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MPEG Streamclip
It's a bit ghetto, but it's simple software for trimming a video and saving it.
2014-06-30 video • edit • trim • mpeg
World map of natural hazards
Munich RE map showing earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, etc
2014-06-30 via:reddit • maps • insurance • hazards • hurricane • tornado • earthquake
Blackwater was out of control
Mercenaries hired by the US threatened assassination
2014-06-30 via:metafilter • blackwater • academi • xe • murder • assassination • iraq
SB Language Maps
Fascinating detailed language dialect maps
2014-06-30 maps • languages
Mars animation
Amazing amateur astrophotography
2014-06-29 via:reddit • space • astrophotography • mars
Football video tracking
Cameras on field in real time track player, ball movements
2014-06-28 sports • soccer • football • tracking • video
Bitcoin max transaction rate
The protocol works out to about 10 transactions / second, a toy
2014-06-28 bitcoin • currency
MH370 update report
New info from ATSB with a very thorough treatment of the search area
2014-06-28 via:metafilter • mh370 • aviation
Right wing nut job
Brent Douglas Cole tried to murder a ranger up in Nevada County
2014-06-28 murder • guns • rightwing • nevadacounty
Mt Gox stolen coins tagged?
Someone claims to have found the missing $billion worth of BitCoins and tagged the wallets
2014-06-28 bitcoin • fraud • mtgox
Voice Chat with strangers
League of Legends thinking on why no voice chat
2014-06-27 games • leagueoflegends • sexism
Twitter TSAR
Timeseries aggregation software from Twitter engineering
2014-06-27 rrdtool • twitter • database • timeseries
Redesigning Google Maps
I/0 2014 talk about the WebGL maps
2014-06-27 maps • webgl • google • googlemaps • design
43,634 Detroit foreclosures
Amazing use of small multiples and Google street view
2014-06-27 google • maps • nytimes • visualization • smallmultiples
Muni contract status June 2014
A briefing that Muni has since removed from the web
2014-06-27 sf • muni • transit
Alraigo incident
Crazy 1983 aviation thing; lost pilot lands his VTOL on a random shipping vessel
2014-06-27 aviation • harrier • vtol
The Fermi Paradox
Clear, simple explanation of various theories of extraterrestrial intelligence
2014-06-27 seti • space • life • civilization • via:metafilter
Early Bob image
J.R. Bob Dobbs appeared in print even before his religion
2014-06-27 funny • subgenius • bob
Marc Collins-Rector found
The never ending story of gay pedophiles, Internet startups, and David Geffen
2014-06-27 gay • culture • scandal • ige • zam • wowhead • via:waxy
Twitter World Cup stats
Interesting data, very international audience
2014-06-27 twitter • worldcup • football
A Less-Angry Rainbow
Mike's experiments with color scales
2014-06-26 color • design • d3js • rainbow • angryrainbow
Gambletron 2000
Real time betting stats during a game
2014-06-26 sports • games • gambling • odds
Visualizing Algorithms
Mike Bostock's new essay, from his Eyeo talk
2014-06-26 d3 • d3js • eyeo • visualization • algorithms
Multics reunion panel
Video of a talk from one of the grand old timeshare operating systems
2014-06-26 multics • operatingsystems • greybeards
querycsv
Simple wrapper to import a CSV file to a database and allow SQL queries
2014-06-26 sql • python • csv • data
Deep Space Network status
See live status of satellite communications
2014-06-25 dsn • deepspacenetwork • space • satellite • communication
World Cup flopping stats
Some data on football cheating
2014-06-25 games • soccer • football • worldcup • cheating • flopping
Lightning Map Tiles
Andy Allan (@gravitystorm)'s talk about his vector tile OSM work
2014-06-25 maps • vectors • vectortiles • osm
April GLONASS postmortem
Details on the failure of Russia's GPS-like system
2014-06-25 gps • glonass • positioning • satellites
Novel uses of blockchain tech
Discussion of non-currency uses of BitCoin's central design
2014-06-25 consensus • bitcoin • blockchain • distributed
Mapbox and OSM
Explaining the relationship, very nicely worded
2014-06-25 mapbox • osm • openstreetmap • maps
Don't buy Battlefield Hardline
Excellent editorial calling out EA for their abusive game releases
2014-06-24 games • battlefield • bugs
2013 Google/FTC anti-trust agreement
Forgot about this; Google made some concessions to avoid an anti-trust case
2014-06-24 google • competition • ftc • antitrust • ads
Bing doodle
Spoof of the Google doodle, noting that Bing Video is particularly good for porn
2014-06-24 bing • google • funny
Psyché Rock
1967 song that's basically the Futurama theme
2014-06-24 music • futurama
Foucault: 100% polyamide
Famous philosopher *and* fashion model
2014-06-24 foucault • funny • fashion • turtleneck
Drone crashes visualization
Database of 400+ unmanned aircraft crashes
2014-06-23 drones • aviation • flying • military
Eliot reading The Hollow Men
annoying music underneath, but still a good clear recording
2014-06-23 poetry • poem • tseliot • eliot • thehollowmen • despair
ISEE-3 DSN postmortem
Detailed analysis of troubleshooting radio communication with the 30 year old spacecraft
2014-06-23 space • isee-3 • deepspacenetwork • dsn
How Mapbox Works
Overview of the map creation product
2014-06-23 maps • mapbox • tilemill
MapBox Outdoors design
Another new terrain map, quite lovely
2014-06-23 maps • mapbox • terrain • dem
League of Legends: The Basics
Riot finally made a good introductory video to the game
2014-06-23 lol • leagueoflegends • riot • moba
Permalink#History
Origins of the idea you should be able to link reliably to content, even on a changing site like a blog
2014-06-22 blogs • weblogs • web • permalink • urls • mathowie • pb
The world's population
Nice histogram visualization
2014-06-22 maps • population
ISEE-3 Trajectory 1978-1985
crazy orbut of a space probe
2014-06-21 isee-3 • orbit • space • satellite • lagrange
Israel vs. Palestine in RunKeeper
Stark map of the divide in the Middle East
2014-06-21 maps • running • israel • palestine
World Cup anti-gay slurs
Mexico fans yelling "puto" claiming it's no big thing.
