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PhoneSat packets
Hey @raffi: NASA launched some tiny satellites and relied on hams to decode the data
2013-04-30
radio • nasa • satellite
Twitter Ads open to public
Anyone in the US can run a Twitter ad campaign now
2013-04-30
twitter • advertising
Space exploration history
Takes a bit of effort, but an amazing amount of space mission history in one interactive infographic
2013-04-30
space • astronomy • satellites • via:metafilter • infovis
Wikidata
Wikipedia has a structured database behind it
2013-04-29
data • wikipedia
Alibaba buys 18% of Weibo
Huge news in the Chinese Internet scene; as if eBay bought a bunch of Twitter
2013-04-29
weibo • twitter • alibaba • ebay • china • internet • investment
NBA player comes out
Nicely personal, honest story
2013-04-29
gay • nba • basketball • comingout
MOOC market
The world of online courses, who's investing and funding
2013-04-29
mooc • coursera • khanacademy • udacity • education
OpenStreetMap edits visualized
Cartograms show where people make edits
2013-04-29
maps • openstreetmap • enf • ericfischer
8-bit color palettes
Amazing collection of how early computers did color
2013-04-28
via:migurski • color • 8bit • apple
CRAPCHA
For when you want a really hard to solve CAPTCHA
2013-04-28
captcha • funny • via:metafilter
Perry Van Arsdale maps
Interesting, idiosyncratic maps of US history
2013-04-28
history • indians • newmexico
rtl-sdr notes
Exploration of the cheap software radio devices
2013-04-28
sdr • radio • rtlsdr • gnuradio
HomeBrew GNURadio
make it easier to build GNURadio on a Mac
2013-04-26
gnuradio • radio • mac • sdr • rtlsdr
How Selections Work
Mike explains the central mystery of D3.js
2013-04-26
d3 • #d3js • javascript
Homecoming — Queer Life
Dana Danger talks about being queer and transgendered to her highschool
2013-04-26
gay • lgbtq • highschool • queer
Vile Rat profile
Lovely story about the Eve Online machinations of a State Department employee killed in Benghazi
2013-04-26
eveonline • eve • games • vilerat • benghazi • terrorism
Jones Street Tank
Attn @enf: Details of San Francisco's emergency firefighting water supply.
2013-04-25
sanfrancisco • firefighting • water • history • maps
Facebook social stats
Wolfram takes a crack at visualizing various social statistics
2013-04-25
facebook • visualization • socialmedia
5 baseball pitches
Nice use of overlaid video
2013-04-25
baseball • gif • pitching
John le Carré profile
A recent update on the novelist
2013-04-25
books • lecarre • spies
liquidprompt
a bash prompt loaded to the gills, but tasteful
2013-04-24
via:onethingwell • bash • commandline • unix
Skyrim level design
Transcript of a GDC talk on modular dungeons
2013-04-24
games • skyrim • bethesda • fallout • gdc
Beijing air over 9 days
simple to understand image
2013-04-24
pollution • china • beijing • via:reddit
Happy Eyeballs
How to choose between two possible network protocols. Try both!
2013-04-24
ipv6 • network • tcpip • internet
Google IPv6 stats
Over 1% of Google's users now have IPv6 capability
2013-04-24
ipv6 • internet • google • tcpip
Raspberry Pi on QEMU
Simple way to get an Raspberry Pi running in emulation
2013-04-24
qemu • raspberrypi • raspbian • rpi • emulation
Transparent DNS proxy
Evil ISPs hijack all your DNS queries, substituting their own answers
2013-04-24
dns • isp • evil • comcast
dump1090
software defined radio script for tracking airplane transponders
2013-04-23
aviation • sdr • radio • transponder • 1090s
World Until Yesterday review
Anthropologist comments on Jared Diamond's new book
2013-04-23
anthropology • review • books
Brython
A Python interpreter written in Javascript, suitable for browser embedding
2013-04-23
python • javascript • programmign • code
Legality of Boston lockdown
Exploration of the constitutional issues of "shelter in place" and police searches
2013-04-23
civilrights • boston • safety • police
see.js debug tool
Simple shim to let you debug local state in a closure
2013-04-21
debugging • javascript • programming
mapbox/mbutil
Code for extracting the images from an .mbtiles file
2013-04-21
maps • mbtiles • mapbox
FM Radio Stations
List of US radio stations by location, frequency, power
2013-04-21
radio • sdr • fm • us • fcc
Edwardian England, 1900
great enhanced video
2013-04-20
england • movie • history • edwardian
Anatomy of false Boston rumor
Excellent analysis of how social media story went wrong
2013-04-20
reddit • twitter • boston • journalism • ethics
@J_tsar
Twitter account alleged to belong to the younger of the Boston bombers
2013-04-20
boston • terrorism • twitter
Death of Upcoming.org
Another web product killed
2013-04-19
waxy • upcoming • yahoo
Ubuntu on a Mac Mini
Ubuntu 12.04 on a late-2012 Mac Mini. It's never simple.
2013-04-19
linux • mac • ubuntu
Boston under lockdown
Insane photos of what martial law in the US could look like
2013-04-19
military • boston • photos
Reddit lynch mob
Some thoughts on the irresponsible actions of Internet wannabes
2013-04-19
reddit • socialmedia • boston • rumor • journalism • via:waxy
SourceTree
A GUI for Git / Mercurcial
2013-04-18
via:dan • git • mercurial • dcvs • code • mac
findbostonbombers subreddit
when crowdsourcing goes horribly wrong
2013-04-18
boston • terrorism • reddit
MapBox + Leaflet
Innovative open source mapping folks working together
2013-04-18
maps • javascript • mapbox • leaflet
YousableTubeFix
Patches to Youtube UI to give more control to sizes, buffering, downloads, etc
2013-04-18
youtube • download • greasemonkey • chrome • browser • extension
Burn.app
Standalone program for burning CDs, better than the MacOS built-in stuff
2013-04-18
cd • dvd • burning • mac
Gonkai ecosystem
Chinese version of open source, sharing some IP in an unusual way
2013-04-18
china • hardware • phones • via:jeff • opensource
Future of Google Voice?
