links for 2008-01-05 Posted on January 5, 2008 by del.icio.us Vowpal Wabbit (Fast Online Learning) (tags: via:arthegall machine-learning algorithms AI library software open-source) New Year’s Resolutions (tags: openness open-access open-science publishing social-norms cultural-norms research academia) openwetware (tags: openness open-science blogging collaboration) Main Page — OpenWetWare (tags: openness academia biological-engineering collaboration community education free learning science sharing social-norms cultural-norms publishing public-policy) Eurozine — France: return to Babel — Marc Hatzfeld on balance, I find it comforting that I cannot understand myself some days (tags: via:3quarksdaily language sociology cultural-norms diversity homogenization economics innovation) Overcoming Bias: The Two-Party Swindle “Even dishonesty is not required…” (tags: politics sociology social-norms party rationality bias) Wondermark by David Malki ! — 368: Facebook, Distilled. Bears. Hats. (tags: via:logista Wondermark Facebook advertising marketing social-networks satire amusing) Complex spatial group patterns result from different animal communication mechanisms (tags: flocking artificial-life complex-systems complexology pattern-formation exploration algorithms biologically-inspired) BLDGBLOG: Adventures in Stacking (tags: architecture design engineering mathematics physics structure algorithms optimization) Archivalia: Digital Libraries in Japan with content in western languages (tags: digitization books library links research texts) jeweled platypus · text · book-durability.html (tags: books digitization philosophy physicality editions cultural-norms myths) Mirabilis.ca » Blog Archive » Scandinavians invented ice skating in 3000 BC (tags: archaeology nanohistory Skandinavia) The Boat Lullabies: Landscape (With Mold) (tags: art photography digitization found-art)