Nelson's Linkblog 2013-02

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New Stuxnet info

dates back to 2005

2013-02-28 iran • stuxnet • malware • badtech

North Dakota fracking

good map + graphics

2013-02-28 maps • oil • energy • environment

d3js + GeoJSON + WebGL

another way to draw maps

2013-02-25 maps • d3js • migurski

Bypassing Google Two-Factor Auth

Security startup finds some design flaws in Google's security protocols

2013-02-25 security • badtech • twofactor • tfa • startup

Make for visualization data

Some times the old tools are the best tools

2013-02-24 visualization • data • management

Nokia Maps developer

Provider of maps to Bing has a direct developer program

2013-02-23 maps • nokia • developer

Possible FAA cuts

List of ATC towers at risk of sequestration; pretty much all the smaller airports in NorCal, among others

2013-02-23 aviation • flying • faa • budget

Pertussis spreading

Negligent parents don't vaccinate their kids, other kids get sick.

2013-02-22 vaccine • batshitinsane • pertussis

Nearly finished book on how to use the Javascript visualization library

2013-02-22 d3js • d3 • book • javascript • alignedleft

Fantastic talk slides giving an overview of D3

2013-02-22 d3 • mapbox • tmcw • presentation • javascript

A More Perfect Union

Smithsonian exhibit on Japanese-American internment

2013-02-22 civilrights • america • japan • ww2

US Census screwed Japanese Americans

Old story, but the US Census gave up information for the horrible detention of 100,000 American citizens

2013-02-22 civilrights • census • america • internment

archive.org and BitCoin

Brewster's going to pay employees partially in BitCoin

2013-02-22 batshitinsane • bitcoin • archiveorg • brewsterkahle

Run arbitrary programs by generating page faults on an x86 MMU

2013-02-22 hack • clever • via:hackernews • rootkit • x86

Duke Nukem 3D Code Review

Looking at the source for an old, important game

2013-02-22 games • source • dukenukem

NMA on Chinese hacks

As usual, NMA sets the record straight

2013-02-21 nma • china • hack

A new Javascript library for consistent object manipulation

2013-02-20 underscorejs • javascript • programming

Rope factory vs SF map

Interesting history of a weird corner of Dogpatch

2013-02-20 sf • sanfrancisco • maps • history • railroad • dogpatch

Amit Patel profile

Friend from Google had history developing BBS games

2013-02-19 games • solarrealmselite • google • amitp

The US Needs A New Spectrum Policy

Wise words from Fred Wilson

2013-02-19 vc • spectrum • bandwidth

Suter (computer program)

Air Force cyberwar program to disrupt air defenses

2013-02-19 military • cyberwar • badtech • usaf

Kicking off 2013 at MapBox

Roundup of what the hot mapping company has been doing lately

2013-02-19 maps • mapbox • developmentseed • tilemill • osm

Mandiant reports

Security firm's research; featured item today is the Chinese Army attackers (APT 1)

2013-02-19 mandiant • security • badtech • china

Chinese Army hackers

amazing, detailed overview of the activities of one Chinese Army unit hacking US companies and infrastructure

2013-02-19 mandiant • china • badtech • cyberwarfare • military • security • 61398 • commentcrew

Hadoop for OSM data

Migurski breaks down how to use parallel EC2 instances to do big work on OSM data

2013-02-19 maps • osm • hadoop • aws • ec2

Right Zoom for Mac

Fix the stupid green window button to do something consistent

2013-02-18 macos • windows • via:onethingwell

Travis continuous integration

Cloud service that runs tests for GitHub projects

2013-02-18 testing • integration • javascript • python • programming • tests

Ode to Crusader Kings II

Overlooked strategy game has some interesting story telling

2013-02-18 games • stories • medieval • europe

How the idea of code is lost

@tmcw goes diving into an unpublished paper to recover a statistical algorithm

2013-02-18 mapbox • statistics • jenks • research • code • javascript

Unicode art via Twitter

2013-02-18 twitter • unicode • art

Chris Hadfield AMA

Canadian astronaut on the ISS does an awesome "ask me anything"

2013-02-18 reddit • ama • iama • space • astronaut • hadfield

A blog collecting rumors of Blizzard's new MMO

2013-02-17 blizzard • games • projecttitan • mmo

Cretan pederasty

Ancient form of courtship

2013-02-17 sex • gay • crete

Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte

16th century boy-toy for Pope Julius III

2013-02-17 gay • history • vatican • pope • scandal • sex

Sexually active popes

Celibacy is not eternal

2013-02-17 catholic • pope • celibacy • gay

Randomized GIFs from Youtube videos

2013-02-16 via:metafilter • generative • gifs

ISO 12233 Test Chart

Standard image for examining cameras an lenses

2013-02-16 camera • lens • sharpness • iso12233

Harlem Shake explained

Great research into the history of the meme

2013-02-16 via:Waxy • harlemshake • music • videos • memes

Gay Porn Lo-Fi mix

music from 70s/80s gay porn films made into a mixtape. It's pretty good! Mostly SFW.

