Richard Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
Flat UI and Forms
Some insights on flat design and its impact on page design, user interfaces, and forms.
http://alistapart.com/article/flat-ui-and-forms
NASA Shoots Lasers at the Moon to Create Insanely Fast Internet
Very cool sci-fi technology today.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/nasa-internet-laser/
Watch 15 Awesome MS-DOS Viruses in Action
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/15-awesome-looking-viruses-from-the-ms-dos-era/?viewall=true
There's One Key Difference Between Kids who Excel at Math and Those who Don't
And it’s not what you think. Turns out almost anyone can do well at math.
http://qz.com/139453/theres-one-key-difference-between-kids-who-excel-at-math-and-those-who-dont/
12 Basic Principles of Animation
From a book about Disney animation, ideas to understand and improve your animations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation
You Don’t Need Millions of Dollars
To create online games. A neat history of an important game from way back in time, Doom. Learn about shareware and hacker ethics, too.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/you-dont-need-millions-of-dollars.html
The Ultimate Tablet Comparison Chart, with the New iPads
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/the-ultimate-tablet-comparison-chart-with-the-new-ipads/
Fly Through 17th Century London
http://londonist.com/2013/10/fly-through-17th-century-london.php
Microduino: An Arduino nearly as small as a quarter, for $20
Innovative monstrosity: Oracle makes tablet with Raspberry Pi and Java
The Beautiful Code
A Braille system to teach math and science to the blind.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-beautiful-code/280216/
Microsoft Reportedly Looking To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices, Starting With HTC
Hotel Wi-Fi Sucks: Create Your Own Hotspot Using the Room’s Ethernet Connection
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/10/tnhyui-hotel-wifi/
Hotwiring the future of in-car tech with a smartphone and Raspberry Pi
Edgar Allan Poe’s Debut: Hidden in Plain Sight?
Adventures with a software program to compare texts to determine authorship, in this case early stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/edgar-allan-poe-earliest-stories-language-software-investigation.html
17th Century Pocket Watch
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/09/17th-Century-Pocket-Watch/
Denied for that loan? Soon you may thank online data collection
Data collection can become discrimination. But you’ll never know it’s happening.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520131/data-discrimination-means-the-poor-may-experience-a-different-internet/
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/denied-for-that-loan-soon-you-may-thank-online-data-collection/