Nelson Minar @nelson@lgbt.io

TWO Hotel • Saarinen's classic airport terminal at JFK is being turned into a hotel https://www.dwell.com/article/twa-hotel-jfk-airport-eero-saarinen-open-for-reservations-d4ac1649 #linkblog #hotelSaarinenarchitecturejfktwaterminaltwatootme

Firefox about: pages • Various metadata URLs the browser supports https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/The_about_protocol #linkblog #firefoxtootmewebabout

European inland waterways • Remarkably detailed map of major navigable waterways https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/sc3/European_inland_waterways_-_2012.pdf #linkblog #mapeuropedanuberhinerhoneriversboatstraveltootmevia:reddit

WSL and floating point • long doubles don't work in the Linux-for-Windows environment. Simple workaround, should be fixed, but isn't. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/830 #linkblog #wsllinuxwindowsmathfloatingpointtootme

Heroin on the SF bus • Depressing conversation where everyone agrees if you see someone smoking heroin on the bus in San Francisco, you should probably just ignore it https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/ar6qxe/someone_on_the_31_was_smoking_heroin_the_other/ #linkblog #sanfranciscodrugsqualityoflifetootmeheroinreddit

Unbound • A modern recursive DNS resolver you can run on your own network https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/ #linkblog #dnsrecursiveinternetserverlinuxtootme

Ad code impact • Survey of web sites shows ads use up a lot of resources. Google's two main ad systems each take 300ms and are ubiquitous https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47252725 #linkblog #googleadsadblockingtechwebtootme

Paul Vixie has had enough • Famous old Unix expert goes on an anti-Google rant. He's not wrong. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/WCVv57IizUSjNb2RQNP84fBclI0 #linkblog #googlerantfunnyvia:hackernewspaulvixievixietootmedns

Streaming TV market share • Roku has the most streaming TV users in America http://fortune.com/2018/05/31/internet-video-roku-apple-tv-chromcast/ #linkblog #rokutvappletvmarkettootmestreamingcordcutter

Safe Withdrawal Rates • A detailed analysis of how much you can spend based on a retirement nest egg. Not sure I agree with all of it, but it's a very thorough framework. https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/12/07/the-ultimate-guide-to-safe-withdrawal-rates-part-1-intro/ #linkblog #moneyfinanceinvestmenttootmeretirement

Since Parkland • Young journalists profile 1200 children who were killed by guns in the year since the Parkland shooting https://sinceparkland.org/ #linkblog #gunschildrenjournalismtootme

Democrats voter database • Progress on a centralized data store for elections https://www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-dean-to-lead-new-democratic-voter-data-exchange/ #linkblog #politicsdncdemocratselectionvoterfiletootme

Emotional vocalizations • Creepy-but-cool webapp of non-linguistic sounds humans make to express emotions https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/vocs/map.html #linkblog #via:metafilteremotioncommunicationlanguagetootme

TV Signal Locator • Tool to estimate what digital TV signals are receivable at your house https://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29 #linkblog #tvcableotahdtvtootme

8088 MPH • A PC / CGA demo from 2015. Link to video, plus technical explanation of how it works https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-all-your-emulators/ #linkblog #gamesdemosdemoscenescenetootmevia:metafilterpcdos

Reddit: $0.30/user • Comparison of revenue per user for various Internet social media sites https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/reddit-users-are-the-least-valuable-of-any-social-network.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain #linkblog #redditadsadvertisingtwittervaluationsocialmediatootme

Musée des Plans-Reliefs • French museum of models of buildings, etc for war planning https://www.metafilter.com/179297/Muse-des-Plans-Reliefs #linkblog #architecturemodelsmapsfrancemuseumstootme

European hate speec compliance • Internet companies like Twitter and Facebook are doing significantly better at removing hate speech: if it's flagged, that is http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-805_en.htm#content #linkblog #twitterfacebookhatespeechnaziseuropetootme

Shadow • Cloud gaming service where it's mostly "your computer" but a high power gaming PC in a datacenter https://shadow.tech/usen #linkblog #gamingstreamingcloudtootme

World religions map • Reddit post, very detailed rendering https://i.redd.it/k4dsxobdlgf21.png #linkblog #mapsreligionredditvisualizationtootme