The Stack - Week 24/2014

Audio

• Lossless audio compression with libpng (HN)
• absorptions: Time-coding audio files

Comics

• The Cartographer Who Mapped Out Gotham City
• Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.

Culture

• The Young, Tattooed, Obsessive Fans Roaming Disneyland

Fun

• Twitter / BearsActHuman - my favorite twitter account right now

Game Development

• Game Development with Unity 2D – part 5: A grid of Roman centuriae
• OpenGameArt.org

Games

• Factorio
• Pixelo

ISEE-3

• How to Talk to a 36-year-old Space Probe (ISEE-3) with GNU Radio, a USRP, and a Big Dish

Languages

• A Linguist On the Story of Gendered Pronouns

Lua

• Typed Lua: An Optional Type System for Lua (HN) (pdf)
• Olivine-Labs/lua-style-guide

Movies

• INTERACTIVE: 5 Minutes of 10,000 Movies at ONCE

Security

• Red Button Flaw Exposes Major Vulnerability In Millions of Smart TVs