Nelson's Linkblog 2014-01

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Breaking Madden

Glitching out the football game

2014-01-31 games • madden • funny • via:kottke

Gmail system labels

Internal tags Google adds to email

2014-01-31 spam • email • gmail • google

Weibo hamstrung

Chinese government's crackdown has severely curtailed usage of China's Twitter-like service

2014-01-31 weibo • sinaweibo • china • freedom • twitter

Dear Mom and Dad

Little art project in Grand Theft Auto V photographs

2014-01-31 games • gtav • via:reddit • postcards

Telenav buys Skobbler

Big news in the world of open source maps

2014-01-31 maps • openstreetmap • skobbler • telenav

Lyft and UberX insurance

Most rideshare drivers have no insurance covering their rideshare activities.

2014-01-29 lyft • uber • uberx • rideshare • insurance

Educational version of the game; features for teaching

2014-01-29 games • education • minecraft

SOTU2014 minute by minute

Analysis of tweets, how people engaged with the speech

2014-01-29 visualization • twitter • president • politics • sotu

Kerbal Space Program profile

Nice background on the company that makes the amazing indie space sim game

2014-01-29 games • mexico • ksp • kerbalspaceprogram

Turing's original test

The gender twist to the Turing Test

2014-01-28 turing • ai • computerscience • gender • gay

Full night panorama

Crazy image of the Milky Way, etc

2014-01-27 astronomy • photography • astrophotography

Cycles (machinima)

Interesting arty short filmed in Battlefield 3

2014-01-27 games • battlefield • machinima • via:reddit

Handy weather forecast

2014-01-27 weather • funny • doge • meme • via:metafilter

No gays in Sochi

Frightening rhetoric

2014-01-27 gays • politics • sochi • russia

Simple way to upload an MP3 file with an image to YouTube

2014-01-26 via:waxy • music • youtube

Nice ode to a great old computer game

2014-01-26 via:metafilter • games • programming • robotodyssey • apple2

Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?

"First they came for the venture capitalists, but I did not speak up for I was not a venture capitalist"...

2014-01-25 sanfrancisco • batshitinsane • politics • kleinerperkins

Browser extension to improve online news article headlines

2014-01-25 buzzfeed • upworthy • funny • journalism • extension

League of Legends game analyzer based on LoLReplay records

2014-01-25 leagueoflegends • lol • games • analysis

Fake encyclopedia entries created as copyright traps

2014-01-23 traps • copyright • language

Google Google Apps Apps

Amazing video commentary on gentrification, tech, etc

2014-01-23 google • sanfrancisco • dragqueen • queer

Face substitution

Wear your Scramble Suit

2014-01-23 via:waxy • imageprocessing • javascript • webcam • hack

Google, the Stupidity Amplifier

Fine cranky rant about failures of Google's "semantic knowledge" stuff

2014-01-22 gregegan • scifi • funny • google

Supernova in M82

Amateur astronomers talking about the new star

2014-01-22 astronomy • science • space • m82 • supernova

Plight Of The Conquering Negro

Strong words about Sherman and race in America

2014-01-21 racism • footboll • nfl • sherman

Revisiting William Whyte

Keith Hampton redoing the classic 1960s urban planning experiments

2014-01-20 cities • urbanplanning • via:metafilter

Dimmer-compatible LEDs

Lightbulbs for Lutron dimmers

2014-01-19 lights • lightbulbs • led • dimmer

Twitter Infrastructure

Interview with VP @raffi

2014-01-19 raffi • twitter • architecture

History of pimento cheese

The classic Southern spread is a product of early 1900s industrial food

2014-01-19 food • cooking • southern • cheese

2014-01-19 funny • bitcoin

People want Snowden dead

A measure of anger

2014-01-19 snowden • nsa

HoverZoom is malware

Popular Chrome extension has been hijacked

2014-01-18 chrome • badtech • hoverzoom • extensions

ConferenceCall.biz

Arty, disturbing

2014-01-18 via:migurski • art • business

Vermont Pleasures (NSFW)

Hilarious spoof sex toy catalog

2014-01-18 funny • nsfw • sex • via:metafilter

Population density map

Nice simple map with description of how it was made

2014-01-18 population • maps • gis

Target POS compromise

Report from iSight with the details

2014-01-18 badtech • target • virus • pos

Obama's NSA changes

EFF breaks down the reforms Obama discussed

2014-01-18 eff • nsa • privacy • badtech

UTF-8 Everywhere

Nice explanation of this text encodingâ€™s advantages

2014-01-17 encoding • unicode • utf8 • programming

Vaccine preventable outbreak map

Visualization of where vaccination programs are failing

2014-01-16 vaccines • health • maps

Schneier briefing Congress

Representatives don't get useful info from NSA, so they bring in an outsider with access to Snowden docs

