Riot on player toxicity

Summary of a talk at GDC

2013-08-31 community • games • leagueoflegends • lol • riotgames

Klout are monsters

Digusting social media company tries to be flippant with MLK

2013-08-31 civilrights • klout • mlk • stupid

Dark Pattern examples

Screenshots of ways horrible sites try to trick users

2013-08-31 badtech • darkpatterns • scam • ui

Tim Bray on Persona

A thoughtful examination of Mozilla's login protocol by an expert Google employee

2013-08-31 google • identity • login • microsoft • persona

Catch up on Syria

Useful overview of the current situation

2013-08-30 politics • syria • tldr

2013 Black Budget

Snowden leaked the secret intelligence budget. That's a big one.

2013-08-29 budget • nsa • snowden • surveillance

Kim Jong-un's ex executed

insane story of North Korean drama, unchecked power

2013-08-29 dprk • northkorea • totalitarianism

Options to RSUs

A shift in equity compensation

2013-08-29 options • startups • stock

Spy Kids

Culture clash between Internet generation and government service

2013-08-29 culture • demographics • grimmeathookfuture • nsa • via:metafilter

Deanonymizing BitCoin

Another way to analyze transaction records to discover identity

2013-08-28 anonymity • bitcoin • payments

Guccifer

Someone keeps hacking personal media for high profile government figures

2013-08-28 badtech • hacking

Earth's artificial ring

Insane 60s experiment; launch a bunch of chaff in orbit for communications

2013-08-27 communications • satellites • space • via:metafilter

Responsive maps With D3

Straightforward resizing SVG elements

2013-08-27 d3 • d3js • javascript • maps • resize • responsive

Stellar Fun Pass

Jason announces plans for his favorite-catching app

2013-08-27 favorites • kottke • twitter • web

box2d.js

An Emscripten port of the 2d physics library

2013-08-27 2d • emscripten • games • javascript

Box2D for Javascript

Series of blog posts describing the physics engine for Javascript

2013-08-27 box2d • games • html5 • javascript • physics

History of Null Island

Details of the digital cartographer's favorite tropical vacation spot

2013-08-27 funny • geo • maps • nullisland

4k of Soviet RAM

For sale; a cube of ferrite core memory

2013-08-27 computers • core • history • memory • russia • ussr

Is ChromeCast open?

Bad news from early hackers

2013-08-26 chromecast • google • media • open • tv • via:hackernews

NSA documents

Collection of the Snowden leaks and related documents

2013-08-26 nsa • snowden • surveillance

Dronestagram

Share beautiful aerial photos taken from UAVs

2013-08-25 aerial • drones • photography

Glen Park history

Nice details of one of San Francisco's oddest neighborhoods

2013-08-25 glenpark • history • sanfrancisco

My Little Resume

Awesome resume channels Brony culture

2013-08-24 bronies • mylittlepony • resume • via:reddit

The Pitcairn Miscellany

Newsletter of the tiny island community

2013-08-24 journalism • newspaper • pitcairn

Corey Feldman's birthday party

Crazy candid photos

2013-08-23 birthday • coreyfeldman • party

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Reddit user posts random numbers; crypto? mental illness?

2013-08-23 crypto • reddit • strange • weird

Strange Snowden twist

Are US/UK counterleaking?

2013-08-23 nsa • snowden • surveillance

More on SourceForge sleaze

Details of the sideloading

2013-08-23 badtech • malware • opensource • sourceforge • via:hackernews

SourceForge drive-by installs

Former open source company stoops to the worst of sleaze. Time to leave.

2013-08-23 badtech • malware • opensource • sourceforge • via:hackernews

US rivers by flow

Line widths vary based on how much water there is

2013-08-22 america • hydropgraphy • maps • rivers • water

Gigapixel photo crops

How do you appreciate a giant photo? Look at little bits of it.

2013-08-22 art • gigapixel • photography • tokyo

GetPRSM

NSA's illegal spying activity is the newest hot startup!

