HyperJeff Blog Lynks of Olde

Lynks of Olde:

2015-01-15 — Sorting Algorithm Visualizations
2014-11-16 — The Feynman Lectures on Physics
2014-08-01 — The Origin Of Multi-Cellular Life — Nice video presentation on research on the transition to multi-cellular life
2014-06-28 — Math for seven-year-olds — graph coloring, chromatic numbers, and Eulerian paths and circuits
2014-05-11 — Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983
2014-05-05 — Every Steve Jobs Video
2014-04-23 — National Association of Math Circles
2014-04-23 — 5-Year Olds Can Learn Calculus — Everyone should read this article. I mean it.
2014-04-15 — U.S. Energy Mapping System
2014-03-09 — secrets — A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X
2014-02-27 — Molecular Movies
2014-02-26 — earth — an animated map of global wind and weather - neat!
2014-02-14 — Active Transportation Alliance — Chicago non-auto transport group trying to do great things
2013-12-21 — Cubli — A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
2013-12-06 — Durham Grosseteste Project
2013-12-05 — Telepathwords — See how bad your password choices are and why
2013-11-05 — The Books Project — Nice idea, though I wish it wasn't so exclusive. Perhaps there should be one for very interesting people you've never head of also?
2013-04-16 — Forecast — Unusually well-done weather website
2013-04-16 — The Day Coffee Stopped Working
2012-04-01 — treevis — "A visual bibliography of tree visualization" — and dang cool
2012-04-01 — ChronoZoom — Amazing history timeline
2012-04-01 — Wind Map
2012-02-09 — Scale of the Universe 2012 — Very well-made, responsive scaling diagram
2012-02-06 — Chart Porn — Tracking truly great visualization resources
2012-01-19 — Khan Academy explains SOPA/PIPA — 11 minute explanation of the problem
2012-01-18 — Dive into HTML5
2011-11-29 — When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? — David Frum
2011-05-06 — AppleCrate II — Apple //e-based parallel computing
2011-03-19 — Meanness — Elegant post (and elegant website design)
2011-03-10 — The Gender Gap
2011-02-24 — It's the Inequality, Stupid — If this doesn't piss you off...
2011-01-18 — The Geography of Gun Deaths — Interesting state-level analysis
2010-12-29 — The Scale of the Universe — If your head doesn't hurt while thinking about this, try harder
2010-08-28 — Creative Spotlight: Space & Cosmology Infographics
2010-08-25 — National Archaeological Museum of Athens: Gods In Color
2010-08-23 — Radical Cartography
2010-08-19 — Easy = True — Interesting article
2010-08-18 — NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
2010-08-04 — The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us — A must-watch for anyone managing people
2010-07-20 — Computer History Museum
2010-07-09 — Digital Piano "Prices Paid" — Killer list/forum of prices people paid for various digital pianos
2010-07-01 — Bookshelf Porn! — Fills one with desire, ambition, longings
2010-06-18 — Beatles 3000
2010-06-15 — Structured Procrastination
2010-06-15 — An iPad in Every Pot
2010-04-09 — Pixels — Great video for those who love old-school video games
2010-02-01 — Future Shock — Interesting thought food
2010-01-12 — Ella & Aleksi: Yöjuna Rovaniemelle — Great stuff
2009-11-13 — The Jobless Rate — Not all groups have felt the recession equally
2009-10-22 — Patchwork Nation
2009-10-22 — eBooks@Adelaide — Rich collection of classic works translated into English under the CCL
2009-10-20 — Killer Xcode Tips and Tricks
2009-09-10 — Micronations of the World — "The average lifespan of a micronation is about 90 days" - read why, and more interesting stuff
2009-09-09 — The Story of a Simple and Dangerous Kernel Bug — OS X security article
2009-08-20 — Federal study shows mercury in fish widespread
2009-08-20 — WTFPL — Perhaps the very best public license yet
2009-08-12 — The Electronic Grosseteste — One of the unsung forerunners of mathematical physics and much more
2009-08-12 — Happily Seduced by the Blues — Yay, Bob!
