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Eric Fischer profile
Nice intro to Eric's map projects
2012-08-31
maps • cartography • infovis
Etsy datacenter
hardware notes
2012-08-31
etsy • hardware • devops • ops • datacenter
TF5-4523: The Mapmaking Process
1973 Army video about how they make maps
2012-08-31
maps • cartography • via:metafilter • usarmy • army
Being a party princess
What it's like to be the party princess at kids' birthday parties
2012-08-31
disney • princess • parties • via:metafilter
Twitter interest targeting
The ad platform grows
2012-08-30
twitter • advertising • ads
Wendy Schmidt profile
Unusually detailed info on Eric Schmidt's wife
2012-08-30
google • nantucket • ericschmidt • wendyschmidt
Parade's End
New British TV drafting off the success of Downton Abbey
2012-08-30
tv • television • england • stoppard
Lift
Just launched, iPhone app for improving your life
2012-08-29
habits • lifestyle • lift • obvious
LoseThos
Hacker outsider art; an OS that plays songs for God written by a schizophrenic engineer
2012-08-29
os • programming • schizophrenia • illness
Vibease
A smartphone sex toy "for long distance couples"
2012-08-29
sex • vibrator • smartphone
Sina Weibo's 3rd birthday
Update on the enormous Chinese Twitter-like service
2012-08-29
twitter • china • weibo • startups
MongoDB aggregate
NoSQL system adds a query language
2012-08-29
nosql • mongo • sql
OnLive details
Some gossipy insight into the failure of an innovative games company
2012-08-29
via:metafilter • startups • onlive • perlman
Grim Meathook Future
Great little rant / essay about futurism
2012-08-27
futurism • future • technology • facism
Bay Area radiation survey
Helicopter flying low over the Bay Area this week
2012-08-27
sanfrancisco • bayarea • helicopter • radiation • dhs • nnsa
Patent jury nonsense
More info on the ridiculous jury decision in Apple v Samsung
2012-08-26
apple • samsung • patents • ip • jury
Hurricanes Since 1851
Lovely visualization / map; south pole centered projection
2012-08-26
maps • hurricanes • visualization • infovis
R2B: Return to Base
Korean Top Gunesque film, awesome dogfight between skyscrapers
2012-08-24
movies • aviation • topgun • korea
Northern cities vowel shift
How English pronunciation is changing radically in the northern US
2012-08-24
language • vowel • accents • via:metafilter • dialect • accent
Apple Configurator
Tool for managing collections of iPads, say for a school
2012-08-24
ipad • apple • management • ios
Blued: Chinese Grindr
Gay pickup app has a China-local version
2012-08-23
gay • china • grindr • blued
Gangam style (강남스타일)
Korean party rocking
2012-08-23
music • korea • lmfao • gangam
Global aviation charts
Amazing amount of work: worldwide aviation charts
2012-08-23
aviation • navigation • maps • skyvector • flying
Patent jury trials
The stupidity of IP law in the US, going to a civil jury
2012-08-23
patents • jurys • apple • samsung • ip
Facebook for iOS
Details on a high profile HTML -> native app conversion
2012-08-23
facebook • ios • iphone • apps
Broadband progress report map
Excellent map of US Internet access, using modern web techs
2012-08-23
mapbox • maps • broadband • fcc • data
WavTap
Simple way to record sound playing on your Mac
2012-08-23
macos • mac • sound • recording
Catholic Church in America
Detailed insight into the Church's finances in the US
2012-08-22
economist • news • catholic • church • business • religion
BGP Toolkit
Great set of network diagnostic tools from Hurricane Electric
2012-08-22
bgp • he.net • networking • internet • tcpip • diagnostic
Ghosts in the ROM
Finding dev team images hidden in the old Mac SE ROM
2012-08-22
mac • apple • easteregg • via:hackernews
Retina Web with cookies
Clever and simple
2012-08-22
retina • apache • javascript • web
Intellectual Ventures profile
Details on the patent troll company
2012-08-22
patents • freedom • myhrvold • intellectualventures • startups
Usain Bolt and Steroids
Story I linked earlier is false
2012-08-22
usainbolt • olympics • running • fabrication • news • journalism
Closed map Minecraft
excellent story of a social experiment, even if it's fiction
2012-08-21
games • minecraft • apocalypse • via:metafilter
Towards A Retina Web
Various options for multi-resolution graphics. This is all too complicated.
2012-08-21
web • html • retina • apple • design • graphics
Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple?
