links for 2008-10-15
The eyeballing game Eyeball centerpoints, bisect an angle, midpoints, and complete shapes. Fun, quick game (tags: games)
The eyeballing game Eyeball centerpoints, bisect an angle, midpoints, and complete shapes. Fun, quick game (tags: games)
Stanford School of Engineering Free CS class materials from Stanford (tags: programming eLearning education courses stanford)
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right (tags: politics election stats)
Textorizer – vectorise a picture using text strings (tags: textorizer image picture cool) Google Chrome Addons, Themes, and Plugins (tags: chrome addons google hacks themes plugins)
Tropes – Television Tropes & Idioms Trope refers to story components or elements which have become standardized through decades (or more) of use. This is a wiki of TV tropes (tags: tv scripts trope wiki) Ovablastic: Richard Dawkins' jaw-dropping talk on our bizarre universe (tags: Dawkins talks _toread)
YouTube – The Corpus Clock & Chronophage Designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college's new library building. The Clock will be unveiled on 19th September by Stephen Hawking. Inspired from a design by a clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of longitude. BTW, […]
18 minutes you must watch. Whatever your political leanings, this examination of how the mind works is both fascinating and insightful, especially given the political climate we all find ourselves in. Remember, every politician plays against the types of predilections Jonathan Haidt talks about here. It’s not a partisan issue to know how you’re being […]
Stack Overflow An interesting concept. Not sure how much more useful this could be than Google. (tags: reference programming software)
WordPress Developer’s Toolbox | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine (tags: webdesign WordPress)
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/06/2008 | Candidates briefed on seizure of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Palin's an idiot. (tags: politics idiocy)