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SK8
Multimedia authoring environment Apple never released
2011-11-30 sk8 • apple • programming • hypercard • development • ide
Coda on Scala
Gentlemanly summary of a nerd shitstorm; his technical comments are interesting
2011-11-30 yammer • programming • java • languages • scala • codahale • coda
Chinese organ harvesting
Horrifying stories of doctors taking organs from still living people
2011-11-30 china • civilrights • uighurs • organs • transplant • via:metafilter
CyanogenMod
Third party Android firmware
2011-11-30 android • mobile • phone
Skyrim's narrative problems
Thoughtful criticism
2011-11-30 skyrim • games • tes • storytelling • rpg
Books of Ultima VII
Text of in-game books from the classic rpg
2011-11-30 games • books • fantasy • rpgs • rpg • ultima
Glider SF bay tour
Unusual flying achievement: flew below 4000' in a glider
2011-11-29 glider • soaring • flying • aviation • pilot • sanfrancisco • california • baytour
Ghostery
Browser plug-in showing you the tracking beacons, bugs, cookies, etc on the web
2011-11-29 privacy • web • browser • plugin • cookie • http • beacon • bug
Björk interview
The Economist, of all places, gets a good music interview
2011-11-29 music • bjork • Björk • interview • economist • biophilia
Printer exploit
HP Laserjets accept firmware from anywhere? /facepalm
2011-11-29 security • badtech • hp • printers • laserjet • via:hackernews
jwz vs arrington
Legendary hacker calls bullshit on a VC blogger
2011-11-29 jwz • arrington • startups • netscape • vc • entrepreneurship
Paris street art walk
Good guide to seeing stuff in the 20th
2011-11-29 20th • 20eme • paris • streetart • walk • tour • tourism • france • graffiti
Amazon warehouse photos
Looks so calm!
2011-11-28 amazon • shipping • logistics
Requests for Python
HTTP client library with a simple api
2011-11-28 python • http • httplib2 • urllib • urllib2 • web
Python Ecosystem
Excellent introduction to libraries and environments
2011-11-28 python • programming • via:hackernews • pip • virtualenv
Chess and Occupy
Nice essay about hustling chess in Zuccotti park
2011-11-28 games • occupy • via:metafilter • ows • chess • gambling
Misscrolling
Drives me crazy too: browsers need a page of whitespace at the bottom
2011-11-28 scrolling • whitespace • design • web • browser
Portal on Mac
Funny rage comic
2011-11-28 portal • games • macintosh • mac • mouse • rage • ragecomic • 4chan
Behaim's Erdapfel
Oldest surviving globe, coincidentally made in 1492
2011-11-28 mapping • maps • globe • erdapfel • nurenberg • behaim • columbus • 1492
More Strauss-Kahn
Sofitel's response to the NYRB article
2011-11-27 drk • strauss-kahn • politics • rape • imf • sofitel
DaisyDisk
Good Mac app for auditing disk usage. On sale for $10
2011-11-27 mac • daisydisk • du • xdu • audit
Longform.org
Elevate the quality of what you read online
2011-11-27 essays • journalism • articles • writing
Strauss-Kahn anomalies
Odd details from the French politician's downfall in New York
2011-11-27 newyork • scandal • france • sarkozy • dsk • strausskahn • rape
Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
Nice overview of the crypto currency
2011-11-27 bitcoin • currency • money • finance
Dovahkiin Gutenberg
All the in-game Skyrim books in eBook format
2011-11-27 games • skyrim • uesp • tes • bethesda
A new terrain map
Mike Migurski has been working on a big open map project
2011-11-27 maps • google • terrain • openstreetmap • osm • tilestache • stamen • migurski
Fuck Wikipedia
