See Gregg's Bookmarks

I have a "Read Later" folder in my browser. You know: you're at work, you notice something interesting, you swipe it to a "read later" folder which only gets visited at 12.30am in obscure hotels in the wrong time zone on some business trip.

Scott Kirsner has a "read Scott's email" blog. In the spirit of that, here's a "See Gregg's Bookmarks" post.

BUILDING NEAT STUFF / PRODUCT DESIGN

• Hack a Day
• Cool light-oriented product designer: Right Brain Electronics LLC
• Weather balloon space probes [Make]
• Electronic circuit design for beginners
• Cool animated LED art (though lately NSFW)
• A cat-cam "CatEye"

STARTUPS (or, "young companies lacking vowels")

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Boston Tech Community 2011
• Steve Blank's startup tools and blogs - massive list
• "How I raised $24k on kickstarter"
• (literally) Killer Elevator Pitches [MIT YouTube]
• How VCs value startups differently than entrepreneurs (Tricks)
• "The story of General Computer" (my former landlord was the MIT student who co-invented Ms. Pac Man)

FUN & GAMES

• Alternate Reality Games (Sean Stewart)
• Modern Interactive Fiction
• Dr Toy's best kid's toys (2009)

PATENTS / PATENT LAW

• New type of patent auction: "covenant not to sue" [PatentNews]

SELF-HELP / LIFE OPTIMIZATION / LIFESTYLE ENGINEERING

• Michael Nagle on dichotomy: indulging passions vs. detaching
• Inside David Foster Wallace's private self-help library [theawl.org]
• Fooled by Randomness: "Why I Walk" (from The Black Swan)
• Why kids get sicker at night [CNN]
• "Not being here now"

MATH / ENGINEERING / SCIENCE

• LANL paper, "Life Cycle of a Minimal Protocell - A Dissipative Particle Dynamics Study"
• Gigantic PDF of the complete blueprints of the Clock of the Long Now
• Web help for Mathematica 3 (!! 3 !!)
• Fundamentals of holographic data storage [Madrid]
• Prakash: Lighting-aware motion capture [MIT Media Lab]
• MITRE "modified light field architecture for reconfigurable multimode imaging"
• [EDGE] A short course on synthetic genomics
• Perception: see lots of colors despite there being very few... [Land]
• How plants grow rings of branches: New Kind of Science pg 410
• Beal / Bachrach "infrastructure for engineered emergence on sensor / actuator networks" [PDF / CSAIL]

CRAVE - STUFF TO BUY

• Boston Acoustics - budget audiophile speaker

WEB TOOLS / TIPS

• How to jump ship from GoDaddy to a better host
• Screencap: Camtasia
• Building a quick website, RISD (2010) tips
• Transvideo studios
• The anatomy of a perfect landing page

POP CULTURE / MISANTHROPY

• [CNN.com] Why on earth are the Kardashians famous?
• Yes - live performance of "Changes" [YouTube]
• Remember these stickers from the 1970s? WACKY PACKAGES!
• In defense of the "Jump the shark" episode
• A big trend in sunglasses
• TV appearance of Lincoln assassination witness (!?) a 96 yr-old in 1956

FOOD

• Boston Globe: Great Donuts
• Chasing the perfect cup of coffee with science

BOOKS N STUFF

• Bloom: Western Canon
• Book list for newcomers to science fiction

ART / MUSIC

• How Nick Dewar illustrates
• Douglas Coupland profile interview
• HI-BIAS RECORDS INC (Deadmau5)
• Symphony for Percussion
• Bert & Ernie try gangsta' rap

And, a really cool "evolution timechart," from the Economist, h/t Maximizing Progress.

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