Nelson's Linkblog 2013-03

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Clement Street Bar & Grill

History of a fine drinking establishment

2013-03-31 food • restaurants • sanfrancisco • history • clement

New release of a useful tool

2013-03-31 browser • http • webkit • screenshot

Bottom-up game design

On how to not make a good game

2013-03-30 games • simulation • complexity • via:amitp

SpamHaus IP hijacked

Seriously ugly move in a stupid Internet war

2013-03-30 badtech • security • spamhaus • cyberbunker

Facebook red icon stats

Interesting, simple data about people supporting marriage equality

2013-03-30 facebook • social • stats • gay • civilrights • protest

Mac Chrome apps

Turn a URL into a Mac app that runs in chrome

2013-03-29 fluidapp • google • chrome • macos

Wise thoughts on flexible management skills

2013-03-29 tech • management • advice

Google Data Liberation Front

Group of Google engineers documenting ways to move your data in and out of Google

2013-03-28 google • freedom • consumer

Let's say FeedBurner shuts down...

Preparing for a possible Googlepocalypse

2013-03-27 google • blogs • feedburner

Override MacOS versions of Unix tools that are poorly built, like less

2013-03-26 homebrew • macos • unix • brew

Minimal Javascript library builder

2013-03-26 javascript • optimization • code

Google Readers' influence

Nice details on the value of Google Reader traffic to publishers

2013-03-25 google • reader • socialmedia

Pakistan drone strikes

Powerfully stark visualization

2013-03-25 pakistan • drone • military • visualization

OGR wrapper for Python geo software

2013-03-24 gis • ogr • geo • gdal • python • code

Amazing photo by a friend

2013-03-23 photos • eagles • birds • amitp

Automatically generated content

2013-03-23 funny • via:metafilter • ads • buzzfeed

Gustave Whitehead: first in flight?

Janes is now backing someone other than the Wrights as first to fly an airplane

2013-03-22 flying • aviation • wright

Use Python on line input like awk

2013-03-22 via:onethingwell • python • awk • shell • unix

Beshine: world's biggest boobs

Website of a freakishly modified woman

2013-03-22 bme • porn • beshine • boobs

Twitter Kremlinology

No idea how much of this is accurate, but it sure is detailed

2013-03-21 twitter • companies • engineering

Internet Census 2012

Researcher builds botnet to analyze the internet

2013-03-21 ethics • botnet • internet • security • badtech

SFPD surveillance

Cops requiring bars to record everything

2013-03-21 sfpd • police • privacy • sanfrancisco

Arc/Info E00 Format

Documentation of a proprietary ESRI format

2013-03-20 esri • gis • arcinfo • e00 • data • geo

new-less JavaScript

How to support multiple kinds of object instantiation

2013-03-20 javascript • programming • code

New Tomato variant that maintains simplicity

2013-03-20 tomato • firmware • router • asus

Notes on making MySQL a real database and not just a data-corrupting toy

2013-03-20 data • mysql • errors • coding

Evangel Cathedral

Crazy Flash-heavy church website

2013-03-20 religion • church • via:kra • flash

Chris Hadfield FAQ

Questions for the popular Canadian astronaut. "Can you cry in space?"

2013-03-20 canada • astronaut • space • nasa • socialmedia

Execute shell commands in a simple way from the Python interpreter

2013-03-20 python • shell • unix • programming • batshitinsane

Internal newsletter for NSA; lots redacted, but still interesting

2013-03-20 crypto • nsa • government • security • via:hackernews

2013-03-19 davidbowie • cats

IAmA: Phil Fish

Reddit interview of the guy who made amazing indie game Fez

2013-03-19 fez • games • interview

1959 gay TV play

2013-03-19 gay • tv • bbc • drama

lz4 compression

Very fast, pretty good compression

2013-03-18 compression • algorithm • gzip • code

Building ViziCities

Amazing story of how a group built WebGL maps of London

2013-03-17 maps • london • webgl • geo

Google Graveyard

Funny interactive for various dead Google projects

2013-03-16 google • products • reader

Easing functions

Nice list of various transition functions and how to use them

2013-03-16 animation • tweening • visualization • javascript

1992's best multiplayer game still lives!

