Today’s bookmarks…
Mon, 3 Sep 2012
- Tech/Science Stuff
- Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine
- Heat-proof face paint to withstand bomb heat
- Researchers Believe They Have Found a Single Dose Cure for Malaria
- Researchers have also potentially deciphered the ‘manic gene’
- High quality Denisovan genome sheds light on human evolution
- Of course, the Antarctic may host large stores of methane
- Illuminating tales of modern mainframes
- A litigator’s love/hate relationship with Apple
- The History of the Floppy Disk
- From The Atlantic: How Can Bioscience Push the Limits of Lifespan?
- Internet/Sociological Stuff
- Placing some context into the ‘odd’ Eastwood bit at the recent RNC: The Long History of Americans Debating Empty Chairs
- But then, #eastwooding twitter trend was pretty amusing
- The Samsung/Apple jury foreman’s explanation for verdict? Yeah, he doesn’t understand prior art
- Twitter Says It’s Going To Start Aiming Ads At Users Based On Content Of Tweets
- 4chan wants Taylor Swift to perform at a school for the deaf
- The Attention Economy is now the Location Economy
- A poll on polls shows they’re not very accurate
- From Ars Technica: How video copyright went insane
- Culture/Media
- Another Willy Wonka letter of note: If ever an actor can do it – Gene can
- Inside Author Ray Bradbury’s FBI File: Was He a Communist Sympathizer?
- Manga Artist Lets Anyone Use His Work, Royalty-Free
- This beer chase ad is pretty damn good
- Watch on this Youtube channel: every Troma film online
- This online tournament of movie sequels will be awesome!
- Other Things
- Badass of the Week: Neil Armstrong
- An animation of the growth of Walmart in America
- What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?
- 12 Hotel Secrets by Hotel Staffs, From Minibar ‘Refills’ to Ritz-Carlton Largesse
- https://hackertyper.com/
And just because; here is some Maru…
