Swim Across the Atlantic Ocean
At one point, Google Maps added a "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean" directive when asked for directions between some locations in North America and some locations in Europe.
Directions from "Unalaska, Alaska" to "Kosh-Agach, Russia" according to Google.
Commentary on the whole "swim across the Atlantic ocean" thing:
Kayak Across the Pacific Ocean 3 Times to Get from Australia to LA
How to solve a 5x5 Rubik's (Professor's) cube
Slopsucking to "Make a Difference":
- Folding@Home
- Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
- Compute Against Cancer
- Understand and reduce the side effects of chemotherapy
- Study the structure and behavior of cancer cells
- Create better ways to screen new cancer drugs
- World Community Grid
Decimal To Binary Conversions
An Analysis of Conficker's Logic and Rendezvous Points
Why is the RIAA So Evil?
Most people have no idea what a web browser is
Pareidolia (pronounced /pærɪˈdoʊliə/) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant.
Pictures and Commentary on "The world's most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain"
Inside the James Bond Villian Data Center (9 min flash video)
The Development of Chess Piece Names in Various Languages
Review of 27 Twitter iPhone Apps
Go Daddy Reviews
Minute Mysteries
Coin Tosses can be Easily Rigged
Democracy Index "The Democracy Index is an index compiled by The Economist examining the state of democracy in 167 countries..."
Brief Timeline of the Internet
11 Ways to Visualize Changes Over Time – A Guide | FlowingData
NORAD Tracks Santa
Scents & Sensibility - The Atlantic (December 2007) (How the author helped Afghans build a thriving soap and body-oil business—and overcame the incompetence of America's aid establishment)
Past companies who partnered with Microsoft
SixXS - LinuxReviews
The Secret Advantage Of Being Short : NPR
JDueck.Net : This Is Your Life (a graph showing how time moves faster as you age)
PaypalWarning.com
Razzle Dazzle Camouflage
Why the Labels Don't Like Streaming Music
Poesia (Cruise Ship) Web Cam
Scoop: Rankin on Thursday: Where communism succeeded... (a look at bacteriophages used for cures)
Skype Heartbeat Page
How Many Countries Are There?
Anki (A flashcard system that has a psychological model to improve recall over time)
Mystery (pickup artist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Royce Gracie in London May 8th
Allen Carr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (self help guru who wrote popular books on stopping smoking and drinking)
TO SEE AND NOT SEE by OLIVER SACKS
Themed Theaters: A Stargate Atlantis Theater is Born, by Steven Castle - Electronic House Cool Home
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Reality Distortion Field
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Are You Gonna Do It? (Burrell quits Apple, but fails to live up to his threat)
The Moral Life of Babies - NYTimes.com
RFC3675 - .sex Considered Dangerous (Why Having a .sex TLD is Problematic)
Caving
WikiAnswers - Why is black in CMYK called key
Classical music pretty much keeps plants in non-stop respiration. (Resonant frequencies of 125 and 250 hertz will excite the calcium at the stoma in such a way as to cause them to open only a few hours after exposure to the audio frequencies.)
