Category: Links Dump

Anil Dash: Your April Fool’s Day Joke Continues to Suck “The exception, of course, is if you’re doing something truly hysterical or on a magnificent scale. But I fear we won’t run into too many of those.” (tags: blogs internet society stupid) Practical Jokes – Psychology – April Fool! The Purpose of Pranks – New… Continue reading links for 2008-04-02

Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer People suck. (tags: internet computing medicine evil stupid) Word Munger » One-letter google searches The alphabet, according to Google. (tags: internet computing silly) The Gashlycrumb Tinies “M is for Maud who was swept out to sea/ N is for Neville who dies of ennui” (tags: books comics silly art… Continue reading links for 2008-04-01

Talk Like A Physicist | Talk Like A Physicist 3.14 » A water balloon not exploding in high-speed Possibly even cooler than a water balloon exploding at high speed. (tags: physics video youtube science) THE FIVE WAYS OF PROVING SANTA CLAUS After Aquinas. (tags: silly humanities culture society religion) Boing Boing’s Moderation Policy – Boing… Continue reading links for 2008-03-31

The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You | Cracked.com Oh shit! Run! (tags: animals biology psychology video science silly) Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More – New York Times Crazy people seek an injunction to keep the LHC from destroying the universe. (tags: physics science stupid)… Continue reading links for 2008-03-30

Anachronista: The Simpsons Bayeux Tapestry Couch Scene It’s missing the comet… (tags: silly television video) Good Math, Bad Math : Introduction to Linear Regression The basics of data fitting. (tags: science math) Quantum Decoherence Reduction by Increasing the Thermal Bath Temperature A counter-intuitive result. (tags: physics quantum science theory articles) Condensate Fraction in a 2D… Continue reading links for 2008-03-29

There are fewer of them this time, so I’ll keep them above the fold. Graphene makes for better optical displays – physicsworld.com “According to the same group of researchers that first fabricated the 2D sheets of carbon nearly four years ago, graphene has the ideal optical properties to form the transparent electrodes in liquid crystal… Continue reading Manual Links for 3-28-08

You may or may not have noticed the absence of the “Links for [Date]” posts the last couple of days. There’s been some sort of glitch at del.icio.us, and they didn’t auto-post the way they usually do. You may or may not have missed them, but I do, so below the fold you’ll find the… Continue reading Manual Links Dump

Relativity: Measuring the speed of light « Skulls in the Stars A history of experiments through the ages. (tags: precision-measurement experiment history science) Nanocrystals could help recover waste heat – physicsworld.com “[T]he thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) for the ingots increased to 1.2 at room temperature (from a value of 1.0 previously). Moreover, they found… Continue reading links for 2008-03-23

Security Beat The DHS gets security advice from Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and David Brin. I feel safer already. (tags: stupid SF war US politics) States’ Data Obscure How Few Finish High School – New York Times “Like Mississippi, many states use an inflated graduation rate for federal reporting requirements under the No Child Left… Continue reading links for 2008-03-22

Backreaction: Experimental Traffic Jams More detail on the Japanese simulation of Washington, DC. (tags: physics science experiment video youtube) What is the matter with the universe? – Telegraph An article on CP violation experiments, which is pretty good, but might be dated=– I thought BaBar was shut down? (tags: physics experiment science) Supersymmetry could be… Continue reading links for 2008-03-21