Geek Links — March 9, 2010
Posted on March 9, 2010 by Chris Nelson
And for the latest round of geek links, we have everything from Apple news and programming humor to free online classes and anti-google activism. Oh, and dinosaurs! (Special thanks to Kris for finding a good number of the links this week).
Video Games
- Game Boy Oddities
- Sam Suede Returns? Yawn. « Slightly Deranged
- The Armchair Adventurer: Damn, I wish I’d done a better job! – Meet Al Lowe, Creator of Leisure Suit Larry
- How To Use Video Games To Improve Your Brain (Technology & Cars: Video Game Culture)
Web/Programming
- Palm releases webOS PDK Beta! | PreCentral.net
- Products — Qt – A cross-platform application and UI framework
- Programming Humor
- Software Engineering Humor
- JSONLint – The JSON Validator.
- Learning a language vs. learning a culture « The Reinvigorated Programmer
- Joel Spolsky Quits Blogging
- Whatever happened to programming? « The Reinvigorated Programmer
- Andrew Hoyer | Cloth Simulation
Online Courses/Lectures
- 800+ Hours of .NET Video Tutorials
- Computer Science | Video Courses on Academic Earth
- YouTube – C++ – 19 Video Tutorials from Stanford and More
- Free Online Course Materials | Courses | MIT OpenCourseWare
Activism/Perspectives
- F.A.T. Lab: Fuck Google Week Wrap Up on Vimeo
- I Just Retweeted @Ferris Bueller « Velocity – Forbes.com
Science
- CBC News – Technology & Science – Large Hadron Collider restarts for new science
- Experts confirm asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs – Yahoo! News
- Wired Science . Video: Touchtable | PBS
History
- The Secret Origin of Windows
- Time Flies Dept.: Dot-com craze peaked 10 years ago | NetworkWorld.com Community
- Japan confirms Cold War-era ‘secret’ pacts with US – Yahoo! News (not internet history, but who cares?)
