Some links I found to be interesting: 1. Homemade Rocketship Test Flight 2. Google Earth Goes Under the Sea 3. Graphene-Based Circuits? 4. Chart Porn: US Military Spending in Perspective 5. Spiders with Spare Legs? 6. Antimatter of Fact 7. Ezra Klein: Why Scott Brown Should Be Elizabeth Warren’s Biggest Fan
Some links: 1. Japanese Elderly Offer to Take Over Fukushima Nuclear Cleanup. 2. The Man Who Can Taste Sounds. Every sound seems to taste like Bacon. I actually have a case of the much more common grapheme-color synesthesia. 3. Pimp My Wort Chiller. 4. Arab Spring Timeline Graphic.
More Links: 1. David Leonhardt on Religion, Income, and Education. But where are the Atheists? 2. An Interesting Video of the U.S. Government Supporting Hemp Crops During WWII. 3. A Love Story…In Milk. 4. Crazy Interactive Charts on All Kinds of Stuff.
Here are a few articles and posts I found interesting: 1. Uh-Oh: Gold on the Cover of NYT Magazine? 2. Why Does Groupon Work? 3. Tyler Cowen asks how a “true economist” should react to today’s news about Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest. Kid Dynamite’s response: “Dominique Strauss-Kahn Renders Economic Theory Moot.” 4. I like this economic dashboard. I’d love to see a company or website create something similar, and update it daily. 5. Breaking Bin Laden: Visualizing The Power of a Single Tweet
Here are a few links I found to be interesting: 1. England, My England 2. Canine Commando 3. Sea Urchin Body Is One Big Eye 4. Panorama of Night Sky Stitched Together from 37,000 Images
Then check out my friend David’s new website. He also has some great photography.
I sincerely apologize for the lengthy interval between this and my last post. I blame law school, too many beers or a combination of the two. Similar to Charlie Sheen’s negotiations to return to Two and a Half Men, I’m back with a vengeance. Have you checked out http://www.qwiki.com/ ? You haven’t? I’m shocked. Seriously. Step up your game people. Essentially it offers an interactive wikipedia-esque experience, using audio-visuals to convey an overview of the most important details of your query. According to the website, Qwiki’s goal is to forever improve the way people experience information. Whether you’re planning a vacation on the web, evaluating restaurants on your phone, or helping with homework in front of the family Google TV,
From turtlecalls.com, Americas turtlecalls leader: the $2 turtlecall america’s original turtlecall – i will try to get through at least three times and if i cannot i will leave a cool voicemail in my turtle voice the $3 cheadlecall this is a special turtlecall where i will call and pretend to be a turtle pretending to be don cheadle, who is a famous actor in american movies like hotel rwanda the $10 super turtlecall this turtlecall has advanced features like that i will keep calling until i do not get a voicemail, even if it takes weeks a super turtlecall pushes your turtlecall to the front of the line for execution and for getting onto the internet for you to
At least in my opinion. They’ve been piling up: 1. What a prank call proves about Wisconsin 2. “I don’t want to marry someone if I don’t have a job first” 3. The Wrong Answer to Climate Change 4. The Onion on Opting Out of Google 5. Who Doesn’t Love Stop Motion? 6. What Motivates Employees? (Not Money) And these are from my Mom (she sends me lots of interesting stuff): 7. Find You Some Vinyl. It’s a new “search engine” exclusively devoted to finding the best deals on vinyl records, and here’s an article about it. It’s still under development, but it looks like it will be a great resource. 8. Could Biologists Avert the Next Banking Crisis?
I’ve been trying to convince my friend and former colleague, Colin Whooten, to start a blog. Until he does, here are some good links that he shared with me: 1. Gladwell Still Missing the Point About Social Media and Activism 2. 3 Ways Of Looking At Manufacturing In America The second one is a good follow-up to my prior post on the Boston Globe article on the state of manufacturing in America. I’ll stop bothering Colin now. I also liked this animation showing the way our solar system works, compared with the way the world used to think it worked. Occam’s Razor!