Asteroid Discovery Youtube video

A very cool video visualizing the rate and totals of asteroid discovery since 1980.

For your edification

"Friendly, intelligent flashcards." Also, open source and easily customizable: http://ankisrs.net

Language learning meets social networking: www.livemocha.com

Numerical Nifty Links

A variety of papers on a variety of numerical topics: http://mathalacarte.com/fkrogh/
Community of Ordinary Differential Equation Editors: http://www.codee.org/
A library of mathematical software, papers and databases: http://netlib.org/

Return of the Nifty Links

It's been a while, hasn't it? Guess we'll have to slowly get back into the feel of things, one link at a time.

And the re-inaugural link?

http://kathack.com

Turn your browser into a game of Katamari Damacy

Antarctica

Redditors and friends in Antarctica

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/aaq12/so_my_buddy_is_in_antarctica_doing_research_and/

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aas0r/iama_antarctic_researcher_who_measures_ozone/

Shackleton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton

Documentary about people in Antarctica

Iceberg!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_B-15

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_World

www.galaxyzoo.org

It's a website where people can help classify the galaxies found by the Sloan Sky Survey. Crowd sourced astronomy seems like a great idea.

Cool Book on Evolutionary Optimization and Friends

Sean Luke, a CS professor at George Mason, has made available a free book on stochastic optimization algorithms called Essentials of Metaheuristics. It looks like a really good introduction to the subject, which is, of course, a damn cool subject.