Reading Material

Plugged up with a bit of a head cold, but wanted to get these off my desktop (videos coming…uh…whenever…)

• Look at this street view. Now move the camera up.
• 35 Incredibly Useful Android Apps for 2011 (be sure to follow the links there for links to games as well).
• Teardown of the nifty Nest thermostat.
• Relive the reboot experience for a bunch of classic OSes.
• In case you hadn’t already seen this story last week, PayPal made somebody destroy an expensive violin to get their money back.
• Speaking of violins, could you pick the Strad?
• Planning ahead on major purchases this year? Here’s the best time to buy anything.
• Simple an easy way to record an MP3 on your computer.
• Automakers have made great strides in fuel efficiency in recent decades, but the mileage numbers of individual vehicles have barely increased. An MIT economist explains the conundrum.
• Professor seeds the web with trojan horse essay, just to see where it ends up. Somebody handed it in.
• 2011’s Best Posts on MetaFilter (don’t know if this post regarding the music from O Brother Where Art Thou? is included, but it shoiuld be).
• From the creator of ClockwordMod created a root-less tether.
• Easily clean up your permissions on a bunch of social media sites at once.
• If you use fon, be aware your password is being stored in plain-text.
• Subway fare and pizza prices go hand-in-hand.
• Abbey Road has a web cam with people regularly recreating a certain album cover.
• News networks are ignoring SOPA legislation.
• Mac Classic II vs. Macbook Air: Which boots faster?
• Great list of well-done hacker-journalism in 2011.
• Second Crack is a very simple static-file Markdown blogging engine. It’s totally unnecessary and unsuitable for most people (which the author even admits), but it’s still kind of interesting to me.
• Looking for sheet music? There’s a large collection of public domain music at IMSLP.
• Make a resolution to learn to code.
• visitor.js is a handy little script to personalize your web site based on a ton of variables about the visitor.
• What’s behind that short link? Found out with unFurlr, created by the awesome folks at Mailchimp.
• I really wish I had the hardware to play with VMWare more as its high availability features look awesome. Anybody have some old servers they want to get rid off so I can learn a thing or two as I’d really like to gain some more useful experience in this stuff.