LinkedLists- Most Popular StackOverflow links

The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow.

It started as an exploration of what kinds of links people shared on Stack Overflow and grew from there.

All the links are mined from the Stack Overflow data dumps (March 2013). The link descriptions are mined by crawling the web and using Duck-Duck-Go which publishes a great free website summary API.

How to Explain Bitcoin to a 7-Year-Old and How I understood It!

There’s a room that anyone can access. The room has security cameras that anyone can view, and every second of recorded footage is available online forever.

The room is filled with indestructible piggy banks made of transparent plastic. Naturally, these piggy banks have coin slots, and everyone can see which coins are in which piggy bank. These piggy banks can never leave the room.

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An incredible time-lapse video

This video was shot by photographer Dustin Farrell in Arizona and Utah (yay!). He said, “Every frame of this video is a raw still from a Canon 5D2 DSLR and processed with Adobe software. In Volume 2 I again show off my beautiful home state of Arizona and I also made several trips to Utah. This video has some iconic landmarks that we have seen before. I felt that showing them again with motion controlled HDR and/or night timelapse would be a new way to see old landmarks.”
 In layman’s terms… he used a camera. Not a camcorder. A DSLR camera. And he put each individual picture together on a computer to make it into a video.

 This post first appeared on Danoah.com


A complimentary video-


View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.

Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery

Sirius via YouTube

A 6-inch-long (15-centimeter-long) skeleton was found in Chile's Atacama Desert. The skeleton showed several anomalies, including its alien-like skull, teensy body and the fact that it had just 10 ribs rather than the 12 that healthy humans normally have.

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