detailed analysis of the awful community
2011-11-25 community • wiki • wikipedia • expertise
Google Maps alternatives
doubly important now that Google is charging for Maps stuff
2011-11-22 maps • google • polymaps • leaflet • openstreetmap • osm
India's top fakir
Crazy game show TV
2011-11-22 india • tv • via:kottke
Pepper Spray x4
Multiple angles of video
2011-11-22 police • civilrights • ows • occupy • ucdavis • brutality • crime
Lydia Vs Gate
A Skyrim video showing NPC AI, for your amusement
2011-11-21 skyrim • ai • video • screenshot • lydia • trap • funny
Skyrim Timelapse
Game engines are getting beautiful
2011-11-21 games • skyrim • engine • timelapse • screenshot
Notch on Prince Harry
Notes on a royal encounter for the press
2011-11-20 notch • minecraft • princeharry • press • journalism • funny
Supercomputers
Since 2005 the vast majority of the top 500 have been running Linux on x86
2011-11-20 supercomputers • x86 • linux • intel • architecture
30 days 30 cups
Experiments in rapid fabrication
2011-11-20 3dprinting • coffee • cups • design
NY Tech map
Great little vissualization
2011-11-20 nyc • ny • maps • newyork • startups
Romensko's story
The messy world of business
2011-11-20 journalism • business • romensko • poynter • contracts
20s German portraits
Nice photos (and 100% SFW)
2011-11-19 art • photography • photos • portraits • germany • weimar • 1920s
Web Symbols typeface
Wingdings for the web
2011-11-19 fonts • web • design • via:metafilter
StarCraft as sport
Why people like this game
2011-11-19 games • sports • starcraft • via:metafilter • blizzard
The Black Hours
Lavish 15c manuscript
2011-11-19 bruges • book • art • blackhours • morgan • via:metafilter
Playable Daggerfall
patched, with a dosbox config
2011-11-18 games • daggerfall • skyrim • elderscrolls • tes • bethesda
San Francisco 1853
Amazing survey map
2011-11-18 sanfrancisco • maps • 1850s • 1853 • history
The Decorated Bride
Beautiful Kosovar custom
2011-11-18 marriage • makeup • women • via:metafilter • tradition • custom • bride
gooverbatim
Better UI for enabling Google verbatim search
2011-11-18 google • search • verbatim • userscript • greasemonkey • via:waxy
Google Verbatim demo
Wow the default search is lousy
2011-11-18 google • search • waxy • synonyms
WTF Mobile Web
Collection of terrible sites that direct iPad users to bad mobile pages
2011-11-17 web • mobile • ipad • ios • design • badtech
Amundsen: Cold Recall
Amazing photos + letters from Antarctic explorers
2011-11-17 amundsen • antarctica • exploration • polar • poles • southpole • adventure • photos
Terminator DOS 1990
Gameplay video from an early Bethesda game
2011-11-17 games • skyrim • bethesda • tes • terminator • dosbox
Exports to Mars
Reported import and export numbers don't add up
2011-11-17 economics • trade • tradedeficit
Skyrim screenshots
Nice set from Dead End Thrills
2011-11-16 games • deadendthrills • skyrim • screenshots
The Imperial Library
A collection of in-game Elder Scrolls books
2011-11-16 games • elderscrolls • skyrim • oblivion • morrowind • tes
US cyberwar policy
Clear statement we will go on the offense on the Internet
2011-11-16 internet • cyberwar • malware • military • us • policy
Dog vs Godzilla
I love this multi-panel animated gif thing
2011-11-16 dog • godzilla • funny • gif • animatedgif • puppy
Junk Jack
A Minecraft-like game for iOS
2011-11-16 junkjack • games • ios • iphone • ipad • minecraft
Kindle Fire teardown
what's inside for $200?
2011-11-15 kindle • teardown • hacking • fire • android • amazon
ThinkUp Hits 1.0!
