Nelson's Linkblog 2011-06

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1905 SF Sanborn Maps

2011-06-29 maps • sanborn

Silver Lake sleaze?

Allegations of how a private equity firm screwed Skype employees

2011-06-24 Skype • equity • startups • silverlake

Andy's fair use nightmare

Homage project for love turns into copyright nightmare

2011-06-23 Fairuse • copyright • milesdavis • waxy

Midair refueling

great set of photos

2011-06-23 aviation • kc135 • fuel

TechCrunch blackmail

Mat calls out Arrington's sleaze

2011-06-23 arrington • techcrunch • flickr • journalism

Realm of the Mad God release

Great casual browser MMO, lots of fun

2011-06-23 games • mmos • flash

Bitcoin disaster

2011-06-21 Bitcoin • crypto • money

Is Mike Arrington a dick?

This whiny blog post answers the periodic question.

2011-06-20 Techcrunch • Arrington • journalism

Vagar airport charts

Crazy airport in the Faroe Islands.

2011-06-20 Flying • aviation • faroes • vagar

Vancouver riot photo

2011-06-16 photos • photography • vancouver

Game of Thrones chiptune

2011-06-15 music • gameofthrones • 8bit • chiptune

American Bison map

Amazing 1800s conservation story, with a great map

2011-06-15 bison • species • conservation • endangered • via:metafilter • maps • infovis

Trulia Insights

Great data visualization team is publishing stuff from the real estate site

2011-06-15 realestate • trulia • sha • infovis • polymaps

Amazon's first employee

Interesting history from the beginning of the company

2011-06-15 amazon • startups

Data about what 4 digit passcodes iPhone users choose

2011-06-15 iphone • security • passwords • pins • badtech

B-17 Liberty Belle statement

Details on the in-flight fire. Long story short, it wasn't as dramatic as the photos. So sad, though.

2011-06-15 aviation • flying • libertybelle • fire • b-17 • b17 • warbird

Yet another Flash zero day

Seriously, why do we all install this crap?

2011-06-15 flash • security • badtech • adobe

Amazing: PR agency publically threatens to blacklist people who wrote "venom" about Duke Nukem Forever

2011-06-15 games • pr • press • jounalism

An ISP that doesn't suck

My awesome ISP's CEO just answered a bunch of questions on Reddit

2011-06-15 isp • internet • sonicnet • santarosa

Data SIM prices

Great wiki with basic info on what 3G costs

2011-06-15 3g • gsm • data • wiki • internet

Access Main Computer File

Images from movie computer interfaces

2011-06-15 hci • interface • movies • via:hotlinks

Funny image macro

2011-06-14 billgates • stevejobs • funny

Work for ForeFlight

Interesting opportunity for software / pilot geeks. The company is doing great

2011-06-13 flying • aviation • foreflight • jobs • software

Telehack interview

Andy gets an interview with the anonymous creator of the retro Internet site

2011-06-13 telehack • internet • games • textfiles

Biscuit embossing

Lovely study of the designs of things like Oreo cookies

2011-06-13 cookies • biscuits • baking • design • food

Satellites by nation

Graphic showing who has how many satellites in orbit

2011-06-13 space • orbit • satellite

turntable.fm down image

Pretty funny image for when the site is down

2011-06-12 lolcat • funny • cat • turntablefm

More Groupon ugly

Is this IPO a disaster in the making?

2011-06-11 groupon • ipo • startups

Pinboard vs Google

Maciej declares war against Google Analytics bullshit URL tracking

2011-06-11 Google • pinboard • URL

interesting info on wireless network usage at a conference

2011-06-10 wifi • apple • wwdc

New privacy idea

Tim O'Reilly has a new take on privacy. See also Transparent Society

2011-06-10 privacy • facebook

Decompiling E Coli

famous hacker Bunnie reverse engineers some bacteria

2011-06-10 hacking • biotech • genetics • bioinformatics

2011-06-09 comics • funny

Profile of @raffi

Nice honoring of one of the smartest guys I know

2011-06-08 raffi • twitter • mit • wattzon

Detecting ISP traffic shaping

2011-06-08 isp • internet • tcpip

Wind history map

A project of mine; a map that shows prevalent winds. Try it out!

2011-06-07 winds • windrose • history • weather

White bread origin

The horrible industrial bread we eat now is a result of rationing-era British food engineering

2011-06-07 food • bread • via:metafilter

Bitcoin rich list

Record of who owns the most Bitcoins. Well, anonymous IDs at least

2011-06-07 Bitcoin • money • cryptography

the true story of audion

Amazingly detailed story of a Mac shareware music program and getting rolled over by apple

2011-06-06 via:waxy • apple • itunes • business • startup

Amazing service; runs your web page in one of several browsers and gives a performance report, screenshots, etc

2011-06-06 performance • optimization • testing • http • web

Chicago to NYC: 13.33ms

press release from a network company offering lower latency trades between Chicago and New York

2011-06-06 via:raffi • finance • chicago • nyc • trading

Aphex Twin vs. jazz drummer

Amazing live acoustic performance of Flim

2011-06-05 aphextwin • music • flim • drummer

Venezuela's party prison

Crazy situation where the prisoners control the prison

2011-06-05 venezuela • prison • drugs • gangs • via:metafilter

Bitcoin mining profit

Table showing profitability of various Bitcoin mining setups

2011-06-05 bitcoin • gpu • hardware

Gaming then and now

Funny because it's true

2011-06-05 games • 4chan

Nice article on the simple utility site for sharing text

2011-06-05 pastebin • hackers • text • web

Groupon's weird use of funds

They raised $946M then paid $810M right back to investors. WTF?

