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YUROP
The subreddit alternative to 'Murica
2014-09-30 murica • yurop • funny • europe • reddit • stereotypes
Hadza fecal transplant
Random Western biologist decides to hot-swap in some shit from a Tanzanian hunter-gatherer
2014-09-30 batshitinsane • microbiome • biology • hadz • tanzania • shit
Radical Cartography
A fun collection of odd maps
2014-09-30 maps • cartography
Worn and Wound
Guide to watches that are not stupidly expensive
2014-09-30 watches • fashion • jewelry
Saul Bass / Game of Thrones
If the titles credits were by the 60s master
2014-09-30 saulbass • gameofthrones • funny • graphicdesign • via:metafilter
Tabletop Whale
Lovely scientific illustrations published as animated GIF
2014-09-30 gif • animation • science • via:reddit
Battlefield 4 art
Arty screenshots from the military game
2014-09-29 games • battlefield4 • dice • screenshot
Compact Conflict
Cute little Risk-like game
2014-09-28 games • strategy • risk • via:metafilter • javascript
The Church of Robotron
Are you the mutant savior? Be tested in Portland
2014-09-27 portland • robotron • karl • kra • games
Leave Chelsea Alone
An unlikely gay pop culture meme from the early 90s
2014-09-27 chelsea • chelseaclinton • actup • dontpanic
Walt's Wardrobe
Iconic drawings of every costume from Walter White in Breaking Bad
2014-09-27 breakingbad • via:Reddit • tv • walterwhite • costume • clothing
RIP Yahoo Directory
Yahoo's first product, one of the first Web commercial products ever, at end of life
2014-09-27 yahoo • history • internet • web
GIF to slideshow
Deanimate animated GIFs
2014-09-27 gif • slideshow • via:reddit • images
Fed / Goldman Sachs malfeasance
Collusion or incompetence in federal regulation of financial services
2014-09-26 corruption • goldman • goldmansachs • fed • regulation • finance • money
#Gamergate explained
NPR gives a simple overview of the outrageous misogyny going on all summer in the gaming community
2014-09-26 feminism • women • gamergate • npr • journalism • games
Sonos Controller
Open source Python code to control a Sonos
2014-09-26
FAA drone approval
Incredibly limited, requires pilot's license and under 400 feet
2014-09-26 aviation • drones • faa • hollywood • cameras
Ello financing
The indie social network has not-so-indie financing
2014-09-25 money • entrepreneurs • ello • vc • startup
GNSS Surveyor
Sub-meter accuracy GPS, includes access to raw data
2014-09-25 gps • gnss • survey • badelf • ios
Gridland
Clever match 3 game
2014-09-24 games • browser • match3
LRTimelapse
Fancy tool for creating time lapse movies
2014-09-24 photography • movies • lightroom • via:raffi
Ariane integer overflow
Programming bug destroyed the Ariane 5 rocket
2014-09-24 bugs • software • badtech • space • ariane
Butterfly Labs Bitcoin scam?
FTC clamps down on a manufacturer of Bitcoin mining hardware
2014-09-23 bitcoin • scam • butterfly • ftc
Astound registration password
Weird user registration system requires a bogus password
2014-09-23 badtech • security • astound • password
Pathfinder Online
MMO in development, ambitious
2014-09-23 games • mmos • sandbox • dnd • pathfinder
Groups.io
Founder of Egroups and Bloglines is back to fix email groups
2014-09-23 email • groups • communication
Go at Stripe
Payments company uses Google's newish systems language
2014-09-23 go • golang • programming • code • stripe
Space Hippies main jam
A long forgotten nadir of Star Trek action
2014-09-22 startrek • hippies • funny • tos
Rackspace beats patent troll
Fights a $75,000 request from someone claiming to own the idea of screen rotation
2014-09-22 patents • rackspace
Atari ABAQ
Obscure 1980s computer, a transputer-based system for consumers
2014-09-21 atari • transpute • computer • history
/r/toynbee
Subreddit dedicated to Toynbee Tiles, weird street art
2014-09-20 toynbee • toynbeetiles • streetart • graffiti • reddit
Dipity Timelines
Web tool for building timelines
2014-09-20 timeline • history • web • visualization
Grass Valley tech history
Seems random, but the Sierra has a little high tech center
2014-09-20 grassvalley • tech • litton • grassvalleygroup
LoL vs toxic behavior
Update on the efforts to police a notoriously unpleasant gamer community
2014-09-20 games • lol • leagueoflegends • moderation
1885 SF Chinatown map
Building by building catalog of vice
2014-09-19 maps • chinatown • sanfrancisco • sf • history • vice • prostitution
CLANG final update
Spectacular $500,000 Kickstarter flameout calls it quits
2014-09-19 kickstarter • crowdfunding • clang • nealstephenson • games
New Kickstarter policy
Removes the old "full refund" requirement of projects to a much more realistic one
2014-09-19 kickstarter • crowdfunding • legal • termsofservice
WhatIsMyIPv6?
