Stuff I've found interesting in the past month - 23/08/2010

• Why PulseAudio?

• The Freesound Project Aggregates Creative Commons Licensed Sound Effects [Sound Effects]

• ONE LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA

• Venting Frustration Will Only Make Your Anger Worse [Mindhacks]

• U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff - Bloomberg -_ “So the IMF is saying that closing the U.S. fiscal gap, from the revenue side, requires, roughly speaking, an immediate and permanent doubling of our personal-income, corporate and federal taxes as well as the payroll levy set down in the Federal Insurance Contribution Act.”

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“This is what happens when you run a massive Ponzi scheme for six decades straight, taking ever larger resources from the young and giving them to the old while promising the young their eventual turn at passing the generational buck.”

I’ve had the opportunity, for a while now, to relocate to the US. I have had various reasons for not doing so, but one of them is knowing that something drastic will happen to the US economy and way of life. Not knowing when is the problem however._

• Dutch Hackers Create Wi-Fi Sniffing Drone-_ Change this into a blimp and I’m sold… Might do this…_

• Brett Domino: Bad Romance (Lady Gaga) - Korg Monotron and Kaossilator

• Brett Domino: Bad Romance (Lady Gaga) - Korg Monotron and Kaossilator

• Unsuck It Translates Awful Corporate Speak into Plain English [Office Culture]

• Embed Google Calendar on Your Linux Desktop [Linux]-_ I have been looking for this for years and, as usual, Lifehacker provides!_
• A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data-_ As always Bruce has a clear and useful way to organise semantic data… Screw cryptography; he should just be the librarian of the net’s information!_

• A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data

• Geeks.com Provides Great Deals on Outdated Hardware [Shopping]

• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, but with money: another look at HFT

-_ I just keep getting HFT related stories today!_

• What’s the Biggest Issue on the Internet Now?-_ As usual, Ben manages to beat me to the punch (I had a nice draft on this subject nearly finished :D ) but does it alot better than I would have! The technical and psychological issues with semantic web are far more difficult than I think most people realised, but we’re getting there… slowly_

• 08.02.2010

• How to Turn Your Android Phone into a Fully-Automated Superphone [Automation]

• 1dl.us Is a Swiss Army Knife of Web Utilities

• Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found -Well, it had to happen eventually. This doesn’t mean tat its any easier to get INTO a network, but it does allow snooping on previously secure client-AP traffic.