musings from the sleep deprived

Some new links for the week. Let James Brown be your guide!

• Catch the biggest waves! (theatlantic)
• What *really* drains your battery? (blog)
• Very interesting. IT ideas that must die. (highscalability)
• The most popular MOOCs (onlinecoursereport)
• Crypto-entrepeneur. (arstechnica)
• Fuel cell cars getting closer. (forbes)
• VC level analysis of the EMC/Dell deal. (a16z)
• I had no idea this was happening. Wow. (fastcodesign)
• beer or wine? (bbc)
• Yay for Prison Architect!! (slate)
• Abandoned Games? Maybe not. (arstechnica)
• NOAA is fudging data, says Rep.Lamar Smith (arstechnica)

This week’s links, courtesy of yo momma’s tasty fried chicken…

• An Amazon response to the Times piece. (medium)
• Technology failure impacts visualized. (ieee)
• Good thing this new fangled thing is more secure. (arstechnica)
• Home automation tinkering (wsj)
• Identity online (about.me)
• I have no idea what to think about this. (bbc)
• Some thoughts on crytography (blog)
• Maybe we are mermaids. (nautil.us)
• $100M in controller design research. Yessssssss. (polygon)
• Finally, the LUCK video from Bethesda. (polygon)
• Drone disabling guns. (popularmechanics)
• Einstein and non-locality. (scientificamerican)

This week’s reading…

• The language used by climate scientists and their skeptics. (arstechnica)
• Recreational Math is important! (nytimes)
• Tech Giants are the Walking Dead (wired)
• I’m *keenly* interested to see where this goes (polygon)
• Screen UIs in the Martian (territory studio)
• The first keylogger! (arstechnica)
• Gegenschein! (skyandtelescope)
• The most prolific wikipedia editor. (priceonomics)
• Very cool bedsheets. (etsy)
• Freeman Dyson is the Man. (thereg)
• REM sleep on demand (berkeley)

And here we go again with another week’s worth of fun reading…

• International border visible from space (nasa)
• Hilarious generic tech recruiter letter (blog)
• TWO player bomb defusing game. Lovely idea. (arstechnica)
• Math is hard, mmmm’kay? (nature)
• Fallout4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. videos (youtube)
• I’m afraid I don’t have anything to say about this. (guardian)
• Elephant genetics! (discover)
• Gene patents (arstechnica)
• View the Milky Way in many wavelengths! (chromoscope)
• Android TV from nVidia (arstechnica)
• Vulnerabilities in bitcoin (motherboard)

Aaaannnnddd…. another week of links!

• Fallout 4 is getting a lot of pre-release press. *drool* (polygon)
• Inventing languages for a living (npr)
• Neat map of RDBMS evolution over time (hpi.de)
• Yummy mechanical keyboard love. (polygon)
• RIP, Alex King (poststatus)
• And I don’t even drink coffee. More fool me, it seems. (harvard)
• Whoa. worms eating plastic. (stanford)
• Some of the things on this wishlist are AWESOME. (nautilus)