Interesting Reading…

Scaling Fast (the effect of being yahooed) - “I’ve been hit by Digg and Slashdot before, but this spike in traffic was like nothing I’d ever seen…”

Mygazines Lets You Read FULL Magazines Online For FREE - This won’t last long, for the same reason Napster didn’t last long, but it is a good idea.

New “telescopic pixel” displays could outperform LCD, plasma - “Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) have become the overwhelming choice for both desktop and mobile computing because they offer the best combination of image quality, price, and power efficiency of the current display technologies. But LCDs still have a lot of room for improvement, as they only transmit 5 to 10 percent of the total backlight to the user, and can account for up to 30 percent of the total power consumption of a laptop. In this week’s Nature Photonics, researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington report a new display technology called “telescopic pixel” that transmits 36 percent of backlight radiation…”

Invisible nanotube cable could support a human - “CIRCUS acts and movie special effects may never be the same again, if an idea for an invisible cable made of carbon nanotubes works out…”

Real Dinosaur on the Loose in a Museum Makes Learning Fun, Extremely Dangerous - “This is a video of a dinosaur on the loose in the LA Museum of Natural History…”

Lime In Seawater May Reduce CO2 To Pre-Industrial Days - “Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, reports Cath O’Driscoll in SCI’s Chemistry & Industry magazine published today…”

10 Wackiest Buildings in the World

The Y Combinator - “OK, I’m going to try to explain what the Y combinator is, why it’s interesting, and how it works. I’ll have to include a bit of background information to try to make this post self-contained…”

The global economy is at the point of maximum danger - “It feels like the summer of 1931. The world’s two biggest financial institutions have had a heart attack. The global currency system is breaking down. The policy doctrines that got us into this mess are bankrupt. No world leader seems able to discern the problem, let alone forge a solution…”

Social Engineering 101: Mitnick and other hackers show how it’s done - “As a young fugitive hacker, he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of social engineering–manipulating people into doing what you want, such as giving out passwords and other information that unlocks sensitive information on networks…”

Lost in Space - “What really happened to Russia’s missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space…”

The A-Z of Programming Languages: D - “n this interview, we chat to Walter Bright about D and his desire to improve on systems programming languages…”

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