Half the Mozilla board resigns

New CEO's first impact is to cause a crisis at the company

2014-03-29 brendaneich • mozilla • gayrights • gay

Oculus Rift vs Gender

Women and men experience 3d graphics differently, women get more nausea

2014-03-28 gender • oculusrift • vr • 3d • graphics

Making Threes

Lots of detail on the beautiful puzzle game's creation

2014-03-28 games • threes • puzzles • ios

ControlPane

Simple automation for Macs to do different things depending on WiFi network, etc

2014-03-27 macos • automation • scripting

Mozilla employees ask CEO to step down

Big public step for a bunch of employees to criticize their new CEO

2014-03-27 brendaneich • mozilla • firefox • gayrights • gay

Brendan Eich on inclusiveness

Says the right words in response to outcry over his anti-gay actions

2014-03-27 brendaneich • mozilla • gayrights • gay • firefox

Dogecoin mining malware

Android apps covertly mine cryptocurrency

2014-03-27 android • badtech • dogecoin • litecoin

Satellite map coverage

Amazing overview of where we have satellite imagery for the world, and how much

2014-03-26 maps • satellites • spot

Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace

Gay couple explains their decision to not work with Firefox

2014-03-25 firefox • mozilla • gayrights • civilrights

Hal Finney update?

Forbes reporter tracks down an old cypherpunk to see if he's the creator of Bitcoin

2014-03-25 bitcoin • satoshi • halfinney • als • crypto • cypherpunks

Brendan Eich on gay marriage

Mozilla CEO's weak defense of funding an effort to deny civil rights

2014-03-24 gay • mozilla • civilrights • prop8

Free OSM options

Quick list of places to go now that Cloudmade is pulling out of the free service market

2014-03-24 osm • openstreetmap • maps

Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets

Paper showing how easy it is to reverse engineer identity from an online database

2014-03-24 anonymity • netflix • security • privacy • via:marc • google

OpenAddresses launch

Big new open geodata project, sort of an adjunct to OpenStreetMap

2014-03-24 osm • openstreetmap • addresses • geocoding • maps

Street grids

Great visualization of road alignments in American cities

2014-03-24 cities • america • roads • urbanplanning

/r/outoftheloop

A subreddit for people who don't understand Reddit culture

2014-03-23 reddit • culture • funny

Valverde 1556 anatomy

Beautiful illustrations from the 16th century

2014-03-23 bartholemew • valverde • anatomy • medical • 16th • illustration

ForeverScape

Pen illustration growing over the years. By Vance Feldman, Reed '05

2014-03-23 reed • art

Wrocław annalemma

Very trick kind of astrophotography; done with a pinhole camera!

2014-03-23 poland • Wrocław • pinhole • astronomy • astrophotgraphy

Robert W. Richards

Interview with famous gay illustrator

2014-03-23 art • gay • illustration

WebP not happening

Chrome and derivatives is the only browser to support it. Too bad.

2014-03-23 webp • google • images

How to suppress women's coding

Upsetting collection of incidents

2014-03-21 sexism • tech • equality • feminism

Mostly procedural

Sage words of advice for programmers

2014-03-21 coding • funny • programming

BCP 38

Basic protection from DDoS; dates back to RFC2827. Not widely implemented.

2014-03-21 security • badtech • network • internet • lol

Redesigning healthcare.gov

Lovely little piece on Sha Hwang's work

2014-03-21 shahwang • healthcare • design

MH 370 summary

Excellent factual summary of what we know about the plane so far

2014-03-20 mas370 • mh370 • aviation • airplane • malaysia

Stamen visualizes Mt. Gox

Provocative analysis of the stolen database dump

2014-03-20 mtgox • bitcoin • visualization

About keybase.io

Nice writeup of a usable public key crypto web tool

2014-03-20 cryptography • crypto • security • pgp • gpg

Bitcoin as technology

@ftrain does a great job looking at what's interesting underneath Bitcoin

2014-03-20 bitcoin • money • crypto

API fragility

Netflix / TV integration got broke by an API revision

2014-03-20 programming • versions • tv • netflix • facepalm

LICEcap

Make an animated GIF of something on your screen. Works on MacOS.

