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Linkdump for January 28th through February 4th

Nedroid Picture Diary – What would Beartato say?
tags: comics
ggplot2: Quick Heatmap Plotting –
tags: R programming visualization
A Perfect Day for Bananafish – J. D. Salinger – RIP, Salinger.
tags: literature shortStory

February 5th, 2010 • No Comments » • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for January 12th through January 28th

YouTube – Charlie Brooker – How To Report The News –
tags: humor news video media
In praise of the anti-filibuster movement. – The Senate was not supposed to require a supermajority to pass EVERY bill. It's time to nuke the filibuster.
tags: politics
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China – "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn"
tags: censorship technology culture

January 28th, 2010 • No Comments » • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for December 31st through January 5th

I don’t hate hockey…but I don’t like it, either – I'll agree that hockey at Kiel/Scottrade isn't the same as it was in the Arena.
tags: hockey sports stlouis humor
One R Tip A Day: How to Superimpose Histograms – Useful code to add to my toolbox
tags: R statistics visualization programming
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
tags: none

January 5th, 2010 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for December 15th through December 28th

Mike Elgan: 10 obsolete technologies to kill in 2010 – "The fax machine was obsolete 15 years ago. When someone says "fax it to me," I always feel like I'm being punk'd. A fax machine is nothing more than a printer, scanner and an obsolete analog mode that work together to waste time, money, paper and electricity."
tags: tech
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
tags: none
YouTube – Tim Minchin – Storm – A nine-minute beat poem about science and belief. Oh, and it's funny too.
tags: science poetry comedy medicine video

December 28th, 2009 • 1 Comment » • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for December 4th through December 5th

Cloud Bio-Linux – "The vision for Cloud BioLinux is to offer a base image of genome analysis resources for cloud computing platforms, such as Amazon EC2"
tags: linux science bioinformatics cloud
How to Unlock the Amazing Secret of Unlimited Productivity –
tags: productivity
Gallery: The Year’s Most Amazing Scientific Images | Popular Science – Cool science-related pics
tags: pictures science photography

December 5th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for November 20th through December 4th

NYS Senator Diane Savino speaks on the Marriage Equality bill – Linked directly to the amusing little anecdote in the middle
tags: marriage equality religion politics video
Nordstrom Continues To Oppose Christmas Creep – I'm not sure I've ever been in a Nordstrom's, but they're my new favorite retailer.
tags: christmas retail consumerism
The Hamilton Mixtape – A rap about Alexander Hamilton from the POV of Aaron Burr – performed at the White House.
tags: video history music

December 4th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for November 13th through November 19th

Stop using "win" and "fail" as complete sentences – Seriously, stop it.
tags: comic internet humor
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be | The Onion – "Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: 'one nation under God,'" said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. "Well, there's a reason they put that right at the top."
tags: politics religion satire
Levar vs JayZ – I LOLed
tags: image scifi humor music

November 19th, 2009 • 1 Comment » • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for November 10th through November 13th

The Bitch is Back: Books: GQ – "AS A FICTION WRITER, she's absurd, but if you're young and not particularly wanted and not particularly brilliant, reading Atlas Shrugged provides all the feelings of compensation one might need for any period of terrifying inadequacy." –Christopher Hitchens
tags: libertarianism rand politics society culture literature
‘The Golden Age of Video’ by Ricardo Autobahn – A ridiculous video that splices old video clips together to make a (mostly) coherent song. Wow.
tags: movies music video culture
PHD Comics: Brain saver – This totally happens to me sometimes.
tags: science gradschool comic tech

November 13th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for September 24th through November 4th

HOWTO Replace Something with Newline in Emacs (by Jeremy Zawodny) – Can't believe I've never figured out how to do this until now.
tags: emacs programming tips
The White House v Fox News (comic) –
tags: politics humor comics system:filetype:jpg system:media:image
Creepiest Halloween Costume Ever –
tags: none
Schneier on Security: Zero-Tolerance Policies – "So that's the choice. Either we want the rules enforced fairly across the board, which means limiting the discretion of the enforcers at the scene at the time, or we want a more nuanced response to whatever the situation is, which means we give those involved in the situation more discretion."
tags: security law culture
GNU Screen and Byobu Made Easy – Nice overview of the features that byobu adds to screen – comes standard in Ubuntu Karmic
tags: linux screen ubuntu howto
Survival Plots in R (R Textbook Examples) –
tags: R programming survival bioinformatics
WWJI (Who Would Jesus Insure?) –
tags: humor image health religion system:filetype:jpg system:media:image
NFL should think twice on Rush Limbaugh – "Though I think it is his right to take a shot at becoming part of a new Rams ownership group, Limbaugh's American Dream is a potential nightmare waiting to happen for the Rams, the city and the National Football League."
tags: sports politics
Our screwed-up malpractice system. Whose fault is that? Let’s try ‘nobody’ – Interesting take on malpractice that I hadn't heard before. I'm not sure yet if I agree or not (need more data), but it's certainly something to think about.
tags: medicine law insurance politics government health
Amazing Picture of Pujols – Look at the the ball being compressed as it hits the bat. Awesome photography.
tags: baseball photography sports
defective yeti – Ask Your Doctor if Satiation is Right For You – Scientists have invented a pill that that allows you to live without eating, drinking, or excreting. Unfortunately it also eliminates your desire to eat, it ensures that you take no pleasure when doing so. Question: Would you take the pill? (Hell yes, I would)
tags: scifi hypothetical interesting
YouTube – Origin of Stupidity – Kirk Cameron is at it again. Thank FSM that 16 year olds with webcams are smart enough to call him on this bullshit.
tags: science religion atheism evolution