2013-08-22 funny • internet • nsa • privacy • surveillance

topojson.py

TopoJSON implementation in python

2013-08-21 geojson • gis • maps • python • topojson

Saints Row IV characters

Community-created avatars using the great in game customization system

2013-08-21 avatar • games • saintsrow • saintsrowiv

andy gilmore

Visual artist, interesting abstract geometrics

2013-08-21 art • design

Stalin's Rope Roads

Rusting Soviet tramways in a manganese mining town

2013-08-21 russia • sovietunion • tramway • transportation

League of Legends hacked

They have some 30M accounts, many paying customers

2013-08-20 badtech • hacks • passwords

SOMA StrEat Food Park

SF tries to do food pods a la Portland

2013-08-20 food • foodtrucks • restaurants • sanfrancisco

Bob Marley (metal)

Amazing mashup of metal guitar and Marley vocals

2013-08-20 bobmarley • mashup • music • via:waxy

HydroSHEDS

A global dataset of rivers and watersheds

2013-08-19 geo • hydrology • maps • nhd • rivers

Double Robotics

Stick an iPad on top of a Segway = telepresence

2013-08-19 ipad • robot • robotics • ssegway • telepresence

About Flowers in the Attic

Fantastic story from the editor who discovered the great, trashy VC Andrews novel

2013-08-19 books • vcandrews • via:metafilter

Greenwald's partner harassed

The partner of the journalist covering NSA for the Guardian got detained in London

2013-08-18 civilrights • greenwald • nsa • snowden

History of Cesar Chavez St

Details of one of San Francisco's ugliest streets

2013-08-18 armystreet • history • roads • sanfrancisco • streets • transportation

507 Mechanical Movements

Nice illustrations of machines

2013-08-17 engineering • machines • via:hackernews • work

Marissa Meyer profile

Interesting mix of femininity and hard core tech leadership

2013-08-17 feminism • google • women • yahoo

Twitter scaling

Details on how they've built to handle so much real time traffic

2013-08-17 performance • raffi • scalability • twitter

Mary Worth’s Howl

Amazing 50s comic/poem mashup

2013-08-16 comics • funny • ginsburg • howl • maryworth

SF Pier 24

Unusual photography museum

2013-08-16 art • museum • pier24 • sanfrancisco

Making Missile Command

Excellent article on one of the arcade classics

2013-08-15 atari • games • theurer

The Modern Moloch

Great podcast on how cars took over the streets from pedestrians in the 20s @enf @karlanderson

2013-08-14 1920s • cars • history • jaywalking • pedestrians • streets

Silk Road operator

Great interview with Dread Pirate Roberts, leader of the Internet's black market

2013-08-14 bitcoin • drugs • privacy • silkroad • tor

DoD marriage benefits

Completely decent policy, including right to go to a state that reecognizes gay marriage

2013-08-14 civilrights • dod • gay • gaymarriage • marriage • military

Slack

New workplace tool from @stewart, evolution of the Tiny Speck company

2013-08-14 collaboration • flickr • glitch • productivity • stewartbutterfield

superballs.com

Amazing fossil web site design, but still updated with new content!

2013-08-14 design • funny • superballs • web

Geocoding and ODBL

Legal issues of a viral database licene

2013-08-13 gpl • licensing • mapbox • odbl • openstreetmap • osm

Juno trajectory design

How NASA designed the spaceflight to Jupiter

2013-08-13 juno • jupiter • kerbalspaceprogram • space

Juno trajectory

Crazy orbital slingshot

2013-08-13 juno • jupiter • kerbalspaceprogram • space

Phone batteries measure the weather

Wouldn't have guessed this would work without seeing the data

2013-08-13 batteries • mobile • temperature • via:hackernews

Android is better

A detailed, thoughtul, only mildly-flamebait review

2013-08-13 android • apple • google

Reporting Snowden

Detailed profile of Laura Poitras, one of the reporters Snowden contacted

2013-08-13 journalism • nsa • poitras • prism • snowden

whois spam

crazy little subgenre of spam

2013-08-12 badtech • spam • via:stevej • whois

IAmA Etsy Ops

Etsy's ops folks answer questions on Reddit. It's good

2013-08-12 devops • engineering • etsy • ops • reddit

Turnspit Dog

Extinct breed of work dog

2013-08-12 breeding • dogs • history • via:metafilter • work

lolcommits

Take a picture of the programmer with every git commit

2013-08-12 funny • git • via:hackernews

Chromecast Teardown

Not much inside, but it seems to work

2013-08-11 chromecast • google • hardware • video

Broken mobile sites

Great screenshot examples of how broken the Financial Times is

2013-08-11 badtech • iphone • journalism • mobile • newspaper • stupid

FISA vs Lavabit

Details on how the US government can shut down privacy services on the Internet

2013-08-11 email • encryption • lavabit • nsa • privacy • snowden • surveillance

Paul Ford on Facebook

Indictment of the social media company masquerading as a review of Facebook Home

2013-08-10 computers • culture • facebook • socialmedia

Bubb Rubb [facebook]

