China hacks NYT

Foreign military vs US newspaper company

2013-01-31 china • nytimes • badtech • hacking

multiprocessing Basics

Nice Python tutorial

2013-01-31 via:kelso • python • multiprocessing • concurrency

Rails / YAML security flaw

The far reaching impact of a basic security design flaw

2013-01-31 security • rails • yaml • badtech • via:mbostock

Lens/Camera sharpness

Interesting use of data from photographers

2013-01-31 photography • photos • cameras • lenses

Mercator Puzzle!

Funny demo of projection distortions

2013-01-30 maps • projections • distortions • funny

Zonebox

A simple time management app for timeboxing

2013-01-30 timemanagement • productivity • via:onethingwell • mac

Infinite Street View

Simple viewer for Google Street View images as flat photos

2013-01-30 maps • google • streetview • cities

Unicode table

Nicely done presentation of all of Unicode

2013-01-30 unicode • table

Modem spectogram

Nice visualization of acoustic modem signalling

2013-01-30 via:hackernews • modem • spectogram

Digg

Redesigned, remarkably good link aggregator

2013-01-30 digg • via:kottke • web • news

migurski/d3map

Alternate D3 map tiles implementation

2013-01-30 d3js • maps • slippy • stamen

Why D3.js is so great

Nice summary of why this Javascript library has been so successful

2013-01-30 d3 • d3js • visualization • javascript

Tweet ping

Real time map visualization of live tweets

2013-01-30 twitter • firehose • realtime • map

Get Big Dick

"Boys --- a real rapid fire machine gun"

2013-01-29 funny • penis • ads • history • guns

Javascript Promises

Simple examples of a new asynchronous Javascript idiom

2013-01-29 async • asynchronous • javascript • via:hackernews

PHP: a fractal of bad design

A summary rant of all the things wrong with PHP

2013-01-29 php • badtech • rant • programming • via:mbostock

Google Map Maker is closed data

The problem with Google's map making

2013-01-29 google • maps • openstreetmap • osm • freedom • opendata

Being general counsel, by @amac

Twitter's amazing in house lawyer talks about the job

2013-01-29 legal • twitter • ethics

Lykovs of Siberia

Isolated family living alone

2013-01-29 sovietunion • russia • hermits • siberia • taiga

Google Maps North Korea

Citizen cartographers, proprietary edition

2013-01-29 openstreetmap • osm • northkorea • maps • google

Instagram vs Vine

It's funny because it's true!

2013-01-29 via:torrez • twitter • instagram • vine • funny • comic

Donuts on I-880

Saturday afternoon, middle of Oakland, major freeway shut down

2013-01-28 oakland • batshitinsane • cars • drifting

jsongeo

Github repository of various useful geographic data files

2013-01-28 geo • gis • json • geojson • topojson

FotoForensics

Online tool to try to detect manipulated images

2013-01-27 photography • photos • photoshop • analysis • jpeg

Newegg vs patent troll

Successfully litigated against a claim to own shopping carts

2013-01-27 patents • newegg • via:hackernews

Technoviking lawsuit

When memes go to court

2013-01-27 via:metafilter • technoviking • youtube • legal

$20,000 space game fight

Major brawl in Eve Online blows up a whole lot of ships

2013-01-27 games • ccp • eveonline • eve • goonswarm

Delphi compiler malware

Interesting virus targets a Windows compiler

2013-01-27 virus • malware • thompson • strangeloop • delphi

Central Valley broadband project

Bringing a big ass fiber cable through lots of rural california

2013-01-26 california • internet • broadband • nevadacounty • cvngbip

@BeijingAir

US embassy's unauthorized air quality monitoring from Beijing

2013-01-26 china • pollution • embassy • beijing

America's housing patterns

Great collection of aerial imagery

2013-01-25 urbanism • architecture • via:metafilter • housing • aerial

A Month with Apple's Fusion Drive

Some data on how it performs

2013-01-25 apple • ssd • storage

forwarding mail to Gmail

Tips on how to not confuse Gmail's spam filter

2013-01-24 spam • gmail • email • forwarding • smtp

Moonpath to Elsweyr

Skyrim fan quests, supposed to be good

2013-01-24 games • skyrim

Cheers from space

Invader's blog; French street artist

2013-01-24 invader • spaceinvader • art • paris • france • streetart

Actual Facebook Graph Searches

Search engines can be creepy

2013-01-23 privacy • facebook • search

Trendnet Exposed

Webcam is insecure by default; here's a map of a bunch of public access cameras

2013-01-22 maps • webcams • security • panopticon

Brewster Engineering

Blog from the New York startup doing better address books

2013-01-22 brewster • code • engineering • blog

New Eden Behind the Great Firewall

Notes from the Chinese version of Eve Online

2013-01-22 games • eveonline • ccp • china

Github blocked from China

Possibly the whole site was blocked to take down a single Javascript file

2013-01-22 freedom • china • github • programming

OldSchoolCool

A surprisingly good Reddit collection of photos

2013-01-21 photos • history • cool

Tron Legacy graphics

Notes from a visual artist

2013-01-21 art • tron • movies • via:hackernews

Why flat design?

