Up goer links are good

2012-11-21

Premier Link:

• The Up-goer Five Text Editor. Based off the xkcd Up-goer Five comic, this online text editor challenges you to only use words from the 1000 most common words in English. I love remix culture.

Culture

• Fiona Apple on her dog

Programming/Computer Science

Blogger's note: programming.reddit.com was a gold mine today.

• Extremist Programming. "...sometimes you should use the wrong tool for the job—because it might be the right tool, and you just don’t know it yet."
  • Reddit Discussion

• Perl, the first postmodern computer language

• Why [Somebody] has given up coding standards

• There's no such thing as software productivity

2012-11-20

• Sources of College Freshman Classes, Interactive Maps and Graphs

Food Engineering

• Natural Heat Transfer Coefficients of Chicken Drum Shaped Bodies.

A Plumber with a Portal Gun Dies A Million Deaths (but he's no coward)

Link(s) of the Day

• Micromorts. One way to look at the value of life.

• Mari0. Portal/Super Mario Brothers mashup. Open source. With multiplayer. And a level editor.

2012-11-19

Culture

• How Lazy Magnolia Brewery in Mississippi Came to be.

• Exit: The God Father of Modern Improv. Of course improv is an art. How do people have these arguments?

• "Who The Hell is Moe Berg?"

Sports

• WBC Windup is an in depth blog covering the 2013 World Baseball Classic

Video Games

• Mari0. Portal/Super Mario Brothers mashup. Open source. With multiplayer. And a level editor.

2012-11-18

Android

• The Guardian Projecct

Philosophy, etc.

• Micromorts. One way to look at the value of life.

The Standard Model, Now in Poster Form!

2012-11-17

Link of the Day

The Standard Model: The Poster. The Standard Model of particle physics is arguably the pinnacle of scientific achievement.

Math and programming

Unifying Math and Programming

Interwebz!

A couple of distributed social networking applications/frameworks: * OpenBook * tent.io

Hardware

• iFixit Nexus 4 teardown
• MorpHex RobotIt's a ball, it's spider, no it's both! It's Spiderball MorpHex!
  • MorpHex Creator's Blog/Site
  • Once again, Special Thanks to James Shewmake

Science

• The Standard Model: The Poster. The Standard Model of particle physics is arguably the pinnacle of scientific achievement.
  • Actual Posters for Sale at the Contempary Physics Education Project
  • PDF of an older version

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