Useful Stuff - 11/30/2011

ASCIIFI Picture to ASCII Converter - http://asciifi.com/

In Defense of Friction - http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/11/28/in-defense-of-friction/

USB Stick Contains Dual-Core Computer, Turns Any Screen Into an Android Station - http://blog.laptopmag.com/usb-stick-contains-dual-core-computer-turns-any-screen-into-an-android-station

Raspberry Pi, An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25 - http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Microsoft DreamSpark (Microsoft professional tools free for students) - https://www.dreamspark.com/

Useful Stuff - 11/29/2011

How to fix 95 percent of iOS app crashes - http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57331922-233/how-to-fix-95-percent-of-ios-app-crashes/

Those barcode-looking things? They're called QR codes. Here's what they do - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/seo/those-barcode-looking-things-theyre-called-qr-codes-heres-what-they-do/4339

Buy a DeLorean flux capacitor at the parts store - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57332374-1/buy-a-delorean-flux-capacitor-at-the-parts-store/

Useful Stuff - 11/28/2011

Stress test your new PC to shake out any faults - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/stress-test-your-new-pc-to-shake-out-any-faults/16438

Nike, doctors team on tech to get athletes' eyes in shape - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57329267-1/nike-doctors-team-on-tech-to-get-athletes-eyes-in-shape/

Sam's Club bans 'mature' Lego bible - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57330639-52/sams-club-bans-mature-lego-bible

Have your accounts been compromised? Find out - https://pwnedlist.com/

The case for boring charts - http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2011/11/25/boring-charts/

Useful Stuff - 11/22/2011

Technological Singularities Decades Away, Microprocessor's Creator Says - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396476,00.asp

Four-winged dinosaur fossilized after swallowing a bird - http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/four-winged-dinosaur-fossilized-after-swallowing-a-bird.ars

Useful Stuff - 11/18/2011

The Brutal Truth About Penn State - http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7233704/the-brutal-truth-penn-state

Useful Stuff 11/17/2011

ThinkUp 1.0: reclaim your tweets and Facebook posts - http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57325750-264/thinkup-1.0-reclaim-your-tweets-and-facebook-posts/
Five free replacements for Windows Explorer - http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-free-replacements-for-windows-explorer/1103

Today's Useful Stuff

One-Minute Physics: Why GPS is just a clock in space - http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/11/one-minute-physics-why-gps-is-just-a-clock-in-space.html

Draw a symbol, look it up - http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/11/12/unicode-character-recognition/

Presentation software for the non-linear thinker - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/small-business-matters/presentation-software-for-the-non-linear-thinker/677

How to keep your Wi-Fi location out of Google - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-to-keep-your-wi-fi-location-out-of-google/1652

Kids have 'adult' tech skills; parents don't know it - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57325052-17/kids-have-adult-tech-skills-parents-dont-know-it

Some Useful Quotes, etc.

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin #quotes
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. #quotes
There is nothing more ugly than the code you wrote last year. #lessonsivelearned
Posting anonymously almost never works when you sign your name in the post content. #lessonsivelearned

Today's Useful Stuff

So twitter is lame about tracking/searching historical tweets.  That means I'll be posting future useful stuff here.  Here is the list of twitter links that are not yet here to catch up:

10 More Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won't Die, Debunked by Science - http://t.co/gOvjW9ad 

Tantrum Tamer: New Ways Parents Can Stop Bad Behavior - http://t.co/pQvN6yXH 

Keep sensitive info out of your chat logs & email - http://t.co/mIR9epAb 

Hands-on with GarageBand for iPhone: 8-track studio in your pocket - http://t.co/OZU7LXyK 

The power of big free data - http://t.co/DYdCnURU 

Over 21,000 sign http://t.co/vCZfvmk6 petition seeking "vapid response," cookies - http://t.co/6SvKbUk8 

Troy Hunt: Aye, pirates be the reason IE6 just won't die - http://t.co/swMHRhti 

BASIC Computer Games (also recoded for Small Basic) - http://t.co/gDXKHxnA 

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer - http://t.co/G4pKEbks 

Microsoft's vision of everyday future tech (video) http://t.co/4W3PP2MW 

When passwords attack: the problem with aggressive password policies - http://t.co/SA06BIik 

Life in a Day crowdsourced documentary hits YouTube - http://t.co/A3O2YlpW 

European wars, famine, and plagues driven by changing climate - http://t.co/YYJXc9Sh 

