Massive scale Neolithic art in Kazakhstan

Debunking of retcon that the anti-gay law was a way to protect gay rights

Cooperative stream gaming has gone too far

A collection of impractical but beautiful maps

First photos were taken by a Soviet spacecraft using salvaged American spy film

Notes and an AMI for running games on EC2

Another major SSL certificate issuer is found lacking

Military airship escaped its tether

From Kind of Bloop; NSF visualization

A "grow the fuck up America" moment

Facebook asks its employees to try slow networks on occasion

Visualization of $1B+ valuations

A web-based network sniffer

Fun with projections through shaders

Weird failure of imagination in this article; only risk cited is "cutting the cable". How about tapping?

Survey of VC term sheets; many valuable companies have ridiculous liquidation preferences

Nice historical overview of a deadly fallacy

Smart folks picking practical tech

Sound recording of the abolitionist orator

1960s mainframe math

Bare-bones tool to turn off retweets for everyone you follow

Really bad interview with Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Nice overview of UDP and TCP (and QUIC)

amac's kid with a cool little DIY project

Deanimate a GIF

Accidental retrotypography

FCC blocks abusive treatment of prisoners

Interesting to see this kind of critique on a brand new game

Simple, clean ringtones and notification sounds

NSA is saying we now need quantum-secure crypto, what does it mean?

Good list of the current top podcasts

Map of aftermath of WW1, WW2

Google swaps its SSL codebase to its own OpenSSL fork

Horrifying description of how dense crowds of people end in deaths

My friend Karl got married by taking his bike across the river

Gigabit ethernet can produce up to 15 undetectable errors a second

Another gloriously detailed blog post on typography

League of Legends giving players exams for narcissistic tendencies

Mayor of Stockton denied entry into the US until he gave up passwords to his phone and laptop

Major new reporting on our remote assassination programs, from leaks

Theory that NSA has cracked Diffie-Hellman for a specific prime number used in a lot of crypto

Arabic graffiti for the TV show criticizes the TV show

some of the philosophy behind modern map rendering technology

Bryce's good talk on his effort to do VC a different way

Being French, it is not reliably open

constraint based layouts, includes D3 plugin

Extension for blobs goes 1.0

Story of a small tech company