Why MLKSHK?

Nice review of a new service

2011-05-31 photos • twitter • flickr • images

Ed Hardy Structured Water

Douchebag brand meets fake science

2011-05-31 water • scam • edhardy • fashion

Denver Blue Mustang

Crazy sculpture at the Denver airport, complete with glowing red eyes

2011-05-31 sculpture • horse • denver • airport • art

Daniel Domscheit-Berg

One of the guys behind Wikileaks; some folks say he was the real force and since he's left Wikileaks has been ineffective

2011-05-31 wikileaks • secrecy

Pentagon on cyberwar

US Military taking computer threats more seriously

2011-05-31 internet • cyberwarfare • security • military • pentagon • badtech

Street View, Liberty City

amazing Google maps interface to Grand Theft Auto IV

2011-05-30 games • gta • streetview • maps • gtaiv • grandtheftauto

Doisneau

Nice collection of some of his less cliche photos

2011-05-29 photos • photography • france • doisneau

Arch flying

jackass pilots doing dangerous but awesome looking flying

2011-05-29 flying • pilot • aviation • canyonlands

Blue Bell Knoll

Reliving 1988

2011-05-29 music • cocteautwins • goth

LA Noire timelapse

Video of the beautiful scenery in the new Rockstar / Team Bondi game

2011-05-28 games • la • losangeles • lanoire • architecture

Paper free

Well written blog post about how to do simple scanning and OCR

2011-05-28 scanning • ocr • documents

Basement airplane

Guy knocks a hole in his foundation to take the airplane he built out

2011-05-28 aviation • flying • funny • rv7 • vans

ChronoPay shaking down Mac users?

Evidence suggesting a semi-legit Russian company is behind the rogue anti-virus software for the Mac

2011-05-27 badtech • malware • chronopay • russia • fraud

Joplin: Before and After

crazy images showing the tornado destruction of a neighbourhood

2011-05-27 tornado • joplin • disaster • photos

Eve Online RMT

Space MMO is adding a new form of real money trade: buy vanity items for PLEX, which in turn you buy for cash. Interestingly you can re-sell the items for in-game ISK currency

2011-05-27 mmos • eveonline • eve • ccp • rmt

Just Cause 2 death maps

Original source for the video that's been going around

2011-05-27 games • justcause • maps • visualization • processing

Google API pruning

Google shuts down a bunch of older apis. I am sad.

2011-05-27 google • api

AF447 summary

Great summary of the Air France crash investigation preliminary report

2011-05-27 aviation • flying • crash • airfrance • stall

More Vatican sex corruption

Pope's advisor on sex abuse is arrested trying to buy 14 year old boys

2011-05-27 catholicism • vatican • sex • church • crime • religion

Yelp: Abortionplex

Reviews of a facility in Topeka.

2011-05-27 funny • abortion • parody • yelp • theonion

DRM vs. Amazon MP3

Possible explanation for the Lady Gaga meltdown at Amazon

2011-05-26 drm • badtech • amazon • ladygaga • music • mp3

4chan /b/ analysis

MIT student spends some time analyzing the flow of 4chan

2011-05-26 4chan • mit • via:waxy • community

XML dying for APIs

About damn time

2011-05-26 XML • json • api • programming • imsosorry

Minecraft Universe

Nicely made music video

2011-05-25 music • video • games • minecraft • machinima

1982 Thunderbird crash

Formation flying accident: three planes followed the lead into the ground

2011-05-25 flying • aviation • crash • thunderbird • accident

Blue Angels too low

at 24:05 in this video they go too low on their low pass

2011-05-25 blueangels • flying • aviation

George Plimpton's Video Falconry

Amazing video game from 1983

2011-05-25 games • via:hodgman • 1983 • funny

TERP inventory

Count of instrument approaches

2011-05-25 aviation • flying • intstrument • ifr • aeronav

Apocamon

Classic web comic

2011-05-24 apocalypse • manga • pokemon • comic

YouTube to force ad views

Bad news: the hideous process of pre-rolls is expanding on Youtube

2011-05-23 youtube • ads • advertising • video

Reimagine :The Game:

Incomprehensibly brilliant game. Parody? Meme feeder? WTF?

