A bunch of links

A bunch of links? Not the best name I know but in essence that’s what this is, a bunch of interesting links from across the web that I have perused this week. I’m planning on making this a weekly thing so if you see anything on the world wide webs that you think I might like then ping me on Twitter.

First up, http://what.time.zone.is.stev.ie/in/? just in case you need to know where abouts our developer Steve is. At the time of writing he is in Tennessee (as far as we know).

Next we have “how to make a golden Daft Punk helmet in 749 easy steps“, there’s more details over at the Volpin Props blog, check out his other projects too, some truly fantastic work!

I’m not entirely sure the next link is 100% true, it seems a little bit mad to me (and almost like some comedy sketch from the videos), but hey, its the internets right? Training mice to deal in ForEx trades.

The net seems to be all a buzz with posts on Gizmodo and a bunch of other blogs about a new physics engine by Lagoa Technologies, its pretty darn impressive! Makes me think about the Euphoria engine made by Natural Motion which is used in games like Grand Theft Auto, it blew my mind the first time I saw the demo.

A particualarly nerdy link next, The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions, title says it all really. A great guide to the basics of pattern matching.

A few weeks ago the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera blog posted up some great pictures of the Apollo 16 landing site. The post is a pretty interesting read… if you like that sort of thing!

The beginning of this week saw a flurry of social media madness from Gillian McKeith (the poo woman off Channel4) who was involved in a bit of a slinging match with Ben Goldacre of badscience.net, check out a (fairly biased) round up of the story over at Bad Science or a (slightly less biased) analysis by David Naylor.

Well, there we have it! :)