When did the giant impact that formed the Moon take place? - http://t.co/dBEfuKVu 

Massive 15-year study finds no link between cell phones, cancer - http://t.co/UET2nxtj 

"Living fossil" has been populating the coast of Africa - http://t.co/Ra2BCFvY 

Mad -- or Just Angry? - Inside Higher Ed: http://t.co/iQEBlKVW 

22 miles straight up in 90 seconds - http://t.co/xXrc0vo0 

Why Do Some People Learn Faster? - http://t.co/kGrOCe5j 

Facebook Is Tracking Your Every Move on the Web; Here's How to Stop It - http://t.co/siOZfoy0 

Unwatchable: dial R for rape. How much does your handset really cost? - http://t.co/O9HgxWun 

Syma S107/S107G R/C Helicopter - http://t.co/cSWYuXVL 

Do users change their settings? - http://t.co/sSMctkpa 

Trying Linux for Windows Users – A visual tutorial - http://t.co/WIYkwVJE 

Tricky Programming Concepts Aren't - http://t.co/A5sanCro (contains inappropriate language, beware) 

Tinkering - Inside Higher Ed - http://t.co/vinU3KDs 

The Art of Automation (using a Lego robot) - http://t.co/hoHCLODu 

Orbit the Earth in One Minute Via Fascinating ISS Time-Lapse Video - http://t.co/2INc3d2l 

Thoughts on 'Pinched' - Inside Higher Ed - http://t.co/iMPa7Lze 

Announcing increased moderation of trolls in discussion threads - http://t.co/d1JDQe1P 

Pulaski Academy scores 29 points before opponent touches football - Scorecasting - SI.com - http://t.co/F2e546RK 

Web service aims for farm-fresh produce at big-box prices - http://t.co/61WyGL0 

Is Windows vulnerable to attack by stolen digital certificates? http://t.co/a1fG9ko 

Easy Facebook Scripting in Python - http://t.co/OmbLr17 

Can't resist that marshmallow? Self-control doesn't get easier with age - http://t.co/LrQEZWo 

Why Time Goes Faster as You Get Older | Psychology Today - http://t.co/Re8B1I4 

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time - http://t.co/0q7NV8o 

Finding Sleep - http://t.co/V9k3WXn 

Status Anxiety - Inside Higher Ed: http://t.co/lvYm87y 

The Frequency of War - http://t.co/sc2igDV 

When computers talk to each other, conversationally - http://t.co/fHD9PYH 

Selfish Tech - http://t.co/YjOyrXw 

Academic Earth: Online courses from the world's top scholars - http://t.co/tu2VfNB 

Can you tell a real Facebook e-mail from a phishing attempt? - http://t.co/yAY4Obh 

Raspberry Pi: A $25 ultra-low-cost computer that can run Quake 3 - http://t.co/GCUQR2t 

HP TouchPad: Everything you want to know - http://t.co/ESFW3T8 

Password Policies are Getting Out of Control - http://t.co/ZUzVAZK 

We Didn't Have Zeros (Dilbert) - http://t.co/ODf3saT 

Mindset List, Class of 1915 - http://t.co/MriEpsW 

The Mindset List, Class of 2015 - http://t.co/dwl2sUF 

Bats navigate with visual map, additional unknown cues - http://t.co/fDQvyFk 

Mother Nature as Engineer: 9 Design Tricks Borrowed From Biology - http://t.co/fIO1xkH 

How To Remove Yourself from People Search Websites - http://t.co/1cxsej4 

Can we believe our eyes? (Unicode character hacking) - http://t.co/ZjaRIkA 

Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby - a side-by-side reference sheet - http://t.co/HVgt22d 

How to put your logo in a QR code - http://t.co/rN0pyig 

On the front line of the riots with the police - Telegraph - http://t.co/KDalfaj 

'The Edupunks Guide' Offers DIY Path to a Credential - http://t.co/MwmPMkp 

One day in the robot house - http://t.co/y0E6JBJ 

Password Strength (xkcd) - http://t.co/EOyBWYH 

Am I Under a Shady RAT Attack? - http://t.co/dNOg7zw 

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (TED Video) - http://t.co/RwvdqOa 

