2014-08-22

Pathing.

• If you listen to this whole Freakonomics episode on the morality of tipping and still think that tipping is okay, then I might think you're kind of a jerk.
• "To understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of." -Miller's Law
• Intellectual Ventures (the patent troll company run by Nathan Myhrvold) laid off a bunch of people.
• Google's $1M power inverter challenge.

Building.

• A method of using the lactate in sweat to produce power.
• A web app that simulates the acoustic response of different places around NYC.
• Apparently used cigarette buts can be repurposed into very good supercapacitors.
• The BitTorrent company is making a secure p2p messaging system.

Logistics.

• A study's results "suggest that simply banning hand-held cellphone use may not produce the desired increase in traffic safety."
• A tour of a Chinese bitcoin mining facility.
• Joi Ito describes his recent trip to Shenzhen.
• If someone knows how fast you drive (like from an OBDII dongle), they can figure out where you went.

Reflecting.

• Self-serving bias.
• The Diderot effect.
• A cool history of how Hong Kong has dealt with typhoons.
• Just some whatever interview with Yvon Chouinard, but it's *so* good.
• Gavin Andresen was massively important in the development of Bitcoin.

Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.

• Spotify's "Serendipity" site is fun.

And.

How the Martian environment has beat up the Curiosity rover.