Computing edition

• Bayesian Methods for Hackers. The topic is interesting, the IPython/Github setup looks really cool in general.

• Processing 2. Programming language for visual applications.

• antiweb. The opposite of the web literate programming tool.

Functional Programming

• The Essence of the Iterator Pattern

• "The future of software, the end of apps, and why UX designers should care about type theory"
  • reddit discussion

• "Map fusion: Making Haskell 225% faster"

• "Stream Fusion: From Lists to Streams to Nothing at All"

• "Data analysis with Monoids"

• "Haskell from C: Where are the for Loops?"

Gaming

• Mineflayer. Minecraft bots.
• "Game Development Archeology: Zelda on Game Boy comes with source"

Hacking

• "Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go" * reddit discussion

Internet

• Invite Online Computer Topic Aggregator: lobse.rs

• brython. Python Implementation in JavaScript with Access to DOM.

• acheron. "Acheron is a Common Lisp (CL) to JavaScript (JS) compiler. Programs are written in a subset of CL and after compilation executed in a webbrowser. Acheron has native functions that are written in JS and are the bridge between CL and JS."

Programming Challenges

• Hacker Rank

• Quixey Challenge Fix a bug in one minute.

Simulation

• "Optimizing Code for the ESA"

• "Real Time Garbage Collection Is Real"

Version Control

• "The Git Parable" A parable explaining Git.

Nifty Links Returns

• "The Secret History o the U-2". And Area 51 is acknowledged.

• Interactive Craft Brewery Map

• "So You Still Don't Understand Hindley Milner?". Type inference Explained.

• Obama/NSA "Yes We Scan" Poster

• Alan Turing, Yours In Distress. Note the syllogism.

• Clean Code Cheat Sheet

• Reddit Through History

• Museum of Reddit

• Book: Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation

• Ars: Ultrabooks and Convertibles from Computex

Legal AIs, Smart Dogs, Universe Simulators and Warp Drive Howtos. Even More SciFi like than usual.

Animals

• Peregrine Falcon Mounted With Camera

• Speak Dog

• "Dog Sniffs Out Grammar". Chaser the border collie learning grammar.

• Chaser's Website and Book

Astronomy

• "RIP and good planet hunting, Kepler"

• Jupiter's Moons' Positions Twitter Feed

• Universe Sandbox. Interactive astronomy software.

Computing

• Terra: A low-level counterpart ot Lua

• "Why Python?"

• Neuroimaging in Python

• "Learn Git Branching"

• ClippyJS "Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia."

• NVIDIA "Modern GPU "is code and commentary intended to promote new and productive ways of thinking about GPU computing."

• gitdown "is a script which moderates your git committing activity based on your blood alcohol content (BAC)."

• David Wheeler's Page with security and FOSS links.

• "Comparing Julia and R vocabularies"

• Fabien Sanglard's Code Reviews. Also, his technical books post

• Leap Motion Gesture Interface

• Open Relativity Engine

• Reddit discussion on the effects of programming on the brain

Source Formatters

• GNU Indent

• Artistic Style

• Universal Indent

Backups and Network Attached Storage

• NAS Finder

• Hacking Buffalo NASs

Quantum Computing

• "D-Wave’s quantum optimizer pitted against traditional computers"

• "Introduction To Quantum Computing"

Science

• Open Science Framework

• Earning a PhD studying a model theory

• Ansatz: Progress by Guesswork

• List of Free Science Books

Spaceflight

• "The secret laser-toting Soviet satellite that almost was"

• Indian Mission to Mars

• Stratolaunch moving to solid fuel "Pegasus II" vehicle

• White-Juday Warp-field Interferometer

• "Warp Field Mechanics 101"

• Starship Century by Benford and Benford. "This groundbreaking anthology of science and science fiction is based on findings and discussions of the 100-Year Starship Symposium held in 2011. In it, top scientists tackle the opportunities for our long-term future in space. Alongside them, science fiction authors explore the dream and the possibilities."

Physics

• "Quantum Mechanics: Get Real". "Do quantum states offer a faithful representation of reality or merely encode the partial knowledge of the experimenter? A new theorem illustrates how the latter can lead to a contradiction with quantum mechanics."

• The Theoretical Minimum. "is a series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses taught by world renowned physicist Leonard Susskind. These courses collectively teach everything required to gain a basic understanding of each area of modern physics including all of the fundamental mathematics."

Education

• "Math anxiety: who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against it"

• Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in Computer Science

• Engineering Redshirts program

Whiskey

• Custom Whiskey by the Barrel

Cyberwarfare

• "U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback"

• Forge-Mil. Department of Defense opensource community and services. Related reddit comment

Data

• The Sonification Handbook. "This book is a comprehensive introductory presentation of the key research areas in the interdisciplinary fields of sonification and auditory display."

• The Dictionary Of Numbers "is an award-winning Google Chrome extension that tries to make sense of numbers you encounter on the web by giving you a description of that number in human terms."