Archive Twitter, Facebook, Google+
2011-11-15 twitter • facebook • googleplus • thinkup • google+ • archive
Verbatim search
Seems hidden away, but at least it's there
2011-11-15 google • search • plus • via:waxy
Backup gmail
Instructions using offlineimap
2011-11-15 offlineimap • gmail • backup
Google Takeout
Backup data from many Google services (but not mail)
2011-11-15 google • backup
SpiderDuck
Twitter's real time URL fetcher
2011-11-15 twitter • http • spider • web
Cops vs Occupy
Great series of photos from recent evictions
2011-11-15 occupywallstreet • ows • police • civilrights • photography • photos
2016 Ghanaian movie
Trailer for an awesome looking adventure sci-fi film
2011-11-15 ghana • movies • wtf • alien • predator • 2016
NY airspace restriction
Unusual VIP TFR; Occupy thinks it's to suppress the press
2011-11-15 ows • occupywallstreet • aviation • flying • tfr • freedom
Duqu details
More info on the cyberwar program
2011-11-15 duqu • stuxnet • hacking • badtech • via:metafilter • malware
Twitter 11:11 11/11/11
Clever visualization
2011-11-14 twitter • visualization • calendar
Social network privacy
Public data, when aggregated, feels like it violates privacy
2011-11-14 privacy • social • klout • aggregate • datamining
AeroNav to charge
Government is proposing to charge for data it produces with taxpayer funding
2011-11-14 aeronav • aviation • maps • charts • faa
Kitchen Computer
Honeywell H316
2011-11-14 kitchen • sexism • computer • lifestyle
Reading Rainbow by The Doors
As interpreted by Jimmy Fallon
2011-11-14 music • funny • via:metafilter • thedoors • parody • jimmyfallon
Earth from ISS
Another lovely time lapse movie
2011-11-13 space • iss • earth • nasa • via:metafilter
iPhone https sniffing
How to reverse engineer network traffic from your iPhone via a proxy
2011-11-13 iphone • https • ssl • http • proxy • network
Python stemming
Useful library for english
2011-11-13 via:mcroydon • python • language • english • porter • stemming • parsing
Oppenheimer on Feynman
World's best letter of recommendation
2011-11-13 physics • oppenheimer • feynman • via:hackernews • education
A Parisian Thanksgiving
So many parts of this story sound familiar
2011-11-12 france • paris • thanksgiving • cooking
Lord British on RPGs
Grandaddy game designer looks ready to make a new game
2011-11-11 games • lordbritish • richardgarriott • ultima
Space Colonization
Generative art simulating plant growth
2011-11-11 art • generative • organic • plants
webapp2
Lightweight Python webapp framework, used in Google AppEngine
2011-11-11 webapp • python • code • framework • http • google • appengine • gae
Wish You Were Here, animated
Classic Pink Floyd art nicely edited
2011-11-11 pinkfloyd • music • photoshop • gif • wishyouwerehere
In defense of the Google chef
It's weird (and wrong) from Pincus to have singled out Charlie as an example of unfair compensation
2011-11-11 google • charlie • charlieayers • chef • zynga • options
skywriting keming
it's funny because it's a naughty word
2011-11-11 language • kerning • fonts • typography • aviation • skywriting
Steam hacked
Very large gamer social network / commerce site
2011-11-10 steam • valve • badtech • hack • security
Skyrim NFO (Razor 1911)
Pirate scene has cracked the game one day before release
2011-11-10 games • razor1911 • pirates • warez • skyrim • elderscrolls
Phoenix (Steam)
Tools for breaking Valve's copy protection
2011-11-10 phoenix • steam • valve • piracy • games
Airport obstacle map
Map of UDDF data showing towers, trees, etc
2011-11-10 aviation • airplanes • obstacles • database • towers
Adam Fast blog
Good new tech blog, lots of posts right now on GeoDjango
2011-11-10 python • django • geodjango • blog • code • adamfast • aviation
GeoLite City
Free IP -> location database
