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US effective tax rates
Excellent visualization of complex data
taxes  apple  google 
2 hours ago
sonic.net 2012 transparency report
My awesome ISP publishes how many law enforcement requests they answer
sonicnet  isp 
2 hours ago
StruttingLeo
A Reddit user who pastes in Leonardo DiCaprio in otherwise on-topic photo comments
funny  photos  leodicaprio 
3 hours ago
Rapportive
Integration brings Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc into Gmail
gmail  socialmedia  facebook  twitter  integration  hack 
6 hours ago
Making a 4k intro
What it's like to program impossibly tiny demos
demoscene  scene  4k  hacking  via:prismatic 
8 hours ago
IAmA downhill skateboarder, now parapalegic
I love the direct honesty of Reddit IAmAs.
extremesports  parapalegic  handicap  reddit 
yesterday
Origins of tumbelogs
Remembering Anarchia, Projectionist
via:hackernews  tumblr  blogs  startups 
yesterday
Tom Lane (Postgres)
Honoring an excellent contributer to the open source database
postgres  opensource  via:hackernews 
2 days ago
Pin-Up Queens
Lovely article about women who painted classic pin-up girls
art  eroticism  via:metafilter  illustration 
2 days ago
HEALPix
Another approach to tiling raster images across a globe
maps  projections  nasa  healpix 
2 days ago
World wind map tile system
One way to handle raster tiled maps of the entire globe
maps  projections  worldwind 
2 days ago
Reprojected Raster Tiles
Jason Davies doing some masterful cartography
maps  projections  d3js  geography 
2 days ago
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Funny, spoiler-filled plot recap
funny  startrek  takedown  jjabrams 
3 days ago
Tumblr payouts
Analysis of who makes what in the Tumblr sale. No idea if it's accurate, but it's plausible.
tumbr  vc  venturecapital  finance 
4 days ago
Cosmic distance ladder
The various ways we measure distances in astronomy
astronomy  physics  distance  inference 
4 days ago
Tumblr architecture
Nicely detailed article about how Tumblr operates
tumblr  architecture  systems 
5 days ago
Distributed consensus in practice
Detailed examination of how various distributed data stores actually deal with network partitions
cap  consistency  databases  redis  riak  postgres  mongodb  network 
5 days ago
Marco Arment on Tumblr
Really sweet take on Tumblr from its first employee
tumblr  yahoo  marco 
5 days ago
"massless exploration"
Intriguing idea: instead of sending mass from Earth to space, we should use mass already in space
nasa  space  physics  mass 
5 days ago
Random Access Memories review
Good writeup of Daft Punk's new album
daftpunk  music  disco 
5 days ago
Viewport Inversion
Jason Davies' amazing slippy map in Albers projection, using my vector rivers
rivers  tiles  vectors  maps  projection  d3js 
5 days ago
Modern GPU
NVidia publishes notes on how to use GPUs to do general purpose computing
gpu  performance  nvidia  via:hackernews  code 
5 days ago
How Yahoo killed Flickr
Amazingly sourced, insidery analysis of Yahoo's failed acquisition
yahoo  flickr  acquisition  mathonan 
5 days ago
Neverwinter economy broken
Stupid bug in auction house leads to real money being lost
games  neverwinter  badtech  rmah 
5 days ago
tracing.js
Simple way to hook before and after a function is called in Javascript
code  javascript  performance  via:hackernews 
6 days ago
Mighty Faggot
A lul from the Simpsons
funny  via:reddit  simpsons  gay 
7 days ago
Doodal
Awesome little fractal drawing program
drawing  art  via:waxy  portal 
7 days ago
Tumblr community guidelines
"We're not in the business of profiting from adult-oriented videos and hosting this stuff is fucking expensive"
policy  pornography  tumblr 
7 days ago
Tumbalog
Merlin Mann and I dredged up our idea to build something like Tumblr, just before Tumblr launched
internet  startup  tumblr  blogs  weblog 
7 days ago
Beidou
China's equivalent of GPS
navigation  china  satellite  gps 
7 days ago
Tumblelogs (Oct 2005)
Kottke talking about Tumblr a year before Tumblr was founded
tumblr  blogs  blogging 
7 days ago
Dymaxion maps in D3
Jason Davies amazing projection work continues
d3js  d3  maps  buckminsterfuller  dymaxion 
8 days ago
NMA on Toronto mayor crackhead
Particularly good edition of animated journalism
funny  nma  toronto  canada 
8 days ago
Welcome to Google Island
Lovely fever dream journalism by @Mat Honan
google  privacy 
8 days ago
AirNZ Flight 901
Controlled flight into terrain; in VFR, on a commercial scheduled flight. Just awful.
antarctica  aviation  accident  vfr 
8 days ago
UTA Flight 772 memorial
Beautiful earthworks memorial in a remote desert
via:reddit  aviation  memorial  earthworks  uta772 
8 days ago
Equation of time
Solar noon drifts from day to day
time  clock  analemma 
10 days ago
Mike Miguiski: coding for America
Nice blog post by Mike explaining why he's working at CfA
politics  migurski  design  codeforamerica 
10 days ago
hoverapi.py
Code to use Hover's undocumented, unsupported, unofficial dynamic DNS API
hover  dns  dynamicdns 
10 days ago
DynDNS policy change
Popular dynamic DNS service is crippling their free product
dyndns  dns 
10 days ago
Bro-sie the Riveter
Fun story about turning pinup art on its feminist head
art  feminism  gender  games  hawken  funny  via:metafilter 
10 days ago
Machines for Life
Daft Punk feature, fun HTML presentation
daftpunk  music  html5 
11 days ago
Saudi Arabia tries to hire Moxie
A country explicitly hiring someone to hack and eavesdrop
saudiarabia  civilrights  moxie  hackers  blackhat 
12 days ago
MapBox Vector Tiles
Big announcement from the awesome mapping company
maps  vectors  mapbox  tilemill 
12 days ago
pgtune
Script to magically configure PostgreSQL to your hardware
postgres  database  tuning  performance  server 
13 days ago
Indie Game: the Movie: the Case Study
Report on how their direct distribution worked out.
