Miscellaneous

The True Story of the Amazon Door-Desk

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

Optimal Dither and Noise Shaping in Image Processing (keywords: audio sampling, dither, noise, sound reproduction)

Optimal Dither and Noise Shaping in Image Processing (keywords: audio sampling, dither, noise)

New earbuds give you super-hearing | Computerworld
Why wearables will replace your smartphone | Computerworld

Something-in-the-Cellar.pdf
Infrasound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (keywords: ghosts apparitions infrasound cellar)

Nathan Myhrvold’s Recipe for a Better Oven - IEEE Spectrum

Offices For All! Why Open-Office Layouts Are Bad For Employees, Bosses, And Productivity | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Habits of Highly Emotionally Intelligent People | Dr. Travis Bradberry | LinkedIn

Slack, I’m Breaking Up with You — Better People — Medium

Is group chat making you sweat? — Signal v. Noise — Medium

How Diversity Makes Us Smarter - Scientific American

Marshmallow Pizza Is Real—And It's More Glorious Than You Can Imagine

Pear Juice is the Hangover Cure You Need to Try ASAP – A New Study Says Pear Juice Can Cure Hangovers

Harbingers of (Market) Failure: PDF

Parli: Dictionary of Canadian Political Slang

Finding Comfort Under A Blanket of Stars | The Bob Angle

Site Finder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Authenticity Vs. Perfection: How To Brand Like A Rock Star | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

The Impact of Listening to Music on Cognitive Performance - Student Pulse

How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create The PC Industry | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

How Neil Young Became the First Artist to Get Sued for Not Being Himself | Lateral Action

This GIF summarizes the evolution of technology over the past 30 years | 9to5Mac

To Salvage or Sever: What Happens When Your Own Limb Is Almost Good Enough? | Motherboard

When Solid State Drives are not that solid | Milliseconds Matter

Throwback Thursday: The Physics Of Fireworks — Starts With A Bang! — Medium

the understatement: Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays, Not $16.89

How data flows between Ad Networks, Analytics companies and more

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

The solution? Project VRM
WikiTerms - iRez Salon (yet more contracts of adhesion)

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

Doc Searls Weblog · A sense of bewronging (What's wrong with the web? We have to choose which captive portal we want.)

The Vaunted “Garage” Creation Myth: Why it Damages the Federal Science Enterprise « Physics Frontline

Enough with browsers. We need cars now. | ProjectVRM

Why You Shouldn't Say "You're Welcome" | Adam Grant | LinkedIn

The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) - Joel on Software

Systemd: The Biggest Myths

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)

Aug. 2014 See-Through Vision at UCSB (using Wi-Fi signals and robots to image inside concrete walls)

Airplane on a Treadmill Definitive Analysis

How do colors affect purchases? Infographic

Experimentally obtained statistics of dice rolls

Welcome to the 419 Eater: Scamming the Scammers: Wood Carvings

Welcome to the 419 Eater

Birthday Word Clock - Imgur

snopes.com: Lightning Telephone Deaths

The Hurricane Lantern Effect | Quiche Moraine

Xanadu: The Most Delayed Software Release in History

The Flying Crowbar: The Insane Doomsday Weapon America Almost Built

Interview - The top Wharton Business School professor teaches you the right way to approach give and take

The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble - Julian Gough's website

Fusion Research Projected Costs and Actual Spending

Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest?

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?

Model predicts blood glucose levels 30 minutes later -- ScienceDaily

Rewriting History: Controversial Japanese Textbooks

Is our tech making the world too complex? – Samuel Arbesman – Aeon

Did Thomas Edison really invent the light bulb?

How NOT to steal a SideKick II

69-Chevy Astro III DV-08 MB-022.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024 × 680 pixels)

Mathematical Proof that Nice Guys Finish First | ideonexus.com

Pi: Poe, E. Near A Raven

Xkcd (Rebuttals to Spirit getting stuck)

24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed

Camera Drone Used to Make Eerie Aerial Light Paintings Inspired by ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’

Submarine Cable Map

The TabSpace Twiddler Key Assignments

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 Shocking Truth about Silicon Valley Genius Doug Engelbart

Ted Nelson's Passionate Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart

Cold winter extremes in northern continents linked to Arctic sea ice loss - 1748-9326_8_1_014036.pdf

The Economics of Star Trek — Editor's Picks — Medium (Post-scarcity)

Cosmik Debris interviews Stan Freberg

What You'll Wish You'd Known (a high school talk that was never given)

Trains of Thought » American Scientist

Nine beautiful maps that will change how you see the world

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

Strategy Letter V - Joel on Software (commoditizing your complements)

Starring the Computer

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)

The Mother of All Interviews: Part 1 (From A Definitive Tribute to Frank Zappa (Best of Guitar Player, 1994))

What does GLONASS add?
Real-World Drive Tests Declare A Verdict On GPS/GLONASS | Test & Measurement content from Electronic Design

What does GLONASS add?

