Half the Mozilla board resigns

New CEO's first impact is to cause a crisis at the company

2014-03-29 brendaneich • gay • gayrights • mozilla

Oculus Rift vs Gender

Women and men experience 3d graphics differently, women get more nausea

2014-03-28 3d • gender • graphics • oculusrift • vr

Making Threes

Lots of detail on the beautiful puzzle game's creation

2014-03-28 games • ios • puzzles • threes

ControlPane

Simple automation for Macs to do different things depending on WiFi network, etc

2014-03-27 automation • macos • scripting

Mozilla employees ask CEO to step down

Big public step for a bunch of employees to criticize their new CEO

2014-03-27 brendaneich • firefox • gay • gayrights • mozilla

Brendan Eich on inclusiveness

Says the right words in response to outcry over his anti-gay actions

2014-03-27 brendaneich • firefox • gay • gayrights • mozilla

Dogecoin mining malware

Android apps covertly mine cryptocurrency

2014-03-27 android • badtech • dogecoin • litecoin

Satellite map coverage

Amazing overview of where we have satellite imagery for the world, and how much

2014-03-26 maps • satellites • spot

Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace

Gay couple explains their decision to not work with Firefox

2014-03-25 civilrights • firefox • gayrights • mozilla

Hal Finney update?

Forbes reporter tracks down an old cypherpunk to see if he's the creator of Bitcoin

2014-03-25 als • bitcoin • crypto • cypherpunks • halfinney • satoshi

Brendan Eich on gay marriage

Mozilla CEO's weak defense of funding an effort to deny civil rights

2014-03-24 civilrights • gay • mozilla • prop8

Free OSM options

Quick list of places to go now that Cloudmade is pulling out of the free service market

2014-03-24 maps • openstreetmap • osm

Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets

Paper showing how easy it is to reverse engineer identity from an online database

2014-03-24 anonymity • google • netflix • privacy • security • via:marc

OpenAddresses launch

Big new open geodata project, sort of an adjunct to OpenStreetMap

2014-03-24 addresses • geocoding • maps • openstreetmap • osm

Street grids

Great visualization of road alignments in American cities

2014-03-24 america • cities • roads • urbanplanning

/r/outoftheloop

A subreddit for people who don't understand Reddit culture

2014-03-23 culture • funny • reddit

Valverde 1556 anatomy

Beautiful illustrations from the 16th century

2014-03-23 16th • anatomy • bartholemew • illustration • medical • valverde

ForeverScape

Pen illustration growing over the years. By Vance Feldman, Reed '05

2014-03-23 art • reed

Wrocław annalemma

Very trick kind of astrophotography; done with a pinhole camera!

2014-03-23 wrocław • astronomy • astrophotgraphy • pinhole • poland

Robert W. Richards

Interview with famous gay illustrator

2014-03-23 art • gay • illustration

WebP not happening

Chrome and derivatives is the only browser to support it. Too bad.

2014-03-23 google • images • webp

How to suppress women's coding

Upsetting collection of incidents

2014-03-21 equality • feminism • sexism • tech

Mostly procedural

Sage words of advice for programmers

2014-03-21 coding • funny • programming

BCP 38

Basic protection from DDoS; dates back to RFC2827. Not widely implemented.

2014-03-21 badtech • internet • lol • network • security

Redesigning healthcare.gov

Lovely little piece on Sha Hwang's work

2014-03-21 design • healthcare • shahwang

MH 370 summary

Excellent factual summary of what we know about the plane so far

2014-03-20 airplane • aviation • malaysia • mas370 • mh370

Stamen visualizes Mt. Gox

Provocative analysis of the stolen database dump

2014-03-20 bitcoin • mtgox • visualization

About keybase.io

Nice writeup of a usable public key crypto web tool

2014-03-20 crypto • cryptography • gpg • pgp • security

Bitcoin as technology

@ftrain does a great job looking at what's interesting underneath Bitcoin

2014-03-20 bitcoin • crypto • money

API fragility

Netflix / TV integration got broke by an API revision

2014-03-20 facepalm • netflix • programming • tv • versions

LICEcap

Make an animated GIF of something on your screen. Works on MacOS.

