Stupid Klout bar chart

Astonishingly awful information visualization

2011-12-31 bad • design • funny • infovis • klout

Exiv2

Modern EXIF manipulation code

2011-12-31 c++ • code • exif • metadata • photography • photos

Osaka red light district

Interesting Google Street View collection

2011-12-31 japan • osaka • photography • photos • prostitution • sex • streetview • via:sha

Mushing Tech

Old friend's blog on GPS and other technology used in modern dog mushing

2011-12-31 alaska • dogs • gps • mushing

Kaufmann's Posographe

An old analog calculator for photographers

2011-12-31 calculator • history • photo • photography • sliderule • via:metafilter

C215 on Flickr

One of Europe's more interesting street artists

2011-12-30 art • c215 • graffiti • streetart

HDCP attack

Bunnie takes the leaked HDCP master key and makes a MITM attack

2011-12-30 bunnie • drm • goodtech • hack • hdcp • mitm • video

ePassportPhoto

Simple service to take and crop a photo to exact requirements

2011-12-30 passport • photo • printing • service

Wineskin

Wrappers to run some Windows programs in MacOS

2011-12-29 emulator • macos • windows • wine

Twitter subpoena disclosure

Their policy says they notify users of info requests unless forbidden by law

2011-12-29 civilrights • privacy • twitter

Life Size Play Guy

Amazing vintage ad for a gay sex toy. "GREEK DESIGN".

2011-12-29 1970s • cowboy • funny • gay • sextoy

2010 Twitter ID problem

Twitter found the hard way that Javascript numbers are floats, 64 bit integers don't work

2011-12-28 float • id • integer • javascript • number • snowflake • twitter

Swiss train map / timetable

A whole country's train system in a single picture

2011-12-28 design • maps • swiss • switzerland • timetable • trains

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Javascript lulz

2011-12-28 funny • javascript • programming • typecoercion • via:hackernews

Aeronav licensing vs NOAA

An idea on how to distribute government charts with some fees

2011-12-28 aeronav • charts • faa • fees • government • licensing • maps • noaa

Chromeography

Lovely images of logo typography

2011-12-28 design • fonts • logos • typography

Unicode Frenzy

Cute little toy; random glyphs overlaid

2011-12-27 hack • unicode • via:metafilter

Epoch Converter

Simple convertor for Unix timestamps

2011-12-26 converter • epoch • posix • time • timestamp • timezone • unix

Google+ / Google Talk integration

Details of why you suddenly have way more IM buddies

2011-12-26 google+ • googletalk • im • instantmessage • social • via:hackernews

Louis CK poker scene

NFSW: Great bit of comedy writing about gay stuff

2011-12-26 comedy • funny • gay • louisck • nsfw

telnetd exploit explained

Such a dumb error. Note: MacOS may be vulnerable

2011-12-25 badtech • bsd • freebsd • macos • memcpy • security • telnetd

VC memes

It's quite funny

2011-12-24 funny • memes • vc • via:sha

Riak interview

Levelheaded description of what the database is good for

2011-12-24 nosql • production • riak

Playtomic

Analytics package for games; shows developers how people play

2011-12-24 analytics • developers • games • statistics

Super Meat Boy's database

Game connects to an unprotected MySQL server on the Internet

2011-12-24 database • facepalm • games • mysql • programming

Nativity according to Twilight

The chick from the Twilight films explains the Christmas miracle

2011-12-24 chirstmas • funny • kristenstewart • religion • twilight • via:metafilter

Flickr Xmas faux pas

Thoughtful explanation of why Flickr's Christmas graphics are unwelcome

2011-12-23 christmas • culture • flickr • religion • yahoo

FreeBSD telnetd remote root

Useless security feature itself has a buffer overflow, allowing remote root access

2011-12-23 badtech • bsd • bug • freebsd • security • telnetd

Google + Mozilla

Hard to understand without seeing the ad revenue numbers, but it's a lot of money