Visualizing Negotiating Positions in the TPP IP Chapter | To Promote the Progress?

The United States is isolated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations

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)

Homeschool vs Public School Statistics Infographic

Imprecise Hardware

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

Zenview Arena Elite XL: Dramatic Seven-Screen Display with Triple 24" Primary Screens

Zen In The Art Of Hand Logging

Microslaw - Paul's Post-scarcity Perambulations (keywords: open source law)

WolframAlpha: A Response to Falling with Helium (From XKCD)

http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/09/19/a-response-to-falling-with-helium-2/ WolframAlpha: A Response to Falling with Helium (From XKCD)

WolframAlpha: Data Science of the Facebook World

The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”

The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect : Bruce F. Webster

How I Taught Steve Jobs To Put Design First | Co.Design | business + design

Genetic mutation turns tot into superboy - Health - Genetics | NBC News

Thought communication and control: a first step using radiotelegraphy

Clancy Contacted by CIA and FBI

10 Myths About Introverts | CarlKingdom.com :: Writer. Director. Artist.

Canadian bilingualism stops at the national anthem | National Post

Michael Chaney's Personal Web Page at Doublewide

Is it a bad thing the world is becoming more accessible? – Footsteps on the Mountain

3D Printed Sugar | the sugar lab

Why are Pencils Yellow: The True Story Behind the Yellow Pencil

Trappe's Trans-Atlantic Cluster Balloon Flight is GO! Go to airfield 9PM, when rain passes!

HowStuffWorks "10 Surprisingly Believable Bits of Malarkey"

The Danger Triangle of the Face | Motherboard

salina.com - an online service of the Salina Journal: 8th Grade Test from 1895

PlateJoy Launches To Help You Plan Meals, With Ingredients Delivered To Your Door | TechCrunch

1 | Infographic: Sculptures Made By Measuring Wi-Fi Signals | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

Heidemarie Schwermer Has Lived Without Money For 16 Years - Business Insider

Apache webserver updated to ignore Do Not Track settings in IE 10 | Ars Technica

"I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why." - Zorinaq

The Meme Hustler | Evgeny Morozov | The Baffler

Pie Charts Are The Worst - Business Insider

Chartgirl on Rob Ford: "This family is a disaster"

Infographics Must Die - Business Insider

Composing Music Using Apple Computer's GarageBand Software - New York Times

How to speak hedge fund. - Slate Magazine

Anchoring Effect « You Are Not So Smart

Russia using applause length as a measure of loyalty? [Archive] - Straight Dope Message Board (keywords: Stalin)

The Straight Dope: Can the candirú fish swim upstream into your urethra (revisited)?

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

Carbon Pollution Set to End Era of Stable Climate (keywords: climate change, global warming)

BBC - Future - Health - Why it is easier to recognise faces than recall names

BBC - Future - Technology - How fake images change our memory and behaviour

BBC - Future - Health - Microlives: A lesson in risk taking

Ben Thomas's Portfolio: City Shrinker

Winter is Coming: Game of Thrones Infogram with Faces (JPG)

The Dog for Cat People

Things I Won't Touch (1). In the Pipeline: (Hydrogen Flouride / HF Gas)

CHART: The world's most expensive drugs - FiercePharma Manufacturing

Ten Crazy Things People Use to Make Booze

HAPILABS introduces HAPIfork (and spoon) smart utensils, brings metrics to your mouthfuls (hands-on)

Dramprom by Roger Arquer - Dezeen

Kettle by Estelle Sauvage - Dezeen

A Flow Chart Explaining All Time Travel in Movies

I'm Cory Doctorow, and This Is How I Work

Looking Glass Tablet Concept

Google's "Digitized Version" of Captain Kidd's Treasure Map

The Case Against Micropayments - O'Reilly Media

briancarper.net (λ) - Windows Powershell: Can you handle the power? | Oddities in PowerShell

Penetration Testing: Kali Linux

Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites | Techdirt

Deflation: The Biggest Myths - Jörg Guido Hülsmann - Mises Daily

10 tax-filing myths that could cost you money - Business - CBC News

Google Glass

I don't like your reality, I'm going to make my own - Everything2.com

The Dog for Cat People

11 of Europe's most bizarre buildings - CNN.com

Primality Proving 2.3: Strong probable-primality and a practical test

Why do people find these big primes?