2011-11-10 via:adamfast • geolocation • geoapi • database
Thanksgiving in Paris
Sweet little story about ordering a turkey
2011-11-10 turkey • paris • food • algeria • france
Zynga employment sleaze
Zynga execs demanded employees return their stock
2011-11-10 zynga • employment • law • legal • ipo
y2gay
Database schema for non-conventional marriages
2011-11-10 marriage • gender • gay • funny • database • schema
ColorSnapper
A fancy screen sampling tool for MacOS
2011-11-10 macos • software • color • colour • rgb • digitalcolormeter
dD Orrery
Beautiful Flash Orrery, albeit too low contrast
2011-11-10 art • orrery • astronomy • flash
Cassini apparent
17th century diagram of the apparent motion of the planets
2011-11-10 astronomy • history • cassini • epicycles • orbit • geocentric
Skyrim achievement completion
A way to follow along as people play the anticipated new game
2011-11-10 games • skyrim • oblivion • elderscrolls • xbox • achievements
Apork tour
Abstract map of the Aporkalype Minecraft server
2011-11-10 games • metafilter • mefightclub • minecraft • map
mockfacebook
a test tool for Facebook apps
2011-11-10 facebook • testing • mock
PayPerPost -> Izea
They later "went public" OTC via an acquisition
2011-11-09 izea • payperpost • stocks • otc • pennystocks
news.announce.important
Usenet's equivalent of the emergency alert system; as far as I know, never legitimately used
2011-11-09 alert • news • emergency • usenet • nntp
Manned space critique
Old but excellent essay criticizing the shuttle and ISS
2011-11-09 space • nasa • iss • shuttle
Friend of a Friend Finder
a social graph project I did back in 1997
2011-11-09 mit • medialab • socialgraph • social • research
RadarScope
recommended app for viewing NexRad weather on your phone
2011-11-09 iphone • radar • nexrad • weather
Google Link Cleanup
Greasemonkey script to remove Google's obnoxious URL rewriting
2011-11-09 google • url • web • greasemonkey
Oblivion photo album
Nice collection of screenshots from the game
2011-11-09 games • oblivion • bethesda • elderscrolls • tes • screenshots
How Dark Sky works
Hacker's approach to predicting weather based on radar trends
2011-11-09 weather • forecasting • wx • darksky • iphone • gpu
Maciej on social graph
Ruminations on the complexity of human relationships
2011-11-09 facebook • socialgraph • social • pinboard • software • culture
The Old Spice must flow
it's funny
2011-11-09 oldspice • dune
smiley slider
clever UI element
2011-11-08 via:oreilly • slider • ui • control • html5
Magic Circle
The membrane between a virtual world and the real world
2011-11-08 games • theory • via:metafilter • social
Glitch profile
Nice long article from Ars
2011-11-08 glitch • games • flickr • stewartbutterfield • mmos
Oxford comma
we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin
2011-11-08 funny • language • grammar • oxfordcomma
timezone shapefile
Geodatabase of time zones. Remarkably complex
2011-11-08 timezone • time • map • shapefile • geo
China vs ssh
Security researcher tries to figure out some weird ssh traffic from China
2011-11-07 china • badtech • security • firewall • greatfirewall • ssh
Google+: Direct Connect
Marketing video for Google's new marketing feature
2011-11-07 google+ • directconnect • ads • realnames • aolkeywords
Warcraft stat inflation
Lead game designer on WoW talks about a game design problem
2011-11-07 warcraft • games • wow • ghostcrawler • design • gamedesign
Codex Seraphinianus
Famously scarce apocryphal art project was briefly online
2011-11-07 art • books • apocrypha
Princess Robot Bubblegum
An entire anime parody buried inside GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony
2011-11-07 games • gta4 • grandtheftauto • anime • parody • funny
whereonearth-airport
A fork of Yahoo's GeoPlanet, data on airports