2011-05-23 games • parody

Black Eyed Peas

The untold origin story

2011-05-23 funny • music • blackeyedpeas

Tito's futurism

Collection of beautiful Soviet-era monumental architecture in the former Yugoslavia

2011-05-23 yugoslavia • architecture • tito • brutalism • futurism

Mundane Minecraft

Fun set of screenshots of unremarkable places in Minecraft

2011-05-23 games • minecraft

The VRMLworks

"The 3D Web is here"

2011-05-23 vrml • technology • graveyard • 3d

A/FD in HTML

Of interest to pilot nerds: someone's converted the airport directory from PDF to HTML

2011-05-23 flying • aviation • afd • database • pdf • html

Poor octopus

a little 4chan humour

2011-05-22 4chan • funny • octopus

maplib.net

Hosting for custom slippy maps with your own data points, etc. Popular with gamers

2011-05-21 maps • hosting • games

Welcome to Pyongyang

creepy, creepy photos

2011-05-21 photography • via:metafilter • korea • northkorea • batshitinsane

Bitcoin's history problem

Current clients work by caching a copy of every single transaction ever

2011-05-20 bitcoin • currency • cryptography

OpenCL

Portable language for writing shaders, etc to run on GPUs

2011-05-20 gpu • programming • code • bitcoin

BitcoinMiner.cl

The actual optimized algorithm for creating Bitcoins

2011-05-20 bitcoin • cryptography

Mining hardware comparison

Details of which video cards achieve what performance on Bitcoin

2011-05-20 bitcoin • computation • optimization • gpu • nvidia • ati

GPUs to mine Bitcoins

Simple explanation of why a graphics card is a better choice for doing Bitcoin cryptomining

2011-05-20 bitcoin • currency • gpu • optimization • performance

Remove Bitcoin mining option

Interesting discussion; the default Bitcoin client had its option to remove coins removed because it's so unlikely you'd actually succeed in generating a coin.

2011-05-20 bitcoin • cryptography

SSL false start blacklist

List of the 0.4% of the websites in the world that don't work with Google's faster SSL hack

2011-05-20 ssl • falsestart • optimization

Following the spam money

Berkeley study shows three banks are responsible for processing 95% of payments related to spam

2011-05-20 spam • badtech • credit • berkeley

Parachute Ending

lovely video for a Birdy Nam Nam song (with producer credit to Justice)

2011-05-20 music • birdynamnam • justice • surrealism

ssh -> PHP exploit

Hysterical; crafted username in a failed ssh login shows up in a log that's processed as PHP by the web server

2011-05-20 security • badtech • via:dan • ssh • php

Portal 2 Negative Review

been waiting for someone to write something like this

2011-05-20 games • valve • portal

Pre-IPO LinkedIn prices

SecondMarket publishes private market prces of LinkedIn for the last year

2011-05-19 ipo • secondmarket • linkedin • finance • startups

It's OK to be Takei

Funny response to the stupid anti-gay Tennessee thing

2011-05-19 politics • gay • tennessee • startrek • takei • georgetakei

Pan Am

Awesome preview of a Mad Men-esque period drama

2011-05-19 madmen • tv • panam

Intellectual Ventures' investors

Recent lawsuit includes a list of investors in the patent troll firm

2011-05-19 badtech • patents • intellectualventures • googleearth

Minecraft + LSD

Fun with shaders; warped geometry

2011-05-19 minecraft • games • shaders • glsl

SSL FalseStart works

Google figured out a way to make SSL startup 30% faster. Details.

2011-05-19 ssl • performance • chrome • optimization

Bible reading software

Nice analysis of an alternate style of book reader

2011-05-19 books • userinterface • bible

Elf Sternberg's fiction

Flashback to 1990 fan-fic style writing on Usenet; he's still around, still writing erotic fiction, and has a collected website

2011-05-19 sex • elfsternberg • usenet

Jason Scott hates Facebook

Funny, blistering criticism of Facebook from one of the Internet's beloved experts

2011-05-18 internet • facebook • jasonscott

Is BitCoin a good idea?

First direct criticism of BitCoin I've seen written up cogently

2011-05-18 bitcoin • currency • cryptoanarchy • money • finance

It tasted like dreams

Reddit's spawned a really funny set of stoner comics. Here's one of the best I've seen recently

2011-05-18 comics • funny • marijuana • reddit

Garmin on LightSquared

Garmin's study in January 2011 shows that LightSquared's data plan will break GPS

2011-05-18 gps • badtech • garmin • lightsquared • radio

May 21 Rapture FAQ

Are you prepared?

2011-05-18 rapture • batshitinsane • may21 • christianity

Mac malware

Apple's market share is now high enough the bad guys are bothering to attack it. Notes from an Apple support guy

2011-05-18 badtech • malware • macos • apple

Xbox 360 DRM upgrade

Interesting move by Microsoft, rewriting their DVD firmware to put in a new anti-piracy measure

2011-05-18 drm • microsoft • xbox • games

Semantic Versioning

Codification of release number common practice. Major, minor, point releases

2011-05-17 software • versioning • github

Helicopter boat landing

Promo video for technology for enabling helicopters to land in pitching seas

2011-05-17 helicopters • flying • aviation

Gabe Newell interview

Great discussion with the head of Valve, one of the most innovative game studios around

2011-05-17 games • valve • halflife • innovation • management

Fabrice Bellard

Superhuman hacker

2011-05-17 programmer • hacker • qemu • ffmpeg • linux

PC Emulator in Javascript

sort of astonishing

2011-05-17 javascript • pc • x86 • qemu • emulation

May 21 Judgment day

The math behind the billboards

2011-05-17 batshitinsane • christianity • religion • apocalypse

I love dogwhistles

It's funny

2011-05-17 hipsterdog • hipster • comic • lolcats

Courage, a Tale

A funny little erotic poem

2011-05-17 thomgunn • sex • masturbation • poem • gay

Arterial turbine

Put a turbine generator inside your arteries; what could possibly go wrong?