movies  indiegame  games  distribution  indie 
13 days ago
Hypercards
A tumblr from Wiley Wiggins, one of the stars of the film Dazed and Confused
movies  tumblr  hypercard  wileywiggins  art 
13 days ago
Face transplant IAmA
Third person in the world to get a full face transplant; answering questions on reddit
reddit  transplant  medicine 
14 days ago
iSniff-GPS
Figure out where an iPhone has been before, based on WiFi info. Brilliant.
via:hackernews  hacks  ios  badtech  iphone  apple 
14 days ago
Duran Duran: Rio
Possibly the best music video the 1980s ever produced
music  duranduran  kitsch  rio  1980s  80s 
14 days ago
Diary of a Misanthrope
Blog from a guy who killed his wife and then travelled the world on her money. Details at http://www.businessinsider.com/husband-killed-and-burnt-wife-then-traveled-around-the-world-on-her-money-2013-5
murder  blogging  travel 
14 days ago
correct answer.gif
For when you need an animated GIF saying someone is right
funny  via:reddit  gif  correct  correctanswer 
15 days ago
Google's authentication plans
Approaching logins as a serious engineering challenge
login  openid  authentication  google  passwords 
15 days ago
Ode to a shipping label
The challenges of printing ó
language  utf8  encoding  funny  ups  via:twitter 
16 days ago
Hexagonal Grids
Really beautiful, illustrated guide to game grids
games  hexagons  programming  d3js 
16 days ago
Flat Route Finder
Beautiful routing agent that takes into account slope changes
bikes  bicycling  walking  maps  elevation  slope  hills 
16 days ago
High frequency trading animation
Nice visualization of crazy quote stuffing
via:hackernews  markets  hft  visualization 
16 days ago
OpenStreetMap poster updates
Steve Coast decided to do a Kickstarter to print some updates. It's gotten.. complicated. Fun reading, he's doing great.
maps  openstreetmap  production  art  posters 
17 days ago
Hedonometer
Sentiment analysis for tweets shows average happiness
sentiment  twitter  visualization  happiness  emotion 
17 days ago
Diablo 3 auction bug
Integer overflow = broken economy. Rapidly fixed.
games  diablo  auction  economy 
17 days ago
Diablo RMAH failure
Game developer admitted at GDC that the real money auction house hurt the game
blizzard  games  rmah  auction  economics 
17 days ago
Pirate Bay: seed0
Supposedly Trent Reznor's torrent account
nineinchnails  music  trentreznor  broken 
17 days ago
Income along transit lines
Nice little D3 visualization
d3  d3js  inequality  transit  bayarea  sanfrancisco 
18 days ago
Transferring from GoDaddy to Hover
Difficulty level: hostname was registered via Google. This worked for me.
domains  google  appengine  godaddy  hover 
20 days ago
1897 bicycle superhighway
Transportation that could have been. (Paging @enf)
losangeles  bicycles  transportation 
20 days ago
Eager Pies
Iinfovis advice on turning a boring bar chart into a beautiful animated 3d pie chart
graphics  funny  infovis 
21 days ago
Willamette River poster
LIDAR makes for beauty
lidar  maps  oregon  portland  willamette 
21 days ago
Eve economics
Good interview with the economist for the online game
games  ccp  economics  eveonline  eve 
21 days ago
q.js
Asynchronous promises library for Javascript
javascript  programming  async  promises 
22 days ago
Sleazy eBay affiliates
eBay works with FBI to crack down on affiliates who played games with cookies to get affiliate payments
ebay  advertising  affiliates  fraud 
22 days ago
/r/cablefail
Images of bad network cabling
network  funny  fail 
22 days ago
ESEA = BitCoin slavers
Game utility software secretly mined BitCoins without users consent. Someone belongs in jail.
bitcoin  theft  fraud  games  esea 
23 days ago
US v Paramount
Supreme Court anti-trust case ruled that movie studios couldn't own theaters. Relevant to online distribution today.
movies  antitrust  netflix  cable  internet 
24 days ago
LEGO Breaking Bad
Excellently animated, could use a bit more of the joke
games  lego  breakingbad  via:rockpapershotgun 
24 days ago
PhoneSat packets
Hey @raffi: NASA launched some tiny satellites and relied on hams to decode the data
radio  nasa  satellite 
25 days ago
Twitter Ads open to public
Anyone in the US can run a Twitter ad campaign now
twitter  advertising 
25 days ago
Space exploration history
Takes a bit of effort, but an amazing amount of space mission history in one interactive infographic
space  astronomy  satellites  via:metafilter  infovis 
25 days ago
Wikidata
Wikipedia has a structured database behind it
data  wikipedia 
26 days ago
Alibaba buys 18% of Weibo
Huge news in the Chinese Internet scene; as if eBay bought a bunch of Twitter
weibo  twitter  alibaba  ebay  china  internet  investment 
26 days ago
NBA player comes out
Nicely personal, honest story
gay  nba  basketball  comingout 
26 days ago
MOOC market
The world of online courses, who's investing and funding
mooc  coursera  khanacademy  udacity  education 
26 days ago
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