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• GREETINGS FROM DAVOS!!! | The Reformed Broker
• RT @AGUSciPolicy: Gore and Scientists to travel to Antarctica to focus attention on climate change http://t.co/49e8RvnR
• FLIES: Photo Images by Miroslaw Swietek Photography – photo.net

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• Deforestation in Brazil has lessened, but signs of shift in gov’t’s attitude toward the Amazon raises concern http://t.co/PpZghj4o
• Cool. Eleven Years of #Dubai’s Insane Growth Seen From Space http://t.co/MYh5W46g
• Read this (http://t.co/7BbHtkvW) and remember it the next time a "patriotic" politician wants to send young men and women to a foreign war.
• Amazing photos of flies! http://t.co/yKsrKrBn
• Nice write-up on switching Git SVN branches. RT @jonihalabi: I feel like a total Git hacker. http://t.co/bsfrhTs0 @DailyGit
• Gnuplotting · Create scientific plots using Gnuplot
• Nymwars: I Told You So. | jwz
• Google tracks consumers’ online activities across products, and users can’t opt out – The Washington Post
• "Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work." http://t.co/guPozSdi
• "Don’t Be Evil" Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Shows Google’s "Search Plus Your World" Can Go Beyond Google+ Search Engine Land
• Nice post from @alecmuffett about Search Neutrality: http://t.co/5e4WiAAw
• The failure of Jane Crow and the “separate but equal” doctrine in technology | VentureBeat
• Time to have your beer and eat it too. Check out our roundup of 12 Delicious Ways to Eat Pale Ales, Lagers and Stouts: http://t.co/vRf7CLtU
• What are the best photos taken from an airplane? http://t.co/TjzLayVe
• Important read: RT @amcafee New blog post is up: "Can Normal Companies Provide Good Jobs? Yes." http://t.co/jDBlhCdO
• tnx @nytimes for experiment in licensing my story for @longreads’ ebook. soon, our own ebooks!? http://t.co/UVrdgh78
• Nokia ringtone during violin solo yields classical improv | Mobile Technology News
• Exploding the myth of how wings create lift http://t.co/pmn5Oxa4
• Google: Do Yourself a Favor and Just Come Clean Already | PandoDaily
• A Tale Of Two Cities: Silicon Valley And Hollywood – TechCrunch
• Trader Joe’s Speculoos Cookie Butter Delicious Made with Crushed Biscuits , Excellent on Pancakes,waffles,sandwiches , Dessert Topping YOU Will Love It !!!: Amazon.com: Grocery & Gourmet Food
• Find a hotel using isochrones | edparsons.com

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• ‘Opera’ experiment rerun confirms neutrinos are faster than light
• The Canada Party – "Meet The Canada Party" – YouTube
• 2012/01/captain-obvious-on-javascript.md at master from raganwald/homoiconic – GitHub
• Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index

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• Abraham Maslow and the All-American Self http://t.co/yfryG0tO
• Bill Marler on the close connection between treating workers decently and producing safe food. http://t.co/jE4JHiGd
• Client Libraries – Google Data Protocol – Google Code
  Google Data client libraries are available to help you write client applications that access your favorite API.
  For each language, the client library provides tools and an abstraction layer, letting you construct queries and use response data without having to create HTTP requests or process HTTP responses by hand. Each client library provides classes that correspond to the elements and data types that the API uses.
• Google Cloud Storage: concurrency controls and deeper App Engine integration – The official Google Code blog
• app-identity-sample-oauth2 – Sample showing use of App Engine App Identity API with OAuth2 and Google Storage – Google Project Hosting
  Maven sample project shows how to use the App Engine App Identity API to connect to authenticate to Google Storage API using OAuth2. Good sample POM for projects using google-api-java-client to connect to various Google APIs.
• Using the GAE App Identity API and OAuth2 « TurboManage
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• Our Products – iWALKUSA (iwalkusa.com) Apple ?Smart Device Accessories Collection (Malsha LLC)
• These Photos Were Amazingly Taken from Street Puddles
• Huge pool of Arctic water could cool Europe: study
• A recent, and timely, article is “We are all hackers now” – critical sociological reflections on the hacking phenomenon http://t.co/eo9d73F8
• Really useful site summarising App Compatibility for OS X Lion http://t.co/cSX4GLCk
• 47 year old tv signals bouncing back to Earth – Dr Who and other lost t.v. shows being recovered. Amazing. http://t.co/Sam6Nscv
• Does a pitch center exist in auditory cortex? :Journal of Neurophysiology http://t.co/stXMwAwH

