Nelson's Linkblog 2013-12

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The Dark Enlightnenment

Bizarre Internet politics/religion

2013-12-31 culture • via:metafilter

Disgusting childish behavior from supposed men

2013-12-29 dating • feminism • pua • relationships

Singapore OneMap API

map data from Singapore

2013-12-28 maps • openstreetmap • singapore

Selling Bitcoin

Dirty secret: nearly impossible to turn Bitcoin into real money

2013-12-27 bitcoin • funny • money • scam • via:metafilter

Spelunky solo eggplant

Beautifully detailed writeup of a very difficult game play

2013-12-26 games • spelunky • twitch • via:waxy

Odessa Catacombs

More detail on the enormous underground

2013-12-26 catacombs • odessa • underground

Odessa catacomb map

2500km of tunnels (source: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1toj3f/girl_got_lost_in_the_catacombs_below_odessa_after/)

2013-12-26 catacomb • maps • odessa • tomb

Twitter Singapore bug

Hey, it's only one of the biggest Asian economies

2013-12-25 bug • geocoding • singapore • twitter

La grille sur les collines

Map treatment of SF focussed on grids vs hills

2013-12-24 cartography • geography • maps • sanfrancisco • urbanplanning

Balinese artist, I bought one of his paintings

2013-12-24 art • bali • ketutsoki • painting

ATL Twins (NSFW)

Doubling down on white trashery

2013-12-24 funny • murica • twins • via:metafilter

Gay marriage in Utah

The gates are open!

2013-12-24 gay • gayrights • marriage • mormons • utah

Iron Chef Japan

Crazy reference links to the Japanese cooking gameshow that spawned a genre

2013-12-23 cooking • food • ironchef • japan • television • tv

White House vs judicial review

Obama Administration is trying to shield NSA from any legal judgements

2013-12-23 civilrights • nsa • snowden • statesecrets

RSA, Inc compromised

NSA subverted a key US crypto company

2013-12-21 crypto • nsa • rsa • security • snowden

Twitter's iOS implementation of SPDY

2013-12-20 ios • iphone • networking • spdy

Bitcoin critique

good collection of problems

2013-12-19 bitcoin

Switched On Road Runner

Classic Chuck Jones rescored

2013-12-16 cartoon • music • synthesizer

Chromecast API experience

Developer tries to build software for Chromecast, runs into crappy dev program

2013-12-16 chromecast • developers • google • open

Samsung's startup plans

Buried in the bottom is news about Samsung's new startup incubator in the US

2013-12-16 mobile • samsung • startups • technology

SF neighborhood map

A detailed real estate agent view

2013-12-15 maps • neighborhoods • sanfrancisco

Great photo of snow in Cairo

2013-12-15 egypt • pyramids • snow • weather

Engineer’s guide to Stock Options

Basic intro, useful if not complete

2013-12-13 equity • options • startups • stock

Animated visualization of winds over the whole globe

2013-12-13 visualization • wind

Excellent Native American journalism

2013-12-13 america • indian • journalism • nativeamerican • news

Crowdfunded cubesat, to be launched from ISS

2013-12-12 astronomy • cubesat • space

Plex on Chromecast

Best video library app supports Google's Internet/TV dongle

2013-12-12 chromecast • google • plex • tv • video

YouTube MCN licensing

Details on Google's new policies for multi-channel networks managing video content

2013-12-12 advertising • copyright • google • via:waxy • youtube

YouTube copyright mess

Zealous ContentID matches to game playthroughs

2013-12-12 contentid • copyright • games • via:waxy • youtube

Export a Leaflet web map to an image, via canvas

2013-12-12 image • leaflet • maps

Time Doge of the year

2013 such year much person

2013-12-11 doge • funny • time

Web tool for drawing bounding boxes on maps

2013-12-11 boundingbox • maps • tool

History of lenticular printing

Details of a weird pseudo-3d printing technology

2013-12-11 3d • gifpop • gifs • printing

Funny Deaf culture video, literally English transliteration of a sign conversation

2013-12-11 culture • deaf • funny • language • voice

On Glitch public domain

"As a species, culture is all we’ve got"

2013-12-11 culture • flickr • games • glitch • publicdomain

Apple ][ DOS source

A bit of computer history preservation

2013-12-11 apple • computers • dos • history • sourcecode

Gun Laws since Sandy Hook

26 people dead in an elementary school shooting; how do our legislatures respond?

