Nelson's Linkblog 2013-11

about • archive • mastodon • feed

First woman to run a railroad

2013-11-30 history • nevadacounty • railroad • women

Empire Mine model

In Grass Valley, CA; an amazing 3d map

2013-11-30 empiremine • grassvalley • maps • model

Nuclear launch codes were set to a stupid password for years

2013-11-30 military • passwords • weapons

map visualization of people buying BitCoin

2013-11-29 bitcoin • currency • finance • money • visualization

Nevada County Gold

Tourist info for Grass Valley, etc

2013-11-29 california • grassvalley • nevadacity • nevadacounty • tourism • truckee

Details of the facts of the Beastie Boys copyright fight, with citations

2013-11-26 beastieboys • fairuse • goldieblox • legal • viralmarketing

n-e-r-v-o-u-s kinematics

3d printed flexible shapes

2013-11-26 3dprinting • art • sculpture

BEST_RAPPER_ALIVE (NSFW)

Funny, slightly juvenile Reddit account posting apropos rhymes

2013-11-23 freestyle • funny • rap • reddit

Combatant countries drawn as people

2013-11-23 maps • wwi

British Airways ad, clever interactive billboard

2013-11-23 advertising • aviation • via:reddit

NSA's strategy plan

Another Snowden document, their white paper for expanding power

2013-11-23 badtech • civilrights • nsa • snowden • surveillance

Fly American! 1933

Amazing promotional film for early commercial aviation

2013-11-23 aviation • via:metafilter

Geolocated Tweet analysis

statistical analysis of locations, sentiment

2013-11-23 statistics • twitter

100 White Albums

All at once, crazy sound experiment

2013-11-22 beatles • music • noise

Forward Secrecy at Twitter

Details on making SSL more secure against APTs

2013-11-22 security • ssl • twitter

FoxBat STOL at sea

Insane landing and takeoff on the deck of a freighter ship

2013-11-22 aviation • batshitinsane • flying • foxbat • stol

simple examples for the Python static compiler

2013-11-22 compiler • cython • python

Experience with Viruses on UNIX Systems

Paper describing 1987 experiments at Bell Labs

2013-11-22 badtech • belllabs • security • unix • virus

Rob Ford: the Movie

a new biopic starring the late Chris Farley

2013-11-21 chrisfarley • funny • robford • toronto • via:metafilter

useful notes on using the Unix backup tool well

2013-11-21 backup • rsnapshot • unix

Comparative perspectives

Various examples of classic visualizations comparing heights of mountains, lengths of rivers, etc

2013-11-21 maps • via:metafilter • visualization

Simple async in JavaScript

Some basic patterns to avoid nested callbacks

2013-11-21 javascript • mapbox • programming

Stuxnet's secret twin

The US cyberweapon was more complex than originally understood

2013-11-21 badtech • cyberwar • iran • stuxnet

MITM attacks in the wild

Results from BGP surveillance

2013-11-20 badtech • bgp • internet • mitm • security

Direct honest stories of women

2013-11-20 abortion • feminism • woman

The other side of the conversation from Gravity

2013-11-20 gravity • inuit • movies • via:metafilter

The coming tech-lash

Even the Economist gets a bit boshie

2013-11-20 economist • tech

Between Two Ferns: Justin Bieber

Everyone's favorite awkward interview show

2013-11-19 funny • justinbieber • music

Open source hacking for the inexpensive drone toy

2013-11-19 drones • uav

100 acres at pixel/4cm in < an hour

2013-11-19 drones • ebee • maps

great review of online writing in historical context

2013-11-19 ftrain • medium • writing

Famous New York graffiti gallery painted over by owners

2013-11-19 graffiti • newyork • streetart

"Make for data"

2013-11-19 make • programming • workflow

Library for building make-like dependencies, for data analysis

2013-11-19 hadoop • make • python

Googly eyes as a service

2013-11-19 funny • gif • via:waxy

Interesting, seldom used feature of Bitcoin allows multiple party authorization

2013-11-18 bitcoin • escrow

Wing Python IDE 5.0

New version has a Mac native UI!