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• The Illustrations of Tiago Hoisel | Psdtuts+
• Vacuum-Sealed Couples by Photographer Hal | Spoon & Tamago
• O’Brien: Vivek Wadhwa emerges as Silicon Valley’s most provocative voice – San Jose Mercury News
• Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I’ll shut up: https://t.co/ccugaY6q
• This is why they closed Lake Shore Drive last night. http://t.co/BpLXBBWN
• Gochujang: Korean Go-to, All-In-One Magic Chile Sauce | The Awl
• Sport Armband for iPhone 4 Protective Cases (and more)
  "Apparently this is the best Armband for the Galaxy Nexus. Make sure you get the ab84."
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• Cracked coal ship on the Barrier Reef | Australian Mining http://t.co/Tu127hA6 via @addthis
• Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
• Every woman should read this piece. http://t.co/rlaDIp1A
• The next SOPA – Marco.org
• First Look: Backplane, The Lady Gaga-Backed Community Platform With All-Star Investors (Invites) – TechCrunch
• Mini Canon
• Google Shut-Downs & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
• Bird flu research halted: NIH. http://t.co/V2gyXcPP
• an informed view of the #Sopa victory and Google’s position by @scrawford is required reading http://t.co/WCN6omMr via @BloombergView
• The Bigger Picture: What happens when we find The Line as viewers? – HitFix.com
• OMG, watch this before it gets brought down. Star Wars by hundreds of unconnected peeps in 15 second bits. Brilliant. http://t.co/Tu7I4ZEc
• How Steve Case and His Company Are Driving the Sharing Economy – Atlantic Mobile
• Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood « Clay Shirky
• America’s Most Stressful Cities | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
• RT @sciam: An Abundance of Exoplanets Changes our Universe http://t.co/gEmoARHw
• Up Down and Around — thrivable.net — Readability
• Paul Begala to Rick Perry: Adios, Mofo – The Daily Beast
  "Rick Perry’s disastrous campaign deserves to be remembered for appealing to the darkest impulses of the right—and for wasting a phenomenal amount of money."
• 7 Foods You Should Never Eat
• Are Women People? | The Hairpin
• DWEL
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  The Internet has made sharing vast amount of data easier and more economical than ever before. Combined with new ways to process and analyze data, we are starting to see the promise held by data-driven innovation to improve health around the world, better understand climates, and to positively impact countless other aspects of our lives. But before this promise can be realized, we need a global forum for education and discussion relating to the social policy concerns surrounding data collection and use. Ultimately, we need to reach reasonable and responsible consensus paths forward if we are to fully achieve the promises of data-driven innovation."
• Adventures and Challenges in Big Data ~ Policy by the Numbers
• iPhone Development, Applications and Resources – iPhone 5, iOS 5, 3GS – O’Reilly Media
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.

