In my collection of blog post drafts, a sediment of very short posts accumulated that only contained a link and a note. Too short to post, but combined, they make up a nerdy mixture from interesting to fanciful:
- How to improve cognition. Not by brain exercises, they say, “But there are other proven ways to improve cognition, albeit only by small margins. Consistently getting a good night’s sleep, exercising vigorously, eating right and maintaining healthy social activity have all been shown to help maximize a brain’s potential over the long term.” [source]
- Book recommendation: Clean Code. The book is named “Clean Code”, from O’Reilly, available on O’Reilly’s Safari bookshelf.
- Book recommendation: Beautiful code. Oram, Andy (2007): Beautiful Code. O’Reilly. ISBN 0596510047.
- It’s not good for a human being to be alone. Interesting finds on the health effects of marriage here.
- Love as the opposite of rule. Very nice philosophic blog post from a Christian viewpoint here.
- Aging is an illness. See here (in German).
- Philosophy on faith and reason. See this article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Philosophy on the meaning of life. See this article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, also the IEP articles on Robert Nozick and Paul Ricoeur and on the Western concepts of God.
- Philosophy on reliabilism. See this article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- The economy of the free stuff. See this discussion.
- A negative example of the “sovereign citizen” idea. See the Wikipedia article on the Sovereign Citizen Movement.
- Corporatocracy as a government system. See the Wikipedia article about it. Are we in the midst of it?
- INDECT , one of the worst inventions in surveillance. See this newspaper article (German).
- Comment on German 2010-03-02 BVG (supreme court) decision that ended collecting citizen’s telecommunication connection data. See here (German). The decision is good, but the situation is not as safe at it might seem.
- Journey out of Time. You can find the full text of this highly philosophic Christian book online here: Arthur C. Custance: “Journey out of Time”.
- Sleep disorders. I might have delayed sleep phase syndrome and non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome. … Who said I’m lazy? 😉
- Life as a collection of crises. See this Erik Erikson theory of personality.
- CRU hacked e-mails. The well-known story of the e-mails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit. Original WikiLeaks links were here and here, but currently give Error 404 due to their fundraising problems.
- The swine flu pandemic as a playground of corruption? The reliability of the following articles has to be looked into; it is linked here “as is”, because I could not find any more independent sources that verify or even repeat the claims made there. Some sources seem to be in proximity to conspiracy theories. So, read and judge yourself:
- Collection of Polskaweb News Artikeln zur Schweinegrippe
- Google search for the cycnical slogan “swine-11“
- William Engdahl: Mega Corruption Scandal At The WHO (good links in the endnotes)
- information.dk article “Stærk lobbyisme bag WHO-beslutning om massevaccination” (automated German translation here)
- 3D Mandelbrot. See really astonishing images over there.
- Sixthsense Technology. Pranav Mistry’s Sixthense Technology is a technology to integrate the digital world with the physical by projecting it on the physical world. Video included.
- Shadowstats on the financial and economic crisis since 2008. The article from John William’s Shadow Government Statistics contains some astonishing bad news and revelations, off the mainstream, but as long as I can see it’s well-founded.
- Larry Walls on IT and Open Source. A well-written interesting article by Perl inventor and Open Source supporter Larry Walls: Diligence, Patience, and Humility.
- The Stanford prison experiment. See the Wikipedia article on it.
- Robotic shrapnel. Some really crazy videos on robotic stuff, I had to laugh out loud. But then, robotics seem to provide future dictators with weapons of mass control … that’s even worse than mass destruction, it’s technocratic slavery.
- swarmbots pulling a child and finding a path
- quadruped robot Big Dog from Boston Dynamics
- the smaller brother, quadruped Little Dog from Boston Dynamics; it moves so careful … sweet; but its update is more experienced already, it seems
- SARCOS exoskeleton
- a big unmanned autonomous military ground vehicle: Crusher … frightening; see also the Crusher driving offroad, but here, remote-controlled
- Foster-Miller TALON, a weaponized infantry robot
- Gladiator Army robot, another one
- Israeli military robotic snake having a camera as its head
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