Parent Trap | This American Life (One example of a mother writing letters to her daughter before she dies, Act I at 9:24, Over at 24:00, Song over at 24:45, Stream free or $0.99 download)
Microsoft Open Source Strategy is Upside Down. | Martin Iturbide
Remove a page or site from Google's search results
True Size of Africa
Mining social networks: Untangling the social web | The Economist (Using Social Links for Ads and Counter-terrorism)
Mind Shadows: Coming Soon: McDonalds on Mt. Everest
The Appleseed Project - Open Source Social Networking
Which Shipping Company Is Kindest To Your Packages? - Slashdot
Missing Missy: "yeah thats not what I was looking for at all." (May be NSFW)
Jackass IT: Stunts, idiocy, and hero hacks
When Computers Go Wrong - Slashdot (EFF Created by Missing Semi-colon, Damon Created by Integer Overflow)
Stanislav Petrov Saves World from WWIII (keywords: World War III, World War 3)
Two levels down
Google Labs - Books Ngram Viewer (Compare word usage in Google Books: republic vs. democracy)
Myths and Misconceptions about Tornadoes
The evolution of hard drives | Storage | Macworld (see page 9 for a set of drives over time in the same shot)
Arguments Against Astrology for Critical Thinkers
Keanu Reeves gives £50 million to unsung heroes of 'The Matrix' - hellomagazine.com
Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
10 Radioactive Products That People Actually Used
Prisoner Population Rate UN HDR 2007-2008 (PNG Image)
Pompeii, Italy Ruins in Google Street View
Creative Commons and the Case of the Hotel Pool Sperm « This Picture Sucks
Evolving A Conscious Machine | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine (keywords: genetic algorithms, FPGAs)
The I Ching: Chapter 2: How to Use the I Ching
Deleted from Wikipedia - Main Page - Deletionpedia
Deleted from Wikipedia - List of U.S. Army acronyms and expressions (deleted 31 Jul 2008 at 17:52) - Deletionpedia
Deletionpedia: where entries too trivial for Wikipedia live on @ Ars Technica
World's Top 10 Coolest Offices
News:Burn Therapy: A Regenerative Medicine Approach - Regenerative Medicine at the McGowan Institute (keywords: spray on skin)
About Open Wonderland | Open Wonderland
CHANNEL CANADA :: If Anything Needs a Review, It Is The CRTC Itself (keywords: UBB, usage based billing)
Help Nathan Buy Firefly
U.S. Customs Border Wait Times
Martian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (keywords: Chinese, l33t, leet)
Vajont Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (keywords: famous disasters)
Random Island, Newfoundland and Labrador: View In Google Maps
Hacker News | Update on Trumpet Winsock / Peter Tattam donation drive. Amnesty, 200+ donors.
Thanks for Trumpet Winsock | Recognising an unsung hero
What They Know - Mobile - WSJ
Angry Birds and Other Must-Have Apps Collect More Personal Data Than You Think | The New York Observer
Citation map shows top science cities
There are some obvious issues with the above: #35551606, #35551768, #35551920
Radiation Dose Chart
• Hyperbolic Discounting • Damn Interesting
Osborne! The machine, the man, and the dawn of the portable computing revolution. A Fresh Look at the "Osborne Effect"
Fanboy! The origin of the term "fanboy"
The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History
U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
BBC News - What's it like being a bodyguard?
Towboat Nightmare: The Tow Boat CAHABA Goes Under a Non-Opening Bridge to the Other Side
A picture is worth a thousand words: Juan Osborne's text portraits: Kate Middleton and Prince William
A picture is worth a thousand words: The Words of Jesus
Introduction - 10,000 Year Clock - The Long Now
http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
From Me To You — Jamie Beck, NYC Photographer (Cinemagraph / animated GIFs)
Barbara Corcoran: Here's How I Turned $1,000 Into $70 Million
"If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons On Your Pigtails", by Barbara Corcoran
Is an Oryx Beisa a Unicorn?
Bufferbloat — the Submarine That's Sinking the Net - Slashdot
Day 15: Football Smoothie Maker « Variations on normal by Dominic Wilcox
Day 27: Pencil shelf « Variations on normal by Dominic Wilcox
Braitenberg vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The last post - Penmachine - Derek K. Miller
The Buxton Collection of Interesting but Failed Devices
Wikipedia edits on a random day
Testing Geiger Counters - Slashdot
How Medically Accurate is House?
Steampunk R2D2 Robot Made From Recycled Materials | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
Rethrick Construction (keywords: former Google employee Dhanji R. Prasanna talks about why he left Google)
Dandelions, Weeds with History « Rhobin's Garden Blog
Tech Stocks: Groupon Is Effectively Insolvent | Markets | Minyanville.com
Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”
How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs | World news | The Observer
Marvin Heemeyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WallStats - Death and Taxes & Taxes
Attack of the mobile browsers
List of confidence tricks
Monkey Business - New York Times (keywords: giving monkeys money and seeing if they react like humans)
Mountaintop removal has horrid consequences (keywords: shaving off the top of a mountain to get coal)
Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers - Slashdot (keywords: detecting and removing TDL-4)
Live Call Map | OnSIP
Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination
EdgeWalk at the CN Tower
Definitions of the SI units: The binary prefixes
S African develops free submarine cables map | TechCentral
4.12: Mother Earth Mother Board (The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.) by Neal Stephenson
CV Dazzle: Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision by Adam Harvey
Actual News Headlines Vs. Fox News Headlines: Pics, Videos, Links, News
More Fox News Headlines Vs. Actual News Headlines: Pics, Videos, Links, News
Tim Burton's Cadavre Exquis
Pear Cable Audio Cables - Home Audio - Anjou Analog Interconnect (Solid Gold RCA connectors)
The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page (The Myth of Competitiveness)
Online Fundraising Website for Events and Causes | FirstGiving.com
Vanity Rubber Systems
Jam tomorrow
Part 3 - T. A. Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism - Hakim Bey
New York City Blackout from Space (Find in file: August 22, 2003 (PM))
Crayons under the spectrophotometer
Journal of Universal Acceptance
Journal of Universal Rejection
Gall–Peters projection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
iPhone 4 Prototype Finder Gets Probation - Slashdot (Prototype MacBook Pro 3G dude gets some gear back (Score:5, Interesting))
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Day in the Life of Privacy | SecurityWeek.Com
Art Markman, Ph.D.: The Most Successful Way to Brainstorm
Pet Airways: Pet Transportation in the MAIN cabin under the supervision of our on-board Pet Attendant. Pets only: no humans!
