Torture, Terrorism and Thermodynamics

Aircraft

• The Air Refueling Archive

Chess

• Video commentary on chess games

Civil Rights

• "Obama’s rush to judgment: Was the Boston bombing really a “terrorist” act?"

Collaboration

• Mozilla Towtruck. "TowTruck has collaboration features like cursor-mirroring (allowing you to see your friend's cursor on the screen in real time), collaboratively editing forms and text, browsing through the site, and both text and real-time voice chat"

Computing

• "Why Concatenative Programming Matters"
• Brainfuck Visualizer
• Writing exception safe code in C++
• Beignet. OpenCL for IvyBridge GPGPUs
• Invent with Python: Hacking Secret Cyphers with Python
• "What Is Probablistic Programming?"

Culture

• "The War on the Word 'Jihad'". "... [calling terrorists jihadi] would be like calling Germans during the Second World War 'National Socialist Aryan Heroes.'"

Haskell

• "What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell". Related reddit discussion.
• Typeclassopedia
• GHC for Android

Gaming

• Port of Jedi Outcast for Linux
• Sparcraft."SparCraft is an open source abstract StarCraft combat simulation package for Windows and Linux. It can be used to create standalone combat simulations or be imported into an existing BWAPI-based StarCraft bot to provide additional AI functionality. "

Entertainment

• Star Trek Continues
• "The 'Mad Men' Writers Are Working on a Show About NASA in the '60s"

Logic

• Linear Logic

Medicine

• 800 Dollar Heart Surgery

Siege Engines

• Video: "Development of a Dynamically Tuned MURLIN Trebuchet". "Development of a MURLIN trebuchet which is tuned to work with a bending structure."

Spaceflight

• F-1B In Development

Soccer

• Offensive and defensive effectiveness of the top five European soccer leagues

Thermo

• "Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure that cools buildings in full sunlight"

Nonnifty

• Constituion Project Concludes US Practiced Torture

Woodworking

• Square Hole Drill Bit animation

Can't stop the signal

Books

• "Top 10 Space Race Biographies"

Computing

• Tools for Thought
• Pebble Smartwatch. "Want your watch to tell you when your next bus is leaving? Maybe you're jonesing to see your compile status or recent github commits.. Think push notifications, directly to your watch using the data connection on your phone. Want to check-in on your watch, or create an app that can monitor your sleep? Pebble can send data from the accelerometer and buttons back up to the internet."
• Stochastic Superoptimizer: STOKE
• "learnfun & playfun: A general technique for automating NES games". The is both funny and awesome, too.
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Can't Stop the Signal, Pierre

• France Tries to Hide 'Classified' information by forcing Wikipedia to take it down by kidnapping a Wikipedia editor.
• Fox's attack on "Jane hats" on Etsy

Gaming

• LÖVE/Love2D "an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux."
• trAInsported. Develop AIs for a future rail system.
• Shiftylook. "Part of the Namco label at NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc., ShiftyLook is all about bringing arcade classics back to life with webcomics, cartoons, games, and more! With some of the coolest creators in the business, ShiftyLook publishes webcomics for classic games like Katamari, Galaga, and Dig Dug, and introduces retro Japanese titles like Bravoman, Wonder Momo, Valkyrie and Klonoa to fans both old and new. "

Health

• "People in the South are not so fat after all -- and they lie less"

Making

• 'New $443 3D scanner on sale: “Looks awesome. Shoots lasers.”'

Mathematics and Education

• "A Mathmetician's Lament". On the state of math education.

Non-nifty

• "All-Girl Rock Band Breaks Up After Fatwa Triggers Threats Of Rape And Violence"

Nuclear Stuff

• NUKEMAP. See how a nuclear strike would affect your city.
• Pantex. The US's only nuclear bomb plant.

Sports and Culture

• Posnanski on the 1963 Loyola-Mississippi State game
• Kickalicious: Impressive Kicking of a (gridiron) football

Ted

• Amanda Palmer: "The Art of Asking". "Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan."

World Heritage

• "Peru: Heavy machinery destroys Nazca lines". Spanish Language source.

Space Turds, The Orgasm Gap and Black Hole Firewalls

Baseball

• "How Hall of Famers rank for salary in 2012 dollars"

• Natural Geographic territory of US top sports teams, including MLB, MLS, NBA, NHL and NFL

Chess

• Chess Opening Theory. Wikibook

Computing

• Best of Stackoverflow
• "Ten C++11 Features Every C++ Developer Should Use". Reddit discussion
• "Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600"
• "Introduction to x64 Assembly". x86_64
• BareMetal-OS. Written in x86_64 assembly.

Can't Stop the Signal, Mal

• Digital Public Library announced
• DBPedia "is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link the different data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data. We hope this will make it easier for the amazing amount of information in Wikipedia to be used in new and interesting ways, and that it might inspire new mechanisms for navigating, linking, and improving the encyclopedia itself."
• Book Crossing. "Breath new life into books instead of letting your old favorites collect dust - pass them along to another reader. Our online archival and tracking system allows members to connect with other readers, journal and review literature and trade and follow their books as lives are changed through “reading and releasing”."

Gaming

• 0 A.D.. FOSS RTS.
• Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast source code release. Reddit discussion

Gridiron football

• Explanation of Zone Coverage

Physics

Blackholes and Firewalls

• Reddit discussion
• "Astrophysics: Fire in the hole!". Nature article.
• Guest Blog by one of the authors of the firewall paper

Robotics

• "What Is BEAM Robotics". "BEAMers employ unusually simple designs (in comparison to traditional mobile robots) that trade some flexibility for greater robustness and efficiency in performing the task for which they are intended."

Sexuality

• "The Orgasm Gap: The Real Reason Women Get Off Less Often Than Men and How to Fix It"

Spaceflight

• Johnson Spaceflight Center History Portal
• Apollo 10 Transcript. Includes the floating turd incident.
• All of the Apollo mission transcripts