software secretly mined BitCoins without users consent. Someone belongs in jail.

Supreme Court anti-trust case ruled that movie studios couldn't own theaters. Relevant to online distribution today.

Excellently animated, could use a bit more of the joke