snopes.com: Van Halen Brown M&Ms
3M Innovation Channel on YouTube
Apocalympics 2012 – Mayan “Prophecy” - :: gia’s blog ::
Global Warming For Peace
UnLondon | About "Un"
Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle
Amazon.com: Worldwide Client Device Leasing and Financing 2011-2015 Forecast: PCs, Media Tablets, and Smartphones: Jennifer Koppy, Joseph C. Pucciarelli, Susan G. Middleton, Bob O'Donnell, Stephen D. Drake: Books (Buy now for only $12,500!)
A Proposal for a Tunnel Underneath the Bering Strait
SunCalc 3D
A .data Top Level Domain, and How it Could be Used, by Stephen Wolfram
The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future | Cracked.com
My experience with JD Power Quality survey - Team-BHP
Textual Rick Roll (image)
Haitz's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life
Gamasutra - Features - The History Of Pong: Avoid Missing Game to Start Industry
snopes.com: Buried Atari Cartridges
HowStuffWorks "Why are there dozens of dead animals floating in space?"
RMS Titanic and MS Oasis of the Seas - CP Interactive
Titanic: A Desperate Dialogue
CHESS - Science - Art and Archaeology: Using X-Ray Fluoroscopy to Analyze Art without Damaging It
Google Fight (Flash)
The Wilson Quarterly: Man as Machine by Max Byrd
Homebrew CPU Home Page
Where’s Wall-E?
Introduction to the Pixon Method of Image Reconstruction
[Website] Privacy Simplified
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies
Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections - ACM Queue
Obscure Facts
Haldane, On Being the Right Size
snopes.com: Ring Around the Rosie
http://www.swirlscupcakes.ca/products-page/classic-cupcakes/page/2/
Why 'Nigerian scammers' say they're from Nigeria - Nigerian scam, security - Computerworld
The Hacker FAQ (for Managers)
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com
Seagoing Servers Hit the Rocks - Slashdot (Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway)
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (keywords: Aorist Rods)
8 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends (That Happen to Be True) | Cracked.com
Three Things you Need for Job Satisfaction
Zorin OS - Home (Ubuntu Based, with themes for Windows 2000 through 7)
Linux is NOT Windows (A guide for new users considering making the switch to Linux)
Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel
How to correct rounding errors in floating-point arithmetic (in Excel)
Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Blue Screens” in Designer Colors with One Click - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
This High-Tech 'Dark Knight' Home Theater Costs $2 Million
Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator | Ars Technica
raadstudio.com | architecture + design + construction (See Work > Products > Chair, and Work > Institutional > the LowLine)
Fire From Ice: A Survivalist's Guide to Making Fire in Interesting Ways
Posts tagged "XBRL" - Sunlight Foundation Blog: Return on Lobbying Investment: 22,000%
Google facts and figures (massive infographic)
UK Music Industry Revenues
Death by Hungry Sheep
Death by Molasses
Death by Junk Pile
These 5 Optical Illusions Will Melt Your Brain
Hurricane Sandy: From birth to landfall | WTVR.com – Richmond News & Weather from WTVR Television CBS 6 (Embedded YouTube Video)
Past is prototype: The evolution of the computer keyboard - Computerworld
The (Victorian) Language of Flowers
Loss of Palestinian Land from 1946 to 2000
Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva — Kickstarter
Glass Balcony Pools at Aquaria Grande Residential Tower in Mumbai, India | Inthralld
TOS - Didn't Read
wiki.dbpedia.org : Faceted Search
Intuitor Hex Headquarters, Hexadecimal Number Words
Oh, So This Is Where You Use The Microsoft Surface | TechCrunch
werewolf » Hipster Irony and Capitalism
25 Most Surprising Rock Formations From Around The World
Aurant in West Valley City, Utah: Built a French country chateau theater, a room that looks like it's outside
