Nelson's Linkblog 2014-09

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The subreddit alternative to 'Murica

2014-09-30 murica • yurop • funny • europe • reddit • stereotypes

Hadza fecal transplant

Random Western biologist decides to hot-swap in some shit from a Tanzanian hunter-gatherer

2014-09-30 batshitinsane • microbiome • biology • hadz • tanzania • shit

Radical Cartography

A fun collection of odd maps

2014-09-30 maps • cartography

Guide to watches that are not stupidly expensive

2014-09-30 watches • fashion • jewelry

Saul Bass / Game of Thrones

If the titles credits were by the 60s master

2014-09-30 saulbass • gameofthrones • funny • graphicdesign • via:metafilter

Lovely scientific illustrations published as animated GIF

2014-09-30 gif • animation • science • via:reddit

Battlefield 4 art

Arty screenshots from the military game

2014-09-29 games • battlefield4 • dice • screenshot

Compact Conflict

Cute little Risk-like game

2014-09-28 games • strategy • risk • via:metafilter • javascript

The Church of Robotron

Are you the mutant savior? Be tested in Portland

2014-09-27 portland • robotron • karl • kra • games

Leave Chelsea Alone

An unlikely gay pop culture meme from the early 90s

2014-09-27 chelsea • chelseaclinton • actup • dontpanic

Walt's Wardrobe

Iconic drawings of every costume from Walter White in Breaking Bad

2014-09-27 breakingbad • via:Reddit • tv • walterwhite • costume • clothing

RIP Yahoo Directory

Yahoo's first product, one of the first Web commercial products ever, at end of life

2014-09-27 yahoo • history • internet • web

GIF to slideshow

Deanimate animated GIFs

2014-09-27 gif • slideshow • via:reddit • images

Fed / Goldman Sachs malfeasance

Collusion or incompetence in federal regulation of financial services

2014-09-26 corruption • goldman • goldmansachs • fed • regulation • finance • money

#Gamergate explained

NPR gives a simple overview of the outrageous misogyny going on all summer in the gaming community

2014-09-26 feminism • women • gamergate • npr • journalism • games

Sonos Controller

Open source Python code to control a Sonos

FAA drone approval

Incredibly limited, requires pilot's license and under 400 feet

2014-09-26 aviation • drones • faa • hollywood • cameras

The indie social network has not-so-indie financing

2014-09-25 money • entrepreneurs • ello • vc • startup

Sub-meter accuracy GPS, includes access to raw data

2014-09-25 gps • gnss • survey • badelf • ios

Clever match 3 game

2014-09-24 games • browser • match3

Fancy tool for creating time lapse movies

2014-09-24 photography • movies • lightroom • via:raffi

Ariane integer overflow

Programming bug destroyed the Ariane 5 rocket

2014-09-24 bugs • software • badtech • space • ariane

Butterfly Labs Bitcoin scam?

FTC clamps down on a manufacturer of Bitcoin mining hardware

2014-09-23 bitcoin • scam • butterfly • ftc

Astound registration password

Weird user registration system requires a bogus password

2014-09-23 badtech • security • astound • password

Pathfinder Online

MMO in development, ambitious

2014-09-23 games • mmos • sandbox • dnd • pathfinder

Founder of Egroups and Bloglines is back to fix email groups

2014-09-23 email • groups • communication

Payments company uses Google's newish systems language

2014-09-23 go • golang • programming • code • stripe

Space Hippies main jam

A long forgotten nadir of Star Trek action

2014-09-22 startrek • hippies • funny • tos

Rackspace beats patent troll

Fights a $75,000 request from someone claiming to own the idea of screen rotation

