Stumbled across 13th July 2013
- This is really quite heartwarming: http://www.reddit.com/r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza/
- Interesting article on current trends in fiction: http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2013/01/david-brin-our-favorite-cliche-a-world-filled-with-idiots-orwhy-films-and-novels-routinely-depict-society-and-its-citizens-as-fools/
- A ridiculous reason for a rocket to explode: https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/parts-installed-upside-down-caused-last-weeks-russian-rocket-to-explode/
- A very information-dense way of storing data long-term: https://phys.org/news/2013-07-5d-optical-memory-glass-evidence.html (compare http://rosettaproject.org/disk/technology/ which is much less information-dense but much more easily decoded in the event of being discovered after the collapse of civilisation)
- A cool thing to do with a Raspberry Pi and a microwave: http://madebynathan.com/2013/07/10/raspberry-pi-powered-microwave/
- I really want one of these - I think I might order one: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloud-guys/plug-the-brain-of-your-devices (also, the word “plug” is insanely wonderful when spoken in a French accent)
- An interesting idea for making the world a better place: http://web.archive.org/web/20130713135924/http://simulacrum.cc/2013/07/10/three-trends-that-push-us-towards-an-unconditional-basic-income/
- A look at how to infer causality or not, as the case may be, depending on the data: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does/
- I hope they get to producing this quickly: http://technabob.com/blog/2013/05/22/lumigrids-bike-leds/
- Thank goodness for that - regular expressions are the most unreadable things ever: https://phys.org/news/2013-07-ordinary-language.html
- Something else I would do if I had eternity to play with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voB6WiP83NU
- Glass ceiling issues: http://whatwouldkingleonidasdo.tumblr.com/post/54989171152/how-i-discovered-gender-discrimination
