Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Daily Links: October 11, 2011


Source: Cajun Mike's

10 Awesome Online Classes You Can Take For Free

10 Exotic and Weird Toilets: You may not think about it much, but chances are your toilet is boring and dull. It's a comfort to know that there are some truly unusual porcelain thrones out there to break up the monotony of everyday... business.

Hand signals used by waiters in restaurants to communicate with one another.

How Two Scammers Built an Empire Hawking Sketchy Software

In August 2011, 35 ACLU affiliates filed 381 requests in 32 states with local law enforcement agencies seeking to uncover when, why and how they are using cell phone location data to track Americans. So how long do American cell phone carriers retain information about your calls, text messages, and data use? According to data gathered by the US Department of Justice, it can be as little as a few days or up to seven years, depending on your provider

Ready for the robot revolution?

Rescued Owl returns to care for other injured birds and one cat

Robert Cringely: it’s suddenly clear why Apple didn’t introduce the iPhone 5 this week. It would have been lost in the news of Jobs’s death, killing the marketing value he would have loved. I’m sure the phone will appear in a week or two with that appearance in part to encourage the recovery of Apple shares from what is sure to be a short-term decline.

The top 500 supercomputers in the world, in rank order, as of last June. The top entry on the list uses 548,000 SPARC64 cores and burns 10 megawatts. No word on what the air conditioning plant looks like.

You need a permit to use amplified sound in New York City. The #OccupyWallStreet protesters haven't got one. So they've come up with a unique solution for transmitting their message - the human microphone.

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