the tweney review

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 1st through March 4th:

• Hark! A Vagrant - You Cannot Deny The Majesty - The BIL conference last weekend was replete with mighty beards, but even Aubrey de Grey couldn’t hold a candle to Sanford Fleming
• HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought) -
• The Median Isn’t the Message - Stephen Jay Gould - on understanding statistics about mortality and survival rates
• An Unlucky Pairing - Tastings - WSJ.com - How on earth does a guy get named “sommelier of the year” and not recognize Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher of the WSJ when he walks by them? Dude should be fired. To his credit, he does apologize
• Teenage Hacker Is Blind, Brash and in the Crosshairs of the FBI - amazing story by Kevin Poulsen
• How Crypto Won the DVD War | Threat Level from Wired.com - Ryan Singel’s theory: Blu-ray won because it has better copy protection than HD DVD

These are my links for February 28th through February 29th:

• GameSetWatch - Interview: The Next Big Puzzle Game Wave? iPhone + Accelerometer! - Interview with the creator of Trism, a “Bejeweled” type game where the direction the blocks fall is determined by the orientation of the iPhone
• How to Catch a MySpace Creep - the Perl scripts Kevin Poulsen used to comb through MySpace for registered sex offenders
• YouTube - Professor Hans Rosling on Ageing Europe - Rosling is speaking, briefly, at TED this year
• TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib - Excellent Q&A with Philip Zimbardo, who did the “stanford prison experiment” in 1971. With a very harrowing gallery of images from Abu Ghraib.
• Snowflake on eyelash photo by Leticia Caparaz - Tisha took this photo last year. It still blows me away! Vote for it!