Hardware Hackathons Are Hard

Great guest column describing the differences between hardware and software hackathons.
http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2014/2/hardware-hackathons-are-hard

Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140219-images-that-changed-our-world
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/beautiful-science/index.html

The Tech Behind the Protests in Kiev

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/the-tech-in-kiev

James Iry's history of programming languages (illustrated with pictures and large fonts)

Love the COBOL acronym: Capitalization of Boilerplate Oriented Language
http://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/james-irys-history-of-programming-languages-illustrated-with-pictures-and-large-fonts/

Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralize the Web

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/tim-berners-lee-we-need-to-re-decentralize-the-web/

Bright Idea: Using Raspberry Pi as a Lamp Timer

http://makezine.com/magazine/using-raspberry-pi-as-a-lamp-timer/

Academics Launch Torrent Site to Share Papers and Datasets

http://torrentfreak.com/academics-launch-torrent-site-to-share-papers-and-datasets-140131/

The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-lost-ancestors-of-ascii-art/283445/

NoSQL Vs. RDBMS for Interactive Analytics: Leveraging the Right and Left Brain of Data

http://smartdatacollective.com/soren-riise/181471/nosql-versus-rdbms-interactive-analytics-leveraging-right-and-left-brain-data