2011-12-22 ads • bing • firefox • google • microsoft • mozilla

Visualizing Device Utilization

Various ways to show server farm usage

2011-12-22 cpu • datacenter • heatmap • management • ops • visualization

U.S. Routes schematic map

Lovely schematic map of America's smaller highways

2011-12-22 highways • mapping • maps • unitedstates • us • via:mbostock

Etsy code-as-craft talks

Various slideshows on how they do development

2011-12-22 development • engineering • etsy • process • programming

Bill Gates, you're so crazy

It's funny

2011-12-22 billgates • funny • photo • photoshop

Lady Navy kiss video

so simple, so nice

2011-12-21 gay • gayrights • lesbian • navy

Republicans hide from cameras

Speaker of the House cut C-SPAN off

2011-12-21 camera • cspan • politics • republicans

Google Vector Layers

Map library to fetch and render vector data with Google Maps

2011-12-21 gis • google • mapping • maps • polymaps

Lesbian Navy kiss

Nice little moment

2011-12-21 equalrights • gay • kiss • lesbian • navy • tradition

Anti-social marketing

Editorial on Klout, AllThis, and other overaggressive personal marketing

2011-12-21 allthis • facebook • klout • manners • privacy • socialmedia

AntiMap

GPS track recorder for the data analysis set

2011-12-21 antimap • geolocation • gps • iphone • mapping • tracking

mg

A small / fast text editor that feels like emacs

2011-12-21 editors • emacs • mg • text • unix

1937 SF aerial map

Composite / slippy map of the great aerial archives

2011-12-21 1930s • 1937 • aerial • maps • sanfrancisco

First Round Capital

what's that word for wincing in embarassment for someone else's humiliation?

2011-12-20 ads • advertisements • funny • investment • terrible • vc

North Korean horrors

2008 story by one of Kim Jong-Il's former teachers

2011-12-20 korea • northkorea • politics • totalitarianism

CryptDB description

Semi-practical implementation of computation on encrypted data

2011-12-20 cloudcomputing • crypto • databases • encryption • security • via:metafilter

Isarithmic maps

Nice visualization technique, like a continuous chloropleth

2011-12-19 chloropleth • infovis • mapping • maps • visualization

Blizzard BattleTag

They're revamping their RealID system to allow nicknames

2011-12-19 blizzard • diablo • diablo3 • games • realid • warcraft

Bay Bridge construction cams

Watch the bridge being built in real time

2011-12-19 baybridge • bridge • camera • camweb • engineering • sanfrancisco

Twitter datastore

Notes on Twitter's MySQL setup

2011-12-19 architecture • database • mysql • scalability • twitter

Server side Javascript injection

Simple paper on risks to node.js and MongoDB. Don't eval() json. Don't use user input in queries.

2011-12-19 badtech • blackhat • javascript • security • ssji • ssjs

Mourning Kim Jong-Il

Meanwhile, in North Korea...

2011-12-19 kimjongil • korea • northkorea • totalitarianism

kim jong-un looking at things

In the grand tradition of North Korean leaders

2011-12-19 funny • kimjongun • korea • northkorea • politics

Kim Jung Il announcement

I believe this is official North Korean tv

2011-12-19 kimjungil • korea • news • northkorea • tv

RIAA's piracy

Copyright thugs are themselves thieves

2011-12-18 bittorrent • copyright • dhs • riaa • torrent

DMCA abuse

News program censored by an abusive copyright claim

2011-12-17 copyright • dmca • fairuse • journalism • news • youtube

Aurora

"Dwarf Fortress in Space"

2011-12-17 4x • dwarffortress • games • space

Foreflight on AeroNav

Big aviation software provider comments on the proposed licensing changes

2011-12-17 aeronav • faa • foreflight • maps

Canon S100

Followup to the popular S90/S95; this one includes a GPS for geotagging!

2011-12-16 camera • canon • gps • photography • photos

Efficient Frontier: $400m

Technical ad management company gets a large price from Adobe

2011-12-16 adobe • ads • efficientfrontier • google

Using BrowserID

New web signon system from Mozilla

2011-12-16 firefox • login • mozilla • openid • security • signon • via:hackernews

Star Wars Galaxies shutdown

Melancholy experience of the end of the classic MMO game

2011-12-16 galaxies • games • mmos • starwars

Another AeroNav perspective

More info on the proposed FAA chart licensing change

2011-12-16 aeronav • aviation • charts • faa • flying • maps

Perceived color brightness

A little color theory for you

2011-12-16 colorbrewer • design • hsl • hsv • lab

Iran drone hijack

They claim they jammed communications and spoofed GPS. It's plausible.