Yet another much loved but understaffed project
2013-04-17
google • phone
Twitter keyword ads
Twitter's ad platform keeps getting better
2013-04-17
twitter • ads • internet
Wingsuit flight through a tiny hole
Insane flying stunt
2013-04-17
flying • via:kottke • batshitinsane • wingsuit
GNU Radio suggested reading
Useful info on software radio, etc
2013-04-17
sdr • radio • ham
Sublime Text 2: remote editing
edit files via an SSH connection
2013-04-17
editing • ssh • remote • unix • rsub • rmate • sublimetext
Starseed Pilgrim
Interesting little indie game
2013-04-16
games • indie • steam • macos
U.S. Practiced Torture
Someone in federal government finally states the obvious
2013-04-16
torture • america • civilrights • shame
Flattr: unclaimed
Web service accepts tips for people who aren't even members, holds the funds
2013-04-16
money • tips • economy
fastclick
Workaround for 300ms delay in click events in Mobile Safari
2013-04-15
javascript • mobile • optimization • ios
Hal Finney update
An old cypherpunk gives us an update on life
2013-04-14
crypto • via:hackernews • bitcoin • cypherpunks • als
leaflet-tilelayer-geojson
Plugin for the mapping library that adds GeoJSON vector tiles
2013-04-14
maps • leaflet • geojson • polymaps • mvt
How to get into Blake's 7
A guide for watching the show for newbies
2013-04-11
tv • blakes7 • scifi
Mantis shrimp vision
Possibly the only animal to see circularly polarized light
2013-04-10
shrimp • arthropod • light • vision • evolution • optics
Rietveld
Open source version of Google's Mondrian code review tool. Inline comments, side by side diffs, etc
2013-04-10
google • codereview • code • opensource • mondrian
Winning Snake
beautiful animated GIF
2013-04-09
games • snake • gifs • via:twitter
Persona beta 2
Mozilla's login technology, it looks very promising
2013-04-09
authentication • login • mozilla • passwords
gqrx for OSX
Software defined radio that works off the shelf
2013-04-09
radio • sdr • mac • osx • hack
Software Defined radio primer
Intro to some hackery
2013-04-08
radio • sdr
7,077,000,000 dots
One for every person on earth. Clever implementation.
2013-04-08
infovis • art • census • population • javascript
NY as Paris
New York mapped to Paris neighborhoods
2013-04-08
paris • newyork • maps • funny
Speaking ill of the dead
On why it's OK to criticize public figures on the occasion of their death
2013-04-08
thatcher • obituary • hagiography • ethics
Bioshock Infinite: the movie
The game without the gameplay, just cutscenes and story
2013-04-08
games • bioshock • movies
Nice-guy patent troll
Great investigative journalism at the trolls shaking companies down for using scanners
2013-04-08
patents • trolls • via:hackernews • legal
WikiLeaks PlusD
They've augmented their diplomatic cable database with a bunch of 1970s declassified cables
2013-04-08
espionage • via:hackernews • wikileaks • kissinger • database
SmartSleep
Best of both worlds for Mac power saving
2013-04-07
via:onethingwell • hibernate • sleep • dpmc • laptop • macos
Ouya review
The Kickstarter project shipped on time, but the product seems unfinished
2013-04-07
games • android • ouya • kickstarter
CFFI
Latest hotness for calling C from Python; sort of like ctypes in that it's runtime
2013-04-07
python • ffi • api • code • c
bootstrap-wysiwyg
small HTML5 text editor
2013-04-07
editor • html5 • web • via:hackernews
Notch profile
Nice story about the man behind Minecraft
2013-04-06
games • minecraft • via:metafilter
GitX-dev by rowanj
The most active fork of the graphical git client for MacOS
2013-04-06
git • macos • scm
Foursquare vs Null Island
Checkin from 0N 0E, but no image of Null Island to be found
2013-04-05
geography • funny • foursquare • nullisland
MapBox profile
Nice short article about the innovative mapping company
2013-04-04
maps • osm • mapbox • developmentseed
Zuckerberg at age 15?
Angelfire page looks like it's juvenalia from the Facebook founder
2013-04-04
facebook • zuckerberg • java
NASA manual covers
Beautiful design from the Space Age
2013-04-03
via:metafilter • design • space • nasa
Mac dummy dongle
Fake out a headless Mac Mini so it activates the GPU card
2013-04-03
gpu • display • vnc • mac • macmini • apple
The Romanian patent from hell
Great story of how hard it can be to find information that's just beyond the Google veil
2013-04-03
search • patents • romania • library
WiFi extension strategies
Readable article about wireless repeaters and various wired alternatives
2013-04-03
wifi • network • router
Jason Goldman
excellent profile of the guy behind the scenes at Twitter, Google, etc
2013-04-02
twitter • google • entrepreneurship
3 million Feedly users
Some idea how many people were using Google Reader; over 3 million
2013-04-02
rss • google • reader • feedly
Real Escape Room SF
Computer game trope made into a real place
2013-04-01
sanfrancisco • games • escape • via:metafilter
Analyzing mbostock's queue.js
Nice line by line breakdown of a small library of Mike Bostock's
2013-04-01
code • javascript • d3js • codereview