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Dixon train station
California city built a train station in 2007 but no trains stop there.
2013-10-31 amtrak • california • dixon • train
badBIOS
Hints of malware that spreads through nonconventional means
2013-10-31 badtech • malware • ultrasonic • virus
Shibe in Space
Hilarious Japanese ad
2013-10-31 doge • dogge • japan • meme • shibe • video
Snowden interview
June 2013, worth listening to again. He's very careful.
2013-10-30 freedom • nsa • snowden
Google forward secrecy
Interesting technical measure Google deployed to make SSL traffic more secure
2013-10-30 crypto • google • nsa • security • ssl
Adam Langley's Weblog
Google employee who's behind some of their good crypto stuff
2013-10-30 crypto • google • nsa
OSM Taginfo
What's that crazy stuff in the map database?
2013-10-30 maps • metadata • openstreetmap • osm • tags
Rachel, Lou Reed's transsexual muse
gender queer in the 70s
2013-10-30 gay • lgbt • loureed • music • transgender
Allspaw on Knight Capital
Smart ops guy takes apart the non-postmortem from SEC about the Knight Capital fiasco
2013-10-30 etsy • knightcapital • ops • risks
Gay couple immigration mess
The editor of the local online news site YubaNet got picked up by immigration. She'd been unable to immigrate because of anti-gay laws.
2013-10-29 gay • immigration • nevadacounty • yubanet
igHome
The most likely seeming iGoogle alternative. It's not very good.
2013-10-29 igoogle • rss • startpage
GTA V photo locations
Virtual camera has virtual tags from the game's virtual environment. Dot map from http://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftAutoV/comments/1pfiqz/los_santos_population_density_map_yes_snapmatic/
2013-10-29 games • gtav • maps • photos • via:reddit
1896 CA railroads and bike routes
Fascinating map of pre-automobile road network
2013-10-28 bicycle • california • maps • railroad • transportation
Fly mugshots
Fancy styles from the 20s
2013-10-28 crime • fashion • mugshot • photography • via:potluck
Free Snowden
Web site for the NSA whistleblower, including a call for donations
2013-10-28 journalism • nsa • snowden
Irish police child abductions
Details about the crazy error in Ireland of the police taking Roma's children away based on how they looked
2013-10-28 gypsy • ireland • roma
Douglas Hofstadter today
Lovely profile not just of the scientist, but of AI in general
2013-10-28 ai • geb • philosophy • via:metafilter
Atlas Obscura
Obscure, bizarre travel destinations
2013-10-27 travel
Wikipedia VisualEditor failure
Some back story on the apparent failure of easier editing tools for Wikipedia
2013-10-27 community • visualeditor • wikipedia
On editable databases
Reflections from @tmcw on easy-to-use editors for OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia
2013-10-27 community • maps • openstreetmap • osm • wikipedia
Star Wars v Thomas Kinkade
Lovely parody
2013-10-27 art • funny • kinkade • kitsch • starwars
Scroll Down to Riker
HTML 5 was designed for this
2013-10-26 funny • riker • startrek
Google's secret sea base
Mysterious project being built on a barge
2013-10-25 barge • google • treasureisland
Breivik, Wikieditor
Norwegian mass murderer was also a Wikipedia Warrior
2013-10-25 breivik • murder • norway • wikipedia
gzip poetry
Lovely visualization of how compression dictionaries work
2013-10-25 compression • gzip • poetry
FilthySF
A tumblr of photos of the filth on San Francisco's streets
2013-10-24 city • homeless • sanfrancisco
Ted Cruz profile
From before the shutdown, info on the Tea Party leader who is destroying the country
2013-10-24 funny • politics • republicans • teaparty • tedcruz
Apple Maps icon
iOS 7 fixed one of the most hilarious Apple Maps bugs
2013-10-24 apple • funny • maps
Real Sports on eSports
Traditional sports view of League of Legends
2013-10-24 esports • games • lol
mr. div
Animated GIF artist with a lovely retro look
