Remote Buddy

Remote control software for Macs

2012-10-31 mac • av • macos • remote • tv

Fiona (GIS)

OGR bindings for Python

2012-10-31 python • gis • maps • ogr

CrossOver: free

Commercial Wine for games on Macs, free for today

2012-10-31 games • crossover • macos

Santa Fe Institute online courses

Famous complexity research center is offering free online courses

2012-10-31 complexity • sfi • science

windchime

Creative little generative music MacOS toy

2012-10-31 music • art • macos • software

Swift-winged Rumor

Single Twitter account spread a lot of fake stories about Sandy in NY

2012-10-30 newyork • rumor • twitter • romney

jq: json tool

Handy little program for slicing and dicing JSON data

2012-10-29 json • javascript • programming • commandline

GoSkyWatch Planetarium for iOS

Good iOS software for star maps

2012-10-29 astronomy • stars • iphone • ios

NightWatch

Good intro to backyard astronomy

2012-10-29 astronomy • stars • book

about SF shuttle map

Migurski on the process behind Stamen's map of private shuttles in the Bay Area

2012-10-29 sf • maps • stamen • google

Koch Island

Demo of D3's topology simplification

2012-10-29 maps • cartography • d3 • javascript

App Engine outage

Cascading outage cascades

2012-10-28 appengine • failure • postmortem • google

MLG game videos

A series of ridiculously over the top videos for bad games

2012-10-26 games • funny • via:metafilter

Speed Racer appreciation

Reconsideration of the Wachowski's failed film. (I loved it.)

2012-10-26 speedracer • movies • wachowskis • film

Google App Engine outage

Google's turn to have a cloud outage; similar to the Amazon EC2 problems in impact

2012-10-26 amazon • google • outage • systems • cloud

WorldDEM

A new global elevation model based on a German satellite

2012-10-25 maps • germany • satellite • dem

Farlow Scientific Glassblowing

Grass Valley company making glass anatomical models

2012-10-25 anatomy • models • science • via:metafilter

Glass circulatory models

Beautiful craftsmanship, in Grass Valley, CA

2012-10-25 glass • medicine • via:metafilter • anatomy • model

Aramco cybertage

Someone wiped a Saudi oil company's computer network; US is blaming Iran

2012-10-24 us • iran • shamoon • aramco

Fix MacOS subpixel rendering

Their monitor identification code wrongly disables font smoothing on many lcds

2012-10-24 fonts • macs • macos • lcd • subpixel • antialiasing

Dayvan Cowboy / Baumgartner

Fan remake of the Boards of Canada video, using Baumgartner's space jump instead of Kittinger's

2012-10-23 space • stratos • redbull • boardsofcanada • music • baumgartner • via:metafilter

ancestry.com bought for $1.6B

Private equity deal

2012-10-22 ancestry • genealogy • via:hackernews • acquisition

@مجتهد (mujtahidd)

Twitter account of a vocal Saudi dissident

2012-10-22 saudi • saudiarabia • twitter

paint mámor

Interesting Paint art from Hungary

2012-10-20 hungary • art • via:waxy • painting

Small places in North Dakota

Lovely photo series

2012-10-19 northdakota • america • photos

A Kickstarter failure

$25,000 game project may never deliver

2012-10-19 games • kickstarter

Blending projections

Interesting demo of dynamically blending map projections based on what area is in view

2012-10-19 maps • projections • cartography

Google datacenter images doctored

Photos are so symmetric because they're edited

2012-10-18 google • datacenter • photos

Binders fulla women

New album by R-Money

2012-10-18 romney • funny • politics

Google Compute Engine

Google's VM hosting service

2012-10-17 google • aws • cloud

Only 1/5 of Bitcoin in circulation

Analysis of the transaction log

2012-10-17 bitcoin • via:metafilter • currency • crypto

Fatty Boom Boom

Latest vide from Die Antwoord; something to offend everyone

2012-10-17 music • southafrica • antwoord • ladygaga

Google Maps Tracks API

Support for GPS tracks; mostly about breadcrumbs and geofences

2012-10-17 gis • google • maps • tracks • api

Inside Google data center

Lots of pictures

2012-10-17 google • datacenter • ops

Faroe Islands

One of the coolest places I've visited

2012-10-16 faroes • denmark • photos • travel

WEB-DL vs HDTV

A pirate's guide

2012-10-16 tv • piracy • download • video • via:waxy

"Illegal maps" in China

Threat to confiscate phones at customs that put the wrong label on disputed islands