Famous whistle tip guy is on Facebook

2013-08-10 bubbrubb • facebook • meme • whistletip

Horse e-Posters

Lovely posters of bizarro Twitter account @horse_ebooks

2013-08-10 design • horseebooks • poster • twitter

Apple E-Book Price Fixing

roundup of articles describing Apple's illegal market manipulation

2013-08-10 antitrust • apple • ebooks • kindle • law

109P/Swift-Tuttle orbit

Parent of the Perseid meteor shower. Nice simple use of WebGL

2013-08-10 astronomy • comets • perseids • webgl

OfflineMap

Store map tiles in local browser storage

2013-08-09 leaflet • maps • offline • via:bobws

Unused CA certs

Etsy's office looks at what SSL certificates they really need

2013-08-09 security • ssl

XKeyscore details

Some information on NSA's illegal Internet surveillance

2013-08-09 nsa • snowden • surveillance • xkeyscore

Portland: Age of a City

Lovely map of all the buildings in Portland Oregon, colored by age

2013-08-09 buildings • mapbox • maps • pdx • portland • tilemill

NSA spies on US emails

Yet more evidence of illegal surveillance

2013-08-09 civilrights • fourthamendment • nsa • snowden

Myhrvold answers questions

Interview with the notorious patent troll

2013-08-08 intellectualventures • lodsys • myhrvold • patents

On the Lodsys settlement

Marco calls out Nathan Myhrvold and the patent troll firm Intellectual Ventures

2013-08-08 intellectualventures • iv • law • lodsys • patents

Mozilla Persona supports Gmail

Use Persona to log in with your Google credentials

2013-08-08 login • openid • passwords • persona

Origins of MOBA games

History of how we got to DotA 2, League of Legends, etc

2013-08-08 dota • games • lol • mobas

Staying friends with parents with kids

Sensible tips on staying friends with folks when they have kids

2013-08-08 children • friends • social

David Byrne tours kink.com

Interesting little report from a porn studio

2013-08-07 davidbyrne • kink • porn • sex • via:timbray

QuantUrb

Research group approaching urban design from a quantitative approach /cc @enf

2013-08-07 design • gis • maps • urbanplanning

Hausmann's effect on Paris

Interesting road network analysis /cc @enf

2013-08-07 hausmann • paris • roads • urbanplanning

Stephen Fry on Russian facism

Excellent editorial about why the Sochi Olympics are a mistake

2013-08-07 civilrights • gays • olympics • russia

Against federated login

@timbray collects objections to OpenID, etc for logins

2013-08-07 google • login • openid • passwords • personal

reddit myth busters

Overview of the corporate structure, goals, profitability

2013-08-07 finances • reddit • startups

BGP spoofing

Readable overview of a fundamental design problem in the Internet

2013-08-07 badtech • bgp • internet • routing

Solar system cartography

Conventions for defining latitude and longitude on various planets, moons, etc

2013-08-06 astronomy • cartography • geodesy • maps • space

Twitter Ads

Nice explanation of the ad program

2013-08-05 ads • twitter

The World as Free-Fire Zone

Excellent overview of the state of drone warfare by the US

2013-08-05 assassination • drones • war • warcrimes

Tile

A simple "find my device" tag

2013-08-05 bluetooth • internetofthings • rfid • via:iamcal

New OSM render stack

Major milestone for OpenStreetMap; clears the way for better design

2013-08-05 carto • cartocss • cartography • design • mapnik • maps • openstreetmap • osm

Flintstones / Virginia Woolf

An alternate reading of Albee's play

2013-08-04 cartoons • flintstones • funny

The fall of World of Warcraft

Latest MMOData update shows Blizzard's game has fallen from 12M to 7M subscriptions

2013-08-04 blizzard • games • mmos • warcraft • wow

Tor site zero day

Site busted for alleged child porn; a Firefox exploit shows up on it same day

2013-08-04 badtech • fbi • firefox • javascript • security

China hacking US water plants

Notorious Chinese hacking group, probably Army, caught in a honeypot and counter-hacked

2013-08-03 china • cyberwar • espionage • security • via:hackernews

Michele Catalano is my friend

Lovely musings from @mat about the news cycle of an online story

2013-08-02 culture • journalism • news

We Think He Might Be a Boy

Lovely story of a family's transgender child

2013-08-01 children • gender • queer • via:metafilter

Floatsam floating point serialization

Base 94 encoding of floating point numbers in binary

2013-08-01 efficiency • javascript • numbers • serialization • via:hackernews

FBI visit for Googling

Insane story of surveillance culture

2013-08-01 civilrights • fbi • google