TSN: Take the Neuron Express for a brief tour of consciousness

TSN: Take the Neuron Express for a brief tour of consciousness

YouTube - Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010

YouTube - Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010: "View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones.
The final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system.
Earth Crossers are Red
Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow
All Others are Green"

Blythe Solar Power Project, Palm Springs South Coast Field Office, Bureau of Land Management California

Blythe Solar Power Project, Palm Springs South Coast Field Office, Bureau of Land Management California

Introduction to Android development

Why do we always have to have it in appliances? "Consider a conventional appliance, such as a stove, microwave or bread maker. What if your household appliances were controlled by Android and boasted a color touch screen? With an Android UI on the stove-top, the author might even be able to cook something."

Introduction to Android development

Still, nice Android tutorial.

Rural America Onshore Sourcing, Outsourcing, Onshore Outsourcing, Onshore Sourcing Home

Rural America Onshore Sourcing, Outsourcing, Onshore Outsourcing, Onshore Sourcing Home

NASA's Space Rock!

The wakeup song has been a part of the space program since the days of the Apollo missions, and now NASA is giving you two chances to be a part of this history! We need your help selecting wakeup songs to be played during the final missions of the Space Shuttle Program! Select one or both of the missions below:

https://songcontest.nasa.gov/

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Useful Video Software

http://www.zs4.net/free-software-downloads

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Obtain Duplicate or Substitute License Plates and Stickers

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/brochures/howto/htvr11.htm

Kermit misses Jim

Henson:

http://nerdboyfriend.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/hensonkermit.jpg

So sad!

Animated Trigonometry

http://www.jasondavies.com/animated-trig/

YouTube - How Differential Gear works (BEST Tutorial)

YouTube - How Differential Gear works (BEST Tutorial)

Voter Registration - Elections & Voter Information - California Secretary of State

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm

cryptbin - faq

cryptbin - faq

US Energy Consumption [Infographic]

http://www.wellhome.com/blog/2010/03/whi23-energy-of-appliances-infographic/

"Our Green Homes: Surprising Stats Behind US Energy Consumption [Infographic]"

Vatican Radio transmitters 'pose cancer risk'

BBC News - Experts: Vatican Radio transmitters 'pose cancer risk'

My Best Fred

http://www.mybestfred.com/

Incredible Pictures Formed by Thousands of US Soldiers | WildAmmo.com

Incredible Pictures Formed by Thousands of US Soldiers | WildAmmo.com

A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space : NPR

A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space : NPR

Catchafire.org

Catchafire.org: "Catchafire connects professionals who want to volunteer their skills with nonprofits that need them. You can think of us as an eHarmony for nonprofits and skilled volunteers."

Heh, as I blog this the site is "alpha" =]

About « Prometheus Fusion Perfection

About « Prometheus Fusion Perfection

DuckDuckGo

I may actually prefer this to google:

https://duckduckgo.com/

NREL: News Feature - Energy Saving A/C Conquers All Climates

NREL: News Feature - Energy Saving A/C Conquers All Climates

Music of the sun recorded by scientists - Telegraph

Music of the sun recorded by scientists - Telegraph

Locomotion is inherent in the design of the CNS

This is a cat with no brain (it's plenty disturbing, be warned) exhibiting three different gaits in response to a treadmill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPiLLplofYw

From the info:

"This has lead researchers to the hypothesis that, when a quadruped walks/trots/gallops (or walks/runs in the case a biped), minimal control comes from the brain, and most of the control is computed morphologically through an implicit feedback structure in the bio-mechanical design. This phase transition phenomenon is still an active research area in the field of Passive Dynamic Locomotion."

Soluto

"Windows only: Soluto bills itself as an "Anti-Frustration Software", and it's not hard to see why—it tracks all the applications in your system boot process, and tells you exactly which ones are slowing you down."

http://lifehacker.com/5561303/soluto-is-an-awesome-tool-to-speed-up-your-system-boot-fix-system-slowdowns?skyline=true&s=i

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Fire Audio Visualization

This could be a really cool BM art project. I wonder if it would scale...?

Classic physics experiment. [VIDEO]

A Letter to Chris Christie | Health Professionals & Allied Employees

A Letter to Chris Christie | Health Professionals & Allied Employees

Dear Zachary

This looks like an interesting documentary:

http://www.dearzachary.com/statement/

I have not yet seen it.

