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High Scores Alameda
Old school video game arcade opened in Alameda
2013-07-31
games • videogames • alameda
LAB zine #4
Visual design magazine featuring me! And @enf, @rachelbinx, @shashashasha, and others
2013-07-31
design • rivers • maps • meshu • enf • binx • shahwang
Twitter and synchrony
Interesting data on culture and time-of-day behavior
2013-07-31
twitter • stats • culture
Controlling the Beast
Profile of a pro LoL player who is learning not to be a toxic raging jerk
2013-07-31
community • lol • leagueoflegends • tribunal
Stack Exchange Data Explorer
Huge amount of data on the community site
2013-07-31
stackexchange • data • community • via:anildash
XKeyscore
NSA hoovering up all Internet activity from many people in a massive database
2013-07-31
privacy • surveillance • nsa • snowden • civilrights
emojitracker
realtime use of Emoji on twitter
2013-07-30
emoji • twitter • trends • emoticons
Google Fibre: no servers
Amazingly lame broadband ToS
2013-07-30
google • broadband • freedom • netneutrality
Ken Rudolph short films
Nice catalog of the film work of a friend of mine
2013-07-30
kenru • film • movies
Hal Abelson's report on Aaron Swartz
Promised internal investigation into MIT's pursuit of charges against @aaronsw
2013-07-30
aaronsw • aaronswartz • mit
@NewspaperDickz
NSFW: childish, inappropriate drawings of penises on newspaper photos. (Also: hilarious)
2013-07-30
funny • nsfw • dicks • newspapers
Old Reader withdrawing
Amazing and bold statement; they can't handle the traffic and don't want it
2013-07-29
reader • rss • entrepreneurship
Internet’s war against creatives
Lovely editorial about the monsters in the gaming "community"
2013-07-29
games • philfish • fez • moderation
Pyongyang military review
Old school display of missiles, tanks, airplanes
2013-07-29
korea • northkorea • pyongyang • batshitinsane • military • stalinism
Subway river maps
Schematic maps of river systems
2013-07-29
maps • rivers
Shitcock
Classic Penny Arcade comic about bad behavior in online gaming
2013-07-28
games • community • anonymity • funny • shitcock
Chromecast root
Hardware is not particularly locked down
2013-07-28
via:hackernews • google • chrome • android • tv
Google as legal incubator
Various innovative lawyers who passed through Google
2013-07-28
google • legal • law • startups • amac
Chromecast API
Javascript for sending to the new TV mirror gizmo
2013-07-27
chrome • javascript • api • airplay
Stripper in Williston
Poetic story about being a stripper in a North Dakota oil boomtown
2013-07-26
williston • northdakota • stripping • sexwork • via:metafilter
About geojson.io
Blog post explaining the cool new geo tool
2013-07-26
maps • geojson • json • validation
geojson.io
Amazing new geodata tool from @tmcw. Create, view, validate GeoJSON
2013-07-26
geojson • geography • validation • maps
Death of public key
Provocative argument that crypto measures don't work in face of government abuse
2013-07-25
surveillance • privacy • nsa • via:hackernews
Stellar DB postmortem
Great writeup of an ops problem and the friends who fixed it
2013-07-24
stellar • twitter • kottke • database • ops
Made with D3.js
Nice collection of particularly good visualizations
2013-07-24
d3js • javascript • visualization • infovis
Swole Acceptance
A subreddit for men who lift and have giant muscles
2013-07-24
fitness • muscles • batshitinsane • lifting
OpenCage Data
Resells OpenStreetmap data in conveniently packaged form
2013-07-24
osm • openstreetmap • maps • geodata
NSA wants SSL keys
Outrageous extension of surveillance powers
2013-07-24
prism • snowden • nsa • ssl • security • privacy • civilrights • surveillance
LLVM IR
Nice summary of how the right code representation is better than architecture-specific assembly
2013-07-24
compilers • llvm • clang • ir • optimization • via:hackernews
F2P game ethics
Investigation into the coercive gambling-like business model of many contemporary games
2013-07-24
games • valve • teamfortress2 • via:metafilter • gambling • ethics
Mapping Millions of dots
Notes from @enf about how to make his beautiful not-exactly-heatmaps
2013-07-22
maps • visualization • infovis • heatmap • enf • mapbox
Erotic Cyrillic alphabet
NSFW: amusing erotic drawings
2013-07-21
1930s • via:boingboing • erotica • porn • cyrillic • russian
Paris From Above
Phenomenal aerial photo series on Bastille Day; Paris is usually closed to aircraft
2013-07-18
paris • france • photography • aerial • beautiful
Fruit Maturity Chart
Timeline of when fruits are ripe at a particular nursery
2013-07-18
fruit • groceries • via:metafilter
WW2 sex psyops
Propaganda leaflets (mildly NSFW)
2013-07-18
sex • propaganda • wwii • ww2 • psyops
The Drone That Killed My Grandson
A very personal take on America's anonymous, remote assassinations
2013-07-18
assassination • yemen • drone • politics • civilrights • terrorism
Funny ATC
Tower controller has a bit of fun with Air Wisconsin
2013-07-17
flying • aviation • atc • funny
Surviving being senior (tech) management
Wise words from Kellan, Etsy's CTO
2013-07-17
etsy • management • engineering
Linus gets told
Kernel developer calls Linus on his bullshit being rude
2013-07-16
linus • linux • opensource • politics • girlswhocode
US roads (TopoJSON)
nice map inspired by Mike Bostock inspired by me
2013-07-16
maps • tiger • benfry • allstreets • roads • us
Simplifying GitHub licenses
