[HT Mother Board] The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.
it industry
[HT Mises.org] Here is an excellent symposium on intellectual property law. There are three speakers including one allied with the Mises Institute who provides an excellent argument against IP altogether. While the other two accept and support IP laws, it is interesting to note what all three do agree on […]
Intellectual Property Panel of NYU School of Law
[HT Joanne Jacobs] The Khan Academy is an excellent online resource that many luminaries, including Bill Gates, have endorsed as either an educational supplement (which was its initial purpose) or a harbinger of a profoundly new way of “doing” education.
Khan: Use video to ‘flip’ education
Gtk+ broadway demo from Alexander Larsson on Vimeo.
GTK in the browser
Recently I’ve been playing with a few new technologies. Some are new to me while most are simply new. My base project to use these technologies is a heatmap visualization of churches in Georgia. While heatmaps in themselves aren’t exactly exciting, having the ability to map more than 10,000 data […]
Fun with heatmaps
[HT Alex Popescu]
Jeopardy and Hadoop
[HT Ryan Baily] According to this research paper, its pretty easy. Srdjan Capkun, an assistant professor of computer science in the system security group at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who led the work, says he was inspired to investigate the security of keyless entry and start systems after buying a […]
Car security: How easy is it to wirelessly hack into ...
This Christmas I recieved an Arduino kit. Arduino is an open-source hardware development system. The possibilities are almost endless. Here’s a video that should help you understand why I believe open source hardware will revolutionize the IT industry in the same way the advent of the PC did. Arduino The […]