Nelson's Linkblog 2011-12

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Stupid Klout bar chart

Astonishingly awful information visualization

2011-12-31 infovis • klout • funny • bad • design

Modern EXIF manipulation code

2011-12-31 exif • c++ • code • photos • photography • metadata

Osaka red light district

Interesting Google Street View collection

2011-12-31 via:sha • photography • prostitution • japan • osaka • sex • photos • streetview

Old friend's blog on GPS and other technology used in modern dog mushing

2011-12-31 mushing • dogs • alaska • gps

Kaufmann's Posographe

An old analog calculator for photographers

2011-12-31 via:metafilter • calculator • sliderule • photography • photo • history

One of Europe's more interesting street artists

2011-12-30 c215 • art • streetart • graffiti

Bunnie takes the leaked HDCP master key and makes a MITM attack

2011-12-30 hdcp • video • drm • mitm • bunnie • hack • goodtech

Simple service to take and crop a photo to exact requirements

2011-12-30 passport • photo • service • printing

Wrappers to run some Windows programs in MacOS

2011-12-29 wine • macos • windows • emulator

Twitter subpoena disclosure

Their policy says they notify users of info requests unless forbidden by law

2011-12-29 twitter • privacy • civilrights

Life Size Play Guy

Amazing vintage ad for a gay sex toy. "GREEK DESIGN".

2011-12-29 gay • sextoy • cowboy • funny • 1970s

2010 Twitter ID problem

Twitter found the hard way that Javascript numbers are floats, 64 bit integers don't work

2011-12-28 twitter • id • snowflake • javascript • float • number • integer

Swiss train map / timetable

A whole country's train system in a single picture

2011-12-28 maps • trains • timetable • switzerland • swiss • design

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Javascript lulz

2011-12-28 javascript • funny • programming • via:hackernews • typecoercion

Aeronav licensing vs NOAA

An idea on how to distribute government charts with some fees

2011-12-28 aeronav • noaa • licensing • fees • maps • charts • government • faa

Lovely images of logo typography

2011-12-28 typography • logos • design • fonts

Cute little toy; random glyphs overlaid

2011-12-27 unicode • hack • via:metafilter

Epoch Converter

Simple convertor for Unix timestamps

2011-12-26 timestamp • time • unix • epoch • posix • converter • timezone

Google+ / Google Talk integration

Details of why you suddenly have way more IM buddies

2011-12-26 google+ • social • googletalk • im • instantmessage • via:hackernews

Louis CK poker scene

NFSW: Great bit of comedy writing about gay stuff

2011-12-26 gay • louisck • funny • comedy • nsfw

telnetd exploit explained

Such a dumb error. Note: MacOS may be vulnerable

2011-12-25 macos • security • badtech • memcpy • freebsd • bsd • telnetd

It's quite funny

2011-12-24 funny • vc • memes • via:sha

Levelheaded description of what the database is good for

2011-12-24 nosql • riak • production

Analytics package for games; shows developers how people play

2011-12-24 games • developers • statistics • analytics

Super Meat Boy's database

Game connects to an unprotected MySQL server on the Internet

2011-12-24 games • mysql • facepalm • programming • database

Nativity according to Twilight

The chick from the Twilight films explains the Christmas miracle

2011-12-24 chirstmas • religion • twilight • funny • kristenstewart • via:metafilter

Flickr Xmas faux pas

Thoughtful explanation of why Flickr's Christmas graphics are unwelcome

2011-12-23 christmas • religion • flickr • yahoo • culture

FreeBSD telnetd remote root

Useless security feature itself has a buffer overflow, allowing remote root access

2011-12-23 telnetd • badtech • security • bsd • freebsd • bug

Google + Mozilla

Hard to understand without seeing the ad revenue numbers, but it's a lot of money

