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CIA spied on the Senate
CIA Inspector General admits the CIA spied on legislators. This is dangerous.
2014-07-31 cia • spying • senate • feinstein • democracy
Chrome app wrapper
Like Fluid; a way to turn a website into a stand alone Mac application
2014-07-30 mac • chrome • application • macos
Kim Kardashian game review
Lovely bit of post-feminist game criticism
2014-07-30 games • feminism • kardashian
Radical feminism vs transgenderism
Even handed summary of a very divisive issue
2014-07-30 gender • politics • feminism • queer • trans • transgender
Deaths in Gaza
A stark visualization
2014-07-29 israel • gaza • visualization
Nokia map new design
Detailed analysis
2014-07-29 maps • nokia • here • microsoft • where
Markov Chains
Nice D3 explanation
2014-07-29 d3js • d3 • markovchain • modeling
App Rot
Thoughtful essay on the iOS app market maturing
2014-07-29 via:metafilter • overcast • marco • software • apps • apple • iphone • ios
Susan Sarandon
Nice little brief interview, she's awesome
2014-07-29 actors • sarandon • woodyallen • drugs • movies
Nested
A procedural content thing, a game of sorts
2014-07-29 games • procedural
PG&E cozy with regulators
The ongoing debacle over California's failure to meaningfully regulate utilities
2014-07-29 pge • sanbruno • puc • corruption • california • politics
Geography of US debt
Detailed maps of consumer US debt
2014-07-29 debt • us • map
DIY multi-sundial
Nice little papercraft project for making an accurate timepiece
2014-07-29 sundial • time • via:metafilter • papercraft
Food for White Liberals
"what sex is for the Religious Right"
2014-07-29 politics • food • liberals
PyMonad
In case you want to write inscrutable functional code in Python
2014-07-28 Python • haskell • functional • programming • code
Eid al-Fitr 2014
Nice set of photos
2014-07-28 islam • muslims • ramadan • eid • eidalfitr • photos • photography
Gender gap in tech funding
Sexism in the VC and angel world
2014-07-28 investment • startup • gender • sexism
Age diversity in tech
The lack of data
2014-07-28 diversity • age • discrimination • startups
LMQ esports dispute
Top League of Legends team (in North America, but a Chinese team) has a bunch of shady business problems
2014-07-28 esports • lol • games • lmq
Ingress Tips
Google's augmented reality game now on iOS; advice for new players
2014-07-28 games • ingress • augmentedreality
Ramen crust pizza
When stoners run out of ingredients, they get creative
2014-07-28 pizza • ramen • funny
youtube-dl merge
Tool for downloading video can grab separate video and audio, then merge them
2014-07-26 youtube • download • ffmpeg • merge • video
anatomy of songs
A simple linear infographic
2014-07-26 music • funny • stereotypes • via:jwz • infographics
Rap Genius bro on Bitcoin
Disgraced former Genius guy has the Bitcoin religion
2014-07-26 bitcoin • bro • rapgenius • genius
Television designs
Nice graphic of the look of TV consoles since 1928
2014-07-26 television • design
6502 emulator detector
Cool hack from Mark Pilgrim, who's been scarce lately
2014-07-25 markpilgrim • diveintomark • hack • assembly • 6502 • apple
Google really buying Twitch
Still not official, but a strong journalistic source
2014-07-24 google • twitch • video
Hapax legomenon
Words that only occur once in some corpus
2014-07-24 language • writing • zipfslaw
80s Computer Hacking
A supercut of what computers looked like in movies.
2014-07-24 via:metafilter • hacking • supercut • films • 1980s
America's Flight 17
In 1988 the US shot down a civilian airliner by accident
2014-07-24 iran • iranair655 • ia655 • mh17 • aviation • military
Didga, skateboarding cat
It's a cat. Who skates.