Confessions of an Edu-Traitor - http://t.co/C9fyS3E 

Basic Animatronics Tutorial: PIC Based Servo Eyebrows - http://t.co/8G2KsVH 

How to Make a Wi Fi Booster Using Only a Beer Can - http://t.co/zGLZqxa 

Build your own gadget with Microsoft's Lego for adults - http://t.co/0w4wAOl 

Top 20 Highly Useful Google APIs For Developers And Designers - http://t.co/stYdgw1 

Programmable, Wrist Watch / Computer - http://t.co/iX8haNI Aug 04, 2011 

Your New Campus Guide: A Small Patterned Square That Talks to Your Smartphone - http://t.co/RPLl4mQ 

10 habits of highly organized people - http://t.co/z8G8YjH 

Black Hat: 10 can't-miss hacks and presentations - http://t.co/XyaV50o 

Dead British gamer's father warns of blood clot risks - http://t.co/xtHcyIX 

Tablets are for people who hate computers - http://t.co/n6GHK9h 

'War texting' lets hackers unlock car doors via SMS - http://t.co/9zfFBYM 

10 Apps for Web Developers on an iPad | Think Vitamin - http://t.co/xWyOQpn 

The 10 Best Investments in the Event of U.S. Default or Downgrade - http://t.co/wDDIDsf 

How to build your own quadcopter, step by step - http://t.co/iqIMEJu 

Apps vs the Web » Matt Legend Gemmell - http://t.co/Alwqt2y 

Expert hacks car system, says problems reach to SCADA systems - http://t.co/hvVMgyv 

If I Could Get Away With It... - http://t.co/zGqhOsQ (Empirical evidence v. folk wisdom) 

Best USB microphones for high-quality Skype audio - http://t.co/fMk1oUN 

The 3 Most Common Uses of Irony (The Oatmeal) - http://t.co/6auoRUA 

YouTube film 'Life in a Day' coming to theaters - http://t.co/f7sgfuA 

The @-symbol, part 1 of 2 - http://t.co/6ov85Hi 

Time Travel Impossible, Say Scientists - http://t.co/BqChfaz 

The Principles of Good Programming - http://t.co/PpaV8nx 

20 Database Design Best Practices - http://t.co/LCx5ZKH 

How to survive an iPhone liquid submersion (hint: it's not rice) - http://t.co/0PkSKMr 

All About Accelerometers - http://t.co/QBfY8ul 

Unleash the Power of Open Source R, the World's Most Sophisticated Data Analysis Software - http://t.co/iIVuOUW 

I hate computers, but I love what you can do with them - http://t.co/pP5cnRS 

Dunning-Kruger effect (how people tend to incorrectly assess their own competence) - http://t.co/LBGN8gD 

Dual-boot your Nook Color with Android using a micro-SD card, $35 - http://t.co/KCjHdVV 

Does Not Compute: 10 PC Myths from Movies and Television - http://t.co/bbdTOZs 

More Coffee, Less MRSA Risk... But Why? http://t.co/fIPndjM 

The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist's View - Boing Boing - http://t.co/aXh6tae 

First Demonstration of Time Cloaking - http://t.co/JDntLF8 

What Ails Us (Baumol's cost disease) - http://t.co/Gub2CGS 

Ask the Administrator: How to Spot Bloat? - Inside Higher Ed: http://t.co/Zw5tDBI 

Why McAfee is still at the top of my Not Recommended list - http://t.co/XfPo9Ka 

HackNotifier (check to see if your email is included in recent hacktivity) http://t.co/GM7E4oq 

How to find out if your personal info has been leaked in a security breach - http://t.co/HwvBEZE 

Spammers' new favorite delivery model: Your compromised email account - http://t.co/25JlWwk 

Web proxy add-on Cocoon goes free - http://t.co/c5ghc01 

View all your tweets on one page with All My Tweets - http://t.co/1EKSndf 

Turn your iPad into a laptop with the KeyCase iPad Folio Deluxe - http://t.co/pBgHVkv 

CoPilot Live launches next generation iOS clients with launch special pricing - http://t.co/6DCJA1k  

DHS: Imported Consumer Tech Contains Hidden Hacker Attack Tools - http://t.co/TDVYJWh 

