Nelson's Linkblog 2013-11

about • archive • mastodon • feed

First woman to run a railroad

2013-11-30 women • railroad • history • nevadacounty

Empire Mine model

In Grass Valley, CA; an amazing 3d map

2013-11-30 maps • grassvalley • empiremine • model

Nuclear launch codes were set to a stupid password for years

2013-11-30 weapons • military • passwords

map visualization of people buying BitCoin

2013-11-29 bitcoin • finance • money • currency • visualization

Nevada County Gold

Tourist info for Grass Valley, etc

2013-11-29 california • tourism • nevadacounty • grassvalley • nevadacity • truckee

Details of the facts of the Beastie Boys copyright fight, with citations

2013-11-26 legal • fairuse • goldieblox • beastieboys • viralmarketing

n-e-r-v-o-u-s kinematics

3d printed flexible shapes

2013-11-26 art • sculpture • 3dprinting

BEST_RAPPER_ALIVE (NSFW)

Funny, slightly juvenile Reddit account posting apropos rhymes

2013-11-23 freestyle • reddit • rap • funny

Combatant countries drawn as people

2013-11-23 maps • wwi

British Airways ad, clever interactive billboard

2013-11-23 advertising • via:reddit • aviation

NSA's strategy plan

Another Snowden document, their white paper for expanding power

2013-11-23 nsa • badtech • surveillance • civilrights • snowden

Fly American! 1933

Amazing promotional film for early commercial aviation

2013-11-23 via:metafilter • aviation

Geolocated Tweet analysis

statistical analysis of locations, sentiment

2013-11-23 twitter • statistics

100 White Albums

All at once, crazy sound experiment

2013-11-22 music • beatles • noise

Forward Secrecy at Twitter

Details on making SSL more secure against APTs

2013-11-22 security • ssl • twitter

FoxBat STOL at sea

Insane landing and takeoff on the deck of a freighter ship

2013-11-22 flying • aviation • foxbat • stol • batshitinsane

simple examples for the Python static compiler

2013-11-22 python • cython • compiler

Experience with Viruses on UNIX Systems

Paper describing 1987 experiments at Bell Labs

2013-11-22 security • badtech • virus • unix • belllabs

Rob Ford: the Movie

a new biopic starring the late Chris Farley

2013-11-21 funny • toronto • robford • chrisfarley • via:metafilter

useful notes on using the Unix backup tool well

2013-11-21 rsnapshot • backup • Unix

Comparative perspectives

Various examples of classic visualizations comparing heights of mountains, lengths of rivers, etc

2013-11-21 via:metafilter • maps • visualization

Simple async in JavaScript

Some basic patterns to avoid nested callbacks

2013-11-21 javascript • mapbox • programming

Stuxnet's secret twin

The US cyberweapon was more complex than originally understood

2013-11-21 badtech • stuxnet • cyberwar • iran

MITM attacks in the wild

Results from BGP surveillance

2013-11-20 bgp • mitm • security • badtech • internet

Direct honest stories of women

2013-11-20 woman • abortion • feminism

The other side of the conversation from Gravity

2013-11-20 movies • gravity • via:metafilter • inuit

The coming tech-lash

Even the Economist gets a bit boshie

2013-11-20 economist • tech

Between Two Ferns: Justin Bieber

Everyone's favorite awkward interview show

2013-11-19 music • justinbieber • funny

Open source hacking for the inexpensive drone toy

2013-11-19 drones • uav

100 acres at pixel/4cm in < an hour

2013-11-19 maps • drones • ebee

great review of online writing in historical context

2013-11-19 ftrain • writing • medium

Famous New York graffiti gallery painted over by owners

2013-11-19 graffiti • streetart • newyork

"Make for data"

2013-11-19 make • workflow • programming

Library for building make-like dependencies, for data analysis

2013-11-19 python • make • hadoop

Googly eyes as a service

2013-11-19 gif • funny • via:Waxy

Interesting, seldom used feature of Bitcoin allows multiple party authorization

2013-11-18 escrow • bitcoin

Wing Python IDE 5.0

New version has a Mac native UI!