2013-03-15 netrek • games • online • multiplayer

Mapnik + vector tiles

Migurski does some amazing mapping work

2013-03-15 maps • osm • openstreetmap • mapnik

Scott Oelkers bio

The president of Dominos Japan, in the crazy Hatsune Miku ad

2013-03-15 ads • dominos

Domino's / Hatsune Miku

I no longer know what's real

2013-03-14 dominos • pizza • ads • anime • hatsunemiku • via:metafilter

Galileo's accuracy

Comparison of 1610 astronomy sketches to where Jupiter's moons really were

2013-03-14 jupiter • astronomy • via:kottke • galileo

Google Reader stats

Numbers on the product Google is about to shut down

2013-03-14 google • reader • data • via:metafilter

Brian Shih on Google Reader

some insider analysis

2013-03-14 google • reader

On building Google Reader

Blog posts from one of the Google Reader authors

2013-03-14 google • reader • cw

Google Reader being killed

Such a shame, it's a product I rely on

2013-03-13 rss • google • reader

Chinese cyberwarrior blog

Personal comments from one of China's military hackers

2013-03-13 china • cyberwar • us • military

US cyberattack teams

Military discloses we are building offensive capability

2013-03-13 military • cyberwar • us • china

Weibo censorship

Dan Wallach and crew at Rice measure how fast stuff gets deleted from Weibo

2013-03-13 china • weibo • censorship • civilrights • twitter

GitHub for maps?

2013-03-11 via:sha • git • github • maps • geo

Advice for transcoding video files for the Roku/Plex. "Apple TV 2" preset is pretty close.

2013-03-10 plex • roku • handbrake • transcode • video

WebGL maps with OSM

Experiments in rendering, looking impressive

2013-03-10 webgl • maps • osm

Raspberry Pi webcam server

Simple way to set up a USB webcam with Linux

2013-03-10 pi • raspberrypi • webcam • motion

Roguelike Primer

Nice list of options in a game genre

2013-03-10 roguelike • games • via:metafilter • rpg • nethack

Harvard's 1920 gay purge

The craziness of an earlier era

2013-03-10 gay • harvard • 1920s • civilrights

Hamakua Macadamia Nuts

Remarkably good nuts from Hawaii

2013-03-09 hawaii • food • nuts • macadamias • macnuts

"EA, you are worse than Herpes"

What does an NFL punter think of SimCity?

2013-03-08 simcity • ea • games • drm

EA suspends SimCity marketing

Their game launch has turned into an enormous fiasco, all self-inflicted

2013-03-08 simcity • ea • electronicarts • games • drm

If Tetris were a modern online F2P game

2013-03-08 tetris • funny • games • satire • simcity • ea

1997 article proposing using Javascript in browsers to do scavenged CPU computing

2013-03-08 cpu • javascript • priorart • patents

Military use of IRC

Quick summary of a surprising adoption of communications tech

2013-03-07 via:nat • irc • military • c2

experiment doing tiles for GPS tracks

2013-03-06 gps • maps

3d modeling with a textual programming approach, not graphical

2013-03-06 openscad • programming • cad • 3d

D3 select tutorIal

simple, constructive approach

2013-03-05 d3 • d3js • javascript

How to bullshit a TED talk

funny because its often true

2013-03-05 ted • speaking • futurism

Google keyword loss

side effect of switching to SSL is sites no longer know what search keywords led to the site

2013-03-04 seo • google • search

Geologic map of Hawai‘I

beautiful USGS volcano map; love the colors

2013-03-03 maps • hawaii • volcano • usgs

Asteroid discoveries

visualization + narration

2013-03-01 space • astronomy • via:metafilter