Nelson's Linkblog 2012-06

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Linux leap second bug

Kernel doesn't handle the leap second adjustment correctly

2012-06-30 linux • kernel • ntp • bug • leapsecond • time • via:hackernews

Deus Ex Soundtrack

Original game soundtrack resampled and converted to MP3

2012-06-30 music • games • deusex

January 1, 4713 BC

The epoch for Julian Dates

2012-06-30 date • calendar • astronomy • julian

Interactive multiplayer music toy / Chrome demo

2012-06-29 chrome • javascript • music • via:gamefilter

Paris by Mouth restaurant guide

Looks useful and relatively up to date

2012-06-29 paris • dining • food • travel • france

Paths to Graceland

Amazing 80s African pop mixtape, music that inspired Paul Simon's "Graceland"

2012-06-29 via:waxy • music • graceland • kleptones • paulsimon • gumboots

Excellent summary of the current state of the Python ecosystem

2012-06-29 python • py3k • via:hackernews • coding • code • unicode

Eyeo Twitter connections

Visualization of new Twitter relationships after a conference

2012-06-28 eyeo2012 • visualization • twitter • eyeo • paperjs

MapBox terrain preview

Yay, another free terrain map!

2012-06-27 maps • cartography • terrain • mapbox

Soviet Army map of SF

Lovely bit of nostalgia

2012-06-27 coldwar • soviet • sanfrancisco • maps • russia

3D London Underground stations

Nice little web viewer

2012-06-26 maps • london • underground • subway • 3d

PC hardware failures

Excellent study showing horribly high hardware failure rates in consumer PCs

2012-06-26 via:hackernews • microsoft • reliability • hardware • mtbf

Facebook slams emails

Outrageous; they just changed all their users' profiles' email addresses

2012-06-25 facebook • stupid • privacy • email • data

The Paris Embassy of Texas

Hotel I like in Paris used to be the Texas embassy!

2012-06-25 paris • texas • history • vendome

Mac command line program for taking pictures

2012-06-24 camera • macos • picture • mac • software

PostgreSQL cluster

Hint to the database how to order the rows

2012-06-23 performance • database • postgres

Yours in distress, Alan

Heartbreaking letter from Turing just before being convicted of homosexuality

2012-06-23 gay • turing • alanturing • history • computing

Alan Turing statue

Lovely little gay pride thing in Manchester

2012-06-23 turing • alanturing • gay • computing

Pinboard DB schema

The MySQL schema for the popular bookmarking service

2012-06-23 pinboard • delicious • sql • mysql • schema • awesome • code

A novel solution to Javascript errors

2012-06-23 funny • via:waxy • javascript • programming

A messy but useful visualization of city sizes

2012-06-22 cities • visualization • data

2012-06-22 gifs • animatedgifs • via:metafilter • art • glitch

400,000 Android tablets

Thailand is giving every schoolkid a tablet computer

2012-06-22 android • tablet • thailand • scopad

bulk.resource.org

Simple downloads for various US government data

2012-06-22 data • government • malamud

sonic.net log policy

My ISP doesn't keep logs forever, to protect user privacy

2012-06-22 privacy • copyright • isp • freedom • sonicnet

Aesthetic fun with maps

2012-06-22 maps • cartography • chernobyl • movies • stamen

Internet absurdity (some NSFWIsh)

2012-06-22 dolan • 4chan • meme • funny • reddit

Sigur Ros - Fjögur Píanó (NSFW)

Lovely music video / arty film. A bit of nudity.

2012-06-22 sigurros • shialaboeuf • music • video

Very simple inline charts

2012-06-21 javascript • charts • sparklines • via:hackernews • jquery • canvas

Traditional cheesemaking in central Europe

2012-06-21 cheese • europe • photography • slovakia • poland • tatras

Women on StackOverflow

Comments on gender issues on the software forum

2012-06-20 stackexchange • stack • gender • women • engineers • diversity

The Million Dollar Homepage

It's still online!