2013-11-18 mac • macos • python • programming • ide

Hilariously snide article from the SF Chronicle about a local soft-headed nuisance

2013-11-18 funny • journalism • sanfrancisco • nudism • sf

Dead body on Google maps

An unfortunate timing coincidence of an aerial photo

2013-11-18 maps • google • newaesthetic

Glitch assets public domain

A sweet conclusion to a loved, closed game

2013-11-18 games • glitch • publicdomain • copyright • creativecommons

Python __slots__

Memory optimization for Python code

2013-11-17 python • programming • optimization

4chan parodies Hacker News

a bit on the nose

2013-11-17 funny • 4chan • hackernews

browser extension that fixes many YouTube usability problems

2013-11-17 youtube • video • chrome • extension

Some interesting game history

2013-11-16 games • plato • networking

TCP in online games

Analysis of protocol effectiveness (dated?)

2013-11-16 games • mmos • via:marc • tcp • networking • internet

Enough to Eat at Home

Rob Ford + Miley Cyrus in a small bit of agitprop

2013-11-16 funny • toronto • robford • mileycyrus • via:metafilter

PlayStation 4 Teardown

2013-11-16 playstation • games

Amazing collection of little video magic tricks

2013-11-16 magic • vine • twitter

Music Animation Machine

Site for Stephen Malinowski's music visualizations

2013-11-15 music • visualization

smalin music visualizations

Artist animates musical scores

2013-11-15 via:reddit • music • visualization

Color Scheme Designer

Simple color picker tool with various color theories baked in

2013-11-15 design • color • colour

Des Hommes et des Chatons

Cats. Hunky men. Photographs juxtaposed.

2013-11-15 cats • photos • sexy

Caltrain to Mountain View

Hilarious summary of how complex the Bay Area's public transit is

2013-11-14 bayarea • transit • caltrain • bart • funny

Zenith Gamespace Pro

Console wars heat up!

2013-11-14 games • funny

Typhoon Haiyan mapping

Visualization of OpenStreetMap activity after the Philippines disaster

2013-11-14 maps • philippines • openstreetmap • osm

Remembering XOXO 2013

Great writeup from @waxpancake, making me regret deciding not to go

2013-11-14 waxy • xoxo • portland • conference

1880 red/blue map

Early election chloropleth

2013-11-12 maps • via:reddit • visualization • chloropleth

@hobu has a new geographic histogram tool, @tmcw shows us how to use it

2013-11-12 maps • histograms • visualization

Adobe password overview

Big picture of Adobe's breathtaking failure

2013-11-12 adobe • security • badtech

OpenStreetMap after the typhoon

open mapping helps save lives

2013-11-12 philippines • osm • openstreetmap • maps

Switching to MapBox JS

Quick demo of porting a simple Google Map to MapBox's system

2013-11-12 mapbox • googlemaps • openstreetmap • osm

Join Adobe and Sony password files

Two major password breaches; join on username and let the fun begin!

2013-11-12 passwords • badtech • security • adobe • sony

YouTube comment mess

YouTube's Google+ comment integration is not going wel

2013-11-12 via:waxy • google • youtube

The Art of Onfim

12th century doodles by a seven year old in Novgorod

2013-11-11 novgorod • history • art • ephemera

SF surfing myth

Great long story about trying to ride a crazy wave off San Francisco

2013-11-11 surfing • sanfrancisco

I vote we name the first floating city "Bespin"

