Nelson's Linkblog 2014-09

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The subreddit alternative to 'Murica

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

Hadza fecal transplant

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

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

Radical Cartography

A fun collection of odd maps

2014-09-30 cartography • maps

Guide to watches that are not stupidly expensive

2014-09-30 fashion • jewelry • watches

Saul Bass / Game of Thrones

If the titles credits were by the 60s master

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

Lovely scientific illustrations published as animated GIF

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

Battlefield 4 art

Arty screenshots from the military game

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

Compact Conflict

Cute little Risk-like game

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

The Church of Robotron

Are you the mutant savior? Be tested in Portland

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

Leave Chelsea Alone

An unlikely gay pop culture meme from the early 90s

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

Walt's Wardrobe

Iconic drawings of every costume from Walter White in Breaking Bad

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

RIP Yahoo Directory

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

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

GIF to slideshow

Deanimate animated GIFs

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

Fed / Goldman Sachs malfeasance

Collusion or incompetence in federal regulation of financial services

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

#Gamergate explained

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

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

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 • cameras • drones • faa • hollywood

The indie social network has not-so-indie financing

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

Sub-meter accuracy GPS, includes access to raw data

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

Clever match 3 game

2014-09-24 browser • games • match3

Fancy tool for creating time lapse movies

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

Ariane integer overflow

Programming bug destroyed the Ariane 5 rocket

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

Butterfly Labs Bitcoin scam?

FTC clamps down on a manufacturer of Bitcoin mining hardware

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

Astound registration password

Weird user registration system requires a bogus password

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

Pathfinder Online

MMO in development, ambitious

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

Founder of Egroups and Bloglines is back to fix email groups

2014-09-23 communication • email • groups

Payments company uses Google's newish systems language

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

Space Hippies main jam

A long forgotten nadir of Star Trek action

2014-09-22 funny • hippies • startrek • 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 • computer • history • transpute

Subreddit dedicated to Toynbee Tiles, weird street art

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

Dipity Timelines

Web tool for building timelines

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

Grass Valley tech history

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

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

LoL vs toxic behavior

Update on the efforts to police a notoriously unpleasant gamer community

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

1885 SF Chinatown map

Building by building catalog of vice

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

CLANG final update

Spectacular $500,000 Kickstarter flameout calls it quits

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

New Kickstarter policy

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

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

IP address detector that's IPv6 aware

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

Yahoo worth -$500M

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

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

Verbal Expressions

Alternate regex system using readable functions

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

Edgar Rice Soiree

Fun party game to play in person

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

Harlem Shake DNS

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

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

LoL Worlds guide

insanely detailed guide to the esports world championship

2014-09-18 games • leagueoflegends • lol

GDC Sarkeesian bomb threat

From March 2014, a terrorist threat against feminist game critic

2014-09-17 gamers • sarkeesian • women

MapZen + Code for America

Phenomenally generous gift to support open parcel data

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

Apple stream failure

Root cause: uncacheable page, some encoding mistakes

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

Decent overview of the XOXO Festival for 2014

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

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

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

Vector tiles talk

Dane Springmeyer of MapBox gave a great talk on vector tiles

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

Love Your Condom

NSFW: sexually explicit safe sex guides for gay men

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

Startup pitches

This American Life with @Sacca on giving startup pitches

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

Rescuing Salyut 7

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

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

PUC + PG&E 4evah

State regulatory agency colluding with energy company to fix court cases

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

The hot new trend

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

Birth control probabilities

Nice simple data on practical efficacy

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

Ruby library GitHub uses to show geographic data changes

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

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

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

Promising-looking web analytics package for slippy maps

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

Null Archipelago

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

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

NWS Enhanced data display

Very fancy government weather map

2014-09-10 d3js • maps • weather

Very simple turnkey VPN service for MacOS and iOS

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

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 europe • maps • rail • train • travel

US map (Alaska projection)

If the usual US map treatment of Alaska were reversed

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

Reddit raising $50M

Rumors of fundraising from the community website

2014-09-08 fundraising • reddit • startups

Islamic State magazine, full of English language jihad

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

Communion lunchables

Convenience products for Protestants

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

Useful web page archival service

2014-09-06 archive • wayback • web

debugging tool for HTTP, etc

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

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 badtech • china • google • mitm • security • ssl

Besançon Canon Medicinae

Interesting 13th century illuminations from a medical text

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

Chef Charlie: Dont Drink and Drive

Former Google chef makes a video of remorse for a DUI

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

Drag pro wrestlers

The Exótico tradition in lucha libré

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

Standard Markdown

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

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

Fake cell tower?

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

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

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

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

New White House tech people

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

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

Xbox One launch in Japan

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

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

Telescope mirrors

To scale chart showing sizes

2014-09-03 astronomy • mirror • telescope

Saudi Twitter investor

Update on some interesting international investments

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

Web tool for drawing on maps using OpenStreetMap

2014-09-03 maps • openstreetmap • 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 • fraud • healthcare • hospital

TVTropes: Black Index

Various terrible ways pop culture deals with race

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

MagiQuest experience

Stories from folks who've played the game

2014-09-03 ar • augmentedreality • games

Augmented reality game for kids

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

Shenzhen trip report

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

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

Fake court order

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

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

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

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

Social Justice Warriors decide to ruin videogames for real

2014-09-02 feminism • funny • games

Ad hoc wifi made into a standard

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

Sonos wifi change

Company is starting to trust user's WiFi networks

2014-09-02 audio • sonos • wifi

Twitter load testing

Simulating enormous traffic spikes is hard

2014-09-02 raffi • testing • twitter

GitHub font DMCA mess

Monotype goes rent-seeking

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

Gay Board Games

70s and 80s tacky gay rights

2014-09-01 funny • games • gay

Phenomenon becoming mainstream

2014-09-01 esports • games