Entries from March 2010 ↓

Links for March 18th from 00:10 to 05:44:

• Red Dirt Ruby Conference –
• Saturday Profile – Heartthrob’s Blog Challenges China’s Leaders – NYTimes.com – Fascinating profile of how one of the world's most popular bloggers surfs the edge of dissent in China:
• Twitter / MartyKearns: Revolutions are not made: … – Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. – Wendell Phillips
• Building Social Web Applications
  – O’Reilly Media – RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Building Social Web Applications – Only $9.99! Use code DDBSW
• YouTube – The Unthanks perform The Testimony of Patience Kershaw –
• Harmony – Procedural drawing tool –
• Chelsea Jane Crowell –

Links for March 17th from 11:20 to 21:25:

• Carbon capture storage will ‘generate 100,000 jobs and £6.5bn a year’ |
  Environment |
  guardian.co.uk – Carbon capture storage will 'generate 100,000 jobs and £6.5bn a year'
• BBC News – Monkeys learn more from females – Groups of monkeys pay more attention to females than to males when learning a task, say scientists.
• Algae’s solar electrons hijacked to steal power – tech – 17 March 2010 – New Scientist – Gang of biologists carry out audacious heist: valuable electrons stolen from photosynthesising algae
• How to make a snake : Pharyngula – How to make a snake – "you start with a lizard". evolution seen through the lens of Hox genes; brilliant #biology
• Caught Red-Handed: How Nestlé’s Use of Palm Oil is Having a Devastating Impact on Rainforest, The Climate and Orang-utans | Greenpeace International – Nestlé's Palm-oil Use Devastating Rainforest – time for a boycott (via @asteris @ecotist) #nestle
• Masculine faces appeal most to women in countries where disease is rife |
  Science |
  The Guardian – A country's disease rates influence women's preference for masculine or feminine-looking faces
• Pies-in-face attack roils anarchist-vegan world – don't think i've ever read anything in my life that screams "san francisco!" as much as this story's first paragraph:
• The Project Reason Video Contest |

  Project Reason – RT @SamHarrisOrg: The nine finalists for the Project Reason Video Contest. Please watch & pick your favorite: #p2

• Tim (Sebastopol, CA)’s review of On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition – 5 of 5 stars to On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Chladni Singing : Meara O’Reilly – For your evening entertainment: video of @mearaoreilly chladni singing
• TextSoap –

Links for March 17th from 06:05 to 09:50:

• ITP Camp – Awesome! ITP organizing an Un_university summer school (summer camp) on the foocamp model: via @lilich
• JRuby on App Engine –
• Will it play in App Engine – Google App Engine for Java | Google Groups –
• Make: Online : DIY photography roundup: camera rigs – DIY MovieMaking/DIY Photography roundup from @make: Some handy projects
• Trading for their own account – O’Reilly Radar – Looking back at this old post of mine, and thinking how it's becoming even more relevant e.g. with Google Placepages
• YouTube
  - The Future of Publishing – created by DK (UK) – Very clever video about the end of publishing as we know it. Watch all the way to the end. #ebooks
• Google Fiber and the FCC National Broadband Plan – O’Reilly Radar – Google Fiber and the FCC National Broadband Plan You have to be impressed by $GOOG's strategic thinking

Links for March 17th from 00:29 to 05:27:

• Slashdot Story | Speed-Assembling Servers – RT @velocityconf Video: Speed assembling rackmount servers (P.S. This is the kind of stuff the Velocity peeps do)
• Life as a Healthcare CIO: In ONC I Trust – In ONC I Trust. @jhalamka's take on meaningful use (a brilliant construct) and the gov's healthcare innovation team
• Amazon.com: The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well (9780674033016): Lynne A. Isbell: Books –
• Microbes on keyboards can be used to identify typists – Boing Boing – Microbes on keyboards can be used to identify typists Privacy? What privacy? It's going to be harder and harder…
• weevils –
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
  – O’Reilly Media – RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Only $9.99! Use code DD97T
• Buzz by Matt Cutts from Buzz – Good Buzz thread started by @mattcutts on the current state of retinal displays: #ar
• NewNet News – Japan car giants team up to promote global electric vehicle adoption – Japanese car giants team up on standards for charging electric vehicles via @monkchips. How about consumer electronics?

Links for March 16th through March 17th:

• Twitter / rands: Listen to your brain, but … – Listen to your brain, but trust your gut.
• Innovation Watch » Gene Loss Lets Mice Regenerate Parts (CBC) – Gene Loss Lets Mice Regenerate Parts /via @innovationwatch
• Letter to Congress: We Need a Real Energy Plan – GetRealList – There's a lot of merit in @nelderini's Letter to Congress: We Need a Real Energy Plan
• The pope’s entire career has the stench of evil about it. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine – "The pope's entire career has the stench of evil about it." Sometimes I'm a big fan of Chris Hitchens.
• Wearable computing expert now Apple "prototype scientist" – RT @arstechnica Wearable computing expert now Apple "prototype scientist" -
• The Future of Zittrain Has Not Been Stopped :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It – RT @zittrain A convergence of MD crowdsourcing with local hospital's MD heroes has helped to pinpoint mystery illness –
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly from Buzz – Is my personal brand bigger than my company brand? I hope not. But this ComputerWorld headline had me wondering:
• The Z Update – RT @lessig: @zittrain is really sick. He has open-sourced his diagnosis. Gregory House, please help if you can:
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly from Buzz – Developers: do you rely on cross-platform location APIs or are phone platform providers trying to lock you in? Discuss:

