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Steppe Geoglyph
Massive scale Neolithic art in Kazakhstan
2015-10-30
archaeology • art • history • imagery • kazakhstan
Clinton and DOMA
Debunking of retcon that the anti-gay law was a way to protect gay rights
2015-10-30
civilrights • clinton • domainkeys • gayrights • lgbt • politics
Twitch Installs Arch Linux
Cooperative stream gaming has gone too far
2015-10-30
funny • games • linux • twitch • via:hackernews
cartographers without borders
A collection of impractical but beautiful maps
2015-10-30
design • maps • via:reddit
Dark Side of the Moon photography
First photos were taken by a Soviet spacecraft using salvaged American spy film
2015-10-29
astronomy • coldwar • moon • space
Gaming on EC2
Notes and an AMI for running games on EC2
2015-10-29
amazon • aws • ec2 • games • leagueoflegends • lol
Symantec untrustworthy
Another major SSL certificate issuer is found lacking
2015-10-29
badtech • security • ssl • symantec
Rogue blimp
Military airship escaped its tether
2015-10-28
airship • aviation • blimp • military
All Blues chiptune
From Kind of Bloop; NSF visualization
2015-10-28
blues • chiptune • milesdavis • music • via:waxy
Marc Jacobs’s orgy
A "grow the fuck up America" moment
2015-10-28
gay • grindr • lgbt • marcjacobs • media • sex
2G Tuesdays
Facebook asks its employees to try slow networks on occasion
2015-10-27
facebook • india • network • speed
private valuation bubble
Visualization of $1B+ valuations
2015-10-27
bubble • companies • startups • unicorn • vc
CloudShark
A web-based network sniffer
2015-10-27
diagnostics • network • tcpdump • wireshark
WebGL map trickery
Fun with projections through shaders
2015-10-26
maps • mapzen • projection • shader • webgl
Russian subs vs. cables
Weird failure of imagination in this article; only risk cited is "cutting the cable". How about tapping?
2015-10-26
coldwar • espionage • internet • russia
Unicorn VC terms
Survey of VC term sheets; many valuable companies have ridiculous liquidation preferences
2015-10-26
investing • startups • vc
HIV denialism
Nice historical overview of a deadly fallacy
2015-10-26
aids • health • hiv • science • via:metafilter
Medium tech stack
Smart folks picking practical tech
2015-10-25
architecture • database • medium • technology
Frederick Douglass audio
Sound recording of the abolitionist orator
2015-10-25
america • douglass • frederickdouglass • history • slavery
Qui-binary arithmetic
1960s mainframe math
2015-10-25
computing • history • ibm • mainframes
Detweet
Bare-bones tool to turn off retweets for everyone you follow
2015-10-25
retweet • twitter
2003 Google / Fresh Air
Really bad interview with Larry Page and Sergey Brin
2015-10-25
freshair • google • npr • radio
Transport protocols
Nice overview of UDP and TCP (and QUIC)
2015-10-24
internet • protocols • quic • tcpip
Make a lightsaber
amac's kid with a cool little DIY project
2015-10-24
amac • diy • lightsaber • maker • starwars
Gif explode
Deanimate a GIF
2015-10-24
animation • gifs • graphics • memes
System font
Accidental retrotypography
2015-10-23
design • fonts • medium • typography
Prison phone prices
FCC blocks abusive treatment of prisoners
2015-10-22
abuse • fcc • phone • prison • regulation
Feminist review of Assassin's Creed
Interesting to see this kind of critique on a brand new game
2015-10-22
criticism • feminism • games • marxism • sarkeesian
Cleartones
Simple, clean ringtones and notification sounds
2015-10-22
design • iphone • ringtone • sound
NSA freakout on ECCs
NSA is saying we now need quantum-secure crypto, what does it mean?
2015-10-22
crypto • ecc • nsa • privacy • quantum
50 best podcasts
Good list of the current top podcasts
2015-10-21
media • podcasts • radio
German territorial losses
Map of aftermath of WW1, WW2
2015-10-21
germany • history • maps • via:reddit
BoringSSL
Google swaps its SSL codebase to its own OpenSSL fork
2015-10-21
openssl • security • ssl • tls
Crowd crushes
Horrifying description of how dense crowds of people end in deaths
2015-10-20
crowds • hajj • stampede
Ross Island wedding
My friend Karl got married by taking his bike across the river
2015-10-19
bicycle • chunk666 • portland • wedding
TCP checksum failure
Gigabit ethernet can produce up to 15 undetectable errors a second
2015-10-19
checksum • crc • ethernet • networking • tcp
Smart quotes on Medium
Another gloriously detailed blog post on typography
2015-10-19
fonts • internet • medium • typography
Riot pysch evals?
League of Legends giving players exams for narcissistic tendencies
2015-10-16
games • leagueoflegends • lol • riot
DHS demanding passwords
Mayor of Stockton denied entry into the US until he gave up passwords to his phone and laptop
2015-10-15
civilrights • dhs • politics • security • stockton
The Drone Papers
Major new reporting on our remote assassination programs, from leaks
2015-10-15
drones • via:metafilter • war
NSA crypto break?
Theory that NSA has cracked Diffie-Hellman for a specific prime number used in a lot of crypto
2015-10-15
civilrights • crypto • dh • diffiehellman • nsa • privacy
Homeland graffiti prank
Arabic graffiti for the TV show criticizes the TV show
2015-10-15
arabic • funny • homeland • tv • via:metafilter
tmcw on vector tiles
some of the philosophy behind modern map rendering technology
2015-10-12
mapbox • maps • openstreetmap • osm • vectors
indie.vc at XOXO
Bryce's good talk on his effort to do VC a different way
2015-10-10
xoxo • indievc • vc • venturecapital
Louvre’s Secret Entrance
Being French, it is not reliably open
2015-10-10
france • louvre • museum • tourist
cola.js
constraint based layouts, includes D3 plugin
2015-10-06
constraints • d3 • d3js • visualization
Git Large File Storage
Extension for blobs goes 1.0
2015-10-02
code • git • github
BuiltWith
Story of a small tech company
2015-10-02
australia • builtwith • software • startups • tech