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