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• swissmiss | Ostrich
• Year ago, but … the mystery of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom/Schmitz – http://t.co/DPkuKmC6
• This minimal magnetic iPad stand is quite beautiful: http://t.co/T0i5vlBO
• Essential reading: SOPA&PIPA only possible because US voters uninformed & don’t care what gov’t does. Big wake up call. http://t.co/aVfZ2KJ6
• "the specific visual stereotype of a screen half-filled with huge tits." http://t.co/NsIaKKAZ (via @pandagon)
• this solid harvard business review post explains why particular companies are anti or pro sopa: http://t.co/bAWIG5gU (via @negatendo)
• what if antibiotics stop working? by @matthewherper: http://t.co/8W8bzXdY terrifying, & might happen in my lifetime. (via @stevesilberman)
• The World’s Longest Flight, in Coach – WSJ.com
• Get Thee To A Punnery | PandoDaily
• Australia’s best Daily Deals for Winelovers

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• My account of last night’s excruciatingly enjoyable Leonard Cohen album launch http://t.co/SxC9Ed2q via @guardian
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• If you have any patience left for Assange (I do, but barely) this interview in Rolling Stone is extremely interesting: http://t.co/mtEtYX9I
• This is a must-read. RT @jfelipe: Why stopping SOPA/PIPA will be very hard, must-read by @jzb http://t.co/HqO2p7WO via @RWW @philshapiro
• For God So Loved the 1 Percent … – NYTimes.com
• .@cshirky’s TED talk on #SOPA & #PIPA is an absolute must-watch http://t.co/rZCO8Y2Z
• Good piece MT @om: @bfeld outlines why he doesn’t care for Sopa and Pipa in his guest post for @gigaom http://t.co/mK0blnsf
• @pkedrosky Check out http://t.co/YDYzVqP2 for a visualization of all the "wtf wikipedia"s /via @clifflampe
• Eric Ries at the LSE on The Lean Startup – http://t.co/YatuS487
• Known Unknowns #8: Let Me Entertain Us | Matt Debenham
• Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed
• Glebe foreshore walk to extend to Fish Market – Local News – News – Central

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• Is this the 1st big @pandodaily scoop? Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service http://t.co/Cc5FAkYI
• How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous brindley lecture – Klotz – 2005 – BJU International – Wiley Online Library
• Benford’s Law, and worldwide illicit financial flows http://t.co/g6ppa5a5
• If at first you don’t succeed, pivot. http://t.co/Ft0bPw0x
• Photo: Whoa. At least 5.7 million bats have died of white-nose syndrome since it first hit in 2006. Details… http://t.co/i4pb1Gkh
• My world is shattered. RT @BoingBoing: Red wine research may have been falsified http://t.co/63sMSb9j
• As important as #SOPA: Elsevier is trying the "Research Works Act" passed, to kill open scientific access. http://t.co/R1rEohgd
• Synergy
• Did Web Search kill Artificial Intelligence? – Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
• Restlet – RESTful web framework for Java
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• Is this the 1st big @pandodaily scoop? Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service http://t.co/Cc5FAkYI
• How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous brindley lecture – Klotz – 2005 – BJU International – Wiley Online Library
• Benford’s Law, and worldwide illicit financial flows http://t.co/g6ppa5a5
• If at first you don’t succeed, pivot. http://t.co/Ft0bPw0x
• Photo: Whoa. At least 5.7 million bats have died of white-nose syndrome since it first hit in 2006. Details… http://t.co/i4pb1Gkh
• My world is shattered. RT @BoingBoing: Red wine research may have been falsified http://t.co/63sMSb9j
• As important as #SOPA: Elsevier is trying the "Research Works Act" passed, to kill open scientific access. http://t.co/R1rEohgd
• Synergy
• Did Web Search kill Artificial Intelligence? – Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
• Restlet – RESTful web framework for Java
  "Leverage the open source Restlet Framework and its unique Java API available in six consistent editions: Java SE, Java EE, OSGi, GAE, Android and GWT!"
• Coffee | VELLA NERO – Freshly Roasted Coffee in Australia
  Shop 3, 259 Clarence Street, Sydney New South Wales 2000

  http://goo.gl/54wsU

• Jackson JSON Processor – Home
  High-performance JSON processor.

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