Weekly Link Roundup

[Details surface about Google's project Glass][1]. The future is now and all that. [Rainbows End][2] and [Daemon][3]/[Freedom™][4] are now required reading. I didn't realize when I first saw it but xkcd's April 1st comic was actually quite [brilliant][xkcd]. Some [good advice on giving academic talks][talk] under the twin lenses of memory (your audience's resource — build context and be wary of details) and fear (your resource — desensitize and dissociate). An [interesting privacy hack][priv] for the web was announced and [kickstarted][privk]. Amusingly enough they use Libya's [ccTLD][tld] ([.ir][ir] or [.eg][eg] would also have been apropos). Hopefully they've thought about domain seizures. And on a related note, [here's a good read on the internet wars][war]. In particular the forces of order (SOPA/PIPA, Iran, China, Egypt, etc.) vs. the forces of chaos (Anonymous, LulzSec, etc.). [1]: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/google begins testing its augmented reality glasses/ "Google Glasses" [2]: http://www.amazon.com/Rainbows End Vernor Vinge/dp/0812536363/ref=sr 1 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333925648&sr=8 1 "Rainbows End" [3]: http://www.amazon.com/Daemon Daniel Suarez/dp/B003L1ZXCU/ref=sr 1 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333925660&sr=8 1 "Daemon" [4]: http://www.amazon.com/Freedom TM Daemon ebook/dp/B002VUFKDY/ref=sr 1 3?ie=UTF8&qid=1333925660&sr=8 3 "Freedom" [xkcd]: http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/rnpiw/mindboggling xkcd april fools comic/ "April 1st xkcd" [talk]: http://cscs.umich.edu/ crshalizi/weblog/900.html "Academic Talks" [priv]: https://priv.ly/ "Priv.ly" [privk]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/229630898/protect your content anywhere on the web privly "Priv.ly kickstarter" [tld]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CcTLD "ccTLD" [ir]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ir "Iran's ccTLD" [eg]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eg "Egypt's ccTLD" [war]: http://m.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/05/internet regulation war sopa pipa defcon hacking.print "World War 3.0"