Nelson's Linkblog 2011-10

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Google Reader Social

history of social features from a Googler

2011-10-31 google • social • reader

Dropboxish cloud storage from an interesting group of hackers

2011-10-29 storage • dropbox • cloud • bradfitz • evanm • danga

nice visualization of color problems

2011-10-29 color • visualization • via:sha

[new york thundersnow]

2011-10-29 snow • weather • newyork • twitter • thundersnow

Another NY street artist

2011-10-29 streetart • asvp • art • newyork

Well known New York street art gallery may be bulldozed

2011-10-28 art • aerosol • graffiti • streetart • newyork

Dimitri Drjuchin

Saw some street art in NY by this guy

2011-10-28 art • streetart • newyork

RSA attack cousins

Other companies attacked by the hackers who attacked RSA, presumably Chinese

2011-10-28 china • hacking • badtech • rsa • security

Fine Street Art in NYC

Another good map

2011-10-28 streetart • newyork • map • art

NY street art map

Handy guide for a walk

2011-10-28 streetart • newyork • art • map

Google Maps pricing

Soon to not be free

2011-10-27 googlemaps • api • pricing • google • maps

Orphan Androids

Software support for Android phones is lacking

2011-10-27 android • google • iphone • software • mobile

Duqu vs Stuxnet

More differences than similarity

2011-10-27 badtech • malware • stuxnet • duqu

QR Codes are Robot Barf

2011-10-26 funny • qrcode • via:gruber

Halloween or Williamsburg

2011-10-26 newyork • costume • via:kottke • funny

Unfinished obelisk

interesting Egyptian artifact

2011-10-26 egypt • architecture • archaeology • obelisk

Democracy and Art

A nice outing to Occupy Wall Street

2011-10-26 ows • kids • friends • protest • occupywallstreet

Face ear game rubber sport

Goofy 4chan image (SFW)

2011-10-26 face • rubberband • funny • 4chan

Schrodinger's cat lives

2011-10-25 cats • quantummechanics • 4chan • photoshop • funny • lolcats

Daniel Humm: Ten Essentials

Another little bit with the chef

2011-10-25 11madison • elevenmadison • food • dining • danielhumm

Daniel Humm Q&A

Chef at the amazing 11 Madison

2011-10-25 11madison • food • dining • newyork • danielhumm

Twitter languages

More amazing visualizaton by Eric Fisher

2011-10-24 visualization • twitter • language • culture • europe • ericfisher

Interactive shapefile simplifier

2011-10-24 maps • shapefiles • flash

Fix Lion trackpad drag

They hid the sensible old drag gesture under Universal Access

2011-10-24 mac • macos • lion • ui • trackpad • mouse • drag

Fluidinfo Explorer

another browser into FluidDB

2011-10-23 fluidinfo • fluiddb • database

A Web Command Line for Fluidinfo

2011-10-23 fluidinfo • database

Google vs Referer

Recent HTTP change is kind of ugly

2011-10-23 google • http • referer • privacy • advertising • ads

RIP Carlos Santana

I love this 4chan RIP thing

2011-10-23 gaddafi • 4chan • carlossantana • funny

Das Racist in Spin

better just to listen, but if you want to read

2011-10-22 music • dasracist

Google Reader social

I didn't know anyone used Reader this way.

2011-10-22 google • reader • social • socialmedia • shutdown

Virgin Galactic Spaceport

I'm glad someone's funding this kind of thing

2011-10-20 virgin • travel • airplane • aviation • space • suborbital

Nice spatial histogram layout

2011-10-20 hexbin • d3 • histogram • map • layout

AD&D Coloring Book

so much awesome

2011-10-20 games • via:metafilter • d&d • ad&d • rpgs

Funniest diagram I've seen all month

2011-10-20 platypus • keytar • venndiagram • funny

Mail delivery by airplane, without landing

2011-10-19 flying • aviation • stinson • mail

Big indie music thing in New York

2011-10-19 newyork • cmj • music • indie

+google +now +more "awkward"

Now you have to type two characters to make it search for what you want

2011-10-19 via:waxy • google • search • badtech

ASTER v2 released

New digital elevation model

2011-10-19 maps • mapping • srtm • asterm • terrain • topo

Evidence of a variant of the sophisticated computer weapon

2011-10-18 stuxnet • security • badtech • israel • cyberwar • cyberwarfare • us

Hudson VFR corridor

How to flightsee Manhattan.

2011-10-18 newyork • manhattan • aviation • flying • vfr

Twitter corp update

Stats from the CEO

2011-10-18 twitter • business • startup

Laplacian terrain shading

An alternative to the usual hillshading

2011-10-18 maps • terrain • shading • math

American photographs

2011-10-17 photos • photography • americana

Offsite Backups matter

indie game company loses their source

2011-10-17 games • backips • indie

17 octobre 1961

the Paris massacre

2011-10-17 paris • france • politics • algeria • piednoir

Roosevelt Island Tramway

An unusual bit of New York public transportation

2011-10-16 newyork • tramway • gondola • rooseveltisland

Playa Time Lapse

Burning Man, from a distance, over many days

2011-10-16 photos • photography • timelapse • video • burningman

1938 SF aerial photos

2011-10-15 sanfrancisco • photos • 1930s • aerial

Ballard Geocoded

Map of JG Ballard writing

2011-10-15 maps • jgballard • via:metafilter • writing • fiction

Parachuting through thunderstorm

Pilot ejected above an anvil cloud, 40 minutes up and down

2011-10-14 aviation • flying • thunderstorm • weather • parachute • skydive

Justin John Bieber

An awkward name collision (contains pottymouth)

2011-10-13 justinbieber • bieber • justin • via:4chan • funny • facebook

iOS 5 cache cleaning

Apple may be a bit too aggressive about disk management

2011-10-13 ios • apple • iphone • ipad • caching • foreflight • icloud

iCloud explained

Readable overview of the services

2011-10-13 apple • ios • icloud • iphone • ipad • cloud • dropbox

Google offshoring probe

International tax games, did they follow the rules?

