Geek Links — July 14, 2010
Posted on July 14, 2010 by Chris Nelson
So we missed the geek links last week. Here’s an extra big batch to make up for it. We’ve got loads of programming and science articles, the discovery of an 18th century ship beneath the world trade center, voice recognition on your home pc, Apple’s antenna woes, Palm’s death and rebirth, sexy movie MILFs, and much much more. Enjoy.
Programming
- Javascript Push Notifications Tutorial Developer
- Math Every Day
- Top five scripting languages on the JVM
- Experiments with ‘Static’ JavaScript: As Fast As Native Code?
- How many errors are left to find?
- Code Documentation
- Top 10 Performance Problems — Scalability and Architecture
- It’s Faster Because It’s C
- 5 ways to be a better programmer
- Engineering Large Projects in a Functional Language
- 100 Prisoners, 100 lines of code
- ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More
- Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
- Outsourcing Doesn’t Work
- Improve your jQuery Selectors: 5 Quick Tips
- OO/Imperative programmers: ‘Study Functional Programming or Be Ignorant’
- Debating HTML 5 and Flash? Get educated first!
- Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?
- Will the real programmers please stand up?
Web
- 9 More Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books
- 4 rules for displaying error messages from a user experience perspective
- Fun with CSS Transforms in Firefox 3.1 and Webkit
- Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps
- CSS Layouts: layers, absolute and relative positioning and floating elements
- An Unexpected Apple Ally: Porn Industry to Drop Flash
Computers
Smartphones
- Palm is dead. Long live Palm
- Letter from Apple Regarding iPhone 4
- Consumer Reports Electronics Blog: Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can’t recommend the iPhone 4
- Yes, the iPhone 4 is broken / No, the iPhone 4 is not broken
- App Inventor for Android
- Developers increasingly have Android on the brain
- Apple iPhone 4 Reception Bars: A Distorted Reality
- Poking holes in Apple’s iPhone antenna explanation
Science/Awesome
- 18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site
- Phys Ed: The Men Who Stare at Screens
- In Politics, Sometimes The Facts Don’t Matter
- The Creativity Crisis
- Find contiguous movies to sneak into!
- I assume I’m below average
- iPad and Kindle Reading Speeds
- When Intuition And Math Probably Look Wrong
- Science historian cracks “the Plato code”
Exploration
Tech
- Structure 2010 Video Recap
- How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late
- 10 things you should never buy new
- Do Scientists and Engineers Understand the Public?
Security
Politics
- Entering The Secret World Of Wikileaks
- Congress weighs curbs on state ‘iTaxes’
- ‘One in ten’ UK graduates unemployed
- Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Swedish Parliament
- IEEE Hates Software Freedom, Now Makes it More Official
- Software patents after Bilski
Linux
Games
- Javascript and HTML5/Canvas Game, No Flash
- Lost Horizon hands-on preview
- Adult Games For Wii
- Peasant’s Quest
- Peasant’s Quest Walkthrough
- King’s Quest returns in The Silver Lining
- The Silver Lining
Humor
- xkcd: Workaround
- Dinosaur Comics – awesome fun times!
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal — sexy cats
- Robocop Ran DOS
- Report: Taliban training monkeys to fight against U.S. soldiers
- Sexiest Movie MILFs
- Netpliance I-opener image – Internet appliances of yesteryear
- WindowsNT vs Unix Kids asking the public to do their homework
- iPhone vs. HTC EVO & HTC EVO vs iPhone4 Best parody videos ever
- Family-Friendly FaceTime Commercial Gets Dysfunctional Family Parody Ad
- Java 4-Ever trailer starring Scala Johansson
