links for 2009-08-05

• Charlie Rose – A conversation with author Philip Pullman
  (tags: writers interviews)
• Google Voice Bookmarklet Generator
• iPhone Development
  (tags: iphone development resources)
• Greg’s Online CS 193P Resources
  (tags: iphone development)
• Op-Ed Columnist – Innocence Is No Defense – NYTimes.com
• haystack: a project for iran
• 'Flight simulator' for flies sheds light on visual processing | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com
  The simulator works by presenting diverse patterns, movements, and sensory stimuli to a blowfly held in place by a halter. The fly has implanted electrodes that register the reactions of its brain cells as it whizzes around virtual objects.
• Seeing In Stereo: Scientific American
  (tags: neuroscience vision)
• TG Daily – Computers unlock 4,000 year old language
  It is possible to see the underlying grammatical structure of the Indus script even if the scientists don't know what each word means. Such a model is stage one for decipherment, because any meaning ascribed to a symbol must make sense in the context of other symbols that precede or follow it.
  (tags: language statistics history world)