Argument that high DPI displays end the need for skeuomorphic chicanery

2013-01-19 design • apple • ios

Subway pls respond

viral anti-advertising

2013-01-17 subway • food • facebook

js.geo wrapup

Nice notes from the Javascript/geography hacking event

2013-01-17 javascript • gis • geo

Is Scientology Self-Destructing?

Detailed investigation into Ideal Org real estate fundraising scams

2013-01-16 scientology • fraud • realestate • via:metafilter

OAuth in Javascript

The MapBox guys just don't stop delivering amazing code

2013-01-15 javascript • oauth • mapbox

Facebook graph search

Overview of Facebook finally doing search

2013-01-15 google • facebook • search

Migurski moving on

Reflections from a former Stamen guy

2013-01-15 stamen • migurski • design • career

Archive.is

Web service for archiving web pages at a specific moment. Handles Javascript

2013-01-15 javascript • archive • web

NGC / IC project

Cleaning and improving an important database of deep sky objets

2013-01-14 astronomy • data • stars • dss

Commonwealth of America

Alternate map based on watersheds

2013-01-14 maps • water • america

Drawing Water

Visualization of watershed flows and usage

2013-01-14 maps • visualization • watershed • water

IAmA a former nuclear missile officer

Fascinating questions for a guy who lived in a bunker with the death of the world at his fingers

2013-01-14 nuclear • airforce • bunker • reddit

Stamen changes

SF's smartest design firm has some turnover

2013-01-14 stamen • software • migurski

Aaron Swartz details

WSJ gets an interview, more background

2013-01-14 aaron • aaronswartz • justice • suicide

Deslidefied HTML

Web tool for turning a stupid web slideshow into a single web page

2013-01-14 content • web • slides • slideshow

Beijing smog pictures

China's own LA!

2013-01-13 pollution • china • beijing

Eric Schmidt looking at things

In the North Korean tradition

2013-01-13 google • ericschmidt • northkorea

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

An unauthorized collection of public domain papers

2013-01-12 science • jstor • academics • publishing • copyright

Lessig on Aaron Swartz

Righteous anger

2013-01-12 aaronsw • aaronswartz • lessig • justice

The HYG Database

A simple list of 120,000 important stars

2013-01-11 astronomy • data

Death Gambling

Crazy China story about gambling on when terminal patients die

2013-01-11 gambling • death • china

SunCalc

Simple overlay on Google Maps showing sun position during the day

2013-01-10 maps • sun • photography • astronomy

Working with Lindsey Lohan

Great story from the set of a microbudget film

2013-01-10 movies • lilo • linseylohan • via:metafilter

MonoGame

open source XNA implementation; used to build .NET games for Macs

2013-01-09 macos • games • mono • .net

When your house is burning down, you should brush your teeth

Particularly poignant web comic

2013-01-09 comic • cats

MCServer

Alternate Minecraft server in C++

2013-01-09 minecraft • games • server

Women as Academic Authors

Great data / visualization

2013-01-08 gender • writing • via:flowingdata • infovis

iOS Google Maps glitches

Interesting analysis of how Google does the rendering

2013-01-08 maps • google • ios

Guide to Reddit

Metafilter user has useful tips for making Reddit better

2013-01-07 reddit • metafilter • community

ASCIIcam

Webcam turned to ASCII art, all Javascript

2013-01-06 asciiart • javascript • cam • hack • fun

PlayOnMac

Another WINE packager for PC games on Macs

2013-01-06 mac • pc • wine • games

Beamer for Mac

Simple way to play video on AppleTV

2013-01-05 appletv • mac • video • via:onethingwell

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

a clever bit of Python

2013-01-05 python • via:migurski • code

CartoDB + D3

Nice embracing of D3 by a geo company

2013-01-05 gis • geodata • cartodb • d3 • javascript

Node.js memory leak tools

Ways to track Javascript leaks

2013-01-05 javascript • performance • memory • debugging

Long live IRC

Stats on the Other Internet system

2013-01-04 irc • chat • via:hackernews

Microsoft astroturfing

Some of the dirty PR tricks Microsoft employs

2013-01-04 microsoft • google • pr • ftc • antitrust

Warhol Geldzahler Hockney Goodman

Amazing photo by Dennis Hopper

2013-01-04 photo • art • warhol • hockney

20 Apple ][ games

Great little bit of nostalgia

2013-01-03 games • apple • apple2

Another SSL cert disaster

Turkish authority issues too powerful CA certificates

2013-01-03 ssl • security • badtech • google

Keybindings for D3

easy code

2013-01-03 d3 • javascript • code

Homosockuality

Old network protocol error; sockets had to have different parity on the port number

2013-01-02 funny • gay • network

Kibera life

Narrative of life in a Nairobi slum

2013-01-01 nairobi • kenya • slums • kibera