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Link Round-Up: April 20, 2010

20 Apr 2010  Links

Resources

Elastic WordPress theme Editor – Elastic is a real time theme editor that lets non-technical users fluidly design a web design with a simple drag-and-drop interface.

An Introduction to Google’s Go Programming Language – The Bitsource offers this brief demonstration of Go, Google’s new open-source, compiled programming language. This article describes how to install Go, how to compile a program, and some of Go’s unique features.

Image Error Level Analyser – Use this convenient online tool to detect photo manipulation in one easy step.

Not a Flash Game – This Breakout clone is designed to be totally, utterly safe for work. From a distance, the game screen looks like a work-related Word document.

Shakacss – ShakaCSS is a tiny javascript that you place in your bookmarks. When clicked, it displays a guide and draggable Photoshop-style guides on your screen, right on top of whatever website is open in your browser. It’s a great little tool for web designers.

Discussion

Do Smart Phones = Smart Kids
I hate computers: confessions of a sysadmin
Seven Reasons Apple Shareholders Should Be Cautious
Slate explains Why more colleges are banning laptops in the classroom.
Study: Students ADDICTED to Social Media, or is it Brain Evolution?

Entertainment

99 year-old loves her first computer – an iPad
Check out this computer-generated 3D Model of New York City in Google Earth [More]
Algorithm Generates a Virtual Rome in 3D from 150,000 Flickr Users’ Photos
Here’s a Sneak Peek at Photoshop’s Magical Content-Aware Feature
Scribd maps out the Anatomy of a Tweet
Teens Text More Than They Talk
When 4Chan Gamed the TIME 100
Youth Admit Interrupting Sex To Check Electronic Messages

Tech News

Botched McAfee update shutting down corporate XP machines worldwide
Google Catches Flak for Mapping Europeans’ Wireless Networks with Street View
iPad App Maker Makes $70,000 In 20 Days

Following Pennsylvania’s lead, Georgia is poised to ban the involuntary implantation of microchips into people. With SB235 passing both the state house and senate, it is now up to Governor Sonny Perdue to sign it into law (or reveal that he’s in the pocket of Big Microchip). The transcript of testimony before the house in favor of this legislation is truly eye-opening. Rachel Maddow had it re-enacted on her show.



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