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The Dark Enlightnenment
Bizarre Internet politics/religion
2013-12-31 via:metafilter • culture
PUA script
Disgusting childish behavior from supposed men
2013-12-29 pua • dating • relationships • feminism
Singapore OneMap API
map data from Singapore
2013-12-28 maps • singapore • openstreetmap
Selling Bitcoin
Dirty secret: nearly impossible to turn Bitcoin into real money
2013-12-27 money • funny • bitcoin • scam • via:metafilter
Spelunky solo eggplant
Beautifully detailed writeup of a very difficult game play
2013-12-26 games • twitch • spelunky • via:Waxy
Odessa Catacombs
More detail on the enormous underground
2013-12-26 odessa • catacombs • 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 odessa • maps • tomb • catacomb
Twitter Singapore bug
Hey, it's only one of the biggest Asian economies
2013-12-25 twitter • geocoding • bug • singapore
La grille sur les collines
Map treatment of SF focussed on grids vs hills
2013-12-24 sanfrancisco • geography • maps • urbanplanning • cartography
Ketut Soki
Balinese artist, I bought one of his paintings
2013-12-24 bali • art • painting • ketutsoki
ATL Twins (NSFW)
Doubling down on white trashery
2013-12-24 funny • twins • via:metafilter • murica
Gay marriage in Utah
The gates are open!
2013-12-24 utah • gayrights • marriage • gay • mormons
Iron Chef Japan
Crazy reference links to the Japanese cooking gameshow that spawned a genre
2013-12-23 food • cooking • japan • ironchef • tv • television
White House vs judicial review
Obama Administration is trying to shield NSA from any legal judgements
2013-12-23 nsa • civilrights • snowden • statesecrets
RSA, Inc compromised
NSA subverted a key US crypto company
2013-12-21 security • nsa • crypto • rsa • snowden
CocoaSPDY
Twitter's iOS implementation of SPDY
2013-12-20 spdy • networking • iphone • ios
Bitcoin critique
good collection of problems
2013-12-19 bitcoin
Switched On Road Runner
Classic Chuck Jones rescored
2013-12-16 music • synthesizer • cartoon
Chromecast API experience
Developer tries to build software for Chromecast, runs into crappy dev program
2013-12-16 google • developers • chromecast • open
Samsung's startup plans
Buried in the bottom is news about Samsung's new startup incubator in the US
2013-12-16 samsung • startups • mobile • technology
SF neighborhood map
A detailed real estate agent view
2013-12-15 maps • sanfrancisco • neighborhoods
Snowy pyramids
Great photo of snow in Cairo
2013-12-15 egypt • weather • snow • pyramids
Engineer’s guide to Stock Options
Basic intro, useful if not complete
2013-12-13 stock • options • equity • startups
Earth winds
Animated visualization of winds over the whole globe
2013-12-13 visualization • wind
Indian Country
Excellent Native American journalism
2013-12-13 news • nativeamerican • america • journalism • indian
SkyCube
Crowdfunded cubesat, to be launched from ISS
2013-12-12 space • astronomy • cubesat
Plex on Chromecast
Best video library app supports Google's Internet/TV dongle
2013-12-12 google • chromecast • plex • video • tv
YouTube MCN licensing
Details on Google's new policies for multi-channel networks managing video content
2013-12-12 copyright • youtube • google • advertising • via:waxy
YouTube copyright mess
Zealous ContentID matches to game playthroughs
2013-12-12 games • youtube • copyright • contentid • via:waxy
leaflet-image
Export a Leaflet web map to an image, via canvas
2013-12-12 leaflet • maps • image
Time Doge of the year
2013 such year much person
2013-12-11 funny • doge • time
bbox finder
Web tool for drawing bounding boxes on maps
2013-12-11 maps • tool • boundingbox
History of lenticular printing
Details of a weird pseudo-3d printing technology
2013-12-11 printing • 3d • gifs • gifpop
CODA Voice
Funny Deaf culture video, literally English transliteration of a sign conversation
2013-12-11 deaf • voice • culture • language • funny
On Glitch public domain
"As a species, culture is all we’ve got"
2013-12-11 glitch • publicdomain • culture • flickr • games
Apple ][ DOS source
A bit of computer history preservation
2013-12-11 apple • computers • sourcecode • dos • history
Gun Laws since Sandy Hook
26 people dead in an elementary school shooting; how do our legislatures respond?