How to Build Your Own Pulsed Laser Pistol - http://t.co/cUxJOCY 

Let me google that for you - http://t.co/iE7H4H5 

Letter Frequencies and Keyboard Layouts - http://t.co/Yx6D3V2 

Why Google+ Business Profiles Will Trump Facebook Pages - http://t.co/3PwKWKF 

Stay safe online: 5 secrets every PC (and Mac) owner should know http://t.co/8FeGAuY 

Kevin Mitnick shows how easy it is to hack a phone - http://t.co/LGiU0XE 

User Testing in the Wild: Joe's First Computer Encounter - http://t.co/VrJBPnd 

Archive your tweets with Twapper Keeper - http://t.co/wNA8JfQ 

My Summer at an Indian Call Center (fascinating) - http://t.co/NU23zzx 

Royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable licenses - http://t.co/kZCAJuw 

Maintain Security / Anonymity on the Internet - http://t.co/Mj7WwnI 

Researchers cast doubt on cell phone cancer risk http://t.co/T18aQbt 

Email Charter - http://t.co/44iZMG4 

Time (programming, not the magazine) - http://t.co/o1M44dE 

Physicist: Programs run the universe http://t.co/SuZ8PB7 

10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets - http://t.co/K0R3taf(see RSS, python scripts) 

Is there anyway to extract our tweets? - http://t.co/4hMkRtH 

Back Up your Twitterings! - http://t.co/yZaIyQR 

Using Google Spreadsheets to extract Twitter data - http://t.co/DdJUGJ3 

Tech Organizational Charts - http://t.co/aq3ptin 

Developers: just a few lines of JavaScript connects your site to Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive http://t.co/qKgKJzY 

Peek inside a hand-cranked Civil War submarine - http://t.co/j6I6n5u 

Google's Swiffy makes Flash files HTML5 friendly - http://t.co/Gplf7nz 

The First World Problems Rap - http://t.co/tteeAzW 

Tor (prevent internet surveillance) - http://t.co/rWKP3g5 

Another freelance website - http://t.co/nWvTf2a 

How to Check If LulzSec Leaked Your Password One Last Time - http://t.co/JOJfZ7J 

LulzSec disbands: Final cache includes AT&T internal data and 750,000 user accounts http://t.co/hs5odGd 

Toddlers get difference between faulty hardware, operator error http://t.co/Ubf5doa 

City dwellers more sensitive to social stress than country folk - http://t.co/7TY8WPv 

How Hitler Could Have Won - http://t.co/WX3yA1R 

The Sun Is the Best Optometrist - http://t.co/hnMT9ch 

Trojans, viruses, worms: How does malware get on PCs and Macs? - http://t.co/2u2gW9A 

Why humans (and other primates) lend a helping hand - http://t.co/TDlmM8k 

Passpack Blog » Why Masked Passwords Are a Serious Security Hole - http://t.co/zd2d0wr 

Google releases Chrome-based Web security scrutinizer - http://t.co/s1y0wnl 

IBM and the Holocaust - http://t.co/dPckDHn 

Man politely robs bank for $1, lands free healthcare in prison http://t.co/5d7iZkw 

Supercomputers Challenge Human Brain - http://t.co/i3wfhFa 

10 Ways To Access Blocked WebSites - http://t.co/ZwOWxTV 

Virtual currency: Bits and bob http://t.co/mTiIHCc 

Decide.com: For gadget buyers, timing is everything - http://t.co/PWxzAXC 

LulzSec Email Check (Gizmodo) - http://t.co/5huHz0L 

LulzSec Leaked Email Widget - http://t.co/dwuscSU 

LulzSec leaks 62,000 emails and passwords, also targets CIA http://t.co/iEs9XXW 

Make money online, part 1: Introduction to Google AdSense http://t.co/1qCM7o8 

5 Tips About Time Management - http://t.co/9OTjm8N 

GPU Password Cracking – Bruteforceing a Windows Password Using a Graphic Card: http://t.co/SgqHOBA 

'You Look Great' and Other Lies - http://t.co/mSBSJpn  

Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea? - http://t.co/bxfT754 

Lulz Security (LulzSec) Releases - http://t.co/5IjYVQE 

Asciiflow - Ascii Flow Diagram Tool - http://t.co/0EqkZKK  

xkcd: Security - http://t.co/KwbIw9v #Comics 

Digging Into Data, Day 2: Making Tools and Using Them - http://t.co/CImYzLx 

How to become a proficient Python programmer - http://t.co/YcHD05b 

Free WebMatrix e-book - http://t.co/CN9Aw9R  

ZionEyez 'spy glasses' - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/zioneyez-spy-glasses/13277 

