Nelson's Linkblog 2013-09

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Collection of iOS 7 UI problems

2013-09-30 design • apple • ios

al-Amriki on Twitter

Fringes of jihad use social media

2013-09-29 twitter • alshabaab • terrorism • jihad

Good explanation of how the new CPU architecture will work out on iOS

2013-09-27 arm • apple • via:hackernews • arm64 • 64bit • architecture • iphone • ios

Empire board game

Very early 4X style game mostly developed in the 1960s at Reed

2013-09-27 reedcollege • reed • games • empire • 4x

Oakland casual carpool armed robbery

Daylight robbery with a gun, 20 victims + many passersby

2013-09-26 oakland • crime • rockridge

Crazy Bus title music

Insane algorithmic(?) music

2013-09-26 music • crazybus • games

Why LoL doesn't have voice chat

Funny, some naughty words

2013-09-26 community • lol • leagueoflegends

Java server trend

Wired finds out you can run Java for servers. Many great quotes from @raffi

2013-09-25 twitter • java • scala • raffi • jvm • enterprise • server

Shutting off comments

Popular Science finds bad reader comments weaken their stories /cc @anildash

2013-09-24 comments • community • science • via:metafilter

Art Nouveau Miyazaki

lovely fan images

2013-09-24 arts • nouveau • via:metafilter • ghibli • studioghibli • miyazaki

What’s new in QGIS 2.0

Free desktop GIS tool has a major revision

2013-09-24 gis • qgis • opensource • geography

Beautiful maps of the continents hundreds of millions of years ago

2013-09-24 geoegraphy • maps • geology • tectonics

Reveal of @Horse_ebooks

Creators of mystery surrealist twitter account reveal themselves

2013-09-24 art • twitter

Cloud 9 profile

Short video about the top North American League of Legends team

2013-09-23 teamwork • games • lol • leagueoflegends • cloud9

Los Alamos 1944 leak

Newpaperman had the story about atomic bomb development, went nowhere

2013-09-22 losalamos • newmexico • journalism • oppenheimer

RSA warns not to use RSA BSafe

Defaults in RSA almost certainly backdoored

2013-09-21 rsa • security • nsa • surveillance • ellipticcurves

Well written, frustrating story by Rachel Binx about being ignored for her work

2013-09-20 meshu • sexism • design • binx • rachelbinx

CLANG: Kickstarter scam?

Game is not going to ship, but they're keeping the $526,125

2013-09-20 games • kickstarter • scam

A simple test for sexism in literature and the arts

2013-09-20 gender • sexism • books • feminism

Grand Theft Auto V and Women

Excellent, thoughtful essay

2013-09-20 grandtheftauto • gta • games • sexism • gender

NSA's keep the faith letter

Internal memo for NSA employee's families saying "no we're the good guys"

2013-09-20 nsa • surveillance • civilliberties

Use several network interfaces at once; apparently shipping in iOS 7?!

2013-09-20 apple • ios • tcp • mptcp • via:hackernews • networking

iOS ringtone review

Scathingly hilarious descriptions of Apple music design

2013-09-19 apple • sound • music • funny • ringtone

GTA V: in game photos

Popular images taken from inside the game

2013-09-18 gtav • grandtheftauto • games • photos

Early aviatrices

Pioneering women pilots

2013-09-17 aviation • flying • via:metafilter • women

OSM by contributer

New @enf map, coloring roads by contributer ID

2013-09-17 maps • osm • openstreetmap • enf • mapbox

Archipelago: the first blog?

HTML conversion of a community edited Hypercard stack from 1988

2013-09-16 blogs • writing • 1988 • hypercard

Aaron Paul / Price is Right

Breaking Bad actor was a Price is Right contestant

2013-09-16 breakingbad • aaronpaul • tv • gameshow • funny

Excellent tool for breaking down Unix command lines

2013-09-16 via:metafilter • shell • unix • bash • commandline

10 photos that look like paintings

Lovely collection

2013-09-16 via:metafilter • art • photography

PaulG on Stripe

Interesting insight into growth at the payments startup

2013-09-16 startups • stripe • investment

Grand Theft Auto V spoof social network

2013-09-15 funny • games • gtav • grandtheftauto • rockstar

Observability at Twitter

Details on how Twitter instruments its systems

2013-09-14 twitter • ops • devops • architecture • monitoring

Big Ben time corrections

A map showing how to adjust time based on the speed of sound form the Big Ben chimes

2013-09-14 timekeeping • time • bigben • maps • london

HIV in teens and young adults

Far too many young black men who have sex with men

2013-09-14 gay • aids • hiv • health

FBI subverted Tor

Injected malware Javascript after seizing servers

2013-09-13 freedom • fbi • tor • security • badtech • malware

Superposition of people playing Super Mario Bros

2013-09-13 games • via:reddit • mario • nintendo • snes

Roundup of NSA abuses

Quick summary, with sources

2013-09-13 nsa • surveillance • privacy • snowden

NSA is subverting SSL

Evidence that NSA is performing active MITM attacks by spoofing SSL certificates

2013-09-13 ssl • badtech • surveillance • nsa • snowden

Cartesian distortion

Alternate fisheye that preserves right angles

2013-09-13 visualization • fisheye • d3js • d3

Shel Silverstein on Fire Island

A series of comic vignettes of gay life in 1963

2013-09-13 gay • homosexuality • cartoons • shelsilverstein

New free-to-play game, turn based strategy + power collection. Quite good!

2013-09-13 games • f2p • irrationalgames

Computing with encrypted RAM

Security mechanism for using sensitive data on untrusted hardware

2013-09-11 computing • cpu • ram • encryption • popularpower

Viewer's guide to LoL

Explanation of the computer game for people who want to watch the tournament starting this weekend

2013-09-11 games • lol • leagueoflegends

Video game terrains

A schematic comparison of artificial world sizes

2013-09-11 games • terrain • maps

"Passwords are dead"

Strong words from Google, but sadly no detail

2013-09-11 google • passwords • security • badtech • authentication

What Does Teemo Say?

Lovely League of Legends parody of the Ylvis song

2013-09-10 ylvis • music • games • leagueoflegends • funny

Borderlands 2 loot tables

Details on how the game drops items

2013-09-10 borderlands • games • gamedev • via:ckline

Visualization of schedule vs. actual position

2013-09-09 muni • visualization • transit • via:enf

CMU Perspectives Project

Like the EFF Panopticon, a service monitoring SSL certificate tampering

2013-09-09 ssl • privacy • security • surveillance • nsa

Classic Upright Citizens Brigade. Vulgar, of course.

2013-09-09 funny • uprightcitizens • skit • comedy

jpg glitch experiment

Lovely little JPG demaker

2013-09-08 glitch • art • jpg • jpeg • via:hackernews

NSA spying on US

Obama lifted the "no domestic spying" rule in 2011

2013-09-08 nsa • surveillance • privacy • snowden • fourthamendment • civilrights

2013-09-07 words • etymology • measurements

Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor

In 2007 we sniffed out one of the NSA's subversions of crypto

2013-09-05 crypto • security • nsa • snowden • nist • random

Schneier crypto advice

Advice from an expert on what to do now that NSA has its fingers in everything

2013-09-05 surveillance • privacy • crypto • snowden • nsa

NSA broke the Internet

Snowden documents confirm NSA has been subverting the core crypto protocols of the Internet

2013-09-05 privacy • surveillance • nsa • crypto • badtech

Photos from the venerable Unix conference

2013-09-03 people • usenix • unix • conference