These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• Altaeros Ener­gies Releases Demo Video of Their Fly­ing Wind Tur­bine — Core77

  “What you saw there was a scaled pro­to­type, 35 feet in diam­e­ter. Dur­ing the test run it arrived on-​​site in a dock attached to a trailer, then deployed, acti­vated the tur­bine, and returned to the ground—all auto­mat­i­cally. At its high­est alti­tude of 350 feet, it suc­cess­fully got the tur­bine to gen­er­ate twice as much juice than it gets at tower height. We’d say Altaeros is one to watch.”
  
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• More on DRM and ebooks — Charlie’s Diary

  “There is a per­va­sive assump­tion that ebooks are dis­pos­able lit­er­a­ture. But to the vora­cious read­ers, this is not the case. Cur­rently it’s hard for many peo­ple to build up col­lec­tions of books due to space con­straints — nev­er­the­less I know many SF fans (of the kind who read 50–150 books a year) who have turned their homes into libraries. They will be the tip of an ice­berg once ebooks become main­stream; why dis­card an ebook when you can file it and come back to it in 10 years’ time and it takes up no space? For such peo­ple, fil­ing and tag­ging their col­lec­tions is a major issue. And so is porta­bil­ity. It’s true that if they own an iPad they can have an iBooks app full of books pur­chased from Apple, and a Kin­dle app full of books from Ama­zon, and a Nook app full of books from B&N. But those apps are, thanks to DRM, data silos — you can’t cross-​​check to see if you bought book 3 in a series from Apple and book 5 from Ama­zon with­out a lot of fid­dling around.”
  
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• Avería – The Aver­age Font

  “I am not a type designer. This is the story of the cre­ation of a new font, Avería: the aver­age of all the fonts on my com­puter. The field of typog­ra­phy has long fas­ci­nated me, and I love play­ing with cre­ative pro­gram­ming ideas, so it was per­haps inevitable that the idea came to me one day of “gen­er­a­tive typog­ra­phy”. A Google on the sub­ject brought up lit­tle, and I put the idea to the back of my mind until it occurred to me that per­haps the process of aver­ag­ing, or inter­po­lat­ing, exist­ing fonts might bring up inter­est­ing results. Luck­ily at this point I didn’t do any more web search­ing – instead I grabbed my lap­top and came up with an ini­tial idea for find­ing what the aver­age of all my fonts might look like – by over­lay­ing each let­ter at low opac­ity. The results can be seen in the below image.”
  
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• Phillip Rhodes’ Weblog

  “In short, it’s time for a res­ur­rec­tion of the crypto-​​anarchist /​ techno-​​libertarian /​ cypher­punk move­ment and it’s asso­ci­ated val­ues, activ­i­ties and aes­thetic. Those of us who care about these issues can’t just lurk in the shad­ows and act like noth­ing is hap­pen­ing. It’s time to start telling peo­ple about public-​​key encryp­tion, host­ing key-​​signing par­ties, devel­op­ing new tech­nolo­gies for bypass­ing Inter­net cen­sor­ship, devel­op­ing tools for bypass­ing State and Cor­po­ra­tion con­trolled mes­sag­ing chan­nels, and tak­ing a stand for freedom.”
  
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• No, physi­cians don’t under­stand screen­ing sta­tis­tics | The Inci­den­tal Economist

  “So basically,when it comes to sav­ing lives, docs are three times more likely to rec­om­mend a screen­ing test based on irrel­e­vant data than they are to rec­om­mend it based on rel­e­vant data. I’m brac­ing myself for the hate mail, but this is part of the rea­son why I’m skep­ti­cal that just pro­vid­ing docs with more evi­dence will change the way they prac­tice. Most docs just aren’t trained to under­stand this stuff.”
  
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• reveal.js

  
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• Fancy HTML5 Slides with knitr and pan­doc | Yihui Xie

  “Karthik Ram gave an Intro­duc­tion to R a cou­ple of weeks ago, and I strongly rec­om­mend you to take a look at his cool HTML5 slides. I started try­ing HTML5 slides last year, and now it is dif­fi­cult for me to go back to beamer, which I have used for a few years for my pre­se­n­a­tions. It is hor­ri­ble to see beamer slides every­where at aca­d­e­mic con­fer­ences (espe­cially the clas­sic blue themes).”
  
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• An algo­rithm is just an algo­rithm | Gene Expres­sion | Dis­cover Magazine

  “Another illus­tra­tion that knowl­edge comes not through blind adher­ence to meth­ods, but human reflection.”
  
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• Cap­tur­ing dealer descrip­tions in our online cat­a­log — Yale Law Library — Rare Books Blog

  “Attrac­tive and rare set of decrees con­cern­ing the func­tion­ing of the judi­ciary in the papal city of Bologna. These city statutes were pro­mul­gated by the Pope’s legate, Car­di­nal Benedetto Gius­tini­ani (1554−1621). Despite the issu­ing author­ity, the con­sti­tu­tions (a word indi­cat­ing leg­is­la­tion of the high­est level) are entirely non-​​religious in con­tent, relat­ing to civil law jus­tice in the city. They shed con­sid­er­able light into how courts worked in Bologna. Included are instruc­tions on cases involv­ing poor peo­ple; rules for notaries; the keep­ing of reg­is­ters; seizures of prop­erty; tak­ing of sus­pects; pay­ment of offi­cers; expert wit­nesses; and the gov­ern­ing of appeals. Pages 192–198 com­prise papal edicts on the salaries of Bolog­nese judges and notaries.” — Leo Cado­gan Rare Books (Dec. 2011)
  
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