2014-06-21 gay • sports • worldcup • football • mexico • bigots
Uber private stock deals
The difficulty of trying to sell private company equity
2014-06-21 uber • stock • investing • privatemarket • startups
La Ferme Saint-Aubin
An excellent cheese shop in Paris, on the Ile St. Louis
2014-06-21 paris • cheese • fromagerie
Dakota Doomsday Pyramid
Drive-by in Google Street View
2014-06-21 google • streetview • radar • military • dakota • northdakota • via:bldgblog
US Radar Pyramid
"A Pyramid in the MIddle of Nowhere Built to Track the End of the World"
2014-06-21 military • radar • dakota • northdakota • via:mariuswatz • architecture • apocalypse
freshmeat.net, 1997-2014
Sad, direct recounting of one company's Incredible Journey into oblivion
2014-06-21 freshmeat • slashdot • sourceforge • startups
World Cup flowchart
A simple guide on whom to root for
2014-06-21 soccer • football • worldcup • funny • via:hronk
Runkeeper routes
Lovely maps from @enf of @MapBox; 1.5 million GPS tracks in a heatmap
2014-06-20 maps • runkeeper • running
EA Battlefield 4 apology
An explanation of sorts, but basically the game was still a giant disaster
2014-06-20 games • ea • battlefield • dice
The Invasion of America
Animated map of the US taking land from Native tribes
2014-06-20 maps • america • history • nativeamericans • indians • via:metafilter
RIP Freshmeat (Freecode)
Long standing open source site finally winds down
2014-06-19 freshmeat • freecode • opensource
Rabies in a human (NSFL)
Creepy, disturbing medical video of a man dying of rabies
2014-06-19 rabies • disease • via:reddit • nsfl • nsfw
Zynga CEO: $57M
The payoff for running one of the worst public companies in the tech industry
2014-06-18 ceo • salary • compensation • zynga • scam
Hawaii overprint note
During WW2 the US printed special currency for Hawai'i, in case the Japanese took it over
2014-06-18 money • currency • ww2 • worldwar2 • hawaii
This Is Phil Fish
Thoughtful musing on the culture of fame in Internet subcultures
2014-06-18 games • fez • philfish • via:metafilter • culture • fame
APOD Heatmap
19 years of astronomy pictures, presented as a heatmap on the sky
2014-06-18 astronomy • apod • nasa • visualization
Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech
Like MongoDB, Node.js is web scale
2014-06-18 funny • javascript • mongodb • nodejs
The History of Mana
Details on how "mana" went from an Austronesian cultural idea to a video game concept
2014-06-17 games • mana • history • anthropology
Poetica
@blaine's collaborative writing webapp
2014-06-17 webapp • collaborative • googledocs • gnip • writing • medium • editing
Hey Carl
Strange little image meme from Walking Dead
2014-06-17 WalkingDead • funny • tv • meme
Nevada County recreation map
The county GIS office does good things
2014-06-14 maps • esri • nevadacounty • hiking • grassvalley
Fastlane ISP
Parody of what buying Internet may soon look like
2014-06-14 internet • funny • parody • netneutrality
SF buildings in OSM
MapBox funded an effort to trace every building in San Francisco
2014-06-13 maps • mapbox • openstreetmap • osm • sf • sanfrancisco
Transit Delays
Visualizing Muni schedule performance
2014-06-13 transit • muni • visualization
Twitter Management Opera of Soap
Analysis of recent staff changes at Twitter
2014-06-13 twitter • politics • costolo
US Marshals Bitcoin auction
Government moves to sell Silk Road seizure
2014-06-13 bitcoin • silkroad • via:metafilter
Thunderforest Lightning maps
OpenStreetMap leading light is offering his own vector maps
2014-06-13 osm • openstreetmap • maps • vectormaps
Iraq war: $2 trillion
And nothing to show for it except more instability
2014-06-13 iraq • debt • bush • warcrimes
Mapbox GL label placement
More of the fiddly design stuff required to make good looking maps
2014-06-13 maps • opengl • labels • openstreetmap
1881 Isochronic map
Travel times from London, Royal Geographic Society
2014-06-12 maps • via:reddit • geographic
Public art gone bad
That filthy mass of hippy rope in Embarcadero finally being removed
2014-06-12 macrame • art • embarcadero • bart
Kitty Litter
Internet treasure @ftrain on the wonderful world of cat piss absorbants.
