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gamma shapes for obama
Trying to make an accurate map of voter precincts
2012-11-29
obama • migurski • maps • precincts
Skrillex Quest
Brilliant glitch / Zelda / dubstep game homage. (Also, an ad.)
2012-11-29
skrillex • games • glitch • ads
#attfail again
Consumer Reports once again confirms that AT&T's cell phone network is horrible
2012-11-29
attfail • att • cellular • iphone
Syria Internet shutdown
Trying to retain control in civil war
2012-11-29
syria • internet • freedom
Radiolaria
New jewelry design app from Nervous Design
2012-11-29
webgl • jewelry • nervous • generative • threedprinting
Kickstarter games analysis
Looking at how big crowdfunded games are doing vs. their promised release dates
2012-11-28
kickstarter • games • crowdfunding
Fox News: lying with statistics
Catalog of various deceptions used to make political points
2012-11-27
politics • statistics • foxnews • journalism
Slow motion cheetah
Amazing video of 60mph kitties
2012-11-27
cats • cheetahs • nature • film • via:metafilter
OnStar / Chevy Volt hacking
Open data from your car!
2012-11-27
cars • via:metafilter • api
Comparison of European road signs
The grid in the middle of the article is awesome
2012-11-27
europe • signs • icons • design
PRWeb is dumb
Quick roundup of how the press release site is actively harmful
2012-11-27
spam • google • pr • pressrelease • prweb • seo
LARP Trek
Comic exploring what the Enterprise crew does when the holodeck is broken
2012-11-26
larp • funny • startrek • via:metafilter • comic
Google Spanner
Details of the time interval synchronization in a massive Google database
2012-11-26
database • consistency • acid • spanner • f1 • adwords • via:hackernews • google
amac and free speech
Twitter's awesome lawyer gets profiled for his free speech work
2012-11-26
amac • lawyer • twitter • freespeech • politics • q
Mandy Patinkin
Nice profile of the Homeland actor
2012-11-24
patinkin • actor • tv • homeland
The Recode Project
Reimplement 1970s computer art in Processing
2012-11-24
processing • art • graphics • code • generative
National Hydrography Dataset
USGS data for rivers, ditches, etc
2012-11-23
maps • cartography • usgs • water • rivers • watersheds
iPad Mini viewport
Continuing scaling problems for web pages
2012-11-21
web • scaling • apple • ipad
Google Algorithm Change
A history of major ranking change functions
2012-11-19
google • search • seo
Rudolph (You Don't Have To Put On The Red Light)
Lovely mashup
2012-11-18
christmas • music • sting • thepolice • rudolph
TopoJSON
Extension of geojson to support efficient topology
2012-11-16
maps • geojson • json
When the Nerds Go Marching In
Long, excellent profile of the Obama campaign's tech team led by Harper Reed
2012-11-16
software • obama • politics • election • harperreed
San Pedro Sun on McAfee
Local Belize newspaper in English
2012-11-16
mcafee • crime • belize • scandal
Seattle police on marijuana
Amazingly level headed description of legal pot in Washington
2012-11-16
marijuana • laws • drugs • seattle • police • washington • via:metafilter
Gerrymandering!
Simple visualization of how the Republicans won the House of Representatives
2012-11-15
politics • visualization • republicans • gerrymandering
Box2D Javascript
Too many choices
2012-11-15
games • physics • javascript • box2d
Box2D
Free physics library for games. Used in Angry Birds
2012-11-15
games • physics • c++
NetHack top deaths
Stats from a public NetHack Internet server
2012-11-15
games • nethack
Airship Ventures closes
Sad day, the zeppelin company is closing
2012-11-15
flying • aviation • zeppelin • airshipventures • brianhall
Kill the Password
Mat Honan talks about how broken online authentication is
2012-11-15
passwords • security • badtech
Yes Men Kickstarter
Culture jammers raise funds for a film
2012-11-15
movies • protest • politics • yesmen
The poor in America
Humbling news article
2012-11-15
poverty • economics • us • politics
Pointillist election map
Dot sparsity conveying population
2012-11-14
maps • visualization • election
PC Engines ALIX
Small PCs that run Linux
2012-11-13
via:joshu • linux • router • pc • hardware
Acid Defender
clever browser audio game / demo
2012-11-13
via:rps • games • sound • music • webaudio
Hong Kong gay pride
Photos and comments from Chinese social media
2012-11-13
gay • china • hongkong • pride
Cargo Commander sound process
Indie game has a great little soundtrack
2012-11-13
games • sound • music
Infinite Jukebox
Really interesting music remixer program
2012-11-13
via:kottke • via:waxpancake • music
Cowgirl Creamery
Nice little profile
2012-11-11
cheese • sanfrancisco • marin • cowgirlcreamery
Tomato by Shibby
Updated version of the popular router firmware
2012-11-11
tomato • firmware • router
About OpenStreetMap
Great, detailed article about the recent OSM conference
2012-11-09
openstreetmap • maps • odbl • licensing
World Color Survey visualization
Fun data on how people perceive and talk about color
2012-11-09
color • perception • culture • language
Natural Earth v2.0.0
Fantastic global mapping dataset gets a major revision
2012-11-09
maps • cartography • stamen
McAfee Aerotrekking
crazy low flying sport
2012-11-09
mcafee • flying • aviation • via:metafilter
Project Orca failure
Republican vote-turnout app failed on election day
2012-11-09
politics • election • republicans • orca • projectorca
YubaNet
A really useful local news website, citizen journalism
2012-11-09
journalism • news • nevadacounty • grassvalley
Color Oracle
Software for simulating color blindness
2012-11-09
color • accessibility
U.S. get's a little gayer and higher!
NMA on the elections
2012-11-08
animation • funny • politics • nma
Belinograph
Early picture transmission technologies
2012-11-08
fax • images • technology
Maps Before Maps
Cartography 1000-1300
2012-11-08
maps • cartography • graphics • design
PG&E Green Button Connect
Third party data access to energy usage
2012-11-07
energy • pge • data • integration
AT&T leaving copper
Wired infrastructure is too valuable to leave to a single private company
2012-11-07
broadband • att • rural • internet
Incredipede
Clever physics / locomotion game
2012-11-07
games • via:joshu • karlsims
Sandy network outages
Visualization of hurricane's impact on the Internet
2012-11-06
internet • sandy • newyork • map • visualization
China hacking report
Global attacks drop by more than half during Chinese national holidays
2012-11-06
security • badtech • china • cyberwarfare
Nevada City observatory
Enthusiast builds a serious astronomy site in the Sierra foothills
2012-11-05
astronomy • nevadacity • grassvalley • observatory
Making 512 Paths
Mike Bostock divulges some of his D3 visualization process
2012-11-05
visualization • politics • d3 • d3js
Monkeybrains - Wireless
An urban wireless ISP, using 5.8GHz links
2012-11-04
internet • wireless • broadband • sanfrancisco
512 Paths to the White House
All the possibilities for the election
2012-11-03
election • visualization • d3js