2011-12-22 google • mozilla • microsoft • bing • firefox • ads

Visualizing Device Utilization

Various ways to show server farm usage

2011-12-22 visualization • datacenter • ops • cpu • heatmap • management

U.S. Routes schematic map

Lovely schematic map of America's smaller highways

2011-12-22 maps • mapping • us • unitedstates • highways • via:mbostock

Etsy code-as-craft talks

Various slideshows on how they do development

2011-12-22 etsy • development • process • programming • engineering

Bill Gates, you're so crazy

2011-12-22 billgates • photoshop • photo • funny

Lady Navy kiss video

so simple, so nice

2011-12-21 gayrights • lesbian • navy • gay

Republicans hide from cameras

Speaker of the House cut C-SPAN off

2011-12-21 politics • cspan • republicans • camera

Google Vector Layers

Map library to fetch and render vector data with Google Maps

2011-12-21 maps • mapping • google • polymaps • gis

Lesbian Navy kiss

Nice little moment

2011-12-21 tradition • gay • lesbian • navy • kiss • equalrights

Anti-social marketing

Editorial on Klout, AllThis, and other overaggressive personal marketing

2011-12-21 allthis • klout • privacy • facebook • socialmedia • manners

GPS track recorder for the data analysis set

2011-12-21 gps • tracking • geolocation • iphone • mapping • antimap

A small / fast text editor that feels like emacs

2011-12-21 editors • emacs • mg • text • unix

1937 SF aerial map

Composite / slippy map of the great aerial archives

2011-12-21 sanfrancisco • maps • 1930s • 1937 • aerial

First Round Capital

what's that word for wincing in embarassment for someone else's humiliation?

2011-12-20 vc • investment • ads • advertisements • terrible • funny

North Korean horrors

2008 story by one of Kim Jong-Il's former teachers

2011-12-20 northkorea • totalitarianism • korea • politics

CryptDB description

Semi-practical implementation of computation on encrypted data

2011-12-20 crypto • security • via:metafilter • databases • cloudcomputing • encryption

Isarithmic maps

Nice visualization technique, like a continuous chloropleth

2011-12-19 maps • visualization • mapping • chloropleth • infovis

Blizzard BattleTag

They're revamping their RealID system to allow nicknames

2011-12-19 blizzard • realid • diablo • diablo3 • warcraft • games

Bay Bridge construction cams

Watch the bridge being built in real time

2011-12-19 camera • sanfrancisco • baybridge • bridge • engineering • camweb

Twitter datastore

Notes on Twitter's MySQL setup

2011-12-19 mysql • database • twitter • architecture • scalability

Server side Javascript injection

Simple paper on risks to node.js and MongoDB. Don't eval() json. Don't use user input in queries.

2011-12-19 security • javascript • blackhat • badtech • ssjs • ssji

Mourning Kim Jong-Il

Meanwhile, in North Korea...

2011-12-19 northkorea • korea • kimjongil • totalitarianism

kim jong-un looking at things

In the grand tradition of North Korean leaders

2011-12-19 kimjongun • northkorea • korea • politics • funny

Kim Jung Il announcement

I believe this is official North Korean tv

2011-12-19 korea • northkorea • kimjungil • tv • news

Copyright thugs are themselves thieves

2011-12-18 copyright • bittorrent • torrent • riaa • dhs

News program censored by an abusive copyright claim

2011-12-17 fairuse • news • journalism • youtube • dmca • copyright

"Dwarf Fortress in Space"

2011-12-17 games • 4x • space • dwarffortress

Foreflight on AeroNav

Big aviation software provider comments on the proposed licensing changes

2011-12-17 faa • aeronav • maps • foreflight

Followup to the popular S90/S95; this one includes a GPS for geotagging!

2011-12-16 photos • photography • gps • canon • camera

Efficient Frontier: $400m

Technical ad management company gets a large price from Adobe

2011-12-16 adobe • ads • google • efficientfrontier

Using BrowserID

New web signon system from Mozilla

2011-12-16 via:hackernews • mozilla • firefox • signon • openid • security • login

Star Wars Galaxies shutdown

Melancholy experience of the end of the classic MMO game

2011-12-16 games • mmos • starwars • galaxies

Another AeroNav perspective

More info on the proposed FAA chart licensing change

2011-12-16 faa • aeronav • maps • charts • aviation • flying

Perceived color brightness

A little color theory for you

2011-12-16 hsl • hsv • lab • colorbrewer • design

Iran drone hijack

They claim they jammed communications and spoofed GPS. It's plausible.

