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a few, tasty links (August 11th):

• Richard Felder: Resources in Science and Engineering Education -
• Tomorrow’s Professor Listserv -
• Optics Express - A gedankenexperiment solving the traveling salesman problem in quadratic time. - That’s amazing clever. A gedankenexperiment solving the traveling salesman problem in quadratic time.
• OLPC News: An XO Oscilloscope to Measure Children’s OLPC Learning - Hey!
• blik Wall Decals - Removeable Decals, Stickers & Graphics. Designs by Undoboy, Keith Haring, Zeptonn, I am 8-bit, Eames. - More blik. Still expensive.
• the Threadless shop @ blik - Fresh Produce - Surface graphics. Made expensive.
• Newswise Business News and Social and Behavioral Sciences News | Wealth Gap Is Increasing - No shit, again.
• Instructables Charlieplexing 7 segment displays - Charlieplexing. Redux.
• MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Sprinkler control with embedded linux - Or, watering control.
• Zonbu: Green doesn’t have to make you Blue! -
• Instructables A simple mechanical resonance demonstrator - I’ve wanted to play around with resonance for a long, long time.
• MAKE: Blog: Ardustat - low cost Arduino based galvanostat/potentiostat - More low-cost equipment.
• The downside of diversity - The Boston Globe - Apparently, there’s a [significant] one.
• MAKE: Blog: Build your own rain barrels - Rain barrels!
• MAKE: Blog: Fire-powered, bean-tin battery charger - Easy, DIY Peltier-Seeback effect.
• Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs - Man, this is pretty amazing[ly convincing]
• Open Building (TreeHugger) - I guess that is a pretty good point about buildings: they aren’t built to be modular and repairable and maintainable.
• DailyTech - Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data - How could anyone refuse openness in science?
• (Alexandre Borovik) Mathematics under arrest « What?s new - Oh god.
• OLPC News: Participation Design of OLPC XO-2: With And For People - I’m tired of critics.
• Newswise Social and Behavioral Sciences News | Year-round Schools Don’t Boost Learning - No shit.
• Auto-save JSF forms with Ajax: Part 1 - A guide on autosaving forms with AJAX.
• RegexPal: JavaScript Regular Expression Tester - Pretty. Simple. Useful.
• MAKE: Blog: Condenser mic in a tin can - Dead simple tin can condenser microphone.
• MAKE: Blog: Playing with RF Modules - Awesome Electronics Workshop PDFcast - And more and more RF. This time, a PDF.
• MAKE: Blog: Playing with RF Modules - Awesome Electronics Workshop Podcast - And more RF.
• Dual Music Player That Plays Your MP3 Collection - Awfully clever CD/mp3 player design.
• MAKE: Blog: Instructional videos from TAP plastics - Plastic making baking. From TAP.
• MAKE: Blog: Adding a remote antenna to Parallax’s RFID reader - More RFID to play around with.
• Mathematics under the Microscope: Gold Sand in a Stream - This sounds like a pretty amazing place…[via Terence Tao]