Very clearly argued case against IP maximalism
2012-08-21
innovation • patents • startups • apple • samsung • business
Amazon Glacier
$0.01/GB/month for very high latency storage. Backups!
2012-08-21
backups • amazon • aws • storage • data
Oakland police radio stream
New system is P25 digital
2012-08-21
oakland • police • radio • p25
Cell towers vs police radios
How does this happen?
2012-08-21
policeradio • oakland • celltower • radio • wireless
Rachel Binx
Designer / programmer working at Stamen, also Meshu
2012-08-20
stamen • meshu • programmer • hacker • design • eyeo
Church of Robotron
A mythology for the classic game
2012-08-20
games • robotron • portland • kra
Teen sexting codes
Hilarious list for cluing in the parents
2012-08-20
language • teenagers • sex • funny
Django Python 3
How the big web framework is migrating
2012-08-19
django • python • webapp
Software GPS
Hackers doing geolocation the hard way
2012-08-19
radio • gnss-sdr • gps • hacking
Android SMS payment virus
Very nasty malware in China
2012-08-19
china • android • malware • badtech • sms • fraud
Localised JavaScript
Program in Javascript in your own spoken language
2012-08-19
via:hackernews • language • javascript • localization
iMessage security
Apple should document the protocol and encourage security testing
2012-08-19
via:hackernews • apple • imessage • security • sms • im
XOXOXO
Black Eyed Peas video; interesting animation
2012-08-18
music • blackeyedpeas • bep • xoxoxo • animation • video
More Zynga ugliness
Lots of bad news compounded
2012-08-18
zynga • fraud • ipo • stock • games
Location accuracy
Yelp shares some data on wifi vs cell vs gps positioning
2012-08-17
gps • location • mobile • geo
Barebacking in gay porn
Excellent essay about the breaking of an AIDS taboo in the porn industry
2012-08-17
gay • aids • sex • via:metafilter • nsfw
Sad Mars rover
This little image macro makes me ache
2012-08-15
mars • curiosityrover • sad • lonely
Thomas Caffall, murderer
Facebook of the killer at Texas A&M. He likes his guns.
2012-08-14
guns • murder • facebook • texas
Criminalizing Photography
NYTimes on the increasing effort to stop Americans from taking photos in public
2012-08-14
civilrights • photography • journalism • police
i7z
Intel CPU monitoring tool; shows current frequency, etc
2012-08-13
monitoring • intel • power • hardware
VisualEditor - MediaWiki
Amazing they're only starting on this now
2012-08-13
wikipedia • editing • richtext • html • javascript
Prj2EPSG
Simple web service to convert a description of a projection to an EPSG number
2012-08-13
epsg • gis • projection • srid
Perseid + Sutro Tower
Space claw with meteor (/cc @burritojustice)
2012-08-13
spaceclaw • sutrotower • photo • sanfrancisco • perseids
Stripe in Tarsnap
A better option than PayPal
2012-08-13
payments • via:hackernews • creditcard • tarsnap • paypal
ASA martini standard
Last publication by the American Standards Association before being subsumed into ISO
2012-08-13
martini • cocktail • via:metafilter • funny
Amazon same-day delivery?
Analysis suggests Amazon is building warehouses in many states, near customers
2012-08-13
amazon • retail • delivery
adf.ly
A URL shortener that pays per click, to get ad views. Minecraft community uses this to make a few bucks off mods
2012-08-12
minecraft • ads • urlshortener • advertising
SunCalc 3D
Javascript demo, also a really nice visualization of the sun's position over seasons
2012-08-12
astronomy • sun • javascript
Drought and Deluge in the Lower 48
Mike Bostock's first graphic for the NYTimes
2012-08-11
nytimes • graphics • d3 • journalism • drought • visualization
Is Usain Bolt on steroids?
