If you haven’t ever visited XKCD, I cannot recommend it more highly. Be sure to hover over the pictures, to get the little bit of snark which pops up with each one.
A few of my recent favorites are Workaround, More Accurate, Bag Check, Tech Support Cheat Sheet, and Idiocracy.
As usual, a batch of links, below. Enjoy!
Ebooks:
- Companies face difficulty in e-reader market 5 August 2010, 12:07 am
- Random House CEO on the E-Book Age: ‘The Printed Book Will Still Dominate for a Long Time to Come’ 4 August 2010, 3:28 am
- Apple and Amazon in Inquiry Over E-Book Prices 2 August 2010, 10:40 pm
Education:
- At D.C. Conference, WPI PhD Student Presents Research on How Students Learn at Different Rates 2 August 2010, 1:04 pm
- Bill to Combat Comp. Science Crisis Introduced 2 August 2010, 1:01 pm
- Are Female IT Graduates Still Underrepresented? 30 July 2010, 2:30 pm
- House Committee to Examine Public Access to Federally-Funded Research 28 July 2010, 6:29 pm
Medical Tech:
- Thought-controlled prosthetic limb system to be tested on human subjects 4 August 2010, 2:00 pm
- Playing With Pills 4 August 2010, 12:33 pm
- Connecting Brains to the Outside World 4 August 2010, 12:33 pm
- Gain and loss in optimistic versus pessimistic brains 3 August 2010, 9:00 pm
- Culture wires the brain: A cognitive neuroscience perspective 3 August 2010, 8:00 pm
- Transcending the Nature/Nurture Debate 3 August 2010, 8:10 am
- Relatives of individuals with autism tend to display abnormal eye movements 3 August 2010, 8:00 am
- IBM Scientists Create Most Comprehensive Map of the Brain’s Network 2 August 2010, 1:04 pm
- Original Recruitment Flier for Milgram’s Obedience Experiment 2 August 2010, 8:30 am
- Robot Pills 30 July 2010, 1:11 pm
- Background music can impair performance, cites new study 28 July 2010, 2:00 pm
- Autism Has Unique Vocal Signature, New Technology Reveals 26 July 2010, 10:58 am
- Value of genetics reports challenged 23 July 2010, 12:07 am
- ‘Condor’ Brings Genome Assembly Down to Earth 22 July 2010, 5:33 am
Miscellany:
- Now Brewing: Roadkill Beer 24 July 2010, 2:24 am
- Revealing the True Colors of Masterworks 22 July 2010, 5:33 am
- Virtual Universe Study Proves 80 Year Old Theory on How Humans Interact 22 July 2010, 5:32 am
- Fashion On Trial: Stork With Moustache Battles Humorless Neo-Nazis 21 July 2010, 9:04 am
- A Photographer Remembers: Forbidden Photos of Everyday Life in East Germany 21 July 2010, 2:27 am
Politics:
- The YouTube Weapon: One Man’s Virtual Fight against Deportation 5 August 2010, 4:02 am
- The World from Berlin: ‘Children Need Both a Mother and a Father’ 4 August 2010, 4:59 am
- Rwanda’s Election Blues: Opposition Politicians and Journalists Persecuted in Run-Up to Election 3 August 2010, 3:11 am
- Iraq’s Garden of Eden: Restoring the Paradise that Saddam Destroyed 3 August 2010, 1:36 am
- ‘Capture or Kill’: Germany Gave Names to Secret Taliban Hit List 2 August 2010, 2:50 am
- Accident-Prone Wonder Weapons: Afghanistan War Logs Reveal Shortcomings of US Drones 27 July 2010, 6:53 am
- The Whistleblowers: Is WikiLeaks a Blessing or Curse for Democracy? 27 July 2010, 4:12 am
- Google Apps offers product for governments 27 July 2010, 12:07 am
- WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the ‘War Logs’: ‘I Enjoy Crushing Bastards’ 26 July 2010, 4:29 am
- Offshore R&D Spending Grows, Recession or Not 22 July 2010, 5:32 am
- Running for the Door: German Giants Flee Wall Street 22 July 2010, 4:45 am
Privacy / Law:
- BlackBerry Bans Suggest a Scary Precedent: Crypto Wars Again? 4 August 2010, 3:35 pm
- The Wall Street Journal Asks: What Do Online Advertisers Know About You? 4 August 2010, 2:39 pm
- EFF and Boing Boing TV Go Mile High! 3 August 2010, 3:43 pm
- UAE: BlackBerry crackdown will affect visitors too 2 August 2010, 8:23 pm
