inessential.com: The Key Difference Between Douglas Adams and Monty Python

http://inessential.com/2012/05/25/the_key_difference_between_douglas_adams

aka why douglas adams is better

nonbeard 2012-05-25 22:20:42

Stallman Does Dallas - Richard Stallman

http://stallman.org/articles/texas.html

I required him to demonstrate nasal sex in public with a plant as a condition of meeting him. Fortunately, the restaurant provided suitable flowers. He tried it, and even liked it! Which goes to show that no one is incapable of personal growth.

nonbeard 2012-05-14 14:53:30

Frecciabianca trains - Frecciabianca - Trenitalia

http://www.trenitalia.com/cms/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=477006749d466210VgnVCM1000003f16f90aRCRD

The good trains.

nonbeard 2012-05-11 14:46:07

Aeroporto internazionale di Orio al Serio

http://www.sacbo.it/Editorial/newsCategoryViewProcess.jsp?editorialID=2656&currentMenu=2175

Bus from Bergamo to Milan railway station

nonbeard 2012-05-11 14:36:23

Alleles Responsible for ABO Phenotype-Genotype Discrepancy and Alleles in Individual with a Weak Expression of A or B Antigens

http://www.bioforensics.com/conference04/Serology/ABO_Phenotype.pdf

PCR blood typing

nonbeard 2012-05-11 12:55:32

Genomic analysis of clinical samples with serologic ABO blood grouping discrepancies: identification of 15 novel A and B subgroup alleles

http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/98/5/1585.full.pdf

Really hardcore PCR blood typing (also, thanks, Blood, for having public fulltext)

nonbeard 2012-05-11 12:46:41

Access : Molecular genetic basis of the histo-blood group ABO system : Nature

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v345/n6272/pdf/345229a0.pdf

Grandaddy article on PCR blood typing (paywall)

nonbeard 2012-05-11 12:43:39

Forensic ABO blood grouping by 4 SNPs

http://www.isfg.org/files/255d8b38d625f6dbca8eaa8fd7ab6b42ead81389.05012513_323067218340.pdf

PCR blood typing

nonbeard 2012-05-11 12:41:13

ABO Phenotyping

http://www.primateproducts.com/services/genetic-testing-services/abo-phenotyping.html

ABO PCR blood typing (in monkeys)

nonbeard 2012-05-11 12:39:05

ABO glycosyltransferase genotyping by polymerase chain reaction using sequence-specific primers

http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/88/5/1852.abstract

Blood typing with PCR

nonbeard 2012-05-11 12:38:04

THE EAGLEMAN STAG

http://theeaglemanstag.com/

To watch, via Bryn

nonbeard 2012-05-10 17:04:31

Denmark - Pay as you go sim with data Wiki

http://prepaidwithdata.wikia.com/wiki/Denmark

As per title

nonbeard 2012-05-08 23:11:38

Morgenstedet

http://www.morgenstedet.dk/

"At any rate, everybody is very welcome to have his meal with us, but without any kind of reservation." Copenhagen restaurant recommendation.

nonbeard 2012-05-08 23:06:21

Controllable Power Outlet - SparkFun Electronics

http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/119

Controlling mains power using a 5VDC relay. Transistors are an alternative but are only good for a few hundred mA.

nonbeard 2012-05-05 22:26:57

MMC/SD Card and FAT Tutorial

http://www.frank-zhao.com/cache/fat_sd.php

Unhelpful but better than nothing

nonbeard 2012-05-02 17:04:51

Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired : Developing Intelligence

http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/02/optimally_wired_a_caffeine_use.php

20mg / hour to extend wakefulness, 600mg to improve cognition, possibly enhanced if combined with glucose. Sounds pretty awful though.

nonbeard 2012-04-30 21:40:58

econix.co.uk

http://www.econix.co.uk/

bio-bins for biohacking

nonbeard 2012-04-28 17:30:36

Amiga-Maskinkode brevkursus

http://palbo.dk/dataskolen/maskinsprog/

A Danish-language course in 68k machine language programming for the Amiga by Carsten Nordenhof, with English translations courtesy "Herpes of Sign". Thanks, Herpes!

nonbeard 2012-04-26 15:49:01

Amiga power supply guide

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/Amiga_Power_supplies/body_amiga_power_supplies.html#ATX_PSU
nonbeard 2012-04-16 21:20:40

onedit 11 - Jennifer Cooke: POEMS

http://www.onedit.net/issue11/jenniferc/02.html
nonbeard 2012-04-14 18:31:40

Yeast DNA Extraction

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0508-LanaHayes/yeast1.php
nonbeard 2012-04-10 20:16:54

How Not To Sort By Average Rating

http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

A formula for better weighting of products where the reviews are binary ("good" or "bad"). Great HN post: discusses a real problem, provides real examples, explains why they are wrong, and justifies the correct solution (a bit).

nonbeard 2012-04-03 14:23:26

languagehat.com: TO THE LIGHTHOUSE.