2014-01-16 snowden • nsa • democracy

Resume of an FCC guy who's a force for good

2014-01-16 geo • maps • fcc • government

Early warplane camoflauge

2014-01-15 camoflauge • aviation • spitfire • pink

Food Stamps service

The inhumanity of government services

2014-01-15 codeforamerica • cfa • foodstamps • service • government

2014 Dakar Rally

Lovely photos of the insane car race

2014-01-15 dakar • racing • chile • photography • cars

European language map

Nice visualization of language relationships, roughly geographical

2014-01-15 maps • language • europe

Mavericks' SMB2 problem

Apple broke filesharing

2014-01-15 apple • macos • bugs • badtech

iTunes vs SMB bug

iTunes can no longer import music off of a network drive

2014-01-15 bug • apple • itunes • smb

The Lost City of Z

Fantastic article about Amazon archaeology

2014-01-14 archaeology • amazon • longread

Locomotion Studies (1987)

Hilarious Karl Sims student work. (attn @migurski @shashashasha)

2014-01-14 karlsims • animation • locomotion

Walking animations

Nice recent work on evolving / learning walking animations

2014-01-14 animation • karlsims • alife

Langewiesche account of the Baltic ferry disaster

2014-01-14 via:metafilter • estonia • ferry • disaster • ocean • baltic

Map of BitCoin tags in OpenStreetMap

2014-01-13 bitcoin • osm • openstreetmap • maps

Facebook buys Branch / Potluck

Congrats to the team!

2014-01-13 facebook • acquisition • obvious

SF parking failure

Fancy spot detectors' batteries failed

2014-01-13 sanfrancisco • fail • parking • sf • waste

SnapChat on Google App Engine

Is this the biggest consumer service built on top of Google's cloud thing?

2014-01-13 google • appengine • snapchat • architecture • scaling

Kreuz Market pitmaster

Great interview with a Texas barbeque master

2014-01-12 food • barbeque • barbecue • lockhart • kreuz

San Francisco's shame

continuing dysfunction in dealing with mentally ill people living on the streets

2014-01-12 sanfrancisco • homeless • compassion

FlightPrep patent trolling

More stupid fallout from a bad aviation company

2014-01-11 aviation • patents • flightprep

America, Your Food Is So Gay

Lovely essay on gay culture and food culture

2014-01-11 cooking • gay • via:metafilter • america

Jon Mills fraud?

Alleged investment fraud with Motionloft, a tech startup

2014-01-11 fraud • jonmills • motionloft • startups

Thomas the Dank Engine

2014-01-11 trains • thomas • thomasthetankengine • marijuana • funny • treecomics

KMZ for Lost City of Z

Google Earth link for archaeological site in Brasil

2014-01-10 brazil • brasil • lostcityofz • archaeology • googleearth

ntpd monlist disabled

Old inspection protocol considered harmful

2014-01-09 NTP • ddos • badtech

Time protocol used to flood Internet servers with traffic

2014-01-09 ntp • badtech • ddos

Hilarious YouTube videos from an enthusiastic UK/Gambian gentleman

2014-01-08 funny • video • gambia

Details on the movie piracy group that makes high quality, tight rips

2014-01-08 movies • yify • torrent

Kickstarter completion data

Analysis of Kickstarter projects; what got funded, what delivered

2014-01-08 kickstarter • analysis • crowdfunding

Phenomenal story about the survivor of a multiple homicide

2014-01-08 crime

DUAL_EC_DRBG backdoor

Details on how NSA compromised the algorithm

2014-01-07 badtech • nsa • security • privacy • rsa

More NSA leakers?

Other whistleblowers may be sharing docs under the cover of Snowden

2014-01-06 snowden • nsa • privacy

OpenSSL vs Dual_EC_DRBG

Crazy story of certification and broken code

2014-01-06 badtech • nsa • security • crypto • openssl

4043 byte PC emulator

phenomenal bit of tiny C programming

2014-01-06 ioccc • programming • dos • emulator

Details on Clapper's lie

NSA directly lies to Congress, continues to prevaricate

2014-01-06 nsa • clapper • lies

Losing @aaronsw

more on the tragedy of overzealous prosecution

2014-01-05 aaronsw • aaronswartz • mit • freedom

NYC pneumatic mail

Map of the crazy old transport system

2014-01-05 mail • newyork • history • maps • via:mizmay

Balancing Cubli

Awesome bit of robots / control theory

2014-01-05 robotics • via:reddit • eth

Love Boat: Broadway Follies

Ethel Merman, Ann Miller, Carol Channing and Della Reese on the cruise boat stage together

2014-01-05 music • loveboat • broadway • hilarious

North Korea IAmA

American teacher at a Pyongyang university

2014-01-04 northkorea

EA's broken games

2014-01-04 games • ea • dice • battlefield

Tweeting "Happy New Year" 2014

Fantastic map visualization

2014-01-02 visualization • twitter • newyear

Various thematic maps

2014-01-02 maps • us • america • history