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

Why startups fail.

Leaders, not whiners.

The solution to poverty is—getting rich.

Lead exposure correlates with criminal behavior.

Using Python to work with the operating system.

Pajamas in Shanghai.

The short history of nerds, from Seuss to Obama.

The false narrative of American defeat.

The free trade paradox.

Diving for treasure with AUVs.

5 essential rules for negotiation.

Wishful thinking about oil.

Introducing Muxfind.

Cells beneath the water (water), cells beneath the mud.

A ray of housing hope?

An honor killing in Germany.

The Messiah of the red-diaper socialists?

Sunday Links

The day there was no news.

Viagra for the brain.

Just how cooked are the Republicans?

8 bombs in an Indian jewel.

Goodbye Matlab, hello Python.

Melodrama and villains in place of facts and honesty.

Seeing the present before we can.

The challenge from China.

The new Great Redeemer.

Encrypt your GMail.

Why Hillary's campaign failed—the inside scoop.

Friday Links

Introducing brand tags.

The Presidential messiah.

US Navy electronics training series.

The World Wide Telescope is finally released.

Is neural Buddhism the future of post-cognitive religion?

[Update: See also Steven Novello's blog, and this response on Explorations.]

1001 movies you must see before you die.

Cool under pressure.

Nukes and Gitmo—gotta have 'em.

Have a free music studio.

What an honest candidate would be telling us.

Wednesday Links

The end of the End of History—the rise of the new autocracies.

Scanners that see through clothes.

Can he fix your soul?

Ho hum—dull jobs do dull the mind after all.

Benevolence in business?

The end of Russian space tourism.

"It's the spring-time, and the gators are jumpin'".

It will take a village to shake her off.

60% British Britain and half German?

Armchair warriors bravely battle carbon emissions.

The race margin.

Eating breakfast cereal instead of aborting your daughters.

"Three hundred thousand dead in Darfur-O."

Gas prices deconstructed.

Introducing flaptor.

Leaving Greenpeace.

Latent semantic analysis, in Python.

Are cheerleaders cricket?