GitHub finally makes it easy to put a proper license on published code
2013-07-16
github • licensing • opensource
javascript flame charts
Interesting profiling tool
2013-07-16
javascript • performance • chrome
Minimum wage
Truly outrageous fake budget; assumes two jobs, no expenses
2013-07-16
money • budget • poverty • economics • america
NSA expansion pre-9/11
Illegal surveillance predates War on Terruh
2013-07-16
surveillance • nsa • civilrights
PBJ 2.0
Not sure if brilliant or horrible
2013-07-15
via:metafilter • food • pbj • funny
Bounty artifacts in Dunedin
Strange little story of museum artifacts. Bonus: use of the word "pintle"
2013-07-14
bounty • history • museum • newzealand • pitcairn • mutiny
Bruges in 1562
Interesting example of lying with maps
2013-07-12
maps • bruges • belgium
Google Glitch View
Streetview processing goes bad
2013-07-12
via:reddit • maps • google • glitch • streetview
Map label placement
Beautifully done OpenStreetmap cartography
2013-07-11
maps • labels
Harvard Classics .mobi
Kindle-friendly collection of a Great Books collection
2013-07-11
literature • culture • kindle • mobi • history • via:metafilter
Alfred ssh
Useful shim for opening terminal windows on a Mac
2013-07-11
alfred • ssh • terminal • workflow
Microsoft + NSA
Details on how a private company actively colluded in illegal espionage on its users
2013-07-11
microsoft • privacy • surveillance • nsa • prism • snowden
Why mobile web apps are slow
Nice explanation of hardware limitations
2013-07-11
webapps • mobile • ios • hardware • performance
Making MathBox
Hardcore math site does beautiful WebGL graphics
2013-07-11
webgl • visualization • javascript
Field Papers v2
Awesome map project gets a refresh
2013-07-11
maps • stamen • migurski • fieldpapers • moma
CleanPowerSF Opt Out
San Francisco has some soft-headed power scheme, here's how to opt out of higher rates
2013-07-10
pge • power • sanfrancisco
Voynich Manuscript
Nice overview of the mysterious text
2013-07-10
voynich • books • apocrypha • crypto
tmcw/web-rrd
Javascript / LocalStorage version of a round robin database, for browsers
2013-07-10
rrdtool • rrd • database • browsers • localstorage • javascript
1870 census
Some really beautiful visualization work
2013-07-09
visualization • census • us • 1870 • maps
Building healthcare.gov
A new model for government websites
2013-07-09
mapbox • developmentseed • government • healthcare • via:hackernews
Google Google Apps Apps
Should be SF's next tourist promotion video
2013-07-08
drag • gay • funny • sanfrancisco
Twitter architecture
Analysis of a talk given by @raffi about how Twitter works
2013-07-08
performance • scalability • architecture • twitter
FBTiles map format
extension of MapBox tiles that allows chart margins to be displayed
2013-07-08
foreflight • maps • aviation • mbtiles • mapbox
Zombie Google Reader
Former Google engineer grabs all HTML, Javascript, etc and reanimated Google Reader
2013-07-08
google • reader • archive • xoogler
Cable tap agreement
How private companies aided NSA spying
2013-07-08
surveillance • nsa • civilrights • globalcrossing • gx
Bizarre aircraft
Various odd prototypes
2013-07-06
via:reddit • aviation • aircraft • airplanes
Nothing up my sleeve number
When a cryptographer needs to pick a random number but make it clear they didn't pick *that* random number
2013-07-06
crypto • math • security
Mike Bostock at Eyeo
D3 creator and NYT graphics guy talks at Eyeo Festival
2013-07-05
eyeo • design • d3js • d3 • mbostock • mikebostock • visualization
Berkeley DB license change
Oracle shuts down proprietary use of BDB in webapps
2013-07-05
oracle • database • license • agpl • sleepycat
Zen photon garden
2d ray tracer
2013-07-05
via:metafilter • art • light • demo • fun
1973 gay marriage
Sweet story of early political activism
2013-07-04
gay • marriage • equalrights • methodists
Landing a U-2
Even harder than it looks
2013-07-04
aviation • planes • u2 • u-2 • landing • military • funny • via:mbostock
USPS records all envelopes
Happy Independence Day! Do you feel safer, citizen?
2013-07-03
surveillance • privacy • usps • mail • via:hackernews • nsa • fbi
World of Rivers
National Geographic's map of all rivers, colored by flow volume
2013-07-03
rivers • maps • natgeo • nationalgeographic • hydrography
Bolivian president detained
Insanity over Snowden; unimagineable
2013-07-03
diplomacy • snowden • bolivia • politics • nsa
Internet Credit Union
archive.org is running a bank!
2013-07-02
banking • archiveorg • brewsterkahle • money • finance • via:metafilter
Poverty Maps
Detailed census treatments
2013-07-02
maps • poverty • unitedstates • usa • census
SF Bay Area as NY
Funny map
2013-07-02
funny • sanfrancisco • newyork • culture • map
Chrome Page Load Time
Handy extension for showing how long a page takes to load
2013-07-02
chrome • performance
QuickMeme fraud
Details on the Reddit drama that led to a site being banned
2013-07-02
reddit • quickmeme • fraud • seo
Google: only 13% search
Interesting analysis of where Google dedicates real estate
2013-07-01
search • google • via:hackernews • ads
Firing cones
Measuring temperature in a kiln
2013-07-01
kiln • ceramics • temperature • metrics • via:metafilter
RideLapse
Interesting video + map presentation of a bike ride
2013-07-01
visualization • diary • travelog • journal • mapbox
Phone data visualized
Nice animation of what you can learn from mobile phone metadata records
2013-07-01
privacy • surveillance • metadata