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