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Friday, September 23rd 2011

If This Then That

This is a impressive and (deceptively) simple webapp that allows you to route actions in a service (eg. liking a video on YouTube) to another (eg. tweeting about it). Granted, many sites offer this ability already, but I like IFTTT because it provides a central dashboard for all your routing while often being more customizable. Sure you could use Yahoo Pipes or Tarpipe, but those are just too excessive. Here’s a list of IFTTT recipes.

Monday, April 26th 2010

Mathematics Illuminated

This site explains math really, really well. Topics range from prime numbers to non-euclidean geometry; from topology to chaos theory. Love it.

I wish I had read this back when I was in high school. I’d have been a successful geek.