- Sites Feed Personal Details to New Tracking Industry 2 August 2010, 1:01 pm
- Multi-Million Dollar Project Aims to Improve Surveillance 30 July 2010, 2:29 pm
- FBI access to e-mail, Web data raises privacy fear 30 July 2010, 10:20 am
- Breaking Down the 2009 DMCA Rulemaking, Part 1: Victory for Vidders 29 July 2010, 3:43 pm
- DOJ Pushing to Expand Warrantless Access to Internet Records 29 July 2010, 12:13 pm
- In Perfect 10 v. Google, Round 3 Goes to Google: No Sloppy DMCA Notices 28 July 2010, 2:29 pm
- The Web Means the End of Forgetting 28 July 2010, 11:24 am
- Group Led By UCLA Engineering Devises New Method for Securing Location-Sensitive Data 28 July 2010, 11:22 am
- New gov’t rules allow unapproved iPhone apps 26 July 2010, 12:45 pm
- EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers 26 July 2010, 8:13 am
- TECH CHRONICLES / U.S. asks blog sites to shut down 25 July 2010, 12:07 am
- Passwords That Are Simple–and Safe 23 July 2010, 11:36 am
- Lawmakers hear mixed reviews of Web privacy bill 23 July 2010, 8:42 am
- Parody, copyright law clash in online clips 23 July 2010, 12:07 am
- Court: Violating Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, But Bypassing Technical Barriers Might Be 21 July 2010, 3:39 pm
Robotics:
- Making Smarter, Savvier Robots 4 August 2010, 12:34 pm
- Telenoid R1: Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Newest and Strangest Android 4 August 2010, 12:31 pm
- The Loneliest Humanoid in America 3 August 2010, 7:10 am
- Team-Working Robots Huddle Together to Boost Comms 2 August 2010, 1:03 pm
- Acrobatic Robots 28 July 2010, 11:23 am
- Italy to China in Driverless Vehicles 28 July 2010, 11:23 am
- Gut Movements in Caterpillars Have Impact on Robotic Design 26 July 2010, 10:56 am
- Out of the gait: Robot ranger sets untethered ‘walking’ record at 14.3 miles 23 July 2010, 5:00 pm
- Self-Sustaining Robot Has an Artificial Gut 22 July 2010, 5:33 am
Security:
- Study finds more data breaches are inside jobs 28 July 2010, 12:39 am
- Cybercrime costs firms $3.8 million yearly 27 July 2010, 12:07 am
- UK Seeks Next Generation of Cyber Security Specialists 26 July 2010, 10:54 am
- Microsoft forensics labs fight software piracy 25 July 2010, 12:07 am
- Cyberwarrior Shortage Threatens U.S. Security 22 July 2010, 5:30 am
Social Media:
- Google to halt development of Wave 5 August 2010, 12:07 am
- Facebook offers answers to those with queries 4 August 2010, 1:38 pm
- Social media sites become No. 1 online activity 4 August 2010, 12:31 pm
- Facebook doubles the size of its first data center 4 August 2010, 8:33 am
- How Facebook Could Make Cloud Computing Better 30 July 2010, 2:28 pm
Technology:
- Novel Algorithm Cuts the Risks of Choosing Ineffectual Team Members 4 August 2010, 12:34 pm
- Microsoft Mines Web to Hone Language Tool 4 August 2010, 12:30 pm
- Online Trends: Mobile E-Mail Replacing Desktop E-Mail 4 August 2010, 8:33 am
- Where the Engineering Jobs Are 3 August 2010, 7:11 am
- More Accurate Than Heisenberg Allows? 2 August 2010, 1:05 pm
- Machine Science 28 July 2010, 11:24 am
- System That Senses Danger 28 July 2010, 11:24 am
- Joke-Generating Computer Goes Global 26 July 2010, 10:58 am
- Nanowick at Heart of New System to Cool ‘Power Electronics’ 26 July 2010, 10:58 am
- World’s Cheapest Laptop Unveiled in India 26 July 2010, 10:55 am
- New Languages, and Why We Need Them 26 July 2010, 10:55 am
- A Plane That Lands Like a Bird 23 July 2010, 11:39 am
- Protein From Poplar Trees Can Be Used to Greatly Reduce Size of Memory Elements and Increase the Density of Computer Memory 23 July 2010, 11:37 am
- Data Mining Made Faster 23 July 2010, 11:36 am
- Circling the Square 22 July 2010, 5:35 am
- Computers Intersect With Sociology to Sift Through ‘All Our Ideas’ 22 July 2010, 5:34 am
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