Literature/Writing

• Authors' diagraming of works

• Map of the Revelation Space Universe

• CreateSpace "provides free tools to help you self-publish and distribute your books, DVDs, CDs, video downloads and MP3s on-demand on Amazon.com"

Journalism

• New Yorker announces leak/whistleblower submission system

Culture

• A perspective on the problems associated with being male

• Baseball for the blind

• Nathan Fillion Masters the Sword

• "Using science to reform toxic player behavior in League of Legends"

• Easter Egg Wiki

Law

• International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law

Gaming

• Minecraft scale Earth
• Massic Chalice Kickstarter

Life

• "Strucutred Procrastination"

• "How Not To Commit Suicide"

• Engagement Ring with Induction powered LEDs

• Yak Shaving. See also, "structured procrastination".

• 200 dollar 3D printer

Linguistics

• "Analyzing The Language Of Suicide Notes To Help Save Lives"

• Google N-grams

History

• Ben Franklin's Prudential Algebra

• British National Archive World War 2 and Cold War Intelligence files released. British National Archives interrogations about the man behind the Munich bombing attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

Math

• "Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap". Yitang Zhang makes important advance in regarding the twin primes conjecture

• "An Introduction to Tensors for Students of Physics and Engineering"

• "Jewish Problems". "This is a special collection of problems that were given to select applicants during oral entrance exams to the math department of Moscow State University. These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people and other undesirables from getting a passing grade. Among problems that were used by the department to blackball unwanted candidate students, these problems are distinguished by having a simple solution that is difficult to find. Using problems with a simple solution protected the administration from extra complaints and appeals. This collection therefore has mathematical as well as historical value."

• The Art Of Problem Solving Online math problem community.

Weather

• Birth of the tornado that devestated Moore, Oklahoma

• Tornado Tracks for the past 56 years

International Relations

• Insightful Comment on North Korea

Sports

• "CourtVision: New Visual and Spatial Analytics for the NBA"

Baseball

• Cinncinati Bearcat Baseball Celebrations

• MLB Pitching/Strikezone data

• Mike Trout Zero WPA Cycle

• Jose Bautista and a huge game

• Hustle Doubles. Parra's s the best

Government and Civil Liberties

• "Gov’t agrees to destroy data seized in political interrogation at airport"

Care Packages for the Homeless, Pack Robots and the Return the NTRS

General Relativity

• "High-mass pulsar binary provides best test of general relativity"

Google Glass

• Google Glass Kernel Source

Simulation

• Interactive Spring Mass Damper In Javascript and HTML 5

Ancient Wisdom

• "How I Coded In 1985". Awesome reddit discussion that spawn from this post.

Computing

• "Rust, What I Learnt So Far"
• "Compiling SIMULA: A Historical Study of Techological Genesis"
• Terminus: A Unix terminal like adventure game
• J. Carmack is porting Wolf3D to Haskell
• "Fixing a Nasty Physically Modeled Engine Bug in an FPS Game"

Computer Science

• The Big O Cheat Sheet
• Math ∩ Programming: Primers. Primers on the math behind CS.

Math

• Soap Bubbles and Variational Calculus

Spaceflight

• APOD: "Humanity Explores the Solar System"

Fantasy Economics

• "Making Mordors Economy Work"

Interwebz

• "First Website Ever Goes Back Online"

Making/Robotics

• "An Arduino Based Robot For People Who Don't Know How to Build Robots"

• DARPA LS3 Pack Robot

Linguistics

• Ultraconserved words

Mississippi State

• MSU Students Chosen for UN internship

Sabermetrics

• Fangraph's Standings and Depth Charts

Aerospace

• NASA Technical Report Server Back, Crippled?

• TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image Library

Philanthrophy

• "How to Make a Homeless Care Package"

• Premade Hygience Packs

Torture, Terrorism and Thermodynamics

Aircraft

• The Air Refueling Archive

Chess

• Video commentary on chess games

Civil Rights

• "Obama’s rush to judgment: Was the Boston bombing really a “terrorist” act?"

Collaboration

• Mozilla Towtruck. "TowTruck has collaboration features like cursor-mirroring (allowing you to see your friend's cursor on the screen in real time), collaboratively editing forms and text, browsing through the site, and both text and real-time voice chat"

Computing

• "Why Concatenative Programming Matters"
• Brainfuck Visualizer
• Writing exception safe code in C++
• Beignet. OpenCL for IvyBridge GPGPUs
• Invent with Python: Hacking Secret Cyphers with Python
• "What Is Probablistic Programming?"

Culture

• "The War on the Word 'Jihad'". "... [calling terrorists jihadi] would be like calling Germans during the Second World War 'National Socialist Aryan Heroes.'"

Haskell

• "What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell". Related reddit discussion.
• Typeclassopedia
• GHC for Android

Gaming

• Port of Jedi Outcast for Linux
• Sparcraft."SparCraft is an open source abstract StarCraft combat simulation package for Windows and Linux. It can be used to create standalone combat simulations or be imported into an existing BWAPI-based StarCraft bot to provide additional AI functionality. "

Entertainment

• Star Trek Continues
• "The 'Mad Men' Writers Are Working on a Show About NASA in the '60s"

Logic

• Linear Logic

Medicine

• 800 Dollar Heart Surgery

Siege Engines

• Video: "Development of a Dynamically Tuned MURLIN Trebuchet". "Development of a MURLIN trebuchet which is tuned to work with a bending structure."

