Gonads. Of. Steel. Non-tenured prof's response to UC-Davis police brutality: http://t.co/USpePWnx #ows

coder hell is other people's code

RT @beardedstoner: To everyone mad about Joe Paterno's statue being taken down - just look the other way & pretend it's not happening.

Robert Reich explains the state of the US economy in less than two minutes http://bit.ly/iDoFf4

for the idiots asking "what did Japan due to help us after Katrina?" http://1.usa.gov/hOH6Ia

Kinect startup incubator, hosted by Microsoft. I think they're starting to get it: http://t.co/H4iyaS6F

yet another girl talk / all day sample visualization: http://mashupbreakdown.com/

how unique is your browser's fingerprint? http://panopticlick.eff.org

@ink_bot it also needs a "why electronics don't work but the brains of mammals work just fine" short-bus science class

RT @edrabbit: Why is Facebook going public?

They couldn't figure out the privacy settings either.

The Kronos Quartet's work on Schnittke is pretty damn amazing and excellent hacking music http://http://bit.ly/x1JshA

If your API doc reads "ConnectToDb(args): Connect to the DB using the supplied <args>" I am allowed to beat you with a stick.

This talk explains why so many startups fail *and* what I learned at .@cmudesign http://t.co/37uNLGvE

.@eparadis some thoughtful writing on what's going on in the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/context-london-riots

Fox News: "I don't remember any attacks on American soil during [Bush's presidency]" http://huff.to/o4oRgE

the real cost of not having your kids vaccinated: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/cost-vaccine-refusal/

a case for interaction designers studying more than just bits/pixels http://gizmo.do/cvlg8b (HT @carynaudenried)

nice companion to the RS article on the tea party RT @slavitch: White America Has Lost Its Mind - The Village Voice http://bit.ly/aUxhvn

"medical woodblock prints from 19th century japan" http://pinktentacle.com/2010/09/medical-woodblock-prints-from-19th-century-japan/

nice TED talk: John Underkoffler points to the future of UI http://j.mp/cRhAK