Colin Percival: Securing an HTTPS server
Ben Tilly: Teaching linear algebra
Caterina Fake: Working hard is overrated
The Way I Work: Marc Lore of Diapers.com
Jeremy Clift profiles psychologist Daniel Kahneman: Questioning a Chastened Priesthood
Niki Scevak: Nuances of Twitter Financing
John Cassidy: Rational Irrationality – The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone.
Interesting Startup: SkyGrid. I got an invite to SkyGrid in April, finally got around to playing around with it. Absolutely Awesome UI.
Another Interesting startup: Convey Computer, working on what they call Hybrid-core computing. Here’s a whitepaper from their site. Remember Steve Wallach from the book, Soul of a New Machine, he is the founder of Convey.
The next billion cell phone users: Solar Powered Cell Phone service via VNL
Cool web browser trick in javascript
Podcasts:
How A Driven Entrepreneur Made Tetris A Huge Hit – With Henk Rogers
Econtalk podcast with Paul Buchheit
Tom Gruber talks about Siri, the Virtual Personal Assistant
William Tunstall-Pedoe talks about TrueKnowledge
Steve Blank: Let’s fire our customers
Derek Sivers: Emphasize meaning over price = More paid sales
Jeff Moser: A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Garry Tan: Build it “If only I had ____ I would succeed.”
Interesting presentations from Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) 2009
- Functional Programming at Facebook (pdf)
Mendeley: How Last.fm inspired a scientific breakthrough
Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds (Video)
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger: on Jure Robic the ultra-endurance athlete
What went wrong with AIG, 3 part article from December, 2008:
- What Went Wrong: The Beautiful Machine
- A Crack in The System
- Downgrades And Downfall
Eight Mental Traps to Avoid: Investing is as much an exercise in controlling emotions as harnessing the intellect.
80 legs: Rent a web crawler: crawl 2 billion pages/day for $2.00 per million pages crawled + $0.03/cpu/hr via @angusdav
BetterExplained Math ebook: Get the beta! I am a big fan of Kalid’s website, there are some excellent articles that are explained clearly, concisely and in a way you can remember.
GDC Austin: An Inside Look At The Universe Of Warcraft
Benjamin Joffe: Mobile From East to West
Building Rome in a day: Algorithm Generates a Virtual Rome in 3D from 150,000 Flickr Photos
JSSpeccy: A ZX Spectrum emulator in Javascript. Nothing like playing Super Mario and Contra in JavaScript.
Paul Graham: Post-Medium Publishing. Comments on Hacker News.
David Weekly: How PBworks Used Lean Startup Techniques
TC50 video demo of AnyClip: does amazing movie search.
Pixlr: Cool web-based picture/image editor
Dan Bricklin: Signals and the Ubiquity of New Carriers
D. J. Bernstein: Usable security for DNS (pdf)
Mark Sellers: Seven Traits great investors share
Short Paul Graham video interview at TechCrunch50 As always some gems.
Joshua Porter: Designing For Social Traction
Ulf Wiger: What is Erlang-Style Concurrency?
The Man Nobody Wanted to Hear: Global Banking Economist Warned of Coming Crisis
Ben Tilly: Effective A/B Testing
“Hello John. It’s Gordon Brown.”
Interesting companies:
Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever’s Alma Networks resurfaces as Quora, “a community-generated database of the trusted information that interests people most.”
The folks that worked at Right Media start a new company, AppNexus, a new cloud computing solution.
A virtual Personal Assistant: Siri
Mike Markson of Blekko: Eight hard truths about online media
Tim Bray: Music & Money. Another gem by Tim.
Freebase: A socially managed semantic database. Freebase’s presentation at the NYC semantic web meetup.
Tom Pinckney: What I don’t like about mysql and memcache
Bret Taylor: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed’s web server
Better Explained: Understanding the Monty Hall Problem, now with graphics
Cross Border Arbitrage Caused By Taxes or The alcohol is always cheaper on the other side 
An Uncommon Thread: The world’s priciest spice is closing in on $3,000 a pound.
