Weekly Random: #132

 Miscellaneous

• Estimating and Predicting Epidemic Behavior for the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak

• Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan (1930 Newsreel Footage)
  • Photo of Helen Keller with Anne Sullivan in July 1888

• Friendship paradox
• Israeli Jets Strike Gaza, photos and video
• List of journalists killed in Russia

• Ball and Plate PID control with 6 DOF Stewart platform
• How Times Square works
• LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC) Layout 2012.9
• Getting started with drones & quadcopters

• Linus Torvalds Guided Tour of His Home Office
• Unedited full performance of Diva Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element
• 46 Interesting Photos

Technical

• The FFmpeg/Libav situation
• Cloth simulation w/ tearing in-browser
• Replacing a 32-bit loop count variable with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations
• Parallax Propeller 1 P8X32A Released as Open Source Design
• Introducing Heroku Button

Quote

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” – Robert Brault