Giant Sized Nifty Links

2012-11-29

Computing

• Doom 3 Source Code Review

Culture

• "My Open Source Cure For Brain Cancer"

• Chrimstmas Cards and the Rule of Reciprocation

• Dead Bodies On Mount Everest

History

• Ask Historians Master Book List

Planetary Sciencce

• Water On Mercury

Music

• Vsauce, "Will We Ever Run Out Of Music"

• Axis of Awesome, "4 Chords, 2011"

Physics

• Minute Physics, "Is Racewalking a Sport?"

• Veritasium Slinky Drop

Education

• Veritasium, "Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos"

Sports

• Greinke, Hamilton, Mental Health, Masculinity and Dignity

Spaceflight

• DOE and NASA Demonstrate Fission Reactor Prototype

UAVs

• Stanford Teachable Quadcopter UAV

A More Adult Nifty Links

2012-11-24

Interwebz

• "Why I Left Google". Short version: Excessive focus on ads and not content and servies.

Hardware

• Making a Vagina That Listens to Your Body
Hard to see how a genuine closed loop, self tuning mastubatory aid is going to sell any slower than hot cakes.

Books and Baseball

2012-11-22

Books!

• Good Reads. Ratings tracker, recommendation engine. Looks damn cool.

Style/Culture

• Elder Chinese Man Models Women's Clothing. And he's damn good at it.

• Content aggregator evolved, even. This Is Why I'm Broke is "is a free online magazine run by a bunch of geeks who partake in way too much online window shopping. For this reason, our staff has compiled an ever growing list of cool, useful, funny, and unique products." Including:
  • Anatomically Correct Heart Necklace

Sports

• Top Minor League Baseball Teams By Attendance
  • Southern League Attendance for reference.

Web Addiction

• Several Content aggregators:
  • Too Long; Didn't Read: Concise summaries of aggregated content.
  • Longform.org: "Longform.org posts new and classic non-fiction articles, curated from across the web, that are too long and too interesting to be read on a web browser."
  • The Browswer: "We aim to help our readers discover the best writing available by recommending articles, interviews and books that are of interest to the intellectually curious reader."
  • Nifty Links: Oh, wait, you're already here... I probably should move to a format more like the others, though.

Up goer links are good

2012-11-21

Premier Link:

• The Up-goer Five Text Editor. Based off the xkcd Up-goer Five comic, this online text editor challenges you to only use words from the 1000 most common words in English. I love remix culture.

Culture

• Fiona Apple on her dog

Programming/Computer Science

Blogger's note: programming.reddit.com was a gold mine today.

• Extremist Programming. "...sometimes you should use the wrong tool for the job—because it might be the right tool, and you just don’t know it yet."
  • Reddit Discussion

• Perl, the first postmodern computer language

• Why [Somebody] has given up coding standards

• There's no such thing as software productivity

2012-11-20

• Sources of College Freshman Classes, Interactive Maps and Graphs

Food Engineering

• Natural Heat Transfer Coefficients of Chicken Drum Shaped Bodies.

A Plumber with a Portal Gun Dies A Million Deaths (but he's no coward)

Link(s) of the Day

• Micromorts. One way to look at the value of life.

• Mari0. Portal/Super Mario Brothers mashup. Open source. With multiplayer. And a level editor.

2012-11-19

Culture

• How Lazy Magnolia Brewery in Mississippi Came to be.

• Exit: The God Father of Modern Improv. Of course improv is an art. How do people have these arguments?

• "Who The Hell is Moe Berg?"

Sports

• WBC Windup is an in depth blog covering the 2013 World Baseball Classic

Video Games

• Mari0. Portal/Super Mario Brothers mashup. Open source. With multiplayer. And a level editor.

2012-11-18

Android

• The Guardian Projecct

Philosophy, etc.

• Micromorts. One way to look at the value of life.

The Standard Model, Now in Poster Form!

2012-11-17

Link of the Day

The Standard Model: The Poster. The Standard Model of particle physics is arguably the pinnacle of scientific achievement.

Math and programming

Unifying Math and Programming

Interwebz!

A couple of distributed social networking applications/frameworks: * OpenBook * tent.io

Hardware

• iFixit Nexus 4 teardown
• MorpHex RobotIt's a ball, it's spider, no it's both! It's Spiderball MorpHex!
  • MorpHex Creator's Blog/Site
  • Once again, Special Thanks to James Shewmake

Science

• The Standard Model: The Poster. The Standard Model of particle physics is arguably the pinnacle of scientific achievement.
  • Actual Posters for Sale at the Contempary Physics Education Project
  • PDF of an older version

LotD: Awesomely Animated Factorization

2012-11-16

Link of the Day

Animated Factorization Diagrams

Programming and Computer Science

• Animated Factorization Diagrams
  • Animated Factorization Diagrams, no limit. The standard version has a limit of 10,000.
  • How to generate such diagrams
  • An informative discussion on the diagrams on reddit

Gaming

• Google's Android Alternate Reality Game, Ingress. Best gues I've heard about this is that it's a clever way to farm pedestrian pathing data.

Science

• Shoutout to James Shewmake's SCIENE! column. This week he's hononring Carl Sagan with a discussion of science popularizers.

Sports

• The Next Great Knuckleballer. Talented knuckleballer Chelsea Baker might have a shot at professional baseball.

2012-11-13

Programming and Computer Science

Guy Steele "Growing a Language"

Kickstarter In Space

Really, just a link round up:

Link Round-up:

Plasma Drive Prototype on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027072188/plasma-jet-electric-thrusters-for-spacecraft

Apollo Mission Control Flight Controller Console Breakdown: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/

NASA Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nasa

NASA looking for feedback on NASA API: http://open.nasa.gov/blog/2012/10/09/how-would-you-use-a-nasa-api/

Apologies for any repetition.