Link Round-Up: February 14, 2012

News: JFK Space Centers Plans Angry Birds Exhibit for Spring

Astronaut games are simple pleasures: Even while hurtling through space at around 17,500 MPH (a statistic memorized during a childhood of astronautic ambitions) in a metal tube, with almost no leisure time, astronauts still make the time to make up – and play – games.


How Digital Comics Change the Way Comic Books are Drawn—And Imagined

The Best Part About A Shark's Twitter Account

Spacewar!, one of the world's first digital games, is a primer on creative design: How one of the world's first computer games is a celebration of the future of game design.

Infographic: Total Movie Consumption

In 2012, US smartphone and tablet owners attended 9% and 20% more movies

Science: Visualizing Prime Numbers

Visualizing Prime Numbers

Jason Davies has created a way to visualize prime numbers as periodic curves (curves that repeat every n points). Wherever only two curves intersect (for 1 and the number), that’s a prime. Play with the interactive, zoomable version here.

Tech Links: January 18, 2012

Texting a Girl

The 12 Coolest Things We Saw at the Consumer Electronics Show

Act One of this week's This American Life finds Mike Daisey, self-described worshipper in the Cult of Mac, visiting Foxconn, where many of their products are manufactured. It's an incredibly well told and heartbreaking story.

Am I wasting my time organizing e-mail? A study of e-mail refinding. (.PDF) 

Big Brother Is Watching: Document Reveals Surveillance of Social Media, Blogs, Image-Sharing Sites

Computers are totally disrupting the job market: Because they take out the middle, it is a lot harder to pursue the American dream by working your way up the ladder. Climbing up rung by rung, you will find a machine staring down. And it won’t retire or move up the ladder to make room for you. Once in place, a retirement or promotion is not going to happen, it isn’t going to be opening up a spot.

The Facebook Search Engine – 7 Reasons You Will See It In 2012


A recent XKCD comic charted the difficulty of various games for computers

News:

Reddit To Go Dark January 18th To Protest SOPA

Researchers at I.B.M. have stored and retrieved digital 1s and 0s from an array of just 12 atoms, pushing the boundaries of the magnetic storage of information to the edge of what is possible.

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