links for 2008-02-28

• Electronic Tongue
  A sensor device for recognition (identification, classification, discrimination), quantitative multicomponent analysis and artificial assessement of taste and flavour of various liquids.
  (tags: research science)
• Paulo Coelho’s Blog
  (tags: blog books literature)
• Piwik
  An open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak… and so much more.
  (tags: seo webdev visualization usability server opensource php)
• Second Brain
  Keep track of all the content you have online. Bookmark web-pages and import content from your favorite internet-services. Organize everything in collections and share it on your public page.
  (tags: aggregator backup del.icio.us internet online links web2.0)
• Six Steps to Speeding up Trains in the U.S. | Wired.com
  (tags: energy future travel)
• The Torture Playlist
  Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.
  (tags: audio mp3 music politics totalitarianism law)