Dan’s Geometrical Curiosities - Visualizing the magnetic fields of "buckyballs"

A New Approach to Aid: How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Ask Slashdot: Building a Personal FOSS Cloud? - Slashdot (keywords: roll your own cloud)

1080p charted: Viewing distance to screen size

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)

Measurements | World IPv6 Launch

Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget: Scientific American

Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete
The Wizards Community: Thread: Magic is Turing Complete

Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete

Daring Fireball: The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In (Why the iPhone was so disruptive)

Home - Mars One (A mission to have 4 people on Mars by 2023 by way of Reality TV)

Exclusive: Confessions from the Most Corrupt Apple Store in America (Updated)

How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual

RMS's Stance on Apple

ConwayLife.com • View topic - Universal Constructor Based Spaceship

Confirmation Bias « You Are Not So Smart

Computer display standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vicipaedia

11 "Flying Cars": Some concept, some tested

BI Buzzword Breakdown | 5 Experts Tackle 3 Business Intelligence Definitions (Big data, data warehousing, data mining)

The Oatmeal Sucks, Even if Buzzfeed Was Wrong

Why is the sky Blue? (and not violet, since violet has an even shorter wavelength than blue)

How Your Brain Corrupts Your Shopping Choices

Great photography that takes your breath away - Xinhua | English.news.cn

A Whole Lotta Nothing: Lessons for Kickstarter creators from the worst project I ever funded on Kickstarter

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - Wikiquote

Police warn of safety concerns from Google Maps - Yahoo!7 Technology

Learned optimism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

25 Most Surprising Rock Formations From Around The World

werewolf » Hipster Irony and Capitalism

Oh, So This Is Where You Use The Microsoft Surface | TechCrunch

Intuitor Hex Headquarters, Hexadecimal Number Words

wiki.dbpedia.org : Faceted Search

TOS - Didn't Read

Glass Balcony Pools at Aquaria Grande Residential Tower in Mumbai, India | Inthralld

Glass Balcony Pools at Aquaria Grande Residential Tower in Mumbai, India | Inthralld

Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva — Kickstarter

Loss of Palestinian Land from 1946 to 2000

The (Victorian) Language of Flowers

Past is prototype: The evolution of the computer keyboard - Computerworld

Hurricane Sandy: From birth to landfall | WTVR.com – Richmond News & Weather from WTVR Television CBS 6 (Embedded YouTube Video)

These 5 Optical Illusions Will Melt Your Brain

Death by Hungry Sheep
Death by Molasses \\

Death by Hungry Sheep

Death by Molasses

Death by Junk Pile

UK Music Industry Revenues

Google facts and figures (massive infographic)

Posts tagged "XBRL" - Sunlight Foundation Blog: Return on Lobbying Investment: 22,000%

Fire From Ice: A Survivalist's Guide to Making Fire in Interesting Ways

raadstudio.com | architecture + design + construction (See Work > Products > Chair, and Work > Institutional > the LowLine)

Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator | Ars Technica

This High-Tech 'Dark Knight' Home Theater Costs $2 Million

“Blue Screens” in Designer Colors with One Click - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel

How to correct rounding errors in floating-point arithmetic (in Excel)

Linux is NOT Windows (A guide for new users considering making the switch to Linux)

Zorin OS - Home (Ubuntu Based, with themes for Windows 2000 through 7)

Three Things you Need for Job Satisfaction

8 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends (That Happen to Be True) | Cracked.com

Young Zaphod Plays It Safe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (keywords: Aorist Rods)

Seagoing Servers Hit the Rocks - Slashdot (Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway)

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com

The Hacker FAQ (for Managers)

Why 'Nigerian scammers' say they're from Nigeria - Nigerian scam, security - Computerworld

http://www.swirlscupcakes.ca/products-page/classic-cupcakes/page/2/

snopes.com: Ring Around the Rosie

Haldane, On Being the Right Size

Obscure Facts

Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections - ACM Queue

Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies

[Website] Privacy Simplified

Introduction to the Pixon Method of Image Reconstruction

Where’s Wall-E?

Homebrew CPU Home Page

The Wilson Quarterly: Man as Machine by Max Byrd

Google Fight (Flash)

CHESS - Science - Art and Archaeology: Using X-Ray Fluoroscopy to Analyze Art without Damaging It

Titanic: A Desperate Dialogue

RMS Titanic and MS Oasis of the Seas - CP Interactive

HowStuffWorks "Why are there dozens of dead animals floating in space?"

