Data Anxiety

By @Nelson using TileMill (map via GitHub, under BSD license):

TileMill is a turnkey system for designing custom slippy maps for web publication. It’s very easy; in four hours I was able to create a simple map of US airports and airspace without having much background in the software or GIS concepts involved. Making a map requires a bunch of things: data, style, publication. There’s been open source ways to do this for a few years but it’s pretty complex tech, TileMill makes it much simpler. I put my project up on GitHub, the map is live.

For full text, see original post by Nelson Minar on his SomeBits blog.

Via reddit

Who ever said there wasn’t funny internet lol fodder to be found on Quora?

As long as you stay clear of me (I have been referred to as the “Grammar Police”), Quora can yield unexpected treasures. One such site was elegantly dropped in a cubbyhole on a Quora senior citizen related Q&A. That particular senior citizen seems to be a flagrant, unrepentant, amusing and mysterious troll type, by the way. This website does NOT belong to him, however.

I have not laughed this much in a long time. Excerpt from landing page:

welcome to i eat bees! stagnant as the internet is, we strive to continue to aggregate some of the best of the internet for as long as we are able to - or as long as the internet remains funny.

don’t forget that we have been overhauled for a more streamlined and effective look in compatibility with our sister site, lol wut.

please check out our pics for both fresh and stale content, stupid imagemacros, and old and new memes alike.

yours fondly,

the ieatbees crew

Make sure to click on the “Pics” link. Do view the “sister site”!

* Disclaimer: Website is safe. NOT child safe! But not truly terrible e.g. eBaum’s World is truly terrible. It is free of malware, viruses, pop-up advertising, intrusive tracking and persistent cookies. There is a single banner ad on every page, for SpyFu hosted by Google advertising, and that is all. 

** If you encounter any problems, let me know. If I think it is legitimate, I’ll give you the site owner’s name, LinkedIn profile and work contact information so you can address it directly with him. Them, actually. (Well, maybe not ALL of that info, just trying to make a point). That should not be necessary. Sometimes I wish the entire internet would be like this: A true Web Of Trust.

via usagov:

New rules from the Department of Transportation give airline passengers more rights…

• If you’re involuntarily bumped from a flight, you can receive twice as much compensation as before.
• Airlines must refund your baggage fees if they lose your luggage.
• Tarmac delays…

Very sensible requirement: Airlines must refund your baggage fees if they lose your luggage. There was another item on the list, requiring certain disclosures of information, which I was equally pleased about.