Spacegrey – an awesome and really good-looking UI theme for Sublime Text.
Links
Reflections In Your Eyes
I get a murky feeling finding things like this. Pictures have quite a high resolution. So much so that researchers can recognize faces reflected in the eyes of people in pictures. :/
Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
This is probably my favorite Wikipedia article: Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias.
I even added “Car engine revving” in Turkish and something else I don’t quite remember any more … probably “Bite” in German. 🙂
Auto-play Ads on Facebook
Of course ads are what people enjoy most on Facebook. So now we bring you: auto-play video ads. You’re welcome. 😀
Facebook Tracks Messages You Never Sent
Remember the message you wrote on Facebook, but never hit “send”? … Well Facebook certainly does … “for research purposes” :/ … and don’t think the other ad-financed networks do any better.
Explaining Shell Commands
Let explainshell.com explain your shell commands and let it look up arguments and flags. 😀
Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architeture is an interesting research project analyzing target sites of drone strikes from publicly available information. They remodel and reconstruct the architectural features of those sites and provide necessary context for human rights violation investigations carried out by UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (UNSRCT) Ben Emmerson.
Struggles of a Systems Programmer
James Mickens has probably written the most hilarious essay about the struggles of a systems programmer. xD
Universal Surveillance Justification
You have your own invasive surveillance program? The EFF has created an online tool for generating justification statements using real quotes that are so broad and nonsensical that they can be used to justify just about anything. 😀
An ABC for Baby Linguists
Ingenious: An ABC for Baby Linguists
Thanks @atopal