2013-11-11 venus • space • funny

Carmen geocoder

open source geocoder by MapBox

2013-11-11 geocoding • maps • mapbox

Hungarian Gold Train

A sad example of treatment of stolen Jewish property after WW2

2013-11-11 worldwar2 • holocaust • jewish • hungary

Open source routing machine

Update on OSM-based driving directions

2013-11-11 openstreetmap • osm • routing • maps • mapbox

Stroked vector map

Nice little SVG map demo

2013-11-11 maps • svg

Photos + detailed map of some of the Mission's awesome street art

2013-11-10 streetart • mission • sanfrancisco • maps

Convert big animated GIFs to smaller HTML5 embedded video. Lots of smarts

2013-11-10 gifs • animation • html5 • via:reddit

Like OpenStreetMap, but a fictional world

2013-11-10 maps • openstreetmap • fiction

Project Monarch

Crazy conspiracy theory, finding hidden symbols in movies

2013-11-09 crazy • batshitinsane • conspiracy • via:metafilter

Fuck you Google+

Hilarious music video complaining about Google+ / YouTube integration

2013-11-09 google • youtube • music • funny

Nile Rodgers AMA

Chic guitarist and Daft Punk producer answers questions

2013-11-09 music • daftpunk • chic • disco • nilerodgers

Nice article on @ev's new company doing long form writing

2013-11-09 blogging • medium • ev

Twitter's leaders

Nice post from @anildash about the strengths of various Twitter executives

2013-11-09 twitter

Rorschach doodle

Looks to be Javascript generated images in a canvas

2013-11-08 canvas • javascript • google • doodle • rorschach

TXTmob and Twitter

A description of one of the projects that helped inspire Twitter

2013-11-08 twitter • txtmob • startups

Reddit scandals

A summary of big dramas on the Internet forum

2013-11-08 reddit • drama

Tech Review on Twitter

October 2007, a relatively early piece

2013-11-08 twitter

Sally Forth on Twitter

August 31, 2007; in retrospect quite early

2013-11-08 comics • twitter

Ridgeline landing

Crazy Super Cub mountain landing, takeoff

2013-11-08 aviation • via:stellar

twitlog.blogspot.com

Very early prototype of Twitter, based on Blogger. Thanks to @waxpancake for finding it

2013-11-07 waxy • twitter • ev • waxpancake • via:waxy

The IPO process

Interesting article about the mechanics of the first day of trading in a company

2013-11-07 facebook • twitter • ipo

Twitter IPO photo

From the NYSE floor, nice photo of @ev @biz @jack @dickc et al

2013-11-07 twitter • ipo • stock

Sacramento TV news story about folks coming through Nevada City working the marijuana harvest

2013-11-07 pot • marijuana • nevadacounty • hippies

Mr. Burritoeater

Nice interview with the man behind the legendary SF burrito review site

2013-11-07 burritos • sanfrancisco • food • mission • burritoeater

Every line, every point

OSM map showing edit history

2013-11-07 osm • openstreetmap • maps

Farewell to Lou Reed

From his wife Laurie Anderson, really sweet

2013-11-06 loureed • obituary • laurieanderson

Animated GIFs + camera + random web chat

2013-11-06 via:kra • chat • irc • gifs • chatroulette

Mike Hearn on NSA

A "giant Fuck You" from a Google security engineer to NSA for their illegal activity

2013-11-06 nsa • google • freedom • snowden

Rand Paul plagiarism

Direct copies of sentences from Wikipedia, other columns

2013-11-06 teaparty • randpaul • politics • plagiarism

Skydiving mid-air collision

Insane aerial footage

2013-11-06 via:Reddit • flying • aviation • skydiving • accident

Pißwasser (NSFWish)

GTA in-game ad for the fake beer brand

2013-11-04 america • murica • gta • games • funny

Dynamic hill shading

Awesome browser Javascript demo

2013-11-04 maps • hillshading • javascript

Eric Schmidt on NSA

Strong, clear denouncement of NSA's illegal spying

2013-11-04 nsa • government • google • privacy

Adobe password hints

Adobe's user dump includes plaintext password hints, from which you can easily reverse some of the passwords

2013-11-04 adobe • passwords

Adobe password stats

Some simple analysis of the 150 million accounts stolen from Adobe

2013-11-04 passwords • adobe

Adobe password structure

Details on users.tar.gz, the result of Adobe's negligence

2013-11-04 adobe • passwords

Yaoundé, Cameroon

Phenomenally detailed OpenStreetMap

2013-11-04 maps • osm • openstreetmap • cameroon • africa

Amazon Javascript SDK

Nice coverage of the new client-side Amazon API support

2013-11-03 amazon • api • javascript • aws

Amazon: federated identity code

Access AWS and other services with temporary credentials, not passwords

2013-11-03 amazon • login • password • identity

Tax-Loss Harvesting

Readable description of an investment strategy rich people use to defer taxes

2013-11-03 taxes • investment

Distributions of various technical words in Europe

2013-11-03 via:Reddit • maps • language • etymology

Billion dollar startups

Nice analysis of 39 very successful startups

2013-11-02 startups • entrepreneurship • facebook • valuation

such voronoi, so tesselation

2013-11-02 funny • d3js • d3 • shibe • dogge • doge

much imprive. so amaze. wow.

2013-11-02 dogge • doge • meme • funny • via:reddit • shibe

Explore new Obamacare health plans in a simple, fast UI

2013-11-02 insurance • obamacare • healthcaregov

Hand drawn maps

Lovely little collection

2013-11-01 maps • drawing

Train Lord game

A railroad simulation game based on OpenStreetMap data

2013-11-01 openstreetmap • maps • trains • trainlord • games • mmos

Hillary Clinton on abortion

Clear, no bullshit statement of the importance of abortion to women's health

2013-11-01 clinton • politics • abortion • kickass

Android patent war

Microsoft and Apple go after Google

2013-11-01 patents • google • microsoft • apple • nortel • android