Nelson's Linkblog 2013-10

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Dixon train station

California city built a train station in 2007 but no trains stop there.

2013-10-31 dixon • california • train • amtrak

Hints of malware that spreads through nonconventional means

2013-10-31 badtech • virus • malware • ultrasonic

Hilarious Japanese ad

2013-10-31 japan • shibe • dogge • doge • meme • video

Snowden interview

June 2013, worth listening to again. He's very careful.

2013-10-30 snowden • nsa • freedom

Google forward secrecy

Interesting technical measure Google deployed to make SSL traffic more secure

2013-10-30 security • ssl • nsa • google • crypto

Adam Langley's Weblog

Google employee who's behind some of their good crypto stuff

2013-10-30 crypto • nsa • google

What's that crazy stuff in the map database?

2013-10-30 maps • osm • openstreetmap • tags • metadata

Rachel, Lou Reed's transsexual muse

gender queer in the 70s

2013-10-30 music • lgbt • transgender • gay • loureed

Allspaw on Knight Capital

Smart ops guy takes apart the non-postmortem from SEC about the Knight Capital fiasco

2013-10-30 risks • etsy • ops • knightcapital

Gay couple immigration mess

The editor of the local online news site YubaNet got picked up by immigration. She'd been unable to immigrate because of anti-gay laws.

2013-10-29 immigration • gay • yubanet • nevadacounty

The most likely seeming iGoogle alternative. It's not very good.

2013-10-29 igoogle • startpage • rss

GTA V photo locations

Virtual camera has virtual tags from the game's virtual environment. Dot map from http://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftAutoV/comments/1pfiqz/los_santos_population_density_map_yes_snapmatic/

2013-10-29 via:reddit • photos • games • maps • gtav

1896 CA railroads and bike routes

Fascinating map of pre-automobile road network

2013-10-28 california • maps • bicycle • railroad • transportation

Fancy styles from the 20s

2013-10-28 crime • mugshot • photography • fashion • via:potluck

Web site for the NSA whistleblower, including a call for donations

2013-10-28 snowden • nsa • journalism

Irish police child abductions

Details about the crazy error in Ireland of the police taking Roma's children away based on how they looked

2013-10-28 roma • gypsy • ireland

Douglas Hofstadter today

Lovely profile not just of the scientist, but of AI in general

2013-10-28 ai • via:metafilter • geb • philosophy

Obscure, bizarre travel destinations

2013-10-27 travel

Wikipedia VisualEditor failure

Some back story on the apparent failure of easier editing tools for Wikipedia

2013-10-27 wikipedia • community • visualeditor

On editable databases

Reflections from @tmcw on easy-to-use editors for OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia

2013-10-27 community • wikipedia • openstreetmap • osm • maps

Star Wars v Thomas Kinkade

2013-10-27 funny • starwars • kinkade • art • kitsch

Scroll Down to Riker

HTML 5 was designed for this

2013-10-26 funny • startrek • riker

Google's secret sea base

Mysterious project being built on a barge

2013-10-25 google • barge • treasureisland

Breivik, Wikieditor

Norwegian mass murderer was also a Wikipedia Warrior

2013-10-25 wikipedia • breivik • murder • norway

Lovely visualization of how compression dictionaries work

2013-10-25 compression • poetry • gzip

A tumblr of photos of the filth on San Francisco's streets

2013-10-24 homeless • sanfrancisco • city

Ted Cruz profile

From before the shutdown, info on the Tea Party leader who is destroying the country

