Nelson's Linkblog 2011-01

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Nice video from a little plane

2011-01-31 aerial • aviation • camera • flying • sanfrancisco

spotted this in the air the other day, near Carmel. Not a public airport

2011-01-31 airports • california

Car j’ai un sale caractère

Heartbreaking story of an old woman who was the caretaker for an apartment building in Paris

2011-01-31 apartment • france • paris • urban

RC helicopter weaponized

Funny video of a toy helicopter shooting fireworks at hydrogen filled balloons

2011-01-31 boys • fireworks • flying • radiocontrolled • rc • rchelicopter • via:metafilter

Approach Control

iPhone air traffic control game with a somewhat realistic design

2011-01-30 atc • flightcontrol • games • iphone

Twitter profile

Good overview of where the business stands

2011-01-30 costolo • twitter

A discreet organization that does high end Internet security research

2011-01-30 botnets • internet • security

google.org update

Charitable side of Google is still finding its way

2011-01-30 charity • google • philanthropy

call.jsonlib.com

A simple JSONP proxy to allow circumventing same origin policy

2011-01-29 appengine • code • javascript • json • jsonp • programming

Clean, simple Google Maps style interface to aviation charts

2011-01-28 aviation • flying • maps • sectionals

A political arty game about Wikileaks

2011-01-28 games • wikileaks

Earthrounder, twice

Guy flies a 182 around the world, twice

2011-01-28 aviation • earthrounder • flying • pilot • travel

Egypt goes offline

How to remove a whole country from the Internet

2011-01-28 bgp • egypt • freedom • internet

Where people swear

Analysis of tweets for profanity. Not very clear, other than Utah is polite

2011-01-28 language • swearing • twitter • visualization

Pirating the 2011 Oscars

Andy's roundup of the movie piracy scene

2011-01-28 movies • piracy

Paste in some text geometry describing a space, it maps it!

2011-01-28 geo • geojson • gis • pastebin • wkt

Central coast in California. Tasty, but expensive.

2011-01-27 abalone • california • food • shellfish

State of the Union

Nicely annotated real time

2011-01-26 obama • politics • president • sotu

Simple site for viewing geographic data

2011-01-26 ewkt • geojson • geopastebin • hacking • maps • pastebin • wkt

sausage pork beef cheese whole milk butter margarine nuts and

2011-01-25 food • funny • via:metafilter

A tool to convert LLVM to javascript, to run in a browser. gcc emits LLVM, so you can run pretty much any C code in a browser

2011-01-25 code • gcc • javascript • languages • llvm • lua • python

Early networked gaming

2011-01-25 computers • games • plato

Friend recommends this backup software

2011-01-25 backup • windows

Keep My Opt-Outs

Google Chrome extension to opt out of some online advertising tracking

2011-01-24 ads • advertising • chrome • google • privacy

Smallest planes

A little history on the competition to have the smallest planes

2011-01-24 airplanes • aviation • flying • record • smallest

World's smallest plane

The Bumble Bee II. Stalls at 75kts, that's awfully scary.

2011-01-24 aviation • bumblebee • flying • scary

Operation Eagle Claw

The failed attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran in 1980. Lots of interesting special ops aviation

2011-01-24 aviation • deltaforce • fail • flying • iran • specialops

Video of some unusually small planes

2011-01-24 airplanes • aviation • cricket • cricri • flying • video

Worth1000: Minecraft

Screenshots of various creations. Quality varies.

2011-01-24 games • minecraft

Launch your own satellite for $8000. Some restrictions and limitations apply.

2011-01-23 radio • satellite • space

Multi-use radio service

Spectrum available to any and all. Like CB.

2011-01-23 cb • murs • radio

Great article about Renaissance doctor costumes

2011-01-23 assassinscreed • costume • doctor • plague • renaissance • via:pb

Python 3.x compatible code

Nice notes on how to write Python 2.6 code that should work in 3.x

2011-01-22 code • programming • python • unicode

event driven programming for python

2011-01-22 asynchronous • code • concurrency • performance • python

Python coroutines

2011-01-22 code • concurrency • coroutines • python

A webapp service for collecting error logs from other webapps

2011-01-22 code • development • software • webapps

Trapster was hacked

FAQ about the incident: 10M accounts compromised

2011-01-22 badtech • passwords • security

808 micro cameras

Super-cheap Chinese video cameras

2011-01-22 camera • china • hacking • video

Joseph Smith photograph

Interesting story; the prophet of the LDS lived at just the edge of time where photographs were possible. Is this him?