2011-06-04 groupon • investment • ipo • startups

Groupon founders' $120m

IPO filing reveals the preferred shareholders have taken $120m out of the company. Wow

2011-06-04 groupon • stock • investor • startups

Groupon skeptic

Harsh language, important questions

2011-06-04 groupon • ipo • business

@Mike_FTW vs. @anildash

pretty great Twitter exchange of the dozens

2011-06-04 insults • yermom • yourmom • mikemonteiro • anildash • funny • twitter

Shangaan Electro

Interesting Soweto dance music

2011-06-04 music • via:metafilter • southafrica • soweto • 180bpm

Wave At The Bus

Awesome dad waves at his son's schoolbus every day, in costume

2011-06-04 via:metafilter • funny • utah • parents

LulzSec Donations

This Bitcoin account belongs to some 4chan / Anonymous group. You can see donations they've gotten.

2011-06-04 security • anonymous • 4chan • lulzsec • bitcoin

Bitcoin critique

Cogent, technical criticism of Bitcoin

2011-06-03 bitcoin • money • criticism

Simple IPv6 fix

Microsoft's solution for problems in IPv6 day? Disable IPv6

2011-06-03 internet • ipv6 • microsoft • support • windows • tcpip

Jason Fried on Groupon

Very direct and honorable response to a bunch of nasty criticism

2011-06-03 groupon • jasonfried • startups

Stats on open source hosting; the remarkable thing to me is how few commits there are in Perl

2011-06-03 languages • programming • perl • opensource

Amanda Franklin tribute

Video memorial for an airshow performer who just passed away

2011-06-03 flying • aerobatics • wingwalking • amandafranklin

June 4: Code for Oakland

Some interesting folks will be there

2011-06-03 oakland • code • service

Port of the popular geographic data library to Javascript

2011-06-03 geos • geohacking • javascript • jts • code

advanced web typography

2011-06-03 javascript • kerning • fonts • web

Syria going offline

Real time traffic graph from Syria: headed to zero as the government blocks the Internet

2011-06-03 internet • freedom • syria • google

LightSquared breaks GPS

Test results are in, and they are negative

2011-06-03 gps • aviation • lightsquared

Flickr date design

Flickr engineer talks about some of the fine design flourishes in the way the database handles time

2011-06-02 flickr • photos • engineering • design

Parachute formation

Lovely photograph

2011-06-02 photos • parachute • sunset

Airplane vs. Giraffe

2011-06-02 aviation • accident • giraffe • airplane

WoW insider: Joi Ito

Profile of the new Media Lab director from a Warcraft site

2011-06-02 games • warcraft • joiito • mit • medialab

"An archive of Bitcoin culture"

2011-06-02 bitcoin • via:metafilter • funny

Real time map of all the modern ADS-B transponders in the air

2011-06-02 flying • aviation • ads-b • tracking

Minecraft timelapse building

Nicely made video

2011-06-02 minecraft • games • timelapse

Going to hell for linking the Daily Mail, but this is an awesome story

2011-06-02 rabbits • cute • bunnies • dressage • showjumping

Chrome extension to show a higher resolution image for a thumbnail, with baked in URL schemes for many popular image services

2011-06-02 images • chrome • extensions • hack

Crypto hash lifespan

Details of how long various cryptographic hash functions have been considered secure. Spoiler: not very.

2011-06-02 hash • cryptography • sha1 • security

Weiner's EXIF data

The supposed "lewd" image doesn't match the EXIF of other Weiner photos. So.. can an yone match this EXIF to the right wing jackass's photos?

2011-06-02 exif • weiner • scandal • politics

Northrop Grumman attacked

Another major military company. Seems connected to the RSA SecurID breach

2011-06-01 security • securid • cyberwar

Tor hidden services

How to hide a web site via Tor

2011-06-01 tor • anonymity • internet

Silk Road non-anonymous

Here's a view of Silk Road that doesn't require Tor

2011-06-01 tor • internet • drugs • blackmarket

Silk Road discussion

more info on the Internet black market

2011-06-01 drugs • internet • tor

Silk Road: Tor black market

First I've heard of this; a web site only available via Tor where you can buy narcotics with BitCoins

2011-06-01 drugs • silkroad • tor • internet • via:metafilter

AirBNB spammed Craigslist users?

Pretty strong criticism of unethical behaviour

2011-06-01 airbnb • craigslist • spam • rentals • ethics

Twitter search architecture

Includes a brief description of the original MySQL search system

2011-06-01 search • twitter • mysql

VC against software patents

Not a new argument, but an interesting source

2011-06-01 patents • software • vc • venturecapital

Beautifully implemented visualization of travel times

2011-06-01 maps • javascript • transit