Spaceflight

• F-1B In Development

Soccer

• Offensive and defensive effectiveness of the top five European soccer leagues

Thermo

• "Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure that cools buildings in full sunlight"

Nonnifty

• Constituion Project Concludes US Practiced Torture

Woodworking

• Square Hole Drill Bit animation

Can't stop the signal

Books

• "Top 10 Space Race Biographies"

Computing

• Tools for Thought
• Pebble Smartwatch. "Want your watch to tell you when your next bus is leaving? Maybe you're jonesing to see your compile status or recent github commits.. Think push notifications, directly to your watch using the data connection on your phone. Want to check-in on your watch, or create an app that can monitor your sleep? Pebble can send data from the accelerometer and buttons back up to the internet."
• Stochastic Superoptimizer: STOKE
• "learnfun & playfun: A general technique for automating NES games". The is both funny and awesome, too.
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Can't Stop the Signal, Pierre

• France Tries to Hide 'Classified' information by forcing Wikipedia to take it down by kidnapping a Wikipedia editor.
• Fox's attack on "Jane hats" on Etsy

Gaming

• LÖVE/Love2D "an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux."
• trAInsported. Develop AIs for a future rail system.
• Shiftylook. "Part of the Namco label at NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc., ShiftyLook is all about bringing arcade classics back to life with webcomics, cartoons, games, and more! With some of the coolest creators in the business, ShiftyLook publishes webcomics for classic games like Katamari, Galaga, and Dig Dug, and introduces retro Japanese titles like Bravoman, Wonder Momo, Valkyrie and Klonoa to fans both old and new. "

Health

• "People in the South are not so fat after all -- and they lie less"

Making

• 'New $443 3D scanner on sale: “Looks awesome. Shoots lasers.”'

Mathematics and Education

• "A Mathmetician's Lament". On the state of math education.

Non-nifty

• "All-Girl Rock Band Breaks Up After Fatwa Triggers Threats Of Rape And Violence"

Nuclear Stuff

• NUKEMAP. See how a nuclear strike would affect your city.
• Pantex. The US's only nuclear bomb plant.

Sports and Culture

• Posnanski on the 1963 Loyola-Mississippi State game
• Kickalicious: Impressive Kicking of a (gridiron) football

Ted

• Amanda Palmer: "The Art of Asking". "Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan."

World Heritage

• "Peru: Heavy machinery destroys Nazca lines". Spanish Language source.

Space Turds, The Orgasm Gap and Black Hole Firewalls

Baseball

• "How Hall of Famers rank for salary in 2012 dollars"

• Natural Geographic territory of US top sports teams, including MLB, MLS, NBA, NHL and NFL

Chess

• Chess Opening Theory. Wikibook

Computing

• Best of Stackoverflow
• "Ten C++11 Features Every C++ Developer Should Use". Reddit discussion
• "Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600"
• "Introduction to x64 Assembly". x86_64
• BareMetal-OS. Written in x86_64 assembly.

Can't Stop the Signal, Mal

• Digital Public Library announced
• DBPedia "is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link the different data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data. We hope this will make it easier for the amazing amount of information in Wikipedia to be used in new and interesting ways, and that it might inspire new mechanisms for navigating, linking, and improving the encyclopedia itself."
• Book Crossing. "Breath new life into books instead of letting your old favorites collect dust - pass them along to another reader. Our online archival and tracking system allows members to connect with other readers, journal and review literature and trade and follow their books as lives are changed through “reading and releasing”."

Gaming

• 0 A.D.. FOSS RTS.
• Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast source code release. Reddit discussion

Gridiron football

• Explanation of Zone Coverage

Physics

Blackholes and Firewalls

• Reddit discussion
• "Astrophysics: Fire in the hole!". Nature article.
• Guest Blog by one of the authors of the firewall paper

Robotics

• "What Is BEAM Robotics". "BEAMers employ unusually simple designs (in comparison to traditional mobile robots) that trade some flexibility for greater robustness and efficiency in performing the task for which they are intended."

Sexuality

• "The Orgasm Gap: The Real Reason Women Get Off Less Often Than Men and How to Fix It"

Spaceflight

• Johnson Spaceflight Center History Portal
• Apollo 10 Transcript. Includes the floating turd incident.
• All of the Apollo mission transcripts

Chaos Theory and Tacocopter

Animal Intelligence

• "The Brains of the Animal Kingdom". "New research shows that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence. Primatologist Frans de Waal on memory-champ chimps, tool-using elephants and rats capable of empathy."

Computing

• Simulating Tearable Cloth in Java Script
• three.js. "JavaScript 3D library: The aim of the project is to create a lightweight 3D library with a very low level of complexity — in other words, for dummies. The library provides <canvas>, <svg>, CSS3D and WebGL renderers."

Arduino

• "Your robot army, controlled by Arduino and Bluetooth". Bluetooth plus Arduino means phone controlled EVERYTHING!