Home Theater Gallery - French country chateau theater is 4th from the end
Learned optimism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Police warn of safety concerns from Google Maps - Yahoo!7 Technology
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - Wikiquote
A Whole Lotta Nothing: Lessons for Kickstarter creators from the worst project I ever funded on Kickstarter
Great photography that takes your breath away - Xinhua | English.news.cn
How Your Brain Corrupts Your Shopping Choices
Why is the sky Blue? (and not violet, since violet has an even shorter wavelength than blue)
The Oatmeal Sucks, Even if Buzzfeed Was Wrong
BI Buzzword Breakdown | 5 Experts Tackle 3 Business Intelligence Definitions (Big data, data warehousing, data mining)
11 "Flying Cars": Some concept, some tested
Vicipaedia
Computer display standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Confirmation Bias « You Are Not So Smart
ConwayLife.com • View topic - Universal Constructor Based Spaceship
RMS's Stance on Apple
How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual
Exclusive: Confessions from the Most Corrupt Apple Store in America (Updated)
Home - Mars One (A mission to have 4 people on Mars by 2023 by way of Reality TV)
Daring Fireball: The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In (Why the iPhone was so disruptive)
Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete
The Wizards Community: Thread: Magic is Turing Complete
Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget: Scientific American
Measurements | World IPv6 Launch
Completely False "Facts" Everyone Knows
HowStuffWorks "10 Remedies That Do Absolutely Nothing to Treat the Common Cold" (Don't drink caffeine or alcohol while sick, including hot toddies)
1080p charted: Viewing distance to screen size
Ask Slashdot: Building a Personal FOSS Cloud? - Slashdot (keywords: roll your own cloud)
A New Approach to Aid: How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Dan’s Geometrical Curiosities - Visualizing the magnetic fields of "buckyballs"
Why do people find these big primes?
Primality Proving 2.3: Strong probable-primality and a practical test
11 of Europe's most bizarre buildings - CNN.com
The Dog for Cat People
I don't like your reality, I'm going to make my own - Everything2.com
Google Glass
10 tax-filing myths that could cost you money - Business - CBC News
Deflation: The Biggest Myths - Jörg Guido Hülsmann - Mises Daily
Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites | Techdirt
briancarper.net (λ) - Windows Powershell: Can you handle the power? | Oddities in PowerShell
The Case Against Micropayments - O'Reilly Media
Google's "Digitized Version" of Captain Kidd's Treasure Map
Looking Glass Tablet Concept
I'm Cory Doctorow, and This Is How I Work
A Flow Chart Explaining All Time Travel in Movies
Kettle by Estelle Sauvage - Dezeen
Dramprom by Roger Arquer - Dezeen
HAPILABS introduces HAPIfork (and spoon) smart utensils, brings metrics to your mouthfuls (hands-on)
Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze
CHART: The world's most expensive drugs - FiercePharma Manufacturing
Things I Won't Touch (1). In the Pipeline: (Hydrogen Flouride / HF Gas)
The Dog for Cat People
Winter is Coming: Game of Thrones Infogram with Faces (JPG)
Ben Thomas's Portfolio: City Shrinker
BBC - Future - Health - Microlives: A lesson in risk taking
BBC - Future - Technology - How fake images change our memory and behaviour
BBC - Future - Health - Why it is easier to recognise faces than recall names
Carbon Pollution Set to End Era of Stable Climate (keywords: climate change, global warming)
Datamancer.net - Technical Art and Steampunk Contraptions: The Emperor Keyboard
Datamancer.net - Technical Art and Steampunk Contraptions: "The Clacker" Computer
Datamancer.net - Technical Art and Steampunk Contraptions: "The Ergo" Keyboard
The Straight Dope: Can the candirú fish swim upstream into your urethra (revisited)?