2013-11-18 ide • mac • macos • programming • python

Hilariously snide article from the SF Chronicle about a local soft-headed nuisance

2013-11-18 funny • journalism • nudism • sanfrancisco • sf

Dead body on Google maps

An unfortunate timing coincidence of an aerial photo

2013-11-18 google • maps • newaesthetic

Glitch assets public domain

A sweet conclusion to a loved, closed game

2013-11-18 copyright • creativecommons • games • glitch • publicdomain

Python __slots__

Memory optimization for Python code

2013-11-17 optimization • programming • python

4chan parodies Hacker News

a bit on the nose

2013-11-17 4chan • funny • hackernews

browser extension that fixes many YouTube usability problems

2013-11-17 chrome • extension • video • youtube

Some interesting game history

2013-11-16 games • networking • plato

TCP in online games

Analysis of protocol effectiveness (dated?)

2013-11-16 games • internet • mmos • networking • tcp • via:marc

Enough to Eat at Home

Rob Ford + Miley Cyrus in a small bit of agitprop

2013-11-16 funny • mileycyrus • robford • toronto • via:metafilter

PlayStation 4 Teardown

2013-11-16 games • playstation

Amazing collection of little video magic tricks

2013-11-16 magic • twitter • vine

Music Animation Machine

Site for Stephen Malinowski's music visualizations

2013-11-15 music • visualization

smalin music visualizations

Artist animates musical scores

2013-11-15 music • via:reddit • visualization

Color Scheme Designer

Simple color picker tool with various color theories baked in

2013-11-15 color • colour • design

Des Hommes et des Chatons

Cats. Hunky men. Photographs juxtaposed.

2013-11-15 cats • photos • sexy

Caltrain to Mountain View

Hilarious summary of how complex the Bay Area's public transit is

2013-11-14 bart • bayarea • caltrain • funny • transit

Zenith Gamespace Pro

Console wars heat up!

2013-11-14 funny • games

Typhoon Haiyan mapping

Visualization of OpenStreetMap activity after the Philippines disaster

2013-11-14 maps • openstreetmap • osm • philippines

Remembering XOXO 2013

Great writeup from @waxpancake, making me regret deciding not to go

2013-11-14 xoxo • conference • portland • waxy

1880 red/blue map

Early election chloropleth

2013-11-12 chloropleth • maps • via:reddit • visualization

@hobu has a new geographic histogram tool, @tmcw shows us how to use it

2013-11-12 histograms • maps • visualization

Adobe password overview

Big picture of Adobe's breathtaking failure

2013-11-12 adobe • badtech • security

OpenStreetMap after the typhoon

open mapping helps save lives

2013-11-12 maps • openstreetmap • osm • philippines

Switching to MapBox JS

Quick demo of porting a simple Google Map to MapBox's system

2013-11-12 googlemaps • mapbox • openstreetmap • osm

Join Adobe and Sony password files

Two major password breaches; join on username and let the fun begin!

2013-11-12 adobe • badtech • passwords • security • sony

YouTube comment mess

YouTube's Google+ comment integration is not going wel

2013-11-12 google • via:waxy • youtube

The Art of Onfim

12th century doodles by a seven year old in Novgorod

2013-11-11 art • ephemera • history • novgorod

SF surfing myth

Great long story about trying to ride a crazy wave off San Francisco

2013-11-11 sanfrancisco • surfing

I vote we name the first floating city "Bespin"

