Occasional Links

Bad stuff coming out of China.

Google's delusional arrogance.

Chinese jets for Chavez.

Travel like a human.

Grant redux.

Why surprises blind us.

Is China spoiling for a fight?

Your mind and your money.

Incentives rule the world.

Once bitten....

Occasional Links

Atrazine emasculates frogs.

It's raining men fish.

How to solve health care.

All your news are belong to us.

Grandma in Hubei.

Behind every great fortune....

"The only way you build an economy is through savings and investments."

Jihad Jane.

Seeing through the opaque—they do it with matrices.

The spread of goodness.

Google hurt my feelings.

Man, a search for 'moron' leads to one of my posts?
Noooo... say it aint so!
Thanks a lot Google, ya bunch of disrespectful PUNKS.

Friday Links

The proud and sad history of the Detroit oligopoly.

Now we know: almost all matter is nothing but quantum fluctuations in the vacuum.

Massive glaciers have been discovered on Mars.

Chicago is on a roll.

Bad cars can live almost forever.

Google axes 3D.

Why worry about a little trillion dollar deficit?

A new Ebola virus has broken out in Africa.

China's expanding sphere of influence in Latin America.

Learning math causes massive reorganization of the brain.

Shades of Stalin: Iranian blogger "confesses" to spying for Israel.

Introducing GlassDoor.

Is the universe teeming with aliens?

Japan is itching to take on the pirates.

Limitless clean energy for the taking.

Is the US going down the tubes in the next two decades?

Sunday Links

Global warming mongers embarrassingly debunked.

How much per second?

Is there a genius in all of us?

Chromosome division is different between women and men.

Putin: why do we need so many stinkin' elections?

North Korea gets tough.

Can ancient Chinese medicine yield a cure for AIDS?

Some transitions are more equal than others.

Is China its own worst enemy?

How to hide molecules.

Venezuela down the tubes.

How to bail out GM.

Why ant colonies don't have traffic jams.

Dictatorship in Nicaragua.

Time travel in Google Earth.

Wednesday Links

Russia responds to Obama's election with missiles.

Antitrust kills the Google + Yahoo deal.

The 10 genetic secrets of a cancer revealed.

Obama's scientific policies, in his own words.

British Big Brother wants to monitor and record every single use you make of the internet.

Some electoral map perspective.

The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace.

The 8-armed animals of yesteryear.

Economic crisis mounts in Germany.

Bacteria you can hold in your hand.

The case against humanitarian intervention.

Sunday Links

The global electoral college.

Can Ford be saved?

Giving Caesar control over the things that are Christ's.

3M's new x-ray business.

Good news in Kashmir.

Are the orcas starving?

The facts of press bias.

A turnaround in housing?

Computing in the cloud.

The real Italian job.

Smarter smart cars.

Tens of thousands march for independence.

You've seen Google Mail, Google Maps, Google Knol,.... Introducing Google Fighter Jet.

Rebooting the immune system to cure multiple sclerosis.

Afghanistan on the edge of disaster.

Friday Links

Is it time to ban recess?

9,000 year old tuberculosis.

Who is the real Obama?

Can magnets cure deep coma?

Can electricity cure paralysis?

Wind-powerd bicycle lights.

Democracy vs. Property.

Is Jobs leaving Apple?

You need a podcar.

A ton of snake.

The $58 trillion elephant in the living room.

Balloon sculpture.

Google's chips are hotter than thine.

Don't laugh at the bear.

What is the speed of life?

Wednesday Links

Britain tries to fuse.

Dubai under the covers.

Has Microsoft lost it?

A car of one's own.

Nature red in tooth and claw.

Woz speaks.

China's fastest growing NGO.

Watching brain cells in live action.

1 in 6 underwater.

G + Y = Bad Idea

The dyslexia gene.

Is Latin on the comeback?

CNN: Obama lied about Ayers.

What it takes to build a topological quantum computer.

Your tax dollars at work?

The real Obama.

Wednesday Links

Wall Street is kaput.

Mickey Mouse must die.

Enough with the economic pessimism nonsense.

A breast cancer vaccine that works?

Business based solely on ramping up risk and leverage doesn't work.

Twilight of the GPU.

Diving deep into the Obama tank.

Search outside the law of the land.

Who runs Russia?

An object unlike any ever seen before.

Sharia courts are operating in Britain.

The first new family of ants since 1923.

How Petraeus did it.

Embracing English after all.

Not clear on the facts.

Do the hinterlanders reject "liberalism" or are they deeply racist?

