Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Daily Links: June 15, 2011



7 Website Mashups. They’ve managed to cross websites I read with websites I don’t read, to humorous ends.

The Anatomy of a Hard Drive. Bill Hammock, the Engineer Guy, years up a hard drive and explains how it works in a way even I can understand.

A comparison of Apple iCloud vs Google vs Amazon Cloud Drive vs Dropbox vs Microsoft SkyDrive from Pocket-lint.

The File Inside the Cake: True Tales of Prison Escapes. The most successful of these were tales where the inmate thought outside the cake box.

Horton Sees a Pluto. It's like Dr. Seuss meets Dr. Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer).

How to be a good GREAT teacher. Some basic encouragement to those of the class of 2011 who are charged with educating future classes.


Researchers Build a Living Laser. Human kidney cells with green fluorescent protein made the light which was amplified by mirrors -but of course it wasn’t that easy.

Robot Flâneur is an explorer for Google Street View. Select a city to start exploring.  

Science Not Fiction tackles the burning question that has puzzled bloggers and internet surfers alike: Why are there so many top ten lists?

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