2014-06-12 cats • internet • funny • ftrain
fq_codel
A router scheduling algorithm that does a good job scheduling bandwidth with little user configuration
2014-06-12 qos • quality • bandwidth • router • openwrt
CeroWRT
A router firmware from the Bufferbloat project, with good QoS and other proper networking features
2014-06-12 openwrt • firmware • router • network
JSON Blob
Like Gist or Pastebin for JSON; presents a nice viewer
2014-06-11 json • data • share • gist • pastebin
Astronomy Cast
Good astronomy podcast
2014-06-11 podcast • astronomy • space • science
Pan Inuit trails
Maps of traditional Arctic trails
2014-06-11 maps • arctic • inuit • eskimo
Feedly DDOS shakedown
Small web business comes public about an extortion attempt
2014-06-11 badtech • ddos • feedly • rss • crime
Drawing lines in OpenGL
Amazing detailed info on what should be simple. /cc @korkyplunger
2014-06-11 opengl • webgl • maps • graphics • design
The Nose Of Stephen Fry
Of course there's a Tumblr for it
2014-06-10 tumblr • stephenfry • nose
Boston T visualization
Amazing analysis of MBTA transit data
2014-06-10 visualization • via:metafilter • boston
Fine NodeJS rant
Some insight into how Node.js has its problems too
2014-06-09 node • nodejs • javascript • programming
Why Perl Didn't Win
An entire history of Perl written in the past tense
2014-06-09 perl • programming • internet • perl6
Postage Rates
Useful, hilariously cranky guide to USPS postage rates
2014-06-05 postage • usps • stamps • funny
A working Xanadu
Famous hypertext vaporware finally has a usable demo
2014-06-04 xanadu • hypertext • batshitinsane
World Atlas of Language Structure
Neat maps of different structural characteristics of world languages
2014-06-04 language • maps • atlas • linguistics
@astro_reid
Twitter astronaut posting great photos from the ISS
2014-06-04 space • nasa • twitter • astronaut • photos
Micro Python
A Python3 interpreter for embedded systems; 200k for full runtime, 2k RAM for a REPL
2014-06-04 python • embedded • lua
Cities stop fiber ISPs
Local laws often grant monopolies to crappy slow ISPs
2014-06-04 fiber • internet • isp • politics
Contiki embedded OS
Nice article about the tiny open source OS for "Internet of Things" style computing
2014-06-03 embedded • os • contiki • opensource • via:mc
Cepheids in the Milky Way
Great astronomy result; gives us precise distance measures inside our own galaxy
2014-06-03 astronomy • milkyway • cepheid
Isa (sci-fi film)
New movie airing on the Syfy channel
2014-06-03 movies • scifi
WWDC 2014 summary
Bullet points, nothing terribly exciting
2014-06-02 apple • wwdc
Bob Bergdahl’s tweet
Weird story behind the recent Taliban prisoner exchange
2014-06-02 taliban • twitter • bergdahl • prisoner
Alfred and OS X 10.10 Yosemite
My beloved app launcher does not feel threatened by Spotlight
2014-06-02 apple • spotlight • alfred • macos
Oíche Mhaith
Disturbing art game from Cavanagh
2014-06-02 games • art • childabuse • abuse • despair
Bvckup 2
Clean thoughtful Windows backup
2014-06-01 windows • backup • software
glasshole.sh
Script to kick Google Glass off a wifi network
2014-06-01 wifi • glass • privacy • via:jwz • google • funny
NSA facial recognition database
Well of course they're doing this too
2014-06-01 nsa • privacy • facialrecognition • snowden
Watch Dogs graphic direction
Interesting view into the work of a game visual designer
2014-06-01 games • watchdogs • design • scifi
Big data on the farm
Prescriptive planting: using precise climate and soil data to choose what to plant
2014-06-01 farming • agriculture • monsanto • fieldscripts
Kappa
Gamer slang from Twitch, "Kappa" indicates sarcasm
2014-06-01 games • funny • twitch • kappa • meme
Over the Hill at 24
Survey of Starcraft players find reaction time starts to suffer at 24
2014-06-01 esports • starcraft • games • aging • reactiontime
Hai - Road to Recovery
Sweet video feature on a pro LoL player and his collapsed lung
2014-06-01 hai • c9 • cloud9 • leagueoflegends • lol • esports • lung