Gaming

• BananaBread. WebGL and Javascript multiplayer FPS that runs on Firefox.

• Unreal 3 In the Browser.

• Terasology. Minecraft meets Dwarf Fortress. And open source!

Realtime Linux

• "Intro to Real-Time Linux for Embedded Developers"

• Xenomai: Real-Time Framework for Linux. "Xenomai is a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel, in order to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user-space applications, seamlessly integrated into the GNU/Linux environment."

Languages

• "A Criticism of Ruby"

Chaos Theory

• omegatau podcast on chaos. Very good.

Ethics

• "Entire library journal editorial board resigns, citing 'crisis of conscience' after death of Aaron Swartz"

• Stephen Pinker on Emotion, Reason and Moral Progress. 20 minute video.

Mental Floss

• Mental Floss on Youtube. Hosted by John Green.

Racism and Politics

• "Alabama lawmaker's email: 'Slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, snaggle-toothed kin folk'"

UAVs

• Unmanned Vehicle University. Offers MS and PhDs. Looks like a for-profit and otherwise shady. Trashes on ABET in it's About page but doesn't actually say who they wish to accredit them. Podcast I found this in.

• Tacocopter

Stars Wars Was an Inside Job and the 4th Amendment Strikes Back

Computing

• "Change the MAC address of an Ethernet interface". With details on unicast and local bits.
• Implementation of XKCD StackSort. Relevant xkcd, see the alt text.
• Using a neural net for March Madness bracket
• Matrices, a computer graphics tutorial and reddit discussion
• "Why Lua"
• John Carmack: "Latency Mitigation Strategies" for Virtual Reality interfaces
• Object Replication and Message Reording in network games

Spaceflight Computing

• "SpaceX lessons learned" developing software for space vehicles.

Culture

• The Death Star Was An Inside Job.
• LibriVox. "LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books."
• Spoken Wikipedia

Internet

• Reddit discussion on hidden gemm websites. Potentially NSFW.

Gaming

• roll20.net. Crowdfunded HTML5 based table top gaming interface.

Secret Government and Civil Rights

• "Gagging recipients of National Security Letters found unconstitutional"
• "NASA Technical Reports Database Goes Dark". Apparently for political purposes. Related.

UAVs

• Summer of Drones. "Our goal is to highlight the non-military potential of UAVs, bring together people from different programming communities, and learn some interesting new stuff while having fun with flying robots."

Writing

• Whedon's Writing Tips

Back in the Plutonium Business

nix Some Unix Tricks

• Rasbian. The story of Debian for Raspberry Pi.

Augmented Reality

• "How Guys Will Use Google Glass"
• "Sight". Short futurist piece. Haven't watched it entirely yet.
• Congress. Android app for tracking Congress. From the Sunlight Foundation.
• Space Engine. "is a free space simulation software that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, starting from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by human astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets!" It looks to be GPLv2 licensed.
• GoPro wearable and mountable cameras

Aircraft

• USAF Museum A-1 Was Still Fueled

Anti Aircraft

• "(Free) SAM (Surface to Air Missile System) Simulator"

Blogs

• Podcast list: "Enlightened Geek Listening"

Chess

• Hardware Chess Set

(Distributed) Computing

• 'Crowdsourcing the cloud to find cures for rare and “orphaned” diseases'. BOINC based ab initio drug analysis.
• BozoCrack "is a depressingly effective MD5 password hash cracker with almost zero CPU/GPU load. Instead of rainbow tables, dictionaries, or brute force, BozoCrack simply finds the plaintext password. Specifically, it googles the MD5 hash and hopes the plaintext appears somewhere on the first page of results."
• Selfoss. "multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application"
• ownCloud "gives you universal access to your files through a web interface or WebDAV. It also provides a platform to easily view & sync your contacts, calendars and bookmarks across all your devices and enables basic editing right on the web. Installation has minimal server requirements, doesn’t need special permissions and is quick. ownCloud is extendable via a simple but powerful API for applications and plugins."
• "Algorithmic Trading For Dummies"

Government

• Muckrock. "Filing Freedom of Information Requests doesn’t need to be difficult. At MuckRock, we are dedicated to wading through the muck so our users don’t have to. What does this mean for you? Less time spent mitigating complex bureaucratic processes so that you can focus on analyzing and reporting on the issues that matter most to you and your organization or business."

Haskell

• "You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)"

Medicine

• MetaMed. From Less Wrong, "If you have a sufficiently serious problem and can afford their service, MetaMed will (a) put someone on reading the relevant research literature who understands real statistics and can tell whether the paper is trustworthy; and (b) refer you to a cooperative doctor in their network who can carry out the therapies they find."

Memes

• Hitler finds out Google Reader is shutting down.

Panspermia

• "Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Fireball Fragments". Arxiv link. As noted in the article, rather controversial.

Philosophy

• "The Philosophy Of Computer Science"

Reasoning

• "Paul Krugman Is Brilliant, but Is He Meta-Rational?"

