Civilization critique

Cultural / political analysis of the simulation game's shortcomings

2016-10-30 civilization • criticism • games

"just politics"

Thoughtful tweets on the menace of Trump and Thiel's support

2016-10-30 politics • racism • thiel • trump

Oregon voting

Vote by mail across the whole state

2016-10-29 civilrights • democracy • oregon • voting

USB-C confusion

Compatibility problems make for confusing cabling

2016-10-29 badtech • cable • network • thunderbolt • usb

IMAQTPIE: $2M / year

Popular League of Legends streamer is making a huge amount of money on Twitch

2016-10-29 games • lol • streaming • twitch

A Stranger Things Christmas

Fabulous mashup / parody

2016-10-28 charliebrown • funny • scifi • strangerhings

COOL 3D WORLD

NSFWish; disturbing art

2016-10-28 3d • art • strange

OBEY Mozilla

The story of the Mozilla logo

2016-10-28 design • jwz • logo • mozilla • shepardfairey

Marcin Wichary on typewriters

Hilarious 5 minute Ignite talk, bad sound quality

2016-10-28 ignite • marcinwichary • typewriters

BBS history

Nice overview of early social media

2016-10-28 bbs • history • internet • socialmedia

Pot farm sex abuse

Semi-legal marijuana businesses have ugly illegal sex activity associated

2016-10-28 backpage • california • journalism • marijuana • pot • sexabuse

Graphic design feedback

Classic posters redesigned by the client

2016-10-28 art • design • funny • graphics

Management in ten tweets

My buddy Marc summarizes what he's learned in 20+ years of being an engineering manager

2016-10-27 business • engineering • management • marc • startups

Best of Luck with the Wall

Hypnotic video of aerial imagery; the second half is amazing. /cc @vruba

2016-10-27 aerial • border • mexico • photography • satellite

Hurricane water footprint

Neat visualization of increased streamflow because of Hurricane Mathew

2016-10-26 hurricane • matthew • water

Blotter Barn

Collection of LSD blotter paper art

2016-10-26 art • drugs • lsd

deadmau5 on live performance

"We all hit play"

2016-10-25 deadmau5 • edm • funny • music

Baidu open source

Several substantial projects from the Chinese search company

2016-10-25 baidu • china • opensource

Indian lands

Nice US census map of reservations, etc

2016-10-25 census • indian • maps • nativeamerican

RIP Bob Hoover

Legendary pilot dies at 94

2016-10-25 aerobatics • aviation • bobhoover • pilot • via:metafilter

Brian Lam is awesome

Appreciation for the hard work of Wirecutter and Sweethome

2016-10-25 brianlam • nytimes • startups • wirecutter

Global warming science 1912

New Zealand paper published the risk of coal burning over 100 years ago

2016-10-24 1912 • globalwarming • history • news • newzealand • science

GOP Arcade

Your favorite political stories as low-fi videogames

2016-10-24 funny • games • parody • politics

trump.tv

Trump's post-loss TV business is off to a strong start

2016-10-24 domainname • funny • politics • trump

Bot wins contests

Twitter bot automatically retweets and wins online contests

2016-10-24 bot • contest • funny • twitter

Trump Tower Site Tour

Public space at Trump Tower is a dump

2016-10-24 funny • nyc • politics • public • trump

Internet of Things Scanner

Malware check; a quick tool to see if your network is listed in Shodan

2016-10-23 badtech • botnet • iot • malware • security • shodan

Economist Trump covers

Graphic arts

2016-10-23 economist • politics • trump

Benjamin Grant images

HD satellite photos. /cc @vruba

2016-10-23 aerial • imagery • photos • satellite

Clinton email explained

A straightforward explanation on the mistake Clinton made and why it's not massively evil

2016-10-22 clinton • email • politics • privacy

Emoji ZWJ Sequences

A crazy kind of combining Unicode that Microsoft is playing around with

2016-10-22 emoji • microsoft • unicode

Full Moon in Mountain Shadow

A remarkable photograph of alignment

2016-10-22 astronomy • astrophotography • hawaii • moon • photos

High end cloud gaming

Details on using a monster new GPU for gaming on a cloud server

2016-10-22 azure • cloud • ec2 • games

Mirai botnet stats

Details on the Internet of Things botnet

2016-10-22 badtech • botnet • ddos • hacking • mirai • via:marc

Politics of Sexual Assault

thoughtful analysis of Trump's rape culture talk

2016-10-22 assault • politics • rape • trump

Sound Voltex III

Insane rhythm game performance

2016-10-22 games • rhythm • speed • via:reddit

Dustcoats

A specific form of overcoat worn by working men in shops

2016-10-22 clothing • coat • dustcoat • fashion • jacket

You Girls Having Fun?

