CIA spied on the Senate

CIA Inspector General admits the CIA spied on legislators. This is dangerous.

2014-07-31 cia • democracy • feinstein • senate • spying

Chrome app wrapper

Like Fluid; a way to turn a website into a stand alone Mac application

2014-07-30 application • chrome • mac • macos

Kim Kardashian game review

Lovely bit of post-feminist game criticism

2014-07-30 feminism • games • kardashian

Radical feminism vs transgenderism

Even handed summary of a very divisive issue

2014-07-30 feminism • gender • politics • queer • trans • transgender

Deaths in Gaza

A stark visualization

2014-07-29 gaza • israel • visualization

Nokia map new design

Detailed analysis

2014-07-29 here • maps • microsoft • nokia • where

Markov Chains

Nice D3 explanation

2014-07-29 d3 • d3js • markovchain • modeling

App Rot

Thoughtful essay on the iOS app market maturing

2014-07-29 apple • apps • ios • iphone • marco • overcast • software • via:metafilter

Susan Sarandon

Nice little brief interview, she's awesome

2014-07-29 actors • drugs • movies • sarandon • woodyallen

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 california • corruption • pge • politics • puc • sanbruno

Geography of US debt

Detailed maps of consumer US debt

2014-07-29 debt • map • us

DIY multi-sundial

Nice little papercraft project for making an accurate timepiece

2014-07-29 papercraft • sundial • time • via:metafilter

Food for White Liberals

"what sex is for the Religious Right"

2014-07-29 food • liberals • politics

PyMonad

In case you want to write inscrutable functional code in Python

2014-07-28 code • functional • haskell • programming • python

Eid al-Fitr 2014

Nice set of photos

2014-07-28 eid • eidalfitr • islam • muslims • photography • photos • ramadan

Gender gap in tech funding

Sexism in the VC and angel world

2014-07-28 gender • investment • sexism • startup

Age diversity in tech

The lack of data

2014-07-28 age • discrimination • diversity • 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 • games • lmq • lol

Ingress Tips

Google's augmented reality game now on iOS; advice for new players

2014-07-28 augmentedreality • games • ingress

Ramen crust pizza

When stoners run out of ingredients, they get creative

2014-07-28 funny • pizza • ramen

youtube-dl merge

Tool for downloading video can grab separate video and audio, then merge them

2014-07-26 download • ffmpeg • merge • video • youtube

anatomy of songs

A simple linear infographic

2014-07-26 funny • infographics • music • stereotypes • via:jwz

Rap Genius bro on Bitcoin

Disgraced former Genius guy has the Bitcoin religion

2014-07-26 bitcoin • bro • genius • rapgenius

Television designs

Nice graphic of the look of TV consoles since 1928

2014-07-26 design • television

6502 emulator detector

Cool hack from Mark Pilgrim, who's been scarce lately

2014-07-25 6502 • apple • assembly • diveintomark • hack • markpilgrim

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 1980s • films • hacking • supercut • via:metafilter

America's Flight 17

In 1988 the US shot down a civilian airliner by accident

2014-07-24 aviation • ia655 • iran • iranair655 • mh17 • military

Didga, skateboarding cat

It's a cat. Who skates.

2014-07-23 cats • funny • skateboards

Sun Noodles

purveyors of fine ramen (attn @marcprecipice)

2014-07-23 food • noodles • ramen

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 classics • homer • iliad • infographics

EC2 Origins

Benjamin Black (Amazon employee) claims partial credit for starting Amazon's cloud computing business

2014-07-23 amazon • aws • cloud • ec2

julybywomen

Women on Metafilter making "posts by women" for the month of July

2014-07-22 feminism • gender • metafilter • women

Scarlett, Starcraft pro

One of the strongest players of Starcraft is a transgender woman

2014-07-22 esports • games • gender • starcraft • transgender • women

turf JS GIS

GIS library written in Javascript

2014-07-22 gis • javascript • maps • nodejs

Game dev sexual harassment

Ugly stories of experiences women in the games business have

2014-07-22 games • gender • harassment

Canvas fingerprinting

Yet another web tracking tool; using differences in browser rendering

2014-07-22 badtech • canvas • cookies • privacy

FCC's failure on broadband

2011 post about how FCC's policy created our existing monopoly broadband situation

2014-07-21 broadband • fcc • internet • policy

ScanLine Generator 3000

For reproducing the look of crappy old CRTs

2014-07-21 crt • emulation • games • scanline • tv • video

The secret of Minecraft

Lovely essay on the way you learn to play Minecraft

2014-07-21 books • fandom • games • minecraft • via:waxy

CockroachDB

Some very smart ex-Googlers building an open source robust datastore

2014-07-21 bendarnell • bigtable • database • google • software • spanner • spencerkimball

Russian MH17 view

Conspiracy theories in Russian media

2014-07-21 conspiracy • mh17 • news • russia • ukraine

CouchPotato

Software for downloading unlicensed TV and movies

2014-07-19 movies • nzb • torrent • tv • usenet

Popout for YouTube

Chrome extension to let you pop just the video out of a Youtube page

2014-07-18 chrome • extension • video • youtube

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Animated GIF of a tiny tumbling comet that we're about to land a probe on