2011-12-15 iran • us • gps • navigation • aviation • drone • military • spying

SkyVector on Aeronav

Very rational response from a digital aviation chart provider

2011-12-15 copyright • aeronav • skyvector • faa • charts • maps

Weather station identifiers

Detailed, historical database

2011-12-14 weather • data • database • icao

Christmas is Coming

2011-12-14 gameofthrones • winteriscoming • christmas • funny • tv

Jamie Wilkinson

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 internet • culture • people

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 internet • culture • people

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 internet • people • culture

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 internet • people • culture

Aaron Straup Cope

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 internet • people • culture

Joshua Schachter

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 internet • people • culture

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 internet • people • culture

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 people • internet • culture

Spotify vs. Rdio catalogs

Andy digs in to streaming music catalogs

2011-12-14 music • spotify • rdio

AeroNav chart proposal

Terrible: $150 / user / year is untenable

2011-12-14 aviation • flying • charts • aeronav

AeroNav speculation

Guesses as to what the FAA is going to do to charge for digital charts

2011-12-13 aeronav • faa • flying • aviation • government • charts

Chinese cyberwar division

US has been figuring out who in China is doing all the hacking

2011-12-13 cyberwar • us • china • politics

Romney vs gay vet

Bigotry is harder when you're facing the victim

2011-12-13 gayrights • gays • politics • romney • via:metafilter

Weather station locations

Master database of locations of weather stations

2011-12-13 weather • data • icao • metar

SunDog: Resurrection

Project to try to rewrite a classic 1980s space game

2011-12-13 sundog • apple2 • apple • games

Google's IPv6 experience

Notes on deploying IPv6 internally for everyone

2011-12-12 google • tcpip • ipv6 • routing

Tissot’s indicatrix

A handy visual way to see projection distortions

2011-12-12 cartography • gis • projection • maps • mapping • visualization

Map projection essentials

Readable overview of projections

2011-12-12 maps • projections • gis • mapping • cartography

Javascript reprojection demo

Live running example of a raster map being reprojected

2011-12-12 maps • mapping • gis • projections • javascript

Javascript code for reprojecting map images

2011-12-12 maps • javascript • gis • projections

Map projection gallery

overview image of a zillion global projections

2011-12-12 projections • maps • mapping • gis • geography • projection • mercator

Tech review site with a Linux bent

2011-12-11 linux • unix • hardware • reviews

1997 Web experience applied to modern sites

2011-12-11 facebook • google • funny • browser • web • technology

Don't pee on jwz

Famous nightclub owner / hacker publicly shames a DJ

2011-12-11 music • jwz • funny • urine • pee • piss • toilet • dnalounge

Youhavedownloaded.com

Collected info on public trackers: query any IP address

2011-12-10 torrent • bittorrent • privacy • copyright • trackers

Global surface archives

Collected weather data

2011-12-10 metars • weather • global

Box office bombs

Sorted by net loss

2011-12-10 films • movies

The Elder Strolls

Return of Nondrick, a character determined to behave like a normal person in Skyrim

2011-12-10 games • skyrim • funny • elderscrolls • tes

sophisticated web application monitoring / performance tool

2011-12-09 performance • web • http • monitoring

Chrome NaCl games

Google's native code experiment is running real software

2011-12-09 games • bastion • chrome • browser • nacl • nativeclient • security • sandbox

Apple playing the patent game to slow down standards work

2011-12-09 w3c • apple • patents • via:hackernews

Admin deletes the entire plugin site, no backup

2011-12-09 jquery • plugins • backups • data • disaster • ops

BART Imaginary Diagram

2011-12-09 bart • transit • lightrail • bayarea • sanfrancisco

Android history

Details of the development of Google's phone OS

2011-12-09 android • google • phones • mobile

My Occupy LA Arrest

First person account of LAPD acting like thugs

2011-12-09 lapd • la • losangeles • brutality • arrest • occupy • ows • protest

Details from a prison in Romania

2011-12-08 via:metafilter • prison • cia • civilrights • torture • romania

Brokeback Perry

I knew that outfit looked familiar

2011-12-08 perry • gay • cowboy • politics • funny • brokebackmountain

Rick Perry for president

We should never forget this hateful crap passes for political discourse in the US

2011-12-08 gayrights • gays • perry • republicans • politics

Analysis of the transcript

2011-12-07 af447 • flying • aviation • crash • stall

Map of SF as it was in 1853

2011-12-07 maps • sanfrancisco • history

Castro Theater ok?

