the tweney review

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from April 14th through April 15th:

• Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Jews in Budapest - Amazing story about a Swedish businessman who saved 10,000’s of Hungarian Jews — as many as 100,000, I have been told
• Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D - Extreme digitization: 39 megapixel images, plus high-res 3D maps of each page
• Inside Seagate’s R&D Labs - A peek at how hard drive storage continues to climb
• Justin.tv Blog: The Justin.tv Story: Year 1 - stats on the first year of Justin.tv’s lifecasting business
• Funes, the Memorious - By Jorge Luis Borges - Athenaeum Library of Philosophy - Borges’ very short story about a man who can’t forget anything

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from April 10th through April 11th:

• Dept. of Technology: Remember This?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker -
• what-may-happen-in-2000-large.jpg (JPEG Image, 1108×1600 pixels) - What may happen in the next 100 years? Ladies Home Journal predictions from about 100 years ago
• The Magical Minimalism of Microformats - Open - Code - New York Times Blog - nice explanation / summary
• Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person - Mahalo, Squidoo, Brijit, ChaCha and others aim to solve search problems by recruiting human help
• Map: Broadband Service Available Worldwide, But Few Can Afford It -
• Eye-Fi: How One Little Chip Will Change the Way You Share Pictures - also search for “eye-fi” on wired.com to see our review of this little 2GB SD card/Wi-fi adapter
• Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - Chris Anderson’s article on the importance of giving it away
• Microsoft Windows Media - Understanding HD Formats - It takes about 44GB to store one hour of compressed HD video using the HD-DVCPRO format

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from April 8th through April 9th:

• BMWSportTouring Forums: Space Shuttle Processing: Rarely seen by the general public - nice slide show of Space Shuttle assembly & launch
• Gmaps Pedometer - Bay to Breakers Route - Rough map of the Bay to Breakers course on May 18, including an elevation profile
• Texans Build World’s Most Powerful Laser | Wired Science from Wired.com - Awesome, “Back to the Future”-like photos of a petawatt laser, with a great explanation of how it works
• Author Probes Sex-Obsessed Scientists in ‘Bonk’ - Q&A with Mary Roach. Fun fact from Kinsey’s research: “when cheese crumbs are spread before a pair of copulating rats, it distracts the female but not the male.”
• Webby Honorees include GadgetLab on Wired.com - And sister blog Epicenter takes a Honoree award in the “Business Blog” category
• Royal Pingdom » The history of computer data storage, in pictures - very nice pictorial history of early data storage tech

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from July 2nd through April 7th:

• The effect of Nuclear War on Climate Change : Weather Underground - Effects of a small nuclear war: Pro: worldwide cooling effect would offset global warming. Con: Crop failures, starvation, and holes in the ozone layer cause a decade or more of famine and suffering.
• Biologists Take Evolution Beyond Darwin — Way Beyond - Amazing fact from this story: The human body contains nine bacterial cells for every cell of our own.
• Building a Wall 1 - Introduction | DoItYourself.com - tips on layout & construction. came in handy today
• IDC - Press Release - 1.6 exabytes (1,645 petabytes) of storage capacity was sold in Q4 2007
• IDC serves up top 10 storage predictions for 2008 - According to IDC, storage capacity is exploding at a rate of almost 60% per year.
• Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » YouTube Statistics - 78.3 million videos representing over 412 years of video time, as of March 2008
• Twitter vs. Blogger redux (kottke.org) - nice J curves
• Fed Shrugged as Subprime Crisis Spread - New York Times - Missed this in December, but it’s still shocking: people in the Fed and Treasury saw subprime problems as early as 2000, and nobody did anything. In fact, regulatory policy actually encouraged *more* mortgage monkey business

These are a few things I found interesting on April 5th:

• IDC - Press Release - 1.6 exabytes (1,645 petabytes) of storage capacity was sold in Q4 2007
• IDC serves up top 10 storage predictions for 2008 - According to IDC, storage capacity is exploding at a rate of almost 60% per year.
• Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » YouTube Statistics - 78.3 million videos representing over 412 years of video time, as of March 2008
• Twitter vs. Blogger redux (kottke.org) - nice J curves
• Fed Shrugged as Subprime Crisis Spread - New York Times - Missed this in December, but it’s still shocking: people in the Fed and Treasury saw subprime problems as early as 2000, and nobody did anything. In fact, regulatory policy actually encouraged *more* mortgage monkey business

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from April 2nd through April 4th:

• Field Notes â�� â��Iâ��m not writing it down to remember it later, Iâ��m writing it down to remember it now.â�� - U.S.-made alternative to the little pocket Moleskines
• doane paper - hybrid graph paper + ruled paper. kinda cool
• A Vehicle for Change » Cupcake Car / Mobile Muffin Recipe - Budget seems to be about $1,000 if you start with an electric ATV; less if you have the skills to build your own electric drive train
• CJR: RIP: Stand-Alone Biz Section - Local newspapers’ business sections left and right are being cut down or cut out altogether
• How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse | Danger Room from Wired.com - solid advice from Danger Room crew
• An area the size of Wales - Just how big is that asteroid, ice shelf, hominid or foreign country? Here’s a handy calculator for finding apt analogies
• Kevin Kelly — Bootstrapping the Industrial Age - A few amazing stories of people building advanced tools from close to nothing. A lathe seems to be the critical piece

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 28th through April 1st:

• Exclusive: Details Revealed of Music Industry Plan to OK P2P - A small ISP surcharge in exchange for unlimited file sharing? Where do I sign up?
• Video: Serious Design and Coding Advice from Rapper Poetic Prophet | Compiler from Wired.com - SEO rap. Good advice too
• The Inflation Calculator - inflation calculator for dates from 1800-2007
• CPI Inflation Calculator - easy to use calculator for figuring out inflation-adjusted monetary amounts from 1913-2008
• Project Syndicate - The Falling Dollar - Economist Martin Feldstein explains why a weakening dollar is actually what the U.S. needs right now

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!

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.