Links for 21.12.08

• Politics, South Korea-style by LA Times - recent fight in the Korean parlament

• Physics Textbook by Dot Physics

• Essay: Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics

Links for 14.12.08

• Spot the math errors! - some false mathematical proofs. Can you see the mistake?

• Musicians condemn use of their songs as instruments of war by The Guardian - popular songs were used for tortures in Guantanamo. "Some prisoners have said it can be even worse than more traditional methods of physical torture, including waterboarding."

• Burlesque Matinée at the Max Planck Gesellschaft - A good answer to "why is it important to learn foreign languages?"

• Physicsworks - an interesting collection of physics-related links.

• World Lecture Hall - free online course materials from around the world.

You can find many more links I find interesting on my delicious webpage.

The worst ten technology predictions of all time

Were recently published by Mail Online, here they come:

1. BRITAIN DOESN'T NEED TELEPHONES

2. X-RAYS ARE A HOAX
3. THERE WILL NEVER BE A BIGGER PLANE (AND IT ONLY HELD TEN PEOPLE)
4. TV WON'T LAST
5 HOMES WILL BE CLEANED WITH NUCLEAR HOOVERS
6. LETTERS WILL BE DELIVERED BY ROCKET
7. COMPUTERS AREN'T FOR HOME USE
8. YOU'LL ONLY EVER NEED 640KB OF MEMORY
9. WE'LL KILL SPAM IN TWO YEARS
10. THE iPOD WILL BE KAPUT BY NEXT CHRISTMAS

I actually never heard of some of them...