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