Nelson's Linkblog 2012-12

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Making a map in D3

From shapefile to Javascript map

2012-12-31 maps • projections • d3 • javascript

Generative music programming

2012-12-31 music • software • programming

Congressional incompetence

Squabbling children fiddle while the empire smolders

2012-12-31 america • politics • taxes • fiscalcliff

Las Cumbres telescopes

Wayne Rosing's project to build a network of robotic telescopes

2012-12-31 astronomy • telescopes • science • google • waynerosing

Plane crash from car

Moscow runway overrun

2012-12-29 moscow • russia • aviation • crash

Old computer ads

Mintner's take on the golden age of 80s computer advertising

2012-12-29 ads • funny • 80s

Politicians unhappy they have to be at work since they didn't finish their job last week, or last month, or last year

2012-12-28 politics • fiscalcliff • funny

improved vmstat/iostat/etc

2012-12-28 via:onethingwell • monitoring • linux • sysadmin

The Chinese social game that Farmville ripped off; it's dying too

2012-12-28 zynga • games • china • farmville

Crowdsourced images of Jupiter, building a historical record of the planet's atmosphere

2012-12-28 jupiter • astronomy

Ennio Morricone's awesome soundtrack for Space: 1999

2012-12-27 music • morricone • space1999 • via:celeste

Twitter is an MMO game, who knew?

2012-12-26 twitter • mmos • games

A direct Linus flame

Great email tearing apart someone who broke the Linux kernel and then blamed the user

2012-12-26 linux • kernel • linus • flame • funny

Chrome extension to make the noise stop in other tabs

2012-12-23 chrome • noise • ads • extensions

Long-time GNU contributor explains why he's leaving GNU

2012-12-22 gnu • fsf • opensource • via:hackernews

Saturn’s night side

Details of the amazing Cassini image

2012-12-22 cassini • saturn • via:metafilter • spacecraft

Screenshot-proof images

Clever if horrible idea

2012-12-22 images • screenshots • via:hackernews

Excellent little animated GIF

2012-12-22 baseball • pitching • curveball • knuckleball

JJ Abrams in Six Degrees of Separation

He was an actor!

2012-12-21 movies • acting • jjabrams

Intellectual Ventures' shell companies

Some digging into the patent troll's legal trickery

2012-12-21 patents • badtech • myhrvold

Interesting web design for a multimedia article

2012-12-20 multimedia • nytimes • via:mikeb • avalanche

3am Sutro workers

Beautiful animated GIF

2012-12-20 images • gifs • sutrotower • sutro • sanfrancisco

Dragon's Tale BitCoin game

Gambling MMO from the Tale in the Desert team

2012-12-20 games • mmos • bitcoin

Kodak patent sale

$525M by two patent trolls, including Google and Apple

2012-12-19 google • apple • kodak • patents • via:hackernews

Bulletproof Backpacks.. for kids!

America is an insane nation

2012-12-18 children • nra • kids • guns • batshitinsane

Friendship is Optimal

Fascinating novella about the Singularity as realized via My Little Pony

2012-12-18 ponies • games • mmos • scifi • singularity • fiction

Hangi geography

Rocks from Maori ovens have a record of earth's magnetisation

2012-12-17 science • newzealand • maori • hangi • magnetism • earth • geology

Requests for Python

Humane HTTP library

2012-12-17 python • code • requests • http • web

A pretty butterfly

Great little panel set from Watchmen

2012-12-17 watchmen • comics • rorschach

You Are Not Your Code

Touching reflection from the Prototype developer

2012-12-16 javascript • prototype • identity • opensource

About astrometry.net

Interview with the creator

2012-12-16 via:mattc • photography • astronomy • astrometrics • flickr

Upload a photo of the night sky and it figures out where you were

2012-12-16 photography • photos • astronomy • astrometrics

Instagram chicanery

Questions about the negotiations around the Facebook acquisition

2012-12-16 facebook • twitter • instagram

Lifespan (Atari 400)

Arty game from 1983, the designer now lives in Grass Valley

2012-12-16 games • grassvalley • atari

Mapping with D3

Simple intro to starting with D3's geo capabilities

2012-12-16 maps • d3 • javascript

Fun set of math / programming problems

2012-12-15 math • programming • science • exercises

A/C hum as clock

Pervasive electrical hum is unique, provides timestamps on recordings

2012-12-12 audio • crime • forensics • electricity

Girls of the Internet (1996)

