An AI Created Game, History in Color and Keynes vs Hayek

Computing/Gaming

• A Puzzling Present. A game for Android, Linux, Mac and Windows with mechanics designed by an AI.

• Blaze, the next generation of NumPy

Aerospace

• ALTA: "Alta is a leading European small company in the aerospace propulsion sector. We operate in research and development on space electric propulsion, chemical propulsion and aerothermodynamics. Our company provides testing services, high vacuum systems and facilities and space systems design and computational simulation tools. With a successful record of technology transfer cases, we are also active in the energy and industrial plasma sectors."

Historical Photography

• Shorpy "is a vintage photo blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago."

• 1930s-40s in Color

Culture

• Peers Inc.. A specific example of the evolving economic model of network/peeraging/brand managing crowd sourced corporations.

UAVs

• UAV High bandwidth network. Literally Skynet

Rap battles

• "Fear the Boom and Bust" the Hayek vs. Keynes Macroeconomics Rap Album

• Epic Rap Battles of History

Terrifying Botany and Oscilloscope Playing Music

Terrifying Botany

• Dendrocnide moroides. "It is the most virulent species of stinging tree". Virulent species of stinging tree‽ Australia is terrifying.

Sometimes Terrifying Zoology

• The Ark In Space. "A compendium of creatures"

Computing

• Ars: GPU Clustering and Password Cracking

• Grabcad: "Free 3D CAD models from a community of mechanical engineers". The licensing rules are not immediately apparent.

Linux

• Command Line tool lists
  • Some useful Open Source Terminal Apps
  • Reddit discussion on the above
  • Long list of Linux terminal tools
• SparkleShare: "an Open Source (self hosted) file synchronisation and collaboration tool and is available for Linux distributions, Mac, and Windows."

History

• Reddit Ask Historians Thread on Pirates

• The Generals book review

• Mississippi State and Loyola-Il's race barrier breaking basketball game

Blogging/Internet Discussion

• "Danger Will Robinson". Primarily for "Oppression is deeply connected to our need to protect." Really damn insightful statement, I think.

• Response to a racist

• The Top Saved Comments and Posts of Reddit. Mmmm, meta.

• "How I Learned to Check Mine Instead of Making Fun of People’s Grammar on the Internet"

• The Morning News. "n online magazine of essays, art, humor, and culture published weekdays since 1999. In addition to our features, each day includes our morning and afternoon headlines, with links to the most interesting news items, articles, and oddities around the web."

Estimation

• xkcd on Model Rocket Powered Spaceships

Physics

• Topological Insulators

Literature

• The Lord of the Rings Family Tree Project

• Binding a hardback

Civil Liberties

• National Counter Terrorism Center expands datamining and data aggregation powers

Music

• Dave Grohl's Documentary Sound City

• Oscillofun: Music that, with an oscilloscope, is its own music video

Aviation

• Solar Impulse Solar Powered Plane

Making

• Solidoodle: 800 dollar 3D printer

• Wooden Titan 2 and Space Capsule Ornaments

Killing Math and A Broken NASA

Space, Etc.

• "NASA Is Broken and It's Up To Us to Fix It": '... the lack of a consistent vision has been a problem. The manned program is specifically called out as a paragon of confusion. "Other than the long-range goal of sending humans to Mars," notes the report, "there is no strong, compelling national vision for the human spaceflight program, which is arguably the centerpiece of NASA's spectrum of mission areas."'

• Golden Spike Commercial Lunar Missions

• Scale comparisons of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Capsules and Launchers

Math Education

• Kill Math: "We are no longer constrained by pencil and paper. The symbolic shuffle should no longer be taken for granted as the fundamental mechanism for understanding quantity and change. Math needs a new interface."

• Better Explained: There’s always a better way to explain an idea. Insights are fluid, mutable, and work for different people. I’m sharing the insights that helped me, hoping they’ll help you too. Here’s my take on learning.

• Artificial Chimera

Sports Analysis

• The Case for Dennis Rodman

Computing

• Zim, a Desktop Wiki/Text Editor

• Computing Freedom and Power and Control

Chemistry

• Things I Won't work with: Chemist Derek Lowe's list of scary substances

• Fluorine: "The Tiger of Chemistry"

Sociology and Government

• "Why Waiting In Line Is Torture"

• "The Case For Governing By Lottery'

How it's made

• How Glasses Are Made At Lenscrafters, A Pictorial Account

DNA and Seminal Science

2012-12-05

Computing/Gaming

• HTML 5 Command and Conquer

Physics

• The Britney Spears Guide To Semiconductor Physics

Culture

• "Why I Never Play Hard To Get"

• The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows

Art

• DNA 11 DNA Gel Electropheresis Portraits.
  • Alternate Provider: DNA Imprints

Uncrewed Vehicles

• Phoenix Pilot: The goal of PhoenixPilot is to focus on writing high quality open source code for autopilots that can easily provide the basis for research projects or further development by anyone. The project focuses on high quality code, robust testing, and ease of use. Our target audience is professionals, researchers, and students, but we want to make those more advanced techniques easy and accessible for anyone.

• Raspberry Pi R/C Lego Car

Air

• Awesome Photograph and Article of English Electric Lightning Crash

Space

• SpaceX's Mars Rocket to be Methane Fuelled

• SWORDS (pdf warning). Army's small scale launcher. Blow down methane/lox system.
  • The Space Review Article discussing it
  • Aviation Week Article

• Mares One: "Mars One is a not-for-profit organisation that will take humanity to Mars in 2023"

• GRAIL Mission finds Luna to be cracked up and shallow

Both

• NASA Thesaurus

Human Sexuality

• An Ode to the Many Evolved Virtues of Human Semen

• Where Masturbation and Homosexuality Don't Exist

Incredible Cross Sections and more

2012-12-04

Pure Awesomeness

• Incredible Cross Sections of So Many Things and more...

Humor

• The Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog

Computing

• GameKlip PS3 Dualshock adapter for Android phones and Tablets.

• Theano.Python library for effecient manipulation of mathematical expressions with multidimensional arrays.

UAVs

• iRobot Flying Robot

Economics is all Relative

2012-12-03

Relativistic Economics

• Impact of Special Relativity on Securities Regulation

• Available Resources for Self Education in Physics

Computing

• GOCR Optical Character Recognition program

• Pyomo

• ODroid ultracompact ARM/Android system.

Education

• Finland's Not So Secret Education Sauce

Giant Sized Nifty Links

2012-11-29

Computing

• Doom 3 Source Code Review

Culture

• "My Open Source Cure For Brain Cancer"

• Chrimstmas Cards and the Rule of Reciprocation

• Dead Bodies On Mount Everest

History

• Ask Historians Master Book List

Planetary Sciencce

• Water On Mercury

Music

• Vsauce, "Will We Ever Run Out Of Music"

• Axis of Awesome, "4 Chords, 2011"

Physics

• Minute Physics, "Is Racewalking a Sport?"

• Veritasium Slinky Drop

Education

• Veritasium, "Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos"

Sports

• Greinke, Hamilton, Mental Health, Masculinity and Dignity

Spaceflight

• DOE and NASA Demonstrate Fission Reactor Prototype

UAVs

• Stanford Teachable Quadcopter UAV