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Sen Inhofe's bad landing
The Senator landed his airplane on a closed runway. Later he took off on a taxiway.
2010-10-31 inhofe • senator • government • faa • flying • aviation
Bomb detonator analysis
Bunnie, a famous hardware hacker, analyzes the image of the Yemen package bomb
2010-10-31 bomb • terrorism • hacking • bunnie • yemen
Evan Williams profile
Not sure it's all true, but it's an interesting article
2010-10-30 twitter • ev • evanwilliams • blogger
Sexy Chilean miner costume
Hideousness for Halloween
2010-10-30 chile • halloween • miners • tragedy • sexism
Deaf Pilots
Radios aren't required to fly in the US, so no reason deaf people can't fly
2010-10-30 deaf • flying • aviation • pilots • asl
MapCrunch
Nice randomized Google Street View images
2010-10-29 photography • google • streetview • maps
Increasing invasion
TSA is escalating the personal search and it's hideous
2010-10-29 tsa • travel • airplanes • via:kottke • privacy • civilrights
Plane cost / hour
Interesting data on what it costs to operate an airplane
2010-10-29 airplanes • flying • cost • travel
No Michigan startups?
Thoughtful answer from Dug Song, an Ann Arbor startup guy
2010-10-29 entrepreneurship • startups • michigan • annarbor
iPad / iPhone GPS
A real GPS that plugs into the dock connector of an iPhone, iPad, etc. The built in GPS in Apple's device is just a toy, this looks useful
2010-10-29 gps • ipad • iphone • apple
SF fag map
Interesting collection of post-gay places to go in SF
2010-10-29 sanfrancisco • gay • butt • bars
Eve maintenance
Interesting notes about how Eve manages their giant database. Currently they're down 1 hour out of every day, they're moving to a never-down system.
2010-10-29 uptime • performance • games • mmos • eve • eveonline
Typekit vs. OS
great description of the challenges of consistent font rendering on different computers
2010-10-26 typography • fonts • design • windows • cleartype • gdi • macos • typekit
bl.ocks.org for gist
Live code viewer for samples posted to Gist
2010-10-10 gist • github • javascript • development • programming
chmod -x chmod
Hysterical slides for solving a silly syadmin problem
2010-10-09 unix • chmod • interview • via:zawodny
Blekko team
Interesting group of folks
2010-10-09 search • blekko • google • bing • startups
Blekko: search
A new search engine, in private beta
2010-10-09 search • blekko • google • bing • startups
in almost every picture # 7
Interesting bit of casual photography; view the slideshow for a silent story
2010-10-09 photos • photography • denmark • tilburg • via:metafilter
MongoDB 4SQ postmortem
Great story of how a system can fail. Takeaway lesson: "fit everything in RAM" is awesome until it fails
2010-10-09 mongodb • foursquare • ram • performance • scaling
Xhosa circumcision
Amazing set of photographs showing the coming-of-age rituals for Xhosa men. NSFW
2010-10-09 africa • xhosa • ritual • circumcision • penis • nsfw
Schneier on Stuxnet
Good, sober overview of what we know about Stuxnet and what is speculation
2010-10-08 stuxnet • virus • malware • badtech • worm
TileMill 2.0 plan
Sketch of where they're going with turnkey map tile rendering based on Amazon cloud computing
2010-10-08 amazon • maps • cartography • mapnik • tilemill • mapbox
7 truths from Eric Schmidt
These are spun as "creepy", but Eric is simply articulating the reality of our time
2010-10-08 google • privacy • transparentsociety
George Lucas progression
It's funny because it's sad
2010-10-07 movies • starwars • georgelucas • greenscreen
Free eBooks
Amazon's page on how to find free books for your Kindle
2010-10-07 kindle • amazon • books • copyright
ManyBooks
High quality free ebooks, most out of copyright
2010-10-07 books • reading • kindle • free
ADS-B explained
Good article explaining the clusterfuck that is the new aviation radar system
2010-10-07 ads-b • transponder • aviation • airspace • faa • 1090es • flying
On Twitter's new search
As usual, Danny Sullivan has amazing data
2010-10-07 search • twitter • business
Toxic sludge photos
Amazing pictures from the disaster in Hungary
2010-10-06 hungary • sludge • disaster • flood • toxicwaste
The Meerschaum Pipe
Interesting bit of handicraft
2010-10-06 pipes • smoking • sculpture • art • via:metafilter
Billy MP3 player
Very simple player; load a directory and play.
2010-10-05 music • mp3 • audio • sound • software
Why we hate Yoko Ono
Batshit insane outtake of The Beatles (minus George) jamming with a shrieking banshee
2010-10-05 music • beatles • via:merlin
Colorbrewer
experiment with palettes for maps
2010-10-05 cartography • mapping • color • graphics
Deadstick aerobatics
Elegant acro performance with the engine off
2010-10-03 aviation • deadstick • acrobatics • aerobatics • flight • flying
Minecraft narrative
Nice appreciation for what's going on in your head playing the game
2010-10-02 minecraft • games • narrative
Nanex flashcrash update
Detailed pattern and behavior analysis
2010-10-01 stocks • investment • nanex • flashcrash
SEC on flash crash
Report says a single large, unusually fast trade started a stampede
2010-10-01 economics • sec • flashcrash • trading • complexsystems
How ink is made
Lovely short film, watch in 1080p
2010-10-01 video • hdtv • ink • nanotechnology • chemistry • printing • pantone
Gay marriage, teen suicide
Nice essay on what it's like growing up gay
2010-10-01 gay • civilrights • suicide • marriage • equality
Stuxnet facts
Simple analysis of the potentially weaponized malware
2010-10-01 malware • stuxnet • virus • badtech • iran • israel
Why Wesabe Lost to Mint
Amazing analysis of how a couple of product mistakes at a startup can hurt growth
2010-10-01 startups • business • finance • quicken • mint • wesabe