Nelson's Linkblog 2013-09

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Collection of iOS 7 UI problems

2013-09-30 apple • design • ios

al-Amriki on Twitter

Fringes of jihad use social media

2013-09-29 alshabaab • jihad • terrorism • twitter

Good explanation of how the new CPU architecture will work out on iOS

2013-09-27 64bit • apple • architecture • arm • arm64 • ios • iphone • via:hackernews

Empire board game

Very early 4X style game mostly developed in the 1960s at Reed

2013-09-27 4x • empire • games • reed • reedcollege

Oakland casual carpool armed robbery

Daylight robbery with a gun, 20 victims + many passersby

2013-09-26 crime • oakland • rockridge

Crazy Bus title music

Insane algorithmic(?) music

2013-09-26 crazybus • games • music

Why LoL doesn't have voice chat

Funny, some naughty words

2013-09-26 community • leagueoflegends • lol

Java server trend

Wired finds out you can run Java for servers. Many great quotes from @raffi

2013-09-25 enterprise • java • jvm • raffi • scala • server • twitter

Shutting off comments

Popular Science finds bad reader comments weaken their stories /cc @anildash

2013-09-24 comments • community • science • via:metafilter

Art Nouveau Miyazaki

lovely fan images

2013-09-24 arts • ghibli • miyazaki • nouveau • studioghibli • via:metafilter

What’s new in QGIS 2.0

Free desktop GIS tool has a major revision

2013-09-24 geography • gis • opensource • qgis

Beautiful maps of the continents hundreds of millions of years ago

2013-09-24 geoegraphy • geology • maps • tectonics

Reveal of @Horse_ebooks

Creators of mystery surrealist twitter account reveal themselves

2013-09-24 art • twitter

Cloud 9 profile

Short video about the top North American League of Legends team

2013-09-23 cloud9 • games • leagueoflegends • lol • teamwork

Los Alamos 1944 leak

Newpaperman had the story about atomic bomb development, went nowhere

2013-09-22 journalism • losalamos • newmexico • oppenheimer

RSA warns not to use RSA BSafe

Defaults in RSA almost certainly backdoored

2013-09-21 ellipticcurves • nsa • rsa • security • surveillance

Well written, frustrating story by Rachel Binx about being ignored for her work

2013-09-20 binx • design • meshu • rachelbinx • sexism

CLANG: Kickstarter scam?

Game is not going to ship, but they're keeping the $526,125

2013-09-20 games • kickstarter • scam

A simple test for sexism in literature and the arts

2013-09-20 books • feminism • gender • sexism

Grand Theft Auto V and Women

Excellent, thoughtful essay

2013-09-20 games • gender • grandtheftauto • gta • sexism

NSA's keep the faith letter

Internal memo for NSA employee's families saying "no we're the good guys"

2013-09-20 civilliberties • nsa • surveillance

Use several network interfaces at once; apparently shipping in iOS 7?!

2013-09-20 apple • ios • mptcp • networking • tcp • via:hackernews

iOS ringtone review

Scathingly hilarious descriptions of Apple music design

2013-09-19 apple • funny • music • ringtone • sound

GTA V: in game photos

Popular images taken from inside the game

2013-09-18 games • grandtheftauto • gtav • photos

Early aviatrices

Pioneering women pilots

2013-09-17 aviation • flying • via:metafilter • women

OSM by contributer

New @enf map, coloring roads by contributer ID

2013-09-17 enf • mapbox • maps • openstreetmap • osm

Archipelago: the first blog?

HTML conversion of a community edited Hypercard stack from 1988

2013-09-16 1988 • blogs • hypercard • writing

Aaron Paul / Price is Right

Breaking Bad actor was a Price is Right contestant

2013-09-16 aaronpaul • breakingbad • funny • gameshow • tv

Excellent tool for breaking down Unix command lines

2013-09-16 bash • commandline • shell • unix • via:metafilter

10 photos that look like paintings

Lovely collection

2013-09-16 art • photography • via:metafilter

PaulG on Stripe

Interesting insight into growth at the payments startup

2013-09-16 investment • startups • stripe

Grand Theft Auto V spoof social network

2013-09-15 funny • games • grandtheftauto • gtav • rockstar

Observability at Twitter

Details on how Twitter instruments its systems

2013-09-14 architecture • devops • monitoring • ops • twitter

Big Ben time corrections

A map showing how to adjust time based on the speed of sound form the Big Ben chimes

2013-09-14 bigben • london • maps • time • timekeeping

HIV in teens and young adults

Far too many young black men who have sex with men

2013-09-14 aids • gay • health • hiv

FBI subverted Tor

Injected malware Javascript after seizing servers

2013-09-13 badtech • fbi • freedom • malware • security • tor

Superposition of people playing Super Mario Bros

2013-09-13 games • mario • nintendo • snes • via:reddit

Roundup of NSA abuses

Quick summary, with sources

2013-09-13 nsa • privacy • snowden • surveillance

NSA is subverting SSL

Evidence that NSA is performing active MITM attacks by spoofing SSL certificates

2013-09-13 badtech • nsa • snowden • ssl • surveillance

Cartesian distortion

Alternate fisheye that preserves right angles

2013-09-13 d3 • d3js • fisheye • visualization

Shel Silverstein on Fire Island

A series of comic vignettes of gay life in 1963

2013-09-13 cartoons • gay • homosexuality • shelsilverstein

New free-to-play game, turn based strategy + power collection. Quite good!

2013-09-13 f2p • games • irrationalgames

Computing with encrypted RAM

Security mechanism for using sensitive data on untrusted hardware

2013-09-11 computing • cpu • encryption • popularpower • ram

Viewer's guide to LoL

Explanation of the computer game for people who want to watch the tournament starting this weekend

2013-09-11 games • leagueoflegends • lol

Video game terrains

A schematic comparison of artificial world sizes

2013-09-11 games • maps • terrain

"Passwords are dead"

Strong words from Google, but sadly no detail

2013-09-11 authentication • badtech • google • passwords • security

What Does Teemo Say?

Lovely League of Legends parody of the Ylvis song

2013-09-10 funny • games • leagueoflegends • music • ylvis

Borderlands 2 loot tables

Details on how the game drops items

2013-09-10 borderlands • gamedev • games • via:ckline

Visualization of schedule vs. actual position

2013-09-09 muni • transit • via:enf • visualization

CMU Perspectives Project

Like the EFF Panopticon, a service monitoring SSL certificate tampering

2013-09-09 nsa • privacy • security • ssl • surveillance

Classic Upright Citizens Brigade. Vulgar, of course.

2013-09-09 comedy • funny • skit • uprightcitizens

jpg glitch experiment

Lovely little JPG demaker

2013-09-08 art • glitch • jpeg • jpg • via:hackernews

NSA spying on US

Obama lifted the "no domestic spying" rule in 2011

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

2013-09-07 etymology • measurements • words

Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor

In 2007 we sniffed out one of the NSA's subversions of crypto

2013-09-05 crypto • nist • nsa • random • security • snowden

Schneier crypto advice

Advice from an expert on what to do now that NSA has its fingers in everything

2013-09-05 crypto • nsa • privacy • snowden • surveillance

NSA broke the Internet

Snowden documents confirm NSA has been subverting the core crypto protocols of the Internet

2013-09-05 badtech • crypto • nsa • privacy • surveillance

Photos from the venerable Unix conference

2013-09-03 conference • people • unix • usenix