- Your USB Sticks Are Made With Chopsticks (Bunnie Huang) — behind-the-scenes on how USB sticks are made.
- mutetab — find and kill the Chrome tab making all the damn noise! (via Nelson Minar)
- Visualization, Modeling, and Surprises (John D Cook) — paraphrases Hadley Wickham: Visualization can surprise you, but it doesn’t scale well. Modelling scales well, but it can’t surprise you.
- Head Like an Orange — science animated GIFs, assembled from nature documentaries. (via Ed Yong)
Four short links: 12 February 2013
Handmade Hardware, Tab Silencer, Surprise and Models, and Sciencey GIFs
tags: analytics, Big Data, bunnie huang, chrome, fun, hardware, machine learning, science, visualization