The Weekly Weird - 2014-10-14
- If you find a bug, just document it and now it's a feature! Works for hardware too! http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/
- Finally we can get rid of excel and replace it with....vim?! https://github.com/yakiang/excel.vim
- A little cold war nostalgia and possibly the best flag ever made: http://pitchercries.tumblr.com/post/95636863843/idhren-pyrrhiccomedy-pikestaff-this-town
- And of course when the cold war ended places like that were just kind of ...left there. It's just plutonium, no big deal right? http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/23327/plutonium_mountain.html
- Continuing the nuclear theme, someone buy me this, stat! http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/for-150000-you-can-buy-a-window-from-the-manhattan-project/381250/
- Polyphonic overtone singing (headphones please): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC9Qh709gas
- Want to play with Watson? http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/services-catalog.html It's honestly a bit underwhelming (so far?).
- A 37 year old bug. Introduced by Bill Joy: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/head/head.c?rev=1.18&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
- Get out your wallets and help Battlebots/Robogames return: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/robogames-is-back-in-2015-with-your-help