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Breaking Madden
Glitching out the football game
2014-01-31
games • madden • funny • via:kottke
Gmail system labels
Internal tags Google adds to email
2014-01-31
spam • email • gmail • google
Weibo hamstrung
Chinese government's crackdown has severely curtailed usage of China's Twitter-like service
2014-01-31
weibo • sinaweibo • china • freedom • twitter
Dear Mom and Dad
Little art project in Grand Theft Auto V photographs
2014-01-31
games • gtav • via:reddit • postcards
Telenav buys Skobbler
Big news in the world of open source maps
2014-01-31
maps • openstreetmap • skobbler • telenav
Lyft and UberX insurance
Most rideshare drivers have no insurance covering their rideshare activities.
2014-01-29
lyft • uber • uberx • rideshare • insurance
MinecraftEdu
Educational version of the game; features for teaching
2014-01-29
games • education • minecraft
SOTU2014 minute by minute
Analysis of tweets, how people engaged with the speech
2014-01-29
visualization • twitter • president • politics • sotu
Kerbal Space Program profile
Nice background on the company that makes the amazing indie space sim game
2014-01-29
games • mexico • ksp • kerbalspaceprogram
Turing's original test
The gender twist to the Turing Test
2014-01-28
turing • ai • computerscience • gender • gay
Full night panorama
Crazy image of the Milky Way, etc
2014-01-27
astronomy • photography • astrophotography
Cycles (machinima)
Interesting arty short filmed in Battlefield 3
2014-01-27
games • battlefield • machinima • via:reddit
Doge Weather
Handy weather forecast
2014-01-27
weather • funny • doge • meme • via:metafilter
No gays in Sochi
Frightening rhetoric
2014-01-27
gays • politics • sochi • russia
TunesToTube
Simple way to upload an MP3 file with an image to YouTube
2014-01-26
via:waxy • music • youtube
Robot Odyssey
Nice ode to a great old computer game
2014-01-26
via:metafilter • games • programming • robotodyssey • apple2
Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?
"First they came for the venture capitalists, but I did not speak up for I was not a venture capitalist"...
2014-01-25
sanfrancisco • batshitinsane • politics • kleinerperkins
Downworthy
Browser extension to improve online news article headlines
2014-01-25
buzzfeed • upworthy • funny • journalism • extension
Lolalyzer
League of Legends game analyzer based on LoLReplay records
2014-01-25
leagueoflegends • lol • games • analysis
Mountweazel
Fake encyclopedia entries created as copyright traps
2014-01-23
traps • copyright • language
Google Google Apps Apps
Amazing video commentary on gentrification, tech, etc
2014-01-23
google • sanfrancisco • dragqueen • queer
Face substitution
Wear your Scramble Suit
2014-01-23
via:waxy • imageprocessing • javascript • webcam • hack
Google, the Stupidity Amplifier
Fine cranky rant about failures of Google's "semantic knowledge" stuff
2014-01-22
gregegan • scifi • funny • google
Supernova in M82
Amateur astronomers talking about the new star
2014-01-22
astronomy • science • space • m82 • supernova
Plight Of The Conquering Negro
Strong words about Sherman and race in America
2014-01-21
racism • footboll • nfl • sherman
Revisiting William Whyte
Keith Hampton redoing the classic 1960s urban planning experiments
2014-01-20
cities • urbanplanning • via:metafilter
Dimmer-compatible LEDs
Lightbulbs for Lutron dimmers
2014-01-19
lights • lightbulbs • led • dimmer
Twitter Infrastructure
Interview with VP @raffi
2014-01-19
raffi • twitter • architecture
History of pimento cheese
The classic Southern spread is a product of early 1900s industrial food
2014-01-19
food • cooking • southern • cheese
Bitcoin Bingo
It's funny
2014-01-19
funny • bitcoin
People want Snowden dead
A measure of anger
2014-01-19
snowden • nsa
HoverZoom is malware
Popular Chrome extension has been hijacked
2014-01-18
chrome • badtech • hoverzoom • extensions
ConferenceCall.biz
Arty, disturbing
2014-01-18
via:migurski • art • business
Vermont Pleasures (NSFW)
Hilarious spoof sex toy catalog
2014-01-18
funny • nsfw • sex • via:metafilter
Population density map
Nice simple map with description of how it was made
2014-01-18
population • maps • gis
Target POS compromise
Report from iSight with the details
2014-01-18
badtech • target • virus • pos
Obama's NSA changes
EFF breaks down the reforms Obama discussed
2014-01-18
eff • nsa • privacy • badtech
UTF-8 Everywhere
Nice explanation of this text encoding’s advantages
2014-01-17
encoding • unicode • utf8 • programming
Vaccine preventable outbreak map
Visualization of where vaccination programs are failing
2014-01-16
vaccines • health • maps
Schneier briefing Congress
Representatives don't get useful info from NSA, so they bring in an outsider with access to Snowden docs
2014-01-16
snowden • nsa • democracy
Michael Byrne
Resume of an FCC guy who's a force for good
2014-01-16
geo • maps • fcc • government
Pink Spitfire
Early warplane camoflauge
2014-01-15
camoflauge • aviation • spitfire • pink
Food Stamps service
The inhumanity of government services
2014-01-15
codeforamerica • cfa • foodstamps • service • government
2014 Dakar Rally
Lovely photos of the insane car race
2014-01-15
dakar • racing • chile • photography • cars
European language map
Nice visualization of language relationships, roughly geographical
2014-01-15
maps • language • europe
Mavericks' SMB2 problem
Apple broke filesharing
2014-01-15
apple • macos • bugs • badtech
iTunes vs SMB bug
iTunes can no longer import music off of a network drive
2014-01-15
bug • apple • itunes • smb
The Lost City of Z
Fantastic article about Amazon archaeology
2014-01-14
archaeology • amazon • longread
Locomotion Studies (1987)
Hilarious Karl Sims student work. (attn @migurski @shashashasha)
2014-01-14
karlsims • animation • locomotion
Walking animations
Nice recent work on evolving / learning walking animations
2014-01-14
animation • karlsims • alife
A Sea Story
Langewiesche account of the Baltic ferry disaster
2014-01-14
via:metafilter • estonia • ferry • disaster • ocean • baltic
CoinMap
Map of BitCoin tags in OpenStreetMap
2014-01-13
bitcoin • osm • openstreetmap • maps
Facebook buys Branch / Potluck
Congrats to the team!
