In Google Reader, I usually star things that I want to read or follow-up on later. These have been piling up due to everything I’ve had going on lately. I briefly debated declaring feeder reader bankruptcy but I decided instead to core dump the links that I want to keep into the blog. If you’re interested in a few cool or interesting links, keep reading. If not, catch me next time around. Without further ado…
Science
- Cool Skyscraper Idea
- The Realignment of the American Population (Where they live to be specific)
- Princeton physicists connect string theory to established physics
Music
Books
Culture
- Who are all the people wandering around the city during the day?
- Tech users split into groups by usage
- Timeline of a Shabu party
- I am 8-Bit art gallery (I love the Q-Bert and Pacman photos)
- Scott Adams - What’s Your Permanent Age
- NYTimes - Data Mining Goes Mainstream (I love data)
- The effect of “Top 10″ and “Most Read” lists on journalism
Movies
- The new Transformers movie trailer looks so great that I may weep with happiness
- The new Golden Compass trailer looks cool too
- Heath Ledger as the Joker - Revealed, Awesome!
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix trailer
- Die Hard 4 trailer (I refuse to call this movie by it’s other extremely stupid name)
Sites That Might Be Cool
- HopStop - Plan Public Transportation
- OurFaves - Citysearch meets something social
- Overhear.us - Corporate Gossip
Programming and Software
- Scott Guthrie talks SilverLight
- Scott Hanselman talks SilverLight Samples
- SilverLight Developer Reference Poster
- Michael Arrington explains why SilverLight is important
- Scott Hanselman puts Silverlight into context
- SilverLight 1.1 Alpha SDK
- Jeff Atwood talks learning design as a programmer
- Jeff Atwood talks learning a graphics editor as a programmer
- Scott Guthrie talks Lambda Expressions in “Orcas”
- Scott Guthrie talks ASP.Net 2.0 Data Access
- Scott Guthrie talks Javascript intellisense in “Orcas”
- Scott Guthrie talks Query Syntax in “Orcas”
- Scott Hanselman talks adding MP3 artwork via command line using C#
- Jamie Thomson’s SSIS Live Search Macro
- Jeff Atwood talks using Firefox as an IDE (Firebug ROCKS)
- Jeff Atwood talks software and rock climbing
- Microsoft and Teradata approaches to Business Intelligence compared and contrasted
Just Plain Cool
- How the infamous MIT blackjack team operated and won
- Time-lapse video of a boat going through the panama canal
- Roomba with a laser and Air-Soft pellet gun
- These UPS whiteboard commercials ROCK (I’m a huge sucker for a whiteboard)
- Really strange (yet interesting) flash game
Funny
- Why it doesn’t pay to be the computer guy - Top 10
- Xkcd - Online Communities
- Penny Arcade talks Ping Pong (halfway down the page)
- Xkcd - Skynet stole my cd
- For Sale - One Useless Cat (Pics)
- PVP talks Lost: The Role-Playing Game
- Xkcd - Floor Tiles
- Xkcd - Guitar Hero
Tech
- How to really erase a hard drive
- Wordpress Theme Generator
- How Digg uses the LAMP stack to scale
- Open-source hardware
- Ken Thompson talks about theoretically building a backdoor into the “login” Unix program by inserting commands into the C compiler that ensured that not only would the backdoor code be inserted into the login program, but also into the C compiler itself when compiled
- What happens on the other end when you click “Send Error Report” in Windows (I’ve always been fascinated with how Microsoft gathers data on crashes using Watson)
- Jeff Atwood talks Twitter: Service Vs. Platform
- Scott Hanselman talks email signature etiquette
Software to Download
- Better Gmail (Greasemonkey script for Firefox)
- Synergy (Software KVM)
- Wireshark Network Packet Analyzer
- Mozy Online Backup (I use this. $4.95 a month for unlimited off-site backup. It rocks)
- Notepad2 - Updated with Ruby Support
I hope some of these are interesting to you. I am trying to get used to use Google Share Links these days so I’ll probably have a lot fewer links next time. You can subscribe to the Shared feed here. Later.