2014-03-20 gif • macos • macs • screencap

xkcd: Angular Size

Great illustration of how apparently large various space objects are

2014-03-19 angular • astronomy • size • space

Failed Kickstarter project

$21,514 taken without delivery or refunds

2014-03-19 consumers • failure • judahsher • kickstarter

MH370 SATCOMS

Good explanation of what data we have from the missing plane thanks to satellites

2014-03-19 aviation • mh370 • satellite

Planck all-sky images

Detailed images of the CMB in various colors, projections

2014-03-19 astronomy • cmb • cosmology • planck • space

Custom link underlines

Medium goes above and beyond in the service of good typography

2014-03-19 css • html • medium • typography

GifCam

Simple animated GIF making for Windows

2014-03-19 animation • gif • software • windows

Cluster Theme

A creative Tumblr theme

2014-03-19 funny • tumblr

/r/dataisugly/

A home for the cutting edge of data visualization

2014-03-19 funny • reddit • ugly • visualization

IAmA Hafþór Júlíus "Thor" Björnsson

Adorable Reddit interview with the guy playing The Mountain on Game of Thrones

2014-03-19 gameofthrones • iceland • reddit • strongman

3d printed bodice

Crazy physics modelling to 3d print flexible clothing

2014-03-17 3dprinting • clothing • fabric

CSS hyphenation support

Every desktop browser but Chrome. Get it together, Google.

2014-03-16 browsers • chrome • css • google • typography

wgif

Turn Youtube snippets into animated GIFs

2014-03-16 gifs • movies • via:metafilter • youtube

xkcd: Ancient Stars

Funny reperspective

2014-03-15 astronomy • comics • funny • stars • via:reddit

Endgame ruined MMOs

Historically grounded critique of current MMOs

2014-03-14 eveonline • games • mmos • warcraft

Making the Parks Conservancy Map

Excellent cartography by @mojodna and the crew at Stamen

2014-03-14 cartography • goldengate • maps • stamen

Freedom Boner [NSFW]

It's a funny NSFW animated GIF.

2014-03-14 america • funny • gif • murica • penis

MOSS robotics

Crazy robot toy with magnets, etc

2014-03-13 fun • medialab • robots • toys

Google promotes American Idol

Very weird use of the official corporate account

2014-03-13 ads • americanidol • google

Elsevier fraud

Publishing company charges for open access articles

2014-03-13 copyright • elsevier • fraud

Samsung Android backdoor

OS for popular cell phone has an exploit in it

2014-03-13 android • badtech • samsung

enet

A network layer on top of UDP, rumored to be used by League of Legends

2014-03-13 games • lag • lol • networking • udp

Chartspree

Quick embedded SVG charts using just URL data

2014-03-13 charts • pygal • svg • via:onethingwell

Lag in online games

Great explanations of the limits of multiplayer gaming on the Internet

2014-03-12 games • lag • networks • via:metafilter

Gox trades by country

Analysis of database leak shows which countries were net buyers or sellers of Bitcoin

2014-03-12 bitcoin • blackmarket • mtgox

SF NexTstop

Advocacy group for turning the stupid SF Central Subway into something useful

2014-03-12 planning • sanfrancisco • sf • subway • transit

CelesTrak

Canonical source for artificial satellite data; catalog, ephemeris, etc

2014-03-12 astronomy • satellites • space

Frog Fractions 2

Kickstarter for a sequel to an amazing game

2014-03-12 frogfractions • games • indie

NSA malware plot

Wholesale infection of millions of machines

2014-03-12 badtech • civilrights • malware • nsa • surveillance

The state of Battlefield 4

Honest assessment of the technical disaster of a flagship EA game

2014-03-11 battlefield • bf4 • games • via:reddit

Praise Helix

Nice writeup of the wackiness of Twitch plays Pokemon

2014-03-11 games • meme • pokemon • reddit • twitch

DiFi gets a clue

Top Democrat, chair of Senate Intelligence Committee, finally speaks out against illegal surveillance; of her own office

2014-03-11 civilrights • difi • politics • privacy • senate

Glyph on Threads

Twisted Python designer comments on threads, async, etc

2014-03-11 concurrency • programming • promises • python • threading

Between two ferns with Pres. Obama

Cringe comedy reaches the top, kind of amazing

2014-03-11 aca • funny • galafanakis • healthcare • obama • obamacare

Raise Your Dongers

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2014-03-10 funny • leagueoflegends • meme • reddit