Russia using applause length as a measure of loyalty? [Archive] - Straight Dope Message Board (keywords: Stalin)
Anchoring Effect « You Are Not So Smart
How to speak hedge fund. - Slate Magazine
Composing Music Using Apple Computer's GarageBand Software - New York Times
Infographics Must Die - Business Insider
Chartgirl on Rob Ford: "This family is a disaster"
Pie Charts Are The Worst - Business Insider
The Meme Hustler | Evgeny Morozov | The Baffler
"I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why." - Zorinaq
Apache webserver updated to ignore Do Not Track settings in IE 10 | Ars Technica
Heidemarie Schwermer Has Lived Without Money For 16 Years - Business Insider
1 | Infographic: Sculptures Made By Measuring Wi-Fi Signals | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
PlateJoy Launches To Help You Plan Meals, With Ingredients Delivered To Your Door | TechCrunch
salina.com - an online service of the Salina Journal: 8th Grade Test from 1895
The Danger Triangle of the Face | Motherboard
HowStuffWorks "10 Surprisingly Believable Bits of Malarkey"
Trappe's Trans-Atlantic Cluster Balloon Flight is GO! Go to airfield 9PM, when rain passes!
Why are Pencils Yellow: The True Story Behind the Yellow Pencil
3D Printed Sugar | the sugar lab
Is it a bad thing the world is becoming more accessible? – Footsteps on the Mountain
Michael Chaney's Personal Web Page at Doublewide
Canadian bilingualism stops at the national anthem | National Post
10 Myths About Introverts | CarlKingdom.com :: Writer. Director. Artist.
Clancy Contacted by CIA and FBI
Thought communication and control: a first step using radiotelegraphy
Genetic mutation turns tot into superboy - Health - Genetics | NBC News
How I Taught Steve Jobs To Put Design First | Co.Design | business + design
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect : Bruce F. Webster
WolframAlpha: Data Science of the Facebook World
WolframAlpha: A Response to Falling with Helium (From XKCD)
Microslaw - Paul's Post-scarcity Perambulations (keywords: open source law)
Zen In The Art Of Hand Logging
Zenview Arena Elite XL: Dramatic Seven-Screen Display with Triple 24" Primary Screens
How to remove the Infoaxe virus - Static.infoaxe.com removal instructions | Malware Removal - Software & Tutorials
GEEKS of GOTHAM® | Apple Macintosh computer tech support for New York City » Blog Archive » Flipora / Flip / Infoaxe SPAM
Imprecise Hardware
Homeschool vs Public School Statistics Infographic
Orbital Mechanics: Thrust down, go forward. Thrust up, go backward. Thrust forward, go up. Thrust backward, go down. (from http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2476/why-did-the-rendezvous-attempt-fail-on-gemini-4)
The United States is isolated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
Visualizing Negotiating Positions in the TPP IP Chapter | To Promote the Progress?
What does GLONASS add?
Real-World Drive Tests Declare A Verdict On GPS/GLONASS | Test & Measurement content from Electronic Design
The Mother of All Interviews: Part 1 (From A Definitive Tribute to Frank Zappa (Best of Guitar Player, 1994))
The Software Inferno - ACM Queue (Dante's Inferno - Remix)
Starring the Computer
Strategy Letter V - Joel on Software (commoditizing your complements)
The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
Nine beautiful maps that will change how you see the world
Trains of Thought » American Scientist
What You'll Wish You'd Known (a high school talk that was never given)
Cosmik Debris interviews Stan Freberg
The Economics of Star Trek — Editor's Picks — Medium (Post-scarcity)
Cold winter extremes in northern continents linked to Arctic sea ice loss - 1748-9326_8_1_014036.pdf
Ted Nelson's Passionate Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
The Shocking Truth about Silicon Valley Genius Doug Engelbart
A Glossary of Gestures for Critical Discussion (Animated GIFs, broken out)
7 Hand Gestures That Make You Look Like a Real Intellectual (Slideshow of animated GIFs, with commentary)
The TabSpace Twiddler Key Assignments
Submarine Cable Map
Camera Drone Used to Make Eerie Aerial Light Paintings Inspired by ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’
24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed
Pi: Poe, E. Near A Raven
Xkcd (Rebuttals to Spirit getting stuck)
Mathematical Proof that Nice Guys Finish First | ideonexus.com
69-Chevy Astro III DV-08 MB-022.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024 × 680 pixels)
How NOT to steal a SideKick II
Did Thomas Edison really invent the light bulb?
