Archive for the ‘links’ Category
HTML5 app developement info
Friday, January 27th, 2012Links for January 2012
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Chris Hayes on how some voters make their decisions
Thoughts on making GFP yoghurt
DIY bio postcards
IDT (oligonucleotides) demo protocols
IDT tech notes on attaching DNA to solid supports
The tame press in Japan
Ayn Rand, performance artist
Kung Fu Monkey: The Crazification Factor
DIY Bio: using a microwave to sterilize media
Links for December 2011
Saturday, December 17th, 2011Cooked food has more calories than raw food
USB Pic programmer
Pickit2 clone
The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin and the Deep Roots of Conservative Radicalism
Making dies: steel rule, dieboard, routed slot, tabs, notch steel rule, butt together the ends, aluminum backer, sponge foam to strip out the cut material. Suppliers: Helmold
Links for July 2011
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Links 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