2012-06-20 ads • pixels • internet • history

Dynamic code generation for Protocol Buffers and Thrift in Python

2012-06-20 code • python • thrift • protobuf • protocolbuffers

Approachable notes on how to display a simple visualization well

2012-06-20 charts • visualization • data • via:prismatic

Playfic Geography

A US geography quiz disguised as an Infocom game

2012-06-20 games • infocom • v7 • inform • playfic • via:waxy • text

Steep SF streets

OpenStreetMap + NED 1/3 = map of crazy SF streets

2012-06-20 maps • streets • sanfrancisco

Nice demo of building a custom overlay layer in Leaflet using D3

2012-06-20 d3 • leaflet • maps • visualization • javascript

Eyeo Festival 2012 on Vimeo

Channel for all the talks, posting over the next few weeks

2012-06-19 eyeo • conference • talks • eyeo2012

General Zod in 2012

2012-06-19 kneebeforezod • zod • superman • obama • shepardfairy • obey

Funny story; researching a virus, the author pops up a chat window

2012-06-19 virus • badtech • via:hackernews • funny

Netflix API lockdown

Removes features, tightens terms of service

2012-06-18 netflix • api • business

Induction DB client

Polyglot DB explorer for MacOS

2012-06-17 mac • macos • database • postgres • sql

Video, pictures, etc of the space drone

2012-06-17 aviation • drones • space • shuttle • x37b • x-37b

Gastón Viñas video

Interesting animation for a Radiohead song

2012-06-16 animation • radiohead • nsfw • cows • pigs

Motion stabilized yo-yo video

2012-06-16 via:metafilter • video • yoyo • trick

SF Muni Maintenance

Our public transit system has terrible maintenance

2012-06-16 sf • muni • transit • transportation

Trulia analyzes gay real estate

2012-06-15 gays • lesbians • trulia • realestate

Year of the Glitch

Degraded digital art

2012-06-15 art • glitch • design

A year of hermit hacking

Pamela Fox's awesome presentation on working alone for a year

2012-06-15 working • happiness • tech • coding

Gods and Kings details

Civilization V expansion comes out in a few days

2012-06-15 games • civilization • godsandkings

Reporkalypse map

A beautifully crafted map of a Minecraft server

2012-06-15 games • minecraft • maps

Apple vs Google Maps

Good set of side by side screenshots

2012-06-14 apple • google • maps • ios

Rage comic remix

2012-06-14 comic • ragecomic • 4chan • language

Rage comic remix

2012-06-14 comic • ragecomic • 4chan • language

Sina Weibo in Windows 8

Microsoft integrates one of China's big Twitter-analog services

2012-06-14 twitter • microsoft • windows • china • weibo • sinaweibo

Olympic IP idiocy

Trying to ban people sharing photos online.

2012-06-14 photos • olympics • ip • intellectualproperty

JWZ permit update

What it takes to create a public business in San Francisco

2012-06-14 bureaucracy • sanfrancisco • jwz • dnalounge • stupid

MacBook Pro Retina teardown

Fascinating detail; these systems are so tightly packed

2012-06-13 macbook • teardown • apple • hardware

Web page performance analyzer, runs both Google PageSpeed and YSlow

2012-06-13 optimization • performance • web • yslow • pagespeed

Readability change

Great, clear essay about how a business model didn't work and what they're doing about it

2012-06-13 readability • business • publishing

Clever international domain name

2012-06-13 dns • domain • idn

gTLD applications

The list of how ICANN is destroying DNS

2012-06-13 via:metafilter • dns • domains • internet • brands

Indie Game: The Movie

It's out now, $10 for a DRM free download

2012-06-12 movies • games • documentary • indiegames • fez • braid • supermeatboy

