I’ve been accumulating a lot of links. Time to clear the tabs out.<\/p>\n
A good overview of corruption in Obama’s DOJ here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Interesting discussion of poverty here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This must have something to do with truth in advertising: a supermarket chain has been forced to withdraw ads that show happy customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Useful knowledge: How to avoid going to jail for violating 18 USC 1001<\/a>.<\/p>\n Not, perhaps, the best dietary choices<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s been a long time – I haven’t read much about spontaneous human combustion<\/a> since I was in high school.<\/p>\n I’ve seen photos of people with elaborate facial tattoos before, but never in this context<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is interesting – a section of Idaho where major crimes can’t be prosecuted<\/a>.<\/p>\n Time for Science and Technology<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Carbon nanotube cables that conduct electricity as efficiently as copper<\/a>? Bring it on!<\/p>\n This is a bit old, but … we can now measure the magnetic properties of a single proton<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is also a bit old … a new type of car engine<\/a>. These come around every so often. I was quite taken with the Wankel rotary engine, but it had problems with manufacturability. Maybe this one will work out better.<\/p>\n Visual cryptography<\/a>. Interesting, but I’m not sure how easy it would be to extract the information into text form.<\/p>\n A visual reference to computer ports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fairly computer-centric, but, then, I am employed in the field of software, and I love<\/em> the title – Here be dragons: advances in problems you didn’t even know you had<\/a>.<\/p>\n New and improved wireless technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fossilized feathers found in 80-million-year-old amber<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s a scale model of the solar system<\/a>. Be prepared to do a lot of scrolling.<\/p>\n On the subject of the solar system, here’s an orrery<\/a> that I think is pretty damned impressive.<\/p>\n Continuing with science, the Ig Nobel awards are about to be announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n Scientists are also planning to make an artificial volcano<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s something unusual: placebos are becoming more effective<\/a>. How’s that work?<\/p>\n Been hearing voices with nobody around? You may not be as insane as you feared – birds are teaching each other to talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n A Z-machine interpreter and a list of games for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n Technology keeps on improving our lives – here’s a self-inflating bicycle tire<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Document Which Used To Be Called The MIT Lockpicking Guide<\/a>. I downloaded a copy when it was<\/em> called that. Related: a series of lessons on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some products aren’t well-designed. Here’s one example<\/a> from a trade-magazine blog on the topic.<\/p>\n Time for a little humor.<\/p>\n Here’s something that’s a staple of Jay Leno’s “headlines” segments: marriage announcements<\/a>.<\/p>\n Got OCD and like to cook?<\/a><\/p>\n Lord of the Strings?<\/a><\/p>\n I like some of these modified signs<\/a>.<\/p>\n
![A visual reference to computer ports<\/a>.<\/p>\nFairly computer-centric, but, then, I am employed in the field of software, and I love<\/em> the title – Here be dragons: advances in problems you didn’t even know you had<\/a>.<\/p>\nNew and improved wireless technology<\/a>.<\/p>\nFossilized feathers found in 80-million-year-old amber<\/a>.<\/p>\nHere’s a scale model of the solar system<\/a>. Be prepared to do a lot of scrolling.<\/p>\nOn the subject of the solar system, here’s an orrery<\/a> that I think is pretty damned impressive.<\/p>\nContinuing with science, the Ig Nobel awards are about to be announced<\/a>.<\/p>\nScientists are also planning to make an artificial volcano<\/a>.<\/p>\nHere’s something unusual: placebos are becoming more effective<\/a>. How’s that work?<\/p>\nBeen hearing voices with nobody around? You may not be as insane as you feared – birds are teaching each other to talk<\/a>.<\/p>\nA Z-machine interpreter and a list of games for it<\/a>.<\/p>\nTechnology keeps on improving our lives – here’s a self-inflating bicycle tire<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Document Which Used To Be Called The MIT Lockpicking Guide<\/a>. I downloaded a copy when it was<\/em> called that. Related: a series of lessons on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\nSome products aren’t well-designed. Here’s one example<\/a> from a trade-magazine blog on the topic.<\/p>\nTime for a little humor.<\/p>\nHere’s something that’s a staple of Jay Leno’s “headlines” segments: marriage announcements<\/a>.<\/p>\nGot OCD and like to cook?<\/a><\/p>\nLord of the Strings?<\/a><\/p>\nI like some of these modified signs<\/a>.<\/p>\nNot quite humor, but close … Which Programming Languages Make You Cuss More?<\/a> More accurately stated: which programming languages have more cussing in comments in the code I looked at?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’ve been accumulating a lot of links. Time to clear the tabs out. A good overview of corruption in Obama’s DOJ here. Interesting discussion of poverty here. This must have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,19,16,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-legal-affairs","category-politics","category-science","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/9JREG.jpg\"){kind=link}