2009-08-12 — Post Carbon Institute
2009-08-12 — Why markets can’t cure healthcare
2009-08-12 — Monday Note — Columns by Frédéric Filloux and Jean-Louis Gassée
2009-07-01 — Ant mega-colony takes over world
2009-06-26 — At the Movies — Classic Gene and Roger reviews
2009-06-18 — Bailout Costs vs Big Historical Events — Turns out 15 trillion is a lot of dough
2009-06-18 — Toxic to Democracy — Conspiracy Theories, Demonization, & Scapegoating
2009-05-25 — E-Books Directory — Collection of freely available books
2009-05-01 — The Body Politic — On the colonies that we each are
2009-05-01 — A glimmer of hope? — "The worst thing for the world economy would be to assume the worst is over"
2009-04-16 — Obama's Top Economic Adviser Is Greedy and Highly Compromised
2009-04-16 — Genes Show Limited Value in Predicting Diseases
2009-04-14 — Readability — Clean up your web reading life
2009-04-10 — Saving Native American languages
2009-04-10 — CIA shuts down its secret prisons — Er, not that we had any.
2009-02-24 — Revolution 1 Take 20 — Previously unreleased mix of the Beatles' Revolution
2009-02-23 — The Guantánamo Testimonials Project
2009-01-30 — United States of Chicago
2009-01-29 — History of the Internet
2009-01-20 — WhiteHouse Blog — "Day 2. This chair squeaks too much. I must get someone to fix this chair. Why did Biden get a better chair?"
2008-12-30 — DNA testing uncovers suspect sushi
2008-12-12 — World's Smartest Mouse — Proud to be in the same vertibrate class with such critters
2008-12-09 — Garfield minus Garfield — Genius
2008-10-16 — Total Cost of Iraq / Afghanistan Wars — Well-produced animation and explanation
2008-10-14 — Octopodi — Animation set on a Greek island
2008-10-13 — How the markets really work — poignant commentary from 2007
2008-10-13 — FiveThirtyEight — Political stat projects
2008-08-15 — Cancer doc urges cell phone precaution
2008-08-07 — Where Have You Gone, John? — Jonathan Alter on the new McCain
2008-08-06 — Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad
2008-08-05 — Apple Newton Getting Started Video — Fun to look back at what started palm-top computing, and compare with the state of the art
2008-07-17 — John von Neumann Institut für Computing — Nice collection of articles in computational science
2008-07-17 — The Website Is Down — Do not reboot the webserver!
2008-06-17 — Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore
2008-06-17 — How safe is instant messaging?
2008-06-16 — The Impeachment of Vice President Cheney — A fun way into the Congressional Record
2008-06-16 — Code Confidential — Mac dev talk from C4[1]
2008-05-29 — How Liberals and Conservatives Think — George Lakoff on Moral Politics
2008-05-28 — Six Degrees of Wikipedia
2008-05-28 — The Question of Global Warming — by Freeman Dyson
2008-05-16 — tayasui — user interface design
2008-05-15 — Polar Bear Is Made a Protected Species
2008-05-10 — The Empire Strikes Barack
2008-05-09 — Twenty-five years after Reagan's Star Wars speech
2008-05-07 — eye of science — Scientific photography - Life in a microcosmic world
2008-05-02 — Map of Human Migrations — Beautiful illustration
2008-04-30 — Albert Hofmann, the Father of LSD, Dies at 102 — So long and thanks for making life more interesting
2008-04-23 — How Valid Are T.V. Weather Forecasts?
2008-04-18 — What 8 years of BushCheney have done to our economy — Oh, the pain
2008-04-17 — Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?