2011-10-13 google • taxes • finances

Blogger recounts all the horrible threats people make to her

2011-10-13 blogging • feminism • internet • culture • women

Interesting roundup of food photos

2011-10-13 food • breakfast • dining • via:metafilter • travel

IBM buys Platform Computing

Old-school grid (er, cloud) computing company gets acquired

2011-10-12 platform • computing • ibm • acquisition • popularpower

Migurski's database code to manage OpenStreetMap roads for better rendering

2011-10-12 openstreetmap • migurski • stamen • maps • rendering

iPhone 4S unlocked

Sprint and Verizon will let you use your own SIMs internationally

2011-10-12 gsm • iphone • unlock • 4s • international • travel

Google Page Speed

Very solid online tool for auditing web site performance

2011-10-12 google • optimization • http • via:hackernews

US wealth inequality

Great collection of charts

2011-10-12 money • inequality • economy • ows • politics

OS X and case sensitive filenames

For some baffling reason, this Unix defaults to case insensitive filesystems

2011-10-12 macos • badtech • filesystem • fs • casesensitive

Apple's less(1)

It's a little broken; doesn't allow custom keybindings

2011-10-11 less • apple • macos

They're trying to increase the depth of the web they crawl?

2011-10-11 google • googlebot • post • http

PMOG / Nethernet post-mortem

Long, sad story of a failed startup by one of the Internet's most promising people

2011-10-11 startups • entrepreneurs • pmom • nethernet • justinhall • games

RSA was double teamed

They don't say "China"

2011-10-11 security • badtech • china • rsa • securid • twofactor • tfa

Python 2.7 on appengine

Hooray, Google finally updated their cloud platform

2011-10-11 appengine • google • gae • python

Nice infographic

2011-10-11 via:flowingdata • space • infographic • visualization

D3 canvas render

Draw arbitrary markup to a Canvas using D3

2011-10-10 d3 • javascript • canvas

Python Requests

Another HTTP client, focus on a humane api

2011-10-10 http • python • via:hackernews • httplib2 • urllib2

Amateur launched a rocket to 120,000' at Burning Man

2011-10-10 burningman • rocket • flying • aviation • video • via:metafilter

A bad girl game

Funny review of a terrible looking online game

2011-10-10 games • feminism • women • gender • ladypopular

New collection of docs for the Mac launch / search thing

2011-10-10 apple • macos • alfredapp • alfred • docs

sonic.net protects users

Proud of my ISP, they tried to protect their users

2011-10-10 government • democracy • privacy • politics • wikileaks

iOS location methods

How your phone knows where you are

2011-10-10 ios • gps • agps • location • geolocation

sonic.net and privacy

My awesome ISP gets some WSJ coverage

2011-10-10 sonicnet • isp • politics • privacy

Das Racist profile

Some details on Heems

2011-10-10 heems • dasracist • music • rap • via:metafilter

Air traffic activity

Usage stats for airports and ATC services in the US

2011-10-09 aviation • flying • data • ifr • vfr

Django: SchemaEvolution

Django doesn't automatically modify schema

2011-10-09 schema • database • code • django • python • orm

Paris noise map

Basically just all streets

2011-10-09 paris • noise • map • france • visualization

310 ditching track

ATC data on the pilot who just missed landing in Hawaii

2011-10-08 hawaii • flying • aviation • atc

310 ditching in Pacific

Guy ran out of fuel flying from California; lucky to be alive

2011-10-08 flying • aviation • fuel • hawaii • coastguard

Unencrypted drone

Video traffic from our unmanned aircraft is available unencrypted

2011-10-08 security • badtech • video • drone • uav • aviation • military

Janet (airline)

Commuter airline for secret projects at Area 51, etc

2011-10-08 military • secret • aviation • lasvegas • nevada • via:metafilter

Military aircraft are infected with an unknown bit of malware

2011-10-08 badtech • virus • uav • drone • military • security

Gilt Club: cocktails

Really interesting bar

2011-10-07 Portland • food • drinks • cocktails

Timezone DB debacle

Bogus copyright claim screws an important database

2011-10-06 Copyright • time • Olson • tzinfo

Arrington and copyright

He doesn't seem to bother with attribution of the photos he uses

2011-10-05 Arrington • photos • photography • creativecommons • copyright

Americans have no clue how to sell cheese

2011-10-05 Food • cheese • Newyork • via:justin

Cow Clicker denouement

melancholy story of Bogost's satire game

2011-10-05 games • facebook • via:waxy

Source code control lost some work

2011-10-01 git • bugs • debugging

Roud Folk Song Index

Database of folk songs

2011-10-01 music • song • culture