IP address detector that's IPv6 aware
2014-09-19 via:jnoxon • ipv6 • tcpip • internet
Yahoo worth -$500M
Market cap of Yahoo is below the value of the property it owns
2014-09-19 yahoo • alibaba • marissa • marissameyer
Verbal Expressions
Alternate regex system using readable functions
2014-09-19 regex • regexp • javascript • code
Edgar Rice Soiree
Fun party game to play in person
2014-09-18 games • johannsebastianbach • edgarricesoiree • art
Harlem Shake DNS
HTML tags in DNS records causes bad webapps to do bad things
2014-09-18 funny • badtech • security • dns
LoL Worlds guide
insanely detailed guide to the esports world championship
2014-09-18 games • lol • leagueoflegends
GDC Sarkeesian bomb threat
From March 2014, a terrorist threat against feminist game critic
2014-09-17 women • sarkeesian • gamers
MapZen + Code for America
Phenomenally generous gift to support open parcel data
2014-09-17 maps • mapzen • cfa • codeforamerica • migurski
Apple stream failure
Root cause: uncacheable page, some encoding mistakes
2014-09-17 akamai • apple • cdn • caching • badtech • postmortem
XOXO summary
Decent overview of the XOXO Festival for 2014
2014-09-17 xoxofest • xoxo • waxy • conference • culture
HotS Logs
analysis of top players of Blizzard's game Heroes of the Storm
2014-09-17 games • hots • blizzard • moba
Vector tiles talk
Dane Springmeyer of MapBox gave a great talk on vector tiles
2014-09-17 maps • vectors • vectortiles • mapbox • foss4g
Love Your Condom
NSFW: sexually explicit safe sex guides for gay men
2014-09-17 sex • aids • health • gay • newzealand
Startup pitches
This American Life with @Sacca on giving startup pitches
2014-09-17 entrepreneurs • startups • sacca • podcast
Rescuing Salyut 7
Insane story of a Soviet mission to salvage a dead space station
2014-09-17 space • sovietunion • russia • via:metafilter
PUC + PG&E 4evah
State regulatory agency colluding with energy company to fix court cases
2014-09-17 sanbruno • pge • corruption • puc • california
Snackwave
The hot new trend
2014-09-16 snacks • trends • tumblr • snackwave • via:ftrain
Birth control probabilities
Nice simple data on practical efficacy
2014-09-14 via:reddit • birthcontrol • sex
GeoJSON Diff
Ruby library GitHub uses to show geographic data changes
2014-09-12 diff • git • github • geojson • maps
Strava Slide
Mapping tool; use GPS heatmaps to draw accurate maps of hiking trails, etc
2014-09-11 maps • optimization • strata • gps • id • osm
Sliptics
Promising-looking web analytics package for slippy maps
2014-09-11 analytics • web • geo • maps • sparkgeo • foss4g
Null Archipelago
All the places in the world (0,0) maps to in different coordinate systems
2014-09-10 maps • nullisland • funny • bugs
NWS Enhanced data display
Very fancy government weather map
2014-09-10 weather • maps • d3js
Cloak VPN
Very simple turnkey VPN service for MacOS and iOS
2014-09-10 via:jnoxon • vpn • privacy • security • goodtech
Star Trek in Cinerama
Lovely bit of panorama stitching
2014-09-10 startrek • tv • via:metafilter
High-speed rail in Europe
Decent map with a system overview
2014-09-09 maps • train • rail • europe • travel
US map (Alaska projection)
If the usual US map treatment of Alaska were reversed
2014-09-09 maps • funny • via:reddit • alaska
Reddit raising $50M
Rumors of fundraising from the community website
2014-09-08 reddit • fundraising • startups
Dabiq
Islamic State magazine, full of English language jihad
2014-09-07 jihad • islamicstate • syria • propaganda
Communion lunchables
Convenience products for Protestants
2014-09-07 religion • funny • food • christianity • communion