2014-07-18 astronomy • comets • rosetta • space

Level 3 calls out Verizon

Significant Internet backbone provider explains how Verizon is lying about bandwidth

2014-07-17 internet • level3 • netflix • netneutrality • verizon

BUK anti-air missile

System rumored to have shot down MH17

2014-07-17 malaysia • mh17 • missile • ukraine • war

Kara Swisher profile

The respectable tech gossip journalist

2014-07-17 allthingsd • journalism • recode • swisher • tech

Guilty Remnant

Website for the religious movement taking the (fictional) world by storm

2014-07-16 leftovers • religion • tv

pytest

Fancy unit testing for Python

2014-07-16 code • programming • python • tests

Hacker vs. League of Legends

Details of account thefts, DDOS attacks, etc

2014-07-15 badtech • games • leagueoflegends • lol

DashCon disaster

Fandom conference fails, hilarity ensues

2014-07-14 fail • fandom • tumblr • via:metafilter

Soccer in Côte d’Ivoire

An American's reflections on playing teenage street soccer in Côte d’Ivoire

2014-07-13 football • kwindla • soccer • worldcup

What is a Super Moon?

Science! Sensible details.

2014-07-12 astronomy • moon • supermoon

Dear white gays

Controversial op/ed calling out cultural appropriation

2014-07-12 black • gay • gender • race • via:metafilter

Ultima's ethics

The virtues, aspects, etc in the 80s computer games

2014-07-12 ethics • games • ultima

Ian Thorpe comes out

Famous Australian swimmer is gay

2014-07-12 gay • ianthorpe • sports • swimming • thorpedo

On selling social tech

Interesting analysis of how the Tinder co-founder was essential in early creation of the social system

2014-07-11 community • tech • tinder • women

Grindr remembers the holocaust

Gay personal ads featuring photos taken at the Berlin holocaust memorial

2014-07-11 berlin • gay • holocaust • sex

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 • pumping • scam

"Content" as product

The sleaziness of the current crop of fake Internet journalism

2014-07-10 ads • journalism • sleaze • writing

Presbyterians in Utah

America's own counter-reformation; 1870s Presbyterians moved to Utah to proselytize to Mormons

2014-07-10 history • lds • mormon • presbyterian • religion • utah

50 states in Lego

cute dioramas of stereotypes

2014-07-10 america • diorama • lego • via:reddit

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 isee3 • space

Pinboard Turns Five

Hilarious as always, state of a small web service company. Great thoughts on burnout.

2014-07-10 funny • lifestylebusiness • maciej

Bad SSL certs spoof Google

Another example of incompetence or malice in the Internet's trust infrastructure

2014-07-09 badtech • google • india • security • ssl

Apple maps on the web

Totally unofficial, but handy map viewer

2014-07-08 apple • maps

ISEE-3 telemetry

Real time view of the satellite

2014-07-08 isee3 • satellite • space

Criminalized HIV

Detailed story of one man in jail for not disclosing HIV status

2014-07-08 aids • gay • hiv • race • wrestling

CA planning insanity

The expensive, long delays introduced by environmental reviews on simple things like better bus service

2014-07-08 brt • bureaucracy • california • eir • sanfrancisco • vanness

Stripe and open source

Recognition of the startup contributing back

2014-07-08 opensource • stripe

Procedural Content Generation

A textbook for game design

2014-07-08 games • generative • procedural • via:amitp

How to play Street Fighter

Ridiculously detailed primer on fighting games

2014-07-08 games • streetfighter • via:metafilter

Virtual Economies

New academic book on game economies

2014-07-07 economics • games • mmos

Visiting Sana'a

Maciej Ceglowski goes to Yeme

2014-07-07 sana • travel • yemen

C9 Hai interview

Thoughtful take on the pressures of being a pro gamer

2014-07-07 c9 • cloud9 • games • hai • leagueoflegends

NSA newspeak

Decoder ring for the misleading language NSA uses

2014-07-07 civilrights • clapper • nsa • privacy • spying • surveillance

Justin Bieber update

Long but nuanced portrait of the child star growing up

2014-07-06 bieber • fame • 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 civilrights • fourthamendment • nsa • snowden • surveillance

Islands of Portland

Nice treatment of rising sea levels in Portland

2014-07-05 burritojustice • globalwarming • maps • portland

Root Zone DB

Top level domains; the list is getting big

2014-07-05 dns • domains • iana • tlds

SVG grouping

Interesting constructs, some of which could be nice in D3

2014-07-04 d3js • graphics • svg

Estonia global digital ID

Country takes its pioneering national ID program international

2014-07-04 authentication • estonia • identity • login • oauth • openid • passwords

NSA / Wall Street

More revolving door, concerns about national secrets

2014-07-03 corruption • nsa • politics • wallstreet

Twitch is 10% of YouTube

As measured by bandwidth, Twitch accounts for 1.35% of Internet traffic

2014-07-02 bandwidth • streaming • twitch • video

CKAN

open source data portal product

2014-07-02 data • gis • opendata • opensource

Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No

Hilarious video of an unlikely pitching performance

2014-07-02 acid • baseball • dockellis • funny • lsd • nohitter

Snowden / NSA revelations

Handy chart showing all the illegal activities

2014-07-01 civilrights • nsa • privacy • snowden