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Scotch Whisky Map
Best map I've found of distilleries
2016-07-31 scotch • whisky • map • distilleries • tourism • scotland • maps
Clan Donald Skye
Remarkably good history museum in Scotland, funded by an old clan family
2016-07-31 scotland • museum • history • macdonald • skye • isleofskye
Stones of Wonder
Guide to standing stones in Scotland
2016-07-27 history • scotland • maps • standingstones • stonehenge • prehistoric
Macsween's haggis
Restaurants in Edinburgh proudly display this brand name
2016-07-23 haggis • food • scotland • macsween
Clay Shirky on opposing Trump
"we'e brought fact checkers to a culture war"
2016-07-23 trump • politics • racism • america
Blacks in SF
Humane story on the dwindling African-American population in San Francisco
2016-07-21 race • sf • sanfrancisco
Atmospheric railway
Old propulsion technique that has some similarities to Hyperloop
2016-07-21 hyperloop • trains • pneumatic • engineering • propulsion
Pokemon Go map
Someone's reverse engineered the protocols enough to make maps of Pokemon, gyms, and pokestops
2016-07-19 games • pokemon • niantic
141 outrageous Trump things
Vote for which makes him most unsuitable for running the country
2016-07-18 trump • president • politics
Trump / Pence animated GIF
NSFWish, childish, hilarious.
2016-07-16 trump • politics • logo • funny • pence • trumppence
Facebook diversity comment
More details of disappointment
2016-07-16 facebook • diversity • racism • tech
Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring
Excellent, clear writing on how most tech companies are doing a terrible job hiring
2016-07-15 hiring • racism • facebook • google • twitter
Pokemon Go implicit racism
Striking example of inequality trickling down into videogames
2016-07-15 games • race • america • pokemongo • niantic • ingress
WSJ on Null Island
Fun article with lots of friends
2016-07-13 nullisland • geography • gis • wsj • maps
OpenGL and Macs
Interesting detail from Blizzard about how they support OpenGL on Macs and Windows
2016-07-13 opengl • windows • maps • games • wow
Trump tapping divisiveness
On the deep and ugly racism that underlies Trump's support
2016-07-13 trump • politics • racism • america
Contract buying houses
A history of racism in real estate
2016-07-12 racism • chicago • politics • realestate
Bush Iraq lies
Keeping a clear view on the deliberate misleading of the country
2016-07-11 politics • bush • iraq
What🖕3🖕Fucks
Hilarious, but offensive variant of the dumb What3Words addressing system
2016-07-10 what3words • parody • funny • fuck • maps
Pinboard stats
Seven years; making $150k+ a year (attn @indievc)
2016-07-09 pinboard • revenue • startup
All houses redux
Slightly funny expansion on the reactionary attitude to "black lives matter"
2016-07-09 blm • blacklivesmatter • joke • comic • funny
Gretchen Carlson supercut
A short reel of jaw-droppingly sexist comments on Fox News
2016-07-08 fox • tv • journalism • sexism • news
Discord: 1M concurrent users
Amazing numbers for a Slack-like startup for gamers
2016-07-07 games • discord • slack
Raw video of racism
Examples of abuse of African-Americans on video
2016-07-07 video • racism • america • politics
Comey's abuse of power
Observation on the FBI announcement about Clinton's exoneration
2016-07-07 clinton • fbi • comey • government • politics
Harvard Sentences
Standard English text for audiology research
2016-07-07 audio • sound • research • via:metafilter
CloudFlare high perf TCP
Details on how the DDOS protection service does high performance networking
2016-07-07 networking • performance • tcp • tcpip • ddos • cloudflare • cdn
Quilted maps
Fabric art, rich embroidery
2016-07-07 maps • quilts • art • crafts • rivers
Sphere Map maps
Using GL lighting techniques for relief shading
2016-07-06 terrain • maps • opengl • webgl
US police killings
Excellent data + visualization of 558 people killed by police in the US in 2016
2016-07-06 police • killing • america
WEB Du Bois data vis
Interesting turn of the century charts
2016-07-06 datavis • visualization • africanamerican • america • race • webdubois
Securing an iPhone
How to bring an iPhone into a hostile environment
2016-07-06 iphone • ios • security
Baron von Steuben
Gay revolutionary war figure
2016-07-05 gay • lgbt • america • history
Bojart Horseblog
Art from the awesome animated TV show
2016-07-05 bojackhorseman • bojack • tv • funny
CS:GO gambling scandal
Ridiculous side economy that's unhealthy for gamers
2016-07-05 games • gambling • valve • steam • csgo
Trump's anti-semitic post origins
The Star of David wasn't an accident
2016-07-03 racism • politics • trump
Wide color gamut Web
Moving beyond 24 bit sRGB
2016-07-02 color • via:hackernews • webkit • display • graphics
Mapzen outdoor map style
Major new terrain / hiking map
2016-07-01 maps • outdoor • terrain • mapzen
User-space TCP
Roundup of options for non-traditional networking for high performance
2016-07-01 hft • networking • tcpip • tcp • linux • code