2011-05-17 medicine • health • via:jwz • power • turbine

Game of Thrones Characters

Handy chart

2011-05-16 books • tv • hbo • gameofthrones

Yahoo boys of Nigeria

Interesting bit of actual journalism from TechCrunch; reporter does interviews in Nigeria with scammers

2011-05-16 nigeria • internet • 419 • scam • con

TellApart ad retargeting

Friends' startup is doing well

2011-05-16 advertising • ads • google • tellapart • startups

Fallout: tour Vegas!

Juxtaposition of real world photos vs. the videogame

2011-05-16 fallout • games • art • photography • via:metafilter

s3cmd parallel

Command line tool for Amazon's S3 that allows parallel uploads

2011-05-16 amazon • s3 • rsync • s3cmd

Nanolaw with Daughter

Lovely short short about the future of IP law

2011-05-16 fiction • scifi • copyright

Mississippi river history

Details of the various paths and engineering for the last 500 years

2011-05-15 louisiana • rivers • maps • mississippi • engineering

Mississippi river change map

Detailed map showing what it'd look like if the Mississippi moved to the Atchafalaya basin

2011-05-15 rivers • mississippi • louisiana • atchafalaya • flooding • maps

Mississippi vs. Atchafalaya

Details on the river control systems in Louisiana

2011-05-15 mississippi • atchafalaya • river • flooding • engineering

Mississippi meanders

Fisk's beautiful map showing all the paths America's biggest river has taken over tmie

2011-05-15 mississippi • river • map • flooding

history.js

Cross-browser shim for supporting URL history manipulation

2011-05-14 javascript • html • history • navigation • hashbang

PJAX

A Javascript library that makes it easy to manipulate the browser URL without causing reloads, but without the #! nonsense

2011-05-14 urls • javascript • navigation • hashbang

Circumcision party

Mass circumcision of Filippino boys as a sort of town event. The photos are pretty funny.

2011-05-14 circumcision • philippines • via:zite

SFO crunch

Beautiful time lapse of planes departing from SFO

2011-05-14 flying • aviation • sfo • ksfo • airplanes • timelapse • photography

MakerBot

Awesome NYT article, including interview with Marius Watz

2011-05-14 mariuswatz • art • maker • printing • prototyping

Flandrin pose

Classic subject of homoerotic art, a collection of images

2011-05-14 via:arnold • flandrin • gay • art • photography

Hash URIs

Nice explanation of current practice with #! urls

2011-05-13 urls • uris • http • web

Verlan

A French slang / word game, syllables reversed

2011-05-13 slang • french • language • argot

Pink Floyd rereleases

EMI is doing a big re-release of the Pink Floyd catalog. May finally include decent digital versions of stuff?

2011-05-13 music • pinkfloyd • boxset • reissue

Leaflet maps API

New Javascript library for making maps

2011-05-13 maps • code • javascript

HackerTable

Find a difficult table in San Francisco: robot seems to watch online reservations for openings

2011-05-13 food • dining • restaurants • sanfrancisco • via:marc

Pirate Bay fixed

Turns out it wasn't Comcast at all; some tier 1 network routing problem

2011-05-13 piratebay • comcast • isp • routing

Pendulum Waves

Nice little physics demo

2011-05-12 via:kottke • pendulum • waves • videogame

iOS wifi bug

This has hit me

2011-05-12 ios • iphone • wifi • bug • badtech • apple

More Comcast evil

They unilaterally decided to block The Pirate Bay. Why does anyone use them as an ISP?

2011-05-12 comcast • isp • piratebay • torrent

Renn Fayre meat smoke

Photos from Reed's annual bacchanal

2011-05-12 reed • rennfayre • barbecue • meat • cooking

Versus Pad

The guy behind Google Blogoscoped also writes two player games for the iPad

2011-05-12 games • ipad • googleearth

PhoneGap

Libraries to take HTML 5 apps and elevate them to native smartphone apps

2011-05-12 programming • games • javascript • mobile

Moby Destroyed

website for the new album; credits polymaps!

