2012 Jul 28, 2:35
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a new online service that makes key demographic, socio-economic and housing statistics more accessible than ever before. The Census Bureau’s first-ever
public Application Programming Interface (API) allows developers to design Web and mobile apps to explore or learn more about America’s changing population and economy.
technical api census statistics stats web restful rest 2012 Jul 19, 5:58
Breakdown of the bytes of a Windows executable in a big old chart!
technical windows programming 2012 Jun 7, 9:12
So this is another Stuxnet by Israel/US?
The analysis reinforces theories that researchers from Kaspersky Lab, CrySyS Lab, and Symantec published almost two weeks ago. Namely, Flame could only have been developed with the backing of a
wealthy nation-state. … “It’s not a garden-variety collision attack, or just an implementation of previous MD5 collisions papers—which would be difficult enough,” Matthew Green, a professor
specializing in cryptography in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins University, told Ars. “There were mathematicians doing new science to make Flame work.”
technical security web internet md5 cryptography flame 2012 May 8, 5:36
Wikipedia’s alternate names for the slash include stroke, solidus, and separatrix.
humor wikipedia typography slash 2012 Apr 25, 4:23
(via Descriptive Camera)
A digital camera sends photos to Mechanical Turk service to generate a textual description and print the result on a thermal printer. Thus a camera that prints out a textual description of
what you photographed.
humor camera photo mechanical-turk 2012 Jan 30, 8:47history photo 3d 2012 Jan 16, 1:13
A scene-graph implementation in javascript & CSS 3D
technical css css3d scene-graph javascript 2012 Jan 6, 6:20
FTA: “Three mountain ranges, four lakes and a fucking Sound. That’s a geographical feature your hometown hasn’t even heard of.”
humor via-ericlaw seattle 2012 Jan 6, 6:15map photo 2011 Jul 18, 2:38Neat idea: "When the user wants to visit a blacklisted site, the client establishes an encrypted HTTPS connection to a non-blacklisted web server outside the censor’s network, which could be a normal
site that the user regularly visits... The client secretly marks the connection as a Telex request by inserting a cryptographic tag into the headers. We construct this tag using a mechanism called
public-key steganography... As the connection travels over the Internet en route to the non-blacklisted site, it passes through routers at various ISPs in the core of the network. We envision that
some of these ISPs would deploy equipment we call Telex stations."
internet security tools censorship technical 2011 Jun 20, 11:25A cautionary tale in chart form: lesson is make sure you can always upgrade your hashing algorithm or don't have security dependencies on hashing algorithms.
reference hash encryption security table technical humor 2010 Dec 28, 10:42 2010 Sep 22, 12:13Last.fm sorts its user's music prefs by gender and age and graphs it.
music data statistics visualization lastfm age gender 2010 Jun 19, 5:03"Flickr is now offering the option for photographers to license their photos through Getty Images."
flickr economics photo legal getty-images 2010 Jun 9, 3:31"A 'geo' URI identifies a physical location in a two- or three-dimensional coordinate reference system in a compact, simple, human-readable, and protocol-independent way."
technical geo uri url ietf rfc standard 2010 Jun 7, 2:40Maps of where tourists vs locals take photos in major cities like New York, San Francisco, etc. based on geotagged photos on Flickr.
geolocation geo geography map flickr photo tourist technical visualization 2010 Jun 3, 6:32Angie's photos from my wedding. There are some excellent bunny slipper photos in there.
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