Bernie Dodge

Linked list of 49 game mechanics (e.g., modular board, area enclosure, route/network building, tile placement.) - Bernie Dodge

Panorama from my front porch. http://t.co/a8uCLIKZ Yesterday: http://t.co/X0L9vIQf Today: http://t.co/uUnJl67T #blizzard - Bernie Dodge

Panorama from my front porch. http://t.co/a8uCLIKZ Yesterday: http://t.co/X0L9vIQf Today: http://t.co/uUnJl67T #blizzard - Bernie Dodge

Panorama from my front porch. http://t.co/a8uCLIKZ Yesterday: http://t.co/X0L9vIQf Today: http://t.co/uUnJl67T #blizzard - Bernie Dodge

Better contrast between yesterday and today: http://t.co/jt8QJ3Rf http://t.co/aAXY0LmT - Bernie Dodge

Better contrast between yesterday and today: http://t.co/jt8QJ3Rf http://t.co/aAXY0LmT - Bernie Dodge

Pictures from Day 1 of Nemo. Around Inman Square in Cambridge. http://t.co/ZeUzGAw1 - Bernie Dodge

For-profit colleges have deep roots in American history, but until recently they were a tiny part of the higher education landscape. Now they are big players. More than one in 10 college students attends a for-profit. The rapid rise of these career-oriented schools has provoked heated debate, opening up new conversations about the costs, quality and purpose of higher education. In this documentary, correspondent Emily Hanford examines the history and influence of the University of Phoenix, one of the nation's largest colleges, and explores how Phoenix and other for-profits are shaping the future of higher education. - Bernie Dodge

French developer makes $700K on education apps over two years. - Bernie Dodge

You might have encountered heatmaps for data visualization before. There is a fabulous library, heatmap.js, which brings that capability to draw them to javascript. There is only one problem, it is not exactly fast. Sometimes that doesn't matter. But if you have hundreds of thousands of data points to plot, or need realtime performance, it gets tricky. To solve that I've written a little engine using WebGL for drawing heatmaps. - Bernie Dodge

Comprising two-thirds of the United States’s total estimated shale oil reserves and covering 1,750 square miles from Southern to Central California, the Monterey Shale could turn California into the nation’s top oil-producing state and yield the kind of riches that far smaller shale oil deposits have showered on North Dakota and Texas. - Bernie Dodge

One week in, Coursera's "Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application" crashed, causing students--most of whom were professors, teachers and online education experts--to take to Twitter to express their frustration and amusement with the irony of the situation. - Bernie Dodge

The FUNcube SDR USB Dongle Pro Plus is an SDR (Software defined radio) receiver built as a USB stick. The receiver covers a frequency range of 150 kHz to 1900 MHz and can display/receive a spectrum of up to 80 kHz. - Bernie Dodge

(WORKT601/TRAM1410/JETSJTD1) Discone Antenna - Workman T601 / Tram 1410 / Jetstream JTD1 Full-Band Antenna Under 2:1 SWR on all VHF and UHF Amateur Radio Transmit Frequencies 200 Watts Transmit Power Handling Receive Freq Range: 25-1300 MHz Transmission Bands: 144,220,440,900,1290 Female UHF (SO-239) Connector Mounting Bracket Hub (Fits over top of mast) Accepts up to 1 3/8" Mast (coax feeds through mast to a SO-239 connector) Threaded Stainless Steel Elements - Not rolled alloy tubing like other brands. Heavy Duty Construction 32" High with 32" Wide Footprint - Bernie Dodge