maynardcase.co.uk linkfest

Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader

Examining Will Crowther’s Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky

Thomas Edison’s Concrete Houses

Makin’ Bacon

Digital Lunar Eclipse Photography

Charlie Brooker on Richard Dawkins’ new TV series, The Enemies Of Reason

Low-temperature cooking (also, details from a physicist about how to cook a perfect spherical turkey)

WalkScore helps you find out if you can walk around an area to find shops, restaurants, cinemas, libraries and so forth, rather than having to drive or get the train.

An Edinburgh informatics project to take photos of invisible art

The real-world tube map as rendered in a nice tubular 3D fashion, with a lovely Google Maps interface.

Myostatin deficiency

Various thoughts on how to start a conversation

God’s Desktop

IPhone interface thoughts – specifically on the limitations and how to work around them

The origins of Wikipedia from the viewpoint of Larry Sanger, one of the founders.

The story of HeLa cells

Japanese tv tetris game

The Open Library is a collection of electronic books in a pretty format – but is the interface too literal?

Daft Hands – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (gets going after about fifty seconds)

Airplane! vs. Zero Hour

People playing chess on rollercoasters

Post code online with Syntax Highlighter

The Long Now

An explosive summer camp 

Some remarkably sensible email etiquette guidelines

Firefighting ladders made of wood

See yourself from a third person perspective with the Avatar Machine

CandyFab – a 3d printer that makes objects by melting sugar

Pachelbel’s Canon is everywhere [youtube]

Cruel to be Kind – a live-action game where you play in the real world, with real people – including random strangers who aren’t even playing the game. It consists of trying to assassinate other players by being nice to them; all players have a secret weakness to a particular type of kindness. Of course, as you don’t know who is playing, you can be nice to a non-player, but that might be fun as well…