2011-12-15 aviation • drone • gps • iran • military • navigation • spying • us

SkyVector on Aeronav

Very rational response from a digital aviation chart provider

2011-12-15 aeronav • charts • copyright • faa • maps • skyvector

Weather station identifiers

Detailed, historical database

2011-12-14 data • database • icao • weather

Christmas is Coming

It's funny

2011-12-14 christmas • funny • gameofthrones • tv • winteriscoming

Jamie Wilkinson

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 culture • internet • people

Paul Hammond

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 culture • internet • people

Cal Henderson

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 culture • internet • people

Andre Torrez

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 culture • internet • people

Aaron Straup Cope

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 culture • internet • people

Joshua Schachter

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 culture • internet • people

Mike Migurski

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 culture • internet • people

Andy Baio

Interesting Internet person

2011-12-14 culture • internet • people

Spotify vs. Rdio catalogs

Andy digs in to streaming music catalogs

2011-12-14 music • rdio • spotify

AeroNav chart proposal

Terrible: $150 / user / year is untenable

2011-12-14 aeronav • aviation • charts • flying

AeroNav speculation

Guesses as to what the FAA is going to do to charge for digital charts

2011-12-13 aeronav • aviation • charts • faa • flying • government

Chinese cyberwar division

US has been figuring out who in China is doing all the hacking

2011-12-13 china • cyberwar • politics • us

Romney vs gay vet

Bigotry is harder when you're facing the victim

2011-12-13 gayrights • gays • politics • romney • via:metafilter

Weather station locations

Master database of locations of weather stations

2011-12-13 data • icao • metar • weather

SunDog: Resurrection

Project to try to rewrite a classic 1980s space game

2011-12-13 apple • apple2 • games • sundog

Google's IPv6 experience

Notes on deploying IPv6 internally for everyone

2011-12-12 google • ipv6 • routing • tcpip

Tissot’s indicatrix

A handy visual way to see projection distortions

2011-12-12 cartography • gis • mapping • maps • projection • visualization

Map projection essentials

Readable overview of projections

2011-12-12 cartography • gis • mapping • maps • projections

Javascript reprojection demo

Live running example of a raster map being reprojected

2011-12-12 gis • javascript • mapping • maps • projections

gdalwarp-js

Javascript code for reprojecting map images

2011-12-12 gis • javascript • maps • projections

Map projection gallery

overview image of a zillion global projections

2011-12-12 geography • gis • mapping • maps • mercator • projection • projections

Phoronix

Tech review site with a Linux bent

2011-12-11 hardware • linux • reviews • unix

Once Upon

1997 Web experience applied to modern sites

2011-12-11 browser • facebook • funny • google • technology • web

Don't pee on jwz

Famous nightclub owner / hacker publicly shames a DJ

2011-12-11 dnalounge • funny • jwz • music • pee • piss • toilet • urine

Youhavedownloaded.com

Collected info on public trackers: query any IP address

2011-12-10 bittorrent • copyright • privacy • torrent • trackers

Global surface archives

Collected weather data

2011-12-10 global • metars • weather

Box office bombs

Sorted by net loss

2011-12-10 films • movies

The Elder Strolls

Return of Nondrick, a character determined to behave like a normal person in Skyrim

2011-12-10 elderscrolls • funny • games • skyrim • tes

New Relic

sophisticated web application monitoring / performance tool

2011-12-09 http • monitoring • performance • web

Chrome NaCl games

Google's native code experiment is running real software

2011-12-09 bastion • browser • chrome • games • nacl • nativeclient • sandbox • security

Apple vs W3C

Apple playing the patent game to slow down standards work

2011-12-09 apple • patents • via:hackernews • w3c

jQuery fiasco

Admin deletes the entire plugin site, no backup

2011-12-09 backups • data • disaster • jquery • ops • plugins

BART Imaginary Diagram

What should be

2011-12-09 bart • bayarea • lightrail • sanfrancisco • transit

Android history

Details of the development of Google's phone OS

2011-12-09 android • google • mobile • phones

My Occupy LA Arrest

First person account of LAPD acting like thugs

2011-12-09 arrest • brutality • la • lapd • losangeles • occupy • ows • protest

CIA Black Site

Details from a prison in Romania

2011-12-08 cia • civilrights • prison • romania • torture • via:metafilter

Brokeback Perry

I knew that outfit looked familiar

2011-12-08 brokebackmountain • cowboy • funny • gay • perry • politics

Rick Perry for president

We should never forget this hateful crap passes for political discourse in the US

2011-12-08 gayrights • gays • perry • politics • republicans

Air France 447

Analysis of the transcript

2011-12-07 af447 • aviation • crash • flying • stall

Pastmapper

Map of SF as it was in 1853

2011-12-07 history • maps • sanfrancisco

Castro Theater ok?

