An opportunistic pathogen isolated from the gut of an obese human causes obesity in germfree mice

http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/ismej2012153f1.html#figure-title

2 billion pixel photo of mt everest

can you find the climbers?

Golden Eagle Snatches Kid

Repost from empire without an emperor: From the essay "How to Proceed in the Arts," written in 1952 by Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara, but not published until Barney Russet did so in the Evergreen Review in 1961

EMPIRE WITHOUT AN EMPEROR | DECEMBER 6, 2012
http://pulse.me/s/gpf5Z
A Detailed Study of the Creative Act 1. Empty yourself of everything. 2. Think of far away things. 3. It is 12:00. Pick up ... Read more

yay! maps!

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/13/google-maps-becomes-the-app-stores-most-popular-free-app-just-7-hours-after-launch/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share+button&utm_content=Google%20Maps%20becomes%20the%20App%20Store%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99s%20most%20popular%20free%20app,%20just%207%20hours%20after%20launch&utm_campaign=social+media

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Sounding Smart

instead of saying, "here's an example of what I mean"

say...

"here's an instantiation of what i mean."

boom.

smartness.

be prepared for wtfs and pushback, especially the dreaded "if you meant to say "example", why didn't you just say "example?""

To which you respond, "Obviously, I was only trying to Sound Smart"

Spreadsheet of every TED talk

Spreadsheet of every TED talk

Indefinite and fictitious numbers

 Their size is dependent upon the context, but can typically be considered large enough to be unfathomable.

Introduction to Bayesian Filtering

http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.process.com%2Fprecisemail%2Fbayesian_filtering.htm

Bluetooth Tracking Stickies

http://www.indiegogo.com/sticknfind

I'd stick these on my important paper docs. And my keys, totally on my keys.

Mexican Pointy Boots

I don't want to lose these...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYPG6vreJg&feature=related

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/23/useful-javascript-libraries-jquery-plugins-web-developers/

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/01/50-awesome-css3-techniques-for-better-designs/

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/

http://foundation.zurb.com/

http://www.amazedsaint.com/2011/08/woa-is-here-to-stay-and-why-new-wcf.html

http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html

http://www.amazon.com/REST-Practice-Hypermedia-Systems-Architecture/dp/0596805829

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gblock/archive/2011/05/09/hypermedia-and-forms.aspx

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/html-5-and-css-3-the-techniques-youll-soon-be-using/

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/04/designing-a-html-5-layout-from-scratch/

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/25-html5-features-tips-and-techniques-you-must-know/

http://www.initializr.com/

http://html5demos.com/

http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-4/bundling-and-minification

https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/speedtracer/get-started

http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

Tesla's Electric Car Factory

Efficient Lines in Japan

Deep Learning

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/science/scientists-see-advances-in-deep-learning-a-part-of-artificial-intelligence.html?_r=0

Iterated Rock, Paper, Scissors

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/rock-paper-scissors.html?ref=multimedia

My score:

18 Dylan

19 Ties

20 Novice Computer

It would be interesting to see how it does against a purely random player.

“The washing machine has changed society more than the Internet”

http://pulse.me/s/fBEla

Hard to quantify? I'd say.

Bikeshedding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshedding

"The duck technique in corporate programming is an applied example of Parkinson's law of triviality: a programmer expects their corporate office to insist on a change to something (anything at all) on every presentation to show that they're participating, so a programmer adds an element they expect corporate to remove on purpose."

Homeland Security spent $430M on radios its employees don’t know how to use

http://pulse.me/s/fxZvW

Who'd have thought radios would be so hard to manage?