EU to require internet filtering? : essentially mandating IWF-style (ie. half-assed and broken) filtering in all EU countries, I would imagine
(tags: iwf eu europe filtering censorship privacy isps ireland ec)Sorting Algorithm Animations : very nice visualizations of insertion, selection, bubble, shell, merge, heap, quick and quick3 sorts
(tags: javascript algorithms coding visualization sorting demo via:reddit)blekko’s ambient cluster health visualization : nice, custom sysadmin dataviz, via Rich Skrenta
(tags: sysadmin data monitoring visualization dataviz operations charts nagios)The reality behind Area 51 : A top-secret 1960’s spy plane project called OXCART. ‘The shape of OXCART was unprecedented, with its wide, disk-like fuselage designed to carry vast quantities of fuel. Commercial pilots cruising over Nevada at dusk would look up and see the bottom of OXCART whiz by at 2,000-plus mph. The aircraft’s titanium body, moving as fast as a bullet, would reflect the sun’s rays in a way that could make anyone think, “UFO”.’ but then — isn’t that what they’d _want_ you to think? ;)
(tags: area51 ufo debunking fortean cold-war spy-planes oxcart u-2 nevada history)