Archive for the ‘links’ Category
Links for January 2013
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013The 21st century is a teenager now!
App development stories
Google App Analytics
Google App Analytics with PhoneGap
Sysadmin horror story featuring Sendmail
CTCA: Profiting from Offering Ineffective Therapies to Cancer Patients
Wild Sex
Transparent magnets (aerogel with tiny magnet particles
Crazy unstable compounds: Azidoazide Azides
Dr. Oz, health care fraud tout
Total assessed property value in the US is roughly $30 trillion.
Chicago teacher’s strike 1 2
Romney’s 47%
HTML5 Canvas
The Republican war on democracy in the US
Voting ID laws
Nate Silver strays out of his niche, messes everything up
Scenes from the class war, part I
Funny sex comic part 2
Did they really think only old white men would hear the dogwhistles?
Pibgorn Comic
The best of the internet: John Holbo on the strange world of the conservative mind
The SABRE, an air-breathing rocket engine
Men are too emotional to have a rational argument
The GAGE assessment of short read sequence assemblers
Review of SASHA AND EMMA, The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
David Brin: Science Fiction for Young Adults: A Recommended List
Diagrams on Conservatism, The Four Types of Conservatives
Totalitarianism in the US: An Accident Waiting to Happen
HMC5883L Digital Compass Module: $10.90 bare HMC5883L, $6.95
Three Axis Magnetic Field / Electronic Compass Sensor Module: $9.90
Fran Blanche, electronics projects / small business
the Makey Makey w/ capacitive sensing
7 steps to turn a photo into a cartoon using Gimp
Andrew Sullivan, destructive hack
Women Don’t Like Libertarianism Because They Don’t Like Libertarianism
Timothy Geithner: Modern Day Metternich
Phage / antibiotic combination treatment
Arrogant Worms “Wouldn’t it be Great if Everybody had a Gun”
C. elegans modeling group OpenWorm
Muckraker Tarbell writes on Standard Oil in 1901
Links for December 2012
Monday, December 3rd, 2012Steel finish grades: BA, 2BA, 7, 8 are shiny
Proteins designed from scratch in Baker lab Koga et al, 2012
How the immune system works (for non-scientists)
khmer, a general framework for low-memory k-mer counting, filtering, and advanced trickery
the NRA, scheming
Sisu
To Keep and Bear Arms, September 21, 1995, Garry Wills, review of 2nd amendment law
Brief, but damning end of year review of the Washington Post
Massive online open courses, the future of work, and more
Funny, funny book
Perl one-liner tips
Illinois makerspaces/hackerspaces:
Little Bits Workshop in River Forest, Illinois
Wanger Family Fab Lab at the Museum of Science and Industry
Makerspace Urbana in Urbana, IL (webpage broken) See here
Pumping Station: One in Chicago (north side), IL
Making Machinable Wax
Links for November 2012
Saturday, November 10th, 2012Common passwords
Occupy is having a jubilee
Delta government spending by administration (Rick Ungar, 5/24/12 Forbes)
There’s Already a Center-Right Party
Roman geometric shapes in bronze
Glass frogs from the cloud forests of South America pdf1, pdf2
Fighting over Miss Piggy:
The forgotten recent history of religion and abortion
Fiscal Madness, a summary of the current US budget situation as it relates to the economy
When Congress Busted Milton Friedman (and Libertarianism Was Created By Big Business Lobbyists)
Walmart and the squeeze on the lower middle class
How Damon Runyon Would Have Explained Jon Corzine
Links for October 2012
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012(El Niño-Southern Oscillation) ENSO
Mann reviews Nate Silver’s book on climate change Spoiler: skip
Failures of electricity privatization in Australia
Thomas Jefferson’s spurious quotations.
Rusty-spotted cats
Anodizing aluminum
Anodizng titanium
Corn production moving north due to climate change
Great kinetic wood sculptures
Early days of the witch hunt in Hollywood
Inactivity bad for health. Be interesting to see if this holds up in future studies (Wilmot et al., 2012)
The slow destruction of the University of California
Links for September 2012
Friday, September 7th, 2012More and better bioinformatics software would be nice, I agree!
Hyperinflation
Japanese river otter extinct, last seen 30 years ago
Teacher pay compared to other college grads
Report on US Schools
US schools, better than ever
High power LEDs exist and are fairly inexpensive: 30-50W Luminus Devices PT-54-B-C21-EPA for $30 at Mouser
Links for August 2012
Monday, August 6th, 2012Links for July 2012
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012Links for June 2012
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012Cheap GPS unit
DIY copper rivets for PCBs
DIY through hole plating
Emergency contraception doesn’t prevent implantation: 1 2