Gamasutra - Features - The History Of Pong: Avoid Missing Game to Start Industry

snopes.com: Buried Atari Cartridges

Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life

Haitz's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Textual Rick Roll (image)

My experience with JD Power Quality survey - Team-BHP

The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future | Cracked.com

A .data Top Level Domain, and How it Could be Used, by Stephen Wolfram

SunCalc 3D

A Proposal for a Tunnel Underneath the Bering Strait

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!)

Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle

Apocalympics 2012 – Mayan “Prophecy” - :: gia’s blog ::

Global Warming For Peace

UnLondon | About "Un"

3M Innovation Channel on YouTube

snopes.com: Van Halen Brown M&Ms

Pet Airways: Pet Transportation in the MAIN cabin under the supervision of our on-board Pet Attendant. Pets only: no humans!

Art Markman, Ph.D.: The Most Successful Way to Brainstorm

A Day in the Life of Privacy | SecurityWeek.Com

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

iPhone 4 Prototype Finder Gets Probation - Slashdot (Prototype MacBook Pro 3G dude gets some gear back (Score:5, Interesting))

Gall–Peters projection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Journal of Universal Acceptance

Journal of Universal Rejection

Crayons under the spectrophotometer

New York City Blackout from Space (Find in file: August 22, 2003 (PM))

Part 3 - T. A. Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism - Hakim Bey

Jam tomorrow

Vanity Rubber Systems

Online Fundraising Website for Events and Causes | FirstGiving.com

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page (The Myth of Competitiveness)

Pear Cable Audio Cables - Home Audio - Anjou Analog Interconnect (Solid Gold RCA connectors)

Tim Burton's Cadavre Exquis

Actual News Headlines Vs. Fox News Headlines: Pics, Videos, Links, News

More Fox News Headlines Vs. Actual News Headlines: Pics, Videos, Links, News

CV Dazzle: Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision by Adam Harvey

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

S African develops free submarine cables map | TechCentral

Definitions of the SI units: The binary prefixes

Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination

EdgeWalk at the CN Tower

Live Call Map | OnSIP

Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers - Slashdot (keywords: detecting and removing TDL-4)

Mountaintop removal has horrid consequences (keywords: shaving off the top of a mountain to get coal)

Monkey Business - New York Times (keywords: giving monkeys money and seeing if they react like humans)

Monkey Business - New York Times (keywords: giving monkeys money and see if they react like humans)

List of confidence tricks

Attack of the mobile browsers

WallStats - Death and Taxes & Taxes

Marvin Heemeyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs | World news | The Observer

Tech Stocks: Groupon Is Effectively Insolvent | Markets | Minyanville.com

Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”

Dandelions, Weeds with History « Rhobin's Garden Blog

Rethrick Construction (keywords: former Google employee Dhanji R. Prasanna talks about why he left Google)

Steampunk R2D2 Robot Made From Recycled Materials | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

How Medically Accurate is House?

Testing Geiger Counters - Slashdot

Wikipedia edits on a random day

The last post - Penmachine - Derek K. Miller

The Buxton Collection of Interesting but Failed Devices

Braitenberg vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Day 15: Football Smoothie Maker « Variations on normal by Dominic Wilcox

Day 27: Pencil shelf « Variations on normal by Dominic Wilcox

Bufferbloat — the Submarine That's Sinking the Net - Slashdot

Is an Oryx Beisa a Unicorn?

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

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

From Me To You — Jamie Beck, NYC Photographer (Cinemagraph / animated GIFs)

Introduction - 10,000 Year Clock - The Long Now

A picture is worth a thousand words: The Words of Jesus

A picture is worth a thousand words: Juan Osborne's text portraits: Kate Middleton and Prince William

Towboat Nightmare: The Tow Boat CAHABA Goes Under a Non-Opening Bridge to the Other Side

BBC News - What's it like being a bodyguard?

U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

Fanboy! The origin of the term "fanboy"

The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History

Osborne! The machine, the man, and the dawn of the portable computing revolution. A Fresh Look at the "Osborne Effect"

• Hyperbolic Discounting • Damn Interesting

Radiation Dose Chart

Citation map shows top science cities

There are some obvious issues with the above: #35551606, #35551768, #35551920

What They Know - Mobile - WSJ

Angry Birds and Other Must-Have Apps Collect More Personal Data Than You Think | The New York Observer

Hacker News | Update on Trumpet Winsock / Peter Tattam donation drive. Amnesty, 200+ donors.