Security

• Brian Krebs SWATted. SWATting

Soccer

• "The Final Championship of the Third Reich"

Spaceflight

• STRaND-1 Smartphone nanosat
• "U.S. Starts Making Plutonium". For space probes.
• DIY Rocket Challenge

Storytelling

• "Pixar's 22 Rules for Storytelling"

TED

• Sugata Mitra: "Building a School in the Cloud". "Knowledge is obsolete... It's not about making learning happen, it's about letting learning happen."
• Dan Pink on Motivation

UAVs

• RCExplorer. "Exploring the RC world, one crash at a time."

Warfare

• North Korean Missile Capabilites
• Reddit Discussion and an Article on the F-35

While Size Doesn't Matter, This One Is Huge... and the Porn Survey is in the Middle

Aircraft

• Project Zero Electric Tiltrotor

Biology

• Rotary Jawed Shark brings whole new meaning to phrase "saw tooth"

Books

• DIY Book Scanning
• Calculus For Infants
• Lauren Ipsum. "A story about computer science and other improbable things. Laurie is lost in Userland. She knows where she is, or where she's going, but maybe not at the same time. The only way out is through Jargon-infested swamps, gates guarded by perfect logic, and the perils of breakfast time at the Philosopher's Diner. With just her wits and the help of a lizard who thinks he's a dinosaur, Laurie has to find her own way home."

Clocks

• WWVB. "WWVB is the station that radio-controlled clocks in most of North America use to synchronize themselves."

Computing

• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours. Writing a Scheme interpreter in Haskell quickly. Intended as an introduction to Haskell.
• "Best Practices for Scientific Computing"
• "WAT". Humorous interpretation of violating the principle of least surprise.
• "Duke Nukem 3D Code Review"
• Analyzing Haskell for Performance
• Boxen. "a framework for managing almost every aspect of your Mac."
• asm.js. Javascript as assembly language for compiler targetting.
• Evolving Game AIs using Genetic Algorithms. Reddit discussion
• Forth Warrior. Programming puzzle game. "Forth Warrior is a game of programming, stabbing and low cunning. "
• OpenBLAS. GotoBLAS (ridiculously fast linear algebra code) opensourced.
• XINU. Teaching OS in 8k lines of code..
• Primordial C Compiler written by Dennis Ritchie
• Resurgence in Neural Networks
• Zero Install. "Zero Install is a decentralised cross-platform software installation system available under the LGPL. It allows software developers to publish programs directly from their own web-sites, while supporting features familiar from centralised distribution repositories such as shared libraries, automatic updates and digital signatures. It is intended to complement, rather than replace, the operating system's package management. 0install packages never interfere with those provided by the distribution."
• Reddit Discusion on Hypercomputation

Math

• GAP. "Groups, Algorithms, Programming - a System for Computational Discrete Algebra"
• Emacs Calc has a variety of language modes including C and LaTeX.
• Project Euclid. "Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement, these publishers join forces and participate in an online presence with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their intellectual or economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices. Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important components of the project."
• Recursion Theoretic Hierarchies. Hypercomputation related
• "From Set Theory To Category Theory"

Science

• PeerJ. "PeerJ makes access to research free to all and affordable to publish for academic authors & their institutions."

Internet Memes

• The Harlem Shake

TED

• iO Tillett Wright.
• Tyler DeWitt: Exciting, accessible science
• Cesar Kuriyama. "One Second Everyday".
• "You Should Learn to Program"

Electric Cars

• Super Electric BMW E9
• Kerfluffle Over Tesla S test drive. Another test drive by CNN.

Derbys

• Space Derby

Meteorites

• "Meteor Explodes Over Russia Injuring Hundreds". Wiki page

Political Viewpoints

• Dan Carlin's Common Sense: "Pie-In-the-Sky Cynicism" Dan Carlin addresses education and citizenship in an accerlating technological society. Yeah, he's swinging towards singularity. He just said "exponential change".

Interwebz

• ISBN to BibTex converter

Porn

• "Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers". Probably should be treated as Not Safe For Work

Letters

• "I love my wife. My wife is dead.". Richard Feynman

Brainz

• Viewing 3D movie fixes 67 year old man's lack of stereovision
• "Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface"

Chess

• Ward Farnsworth's Predator At the Chessboard: A Field Guide to Chess Tactics. Awesome guide to chess tactics.

Truth

• The Washington Post's TruthTeller. "The goal of Truth Teller is to fact check speeches in as close to real time as possible."
• Gapminder. "'Fighting devastating ignorance with fact-based worldviews everyone can understand.' Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Magicomedy

• Kyle Eschen. Dry. Funny. Magical.

Dogs

• Zoe does acrobatic tricks and maybe sorting?
• Dognition. "Dognition now makes it possible to bring this science home and unlock your own dog's mysteries and abilities."

Depressing

• "'Imagine the Worst Possible Scenario': Why a Guantanamo Prosecutor Withdrew From the Case"
• US AG Eric "Holder does not rule out drone strike scenario in U.S."

Robotics

• Gazebo is a multi-robot simulator for outdoor environments.
• 3 Doodler. Freehand 3-D printer/sketcher. Could it be modded into a print head for an automated 3-D printer.

