Linkroll

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Roman Empire: gold standard of immigration: another obligatory US/Roman Empire comparison. What can we learn from Rome's immigration policy?

Ghost Cities of 2100 and Downtown Gary Indiana, Complete Abandonment: ran into these two pages back-to-back.

Isaiah Berlin: entry at Wikipedia.

First Date: a short film. It's funny cuz it's true.

35,000-Year-Old Mammoth Sculpture Found in Germany: 35,000 year old? Wow. Cotton needs to brush up on his human evolutionary timeline.

The Anti-Gravity Men: Awesome profile of Arup structural engineer Cecil Balmond.

Why don't we have real Chinese food in the United States?: Excellent question. I'd kill from some proper laziji, or some turtle. Mmm, turtle.

Human Trials Begin for Enzyme Inhibitor Alzheimer's Drug: huge.

Cold Coffee Calling: friend's new blog.

Vote for me, dimwit: review of The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan in the Economist.

gitdowntv: my friend Rolf got himself a new digital camera is making ART.

Required Reading: the next 10 years: Lawrence Lessig is shifting his work from questions of free culture to the question of corruption. Inspiring.

Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation: by Peter Norvig. Good reading.

Carbon XEmacs: home.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Taking Children Serious: Just started reading, lots of stuff here. Founding by Sarah Fitz-Claridge with influence by physcist David Deutsch, who, unrelated, has an interesting talk at TED from 2005.

Home Inspection Nightmares VI: at This Old House. Eww, cat urine.

No more the 'hopeless contient': Economic growth is up in Africa is up.

Spine Stories: cute, very cute.

Drop Dead Gorgeous: photos and interview with Daniela Edburg.

Social bookmarking sites a la reddit and Digg: Stirrdup, Spontaneous Order and linkfilter.net.

PhotoSynth demo at TED: Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos PhotoSynth at TED. Everyone's seen this already, but if you haven't, it is a must. Watch now.

Is Maman mean or magnifique?: French vs. American/British child rearing. One good quote, comparing educational systems, "In France, it is not about blossoming. It's about the transmission of knowledge."

Google acquires PeakStream: score one more for compiler hackers.

Textbooks in Mathematics: list of free, online mathematics texts.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?: great talk, interesting and funny, by Ken Robinson. I just finished reading John Holt's How Children Learn which I would also highly recommend. We haven't made much progress, Ken Robison is saying the same thing 40 years later.

Death and Taxes: 2008: awesome, zoomable poster of the 2008 US federal budget.

Google Faces Brain Drain As Anniversaries Hit: Google faces attrition as options vest.

Guys, I owe you an apology: A woman gets a taste of what it is like to be a guy, funny post from best of craigslist.

Little Public Plaques: cute.

Papers of Eric Goubault: interesting papers on geometry of concurrency, homotopy theory of rewrite systems, static program analysis and abstraction interpretation. Some of this showed up in John Baez's TWF week70.

How To Tell Stuff To A Computer: a cartoonish guide to knowledge representation. Looks interesting.

Interactive Computer Theorem Proving: Berkeley class, with lecture slides, homework and solutions. They use Coq.

Algebraic Geometry: a free online text. Not so many exercises. I'm currently reading Algebraic Geometry by Hartshorne.