2014-07-23 skateboards • cats • funny
Sun Noodles
purveyors of fine ramen (attn @marcprecipice)
2014-07-23 ramen • food • noodles
Twitter employee diversity
Welcome transparency, disappointing but predictable numbers
2014-07-23 diversity • twitter
Deaths in the Iliad
finally an infographic that isn't awful
2014-07-23 homer • iliad • classics • infographics
EC2 Origins
Benjamin Black (Amazon employee) claims partial credit for starting Amazon's cloud computing business
2014-07-23 amazon • ec2 • aws • cloud
julybywomen
Women on Metafilter making "posts by women" for the month of July
2014-07-22 women • gender • metafilter • feminism
Scarlett, Starcraft pro
One of the strongest players of Starcraft is a transgender woman
2014-07-22 gender • women • starcraft • transgender • games • esports
turf JS GIS
GIS library written in Javascript
2014-07-22 javascript • gis • maps • nodejs
Game dev sexual harassment
Ugly stories of experiences women in the games business have
2014-07-22 gender • games • harassment
Canvas fingerprinting
Yet another web tracking tool; using differences in browser rendering
2014-07-22 cookies • privacy • canvas • badtech
FCC's failure on broadband
2011 post about how FCC's policy created our existing monopoly broadband situation
2014-07-21 broadband • internet • fcc • policy
ScanLine Generator 3000
For reproducing the look of crappy old CRTs
2014-07-21 games • emulation • scanline • tv • crt • video
The secret of Minecraft
Lovely essay on the way you learn to play Minecraft
2014-07-21 games • minecraft • books • fandom • via:waxy
CockroachDB
Some very smart ex-Googlers building an open source robust datastore
2014-07-21 spencerkimball • bendarnell • spanner • bigtable • google • software • database
Russian MH17 view
Conspiracy theories in Russian media
2014-07-21 russia • ukraine • mh17 • news • conspiracy
CouchPotato
Software for downloading unlicensed TV and movies
2014-07-19 tv • movies • torrent • nzb • usenet
Popout for YouTube
Chrome extension to let you pop just the video out of a Youtube page
2014-07-18 youtube • chrome • extension • video
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Animated GIF of a tiny tumbling comet that we're about to land a probe on
2014-07-18 space • comets • rosetta • astronomy
Level 3 calls out Verizon
Significant Internet backbone provider explains how Verizon is lying about bandwidth
2014-07-17 netflix • verizon • netneutrality • level3 • internet
BUK anti-air missile
System rumored to have shot down MH17
2014-07-17 mh17 • malaysia • ukraine • missile • war
Kara Swisher profile
The respectable tech gossip journalist
2014-07-17 tech • journalism • swisher • allthingsd • recode
Guilty Remnant
Website for the religious movement taking the (fictional) world by storm
2014-07-16 leftovers • tv • religion
pytest
Fancy unit testing for Python
2014-07-16 tests • python • programming • code
Hacker vs. League of Legends
Details of account thefts, DDOS attacks, etc
2014-07-15 games • lol • leagueoflegends • badtech
DashCon disaster
Fandom conference fails, hilarity ensues
2014-07-14 fandom • tumblr • via:metafilter • fail
Soccer in Côte d’Ivoire
An American's reflections on playing teenage street soccer in Côte d’Ivoire
2014-07-13 football • soccer • kwindla • worldcup
What is a Super Moon?
Science! Sensible details.
2014-07-12 moon • astronomy • supermoon
Dear white gays
Controversial op/ed calling out cultural appropriation
2014-07-12 race • gender • gay • black • via:metafilter
Ultima's ethics
The virtues, aspects, etc in the 80s computer games
2014-07-12 ultima • ethics • games
Ian Thorpe comes out
Famous Australian swimmer is gay
2014-07-12 gay • sports • swimming • thorpedo • ianthorpe
On selling social tech
Interesting analysis of how the Tinder co-founder was essential in early creation of the social system
2014-07-11 women • tech • tinder • community
Grindr remembers the holocaust
Gay personal ads featuring photos taken at the Berlin holocaust memorial
2014-07-11 gay • sex • berlin • holocaust
Buttcoin.org subverted
Popular Bitcoin critique site was bought by a mining rig company a few months ago
2014-07-11 bitcoin • funny • scam
$470k Kickstarter failure
Company fails to deliver its pre-sold hardware
2014-07-10 fraud • kickstarter • scam
CYNK market weirdness
Some non-existent company recently went from $20M to $5B in market value. No one knows why.
