LotD: Awesomely Animated Factorization

2012-11-16

Link of the Day

Animated Factorization Diagrams

Programming and Computer Science

• Animated Factorization Diagrams
  • Animated Factorization Diagrams, no limit. The standard version has a limit of 10,000.
  • How to generate such diagrams
  • An informative discussion on the diagrams on reddit

Gaming

• Google's Android Alternate Reality Game, Ingress. Best gues I've heard about this is that it's a clever way to farm pedestrian pathing data.

Science

• Shoutout to James Shewmake's SCIENE! column. This week he's hononring Carl Sagan with a discussion of science popularizers.

Sports

• The Next Great Knuckleballer. Talented knuckleballer Chelsea Baker might have a shot at professional baseball.

2012-11-13

Programming and Computer Science

Guy Steele "Growing a Language"

Kickstarter In Space

Really, just a link round up:

Link Round-up:

Plasma Drive Prototype on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027072188/plasma-jet-electric-thrusters-for-spacecraft

Apollo Mission Control Flight Controller Console Breakdown: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/

NASA Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nasa

NASA looking for feedback on NASA API: http://open.nasa.gov/blog/2012/10/09/how-would-you-use-a-nasa-api/

Apologies for any repetition.

Open Politics Sites

Ballotpedia: An Interactive Almanac of State Politics

OpenCongress: For Tracking Congress. "Everyone can be an insider"

Physics games and Language origins

http://www.theuniverseandmore.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/24/science/0824-origins.html?ref=science

A Guy Talking about Math

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/series/steven_strogatz_on_the_elements_of_math/index.html

Bubble sort as a folk dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZQPjUT5B4&feature=youtu.be

Animaniacs putting it past the censors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eUMRhnnFhg