Junk thoughts of Curious Idiot

http://paulgraham.com/tablets.html

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4341 An article on this appeared in October Sciam 2010. The scene of the robot getting from the lying position from the ground is really good.(3 minutes to 3 minutes and 10 seconds)

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/nov/15-the-brain-router-in-our-heads-processing-bottleneck/ Telford speculated, the brain needs time to reset itself after a pulse of thought before it can carry out another one. If we don’t have enough time between two tasks, we slow down on the second one—a lag known as the “ psychological refractory period .” Each time we perform a task we perform it in three steps. Step 1: Take in information from the senses. Step 2: Figure out what to do in response. Step 3: Carry out that plan by moving muscles. The mental activity that takes place in Step 2 includes some of the most sophisticated forms of thought we are capable of: weighing lots of information, thinking about our short-term and long-term goals, and figuring out how to meet them. But when we have any two simple decisions to make, we must wait for the first task to move through a bottleneck before taking on the second. Instead of carrying out many steps simultaneously, we have to do them one at a t

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-skeptics-skeptic

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/10/11/101011crbo_books_surowiecki?currentPage=all

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-brains-dark-energ y

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102205451.html

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/thinking.pdf

http://focusmanifesto.com/

http://www.techeye.net/science/computer-reads-the-internet

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4262

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2010/09/hawking-mlodinow-no-theory-of_30.html

http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/Toxic_managers/micromanagers.shtml

http://zenhabits.net/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4219 People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web. Chalktalk Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=we-only-trust-experts-if-they-agree-10-09-18&sc=WR_20100921

http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2008-October/003740.html

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4189

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/02/stephen-hawking-big-bang-creator

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/technology/25brain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4

http://www.iqabacus.com/newsntips/FAQ.asp

http://www.shuzan.jp/english/brain/brain.html

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/

http://media08.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/my-article-on-hyper-and-deep-attention/

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/Introduction.html

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4162

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11041449

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/ray_kurzweil_does_not_understa.php

http://bigthink.com/ideas/21570

http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html

http://paulgraham.com/top.html " I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. That's the idea their thoughts will drift toward when they're allowed to drift freely. " " Someone who does you an injury hurts you twice: first by the injury itself, and second by taking up your time afterward thinking about it." " Turning the other cheek turns out to have selfish advantages." " There are two types of thoughts especially worth avoiding. One is thoughts about money. Getting money is almost by definition an attention sink. The other is disputes. These too are engaging in the wrong way: they have the same velcro-like shape as genuinely interesting ideas, but without the substance. So avoid disputes if you want to get real work done. "

http://paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. And the worst thing is, they're not even fun.

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4090/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4039/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4018/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4016/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/4013/

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/infographic-tallest-mountain-to-deepest-ocean-trench-0249/

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/05/when-science-clashes-with-belief-make-science-impotent.ars

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3973/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3969/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3967/

http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/may/21/breakthrough-us-researchers-create-artificial-life.htm

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/173067,top-10-technology-mistakes.aspx

http://www.freewillandscience.com/wp/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=scientists-say-free-will-probably-d-2010-04-06&sc=WR_20100413

http://codeanthem.com/blog/?p=64

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3867/

http://www.skorks.com/2010/03/you-dont-need-math-skills-to-be-a-good-developer-but-you-do-need-them-to-be-a-great-one/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3803/ "It’s just that I perceive science—the disciplined pursuit of truth—to be a higher calling than spinning imaginative tales, no matter how vivid, innovative, or even deeply moving those tales may turn out to be." "Science gives man what he needs, But magic gives him what he wants." "At its core, criticism is the only antidote that human beings have discovered against error. It is the chief method that a skilled person can use to become “even better.” The key to discovering correctable errors before you commit a work to press. But criticism hurts! A deep and pervasive flaw in human character makes all of us resistant to the one thing that can help us to do better. The only solution? Learn to grow up. To hold your head high, develop a thick skin, and take it."

http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/988641/Its-Not-About-Lines-of-Code.htm

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3799/

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826501.500-why-the-demise-of-civilisation-may-be-inevitable.html?full=true

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3778/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-networking-stack/?ca=dgr-lnxw01lnxNetStack

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/18-tricks-to-make-new-habits-stick.html

http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html

http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/mirror/biomorph/

http://www.onelife.com/

http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything

http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/Richard-Feynman-Challenger-Disaster-Software-Engineering

http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2008/05/powers-of-ten-in-years.html

http://www.yendor.com/programming/unix/apue/

http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tough-choices-how-making&sc=WR_20080722

http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/Worst_Predictions

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/22/opinion/oe-shermer22

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1006624

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=free-will-vs-programmed-brain

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read

http://weboflove.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/quality-of-life-vs-standard-of-living/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=set-in-our-ways

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=one-world-many-minds We are used to thinking of humans as occupying the sole pinnacle of evolutionary intelligence. That's where we're wrong. Complex brains and sophisticated cognition have arisen multiple times in independent lineages of animals during the earth’s evolutionary history.

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090111-creating-life.html

http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/news/seminars/Schrodinger/Lecture3.html

http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/news/seminars/Schrodinger/index.html

http://www.intothecool.com Book by Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan. Intersting theory about "What is life" and other complex processes. Slightly different from Schroniger's theory of entropy and life.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/computer_data_storage_through_ages

http://hawking.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8164060.stm

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-08/st_best

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=try-a-little-powerlessness&sc=WR_20090811

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3318/

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3323/

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/martina-devlin/why-its-our-gross-national-happiness-that-counts-1888824.html

http://www.cio.com.au/slideshow/319119/slideshow_cio_blast_from_past_-_60_years_cryptography/

http://neuroph.sourceforge.net/image_recognition.html

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3461/

http://www.scientificblogging.com/rogue_neuron/what_makes_genius

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3844291/Are-Software-Developers-Naturally-Weird.htm

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1231

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/11/48444-you-dont-know-jack-about-software-maintenance/fulltext

http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicted-to-fake.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6680989/Meat-grown-in-laboratory-in-world-first.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123083704.htm

http://www.omninerd.com/articles/Coding_Practices

http://www.publicola.net/2009/12/11/the-killer-app-of-1900-2/

http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/15/iphone-xerox-google-technology-cio-network-gadgets.html?partner=alerts

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3593/

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/12/23/why-programmers-are-not-paid-in-proportion-to-their-productivity/

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/12/the-best-and-the-worst-tech-of.html

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/10/42360-retrospective-an-axiomatic-basis-for-computer-programming/fulltext

http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=3513

http://discovermagazine.com/photos/frankenhuman-9-lab-animals-add-up-to-1-person

http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3657/

http://www.codersatwork.com/

http://www.thehumanbrainproject.com/

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/Introduction.html

http://futureseek.freehostia.com/books.htm

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time/ "Objects like us depend on the arrow of time just for our existence"

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3755/

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/molecular_manufacturing_presents_huge_opportunities_risks/ Chris Phoenix, from CRN, explores the mind-blowing implications of emerging nanomanufacturing—the exciting, the frightening, and the in between—in a conversation with the Independent .

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3742/ "When we feel like we’re making a free spontaneous decision, very often there’s an unconscious brain process that has already made the decision beforehand." I hope one day everybody comes to understand the above statement. "But rather than focusing on the erroneousness of some of our causal ascriptions related to the feeling of free will, why not focus on the joy of transcending one’s individual boundaries via experiencing unity with the larger entropy-reducing processes of which we sometimes form the focus?" This above statement must be to make sure that others are not misguided by the determinism or rather the control less predicament :-)