2011-11-07 flying • aviation • airports • geodata • geo • geojson
Occupy Oakland (Aerial)
Public Lab flew a balloon over the protest
2011-11-06 oakland • occupy • protest • balloon • aerial
86th Birthday Rage
Totally sweet comic from an older generation
2011-11-06 ragecomic • comic • aging • culture
MongoDB warning discussion
Responses from the Hacker News crowd
2011-11-06 nosql • database • mongodb • hacking • code
MongoDB warning
None of these new datastores seem to stand up well under real load
2011-11-06 mongodb • nosql • database • rant • via:hackernews
We No Speak Americano
Fun little club hit
2011-11-05 music • club • pitbull • sample
lolruby
They were generating bogus SSL keys
2011-11-05 security • badtech • via:hackernews • ruby • ssl • openssl
Linda Kenyon
Voice actor for the Elder Scrolls games, particularly female elves
2011-11-05 acting • games • oblivion • bethesda • elderscrolls
Movie poster cliches
Nice collection of images
2011-11-05 movies • posters • advertising • cliches • via:metafilter
4D CAPTCHA
A friend of mine is working on a harder CAPTCHA
2011-11-05 captcha • robots • perception
Sex and Skydiving and the FAA
Details on the ridiculous skydiving porn movie from a few weeks back
2011-11-04 faa • flying • aviation • sex • porn • skydiving
Sick Beard
like Tivo, but sources from Usenet
2011-11-04 television • nzb • usenet • tv
Meanwhile, 6th And Mission
Poetic, uncomfortable comic about skid row in SF
2011-11-04 sanfrancisco • mission • sro
Goons vs Eve Economy
MMO game economics: read the comments
2011-11-04 eve • games • eveonline • ccp • goonswarm
XQuartz
Open source project that apple ships as X11.app
2011-11-04 x11 • macos • mac • windows • opensource • software
Another CA failure
A Malaysian company has lost their ability to issue SSL certificates
2011-11-04 badtech • ssl • security • crypto
Cassandra benchmark
Netflix publishes a lot of data
2011-11-04 aws • cassandra • netflix • performance • scalability
Groupon cashout
Detailed accounting of Groupon's unusual use of private financing
2011-11-04 groupon • finance • ipo
Apple supply chain
Details from their innovative logistics
2011-11-04 apple • logistics • business • via:hackernews • hardware
Mac 128k: tech specs
I love that this web page exists at Apple
2011-11-04 apple • macintosh • history
The Kitten Covers
Adorable
2011-11-03 kittens • funny • music • albums • via:metafilter • photoshop
cw on Google Reader
Another of Reader's initial creators weighs in
2011-11-03 google • reader • rss • cw • chrisw
Beechcraft Starship ride
Plane fan gets a dreamfulfilled
2011-11-03 aviation • flying • beech • beechcraft • starship • via:adamfast
Skinemax
nostalgic video mashup of 80s, 90s stuff
2011-11-03 video • nostalgia • via:metafilter
YouTube: Wadsworth
Apparently skipping 30% into a Youtube video usually gets you to the good part
2011-11-03 youtube • video • wadsworth
London City Airport
Middle of London, built in 1988, 9 miles from the center of town
2011-11-03 london • airport • city
Postcards From Panau
A nice visual guide to Just Cause 2, an excellent game
2011-11-03 games • justcause2 • justcause • panau
PostgreSQL features
Nice list of advanced database capabilities
2011-11-02 postgres • postgresql • postgis • via:hackernews • database
Duqu vector
Looks like it spreads via a Microsoft Word zero day, at least
2011-11-02 badtech • virus • duqu • malware • zeroday • word • microsoft
Open letter to Oakland
Astonishing, clear letter form Oakland police confused about the leadership
2011-11-01 oakland • politics • ows • occupywallstreet • protest
RIP Kim + Kris
Photos from a memorial to Kim Kardashian's wedding
2011-11-01 celebrity • stupid • funny • kimkardashian
Google Reader rant
from the former product manager
2011-11-01 google • reader • rant • design • rss