2013-10-24 republicans • politics • tedcruz • teaparty • funny

Apple Maps icon

iOS 7 fixed one of the most hilarious Apple Maps bugs

2013-10-24 maps • apple • funny

Real Sports on eSports

Traditional sports view of League of Legends

2013-10-24 games • lol • esports

Animated GIF artist with a lovely retro look

2013-10-23 gifs • art

Player tracker for Dust 514, CCP's tie-in game to Eve Online

2013-10-23 games • eveonline • ccp • dust • dust514 • mmo

Gifpop Kickstarter

Friends' project to print animated GIFs on lenticular cards

2013-10-23 gifs • art • kickstarter • sha • shashashasha • binx • rachelbinx

Interior monolog captioning

Wow • Such phrases • Many meme • Shibe • Funny macro

2013-10-23 meme • shibe

Details on how 9 year old dead code caused a trading company to lose half a billion dollars

2013-10-22 bugs • badtech • coding

Siegfried and Roy, 10 years later

Sweet little profile

2013-10-22 via:metafilter • vegas • lasvegas • siegfriedroy • gay

The famous 18th century French map in a Google Maps interface

2013-10-22 maps • cassini • history • france • cassinimap • geography

Nairobi mall CCTV footage

Astoundingly detailed video of the terrorist attack

2013-10-22 nairobi • kenya • terrorism • video

CGI, healthcare.gov contractor

Info on the primary IT contractor building the site

2013-10-22 government • healthcare • contracting

Problems building healthcare.gov

Summary of a government big IT project gone wrong

2013-10-22 government • healthcare • procurement

NSA lying to Congress

Clapper outright lying in response to a question on spying on Americans

2013-10-22 nsa • politics • wyden • clapper • spying • civilrights

Digital Attack Map

Google's view of DDOS activity around the globe

2013-10-22 internet • badtech • google • via:metafilter • map

Creates 8 bit PNGs with full alpha channels

2013-10-21 png • image • compression

Baumgartner full video

Near-space jump, 3 cameras + tracking data

2013-10-21 redbull • stratos • baumgartner • space • skydiving

A lovely collection of photos

2013-10-21 airships • aviation • zeppelin • blimp • photos

Spelunky Generator Lessons

How the roguelike generates game levels

2013-10-21 games • spelunky

Android and open source

How Google has walked back the original promise of an open source mobile OS

2013-10-21 google • android • opensource

GTA V street photography

Recontextualing game screenshots as candid photography

2013-10-20 via:metafilter • games • gta • art

The Original "Mahna Mahna"

Classic Muppets song had its start as a Swedish porn track!

2013-10-20 music • muppets • mahna • mahnamahna

The insanity of high frequency trading

2013-10-19 via:metafilter • markets • hft

Emerging eSports

How Riot Games is turning League of Legends into a TV sport

2013-10-17 games • lol • leagueoflegends • riotgames

Bathing machine

Insane Victorian prudery at the beach

2013-10-16 beach • bathing • clothing • nudism • swimming

How do I avoid Google+?

Ordinary user question shows just how aggressive Google has become in forcing people to use their social network.

2013-10-14 google+ • google • social • email

YubaNet founder immigration woes

Amazing citizen journalist got a traffic stop leading to deportation

2013-10-12 yubanet • nevadacounty • journalism • immigration • gayrights

NSA tracking cell locations

More invasion of US citizen privacy, more lies and half-truths from NSA

2013-10-05 nsa • privacy • surveillance • wyden • snowden

Who does peer review?

Scientist tests journals with a bad paper

2013-10-05 publishing • fraud • standards • science

Silkroad Bitcoins

Alleged to be the block holding The Silk Road's BitCoins

2013-10-04 bitcoin • silkroad

Guillermo del Toro / Simpsons

Amazing animation

2013-10-04 simpsons • funny • via:metafilter • panslabyrinth • guillermodeltoro

Ray Ozzie was right

Respect for a Microsoft exec who was ignored

2013-10-04 rayozzie • microsoft • strategy

Lavabit shutdown story

FBI demanded access to all users' email

2013-10-03 fbi • privacy • lavabit • snowden • encryption

Noisebridge harassment policy

Experiment in social anarchy requires some rules because women were being abused

2013-10-03 feminism • women • noisebridge • anarchy • consensus