- LGBTQ Newsblog Revel & Riot — I like the layout of this news/culture aggregator. Two side by side columns, one for things to celebrate and one for things to decry.
- Manqué — Useful word. I sometimes think of myself as a physicist manqué.
- A blog post on botanical “fascination”
- “Omega and why Math has no TOEs” — Article by Gregory Chaitin on his construction omega, in which he provocatively argues that the proof standard may be holding mathematics back and it might be reasonable to pursue it more like an experimental science. (See also: Wikipedia article on Chaitin’s Constant.)
- Excerpted analysis from the book Spousonomics on why most advice for how married couples can improve their sex lives is wrong.
- A documentary on the Arduino microcontroller.
- Making a bootable hackintosh thumbdrive.
- “Space Stasis” — Neal Stephenson writes about the history of rocket science and the phenomenon of lock-in.