Apparently Petrelis' post is not accurate

2011-12-07 castro • movies • theater • sanfrancisco

Castro Theater closing?

Sad, but honestly I've hardly gone in the last few years

2011-12-07 movies • castro • sanfrancisco • theater

Meigs Field update

It sits unused after Mayor Daley illegally demolished an airport in the middle of the night

2011-12-07 aviation • chicago • flying • meigsfield • daley • corruption • abuse

Don't be a free user

Maciej's hysterical essay on the value of paying for web services

2011-12-06 web • business • via:hackernews • pinboard • maciej • funny

Inside one of the two companies that make all mechanical watch parts

2011-12-06 watches • watchmaking • horology • switzerland • swiss • nivarox • eta

Zuckerberg's private photos

Rumoured new Facebook exploit: their "report abuse" tool doesn't respect privacy flag

2011-12-06 facebook • zuckerberg • privacy • badtech • photos

John Lennon's messy life

His wife, his mistress, his issues

2011-12-06 via:metafilter • beatles • johnlennon • yokoono • marriage • mistress

Garmin map drama

Users annoyed at switch between Google and Bing maps

2011-12-05 maps • terrain • garmin • users • gps

Amazing collection of photos of airplanes flying way too low

2011-12-05 aviation • flying • via:sacca • lowpass • danger

Jepp vs Aeronav

Explication of the differences in instrument approach plates

2011-12-05 ifr • aviation • flying • jeppesen • aeronav • charts • approaches • plates

More Techcrunch sleaze

TC denies, of course, but why would you trust them?

2011-12-05 via:hackernews • journalism • techcrunch • startups • news • marketing

Anti-Mugabe spoof ad

Hysterical, a bit scary the response

2011-12-05 via:metafilter • mugabe • zimbabwe • dictators • humanrights • nandos

OSM terrain tiles

Mike Migurski releases some of his amazing map work

2011-12-05 maps • osm • terrain • dem

Large image for the epic relief carving in the game Skyrim

2011-12-04 games • tes • elderscrolls • alduinswall • skyrim

Iran missile base explosion

On Nov 12 part of Iran's missile program blew up.

2011-12-04 Isfahan • iran • war • israel • us • nuclear

Shields & Yarnell

Mime TV show in the 70s

2011-12-04 mime • tv • television • breakdancing

Low level tool for managing what's paged into RAM

2011-12-03 memory • vm • performance • swap

Instagram tech stack

Nicely documented list of systems

2011-12-03 django • instagram • via:hackernews • python • scalability • ops • ec2

Reuters: 100 photos

Top photos of 2011

2011-12-03 via:metafilter • photos • photography • journalism

sonic.net on web hogs

My awesome ISP doesn't believe in caps

2011-12-03 internet • congestion • freedom • isps

Popular image viewer from the 90s; fossil web page

2011-12-02 xv • xwindows • images • gifs • jpgs • via:mattcutts

Lying with chloropleths

Designing map visualizations correctly is hard

2011-12-02 maps • visualization • chloropleth • colorbrewer

1 PVP kill every 6 seconds for 3+ years

2011-12-02 games • eve • eveonline • pvp • statistics • ccp

Fabrice Bellard

A brilliant hacker / inventor

2011-12-02 qemu • ffmpeg • hacker • code • programming

Etsy's svn to git conversion

Nice little war story. Spoiler: it worked out OK.

2011-12-02 git • svn • sourcecode • vcs • developers • etsy

Cheesy pop band with a very young Trent Reznor on the keys

2011-12-02 music • nin • trentreznor • slambamboo

Fountain View fish market

Great little Vietnamese family fish place in Houston; excellent prepared shrimp

2011-12-01 seafood • houston • food • shrimp

A new DEM; lower resolution that SRTM but more complete

2011-12-01 dem • data • geo • gis • srtm • ned • nad • gtopo30

Awesome tongue twisting rap

2011-12-01 rap • music • funny • cooking • pancakes • maclethal

Football vs. Handegg

Sports explained

2011-12-01 sports • funny • football • soccer • 4chan

Browser addon script to add a "yes, really" button to Google searches

2011-12-01 google • ui • web • userscript • javascript • addon • extension • chrome

Truffle oil is fake

Great chef article; I never knew

2011-12-01 truffles • cooking • restaurants • food • industrial