2013-11-11 funny • space • venus

Carmen geocoder

open source geocoder by MapBox

2013-11-11 geocoding • mapbox • maps

Hungarian Gold Train

A sad example of treatment of stolen Jewish property after WW2

2013-11-11 holocaust • hungary • jewish • worldwar2

Open source routing machine

Update on OSM-based driving directions

2013-11-11 mapbox • maps • openstreetmap • osm • routing

Stroked vector map

Nice little SVG map demo

2013-11-11 maps • svg

Photos + detailed map of some of the Mission's awesome street art

2013-11-10 maps • mission • sanfrancisco • streetart

Convert big animated GIFs to smaller HTML5 embedded video. Lots of smarts

2013-11-10 animation • gifs • html5 • via:reddit

Like OpenStreetMap, but a fictional world

2013-11-10 fiction • maps • openstreetmap

Project Monarch

Crazy conspiracy theory, finding hidden symbols in movies

2013-11-09 batshitinsane • conspiracy • crazy • via:metafilter

Fuck you Google+

Hilarious music video complaining about Google+ / YouTube integration

2013-11-09 funny • google • music • youtube

Nile Rodgers AMA

Chic guitarist and Daft Punk producer answers questions

2013-11-09 chic • daftpunk • disco • music • nilerodgers

Nice article on @ev's new company doing long form writing

2013-11-09 blogging • ev • medium

Twitter's leaders

Nice post from @anildash about the strengths of various Twitter executives

2013-11-09 twitter

Rorschach doodle

Looks to be Javascript generated images in a canvas

2013-11-08 canvas • doodle • google • javascript • rorschach

TXTmob and Twitter

A description of one of the projects that helped inspire Twitter

2013-11-08 startups • twitter • txtmob

Reddit scandals

A summary of big dramas on the Internet forum

2013-11-08 drama • reddit

Tech Review on Twitter

October 2007, a relatively early piece

2013-11-08 twitter

Sally Forth on Twitter

August 31, 2007; in retrospect quite early

2013-11-08 comics • twitter

Ridgeline landing

Crazy Super Cub mountain landing, takeoff

2013-11-08 aviation • via:stellar

twitlog.blogspot.com

Very early prototype of Twitter, based on Blogger. Thanks to @waxpancake for finding it

2013-11-07 ev • twitter • via:waxy • waxpancake • waxy

The IPO process

Interesting article about the mechanics of the first day of trading in a company

2013-11-07 facebook • ipo • twitter

Twitter IPO photo

From the NYSE floor, nice photo of @ev @biz @jack @dickc et al

2013-11-07 ipo • stock • twitter

Sacramento TV news story about folks coming through Nevada City working the marijuana harvest

2013-11-07 hippies • marijuana • nevadacounty • pot

Mr. Burritoeater

Nice interview with the man behind the legendary SF burrito review site

2013-11-07 burritoeater • burritos • food • mission • sanfrancisco

Every line, every point

OSM map showing edit history

2013-11-07 maps • openstreetmap • osm

Farewell to Lou Reed

From his wife Laurie Anderson, really sweet

2013-11-06 laurieanderson • loureed • obituary

Animated GIFs + camera + random web chat

2013-11-06 chat • chatroulette • gifs • irc • via:kra

Mike Hearn on NSA

A "giant Fuck You" from a Google security engineer to NSA for their illegal activity

2013-11-06 freedom • google • nsa • snowden

Rand Paul plagiarism

Direct copies of sentences from Wikipedia, other columns

2013-11-06 plagiarism • politics • randpaul • teaparty

Skydiving mid-air collision

Insane aerial footage

2013-11-06 accident • aviation • flying • skydiving • via:reddit

Pißwasser (NSFWish)

GTA in-game ad for the fake beer brand

2013-11-04 america • funny • games • gta • murica

Dynamic hill shading

Awesome browser Javascript demo

2013-11-04 hillshading • javascript • maps

Eric Schmidt on NSA

Strong, clear denouncement of NSA's illegal spying

2013-11-04 google • government • nsa • privacy

Adobe password hints

Adobe's user dump includes plaintext password hints, from which you can easily reverse some of the passwords

2013-11-04 adobe • passwords

Adobe password stats

Some simple analysis of the 150 million accounts stolen from Adobe

2013-11-04 adobe • passwords

Adobe password structure

Details on users.tar.gz, the result of Adobe's negligence

2013-11-04 adobe • passwords

Yaoundé, Cameroon

Phenomenally detailed OpenStreetMap

2013-11-04 africa • cameroon • maps • openstreetmap • osm

Amazon Javascript SDK

Nice coverage of the new client-side Amazon API support

2013-11-03 amazon • api • aws • javascript

Amazon: federated identity code

Access AWS and other services with temporary credentials, not passwords

2013-11-03 amazon • identity • login • password

Tax-Loss Harvesting

Readable description of an investment strategy rich people use to defer taxes

2013-11-03 investment • taxes

Distributions of various technical words in Europe

2013-11-03 etymology • language • maps • via:reddit

Billion dollar startups

Nice analysis of 39 very successful startups

2013-11-02 entrepreneurship • facebook • startups • valuation

such voronoi, so tesselation

2013-11-02 d3 • d3js • doge • dogge • funny • shibe

much imprive. so amaze. wow.

2013-11-02 doge • dogge • funny • meme • shibe • via:reddit

Explore new Obamacare health plans in a simple, fast UI

2013-11-02 healthcaregov • insurance • obamacare

Hand drawn maps

Lovely little collection

2013-11-01 drawing • maps

Train Lord game

A railroad simulation game based on OpenStreetMap data

2013-11-01 games • maps • mmos • openstreetmap • trainlord • trains

Hillary Clinton on abortion

Clear, no bullshit statement of the importance of abortion to women's health

2013-11-01 abortion • clinton • kickass • politics

Android patent war

Microsoft and Apple go after Google

2013-11-01 android • apple • google • microsoft • nortel • patents