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