Archive for the ‘links’ Category
Links for June 2011
Monday, June 6th, 2011Links for April 2011
Friday, April 22nd, 2011Links for March 2011
Friday, March 11th, 2011RStudio, an open source IDE for R
WWF Energy Report, 100% renewables by 2050
Intellectual jokes
Books to read: Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior (Primers in Complex Systems) by Deborah M. Gordon
Solar energy costs at average location in US predicted to become cheaper than average electricity rates ($0.12/kWh) in 2018, as early as 2015 in the Southwest
US income growth depending on party in power From the Slog
List of software innovations
CFL bulb schematics
Links for February 2011
Friday, February 18th, 2011Putting web sites on phones: 1, 2
Heat pad, $14 and thermostat, $13, combine for temperature controlled water bath.
Small crudely adjustable heater, small temp. range, $8
Batch orders of custom PCBs at low cost
Natural human sleep patterns are two four hour blocks with a hour or so between them. Article
Open Library, has catalog (author, title, ISBN, etc) info available for bulk download.
Why cats paint: a theory of feline aesthetics
Interesting post on John C. McLoughlin, author of The Helix and the Sword and Toolmaker Koan, other books, speculations on the nature of dinosaurs. His book Archosauria, a new look at the old dinosaur (1979) was a head of its time.
0.005″ Thick 6″ x 50″ Stainless Steel
Links for December
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Tippe top
Penrose tilings: non-periodic tiling of the plane
More Penrose tilings, site by Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin
Neutrophil chases bacteria
Magnetotactic bacteria used to assemble tiny pyramid
Lace making machines:1, 2, 3
I wandered into to a strange pocket of the web: “In 1832 he patented a steam plough, the only full version of which sank without trace in a field.”
2008 Presidential election, no retconning of the recent past allowed
Things Everyone In Chicago Knows
100 Greatest Adventure books of all time
What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?
Darryl Cunningham cartoon take on Global Warming and Conspiracies
Calamities of Nature comic
Guo Juan’s Internet Go School
Links for November
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010Links for October 2010
Friday, October 22nd, 2010Northwest Passage is open!
Time travel in TV and movies
Cartoons by Tom Gauld
Tom Lehrer – Be prepared Lyrics
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Catalyst, a Perl Model/View/Controller (MVC) Framework for web apps
Hitting the ESC key will stop cycling GIFs in Firefox.
DIY DLP 3D printer using commercial light activated polymer
14 amazingly cool research facilities
Galaxy bioinformatics pipeline
Shrouded wind turbine design works better
Unexpurgated Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 published after a delay of a century!
US Civil War: Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
Best scientific talk ever!