Etsy's hiring stategy

Details of Marc Hedlund's work to recruit more women engineerings

2012-06-12 diversity • women • hiring • etsy • marc • precipice

MacBook Pro retina

Excellent analysis; Apple is finally allowing resolution independent scaling

2012-06-12 macbook • retina • screen • lcd • quality • apple

A vector based OSM map for iOS

2012-06-12 maps • ios • gps • osm

Chrome: Do Not Track

A very simple extension to opt-out of the toothless privacy request

2012-06-11 privacy • donottrack • chrome • extension • dnt

Wildcard DNS for everyone: test virtual hosts without your own DNS setup

2012-06-11 via:onethingwell • dns • service • ip • vhost • apache

Pointer Pointer

cute little image hack

2012-06-11 pointer • image • funny • via:metafilter • javascript • voronoi

Cow Clicker Molyneux parody

Ian Bogost tweaks his absurd game to parody Peter Molyneux

2012-06-11 molyneux • games • parody • cowclicker

Amanda Cox interview

Some thoughts from the superstar of NYTimes graphics and visualization

2012-06-11 infovis • amandacox • nyt • nytimes • statistics • graphs

Flame → Stuxnet

Evidence that Stuxnet shared source code with Flame

2012-06-11 malware • badtech • stuxnet • flame • duqu • virus • espionage

Flight404's Eyeo work

Interesting physics demos, with source code

2012-06-11 cinder • eyeo • visualization • art • flight404

LinkedIn weasels

Disgusting they didn't come clean with the NYT about their abysmal security

2012-06-11 security • badtech • linkedin • passwords • bcrypt • hash

MongoDB and CouchDB

A straightforward comparison

2012-06-10 nosql • database • db • mongodb • couchdb

SF public art mapper

Code for America project showing where public art is in SF

2012-06-10 sanfrancisco • art • map • codeforamerica

La Gaîté Lyrique

Paris gallery focussed on digital art

2012-06-10 art • digitalart • creativecode • paris • museum • gallery

Paris metro, geographic

Map of the Paris subway system with geographic layout

2012-06-10 paris • maps • metro • transportation

3d printing service, alternative to ShapeWays

2012-06-10 shapeways • printing • fabrication • fab • design • modeling

Joe Paradiso's synthesizer

Amazing audio sculpture / analog synth, now with live streaming!

2012-06-10 music • paradiso • medialab • synthesizer

Gevent Tutorial

Handy summary of how to use coroutines in Python

2012-06-10 python • tutorial • gevent • greenlet • concurrency • via:matt

System for tracing a web request through multiple backend services

2012-06-10 twitter • monitoring • performance • infrastructure • code • optimization

OKCupid enemies

Creepy dating profiles

2012-06-10 via:waxy • funny • dating • okcupid

Eve economics update

Game changes lead to major changes in commodities prices in the online game

2012-06-10 games • economics • mmos • eve • eveonline • ccp

Google search URL

A guide to all the garbage Google stacks on searches

2012-06-10 search • url • tracking • google • privacy • via:hackernews

Gay, Mormon, married, happy

Interesting alternative perspective of sexuality and religion

2012-06-09 gay • sexuality • mormon • via:metafilter

Google guts Meebo

Buy awesome startups, shut down all their products. It's bad for the world.

2012-06-09 google • meebo • shutdown

Tiananmen Square

Great photo retrospective

2012-06-04 china • democracy • protest • tiananmen • massacre

Wonderful essay by Anil on how to productively counter racism

2012-06-04 racism • race • culture • bigotry

Brief history of video games

Lovely 3 minute montage by Polygon

2012-06-04 games • via:waxy • polygon • history

Microsoft malware oops

Flame subverts some of Windows' own trusted code

2012-06-04 windows • malware • badtech • flame • cyberwar • microsoft

Mac software for video recoding; unlike Handbrake, it has video passthrough

2012-06-04 video • handbrake • mac • mp4 • m4v • mkv • transcode

Historical aviation maps

Airways, etc in the US from around 1930

2012-06-04 aviation • maps • history • airway • map

1928 US Airway map

Some of the earliest routes across the US by plane

2012-06-04 aviation • airway • map • 1928 • history

Halsey Minor's fall

Story of overextension of the well known venture capitalist

2012-06-04 halseyminor • cnet • fraud • downfall • taxes

25% of US is gay

Not really, but people think so!

2012-06-04 america • gay • demographics • polling

Classic article about fonts embedding racist stereotypes

2012-06-04 fonts • typography • chingchong • font

Javascript module pattern

Nice writeup of an alternative way to do object encapsulation

2012-06-04 javascript • programming • modules • objects

A new map / visualization library that draws fully vector data, with configurable projection

2012-06-03 maps • projections • infovis • svg • javascript

2012-06-02 cats • money • funny

Visvalingam line simplification

Nice visualization of a geography algorithm

2012-06-01 visvalingam • d3 • geo

Google / China perspective

Skeptical analysis of Google's recent anti-censorship move

2012-06-01 google • china • censorship • baidu

San Francisco snafu

Detailed story of how one music event relocated to Mountain View

2012-06-01 music • sanfrancisco • bureaucracy

Iran Air Flight 655

In 1988 the US military killed 290 civilians on a commercial airliner

2012-06-01 war • iran • military • aviation

Stuxnet is a US program

Amazingly researched details on the malware that targeted Iran

2012-06-01 iran • cyberwar • warfare • stuxnet • olympicgames • malware • badtech