2011-01-22 daguerrotype • history • josephsmith • lds • mormons • photography • photos • religion

Larry Page profile

Reasonably good article

2011-01-22 founders • google • larrypage

Clarus the Dogcow

A little funny Apple history

2011-01-22 apple • dogcow • icons • moof • susankare

MacRumors Buyer's Guide

reads the tea leaves on when new Apple products may be released

2011-01-21 apple • ipad • iphone • macos • macs

A Java decompiler used by the folks reverse engineering Minecraft

2011-01-21 badtech • decompiler • games • java • minecraft • obfuscation

Sunfire Offices

Co-working space in Mountain View, optimized for keeping interesting people together

2011-01-21 coworking • google • office

A funny review of an unreleased awful Nintendo game

2011-01-21 aliens • famicom • fds • games • via:metafilter

A sort of metalibrary for Javascript maps

2011-01-21 code • javascript • mapping • maps

Making The Glif

Fantastic blog post describing how to prototype, manufacture, and ship a physical object

2011-01-20 iphone • make • manufacturing • via:waxy

Interactive analytic grapher, neat Javascript demo

2011-01-20 browser • html • javascript • math • via:metafilter

Super Mario Bros. X

Fan-made SMB-style game, contains a huge variety of beloved Mario references

2011-01-20 games • nes • smb • snes • supermario • via:metafilter

Really good guy, great security engineer

2011-01-20 google • libevent • neilsprovos • openssh • security

A new map base layer designed for compositing

2011-01-19 cartography • gis • maps • openstreetmap

An API of sorts

2011-01-19 gps • spot • tracking • xml

crazy, well illustrated story

2011-01-19 kids • play • via:metafilter

Heroku for Django?

Current state of the value added Django hosting world

2011-01-19 django • hosting • python • servers

Weird internals of browsers

2011-01-19 browser • dom • html • javascript • programming • via:metafilter

A guy flying solo around the world

2011-01-19 adventure • aviation • cessna • flying

A website for people who've flown small planes around the world

2011-01-19 aviation • flying • pilots • travel

First ever carrier landing

100th anniversary of the first guy to land on a boat. Great photos.

2011-01-18 aviation • carrier • flying • navy • photos • sanfrancisco

Leave Steve alone!

Journalist calls for privacy for Jobs

2011-01-18 apple • ethics • journalism • privacy • stevejobs

Flickr releases a large database of geodata

2011-01-17 flickr • geodata • geojson • gis • polymaps • shapefiles

Data scraping guide

Tips on using Google Refine, getting data out of Flash, PDF, HTML

2011-01-17 data • database • excel • pdf • scraping • via:waxy

Girl's Guide To Having An Abortion

Direct, no-nonsense description of procedures

2011-01-17 abortion • civilrights • pregnancy • sex • via:metafilter • women

Minecraft reverse engineering

The game code is released as obfuscated Java binaries, so there's a team that decompiles and deobfuscates it

2011-01-17 code • drm • games • java • minecraft • obfuscation

History of Gaming

Sweet video showing classic game consoles

2011-01-17 gaming • history • nes • snes

Nicely complex sequencer

2011-01-16 games • minecraft • music

Stuxnet development

stuxnet cyberwarfare iran israel

A website streaming live television, seemingly without any permission from the copyright holders

2011-01-16 copyright • television • tv • video

Jared Loughner forum collection

He posted regularly to a game forum as "Dare". The posts are full of crazy

2011-01-15 games • internet • loughner • murder

Visualization failure

Interesting attempt to do something that fails entirely; combining colours to represent data is a bad idea

2011-01-15 data • fail • income • via:metafilter • visualization

1972 Internet map

Interesting turnover

2011-01-14 1972 • internet • map

Minecraft music: Portal

Minecraft's new music feature. Each block triggers a single note, so there's a lot of sequencing

2011-01-14 minecraft • music • portal

A modern Usenet client, optimized for downloading binaries

2011-01-14 binaries • nntp • usenet

Death wears bunny slippers

What it's like to be staff in a nuclear missile silo

2011-01-14 airforce • military • missiles • nukes • snuggie • weapons

Tolkien elf sex

Meticulously researched notes from the source

2011-01-14 elves • fantasy • lotr • sex • tolkien

Cee Lo / Fuck You in ASL

Nice sign language performance

2011-01-13 asl • ceelo • language • music • performance • sign

Tea Party Jesus

Political rhetoric from the mouth of Jesus

2011-01-13 jesus • politics • satire • teaparty

A nice course in a bunch of open source geographic apps

2011-01-13 geoserver • gis • opengeo • openlayers • postgis

Applebaum's immigration abuse

Security expert who works with Wikileaks is harassed at the border

2011-01-13 border • civilrights • customs • immigration • security • tor • wikileaks