Is our tech making the world too complex? – Samuel Arbesman – Aeon
Rewriting History: Controversial Japanese Textbooks
Model predicts blood glucose levels 30 minutes later -- ScienceDaily
Does watching TV make us happy?
You know what has the power to dramatically improve women's lives? Brazilian soap operas.
How do you split a dinner bill with friends so as to optimize long term happiness?
Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest?
Fusion Research Projected Costs and Actual Spending
The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble - Julian Gough's website
Interview - The top Wharton Business School professor teaches you the right way to approach give and take
The Flying Crowbar: The Insane Doomsday Weapon America Almost Built
Xanadu: The Most Delayed Software Release in History
The Hurricane Lantern Effect | Quiche Moraine
snopes.com: Lightning Telephone Deaths
Birthday Word Clock - Imgur
Welcome to the 419 Eater: Scamming the Scammers: Wood Carvings
Experimentally obtained statistics of dice rolls
How do colors affect purchases? Infographic
Airplane on a Treadmill Definitive Analysis
Aug. 2014 See-Through Vision at UCSB (using Wi-Fi signals and robots to image inside concrete walls)
http://www.academia.edu/2987335/Building_a_memory_palace_in_minutes_Equivalent_memory_performance_using_virtual_versus_conventional_environments_with_the_Method_of_Loci (Using a Method of Loci / Mind Palace to remember words is just as effective using a briefly shown virtual environment than with a known real environment)
Systemd: The Biggest Myths
The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) - Joel on Software
Why You Shouldn't Say "You're Welcome" | Adam Grant | LinkedIn
Enough with browsers. We need cars now. | ProjectVRM
The Vaunted “Garage” Creation Myth: Why it Damages the Federal Science Enterprise « Physics Frontline
Doc Searls Weblog · A sense of bewronging (What's wrong with the web? We have to choose which captive portal we want.)
The solution? Project VRM
WikiTerms - iRez Salon (yet more contracts of adhesion)
PuzzlePhone easily repairable and upgradeable mobile phone. | To develop reliable, upgradable and repairable modular mobile devices and create the marketplace platform for the hardware developers
How data flows between Ad Networks, Analytics companies and more
the understatement: Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays, Not $16.89
Throwback Thursday: The Physics Of Fireworks — Starts With A Bang! — Medium
When Solid State Drives are not that solid | Milliseconds Matter
To Salvage or Sever: What Happens When Your Own Limb Is Almost Good Enough? | Motherboard
This GIF summarizes the evolution of technology over the past 30 years | 9to5Mac
How Neil Young Became the First Artist to Get Sued for Not Being Himself | Lateral Action
How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create The PC Industry | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
The Impact of Listening to Music on Cognitive Performance - Student Pulse
Authenticity Vs. Perfection: How To Brand Like A Rock Star | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
Site Finder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Finding Comfort Under A Blanket of Stars | The Bob Angle
Parli: Dictionary of Canadian Political Slang
Harbingers of (Market) Failure: PDF
Pear Juice is the Hangover Cure You Need to Try ASAP – A New Study Says Pear Juice Can Cure Hangovers
Marshmallow Pizza Is Real—And It's More Glorious Than You Can Imagine
How Diversity Makes Us Smarter - Scientific American
Slack, I’m Breaking Up with You — Better People — Medium
Is group chat making you sweat? — Signal v. Noise — Medium
Habits of Highly Emotionally Intelligent People | Dr. Travis Bradberry | LinkedIn
Offices For All! Why Open-Office Layouts Are Bad For Employees, Bosses, And Productivity | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
Nathan Myhrvold’s Recipe for a Better Oven - IEEE Spectrum
Something-in-the-Cellar.pdf
Infrasound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (keywords: ghosts apparitions infrasound cellar)
New earbuds give you super-hearing | Computerworld
Why wearables will replace your smartphone | Computerworld
Optimal Dither and Noise Shaping in Image Processing (keywords: audio sampling, dither, noise, sound reproduction)
Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? - Slashdot
The True Story of the Amazon Door-Desk
