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