2014-07-10 market • scam • pumping
"Content" as product
The sleaziness of the current crop of fake Internet journalism
2014-07-10 journalism • writing • sleaze • ads
Presbyterians in Utah
America's own counter-reformation; 1870s Presbyterians moved to Utah to proselytize to Mormons
2014-07-10 religion • utah • history • lds • mormon • presbyterian
50 states in Lego
cute dioramas of stereotypes
2014-07-10 america • via:Reddit • lego • diorama
ISEE-3 Plan B
30 year old salvage spacecraft turns out to have no fuel, still will be useful for a few months
2014-07-10 space • isee3
Pinboard Turns Five
Hilarious as always, state of a small web service company. Great thoughts on burnout.
2014-07-10 funny • maciej • lifestylebusiness
Bad SSL certs spoof Google
Another example of incompetence or malice in the Internet's trust infrastructure
2014-07-09 ssl • badtech • google • security • india
Apple maps on the web
Totally unofficial, but handy map viewer
2014-07-08 maps • apple
ISEE-3 telemetry
Real time view of the satellite
2014-07-08 space • satellite • isee3
Criminalized HIV
Detailed story of one man in jail for not disclosing HIV status
2014-07-08 hiv • aids • race • gay • wrestling
CA planning insanity
The expensive, long delays introduced by environmental reviews on simple things like better bus service
2014-07-08 brt • california • sanfrancisco • bureaucracy • vanness • eir
Stripe and open source
Recognition of the startup contributing back
2014-07-08 stripe • opensource
Procedural Content Generation
A textbook for game design
2014-07-08 via:amitp • games • generative • procedural
How to play Street Fighter
Ridiculously detailed primer on fighting games
2014-07-08 games • via:metafilter • streetfighter
Virtual Economies
New academic book on game economies
2014-07-07 games • economics • mmos
Visiting Sana'a
Maciej Ceglowski goes to Yeme
2014-07-07 yemen • travel • sana
C9 Hai interview
Thoughtful take on the pressures of being a pro gamer
2014-07-07 games • leagueoflegends • cloud9 • c9 • hai
NSA newspeak
Decoder ring for the misleading language NSA uses
2014-07-07 nsa • spying • surveillance • civilrights • privacy • clapper
Justin Bieber update
Long but nuanced portrait of the child star growing up
2014-07-06 fame • bieber • music • via:metafilter
NSA illegal overview
Broad summary of what we've learned from Snowden, the breadth of NSA's spying on US citizens
2014-07-06 fourthamendment • civilrights • nsa • surveillance • snowden
Islands of Portland
Nice treatment of rising sea levels in Portland
2014-07-05 maps • portland • globalwarming • burritojustice
Root Zone DB
Top level domains; the list is getting big
2014-07-05 dns • domains • tlds • iana
SVG grouping
Interesting constructs, some of which could be nice in D3
2014-07-04 d3js • svg • graphics
Estonia global digital ID
Country takes its pioneering national ID program international
2014-07-04 estonia • identity • oauth • openid • login • authentication • passwords
NSA / Wall Street
More revolving door, concerns about national secrets
2014-07-03 nsa • wallstreet • corruption • politics
Twitch is 10% of YouTube
As measured by bandwidth, Twitch accounts for 1.35% of Internet traffic
2014-07-02 twitch • streaming • video • bandwidth
CKAN
open source data portal product
2014-07-02 opensource • data • opendata • gis
Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No
Hilarious video of an unlikely pitching performance
2014-07-02 acid • lsd • funny • baseball • nohitter • dockellis
Snowden / NSA revelations
Handy chart showing all the illegal activities
2014-07-01 nsa • civilrights • snowden • privacy