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/004566.php

Like Language Hat, I loved Mrs Dalloway and couldn't get into To The Lighthouse. I ought to give it another go.

nonbeard 2012-03-26 10:15:11

Perfect popcorn recipe

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/perfect_popcorn/

delivers on title. 1am popcorn on Saturday night.

nonbeard 2012-03-25 01:33:08

Dallas Temperature Control Library - Miles Burton - Innovative engineering for pretty much anything

http://www.milesburton.com/Main_Page?title=Dallas_Temperature_Control_Library#Download

Supremely simple library for 18b20 interfacing

nonbeard 2012-03-21 17:05:03

Agarose gel loading buffer - OpenWetWare

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Agarose_gel_loading_buffer#Glycerol_.26_bromophenol_blue_.286x.29

Various loading buffer recipes.

nonbeard 2012-03-19 16:32:24

http://www.jicef.or.jp/wahec/ful318.htm

New-primer method of sex determination. Uses an agarose gel!

nonbeard 2012-03-18 15:50:03

Ensembl Genome Browser

http://www.ensembl.org/index.html
nonbeard 2012-03-18 15:31:10

Biopython - Biopython

http://biopython.org/wiki/Biopython
nonbeard 2012-03-15 10:12:31

garden room at the lanesborough hotel london knightsbridge

http://www.lanesborough.com/en/lanesborough-garden-room

Redditor kaer recommends for good times and poetry reading.

nonbeard 2012-03-08 13:11:56

Hacking Your Own Fluorescent Yogurt | Indie Biotech

http://www.indiebiotech.com/?p=152

Fluoro yoghurt. Bit tired but still has some cool value

nonbeard 2012-03-07 16:28:06

Bertrand paradox (probability) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_paradox_(probability)

Interesting because method 1 sounded right to me, but isn't.

nonbeard 2012-03-06 23:10:22

[video] Semi-Automated Input Crafting by Symbolic Execution, with an Application to Automatic Key Generator Generation

http://www.openrce.org/blog/view/2049/%5Bvideo%5D_Semi-Automated_Input_Crafting_by_Symbolic_Execution,_with_an_Application_to_Automatic_Key_Generator_Generation

Very nice. Focus on simplicity.

nonbeard 2012-03-06 15:02:02

Otjize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otjize

Namibian hair-mud

nonbeard 2012-03-05 11:45:42

Using Vista's Boot Manager to Boot Linux and Dual Booting with BitLocker Protection with TPM Support - Port25 - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/port25/archive/2006/10/13/http-port25-technet-com-archive-2006-10-12-windows-and-linux-integration-3a00-a-conversation-with-the-author-aspx.aspx
nonbeard 2012-02-22 17:10:21

When will computer hardware match the human brain? by Hans Moravec

http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm

Actually answers the related question, "When will the raw processing capability of computer hardware match the raw processing capability of the human brain?" and comes up with "Between 2020 and 2030." The analysis for this is strong, the arguments relating power-of-computer-hardware to ability-to-display-humanlike-intelligence relatively unconvincing (perhaps because this isn't the point of the paper, but the connection is certainly implied).

nonbeard 2012-02-20 21:20:27

MindPapers: 6. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

http://consc.net/mindpapers/6/all

bibliography.

nonbeard 2012-02-19 02:33:56

GOD/HEAD | Ovalhouse

http://www.ovalhouse.com/whatson/detail/god-head

Written by Jennifer's friend

nonbeard 2012-02-18 19:37:31

How To Genetically Modify Yogurt | Oscillator, Scientific American Blog Network

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/2012/02/14/how-to-genetically-modify-yogurt/
nonbeard 2012-02-17 00:50:54

Meat eaters downplay animal minds | Psychology Today

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201202/meat-eaters-downplay-animal-minds

"There was a systematic relationship between the animals people choose to eat and their beliefs about the minds of the animals. People were much less willing to eat animals that they believe have complex mental abilities than to eat animals that do not have complex minds." This is pretty much Hofstadter's argument, and to me it is appealingly simple, though muddy if investigated too closely.

nonbeard 2012-02-15 15:18:47

Minimus AVR USB and Minimus 32 AVR USB

http://jamie.lentin.co.uk/embedded/minimus/

A better guide for avr-gcc plus the minimus

nonbeard 2012-02-14 23:42:57

CrossPack - A Development Environment for Atmel’s AVR Microcontrollers

http://www.obdev.at/products/crosspack/index.html

The AVR toolchain which works with the Minimus (though I had to use a Makefile from elsewhere)

nonbeard 2012-02-14 23:35:44

UCSC Genome Browser: Downloads

http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html

The entire genome of Homo sapiens and various other creatures including microbat, lamprey, and stickleback.

nonbeard 2012-02-13 13:23:01

Home - Gene - NCBI

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene

A searchable database of genes.

nonbeard 2012-02-13 12:29:21

GeneFisher2 Submission page

http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/genefisher2/submission.html

Primer design, supports multiple sequences

nonbeard 2012-02-13 12:15:37

There may be no universal facial expressions

http://mindhacks.com/2012/02/12/a-culture-shock-for-universal-emotion/

This makes sense to me as I have an unusual amount of difficulty with the "what expression does this face have" type personality tests (but I'm fairly sure I don't have an autism-spectrum disorder). Given this finding, it seems likely that such tests are in fact complete bullshit.

nonbeard 2012-02-13 00:27:34