2013-02-16 music • gay • porn • disco • via:metafilter

Photo calibration targets

Artifacts on the ground for testing aerial and satellite imagery

2013-02-16 satellite • aerial • photography • googlemaps • newaesthetic

Mapping Twitter in African cities

Emergent maps of major cities in Africa

2013-02-16 twitter • maps • africa • cairo • accra • lagos • mogadishu

Boomerang for Gmail

Take a message out of your inbox, bring it back later.

2013-02-15 gmail • email • productivity • google

Roku/Plex slow start

Remarkably useful thread about a video performance problem. (Known bug, fix not yet released)

2013-02-15 plex • roku • video

Games in Mac Parallels

Benchmarks on how games play via virtualization. (Still badly, it looks.)

2013-02-15 games • mac • parallels • vm

Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs

3000 year old art in northwestern China; highly erotic

2013-02-15 sex • erotic • china • archaeology • art • petroglyphs

wrk http load tool

Modern version of abench, generate lots of HTTP load

2013-02-15 via:nat • http • benchmarking • performance • testing • webserver

Michael Paul Cole

Photographic artist

2013-02-14 photos • art • photography • frames • hannibal • pnw

Woodcut print artist

2013-02-14 art • california • woodblock • woodcut • print

Nice list of properties, etc

2013-02-14 d3 • svg • reference • javascript • d3js

Useless and unreliable

2013-02-14 iphone • compass • badtech • funny • geo

"Chubby Checker"

Funniest trademark case I've heard of in years

2013-02-14 penis • chubbychecker • hp • legal • trademark • funny

Startup gets screwed by a VC never quite wiring the funds

2013-02-14 startups • via:hackernews • venturecapital • benchmark

System Shock 2 Comes To GOG

Interview with the game preservationists

2013-02-13 games • systemshock2 • systemshock • gog

Steve Coast (the OSM guy) is making prints of GPS traces

2013-02-13 gps • maps • art • osm

CocktailTime archive

Someone's made a copy of Wired's awesome old cocktail website

2013-02-13 cocktails • harrington • wired • hotwired

Official DPRK reports on nuclear test

KCNA / Korea News Service, the official North Korean press release outfit

2013-02-13 korea • northkorea • nuclear

Fake screenshot used to promote a computer game

2013-02-13 games • screenshots • bullshit

Javascript to work around the annoying CSS prefix process

2013-02-13 css • javascript • via:onethingwell

Nouveau riche in North Korea

Interesting update on the impact of the black market in Pyongyang

2013-02-12 korea • northkorea • pyongyang

Inside the Battle of Hoth

"While I’m not comparing the Rebel Alliance to al-Qaida or the Galactic Empire to the United States"

2013-02-12 funny • starwars • movies

Color generator

2013-02-11 color • design • visualization • via:hackernews

National Atlas 1:1m

Collected geodata sets from the US government

2013-02-11 maps • gis • geodata • usgs

US Atlas TopoJSON

Bostock's tools for making map data

2013-02-11 topojson • gis • geodata • geojson • maps

Death of the 4th Amendment

Complete privacy invasion by Homeland Security

2013-02-11 dhs • homeland • constitution • civilrights • privacy

Raster Reprojection in D3

Quick demo of a straightforward raster reprojection

2013-02-11 maps • javascript • projection • d3js • d3 • geo

Slippy map library based on D3

2013-02-11 maps • d3 • d3js • migurski

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Lovely collection of stills

2013-02-11 via:metafilter • movies • russmeyer • varla

Open Weather Map

Open weather data, nice overlay maps

2013-02-10 maps • weather • opendata

ESRI shapefile parser in JS

Nice bit of work from Mike Bostock

2013-02-10 geo • gis • esri • shapefile • ogr2ogr • geojson • javascript

node.js / v8: 1GB limit

Buffers are limited to about 1GB in size

2013-02-10 nodejs • javascript • v8

Close your HTML tags!

