Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 3rd from 20:08 to 13:35:

• Dynamic hill shading in the browser | MapBox – OK, pretty cool
• A Wearable Fitness Tracker For Diehard Gym Rats | Co.Design | business + design – "products like Fitbit and FuelBand–which aim to make you feel as if engaging in normal human locomotion earns you some sort of health-guru merit badge"
• List of cyberpunk works – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Still not haxploitation category.
• Solid 2014 – O’Reilly Conferences, May 21 – 22, 2014, San Francisco, CA – First blush is that this looks like a new ETech?
• Software, hardware, everywhere – O’Reilly Radar – Introducing Solid, a new conference I'm co-chairing with @Joi about the collision of software and the physical world
• The Google File System makes NSA’s hack blatantly illegal and they know it – I, Cringely –