2008-04-03 — China's new intelligentsia
2008-04-03 — Feds lie about link between software piracy and terrorism — The baby steps toward a police state
2008-04-01 — Death Star Canteen
2008-03-30 — International Fund for Animal Welfare
2008-03-09 — How to save money running a startup — Many good pointers
2008-03-09 — Futurama Timeline — 2475: Washington DC is rededicated to Washington the Sweathog
2008-02-27 — Obama's Senate Record
2008-02-27 — National Environmental Scorecard — Check on congresspeebles
2008-02-25 — Texas Early Voting Wave — as Reaction to Systemic Disenfranchisement
2008-02-22 — Milestones: Barack Obama — Media tour on the NYTimes site
2008-02-21 — White Rabbit — Star Trek-style
2008-02-08 — In Our Time — More great BBC radio programs
2008-02-01 — Bush opens 3m acres of Alaskan forest to logging
2008-02-01 — Frozen Grand Central
2008-01-11 — People in Order — A drum played by people in age 1 to 100
2008-01-11 — Tinker, Tailor, Robot, Fly
2007-12-03 — Information R/evolution — Interesting gloss on information over the last 15 years
2007-11-28 — BumpTop — A refreshingly improved GUI - watch the videos
2007-11-16 — The Real News Network — Currently in beta
2007-11-16 — Not the Daily Show, with Some Writer — Great commentary on the writers' strike
2007-11-09 — Global Environment Outlook (GEO) Project
2007-11-02 — The Undiscovered Planet — On the vast majority of life on this lump of rocks
2007-11-02 — ENIAC Programmers Project
2007-10-25 — The Simplest Universal Turing Machine Is Proved
2007-10-24 — Synapse Magazine archive
2007-10-23 — Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
2007-10-18 — How Not to Make a 2012 Documentary
2007-09-04 — The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
2007-08-17 — Ron Paul on dissent in a time of war — *Required* viewing
2007-08-17 — Chicago Recycling Location List
2007-08-14 — TED | Talks | List
2007-08-14 — Cheney on why the US shouldn't invade Iraq (1994)
2007-08-13 — US Slipping in Life Expectancy Rankings
2007-08-13 — LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? — Happy Centenial, Albert!
2007-08-08 — The Encyclopedia of Life — "An ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone"
2007-08-06 — Gapminder — Amazing stuff
2007-08-01 — The Semicolon Wars
2007-08-01 — Paris Transatlantic
2007-07-30 — You think you know (JavaScript) but you have no idea — Very good video lectures on JavaScript
2007-07-29 — Hearing on US Embassy in Iraq — Kuwaiti kidnapping of Philippinos for work on US Embassy in Baghdad
2007-07-27 — Greenham's Hidden Secret — Report on the US coup plot from 1933
2007-07-25 — Interview with Con Kolivas
2007-07-17 — Multi-Touch Systems ... — A sketch of their history by Bill Buxton
2007-06-04 — Recording Industry vs The People — Go dogs go
2007-05-12 — Classic Ragtime Piano
2007-05-10 — China forces 250,000 Tibetans to resettle to "socialist villages"
2007-05-03 — Arctic Sea Ice Melting Faster, a Study Finds
2007-04-30 — Solid Potato Salad
2007-04-30 — The (misguided) pursuit of happiness
2007-04-29 — Honey Bee Die-off Alarms Beekeepers, Crop Growers And Researchers — Ready to ditch all cell phones? You may have to
2007-04-25 — The Right Number — Online graphic novella about math, sex, obsession and phone numbers
2007-04-25 — LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US — My stupid country
2007-04-11 — 6502-compatible compiler and emulator in JavaScript
2007-04-11 — Open Letter to the Patent Office from Donald Knuth
2007-04-09 — Pearls Before Breakfast
2007-04-06 — Mac App Checklist
2007-04-06 — President Carter: White House Ordered Me To Not Go To Syria
2007-04-03 — Despite its aging design, x86 is still in charge
2007-03-30 — Universcale
2007-03-30 — Doctor Who and the Beatles — I didn't know they played classical music.