She's not really top, top drawer, is she?

Friday Links

Russian bombers in Venezuela.

Honeybees do the wave.

Feminism's greatest leap forward since Madonna.

What Google can do to your stock price.

The secret pop vs. soda civil war.

The next generation of neural nets.

Dreaming of a better world.

10 underground lakes and rivers.

Has Obama's Minsky moment already come?

How Bush forcefully muzzled the cur.

September 11th on the New York subway.

Friday Links

The virus that gets sick.

A tyranny of true believers.

14 million year old tropical plants—in Antarctica.

The Orwell olympics.

Red ink in the anti-business states.

When Google throws the switch.

What's the matter with Pakistan?

The ability to stand apart.

Here comes the eyeball camera.

Can colossal carbon tubes best nanotubes?

Vague but sinister.

Wednesday Links

How to save the Republicans.

All that data that Google has been collecting on you for years?—it now belongs to any government that needs it.

Is Pakistan's ISI flexing its muscles in Afghanistan?

"Not only is self-righteousness a standard part of his work, it’s what he’s selling."

The human rorschach test.

The new Hitler, or the new Lincoln?

Why the world's best technology company will win Yahoo.

Litvinenko was murdered by the Russian state.

30 offshore windfarms.

The McCain campaign in turmoil.

The future of mind-machine control.

Introducing Stealthnet.

Already piling up the spin.

A huge stockpile of uranium from Saddam's (non-existent) WMD nuclear program shipped to Canada.

Gas prices by county.

The other vice-presidential woman.

Tuesday Links

By any other name....

Powell is the ideal vice presidential candidate, no matter how you slice it.

The most extreme life forms.

Dreams from his Grandmother.

The value of working out.

Crumbling infrastructure?

Submarines for the drug cartels.

Leaving the Goog for the Soft.

Free chess endgame tables.

A universal sentence structure?

Saturday Links

(Photo H/T: The Daily Telegraph)

He does what politicians do.

Where the ozone goes.

How the other half lives.

The top 10 TED talks.

The latest Google perk.

Volcanoes to the rescue.

When love doesn't conquer all.

Hummingbirds a specialized form of nighthawks?

Christians must pay.

Watch out, bears.

Introducing Jogli.

The swimsuit of the future is now.

Wednesday Links

Can Betz's Law be broken with cleverer technology?

Hitchcock redux.

Incarceration reduces crime.

What is it doing with all that information about us?

Can the French be put back to work?

The sea of trash.

Predicting where you'll go.

The despised President.

Watering down the math standards. Again.

The secret code hidden in the Sistine Chapel.

How to see a parallel universe.

From the "let's not report this" department. 4,000 dead in drug wars in Mexico in two years.

The mystery of glass, solved at last.

Don't check the boxes.

The mystery of the Voorwerp.

Can we trust his promises?

Sunday Links

The decline of the Senate.

The DirectX tutorials.

The end of free speech in Canada.

The visual history of Python.

Wise, honest, independent, and courageous.

Quantum mechanics revealed to be mundane complex numbers.

No more than 25 years difference allowed.

Quantum cryptography might be breakable after all.

New America vs. Old America.

The power of Google Gears.

Corruption? Naaah, couldn't be.

Check your computer for zombie-bots.

Winning the Iraq argument.

Wednesday Links

The taint of '68.

Electricity misconceptions.

When gangs rule.

What's privacy worth when you can prosecute dog poop.

Your side, my side, and the truth.

What happened to all the scary evangelicals?

Men who needed to love somebody who would let them.

The rise of the airship.

Stand up to cartoon intimidation.

The coming wave of femtotechnology.

Is America really that weak?

Meet the BabyLosers.

Ripping away any pretense that she actually stands for something.

Love and death.

Will there be a Web 3.0?

Sunday Links

The British police state destroys privacy but can't catch crooks.

Too addled for prime time?

The sand you never knew.

4 principles of not wasting time.

Free lessons in electric circuits.

The first wind-powered town.

Sanctimonious cowardice in the face of oppression.

Witches for peace.

So vulgar, cynical, and cold, that it is making us turn off the television in case the children walk by.

Keep the foreigners out.

Sunday Links

Is Windows collapsing?

Neanderthals speak once more.

Bamboo to the rescue.

Photoshop for music.

The amazing art of Wi Lei.

DatAmerica moves into the genetic data business.

The unknown Russia.

Cutting-edge IT.

Genocide in Canada?

Exploding water balloon.

The human rights of pirates.