2013-12-11 america • guncontrol • guns • politics • visualization

Google PREF cookie origin

Technical details related to the new NSA revelations; it's related to safe browsing and is ubiquitous

2013-12-11 badtech • cookies • google • nsa • safebrowsing • snowden • surveillance

Twitter sentiment map

Interesting how-to making a map of Toronto opinions

2013-12-11 d3js • datavis • robford • toronto • twitter

NSA snooping Google cookies

Yet more government intrusion

2013-12-11 google • nsa • privacy • snowden

SF Coalition to Underground Utilities

Can SF bury its wires like big cities?

2013-12-11 infrastructure • power • sanfrancisco

iPad Mini poor display

Lab measures a bad color gamut in Apple's tablet

2013-12-09 apple • color • display • ipad • mini • tablets

Farmer Bob, RIP

The guy I bought my Christmas tree from last year died

2013-12-08 grassvalley • nevadacity • nevadacounty • obituary

Waterproof iPhone

A funny if cruel 4chan prank

2013-12-08 4chan • iphone

Replacement for Apple's awful Podcasts app

2013-12-08 apple • podcast

Very scrypt.. much random.. wow

2013-12-08 bitcoin • doge • funny • money

Grindr interview

Great details on the Internet's sleaziest social network

2013-12-08 gay • grindr • sex • startups

Another CA failure

The organizations in charge of Internet security are failing

2013-12-08 badtech • ca • google • ssl

Wedding Etiquette with Justin Hall - DRAFT pre-color and background

Hilarious video from an early Internet dude

2013-12-08 blogs • internet • justhall • weddings

Adam Messinger in the Oregonian

Local boy makes good at Twitter!

2013-12-07 oregon • startups • twitter

Histomap Revisited

Classic history timeline with a fisheye view

2013-12-07 history • infovis • visualization

Uber's revenue leaks

800,000 rides and $20M / week

2013-12-07 leak • startups • uber

Hilarious, relevant criticism of bitcoin

2013-12-06 bitcoin • funny • money

A rhetorical position as lazy as snark

2013-12-06 criticism • culture • smarm • snark

Twitter's 53 bit overflow

Back in 2010 Twitter hit the hilarious problem that Javascript doesn't have a 64 bit int type

2013-12-06 badtech • ids • javascript • overflow • twitter

2013-12-05 art • javascript • lisp • via:metafilter

Fun YouTube thing where people post videos of them reading a few stock phrases

2013-12-05 accents • language • video

Minor rapper tries to get some hype (old, but funny)

2013-12-05 djkhaled • facebook • funny • itunes • music • via:reddit

Run the home theater software on your Raspberry Pi

2013-12-05 plex • raspberrypi • tv

Gender in game marketing

Great history of how video games aren't really just for boys

2013-12-05 feminism • games • gender • marketing • via:metafilter

NPR Books13 source

GitHub repo for the top books webapp

2013-12-04 books • code • literature • npr • sourcecode

Best Books of 2013

Nice filterable webapp from NPR

2013-12-04 books • literature • npr • via:metafilter

A program that hijacks AR.Drones

2013-12-03 drones • funny • hacking

Bitcoin heist visualization

transaction diagram

2013-12-03 bitcoin • fraud • theft

Bitcoin heist, laundering

Enormous theft, now folks are tracking the stolen money

2013-12-03 bitcoin • fraud • theft

The Curious Forge

Maker space in Grass Valley, CA

2013-12-02 grassvalley • hacker • maker • nevadacounty

The female answer to the famous little boy peeing fountain

2013-12-02 fountain • mannekinpis • sculpture

Raspberry Pi iBeacon

Bluetooth LE location device hackery

2013-12-01 bluetooth • location • raspberrypi

Makes it easier to run userscripts in Chrome

2013-12-01 chrome • extensions • greasemonkey • javascript • userscript

Whatever Origin

Simple proxy to add headers to work around same-origin policy

2013-12-01 ajax • javascript • proxy • security • xhr