Console2 - A Better Windows Command Prompt - http://t.co/4oui5OH 

Nook Touch Rooting Directions Posted - http://t.co/4DQC5c8  

Risk, probability, and how our brains are easily misled - http://bit.ly/jmAU8p 

TKP Tips: Making a SmallBasic runnable flash drive - http://bit.ly/ltKwHj 

What is World IPv6 Day and why it matters - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/what-is-world-ipv6-day-and-why-it-matters/1148 

A brief Sony password analysis - http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/06/brief-sony-password-analysis.html 

Java tutorial for beginners - Introduction - http://www.freejavaguide.com/corejava.htm 

So You Want To Teach Your Kids To Program? - http://bit.ly/kTJKym 

Free for All: National Academies Press Puts All 4,000 Books Online at No Charge - http://bit.ly/jsw1t9 

Microsoft ships free malware cleaner that boots from CD or USB - http://zd.net/lQBqCm  

The Usability of Passwords - http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability  

GPU password cracking made easy - http://hackaday.com/2011/06/01/gpu-password-cracking-made-easy/ 

What Makes A Great Programmer? - http://thinkvitamin.com/code/what-makes-a-great-programmer/ 

Raising Graduation Rates, and Questions - http://bit.ly/lI1H6z 

Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/business/economy/25leonhardt.html 

Killer tips for mastering Google Chrome - http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20066881-12.html 

EAP Resiliency Project - http://www.dop.wa.gov/more/EAPResiliencyProject/Pages/default.aspx 

Four Ways to Make Your Battery Last Longer - http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/four-ways-to-make-your-battery-last-longer/ 

Test IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, and IE10 in Windows 7 - http://cybernetnews.com/test-ie5-ie6-ie7-ie8-ie9-ie10-windows-7/ 

Beyond simple rooting: Turning the Nook Color into a complete tablet - http://zd.net/kwcvoG 

How to hack the $250 Nook Color into a full Android tablet - http://tek.io/fVH6H5 

Five easy steps to become an innovation-killer - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/five-easy-steps-to-become-an-innovation-killer/49347 

Resign Patterns - http://fuzz-box.blogspot.com/2011/05/resign-patterns.html (the 'Simpleton' says it all) 

Amazon Mechanical Turk - https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome  

Turks of the world, unite! - http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/repetitive_tasks 

Hands-Off Training: Google's Self-Driving Car Holds Tantalizing Promise, but Major Roadblocks Remain - http://bit.ly/isCyV8 

Introduction to Robotics - http://academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-robotics 

A Thorough Examination of "Disabling the Back Button.", Part 2 - http://bit.ly/k2fuLc (see javascript method) 

Dance Mat Typing - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ 

Windows debugging made easy - http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/052011-windows-debugging-made.html 

Microsoft Press Free Ebooks - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2011/03/03/ebooks-list-of-our-free-books.aspx 

Radiolab - http://www.radiolab.org/  

Gossip changes the way we see the world - http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/05/gossip-affects-the-way-we-see-the-world.ars 

WolframAlpha - http://www.wolframalpha.com/ 

Virgin Mobile offers $20/month for 500 MB of data, or 1 GB if you refill at Walmart - http://zd.net/mdOC4X 

Macrium Reflect (disk imaging s/w) - http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp 

DriveImage XML - http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm 

CloneZilla (disk imaging s/w) - http://clonezilla.org/ 

Password Validation - http://popstrip.com/password-validation/ 

The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment - http://tcrn.ch/ilzOSb 

Python for Fun - http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/ 

The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics – Why We Can't Control Intelligence - http://bit.ly/l8nrWK 

Einstein for Everyone - http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/index.html 

Tiny $25 Computer for Kids Who Want to Learn Real Computing - http://ti.me/iMQtL3 

$99 CMU robot is computer science learning tool - http://cnet.co/iOZE0p 

Self-assembling rafts: how fire ants survive floods - http://bit.ly/jCAzL5 

The Unwritten Laws of Engineering - http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010/October/Unwritten_Laws.cfm 

You are NOT a Software Engineer! - http://chrisaitchison.com/2011/05/03/you-are-not-a-software-engineer 

Telnet - SMTP Commands (sending mail using telnet) - http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html