Interesting Links, May 25, 2011

Here are links I found interesting on May 25, 2011:

PayPal Co-Founder Hands Out $100,000 Fellowships To Not Go To College – "Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook, is proposing a controversial path toward more rapid innovation. Today his Thiel Foundation announced that it was giving 24 people under 20 $100,000 fellowships to drop out of school for two years to start a their own companies." My only question: where was this guy when I was 19 and halfway through college?
Was LinkedIn Scammed? – Sure looks that way to me. Investment bankers will be investment bankers, after all.
Google Street View before and after shows tornado’s true destruction – An entire neighborhood, gone in minutes.

Interesting Links, May 5, 2011

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Maria Langer

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Here are links I found interesting on May 5, 2011:

Who else tracks your location – It's not just Apple.
How the iPhone knows where you are – Great article explaining how AGPS works and how Apple uses the data it collects from 3G iDevices to make it work better and faster.
Maryland students to test human-powered rotary aircraft – A helicopter you pedal.
2 of 2 Daily deal sites: retailers tell their side of the story – Another objective look at Groupon, this time from the retail side.
LastPass Says Hackers May Have Stolen Password Data – This is PERFECT — the absolute and utter stupidity of people storing passwords in the cloud.
Air France 447 Black Boxes Found: Now What? – NOVA article discusses that happens now that the black boxes from the doomed Air France flight have been found.

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Here are links I found interesting on April 6, 2011:

UW gives us what we asked for – A glimpse of our future if we keep cutting taxes and government programs.
Glenn Beck’s Fox show ending – Amen.
Train Enthusiast Pays $15,798 to Develop 1,580 Rolls of Dead Kodachrome Film – The absolute BEST thing about this short post is the comments.
Joyriding pilot wanted to land on Rockaways beach, emergency or not – People like this should not be licensed to fly.
Rule of Thirds – if there's a "Golden Rule" to photographic composition, this is it.
7 Tips To Help Bring Back Non-Boring, And Possibly Non-Horrid, Travel Photos – Here's some tips for taking better (or maybe even great) vacation photos.

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Here are links I found interesting on March 28, 2011:

iPad 2: Faster, Lighter & Thinner – in-depth review of the iPad 2.
The Ruins of Detroit – Amazing photos of a city in decline.
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether – Maybe I'm dense, but I can't understand why a highly profitable corporation doing business in the U.S. can get away with not paying any taxes. Yet the government is cutting funding to Planned Parenthood and PBS? Hello? Does this make sense to ANYONE?
William Cronon and the American Thought Police – "The Cronon affair, then, is one more indicator of just how reflexively vindictive, how un-American, one of our two great political parties has become. " Read about it in the NYTimes.

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Here are links I found interesting on March 27, 2011:

How D.C.’s Cherry Blossoms Almost Didn’t Bloom – A bit of history about the cherry trees in Washington, DC. On NPR.org. (Are you a member? Support them!)
Solar System – If you don't mind looking at Flash, here's a great animation of the solar system.
The Noyes machine – "PCWorld’s Katherine Noyes overturned a tanker truck full of stupid all over the information highway." The Macalope dons his HazMat suit and goes in to present a few FACTS. (Imagine that.)