Solar System Music Box

Cool!

http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/

iPod line out and charge cable

http://www.cablejive.com/products/plusUSB-Line-Out-Dock-Cable.html

Sounds of the Large Hadron Collider

Wish there were more samples...

http://www.lhcsound.com/

Perfect memory is a suboptimal foraging strategy

Evolution at work, and yet another example of the need for a little bit of noise in nearly everything. I really need to re-read "The Quark and the Jaguar", which explored this need for "tooth" in non-trivial systems. It also connects to Wolfram's "Rule 30" cellular automata.

From the article:

"Their model shows that in a changing environment, revisiting old haunts on a regular basis is not the best strategy for a forager.

It turns out instead that a better approach strategy is to inject an element of randomness into a regular foraging pattern. This improves foraging efficiency by a factor of up to 7, say Boyer and Walsh."

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25283/

Big Huge Labs

Cool collection of Flickr post-processing options...

http://bighugelabs.com/

Ardour - Linux DAW

All grown up!

http://ardour.org/

Excellent hand-tracking UI tech

This is amazing!

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/gesture-computing-0520.html

Cam.

Luther vs. The Pope

Awesome details on religious satire in history. From the article:

"If you want to see truly shocking anti-religious cartoons, you have to go back to the sixteenth century. Near the end of Luther's life, his propaganda campaign against Rome grew increasingly vitriolic and his language grotesquely pungent. He took to calling his ecclesiastical enemies 'asses,' 'dogs,' 'pigs,' 'blockheads,' 'basilisks,' and 'pupils of Satan,' and the Pope himself 'Her Sodomitical Hellishness' and 'fart-ass' (no, it doesn't sound much more dignified in German—fartz-Esel). Eric Cartman would be in awe."

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/2561/satire_is_religion

Slate article on the work of Elizabeth Loftus

From the article:

"Of the students who were shown an ad featuring happy memories of meeting Mickey, 90 percent later reported increased confidence that this event had happened or might have happened to them. That was twice the percentage who reported such an increase in the control group. And compared with the control group, those who saw the Disney ad were significantly more likely to say that they fondly remembered visiting the park and that such visits had been central to their childhoods. Many who saw a different version featuring Bugs Bunny were convinced that they had met him at Disneyland, even though this was impossible, since he was a Warner Bros. character."

http://www.slate.com/id/2251884

Using marketing to implant false memories...

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'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uosc-fk062006.php

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Clergy Who Don't Believe

http://blog.beliefnet.com/omeoflittlefaith/2010/05/clergy-who-dont-believe.html

BankSimple

Dammit, I wanted to do this! Great name:

http://banksimple.net/about/

Great Moments in Hypocrisy: Abortion

"The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" (When the Anti-Choice Choose):

http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html

How Electricity Works - The Pea Theory!

"Electricity is tiny peas. They are hard to see because they are so small and move so fast, however, they are green. ( OK, you guys at Argonne National Labs - prove I'm wrong!)"

http://www.pumpsonline.com/electrical.htm

The Demographics of Atheism

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201005/why-atheism-will-replace-religion

Fix Outlook!

http://fixoutlook.org/

OpenHatch - Open Source "Involvement Engine"

Our vision is to make the open source community better connected, more productive, and ultimately well rewarded for its expertise.

http://openhatch.org

Evolution: All Present-day Life Arose From A Single Origin

"Because microorganisms of different species often swap genes, some scientists have proposed that multiple primordial life forms could have tossed their genetic material into life's mix, creating a web, rather than a tree of life.  

To determine which hypothesis is more likely correct, Theobald put various evolutionary ancestry models through rigorous statistical tests. The results, published in the May 13 Nature, come down overwhelmingly on the side of a single ancestor."

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/59133/title/All_present-day_life_arose_from_a_single_origin

Solar Cooking

http://solarcooking.org/plans/funnel.htm

Great article on design

http://www.sleepoversf.com/metagames-and-containers/

Galco's Soda Pop Stop

http://www.sodapopstop.com/home.cfm

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The Tea Party Jacobins | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/may/27/tea-party-jacobins/?pagination=false