Care Packages for the Homeless, Pack Robots and the Return the NTRS

General Relativity

• "High-mass pulsar binary provides best test of general relativity"

Google Glass

• Google Glass Kernel Source

Simulation

• Interactive Spring Mass Damper In Javascript and HTML 5

Ancient Wisdom

• "How I Coded In 1985". Awesome reddit discussion that spawn from this post.

Computing

• "Rust, What I Learnt So Far"
• "Compiling SIMULA: A Historical Study of Techological Genesis"
• Terminus: A Unix terminal like adventure game
• J. Carmack is porting Wolf3D to Haskell
• "Fixing a Nasty Physically Modeled Engine Bug in an FPS Game"

Computer Science

• The Big O Cheat Sheet
• Math ∩ Programming: Primers. Primers on the math behind CS.

Math

• Soap Bubbles and Variational Calculus

Spaceflight

• APOD: "Humanity Explores the Solar System"

Fantasy Economics

• "Making Mordors Economy Work"

Interwebz

• "First Website Ever Goes Back Online"

Making/Robotics

• "An Arduino Based Robot For People Who Don't Know How to Build Robots"

• DARPA LS3 Pack Robot

Linguistics

• Ultraconserved words

Mississippi State

• MSU Students Chosen for UN internship

Sabermetrics

• Fangraph's Standings and Depth Charts

Aerospace

• NASA Technical Report Server Back, Crippled?

• TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image Library

Philanthrophy

• "How to Make a Homeless Care Package"

• Premade Hygience Packs

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

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