Music

• Kathleen Edwards.
• AWOLNation's "Sail"

Philosophy

• "The Deep Insights of Alan Kay"

Linguistics

• International Phonetic Alphabet

Materials

• Ars Looks To Test UltraEverDry

Potato Cannons

• Nucler Potato Cannon. Manhole cover accelerated to ~5 times escape velocity by small nuclear detonation.

History

• Mississippi Department of Archives and History Maps on Flickr

Spaceflight

• NASA Online Trajectory Analysis

Space

• Earth At Night From Space

Battlin' NFL Mascots, Beautiful Models at TED, Pole Dancing... and lots more that doesn't turn heads as quickly

Android

• OpenWhisperSystems. Open source encrypted phone calls and text messages for Android

Art

• Fantastic Impressions of NFL Mascot Battles

Bio-Hacking

• Genspace. "New York City's Community Biolab"

Markup

• reStructuredText Tools.

TED

• Model Cameron Russell On Modelling

Aircraft

• Iran Reveals F-313 Fighter

Health

• "WHO Model List of Essential Medicines"
• David Lazarus on Healthcare/Insurance System Costs

History

• Timbuktu Manuscripts Thought Destroyed Largely Remain

Dia

• Creating Custom Shapes In Dia. A Howto for the easy way. Note that I had to make line thicknesses pretty heavy to see the lines

Civil Rights

• Obama's Justifications for Unconstitutional Assassinations Leaked. Reason blogpost.

Math

• New Mersenne Discovered

Computing

• "Compiling to the Lambda Calculus"
• The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed. "With the exception of this introduction, the writing in this book was all done by a computer."
• "Dynamically Translating x86 to LLVM using QEMU"
• "Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer"
• Periodic Table Of Perl Operators
• "The Algebra of Algebraic Data Types. "In this series of posts I’ll explain why Haskell’s data types are called algebraic - without mentioning category theory or advanced math."

Tag

• 20+ Year Game of Tag

Pole Dancing

• Library Pole Dancing

Copy/civilrights

• "European Court Of Human Rights: No, Copyright Does Not Automatically Trump Freedom Of Expression"

Awesome Intro to Building Programming Languages, George Orwell Talks A-Bombs, Arianne 5 pieces washing up on Mexico's shores and more

Astronomy/Space

• "Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 DA14 to Miss Earth on February 15, 2013". I actually think it would be a good thing if 2012 DA14 took out a satellite.

Computing

• Strange undefined behavior in C/C++. What does INT_MIN % -1 do?
• Armed Bear Common Lisp Common Lisp via the JVM.
• Clojure: Functional Programming for the JVM
• Introduction to Programming Languages. Brown Univesity, looks awesome. Building Python from scratch using Racket. Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi is interesting and amusing.
• School of Haskell
• The Unix School. "The Unix School is a blog on Unix. This website will blog everything under Unix, such as Unix command line stuff, C & System Programming, Shell Scripting, awk/sed, Perl scripting, Unix Administration and definitely some soft skills. The common saying is only 2% of the actual Unix is used by developers/system administrators."
• Functional Programming Introductory Lectures
• "#/g/sicp Gentoomen Programming, Computer Science, Wizardry, and General Technology Book Library"

Discourse

• Intelligence Squared US Debates

History

• George Orwell: "You and the Atomic Bomb". "And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be foundgenerally true: that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, thanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon--so long as there is no answer to it--gives claws to the weak. "

Linux

• "Learn Linux The Hard Way (β version)". An interactive guide to command line *nix.

Maps

• Marble. "Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps. Find your way and explore the world!"

Music

• SuperCollider. "SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server."
  • SuperCollider Tweets. Supercollider compositions in 140 characters
• "Carry On" played by trombone quartet

Spaceflight

• Insightful comment on different types of space exploration advocates
• Arianne 5 Aeroshroud Washes Up On Mexican Beach
• "Details Emerge of Chang’e-2 Asteroid Encounter". Probe nearly accidentally collided with asteroid. 3.2 km pass.

Sport

• "Judge Rules NCAA Athletes Can Legally Pursue Television Money"

Surplus

• Government Liquidation. A portal for finding surplus military equipment of all sorts.

Version Control

• Pro Git. Online book on git.
• "This Old (Open Source) House: Man Renovates Home on GitHub"

Wiki-life

• Wikipedia:xkcd in popular culture

A Week's worth of Lifty Ninks

Anthropology/History

• Polynesians visited South America and took sweet potatos home with them

Art

• Art in QR codes

Baseball

• Joe Posnanski's Musial Retrospective

Books

• Search Engine/Library for Ebooks. "The world's largest ebook library"

Computing

• "How Particle Physics Is Improving Recommendation Engines"
• NES in FPGA
• Parsing and Evaluating PHP in Haskell
• Ohloh. "is a free, public directory of Free and Open Source Software and the contributors who create and maintain it. Ohloh Code is a publicly available, free code search site that indexes most of the projects in Ohloh."
• TPIE. The templated portable I/O environment. Written for/in C++ "TPIE is a library for manipulating large datasets on a desktop computer. TPIE provides implementations of several external memory algorithms and data structures as well as a framework for efficient and portable data processing"
• SciPy Lecture Notes

Culture

• Freakanomics Experiments. "Sometimes in life you face a major decision, and you just don’t know what to do. You’ve considered the issue from every angle. But no matter how you look at it, no decision seems to be the right decision. In the end, whatever you choose will essentially be a flip of a coin. Help us by letting Freakonomics Experiments flip that coin for you.

