Research paper

Manipulate VM disk images without having to boot the VM

Details of the online realtime game's network design

Restart servers with no downtime; some bind/accept clever hack

Source code for the BASIC that drove the Apple ][

An eventual replacement for X11 for Linux graphics

Nice long article on the history and etymology of the condiment

Like cat, but returns just a random sample

NSFWish summary of the culture of an Internet sexcam site

HTTP load generator using EC2 micro instance

Details on efforts to domesticate or tame foxes

ASCII graphs for quickie data visualization

Something weird is going on with Chinese internet, creating DDOS attacks

Alternate video player that does many formats. Better than VLC?

Some plausible stats

A new offline Wikipedia reader for iOS

New OSM map downloader, quite nice

Academy members only get DVD quality screeners, so pirates have moved on to HD sources

Government website is sending data to DoubleClick. WTF?

One of Saturn's moons is quite bizarre, including chaotic rotation.

Simple hack to fake out the stupid K-Cup DRM

Someone cut the 3 movies down to 1 very long movie

A battery powered clock that magically improves your AV system, merely by being in the same room

Hilarious re-consideration of Harry Potter

Fun looking art class at CMU

Arguments that DNSSEC is a flawed system that provides no extra security

Details on currency exchange and how rates shift dramatically

Index of thoughtful articles from James Fallows

Some inadequate words of contrition for subverting national securtiy

Friend recommends this as a nice cabin camping experience north of SF

Scenes from the movie re-created in Grand Theft Auto: Online

A choose your own adventure story in Twitter accounts

Google has a product now for a simple company website

Data visualization project showing demographic changes over time

Overview of modern CPU architecture geegaws

They've blocked themselves from being indexed on search engines.

Excellent photoessay on the oddest part of San Francisco

Ranking of Facebook popularity. Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2s6d1y/30_linkbait_phrases_in_buzzfeed_headlines_you/

Difficult challenge for a fundamentally libertarian organization

Info on the spooky big data company's customers

Depressing update from Zoe Quinn about the continued focussed harassment

benchmark possible DNS servers

From the TechCrunch article about East Palo Alto; neighborhoods by security, a tool for mortgage lenders

John Firebaugh's design experiments with D3.js

Dungeon master runs a game via Twitter

Horrible sexism

Stock photo comic from /r/youdontsurf

A bold plan to fix Muni by making Market its own route

Nice milestone for the open geodata project

Minor hack reveals government propaganda faking Internet buzz

Various street naming assumptions programmers make that are wrong

Clever web map changes projections as you zoom and pan

Amazing 1974 song, used in a Nicolas Jarr mix

Loving profile of a famous Houston plaintiff's lawyer

Anecdotes from a 19 year old at U of Texas

Notes on how to fake out various map libraries to produce web maps in different projections

Reddit's crowd interview comes through again

Argues for measuring true influence, not just pageviews or other simple things

Slightly creepy monument to reason, anonymously funded

TV fans pass downloads around on memory sticks

Javascript code to turn genealogy data into something modern

Another article about the amazing collaboration startup

A solution of sorts for large binary files in git

Yet another USB connector; this one is reversible

How the recent exploit was found

The ugly reality of stock options in the tech industry

"Is it really possible that the sound quality of bit-identical audio files is influenced by their storage medium before being delivered to the hi-fi system's DAC?"

Righteous takedown of a fawning press

Visual data browser

Watch metallic tentacles peel a grape

Ambitious looking dating sim in the RPG

New land brings out the color in cartographers

Everyone's favorite EDM looped infinitely

Optical illusion about color