Geek Links — June 15, 2010
Posted on June 15, 2010 by Chris Nelson
Making up for the slim selection of articles last week, I’ve got a boatload for you this. Artificial sight, genetic scan mixups, robotic chess, smart-car monster trucks, loads of educational videos, Apple censorship gone crazy, and the usual glut of programming and science articles. Seriously, there’s so much cool stuff! Enjoy!
Tech
- Genome scan customers sent the wrong results
- Monster Chess
- Many Schools Teach Engineering in Early Grades
Programming — General
- You’re Doing It Wrong – Server Performance
- OpenGL and Perl
- An Interview by a Seventh Grader
- The Legend of John von Neumann
- HTML5 Video with “Bumper ads”
- Unit testing is teh suck, Urr.
- Scala for Hackers
- What the boss makes
- Recipe for a Death March
- Real engineers prefer cubicles….or not
- Programming the 6th Dimension
- Writing Code on Handhelds
- There are no famous Programmers
- 6 Great Ways To Suck At C++
Programming — Javascript
Programming — Ruby
Programming — Clojure
Education and Motivation
- Programming the Moist Robot 06/10/2010
- Who is Ayn Rand?
- How to Take your Start-Up to the Next Level
- “The surprising truth about what motivates us” and 1000+ other educational videos
- Why do I always waste time on the weekends?
- The Sure Thing (How Entrepreneurs Really Succeed) by Malcolm Gladwell
- 10 Business Myths of the Geeks
Linux/Open Source
- Dell’s Ubuntu Page
- Red Hat’s new CEO: ‘I must have a mission’
- Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux
- Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?
- Linux Mint 9 review
- Making Open-Source Software Free and Fabulous
- How To Watch The World Cup 2010 Live (Online) In Linux [Free]
Web
- ‘Shady’ porn site practices put visitors at risk
- I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire
- “for the l[u]lz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy
- How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites
Science
- What makes the sound of vuvuzelas so annoying?
- World’s first plastic antibody works in mice
- Long Road to Adulthood Is Growing Even Longer
- The ‘MythBusters’ discuss their top 25 moments
- Steven Pinker – The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews
- The mess he made: A life-long slob decides it’s time to get organized
- EYEBORG– The Two Week Trial on Vimeo
- Vision Quest: A half century of artificial-sight research has succeeded. And now this blind man can see.
- Eyeborg Bionic Eye Camera Shows Winks and All
- How To Destroy a Black Hole
- Reverse Engineering McDonald’s French Fries
Games
Apple
- Apple Censors Ulysses
- Tiny cartoon penis disqualifies Ulysses comic from iPad store
- WWDC Keynote WiFi woes may have been due to iPhone 4 drivers
- Gotta wonder if Steve knows…
- Our List of Highly-Anticipated Upcoming Games for OS X (2010)
- Apple Censors a Gay Kiss in Oscar Wilde Comic
Media
- ’Simpsons’ animator knocks on doors of N.K. with Korean folk tale
- Amber Heard as Mystique?
- The Most Influential SF Movie Never Made
- A Web Manifesto
- Japan Society’s Japan Cuts Film Festival 2010
World
- Life inside the North Korean bubble
- Americans: Let’s stop investing in our kids(could go under humor)
- Rent a White Guy
- The World’s Most Unusual Outsourcing Destination
- The Outsourcing Low Cost Lie
Politics
- U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan
- Famous hacker suddenly finds himself infamous, in some quarters
- Pentagon hunts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in bid to gag website
- Misreading Tehran: The Twitter Devolution
- America versus the hacker
- Boldly going nowhere: Nasa ends plan to put man back on Moon
BP/Oil Slick
- US oil spill: Mapping the oil slick
- Buzz Aldrin’s Answer To The Louisiana Oil Spill
- U.S. confirms underwater oil plume from Deepwater Horizon well