Estonian e-government

Description of a country that does IT well

2014-03-10 codeforamerica • estonia • government • login • openid • via:drrt

Google Bus timelapse

Great video of how commuter busses and MUNI interact at stops

2014-03-10 commute • google • googlebus • muni • sanfrancisco

Mozilla steps back from Persona

Their innovative login service is being demoted to a "community project"

2014-03-08 login • mozilla • oauth • openid • persona

Twitter/IBM patent cost

Twitter paid IBM $36M to license some patents

2014-03-08 ibm • patents • twitter

About TempleOS

Outsider OS; one guy wrote a 64 bit OS that also allows offerings to God. Tremendous amount of work.

2014-03-08 operatingsystem • os • schizophrenia • templeos • via:waxy

Let’s Make a Block

How to post Javascript examples using bl.ocks.org

2014-03-07 blocks • d3js • examples • javascript

Approach plate usability

Thoughtful suggestions on improvements to design from a pilot

2014-03-07 aviation • design • ifr • usability

The Satoshi Paradox

Good reflection on Newsweek's choice to publish

2014-03-07 bitcoin • newsweek • satoshi • via:marc

Satoshi Nakamoto denial

Dorian Prentice says he's not the Bitcoin creator

2014-03-07 bitcoin • newsweek • satoshi

w00w00

Profile of a particular time in hacker culture

2014-03-07 dugsong • greyhat • hacking • w00w00 • whatsapp

Meeting Satoshi in 2011

Story from someone who claims his wife met the Bitcoin inventor

2014-03-06 bitcoin • satoshi • via:metafilter

The Face Behind Bitcoin

A compelling story that Satoshi Nakomoto has been found

2014-03-06 bitcoin • satoshi

RFC 801

How the Internet transitioned protocols, in 1981

2014-03-06 arpanet • flagday • internet • postel • protocols • rfc • tcp

Network Control Program

NCP was the Internet predecessor to TCP and UDP. Obsoleted in 1983.

2014-03-06 arpanet • history • internet • ncp • network • protocols

IFTTT for your car

Automatic's car interface now lets you make other things happen in response to trips

2014-03-05 automatic • automation • bluetooth • cars • ifttt

CIA spying on Congress

Counter-investigating the torture investigators

2014-03-05 cia • democracy • government • humanrights • torture

Reading the Pioneer/Voyager pulsar map

In 2007 someone tries to read the famous 1972 map for extraterrestrial intelligences

2014-03-05 maps • pioneer • pulsar • space • voyager

Minard visualizations

Nice collection of maps and charts by the famous 19th century visualizer

2014-03-05 graphics • minard • napolean • via:burritojustice

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Good overview of the uncertainty about who created Bitcoin

2014-03-05 bitcoin • cryptography • satoshi

GnuTLS flaw

Certificate checking also broken in a popular open source SSL library

2014-03-05 badtech • gnutls • gotofail • ssl

On Scott Lively

Comic version of the American anti-gay crusader in Uganda and Russia

2014-03-05 gayrights • russia • scottlively • uganda

Ethereum

Turning the distributed consensus idea of Bitcoin into a general computing platform

2014-03-04 bitcoin • mobileagents • programming • via:joshu

Maps of Crimea

Different cartographic choices lead to different stories

2014-03-03 crimea • maps • russia • ukraine

Hidden Bitcoin messages

The blockchain contains a surprising number of hidden messages

2014-03-03 bitcoin • funny • steganography

Bitcoin script errors

Bitcoin transactions are executable programs; sometimes they have bugs

2014-03-03 bitcoin • bug • money • mtgox • script

Meetup DDoS

Rare case of a company going public about being extorted

2014-03-03 ddos • extortion • internet • meetup

Dead End Thrills

Lovely collections of arty game screenshots

2014-03-02 games • photos • screenshot

w00w00 retrospective

Profile of the hacker group and former members made good

2014-03-02 dugsong • hacking • startup • w00w00 • whatsapp

Google Maps: "Drug Section"

Crowdsourced maps tell you where to score

2014-03-02 funny • google • maps

Weibo - SINA English

China's enormous Twitter-like service has an English interface

2014-03-01 china • twitter • weibo