SFW edit of embarrassingly bad Playboy video

2012-12-11 playboy • internet • 1996 • porn • funny

Bring GIS to Sqlite

2012-12-11 sqlite • gis • geo • database

Physics + DOM = lol

2012-12-11 via:hackernews • box2d • dom • jquery • games

Glitch shutdown

Honoring the players

2012-12-10 games • glitch • mmos • flickr

node.js webapp framework

2012-12-10 webapp • nodejs • node • javascript • server • via:mbostock

North Korea's customized KDE/Linux distro

2012-12-10 linux • korea • northkorea • dprk

Arduino power meter monitor

Watches the flashing light on his power meter

2012-12-10 arduino • hacks • power • pge

Power plant map

Interesting data, too bad they didn't scale by production

2012-12-09 maps • power • energy

Ultima Ratio Regum

Roguelike from the Dwarf Fortress school of complexity; very early alpha

2012-12-08 games • dwarffortress • roguelike • via:metafilter

Game of Thrones visualization

Ambitious depiction of characters through the books

2012-12-08 visualization • d3 • books • gameofthrones

Mac/Unix daemon recording data on how you use your computer

2012-12-07 quantifiedself • data • via:mariuswatz

Python wrapper for USGS river data

2012-12-07 maps • rivers • usgs • hydrography • python

Twitter: @ottoperezmolina mcafee

People asking the president of Guatemala to give asylum to a man wanted for murder

2012-12-06 McAfee • belize • guatemala • twitter • batshitinsane

3d graphics in the DOM, implemented as WebGL

2012-12-06 webgl • graphics • 3d • d3 • dom

bl.ocks.org - mbostock

Mike's amazing collection of hacks, mostly D3 visualizations

2012-12-06 d3 • javascript • mbostock • examples • code

Clever roguelike platformer

2012-12-06 games • roguelike

Eve Online in China

The complex story of bringing the popular space MMO to China

2012-12-06 games • china • eveonline • eve • ccp

Vectrex Regeneration

iOS emulator for the funky old console game platform

2012-12-06 games • vectrex • ios • iphone

Web-based HTTP client useful for debugging

2012-12-06 via:onethingwell • http • web • debugging

MIG in the middle

Practical MITM attack involving air defense

2012-12-05 southafrica • military • mitm • security • iff • aviation

Script your Android phone to automatically do things based on your location. Small Microsoft side project

2012-12-05 android • microsoft • mobile • geolocation • geo

Nevada County tech companies

Not complete, but a good list

2012-12-05 grassvalley • nevadacounty • california

Borderlando Calrissian

Funny game comic

2012-12-05 games • borderlands • starwars • lando

iOS app price history

Search for the historical pricing on apps

2012-12-05 apps • ios • pricing • market

Google Earth Engine

Access Google's geospatial data warehouse and write code to analyze it

2012-12-05 google • maps • gis

2012-12-04 via:peter • editors • emacs • vim

Software for combining multiple astronomical exposures

2012-12-04 astronomy • software • images • exposure

MapBox Satellite

Free, open satellite/aerial imagery of the earth

2012-12-04 mapbox • maps • osm • openstreetmap

Set of worksheets teaching git

2012-12-03 git • tutorial

South Yuba running high

Whole lot of water after this storm

2012-12-03 water • river • flood • yubariver • grassvalley

Cleaned up hydrography GIS data

2012-12-02 gis • rivers • hydrography • nhd

John McAfee update

Crazily detailed NYT report on the man's recent life

2012-12-02 mcafee • belize • batshitinsane

Civilian drone crashes

Terrible report of US malfeasance in civilian airspace in other countries

2012-12-01 via:hackernews • drones • uavs • aviation • seychelles • djibouti • q

The Prediction and The Result

Thoughtful comments on Nate Silvers and Sandy flood predictions

2012-12-01 visualization • prediction • probability • statistics

Glitch Postmortem

Great interview with Stewart

2012-12-01 glitch • games • shutdown • flickr

Drowning California

Timely article about massive amounts of moisture that comes in to California

2012-12-01 california • weather • flooding

Harsh Bing ad against Google, specifically Google Shopping

2012-12-01 ads • google • bing • microsoft • search

iTunes needs to die

Never ceases to amaze me how awful Apple's gateway software is

2012-12-01 itunes • badtech • software • apple