2014-09-22 patents • rackspace

Obscure 1980s computer, a transputer-based system for consumers

2014-09-21 atari • transpute • computer • history

Subreddit dedicated to Toynbee Tiles, weird street art

2014-09-20 toynbee • toynbeetiles • streetart • graffiti • reddit

Dipity Timelines

Web tool for building timelines

2014-09-20 timeline • history • web • visualization

Grass Valley tech history

Seems random, but the Sierra has a little high tech center

2014-09-20 grassvalley • tech • litton • grassvalleygroup

LoL vs toxic behavior

Update on the efforts to police a notoriously unpleasant gamer community

2014-09-20 games • lol • leagueoflegends • moderation

1885 SF Chinatown map

Building by building catalog of vice

2014-09-19 maps • chinatown • sanfrancisco • sf • history • vice • prostitution

CLANG final update

Spectacular $500,000 Kickstarter flameout calls it quits

2014-09-19 kickstarter • crowdfunding • clang • nealstephenson • games

New Kickstarter policy

Removes the old "full refund" requirement of projects to a much more realistic one

2014-09-19 kickstarter • crowdfunding • legal • termsofservice

IP address detector that's IPv6 aware

2014-09-19 via:jnoxon • ipv6 • tcpip • internet

Yahoo worth -$500M

Market cap of Yahoo is below the value of the property it owns

2014-09-19 yahoo • alibaba • marissa • marissameyer

Verbal Expressions

Alternate regex system using readable functions

2014-09-19 regex • regexp • javascript • code

Edgar Rice Soiree

Fun party game to play in person

2014-09-18 games • johannsebastianbach • edgarricesoiree • art

Harlem Shake DNS

HTML tags in DNS records causes bad webapps to do bad things

2014-09-18 funny • badtech • security • dns

LoL Worlds guide

insanely detailed guide to the esports world championship

2014-09-18 games • lol • leagueoflegends

GDC Sarkeesian bomb threat

From March 2014, a terrorist threat against feminist game critic

2014-09-17 women • sarkeesian • gamers

MapZen + Code for America

Phenomenally generous gift to support open parcel data

2014-09-17 maps • mapzen • cfa • codeforamerica • migurski

Apple stream failure

Root cause: uncacheable page, some encoding mistakes

2014-09-17 akamai • apple • cdn • caching • badtech • postmortem

Decent overview of the XOXO Festival for 2014

2014-09-17 xoxofest • xoxo • waxy • conference • culture

analysis of top players of Blizzard's game Heroes of the Storm

2014-09-17 games • hots • blizzard • moba

Vector tiles talk

Dane Springmeyer of MapBox gave a great talk on vector tiles

2014-09-17 maps • vectors • vectortiles • mapbox • foss4g

Love Your Condom

NSFW: sexually explicit safe sex guides for gay men

2014-09-17 sex • aids • health • gay • newzealand

Startup pitches

This American Life with @Sacca on giving startup pitches

2014-09-17 entrepreneurs • startups • sacca • podcast

Rescuing Salyut 7

Insane story of a Soviet mission to salvage a dead space station

2014-09-17 space • sovietunion • russia • via:metafilter

PUC + PG&E 4evah

State regulatory agency colluding with energy company to fix court cases

2014-09-17 sanbruno • pge • corruption • puc • california

The hot new trend

2014-09-16 snacks • trends • tumblr • snackwave • via:ftrain

Birth control probabilities

Nice simple data on practical efficacy

2014-09-14 via:reddit • birthcontrol • sex

Ruby library GitHub uses to show geographic data changes

2014-09-12 diff • git • github • geojson • maps

Mapping tool; use GPS heatmaps to draw accurate maps of hiking trails, etc

2014-09-11 maps • optimization • strata • gps • id • osm

Promising-looking web analytics package for slippy maps

2014-09-11 analytics • web • geo • maps • sparkgeo • foss4g

Null Archipelago

All the places in the world (0,0) maps to in different coordinate systems

2014-09-10 maps • nullisland • funny • bugs

NWS Enhanced data display

Very fancy government weather map

2014-09-10 weather • maps • d3js

Very simple turnkey VPN service for MacOS and iOS

2014-09-10 via:jnoxon • vpn • privacy • security • goodtech

Star Trek in Cinerama

Lovely bit of panorama stitching

2014-09-10 startrek • tv • via:metafilter

High-speed rail in Europe

Decent map with a system overview

2014-09-09 maps • train • rail • europe • travel

US map (Alaska projection)