2014-03-20 macos • macs • screencap • gif

xkcd: Angular Size

Great illustration of how apparently large various space objects are

2014-03-19 space • astronomy • size • angular

Failed Kickstarter project

$21,514 taken without delivery or refunds

2014-03-19 kickstarter • failure • judahsher • consumers

MH370 SATCOMS

Good explanation of what data we have from the missing plane thanks to satellites

2014-03-19 satellite • mh370 • aviation

Planck all-sky images

Detailed images of the CMB in various colors, projections

2014-03-19 space • astronomy • planck • cmb • cosmology

Custom link underlines

Medium goes above and beyond in the service of good typography

2014-03-19 css • html • medium • typography

GifCam

Simple animated GIF making for Windows

2014-03-19 gif • animation • windows • software

Cluster Theme

A creative Tumblr theme

2014-03-19 tumblr • funny

/r/dataisugly/

A home for the cutting edge of data visualization

2014-03-19 visualization • ugly • funny • reddit

IAmA Hafþór Júlíus "Thor" Björnsson

Adorable Reddit interview with the guy playing The Mountain on Game of Thrones

2014-03-19 gameofthrones • strongman • iceland • reddit

3d printed bodice

Crazy physics modelling to 3d print flexible clothing

2014-03-17 fabric • clothing • 3dprinting

CSS hyphenation support

Every desktop browser but Chrome. Get it together, Google.

2014-03-16 typography • css • browsers • chrome • google

wgif

Turn Youtube snippets into animated GIFs

2014-03-16 gifs • movies • youtube • via:metafilter

xkcd: Ancient Stars

Funny reperspective

2014-03-15 astronomy • stars • comics • funny • via:reddit

Endgame ruined MMOs

Historically grounded critique of current MMOs

2014-03-14 games • mmos • warcraft • eveonline

Making the Parks Conservancy Map

Excellent cartography by @mojodna and the crew at Stamen

2014-03-14 stamen • maps • cartography • goldengate

Freedom Boner [NSFW]

It's a funny NSFW animated GIF.

2014-03-14 penis • funny • murica • america • gif

MOSS robotics

Crazy robot toy with magnets, etc

2014-03-13 robots • toys • fun • medialab

Google promotes American Idol

Very weird use of the official corporate account

2014-03-13 google • ads • americanidol

Elsevier fraud

Publishing company charges for open access articles

2014-03-13 fraud • elsevier • copyright

Samsung Android backdoor

OS for popular cell phone has an exploit in it

2014-03-13 badtech • android • samsung

enet

A network layer on top of UDP, rumored to be used by League of Legends

2014-03-13 games • lol • udp • lag • networking

Chartspree

Quick embedded SVG charts using just URL data

2014-03-13 charts • via:onethingwell • svg • pygal

Lag in online games

Great explanations of the limits of multiplayer gaming on the Internet

2014-03-12 lag • networks • games • via:metafilter

Gox trades by country

Analysis of database leak shows which countries were net buyers or sellers of Bitcoin

2014-03-12 bitcoin • mtgox • blackmarket

SF NexTstop

Advocacy group for turning the stupid SF Central Subway into something useful

2014-03-12 sanfrancisco • transit • sf • subway • planning

CelesTrak

Canonical source for artificial satellite data; catalog, ephemeris, etc

2014-03-12 satellites • space • astronomy

Frog Fractions 2

Kickstarter for a sequel to an amazing game

2014-03-12 games • frogfractions • indie

NSA malware plot

Wholesale infection of millions of machines

2014-03-12 civilrights • nsa • surveillance • badtech • malware

The state of Battlefield 4

Honest assessment of the technical disaster of a flagship EA game

2014-03-11 games • bf4 • battlefield • via:reddit

Praise Helix

Nice writeup of the wackiness of Twitch plays Pokemon

2014-03-11 twitch • pokemon • reddit • games • meme

DiFi gets a clue

Top Democrat, chair of Senate Intelligence Committee, finally speaks out against illegal surveillance; of her own office