Depressing claims that all athletes can and do dope
2012-08-11
doping • steroids • olympics • usainbolt
Twitter underground economy
Independent investigation into the market for buying followers on Twitter
2012-08-11
twitter • spam • scam • via:hackernews
250M web pages in 40 hours, $600
Nice writeup of using EC2 to do a massive web crawl
2012-08-11
via:hackernews • crawl • http • web • search
Ultrarich pay low taxes
A quarter of the top income earners in the US paid < 15% in taxes
2012-08-10
taxes • finance
Cinemale
A database of nude shots by male film actors
2012-08-10
nudity • gay • movies
Ohio vote suppression
Republicans move to make it harder to vote in a battleground state
2012-08-10
ohio • politics • election • civilrights • via:metafilter
IPO non-lockups
Zynga: "insiders were able to sell shares earlier than expected"
2012-08-10
ipo • investing • zynga • stock
Javascript with only ()[]{}!+
Exploiting goofy Javascript rules to bootstrap the whole language from 8 punctuation chars
2012-08-10
via:hackernews • javascript • funny • hack
Blizzard hacked
Fairly severe; user login details stolen
2012-08-09
blizzard • games • diablo • warcraft
Gauss malware details
What's inside the malware
2012-08-09
badtech • malware • israel • stuxnet • gauss • virus • us • lebanon
Gauss malware
Another Stuxnet/Duqu/Flame type malware, this one aimed at stealing Lebanese bank logins
2012-08-09
lebanon • us • israel • stuxnet • malware • badtech • gauss • virus
describejson
Script to try to divine the structure of a JSON blob
2012-08-09
JSON • python • data
US drone pilots
Hard stats: Air Force currently has 1358 drone pilots
2012-08-09
aviation • flying • drones • airforce
Theodolite iPhone App
Interesting augmented reality app
2012-08-09
iphone • theodolite • gps • navigation
Jeff and Sanjay
Nice profile of two of Google's most brilliant systems engineers
2012-08-08
google • software • jeffdean • sanjayghemawat • engineers
MurmurHash
A popular fast string hashing algorithm
2012-08-08
hashing • optimization • code
archive.org torrents
Details on how they're using BitTorrent
2012-08-08
torrent • bittorrent • archive.org • brewsterkhale
Wikipedia Redefined
An unsolicited redesign; looks great
2012-08-07
wikipedia • design
Multitouch history
Great roundup of HCI research
2012-08-07
hci • ui • ux • multitouch • apple • interface
George Eyser
1904 Olympics medalist in gymnastics; had a wooden leg
2012-08-07
olympics • 1904 • sports • handicapped • paralympics
GPS dog collar
Interesting: GPS transmits location over VHF up to 9 miles, for tracking
2012-08-07
gps • tracking • garmin • dogcollar
More on Mat Honan's hack
Details of what went wrong
2012-08-07
security • mathonan • hack
State of 4chan
moot speaks on his unruly online community
2012-08-06
4chan • via:waxy
YouTube takes down NASA videos
Spurious copyright claims
2012-08-06
copyright • youtube • nasa • via:hackernews
Mars Curiosity tech details
Descriptions of the spacecraft and rover systems
2012-08-06
mars • space • nasa • via:metafilter • jpl • curiosity
NIST: identity ecosystem
US standards agency is working on an Internet authentication solution
2012-08-06
internet • identity • privacy • security • nist
Gay Comics #22
Goodness, but that's obscene for a 1945 funny book
2012-08-06
via:zwicky • gay • comics • funny • entendre • sex
Watch Mars landing
Various options for video feeds
2012-08-05
mars • space • webcast • curiosity
Leaflet Map Template
Great little starter kit for web maps
2012-08-04
maps • javascript • leaflet
Morrowind Overhaul
Well managed modpack for the amazing old game
2012-08-04
morrowind • tes • games • elderscrolls
Mars Curiosity landing
Fantastically complex landing system
2012-08-04
mars • space • curiosity
Mat Honan hacked
Break one account, ruin someone's whole digital life
2012-08-04
hacking • badtech • mathonan • gizmodo • security • icloud • apple
Some Jews & The Gays
Amazing Gore Vidal essay, also almost incomprehensible 31 years later
2012-08-03
gorevidal • gays • gay
GaymerCon
KickStarter to have a gay gamer convention in San Francisco
2012-08-03
gay • sanfrancisco • games
PDF Unlock for Mac
remove stupid editing restrictions
2012-08-03
pdf • mac • password • acrobat • unlock
High-frequency trading
Overview of the market impact
2012-08-03
trading • hft • markets • stocks
Nasdaq's FB IPO failure
Second-by-second charts of the failure of the market
2012-08-02
facebook • ipo • nasdaq • market • trading
XScreenSaver for iOS
jwz's legendary set of graphics hacks, on your phone
2012-08-02
iphone • ios • xscreensaver • jwz
Bug loses $10M / minute
Automated trading gone wrong
2012-08-02
bug • badtech • nasdaq • markets
Pinboard bug postmortem
Great detailed analysis of a typical webapp bug
2012-08-02
bugs • postmortem • coding