Interesting Links for 4-5-2011

[andrewducker]

• EU revises Schengen deal on borders amid migrant surge. Worrying.
  (tags: immigration europe)
• A proposal for how to make money with online news.
  (tags: business news media publishing)
• Best. Lab Report. Ever. Takes me back to my physics days at uni.
  (tags: funny science education research)
• Good interview with Linus Torvalds
  (tags: linux linustorvalds operatingsystems)
• When social dependence isn't passive (and why it isn't always bad)
  (tags: dependence passivity psychology)
• Miliband says Labour should not broken their 1997 pledge to hold a vote referendum.
  (tags: politics labour voting)
• Why Is My Amazing, Ground-Breaking Microsoft Kinect Collecting Dust?
  (tags: kinect microsoft)
• Vermont moves to universal health care. America slowly moves into second half of 20th century.
  (tags: usa Vermont healthcare)
• I hear the sound of empires toppling - examples of The Doctor using violence.
  (tags: doctorwho)
• Respective timelines of River Song and The Doctor (up to Day of the Moon)
  (tags: doctorwho)
• Police pre-emptively arresting people who have no intent to commit a crime.
  (tags: police royalwedding uk)

Comments

[drjon.livejournal.com]

I don't even have to click the link to know that's "check this shit out" ;}P>

[andrewducker]

I hadn't seen it before! And it was uncomfortably close to the truth.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

It was on my very first list of recommended links, back when I had a static website. Every few years, I repost it. There's always someone who hasn't seen it.

[simont]

I did for one moment wonder if andrewducker had managed to find something better than "Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass"...

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

I developed a pet theory a wee while back, which goes something like this:

'For every good idea someone has at Microsoft, there will be ten people immediately trying to kill it'

little did I know this is almost literally the case. I said it in jest about the Courier tablet, which fell to said curse. I'm now wondering if Kinect is suffering the same fate: some MS Exec doesn't like it, so countless projects are being slaughtered as sacrifices to epic failure.

this would explain why MS manage to spend phenomenal amounts of R&D money on not producing very much interesting technology. 90% of it ends up on the lab floor.

[that is not to say MS don't produce incredible things. They do. Just nowhere near enough of it for the cash and talent they possess]

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

though not remotely in the same class, my Planning Stage report for my car park project went something like this...

'I'm not building a car park in the middle of a park. Instead it'll be located over there-->
Since cars suck, I'm going to mostly host Smarts and EV with solar charging docks, and a bloody huge section for bike parking. And the entire surface will be grass, with lots of trees. I do not care how many cars can fit in the space. Hopefully not very many'


I was pleasantly surprised to get 83%.

the Development Stage report is due Friday, but I haven't designed it or written the report yet.