the tweney review

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 26th through March 27th:

• Paul Kedrosky: The Moral Hazard with the Moral Hazard Problem -
• Freebase: an open, shared database of the world’s knowledge - Kind of like Wikipedia for structured data. Very interesting
• Scientists Aim for Origami Space Flight - Coolest thing I’ve read today: “Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth.”
• Flickr: The Hackerbot Lab Pool - photos from Seattle’s Hackerbot Labs, run by Pablos Holman and Eric Johanssen
• You’d Look Sweet Upon the Seat of a Spaceship Built for Two - I’m rather proud of this headline
• Living ‘Lord of the Rings’ at a Girl Scout Camp in New Jersey - God bless America. What a country!
• 600 strip naked on glacier in global warming protest | Greenpeace International - Global warming’s upside: It produces protests like this one!

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 21st through March 24th:

• What books or courses will help me learn science? | Ask Metafilter - roger penrose is looking like a good start
• Blogonomics: Gawker’s Payroll, Redux - The top Gawker bloggers probably make six-figure salaries, Felix Salmon estimates
• Let’s Make Robots! - Looks like a great resource for robot building, from simple to challenging
• The â��80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off - New York Times - Never gonna give you up! Rickrolling hits the real world
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Paper Circuitry at Home: Electric Origami - Looks like a great weekend project! Freezer paper + aluminum foil “circuit boards” folded up with an LED lamp = glowing origami. Awesome!

I’m on the latest episode of John C. Dvorak’s video show, Cranky Geeks, this week. This was a fun one: The guests were former Ziffians Annaliza Savage and myself, both of whom are now working at Wired.com, and we had a lively, pugnacious conversation with Dvorak about filesharing, China blocking YouTube, botnets, and the war. And I managed to piss out not only Dvorak but also a whole bunch of viewers with my suggestion that the RIAA’s proposed P2P surcharge might actually be a good idea. Check it out!

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 19th through March 20th:

• In Spectrum Auction, Winners Are AT&T, Verizon and Openness | Epicenter from Wired.com - and Google, which got what it wanted without paying a dime
• TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook - mini wiki implemented in JavaScript
• NNDB: Tracking the entire world - big database of biographical profiles. interesting!
• Sundown With Arthur: Remembering Arthur C. Clarke - really nice obit by Jeff Greenwald, who knew Clarke over 4 decades
• Review: Triangulate Your Commute With the Folding Strida 5 Bike | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - with a hilarious video of Wired’s Danny Dumas doing an endo over the handlebars
• nsf.gov - News - Tiny Torrents - US National Science Foundation (NSF) - Dime-sized solid-state “fan” has no moving parts — it uses ions to push air instead.

These are a few things I found interesting on March 19th:

• Sundown With Arthur: Remembering Arthur C. Clarke - really nice obit by Jeff Greenwald, who knew Clarke over 4 decades
• Review: Triangulate Your Commute With the Folding Strida 5 Bike | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - with a hilarious video of Wired’s Danny Dumas doing an endo over the handlebars
• nsf.gov - News - Tiny Torrents - US National Science Foundation (NSF) - Dime-sized solid-state “fan” has no moving parts — it uses ions to push air instead.

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 17th through March 18th:

• How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong - Wired’s April 2008 “Evil/Genius” cover story
• Four Online Telescopes Serve the Stars to Interstellar Paparazzi - No telescope? No problem.
• Investor Eric Janszen Says Clean Tech Is Only Hope for the Collapsing Economy - US economy is debt-driven, not innovation-driven: “It used to be about 50 cents of new debt was required to generate $1 in gross-domestic-product growth. Now it’s $9 for $1 of GDP growth.”
• Children’s Books Online - BigUniverse.com - A bunch of picture books, free to read online
• AP: Web Has Unexpected Effect on Journalism - Diversity of coverage is actually going down in mainstream news sites.

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 13th through March 15th:

• Chapter 1 Meditation: Why Bother? -
• He Was a Crook - by Hunter S. Thompson - As hilarious today as it was in 1994: “My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.”
• Green Plug - Universal Power Adapter - DC Power Converter & Charger - One World. One Plug. -
• Dylan Tweney - FriendFeed - collection of all of my various RSS feeds
• Theatrical Speed Racer Trailer Kicks Us Into Overdrive | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - I am *totally* going to see this. As if I had any choice — KJ is a huge fan.
• Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs - Actually, this proposal makes a lot of sense. It’s exactly how radio works right now.

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 11th through March 12th:

• Technophilia: Discover the .EDU Underground - more free education
• Universities with the Best Free Online Courses — Education-Portal.com - get you some learnin’
• Another sliver of history « India, Ink. -
• ‘Population Bomb’ Author Paul Ehrlich Tackles Cultural Evolution - Ehrlich has been a doomsayer for years, and wrong about many things, but this suggestion about cultural evolution is pretty intriguing
• One day on camera - a photoset on Flickr - 74 photos of surveillance cameras taken during a single day in New York.
• Developerâ��s Diary » Blog Archive » Website Design for the iPhone -
• The Brit dishing the dirt on America | Technology | The Observer - Good profile on Gawker founder Nick Denton: “The future, Nick says, lies with what he calls iterative reporting, in which posts are used to request information and to help stand up stories.”
• A band’s plan to change the world - The Boston Globe - Soulfege, a band founded by Derrick N. Ashong (aka DNA)
• SXSW: Futurist Jamais Cascio Sees GOP Filters, Alt Energy | The Underwire from Wired.com - Best quote: “The road to hell is paved with short-term distractions.” Also, I think it’s a little funny that a futurist is named “Jamais”
• Laser show for poor man - Instructables - DIY, How To, tech, science - now this looks cool, and achievable!

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 8th through March 10th:

• scot hackerâ��s foobar blog » Henry Jenkins Keynote w/Steven Johnson - Pay attention to what your kids are doing online — consuming vs. creating. “Lumping it all together as â��screen timeâ�� is a big mistake. Parents shouldnâ��t lump lean-forward and lean-back time together.”
• Mark Zuckerberg, Sarah Lacy Interview Video - The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Video of the full keynote from SXSW, March 9, 2008
• Geek Love - New York Times - Adam Rogers’s tribute to Gary Gygax: from D&D to Facebook, it’s all RPGs now
• Magnetic Sense » Zovirl Industries - If you like the idea of having magnetic sense in your fingertips, but don’t like the idea of a non-anesthetized implantation procedure, why not just glue a magnet on?
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Zuckerberg interview: What went wrong - Fatal flaws at SXSW: Not being deferential enough to Zuckerberg, or to the audience
• California Reptiles and Amphibians - Excellent site for identifying that salamander you just found in your back yard

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 5th through March 7th:

• 1,000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly — The Technium - all you need to be successful as an artist/musician/filmmaker/whatever
• Drugs, Body Modifications May Create Second Enlightenment | Epicenter from Wired.com - account of Quinn Norton’s talk at ETech 2008
• Redesign the Wired.com Logo, Dungeons & Dragons-Style | The Underwire from Wired.com - In tribute to Gary Gygax, who died this week, we’re collecting D&D-themed “Wired” logos from our readers. Some really nice contributions here!
• Ziff Davis Planning To File For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection | paidContent.org - Looks like this once-great company is headed to a sad end. Maybe they can reorganize themselves and get back on track… but it’s a long shot.
• Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs - The graph paper of your dreams