Education

• "Why Smart Poor Students Don't Apply to Selective Colleges and How to Fix It"

Excessive Cosplay

• Working Iron Man Laser Gauntlet

Gaming

• Bethesda taking beta applications for Elder Scrolls Online
• Company using custom Portal 2 Levels in it's application process
• Embedded reports from 500 person Combat LARP
• Reddit discussion on 2800 player EVE battle. Different post, awesome comment. The Mittani article.

History

• ORBIS. "The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World"
• Hardcore History: Fear, its context and its manipulators. "Using the two 20th Century "Red Scare" eras as case studies, Dan looks at the fear that can be generated by potentially dangerous ideas and examines the way such powerful mass emotions can cloud human judgment."

Logic

• Logic. Online text on logical reasoning. Book is out of print

Math

• Documentary on the Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
• Finite Fields and Reed-Solomon Coding

Medicine

• Reversible Male Birth Control via injection of polymer gel

Mind Maps

• Mindmup. Online, opensource mind mapping.
• Blumind. "Blumind is a lightweight and powerful mind mapping tool, and it is free." Windows only, it appears.

Music

• Lenny Kravitz Here's "Fly Away" being played down the streeet, shows up, joins in

Spaceflight

• "DARPA Unveils Robotic Plan to Reuse/Recycle Satellites"
• Saturn V Gas Generator Recreated and Tested
• Masten Space Systems Postgraduate Fellowships
• Deep Space Industries. Another asteroid mining group.

Society

• Insightful commentary on post scarcity in reddit discussion

xkcd

• Swimming in Fuel Rod Disposal Pools

When the Earth was hit by a Gamma Ray Burst, Optimal Seasoning of Cast Iron Pans and Traditional Revealing Korean Outfits

Astronomy

• Earth Hit By Gamma Ray Burst in 775 AD

Chemistry

• Blog Syn. "Crowdsourcing meets Organic Synthesis. Speed and Aplomb." A site documenting bloggers' attempts to use published methods to create chemicals.

Cooking

• Optimal Cast Iron Pan Seasoning. And the chemistry behind it.

Computing

• Brainfuck CPU
• Topcoder ISS Solar Panel Configuration Competition. "The goal of the challenge is to position the solar collectors on the International Space Station to generate as much power as possible during the most difficult orbital configuration."
• Linux being developed away from Unix philosophy. "I’m not sure that this is a bad design, but it is most definitely not UNIX or anything like it."
• ShareLaTeX. Collaborative LaTeX environment.
• texlive.js. LaTeX in JavaScript and thus runnable in the browser.
• Myrddin. A functional flavored close to metal language.

Culture

• Slant: StackOverflow for subjective questions. "Slant helps you decide on subjective topics quickly. Instead of having to read multiple blog posts or dig through comment threads you can read summarized perspectives on topics with no definitive answer."

• Korean historical dress and exposed female nipples. Makes good sense from a breastfeeding standpoint. Not safe for puritanical work environments. See also wiki page on Décolletage

• Isaac Asimov's Visions of the Future

Information Theory

• Youtube Series of shorts on Information Theory

History

• Hardcore History Podcast

Music

• The Correspondents' "Well Measured Vice" Video. Animated by hand by the lead singer.

Productivity

• "Programmer Interrupted". Discussion on the properties of a task and the (human) memory types in utilizes and how they affect interruption response.

Science

• "Metamaterials perform image compression before light reaches the sensor". Not sure if the compression is lossy or not.

Spaceflight

• Fingernail clipping in space

Minecraft in Schools, Rapid Fire Archery, Inflatable Space Station Modules

Academia

• Academia.edu."Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research."

Biology

• Microbes in Glass.

Computing

• "Graph Traversal: solving the 8-puzzle with basic A.I.".

• Walmart Labs. Walmart's technology branch. They even have an active GitHub account

• "Mixing C and C++ Code in the Same Program"

• "The Visual 6502" Full microprocessor simulation in Javascript

Education

• Swedish school integrates Minecraft into its curriculum

Engineering

• "Kerosene lamps face gravity-powered usurper"

Martial Arts

• Explanation of historical archery. And an awesome video.

Journalism

• CNET/CBS row and the limits of disclosure

Spaceflight

• Bigelow Aerospace contracted to create inflatable modules for ISS

• Under the Hood with the SpaceX Merlin Engine

The Best Sports Writing 'Til Posnanski, The Slingshot Channel and the Tapeworm-pomorphic principle

Computing

• "How to implement an algorithm from a scientific paper"

• Yet another CS reading list

Economics

• "From Simplistic to Complex Systems in Economics"

Electronics

• Multifunction Tattoo: Resistor Color Code, Ruler, Sexuality Statement

Philosophy

• Tapeworm Logic. "Welcome to the Fermi paradox, mired in shit. Shall we itemize the errors that the tapeworm is making in its analysis?"