Funny little HTML error; text keeps getting bigger

2013-02-09 html • funny • bug

Secret drone base in OSM

OpenStreetMap started mapping the secret drone base in Saudi Arabia 15 minutes after the news was published

2013-02-09 maps • openstreetmap • osm • drone • saudiarabia • military

Amazing 3d-guessing camera demo; pixel brightness translates to depth

2013-02-09 3d • camera • via:hackernews

American drone base

Bing aerial imagery shows a secret base in Saudi Arabia

2013-02-08 drones • military • america • saudiarabia

Linux running in Javascript, via a PC emulator

2013-02-08 emulation • qemu • javascript • linux

So I got really into TRAPSTEP

Even worse than Brostep, and yet you love it

2013-02-08 music • via:metafilter • dubstep • trapstep • brostep • funny

Harlem Shake v3

The dance craze that's sweeping the nation

2013-02-08 music • funny • trap • via:metafilter • maker

Reddit gets one of the deans of American TV journalism

2013-02-08 danrather • nbc • journalism • news • reddit

Chrome extension that shows which tab is making noise and lets you stop it

2013-02-07 chrome • extension • mute • sound

Holovaty on EveryBlock shutdown

He left in August, but seems to be a coincidence

2013-02-07 nbc • startup • shutdown • everyblock

Goonwaffe Stories

Eve Online corp releases a hysterical pulp-scifi style guide to the game

2013-02-07 eveonline • games • funny • pulp

Lil Kim Surgery

Amazing example of body dysmorphia

2013-02-07 batshitinsane • lilkim • music • surgery • plasticsurgery • freakshow

Live Javascript tutorials for 6502 assembly

2013-02-07 via:hackernews • apple2 • 6502 • assembly • coding

Beyoncé vs Buzzfeed

lulzy screencaps unpopular with publicist

2013-02-07 beyonce • music • funny • superbowl

Random Cooper Hewitt

A little arty thing I did with the Cooper-Hewitt API

2013-02-06 design • cooperhewitt • aaronstraupcope • aaron • javascript

Good overview of one of my favorite Japanese foods

2013-02-06 japan • food • okonomiyaki • drunk

PGP timestamping service

Someone's been running a crypto timestamp service since 1995!

2013-02-06 pgp • timestamp • cryptography • longevity

New forum software from the StackExchange folks

2013-02-06 phpbb • forum • community

Pirate hacks of Africa

Interesting remix culture

2013-02-06 games • via:metafilter • kenya • africa • mashup • remix

Beautifully detailed analysis of the iOS jailbreak

2013-02-06 apple • ios • jailbreak • security • iphone

A lovely Eric Fischer image; tweets snapped to the OSM street grid

2013-02-06 maps • sanfrancisco • osm • openstreetmap • visualization

An old 4k rendering demo ported to WebGL. All rendered realtime in a tiny amount of code.

2013-02-05 via:Waxy • demo • demoscene • webgl • javascript

Gay military academy photo

Sweet pictures of a young couple's date

2013-02-05 gay • military • dadt • equalrights

Mistakes Javascript tool

Show Javascript code along with the output of each line as it executes

2013-02-05 javascript • gist • programming

Iran's fake fighter

Demo of a fighter jet seems to just be a model

2013-02-05 iran • aviation • funny • via:hackernews

HTML5 / Javascript video and audio conferencing. It actually works, at least in Chrome

2013-02-05 chrome • webrtc • html5 • via:waxy • skype • videophone • chat

iOS 6.x jailbreak

Our long national nightmare is finally over

2013-02-04 iphone • jailbreak • via:hackernews

D3 vs Typescript

Notes from Migursky's explorations

2013-02-04 d3 • javascript

Aaron on reverse geocoding

Following on Kellan's thoughts, a sort of plan for action

2013-02-04 geo • geocoding • gis • flickr

2013-02-04 via:hackernews • heatmap • webgl • javascript • visualization

State of reverse geocoding

Notes from Kellan on a hard problem

2013-02-03 flickr • geo • geocoding

Super Bowl snipers

America is a fucked up place

2013-02-03 guns • superbowl • security • batshitinsane

Chrome SPDY indicator

See which sites are using the new protocol

2013-02-03 spdy • chrome • performance • http

High Performance Networking in Google Chrome

Excellent, clear overview of how Chrome goes fast

2013-02-03 chrome • google • performance • networking

Free complete HP Lovecraft

Kindle, EPUB, PDF, etc. All the work is (probably) out of copyright

2013-02-02 kindle • books • lovecraft • horror • cthulhu

Great Circle Arc Intersections

Cute little D3 visualization / test

2013-02-02 d3 • geometry

Notch on being rich

Sweet comment from the game designer who is rolling in money

2013-02-02 games • minecraft • notch • wealth

Super Bowl wifi

The mess trying to make Wifi work for 30,000 people in a small place

2013-02-01 superbowl • wifi • 802.11n

Grand Central Terminal

Lovely set of photos

2013-02-01 architecture • newyork • grandcentral • trainstation

Evol street art

Interesting series; little apartment buildings

2013-02-01 streetart • art • via:metafilter • berlin

Microsoft makes it easier to test on their proprietary browser

2013-02-01 web • browser • microsoft • vm • ie • msie

Perspective on Google's North Korea map

National Geographic speaks

2013-02-01 maps • google • northkorea • nationalgeographic