2011-05-12 moby • music • polymaps • javascript

Building magnetic core memory

Arduino project for a nearly lost computer technology

2011-05-12 via:metafilter • arduino • memory • ram • core • hacks

Facebook dirty tricks

Facebook hired a PR firm to smear Google

2011-05-12 google • facebook • press • stupid

iOS MapKit

maps library for iOS apps

2011-05-11 maps • iphone • ios • ipad • apple • code

L3C

A new form of company: a "low-profit LLC". Not tax exempt, so not clear what the low-profit really means

2011-05-11 llc • company • incorporation • charity

Cracking Stuxnet

10 minute TED talk from the guy who figured out the cyberwarfare weapon

2011-05-11 badtech • stuxnet • iran • security • cyberwar

Round of layoffs

A funny office dog

2011-05-11 lolcats • images • macros • pun

Was Dog a Doughnut?

Obscure Cat Stevens track turned out to be influential in various hip-hop and electronica

2011-05-11 music • catstevens • hiphop • electronica • disco

Google's mystery $500M fine

Very strange; Google buried a $500 million charge for a DoJ investigation into advertising

2011-05-10 google • advertising • doj • ads

In Profundis game

A very good games writer is looking to raise $5000 via KickStarter to support his game

2011-05-10 games • simulation • inprofundis

AppEngine growing up

Google seems serious about the hosting product. It's getting more expensive, too

2011-05-10 google • hosting • appengine

Horowitz on Skype

One of the folks who bought Skype in 2009 talks about their thinking when they bought it, including the IP snafu

2011-05-10 skype • microsoft • business

AppEngine 1.5

Adds support for persistent servers, also the Go language.

2011-05-10 google • appengine • hosting

Google's API discovery service

Google re-invents WSDL/WADL, but maybe without the stench of CORBA that lingers around the W3C/WS-* efforts

2011-05-10 api • webservices • rest • wsdl • wadl

Metafilter in Treme

Community weblog gets a moment of TV fame

2011-05-10 metafilter • treme • tv • television

Evite on AppEngine

this migration is a big deal: Google AppEngine has been quietly successful, but not many well known services use it

2011-05-10 google • appengine • evite • architecture • hosting

Chrome exploit

Someone found a way around Chrome's sandbox security. Looks like responsible disclosure, expect it'll be patched soon

2011-05-10 google • security • chrome • badtech

Tokelau survivors

Details of the three teenagers who drifted for 50 days in the South Pacific

2011-05-10 tokelau • survivor • ocean • via:metafilter

Compression

An image to LOL to

2011-05-09 funny • 4chan • compression • artifacts

FBI GPS tracker teardown

iFixit tears apart a clumsy FBI vehicle tracker. The batteries are nuts!

2011-05-09 civilliberties • fbi • spycraft • spies • gps • teardown

Moved my linkblog

I've migrated my linkblog to Pinboard

2011-05-09 pinboard • linkblog • delicious • nelson • somebits

Valdez STOL highlights

Video of the recent short takeoff and landing competition

2011-05-09 valdez • stol • flying • aviation • alaska

RIP The Eagle

One of the world's best gay bars closed

2011-05-09 theeagle • gay • bar • sanfrancisco

100 aerial photos

Random collection, some good

2011-05-09 via:metafilter • photos • flying • aerial

Vanessa Redgrave's crazy marriage

Poor woman: her husband slept around, including with her father

2011-05-09 gay • redgrave • actors • marriage

BabelMap

Great little browser tool for exploring Unicode

2011-05-09 unicode • writing • fonts

Pretty QR codes

Doesn't need to be black and white checkerboards

2011-05-08 via:justin • design • qrcode • barcode • mobile

Google Master Plan

Best image I've seen yet of the famous 3/4 joking Google master plan

2011-05-08 google • plan • funny

Why leave Google?

One of the most creative Google engineers I know talks about some reasons for leaving the Greatest Company on Earth

2011-05-08 google • startups • engineering

The parachute ending

Lovely psychedelic music video, in the style of Fantastic Planet

2011-05-08 music • videos • birdynamnam • animation • psychedelic

Nasal cycle

People breathe mostly through one nostril at a time

2011-05-08 nose • breathing • biology

My right wing dad

Collection of crazy conservative email forwards

2011-05-08 email • politics • conservatives • birthers • rightwing

River Basins of Texas

Map of where the water goes

2011-05-07 texas • rivers • maps

#1 QR Code

Justin made a QR code for his blog as a demo; it became the #1 google image search result and shows up all over the world

2011-05-07 qrcode • seo • blogger • google

Student at Valdez STOL

17 year old who doesn't even have his license competing at the annual Alaska short takeoff and landing competition

2011-05-07 pilot • flying • aviation • stol • valdez • alaska

Black's BBQ

Fantastic smoked sausage and brisket in the middle of Texas

2011-05-07 barbeque • barbecue • food • dining • texas

Fat, Ugly or Slutty

Sad, but also funny collection of abuse online women gamers get

2011-05-07 games • gamers • community • women • sexism