2012-10-16 china • customs • maps • japan • diaoyu • senkaku

Khitan Seals

Highly stylized ideographic script

2012-10-16 china • chinese • khitan • language • writing • design

Endeavour road trip time lapse

Beautiful but sad

2012-10-16 space • nasa • shuttle • via:metafilter

Shuttle through LA

Nice photoset

2012-10-15 photos • la • losangeles • shuttle • nasa

Stamen terrain maps

Some slides on creating the terrain map

2012-10-15 maps • terrain • stamen • cartography • sotm

eBook price fixing settlement

Amazon Kindle refunds

2012-10-13 books • amazon • kindle

iOS 6 ad-tracking

Yet another hostile feature defaulted on

2012-10-12 privacy • ads • advertising • apple • ios

Pincus' stock deal

Zynga CEO cashed out unusually early

2012-10-11 zynga • pincus • ethics • ipo

RPX

Patent defense organization

2012-10-10 patents • ip • intellectualproperty • law • legal

Simpsons opening in real life

Cool re-enactment with live people

2012-10-10 via:kottke • simpsons • tv

How cork is made

Nice set of pictures

2012-10-10 via:metafilter • cork • wine • portugal

Double Irish

International tax dodge used by Google, Apple, etc

2012-10-09 google • apple • taxes • ireland

PilotEdge

Air traffic control for simulator pilots; a commercialized VatSim

2012-10-09 vatsim • atc • pilots • flying • aviation

NTP pool DNS uses Go

Interesting application of the new systems language

2012-10-09 go • ntp • via:hackernews • dns • ntppool

SpaceX is bad-ass

Rocket fails during launch? No problem, achieve orbit anyway

2012-10-09 orbit • space • spacex • engineering

Blue Collar Coder

Argument for vocational tech training for software

2012-10-08 programming • jobs • software • education

Heretic's telescope guide

for beginning amateur astronomers

2012-10-07 astronomy • telescope

Making Cloud Atlas

Profile of the Wachowskis

2012-10-07 movies • films • cloudatlas • wachowski

OpenStreetMap / PostGIS options

Mike lays out the ways to get data from OSM into a database

2012-10-07 maps • osm • postgis • imposm • osm2pgsql

A Wild Week in Lagos

Annoying article, but fascinating

2012-10-07 lagos • nigeria • tourism

GeoJSON validation

I've been wanting this for awhile

2012-10-06 maps • geojson • lint • validation

MapBox Mars map

Story of the fun side project with TileMill

2012-10-06 tilemill • mapbox • mars • nasa • maps

Dick Costolo profile

Nick Bilton covers the Twitter CEO

2012-10-06 twitter • costolo • feedburner

Mike Migurski interview

Thoughts from the maps / visualization / interaction expert

2012-10-06 design • stamen • maps • migurski

Yandex map redesign

Russian web site does new maps for Moscow

2012-10-06 maps • cartography • russia • yandex • via:migurski

Suisun mothball fleet

unauthorized photoshoot

2012-10-05 photos • navy • suisun • bayarea

Project: Gorgon MMO

Kickstarter from a blog I like, haven't looked at the project details yet

2012-10-03 games • mmos • kickstarter

Super Meat Boy postmortem

Direct reflections from the indie game team

2012-10-03 games • supermeatboy • xbox • xbla • via:hackernews

Salesforce + Klout

Job listing asks for the bogus social media score

2012-10-02 klout • douchebag • marketing • salesforce

Zip code map

Decent online map of US zip codes

2012-10-02 us • america • zipcode • map • postoffice

Stop Bosch beeping

#1 FAQ for dishwasher brand; how to turn off a horrible beeping noise that plays continuously after the cycle is done. UI disaster.

2012-10-01 ui • usability • bosch • noise • dishwasher • kitchen

About Mozilla Persona

Nice writeup of the new authentication system

2012-10-01 via:hackernews • identity • login • mozilla • persona • openid