2013-12-11 guncontrol • visualization • guns • america • politics
Google PREF cookie origin
Technical details related to the new NSA revelations; it's related to safe browsing and is ubiquitous
2013-12-11 google • nsa • surveillance • snowden • badtech • safebrowsing • cookies
Twitter sentiment map
Interesting how-to making a map of Toronto opinions
2013-12-11 toronto • robford • twitter • d3js • datavis
NSA snooping Google cookies
Yet more government intrusion
2013-12-11 google • privacy • nsa • snowden
SF Coalition to Underground Utilities
Can SF bury its wires like big cities?
2013-12-11 sanfrancisco • infrastructure • power
iPad Mini poor display
Lab measures a bad color gamut in Apple's tablet
2013-12-09 tablets • apple • ipad • mini • display • color
Farmer Bob, RIP
The guy I bought my Christmas tree from last year died
2013-12-08 nevadacounty • grassvalley • nevadacity • obituary
Waterproof iPhone
A funny if cruel 4chan prank
2013-12-08 iphone • 4chan
Pocket Casts
Replacement for Apple's awful Podcasts app
2013-12-08 podcast • apple
Dogecoin
Very scrypt.. much random.. wow
2013-12-08 money • bitcoin • funny • doge
Grindr interview
Great details on the Internet's sleaziest social network
2013-12-08 sex • gay • grindr • startups
Another CA failure
The organizations in charge of Internet security are failing
2013-12-08 badtech • ssl • ca • google
Wedding Etiquette with Justin Hall - DRAFT pre-color and background
Hilarious video from an early Internet dude
2013-12-08 internet • blogs • justhall • weddings
Adam Messinger in the Oregonian
Local boy makes good at Twitter!
2013-12-07 twitter • oregon • startups
Histomap Revisited
Classic history timeline with a fisheye view
2013-12-07 infovis • visualization • history
Uber's revenue leaks
800,000 rides and $20M / week
2013-12-07 uber • startups • leak
Buttcoin
Hilarious, relevant criticism of bitcoin
2013-12-06 funny • bitcoin • money
On Smarm
A rhetorical position as lazy as snark
2013-12-06 snark • smarm • culture • criticism
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 overflow • badtech • twitter • ids • javascript
Clocks
Generative art
2013-12-05 art • via:metafilter • lisp • javascript
Accent Tag
Fun YouTube thing where people post videos of them reading a few stock phrases
2013-12-05 accents • language • video
CEO of iTunes
Minor rapper tries to get some hype (old, but funny)
2013-12-05 via:reddit • djkhaled • facebook • music • itunes • funny
RasPlex
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 games • gender • via:metafilter • marketing • feminism
NPR Books13 source
GitHub repo for the top books webapp
2013-12-04 books • npr • literature • sourcecode • code
Best Books of 2013
Nice filterable webapp from NPR
2013-12-04 books • literature • npr • via:metafilter
SkyJack
A program that hijacks AR.Drones
2013-12-03 drones • hacking • funny
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 • theft • fraud
The Curious Forge
Maker space in Grass Valley, CA
2013-12-02 maker • hacker • nevadacounty • grassvalley
Jeanneken Pis
The female answer to the famous little boy peeing fountain
2013-12-02 fountain • sculpture • mannekinpis
Raspberry Pi iBeacon
Bluetooth LE location device hackery
2013-12-01 location • bluetooth • raspberrypi
Tampermonkey
Makes it easier to run userscripts in Chrome
2013-12-01 chrome • greasemonkey • javascript • extensions • userscript
Whatever Origin
Simple proxy to add headers to work around same-origin policy
2013-12-01 xhr • javascript • ajax • proxy • security