2013-10-23 art • gifs
dustboard
Player tracker for Dust 514, CCP's tie-in game to Eve Online
2013-10-23 ccp • dust • dust514 • eveonline • games • mmo
Gifpop Kickstarter
Friends' project to print animated GIFs on lenticular cards
2013-10-23 art • binx • gifs • kickstarter • rachelbinx • sha • shashashasha
Interior monolog captioning
Wow • Such phrases • Many meme • Shibe • Funny macro
2013-10-23 meme • shibe
$465m code bug
Details on how 9 year old dead code caused a trading company to lose half a billion dollars
2013-10-22 badtech • bugs • coding
Siegfried and Roy, 10 years later
Sweet little profile
2013-10-22 gay • lasvegas • siegfriedroy • vegas • via:metafilter
Cassini map
The famous 18th century French map in a Google Maps interface
2013-10-22 cassini • cassinimap • france • geography • history • maps
Nairobi mall CCTV footage
Astoundingly detailed video of the terrorist attack
2013-10-22 kenya • nairobi • terrorism • video
CGI, healthcare.gov contractor
Info on the primary IT contractor building the site
2013-10-22 contracting • government • healthcare
Problems building healthcare.gov
Summary of a government big IT project gone wrong
2013-10-22 government • healthcare • procurement
NSA lying to Congress
Clapper outright lying in response to a question on spying on Americans
2013-10-22 civilrights • clapper • nsa • politics • spying • wyden
Digital Attack Map
Google's view of DDOS activity around the globe
2013-10-22 badtech • google • internet • map • via:metafilter
pngquant
Creates 8 bit PNGs with full alpha channels
2013-10-21 compression • image • png
Baumgartner full video
Near-space jump, 3 cameras + tracking data
2013-10-21 baumgartner • redbull • skydiving • space • stratos
Airships
A lovely collection of photos
2013-10-21 airships • aviation • blimp • photos • zeppelin
Spelunky Generator Lessons
How the roguelike generates game levels
2013-10-21 games • spelunky
Android and open source
How Google has walked back the original promise of an open source mobile OS
2013-10-21 android • google • opensource
GTA V street photography
Recontextualing game screenshots as candid photography
2013-10-20 art • games • gta • via:metafilter
The Original "Mahna Mahna"
Classic Muppets song had its start as a Swedish porn track!
2013-10-20 mahna • mahnamahna • muppets • music
HFT tech stack
The insanity of high frequency trading
2013-10-19 hft • markets • via:metafilter
Emerging eSports
How Riot Games is turning League of Legends into a TV sport
2013-10-17 games • leagueoflegends • lol • riotgames
Bathing machine
Insane Victorian prudery at the beach
2013-10-16 bathing • beach • clothing • nudism • swimming
How do I avoid Google+?
Ordinary user question shows just how aggressive Google has become in forcing people to use their social network.
2013-10-14 email • google • google+ • social
YubaNet founder immigration woes
Amazing citizen journalist got a traffic stop leading to deportation
2013-10-12 gayrights • immigration • journalism • nevadacounty • yubanet
NSA tracking cell locations
More invasion of US citizen privacy, more lies and half-truths from NSA
2013-10-05 nsa • privacy • snowden • surveillance • wyden
Who does peer review?
Scientist tests journals with a bad paper
2013-10-05 fraud • publishing • science • standards
Silkroad Bitcoins
Alleged to be the block holding The Silk Road's BitCoins
2013-10-04 bitcoin • silkroad
Guillermo del Toro / Simpsons
Amazing animation
2013-10-04 funny • guillermodeltoro • panslabyrinth • simpsons • via:metafilter
Ray Ozzie was right
Respect for a Microsoft exec who was ignored
2013-10-04 microsoft • rayozzie • strategy
Lavabit shutdown story
FBI demanded access to all users' email
2013-10-03 encryption • fbi • lavabit • privacy • snowden
Noisebridge harassment policy
Experiment in social anarchy requires some rules because women were being abused
2013-10-03 anarchy • consensus • feminism • noisebridge • women