Nelson's Linkblog 2014-01

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Breaking Madden

Glitching out the football game

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

Gmail system labels

Internal tags Google adds to email

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

Weibo hamstrung

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

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

Dear Mom and Dad

Little art project in Grand Theft Auto V photographs

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

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 insurance • lyft • rideshare • uber • uberx

Educational version of the game; features for teaching

2014-01-29 education • games • minecraft

SOTU2014 minute by minute

Analysis of tweets, how people engaged with the speech

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

Kerbal Space Program profile

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

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

Turing's original test

The gender twist to the Turing Test

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

Full night panorama

Crazy image of the Milky Way, etc

2014-01-27 astronomy • astrophotography • photography

Cycles (machinima)

Interesting arty short filmed in Battlefield 3

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

Handy weather forecast

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

No gays in Sochi

Frightening rhetoric

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

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

2014-01-26 music • via:waxy • youtube

Nice ode to a great old computer game

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

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 batshitinsane • kleinerperkins • politics • sanfrancisco

Browser extension to improve online news article headlines

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

League of Legends game analyzer based on LoLReplay records

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

Fake encyclopedia entries created as copyright traps

2014-01-23 copyright • language • traps

Google Google Apps Apps

Amazing video commentary on gentrification, tech, etc

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

Face substitution

Wear your Scramble Suit

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

Google, the Stupidity Amplifier

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

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

Supernova in M82

Amateur astronomers talking about the new star

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

Plight Of The Conquering Negro

Strong words about Sherman and race in America

2014-01-21 footboll • nfl • racism • 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 dimmer • led • lightbulbs • lights

Twitter Infrastructure

Interview with VP @raffi

2014-01-19 architecture • raffi • twitter

History of pimento cheese

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

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

2014-01-19 bitcoin • funny

People want Snowden dead

A measure of anger

2014-01-19 nsa • snowden

HoverZoom is malware

Popular Chrome extension has been hijacked

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

ConferenceCall.biz

Arty, disturbing

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

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 gis • maps • population

Target POS compromise

Report from iSight with the details

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

Obama's NSA changes

EFF breaks down the reforms Obama discussed

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

UTF-8 Everywhere

Nice explanation of this text encodingâ€™s advantages

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

Vaccine preventable outbreak map

Visualization of where vaccination programs are failing

2014-01-16 health • maps • vaccines

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 democracy • nsa • snowden

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

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

Early warplane camoflauge

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

Food Stamps service

The inhumanity of government services

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

2014 Dakar Rally

Lovely photos of the insane car race

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

European language map

Nice visualization of language relationships, roughly geographical

2014-01-15 europe • language • maps

Mavericks' SMB2 problem

Apple broke filesharing

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

iTunes vs SMB bug

iTunes can no longer import music off of a network drive

2014-01-15 apple • bug • itunes • smb

The Lost City of Z

Fantastic article about Amazon archaeology

2014-01-14 amazon • archaeology • longread

Locomotion Studies (1987)

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

2014-01-14 animation • karlsims • locomotion

Walking animations

Nice recent work on evolving / learning walking animations

2014-01-14 alife • animation • karlsims

Langewiesche account of the Baltic ferry disaster

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

Map of BitCoin tags in OpenStreetMap

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

Facebook buys Branch / Potluck

Congrats to the team!

2014-01-13 acquisition • facebook • obvious

SF parking failure

Fancy spot detectors' batteries failed

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

SnapChat on Google App Engine

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

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

Kreuz Market pitmaster

Great interview with a Texas barbeque master

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

San Francisco's shame

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

2014-01-12 compassion • homeless • sanfrancisco

FlightPrep patent trolling

More stupid fallout from a bad aviation company

2014-01-11 aviation • flightprep • patents

America, Your Food Is So Gay

Lovely essay on gay culture and food culture

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

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 funny • marijuana • thomas • thomasthetankengine • trains • treecomics

KMZ for Lost City of Z

Google Earth link for archaeological site in Brasil

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

ntpd monlist disabled

Old inspection protocol considered harmful

2014-01-09 badtech • ddos • ntp

Time protocol used to flood Internet servers with traffic

2014-01-09 badtech • ddos • ntp

Hilarious YouTube videos from an enthusiastic UK/Gambian gentleman

2014-01-08 funny • gambia • video

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

2014-01-08 movies • torrent • yify

Kickstarter completion data

Analysis of Kickstarter projects; what got funded, what delivered

2014-01-08 analysis • crowdfunding • kickstarter

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 • privacy • rsa • security

More NSA leakers?

Other whistleblowers may be sharing docs under the cover of Snowden

2014-01-06 nsa • privacy • snowden

OpenSSL vs Dual_EC_DRBG

Crazy story of certification and broken code

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

4043 byte PC emulator

phenomenal bit of tiny C programming

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

Details on Clapper's lie

NSA directly lies to Congress, continues to prevaricate

2014-01-06 clapper • lies • nsa

Losing @aaronsw

more on the tragedy of overzealous prosecution

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

NYC pneumatic mail

Map of the crazy old transport system

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

Balancing Cubli

Awesome bit of robots / control theory

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

Love Boat: Broadway Follies

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

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

North Korea IAmA

American teacher at a Pyongyang university

2014-01-04 northkorea

EA's broken games

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

Tweeting "Happy New Year" 2014

Fantastic map visualization

2014-01-02 newyear • twitter • visualization

Various thematic maps

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