Apparently Petrelis' post is not accurate

2011-12-07 castro • movies • sanfrancisco • theater

Castro Theater closing?

Sad, but honestly I've hardly gone in the last few years

2011-12-07 castro • movies • sanfrancisco • theater

Meigs Field update

It sits unused after Mayor Daley illegally demolished an airport in the middle of the night

2011-12-07 abuse • aviation • chicago • corruption • daley • flying • meigsfield

Don't be a free user

Maciej's hysterical essay on the value of paying for web services

2011-12-06 business • funny • maciej • pinboard • via:hackernews • web

Nivarox tour

Inside one of the two companies that make all mechanical watch parts

2011-12-06 eta • horology • nivarox • swiss • switzerland • watches • watchmaking

Zuckerberg's private photos

Rumoured new Facebook exploit: their "report abuse" tool doesn't respect privacy flag

2011-12-06 badtech • facebook • photos • privacy • zuckerberg

John Lennon's messy life

His wife, his mistress, his issues

2011-12-06 beatles • johnlennon • marriage • mistress • via:metafilter • yokoono

Garmin map drama

Users annoyed at switch between Google and Bing maps

2011-12-05 garmin • gps • maps • terrain • users

Low passes

Amazing collection of photos of airplanes flying way too low

2011-12-05 aviation • danger • flying • lowpass • via:sacca

Jepp vs Aeronav

Explication of the differences in instrument approach plates

2011-12-05 aeronav • approaches • aviation • charts • flying • ifr • jeppesen • plates

More Techcrunch sleaze

TC denies, of course, but why would you trust them?

2011-12-05 journalism • marketing • news • startups • techcrunch • via:hackernews

Anti-Mugabe spoof ad

Hysterical, a bit scary the response

2011-12-05 dictators • humanrights • mugabe • nandos • via:metafilter • zimbabwe

OSM terrain tiles

Mike Migurski releases some of his amazing map work

2011-12-05 dem • maps • osm • terrain

Alduin's Wall

Large image for the epic relief carving in the game Skyrim

2011-12-04 alduinswall • elderscrolls • games • skyrim • tes

Iran missile base explosion

On Nov 12 part of Iran's missile program blew up.

2011-12-04 isfahan • iran • israel • nuclear • us • war

Shields & Yarnell

Mime TV show in the 70s

2011-12-04 breakdancing • mime • television • tv

vmtouch

Low level tool for managing what's paged into RAM

2011-12-03 memory • performance • swap • vm

Instagram tech stack

Nicely documented list of systems

2011-12-03 django • ec2 • instagram • ops • python • scalability • via:hackernews

Reuters: 100 photos

Top photos of 2011

2011-12-03 journalism • photography • photos • via:metafilter

sonic.net on web hogs

My awesome ISP doesn't believe in caps

2011-12-03 congestion • freedom • internet • isps

xv

Popular image viewer from the 90s; fossil web page

2011-12-02 gifs • images • jpgs • via:mattcutts • xv • xwindows

Lying with chloropleths

Designing map visualizations correctly is hard

2011-12-02 chloropleth • colorbrewer • maps • visualization

Eve PVP stats

1 PVP kill every 6 seconds for 3+ years

2011-12-02 ccp • eve • eveonline • games • pvp • statistics

Fabrice Bellard

A brilliant hacker / inventor

2011-12-02 code • ffmpeg • hacker • programming • qemu

Etsy's svn to git conversion

Nice little war story. Spoiler: it worked out OK.

2011-12-02 developers • etsy • git • sourcecode • svn • vcs

Slam Bamboo

Cheesy pop band with a very young Trent Reznor on the keys

2011-12-02 music • nin • slambamboo • trentreznor

Fountain View fish market

Great little Vietnamese family fish place in Houston; excellent prepared shrimp

2011-12-01 food • houston • seafood • shrimp

GMTED2010

A new DEM; lower resolution that SRTM but more complete

2011-12-01 data • dem • geo • gis • gtopo30 • nad • ned • srtm

Pancake rap

Awesome tongue twisting rap

2011-12-01 cooking • funny • maclethal • music • pancakes • rap

Football vs. Handegg

Sports explained

2011-12-01 4chan • football • funny • soccer • sports

gooverbatim

Browser addon script to add a "yes, really" button to Google searches

2011-12-01 addon • chrome • extension • google • javascript • ui • userscript • web

Truffle oil is fake

Great chef article; I never knew

2011-12-01 cooking • food • industrial • restaurants • truffles