found drama

• Ready for Contact
  at Smithsonian Magazine (via Boing Boing) — interesting article about first contact and the preparations for its eventuality
  (tagged: seti first_contact astronomy politics research essay todo )
• Stranger than fiction: The search for habitable exomoons
  at BoingBoing
  (tagged: astronomy research )
• How ‘OK’ took over the world
  at BBC News (via DF)
  (tagged: language linguistics history interesting article )
• JavaScript Trie Performance Analysis
  by John Resig — what's most interesting here isn't the discussion of the Trie technique itself, it's the discussion of the trade-offs with using one technique vs. another
  (tagged: javascript performance essay )
• BLDGBLOG: Aerotropolis: An Interview with Greg Lindsay
  (tagged: future cities airports todo urbanism research )

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