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