2014-01-13
facebook • acquisition • obvious
SF parking failure
Fancy spot detectors' batteries failed
2014-01-13
sanfrancisco • fail • parking • sf • waste
SnapChat on Google App Engine
Is this the biggest consumer service built on top of Google's cloud thing?
2014-01-13
google • appengine • snapchat • architecture • scaling
Kreuz Market pitmaster
Great interview with a Texas barbeque master
2014-01-12
food • barbeque • barbecue • lockhart • kreuz
San Francisco's shame
continuing dysfunction in dealing with mentally ill people living on the streets
2014-01-12
sanfrancisco • homeless • compassion
FlightPrep patent trolling
More stupid fallout from a bad aviation company
2014-01-11
aviation • patents • flightprep
America, Your Food Is So Gay
Lovely essay on gay culture and food culture
2014-01-11
cooking • gay • via:metafilter • america
Jon Mills fraud?
Alleged investment fraud with Motionloft, a tech startup
2014-01-11
fraud • jonmills • motionloft • startups
Thomas the Dank Engine
Chug Life
2014-01-11
trains • thomas • thomasthetankengine • marijuana • funny • treecomics
KMZ for Lost City of Z
Google Earth link for archaeological site in Brasil
2014-01-10
brazil • brasil • lostcityofz • archaeology • googleearth
ntpd monlist disabled
Old inspection protocol considered harmful
2014-01-09
NTP • ddos • badtech
NTP DDoS
Time protocol used to flood Internet servers with traffic
2014-01-09
ntp • badtech • ddos
MaximBady
Hilarious YouTube videos from an enthusiastic UK/Gambian gentleman
2014-01-08
funny • video • gambia
YIFY interview
Details on the movie piracy group that makes high quality, tight rips
2014-01-08
movies • yify • torrent
Kickstarter completion data
Analysis of Kickstarter projects; what got funded, what delivered
2014-01-08
kickstarter • analysis • crowdfunding
Petit murders
Phenomenal story about the survivor of a multiple homicide
2014-01-08
crime
DUAL_EC_DRBG backdoor
Details on how NSA compromised the algorithm
2014-01-07
badtech • nsa • security • privacy • rsa
More NSA leakers?
Other whistleblowers may be sharing docs under the cover of Snowden
2014-01-06
snowden • nsa • privacy
OpenSSL vs Dual_EC_DRBG
Crazy story of certification and broken code
2014-01-06
badtech • nsa • security • crypto • openssl
4043 byte PC emulator
phenomenal bit of tiny C programming
2014-01-06
ioccc • programming • dos • emulator
Details on Clapper's lie
NSA directly lies to Congress, continues to prevaricate
2014-01-06
nsa • clapper • lies
Losing @aaronsw
more on the tragedy of overzealous prosecution
2014-01-05
aaronsw • aaronswartz • mit • freedom
NYC pneumatic mail
Map of the crazy old transport system
2014-01-05
mail • newyork • history • maps • via:mizmay
Balancing Cubli
Awesome bit of robots / control theory
2014-01-05
robotics • via:reddit • eth
Love Boat: Broadway Follies
Ethel Merman, Ann Miller, Carol Channing and Della Reese on the cruise boat stage together
2014-01-05
music • loveboat • broadway • hilarious
North Korea IAmA
American teacher at a Pyongyang university
2014-01-04
northkorea
EA's broken games
strong callout
2014-01-04
games • ea • dice • battlefield
Tweeting "Happy New Year" 2014
Fantastic map visualization
2014-01-02
visualization • twitter • newyear
1932 US Atlas
Various thematic maps
2014-01-02
maps • us • america • history