2014-03-11 senate • privacy • civilrights • difi • politics

Glyph on Threads

Twisted Python designer comments on threads, async, etc

2014-03-11 threading • programming • python • concurrency • promises

Between two ferns with Pres. Obama

Cringe comedy reaches the top, kind of amazing

2014-03-11 funny • obama • healthcare • aca • obamacare • galafanakis

Raise Your Dongers

ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

2014-03-10 meme • reddit • leagueoflegends • funny

Estonian e-government

Description of a country that does IT well

2014-03-10 estonia • login • openid • government • codeforamerica • via:drrt

Google Bus timelapse

Great video of how commuter busses and MUNI interact at stops

2014-03-10 muni • googlebus • google • sanfrancisco • commute

Mozilla steps back from Persona

Their innovative login service is being demoted to a "community project"

2014-03-08 mozilla • login • openid • oauth • persona

Twitter/IBM patent cost

Twitter paid IBM $36M to license some patents

2014-03-08 twitter • ibm • patents

About TempleOS

Outsider OS; one guy wrote a 64 bit OS that also allows offerings to God. Tremendous amount of work.

2014-03-08 templeos • via:waxy • os • operatingsystem • schizophrenia

Let’s Make a Block

How to post Javascript examples using bl.ocks.org

2014-03-07 d3js • blocks • javascript • examples

Approach plate usability

Thoughtful suggestions on improvements to design from a pilot

2014-03-07 aviation • ifr • design • usability

The Satoshi Paradox

Good reflection on Newsweek's choice to publish

2014-03-07 via:marc • satoshi • bitcoin • newsweek

Satoshi Nakamoto denial

Dorian Prentice says he's not the Bitcoin creator

2014-03-07 bitcoin • satoshi • newsweek

w00w00

Profile of a particular time in hacker culture

2014-03-07 whatsapp • w00w00 • hacking • greyhat • dugsong

Meeting Satoshi in 2011

Story from someone who claims his wife met the Bitcoin inventor

2014-03-06 bitcoin • satoshi • via:metafilter

The Face Behind Bitcoin

A compelling story that Satoshi Nakomoto has been found

2014-03-06 satoshi • bitcoin

RFC 801

How the Internet transitioned protocols, in 1981

2014-03-06 internet • flagday • postel • rfc • arpanet • protocols • tcp

Network Control Program

NCP was the Internet predecessor to TCP and UDP. Obsoleted in 1983.

2014-03-06 network • internet • history • ncp • protocols • arpanet

IFTTT for your car

Automatic's car interface now lets you make other things happen in response to trips

2014-03-05 automatic • cars • ifttt • bluetooth • automation

CIA spying on Congress

Counter-investigating the torture investigators

2014-03-05 cia • humanrights • democracy • government • torture

Reading the Pioneer/Voyager pulsar map

In 2007 someone tries to read the famous 1972 map for extraterrestrial intelligences

2014-03-05 space • pioneer • voyager • pulsar • maps

Minard visualizations

Nice collection of maps and charts by the famous 19th century visualizer

2014-03-05 minard • napolean • graphics • via:burritojustice

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Good overview of the uncertainty about who created Bitcoin

2014-03-05 bitcoin • satoshi • cryptography

GnuTLS flaw

Certificate checking also broken in a popular open source SSL library

2014-03-05 badtech • ssl • gotofail • gnutls

On Scott Lively

Comic version of the American anti-gay crusader in Uganda and Russia

2014-03-05 scottlively • gayrights • uganda • russia

Ethereum

Turning the distributed consensus idea of Bitcoin into a general computing platform

2014-03-04 bitcoin • via:joshu • mobileagents • programming

Maps of Crimea

Different cartographic choices lead to different stories

2014-03-03 ukraine • russia • maps • crimea

Hidden Bitcoin messages

The blockchain contains a surprising number of hidden messages

2014-03-03 bitcoin • steganography • funny

Bitcoin script errors

Bitcoin transactions are executable programs; sometimes they have bugs

2014-03-03 bitcoin • bug • money • script • mtgox

Meetup DDoS

Rare case of a company going public about being extorted

2014-03-03 extortion • internet • ddos • meetup

Dead End Thrills

Lovely collections of arty game screenshots

2014-03-02 games • screenshot • photos

w00w00 retrospective

Profile of the hacker group and former members made good

2014-03-02 w00w00 • dugsong • hacking • whatsapp • startup

Google Maps: "Drug Section"

Crowdsourced maps tell you where to score

2014-03-02 google • maps • funny

Weibo - SINA English

China's enormous Twitter-like service has an English interface

2014-03-01 weibo • twitter • china