Lovely story of a bar's staff handling a creeper

2016-10-22 dining • gay • lgbtq • privacy

Mapzen Terrain data

DEM tiles and relief shaded raster images

2016-10-22 maps • mapzen • terrain

New Google ad tracking

Finally erased the line dividing Doubleclick cookies from Google ads

2016-10-21 adwords • doubleclick • google • privacy

Slack stats

Signalling strength with revenue, user counts, etc

2016-10-20 business • slack • startup

Synthetic porn

NSFWish: Run a porn image classifier in reverse, a la Deep Dream

2016-10-20 nsfw • porn • deepdream • via:hackernews • machinelearning

Podesta and Powell phishing

Details of the attacks by Russian operatives against US politicians

2016-10-20 apt28 • badtech • fancybear • politics • russia

Indicator of compromise

Computer security tool; fingerprints of malware used to identify specific Advanced Persistent Threats

2016-10-20 apt • badtech • ioc • malware • security

NSA leak

Hacking tools taken by Martin and given to Shadow Brokers. Maybe.

2016-10-20 badtech • hacking • nsa • via:hackernews

Ann Arbor Ambassador 60

Lovely project to resurrect an old terminal

2016-10-20 aaa-60 • computers • emacs • hacking • jwz • termcap • terminal • tty

lptrace

strace for Python

2016-10-19 debugger • programming • python • via:reddit

Rape Culture Syllabus

A reading list

2016-10-19 books • feminism • politics • rapeculture • trump • via:metafilter

Lessig's graciousness

Response to a WikiLeaks email is remarkably thoughtful

2016-10-19 lessig • privacy • wikileaks

Ark of Taste

Catalog of rare foods

2016-10-19 cooking • diversity • food • slowfood

su filindeu

A thin hand-made Sardinian pasta

2016-10-19 cooking • food • italy • pasta • sardinia • slowfood

Empty call to monitor polls

Details of Trump's efforts to delegitimize the vote

2016-10-19 civilrights • politics • trump • vote • voterfraud

About Chuck Tingle

Nice profile of the bizarro erotica writer

2016-10-19 chucktingle • erotica • gay • lgbt

No Man's Sky procedural analysis

Reverse engineering how the creatures are made

2016-10-18 games • nomanssky • procedural

Border orientations

Interesting treatment of political boundaries by continent

2016-10-18 geography • maps • via:reddit

IoT botnets

Details on the inevitable malware

2016-10-18 badtech • botnet • iot • via:metafilter

A PrEP failure

HIV prevention mechanism working for 100,000 people; two failures. Some very detailed medical specifics.

2016-10-18 aids • gay • health • hiv • lgbt • medicine • prep

Election rigging debunked

Trump's dangerous rhetoric is nonsense

2016-10-17 democracy • election • politics • trump

Election confidence undermined

Trump's baseless accusation that the election will be stolen is having a dangerous effect

2016-10-17 election • politics • polls • trump

Rollerskating steadicam

Nice depiction of how movie magic is made

2016-10-17 movies • steadicam • via:reddit

Trump in 2012

Openly calling for "revolution" after Obama won

2016-10-16 politics • treason • trump

Russian election influence

Nightmare scenarios of rigged elections

2016-10-16 democracy • election • politics • russia • trump

Trump Mahna Mahna

It's funny, a classic Sesame Street track overdubbed on debate

2016-10-15 funny • muppets • politics • sesamestreet • trump

Hyper-Reality

Concept film for an augmented reality future

2016-10-15 ads • ar • badtech • vr

River map print

Company selling high quality prints of a map inspired by my rivers map

2016-10-14 art • maps • prints • rivers

Voter suppression

States ignoring federal court orders to allow people to vote

2016-10-14 civilrights • politics • voting

California proposition funding

See who is spending what to influence state election

2016-10-14 california • corruption • politics • spending

wkhtmltopdf

Command line tool to render web pages to images and PDF

2016-10-14 screenshot • web

USA Topo Maps

Tiled USGS topo maps

2016-10-14 esri • maps • topo • usgs

Fuck You Startup World

A righteous rant

2016-10-13 funny • startups

Dictator alert

Twitter bot watches airplanes coming in and out of Geneva. /cc @lemonodor

2016-10-13 aviation • dictator • geneva • politics • switzerland • twitter

Natasha Stoynoff on Trump

Very detailed story of sexual assault

2016-10-13 politics • rape • sexualassault • trump

Yahoo Mail trap

Yahoo turns off ability to forward mail just as users are trying to flee

2016-10-11 badtech • business • email • yahoo

Stan Smiths

Everyone in Paris was wearing these shoes

2016-10-11 fashion • paris • shoes

Trump and his daughter

All the creepy sexualized comments a father made about his daughter

2016-10-04 creepy • daughter • politics • sexist • trump

Tile generation

Quantum mechanics inspired generative art

2016-10-02 generative • programming • tiles • via:metafilter

Aurelion Sol bug

Nice postmortem on a game synchronization but

2016-10-02 bugs • games • lol • riotgames

Death and MetaFilter

Dealing with the loss of a member of an Internet community

2016-10-01 community • death • internet • metafilter