GA flying to Europe

Good pilot's site talking abuot a dream trip

2011-01-13 aviation • europe • flying • pilot

AirPrint for Windows

If you have an iOS device and want it to print on a Windows network

2011-01-12 airprint • ios • ipad • iphone • printer

I-gotU GPS logger

Interesting looking GPS logger / tracker. Retails for about $90

2011-01-12 geography • gps • mapping • tracking

I don't get why Google cares, but I'm glad to see them supporting IPv6

2011-01-12 google • internet • ipv6 • isp

March Madness vasectomies

Urologists in Oregon market the idea of having a vasectomy during college basketball, so you can enjoy the weekend off and watch the game

2011-01-12 sports • vasectomy • wtf

Youth Guardian Services

Electronic mailing lists for young people who want to discuss gender / sexual identity

2011-01-12 gay • glbt • lesbian • support • youth

Twitter / Wikileaks subpoena

Great story about Twitter's forcing the subpoena disclosure, including details on their awesome general counsel Alexander Macgillivray

2011-01-11 amac • civilliberties • twitter

Ice Pilots teaser

Great TV show not available in the US (other than BitTorrent). Second season starts tomorrow

2011-01-11 aviation • flying • icepilots

Historic Aerials

Nice UI showing overhead imagery dating back to 1946, or older

2011-01-11 aerial • gis • googlemaps • history • maps • photos

One of my favourite bad movies. "Are you eating it.. or is it eating you?"

2011-01-11 funny • horror • movies

2011-01-11 belllabs • computers • photography • photos • via:metafilter

Sand Collection

Great set of magnified photographs of various kinds of sand

2011-01-10 geology • photos • sand • via:kottke

Hilarious Microsoft product placement in Hawaii Five-0

2011-01-10 advertising • bing • google • microsoft • television • tv

A hierarchical encoding of latitude and longitude; longer codes are more specific

2011-01-09 geocoding • latitude • longitude • maps

Great tool for diagnosing internet link quality

2011-01-09 diagnostic • internet • tcpip

Dive into HTML5 stats

Mark reflects on who bought his book on HTML5. MSIE has been abandoned by the web developer community

2011-01-09 html • html5 • internet • markpilgrim

Amazing analysis of how all the buffering in the Internet is causing degraded network performance

2011-01-09 bandwidth • internet • isps • latency • tcpip

Kenwood TH-D72 review

Interesting new ham radio sends position updates via APRS

2011-01-09 amateur • ham • kenwood • radio

Minter comments on a wacky Christian game

2011-01-09 christianity • games • minter • religion

Terry Richardson's Diary

Tumblr-style blog from the well known photographer

2011-01-09 art • photography • photos • porn • terryrichardson

Twitter wikileaks subpoena

DoJ is working on building a case against Assange and/or other Wikileaks folks

2011-01-08 civilrights • twitter • wikileaks

Great 1860 chloropleth of slavery

2011-01-07 america • history • maps • slavery • visualization

Joust is not coming back

Concise explanation of how certain types of game difficulty are not fun and not used in modern games

2011-01-07 design • difficulty • games • joust

Boba Fett origins

Details of how Lucasfilm marketed a minor character

2011-01-07 bobafett • lucasfilm • marketing • starwars • via:metafilter

Spam count drop

Three botnets stopped sending spam last month

2011-01-07 badtech • botnet • email • spam • via:metafilter

Read the fucking HIG

Good old fashioned rants about bad interface design, from the Apple store

2011-01-07 apple • design • hci • macos • userinterface

Twitter ain't enough

Anil points out that short, ephemeral media is not enough for sharing ideas online

2011-01-06 blogs • culture • internet • twitter

Ascension flightless bird

An odd story of finding skeletons of a flightless bird only seen in 1656

2011-01-06 ascension • ascensionisland • birds

Ascension Island terraforming

Thoughtful piece on a fascinating place

2011-01-06 ascensionisland • ecology • islands • terraforming

Paul's angel investing

Amazingly open disclosure on one ex-Googler's angel investments

2011-01-06 angel • facebook • friendfeed • google • investing • startups • ycombinator