Thanks for Trumpet Winsock | Recognising an unsung hero

Deletionpedia: where entries too trivial for Wikipedia live on @ Ars Technica

Random Island, Newfoundland and Labrador: View In Google Maps

Vajont Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (keywords: famous disasters)

Martian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (keywords: Chinese, l33t, leet)

U.S. Customs Border Wait Times

Help Nathan Buy Firefly

CHANNEL CANADA :: If Anything Needs a Review, It Is The CRTC Itself (keywords: UBB, usage based billing)

About Open Wonderland | Open Wonderland

News:Burn Therapy: A Regenerative Medicine Approach - Regenerative Medicine at the McGowan Institute (keywords: spray on skin)

Deleted from Wikipedia - List of U.S. Army acronyms and expressions (deleted 31 Jul 2008 at 17:52) - Deletionpedia

World's Top 10 Coolest Offices

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

Evolving A Conscious Machine | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine (keywords: genetic algorithms, FPGAs)

The I Ching: Chapter 2: How to Use the I Ching

Evolving A Conscious Machine | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine (keywords: genetic algorithms, FPGAs)

Creative Commons and the Case of the Hotel Pool Sperm « This Picture Sucks

Pompeii, Italy Ruins in Google Street View

10 Radioactive Products That People Actually Used

Prisoner Population Rate UN HDR 2007-2008 (PNG Image)

Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Keanu Reeves gives £50 million to unsung heroes of 'The Matrix' - hellomagazine.com

Arguments Against Astrology for Critical Thinkers

The evolution of hard drives | Storage | Macworld (see page 9 for a set of drives over time in the same shot)

Myths and Misconceptions about Tornadoes

Google Labs - Books Ngram Viewer (Compare word usage in Google Books: republic vs. democracy)

Two levels down

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)

Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz: Amazon.com: Grocery & Gourmet Food (Joke Reviews)

Missing Missy: "yeah thats not what I was looking for at all." (May be NSFW)

Jackass IT: Stunts, idiocy, and hero hacks

Which Shipping Company Is Kindest To Your Packages? - Slashdot

The Appleseed Project - Open Source Social Networking

Mind Shadows: Coming Soon: McDonalds on Mt. Everest

Mining social networks: Untangling the social web | The Economist (Using Social Links for Ads and Counter-terrorism)

True Size of Africa

Remove a page or site from Google's search results

Microsoft Open Source Strategy is Upside Down. | Martin Iturbide

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)

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)

Parent Trap | This American Life (One example of a mother writing letters to her daughter before she dies.)

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.)

WikiAnswers - Why is black in CMYK called key

Caving

RFC3675 - .sex Considered Dangerous (Why Having a .sex TLD is Problematic)

RFC3675 - .sex Considered Dangerous (Why having a .sex TLD is Problematic)

The Moral Life of Babies - NYTimes.com

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 Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

Themed Theaters: A Stargate Atlantis Theater is Born, by Steven Castle - Electronic House Cool Home

TO SEE AND NOT SEE by OLIVER SACKS

Allen Carr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (self help guru who wrote popular books on stopping smoking and drinking)

Mystery (pickup artist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Royce Gracie in London May 8th

Mystery (pickup artist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anki (A flashcard system that has a psychological model to improve recall over time)

How Many Countries Are There?

Skype Heartbeat Page

Scoop: Rankin on Thursday: Where communism succeeded... (a look at bacteriophages used for cures)

Poesia (Cruise Ship) Web Cam

Why the Labels Don't Like Streaming Music

Razzle Dazzle Camouflage

PaypalWarning.com

The Secret Advantage Of Being Short : NPR

JDueck.Net : This Is Your Life (a graph showing how time moves faster as you age)

SixXS - LinuxReviews

Kayak Across the Pacific Ocean 3 Times to Get from Australia to LA

Past companies who partnered with Microsoft

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)

NORAD Tracks Santa

11 Ways to Visualize Changes Over Time – A Guide | FlowingData

Brief Timeline of the Internet

A Brief Time-line of the Internet

Democracy Index "The Democracy Index is an index compiled by The Economist examining the state of democracy in 167 countries..."

Democracy Index The Democracy Index is an index compiled by The Economist examining the state of democracy in 167 countries...

Coin Tosses can be Easily Rigged

Minute Mysteries

Review of 27 Twitter iPhone Apps

Go Daddy Reviews

Review of 27 Twitter iPhone Apps

The Development of Chess Piece Names in Various Languages

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)

Pareidolia (pronounced /pærɪˈdoʊliə/) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant.

Most people have no idea what a web browser is

Why is the RIAA So Evil?

An Analysis of Conficker's Logic and Rendezvous Points

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:

• http://gpstracklog.typepad.com/gps_tracklog/2007/03/google_maps_swi.html

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