archive.today
Useful web page archival service
2014-09-06 archive • wayback • web
mitmproxy
debugging tool for HTTP, etc
2014-09-06 via:onethingwell • proxy • http
Gow: Gnu on Windows
Alternative to Cygwin
2014-09-06 cygwin • unix • windows
China v. Google MITM
Fake SSL certs in the wild
2014-09-06 china • badtech • ssl • mitm • google • security
Besançon Canon Medicinae
Interesting 13th century illuminations from a medical text
2014-09-05 medicine • medieval • france • canonmedicinae • testicles • illumination
Chef Charlie: Dont Drink and Drive
Former Google chef makes a video of remorse for a DUI
2014-09-05 driving • google • charlie • dui
Drag pro wrestlers
The Exótico tradition in lucha libré
2014-09-04 wrestling • luchalibre • drag • crossdressing • gay
Standard Markdown
Regrettably trollish name, but a good effort at standardizing humane markup
2014-09-04 markdown • markup • html • standard
Fake cell tower?
Reports that rogue cell towers are compromising US phones. Take with a grain of salt.
2014-09-04 security • badtech • cellular • mobile
Sensual Sendak
Famed illustrator did a series of lovely, erotic male illustrations for a Melville novel
2014-09-04 sendal • melville • gay • art • nude • homoerotic
New White House tech people
Megan Smith and Alex MacGillivray heading to Washington. They're good people.
2014-09-04 cto • america • us • government • amac
Xbox One launch in Japan
Sad photos of empty stores, queues set up but no one in them
2014-09-04 xbox • microsoft • japan • games
Telescope mirrors
To scale chart showing sizes
2014-09-03 mirror • telescope • astronomy
Saudi Twitter investor
Update on some interesting international investments
2014-09-03 twitter • jack • dorsey • saudi • startups • investment
uMap
Web tool for drawing on maps using OpenStreetMap
2014-09-03 openstreetmap • maps • osm
Two Factor Auth List
Simple list of Internet services providing more secure login
2014-09-03 authentication • tfa • twofactor
Fighting hospital fraud
How to deal with incorrect billing from a hospital. good luck.
2014-09-03 billing • hospital • healthcare • fraud
TVTropes: Black Index
Various terrible ways pop culture deals with race
2014-09-03 racism • magicalnegro • tv • film • criticism
MagiQuest experience
Stories from folks who've played the game
2014-09-03 games • ar • augmentedreality
MagiQuest
Augmented reality game for kids
2014-09-03 games • via:metafilter • ar • augmentedreality
Shenzhen trip report
Joi Ito and bunnie visit the greatest electronics manufacturing place in the world
2014-09-03 shenzen • china • manufacturing • circuits
Fake court order
Timeshare company Sundance Vacations sends Metafilter a fake court order. That sounds like a felony.
2014-09-03 metafilter • sundancevacations • timeshare • scam • fraud
Nix, NixOS
Unix package manager with some good properties. Supports MacOS, own Linux distro.
2014-09-03 nix • nixos • software • homebrew • linux • macos • packages
Ruin Jam 2014
Social Justice Warriors decide to ruin videogames for real
2014-09-02 games • funny • feminism
Wi-Fi Direct
Ad hoc wifi made into a standard
2014-09-02 wifi • internet • networking • adhoc • mesh
Sonos wifi change
Company is starting to trust user's WiFi networks
2014-09-02 wifi • sonos • audio
Twitter load testing
Simulating enormous traffic spikes is hard
2014-09-02 twitter • raffi • testing
GitHub font DMCA mess
Monotype goes rent-seeking
2014-09-02 copyright • dmca • monotype • fonts
Gay Board Games
70s and 80s tacky gay rights
2014-09-01 gay • games • funny
NYT on eSports
Phenomenon becoming mainstream
2014-09-01 games • esports