Slingshots

• The Slingshot Channel.

Sports(writing)

• "What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?". "Regarded as perhaps the finest piece of sportswriting on record, the furious saga of Teddy Ballgame — from boy to man and near death — is an unmatchable remembrance for an American icon."

Spaceflight

• Gun Launched Space Missions Video

Study

• "How to Read a Paper" (PDF)

News

Aviation

• Glider Pilot harassed and arrested for legal overflight of nuclear plant

Amazing Pickpockets, Noise Hot Nickels, Linux Powered Rifles and Way More

Entertainment

• Video of Apollo Robbins, Amazing Pickpocket."He is probably best known for an encounter with Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service detail in 2001. While Carter was at dinner, Robbins struck up a conversation with several of his Secret Service men. Within a few minutes, he had emptied the agents’ pockets of pretty much everything but their guns. Robbins brandished a copy of Carter’s itinerary, and when an agent snatched it back he said, “You don’t have the authorization to see that!” When the agent felt for his badge, Robbins produced it and handed it back. Then he turned to the head of the detail and handed him his watch, his badge, and the keys to the Carter motorcade." --The New Yorker

• "Sleep No More : What It’s Like Inside the World’s Most Interactive Play".

Computing

• Battlecode.
  • MIT Site. "Teams of one to four students enter 6.370 and are given the Battlecode software and a specification of the game rules in early January. Each team develops a player program, which will be run by each of their robots during Battlecode matches. Contestants often use artificial intelligence, pathfinding, distributed algorithms, and/or network communications to write their player. At the final tournaments, the autonomous players are pitted against each other in a dramatic head-to-head tournament. The final rounds of the MIT tournament are played out in front of a live audience, with the top teams receiving cash prizes. The total prize pool is approximately $40,000. "

• Android Accessory Development Kit, "The Accessory Development Kit (ADK) is a reference implementation for hardware manufacturers and hobbyists to use as a starting point for building accessories for Android. Each ADK release is provided with source code and hardware specifications to make the process of developing your own accessories easier. Creating new and alternative hardware based on the ADK is encouraged!"

• "An Aristotelian Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming"

• 12 CS Books

• Embedded Linux Wiki

• 1 Year Online Post Baccalaureate Computer Science Degree. "This is a unique post-baccalaureate program in computer science that is possible to complete in one year. The program is offered by Oregon State University's renowned School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and delivered online through OSU Ecampus."

• "Decorators and Functional Python"

• "What every computer science major should know"

• UTHash. "Any C structure can be stored in a hash table using uthash. Just add a UT_hash_handle to the structure and choose one or more fields in your structure to act as the key. Then use these macros to store, retrieve or delete items from the hash table."

Spaceflight

• Russian Simulated Trip to Mars Summary

• "Bigelow Aerospace Signs Space Station Module Deal With NASA"

Medicine/Biology

• Oncolytic virus. "An oncolytic virus is a virus that preferentially infects and lyses cancer cells; these have obvious functions for cancer therapy, both by direct destruction of the tumour cells, and, if modified, as vectors enabling genes expressing anticancer proteins to be delivered specifically to the tumor site."

• Threat of Untreatable Gonorrhea rising

New Hotness

• Hot Nickel sphere dropped in water. Make sure the sound is on.

• High Effeciency Solar Steam Generation With Nanoparticles (and without concentrators)

Society

• SMBC On Privacy and the "Nothing to hide" argument
• "What 186 MPH of Wind in the Face Looks Like". The idea for Blow Job came during an open studio event in his hometown of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Cern decided he wanted to do something “entertaining, that would make people laugh and in which everyone could participate.” The idea to blow wind into people’s faces popped into Cern’s head. He made a special light source to create a clean background for the images and then had an assistant turn on a wind machine while Cern took the pictures.

Augmented Reality Rifles

• "$17,000 Linux-powered rifle brings “auto-aim” to the real world"

Culture

• '“Buffy vs Edward” remix unfairly removed by Lionsgate'
• "Look How Far We’ve Come Apart". "But America is not united and it is getting less and less unitable with each passing decade. You can see us coming apart in three simple graphs."

Copyright

• New Media Rights. "New Media Rights is a non-profit program that provides legal services, education, and advocacy for Internet users and creators."

Cosmology

• Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model. "is a parametrization of the Big Bang cosmological model in which the universe contains a cosmological constant, denoted by Lambda, and cold dark matter. It is frequently referred to as the standard model of Big Bang cosmology..."

3-D Printing

• Shapeways. "Shapeways is a 3D Printing marketplace and community"

Education

• Peeragogy. "This book, and accompanying website, is a resource for self-organizing self-learners."

Standardization

• ISO 4074:2002 "Natural latex rubber condoms -- Requirements and test methods"

Math

• GMailTeX. "GmailTeX is a plugin which adds (La)TeX capability to Gmail and Gmail Chat."