November 4th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for August 29th through September 17th

Sick and Wrong : Rolling Stone – This is depressingly accurate. Silly me, thinking we might actually get meaningful health care reform. I never had much youthful naivete, but I'm quickly losing the little hope that I had.
tags: politics health medicine insurance
The human body in cross-section – gif animation – Can you pick out all the major organs?
tags: science anatomy art images
Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion WordPress Codex – This is so much easier than doing it manually. Wish I had found this a long time ago.
tags: blog webapps wordpress
xkcd – A Webcomic – Date – Just perfect,
tags: comic biology science humor
TARP investments may break even or better – Some backs are already paying back the government loans.
tags: economy

September 21st, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for August 18th through August 26th

Outrageous! –
tags: comic politics healthcare budget war system:filetype:jpg system:media:image
A Public Option Would Be Bad –
tags: comics healthcare politics system:filetype:jpg system:media:image
Changing Standards of Mass : Uncertain Principles – The simplest illustration of gravity's weakness is the old "rub-a-balloon-on-your-hair-and-stick-it-to-the-ceiling" trick. When you do that, the attractive force of maybe ten billion extra electrons on the balloon is enough to hold it up against the gravitational pull of the entire Earth pulling on a billion trillion atoms in the balloon.
tags: science
Square Circle Spiral – This makes my head hurt. I love this stuff.
tags: neuroscience illusion graphics

August 26th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for August 13th through August 18th

The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals – "Farming has always been messy and painful, and bloody and dirty. It still is. This is something the critics of industrial farming never seem to understand."
tags: farming climate culture food
Americans without health insurance attack plan to give them health insurance – The Daily Mash – Fat, stupid Americans with no health insurance have attacked plans to stop them dying so easily.
tags: satire humor insurance politics health
Using CiteULike from Google Reader – Nice shortcut for those of us who read journals through RSS
tags: science journals rss

August 18th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for August 1st through August 4th

I hate my job… – My job is so fucking unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with…
tags: humor
THE ECONOMY WON’T EVER RECOVER IF IT’S STRUCTURALLY DEPENDENT ON CHEAP OIL. – Duh.
tags: infrastructure economics energy

August 4th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for July 14th through July 26th

YouTube – How to shark a 'guess the number of M&Ms in a jar' contest… – Using physics, packing fractions, and a little bit of math. I love the unabashed geekery on display here. Thank you internet.
tags: science physics math games
A List of Cancer Genomics Tools – from Wash U
tags: bioinformatics software science tech
Researchers Quietly Chuckling At Placebo Group | The Onion –
tags: science humor

July 26th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for June 26th through July 14th

Amusing Ourselves to Death – Orwell vs. Huxley
tags: comic literature culture system:filetype:png system:media:image
The Debugging Process (comic) – Yeah, that's pretty much what I sound like.
tags: programming comic
Fast Decimal to Fraction approximations – Useful little javascript app
tags: applications webapps math convertor

July 14th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for June 19th through June 26th

Pascal's triangle – "The pattern obtained by coloring only the odd numbers in Pascal's triangle closely resembles the fractal called Sierpinski triangle . . . in the limit, as the number of rows approaches infinity, the resulting pattern is the Sierpinski triangle"
tags: mathematics patterns visualuzation
BBC NEWS | Gulls' vicious attacks on whales – A whale population's new enemy number one is . . . seagulls? Amazing.
tags: nature
Color and Reality –
tags: science color neuroscience design

June 26th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for June 11th through June 18th

How to get things done despite procrastination – "The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."
tags: work procrastination gtd humor lifehacks
How one person laid the smackdown on an insurance company behaving badly –
tags: insurance company law
Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store – "a short story about recession, attraction, and data visualization"
tags: story

June 18th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for May 29th through June 8th

This too shall pass –
tags: parable history story
The Dreaded Question – Where do you get your ideas for novels? (comic)
tags: comic literature books
Skill Required vs. Fame –
tags: science fame images humor

June 8th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for May 21st through May 27th

Always Refer to Your V1 As a Prototype – One of the programmers who created Audiogalaxy recounts the rise and fall of the service. (Probably only interesting if you're a CS person)
tags: music internet software design history
Data.gov – Centralized repository for open government datasets. This will allow people to slice and dice important data in all sorts of interesting ways. If handled correctly, the impacts on public awareness and policy should be massive.
tags: open government database data
Get TweetDeck working in 64-bit Ubuntu – It requires some 32-bit libraries that can be easily installed using these directions.
tags: ubuntu linux twitter media aggregator internet communication

May 27th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

Linkdump for May 8th through May 12th

The Camera that Changed the Universe: Part 1 – For my money, the greatest picture ever taken by Hubble
tags: science astronomy space
Long exposure shot of Roomba cleaning path – Turn off all the lights, set the camera to a 30 minute exposure, and let Roomba do it's magic. Cool.
tags: photo robot
Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On? — Chris Mooney – "Research has soundly disproved the alleged connection, yet fears about vaccines continue to be a major risk to public health."
tags: science medicine pseudoscience

May 12th, 2009 • Comments Off • Tags: quicklinks •

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