Tag: Links

• Main Page – Battlestar Wiki
  I'm such a nerd
  (tags: bsg scifi battlestar galactica)

• Pairing Cheese With Beer And Wine – Best Pairings
  Two of my favorite things.
  (tags: beer cheese food)

• 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, read Longitude the book… fascinating account of the race for a device to measure longitude.
  (tags: time clocks video awesome)

• Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher – Yahoo! News
  AH! It happened. (Ok, not really. But coincidences are weird.)
  (tags: science physics LHC)

• FQXi Community: Articles, Forums, Blogs, News
  Could the LHC sabotage itself for the future?
  (tags: physics science interesting LHC)

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 played.

http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf

Link to talk

And check out other TED talks; it’s really cool to see what other people are thinking about. TED is also available as a free video podcast on iTunes; highly recommended.

• Stack Overflow
  An interesting concept. Not sure how much more useful this could be than Google.
  (tags: reference programming software)