If the usual US map treatment of Alaska were reversed

2014-09-09 maps • funny • via:reddit • alaska

Reddit raising $50M

Rumors of fundraising from the community website

2014-09-08 reddit • fundraising • startups

Islamic State magazine, full of English language jihad

2014-09-07 jihad • islamicstate • syria • propaganda

Communion lunchables

Convenience products for Protestants

2014-09-07 religion • funny • food • christianity • communion

Useful web page archival service

2014-09-06 archive • wayback • web

debugging tool for HTTP, etc

2014-09-06 via:onethingwell • proxy • http

Gow: Gnu on Windows

Alternative to Cygwin

2014-09-06 cygwin • unix • windows

China v. Google MITM

Fake SSL certs in the wild

2014-09-06 china • badtech • ssl • mitm • google • security

Besançon Canon Medicinae

Interesting 13th century illuminations from a medical text

2014-09-05 medicine • medieval • france • canonmedicinae • testicles • illumination

Chef Charlie: Dont Drink and Drive

Former Google chef makes a video of remorse for a DUI

2014-09-05 driving • google • charlie • dui

Drag pro wrestlers

The Exótico tradition in lucha libré

2014-09-04 wrestling • luchalibre • drag • crossdressing • gay

Standard Markdown

Regrettably trollish name, but a good effort at standardizing humane markup

2014-09-04 markdown • markup • html • standard

Fake cell tower?

Reports that rogue cell towers are compromising US phones. Take with a grain of salt.

2014-09-04 security • badtech • cellular • mobile

Famed illustrator did a series of lovely, erotic male illustrations for a Melville novel

2014-09-04 sendal • melville • gay • art • nude • homoerotic

New White House tech people

Megan Smith and Alex MacGillivray heading to Washington. They're good people.

2014-09-04 cto • america • us • government • amac

Xbox One launch in Japan

Sad photos of empty stores, queues set up but no one in them

2014-09-04 xbox • microsoft • japan • games

Telescope mirrors

To scale chart showing sizes

2014-09-03 mirror • telescope • astronomy

Saudi Twitter investor

Update on some interesting international investments

2014-09-03 twitter • jack • dorsey • saudi • startups • investment

Web tool for drawing on maps using OpenStreetMap

2014-09-03 openstreetmap • maps • osm

Two Factor Auth List

Simple list of Internet services providing more secure login

2014-09-03 authentication • tfa • twofactor

Fighting hospital fraud

How to deal with incorrect billing from a hospital. good luck.

2014-09-03 billing • hospital • healthcare • fraud

TVTropes: Black Index

Various terrible ways pop culture deals with race

2014-09-03 racism • magicalnegro • tv • film • criticism

MagiQuest experience

Stories from folks who've played the game

2014-09-03 games • ar • augmentedreality

Augmented reality game for kids

2014-09-03 games • via:metafilter • ar • augmentedreality

Shenzhen trip report

Joi Ito and bunnie visit the greatest electronics manufacturing place in the world

2014-09-03 shenzen • china • manufacturing • circuits

Fake court order

Timeshare company Sundance Vacations sends Metafilter a fake court order. That sounds like a felony.

2014-09-03 metafilter • sundancevacations • timeshare • scam • fraud

Unix package manager with some good properties. Supports MacOS, own Linux distro.

2014-09-03 nix • nixos • software • homebrew • linux • macos • packages

Social Justice Warriors decide to ruin videogames for real

2014-09-02 games • funny • feminism

Ad hoc wifi made into a standard

2014-09-02 wifi • internet • networking • adhoc • mesh

Sonos wifi change

Company is starting to trust user's WiFi networks

2014-09-02 wifi • sonos • audio

Twitter load testing

Simulating enormous traffic spikes is hard

2014-09-02 twitter • raffi • testing

GitHub font DMCA mess

Monotype goes rent-seeking

2014-09-02 copyright • dmca • monotype • fonts

Gay Board Games

70s and 80s tacky gay rights

2014-09-01 gay • games • funny

Phenomenon becoming mainstream

2014-09-01 games • esports