2007-03-29 — Hearing on Allegations of GSA Misconduct: Braley Questions — Clearly lying, clearly violating the law
2007-03-24 — New "matrix of harm" for drugs of abuse — Alcohol and tobacco more harmful than LSD, cannabis and ecstacy
2007-03-22 — The Entrepreneurs — A documentary of the beginnings of NeXT from November 1986
2007-03-15 — Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design
2007-03-06 — The Daily Dish: Faggot
2007-03-04 — A Terrible Thing to Waste
2007-03-04 — On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection — Darwin's classic in text and audio book form for free
2007-03-04 — FDA Rules Override Warnings About Drug — Cattle Antibiotic Moves Forward Despite Fears of Human Risk
2007-02-27 — Why I Got Fired from Apple Computer — YouTube vid of injustice
2007-02-16 — Haskell Study Plan
2007-02-16 — Lafayette judge steps down: Frieling won't enforce new marijuana law
2007-02-15 — NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio animation series
2007-02-15 — Nora, The Piano-Playing Cat
2007-02-13 — Flow of tiny bubbles mimics computer circuitry
2007-02-07 — Thoughts on Music — An open letter from Steve Jobs
2007-02-06 — Orbiting Junk, Once a Nuisance, Is Now a Threat
2007-02-01 — Taktshang Goemba (Tiger's Nest Monastery
2007-02-01 — Climate Prediction Net — Put your CPU time to good use
2007-02-01 — Teen Accuses Record Companies of Collusion
2007-01-27 — How to survive a plane crash
2007-01-27 — Spy fact meets spy fiction
2007-01-23 — Andy Griffith vs Patriot Act
2007-01-21 — Why I Stopped Coding and Why I'd Start Again
2007-01-16 — The Warming of Greenland
2007-01-11 — Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science
2007-01-08 — So Many Millions, So Little Body Armor
2007-01-06 — To the Point of Farce — "A martian view of the hardinian taboo - the silence that surrounds population control"
2007-01-03 — 20 consecutive Full Moons — Shows libration / wobble of moon
2007-01-02 — Visual Acoustics
2007-01-02 — The Year in Mac Development
2007-01-02 — Hidden Dimensions - A Major Apple Weakness Could Harm Mac OS X
2006-12-29 — 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year
2006-12-29 — 50 Dumbest Things Bush Ever Said
2006-12-18 — Imagining the Tenth Dimension
2006-12-17 — The Real War — A talk with journalists about what went wrong post-9/11
2006-12-17 — China's white dolphin called extinct after 20 million years
2006-12-15 — Comets hold life chemistry clues
2006-12-15 — Tamil Tigers' top negotiator dies
2006-12-14 — Two controvertial video games — Yeeesh
2006-12-14 — Sea level rise "under-estimated" — No one say this stuff isn't expected way ahead of time.
2006-12-11 — A network called "Internet" — Back when most people still were still completely clueless
2006-12-07 — Pangolins! — Cool creature
2006-12-07 — The Athiest Delusion — (Fun sarcasm)
2006-12-07 — A Tiny Particle is Found — Has the axion really been finally found?
2006-12-06 — Best Cocoa UI Components
2006-12-06 — Fiji imposes state of emergency
2006-12-05 — 6th Annual Future of Music Policy Summit
2006-12-05 — The Problem with Programming — with Bjarne Stroustrup
2006-11-30 — Apple files Enterprise Objects Framework related patent
2006-11-30 — Apple Seeks U.S. Patent for Combo Mobile Phone, IPod
2006-11-30 — Radio Transparent Zirconia iPhone?
2006-11-30 — Matrox boxes make Macs work with 2, 3 displays
2006-11-30 — Paraguay man crucified in public over wrongful conviction
2006-11-28 — memcached — distributed memory object caching system
2006-11-28 — BBC Radio 4: In Our Time, Science Archives
2006-11-28 — MODx CMS/PHP App Framework
2006-11-28 — ClearSilver HTML template system