Links for March 16th from 04:55 to 09:42:

• [1002.2284] Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP – Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (libertarian disproves efficient market hypothesis using compsci) via @edd
• Guest blogger: Meara O’Reilly! – Boing Boing – Looking forward to reading BoingBoing's guest blogger for the next two weeks, @mearaoreilly: Check out the chladni link
• AppleInsider | Microsoft exec says Apple’s HTC suit ‘is not necessarily a bad thing’ – Microsoft makes clear just which side they are on in the Apple vs HTC (stand-in for Google) patent lawsuit:
• Twitter / Tim O’Reilly: A good maxim for today’s o … – A good maxim for today's overcharged politics: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• Op-Ed Contributors – A One-Track Senate – NYTimes.com – One reason there are so many "filibusters" now is that Senators don't actually have to do one Time to change back
• Developing Android Applications with Java
  – O’Reilly Media – Video training on Developing Android Applications with Java Final day for early bird pricing: 9.5 hrs, only $49
• Volunteers Duplicate Federal Videos for an Online Archive – NYTimes.com – Duplicating Federal Videos for an Online Archive NYT highlights another of @carlmalamud's many projects

Links for March 16th from 00:19 to 04:23:

• Report from HIMSS Health IT conference: toward interoperability and openness – O’Reilly Radar – Excellent overview of the open healthcare landscape in @praxagora's report from HIMSS conference:
• Turning Trash Into High-Speed WiFi Connections in Afghanistan : Planet Green – RT @monkchips Turning Trash Into High-Speed WiFi Connections in Afghanistan #make #diy
• Twitter / Backupify: Just a reminder that you c … – Just a reminder that you can get a PDF of all the #wxwm and #sxsw tags at www.sessiontweets.com later today
• Twitter / DataInfoCom: If you want to know what w … – If you want to know what will happen to you in the future, look at what your mind is doing now. ~Dalai Lama #Quote (RT @sskarma)
• BBC News – Dotcom web address celebrates silver anniversary – 25th anniversary today of the very first dot com address:
• CouchDB: The Definitive Guide
  – O’Reilly Media – RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: CouchDB: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99! Use code DDCDB
• Scout Books » Ready Made –
• A book with a curious cover initially drew me to David Foster Wallace –

Links for March 15th from 16:51 to 21:52:

• Scientists identify opium poppy codeine and morphine genes |
  Science |
  guardian.co.uk – RT @GammaCounter: (Huge) The opium poppy's genes for morphine & codeine identified. Recombinant vat synth possible.
• The Difference Between Firefox, Opera, Explorer & Safari – The Difference Between Firefox, Opera, Explorer & Safari (via @russmaxdesign)
• BBC News – Reindeer body clock switched off – Reindeer have "switched off" their internal body clocks to survive dark winters and light summers in the Arc..
• Unlocking the opium poppy’s biggest secret: Genes that make codeine, morphine – Unlocking the opium poppy's biggest secret: Genes that make codeine, morphine
• New insight on how fast nicotine peaks in the brain – New insight on how fast nicotine peaks in the brain
• Pancreatic cancer study reveals mechanism initiating disease, in mice – Pancreatic cancer study reveals mechanism initiating disease, in mice
• Electronics ‘missing link’ brings neural computing closer – tech – 15 March 2010 – New Scientist – Fit me up with memristors: "missing link" of electronics brings neural computing a step closer
• BBC – Earth News – Bee swarms follow ‘pied pipers’ – Bee colonies follow a small oligarchy of bees that "pipe" sounds to trigger an explosive swarm
• Mexico – US updates travel advice for people visiting Mexico in light of drug violence. Sad reading.
• When god sanctions killing: effect of scriptural v… [Psychol Sci. 2007] – PubMed result – "…aggression increased when the passage was from the Bible or mentioned God".
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Now A No-Evil Zone – Now A No-Evil Zone – @timbray is now working at Google, what a surprise…not #google
• Snakes ‘see’ with odd type of vision | COSMOS magazine – Some snakes can detect faint body heat, but use a different neurological pathway. #science #snake #vision #reptiles
• Opium poppy’s genes finally revealed | COSMOS magazine – The genes that make codeine and morphine have been sequenced. #science #news #drugs #opium #biology #genetics #health

Links for March 15th from 05:48 to 14:12:

• University of California – UC Newsroom | Study: Algae can help produce cheaper drugs – University of California – UC Newsroom | Study: Algae can help …
• Web Performance and Operations – Velocity Online Conference – March 17, 2010 – O’Reilly Media – Free Velocity Online Conference March 17 – starting 9 am PT. Some good talks.
• Frank Partnoy: Lehman Examiner Punted on Valuation « naked capitalism – Frank Partnoy: Lehman examiner report shows company "was too complex to do anything but fail".
• Books of The Times – Michael Lewis’s ‘Big Short’ – Investors Foresaw Meltdown – Review – NYTimes.com – Michiko Kakutani in the NYT on Lewis's "Big Short".
• Twitter / Maria Popova: RT @PatsMc: @DanAriely int … – RT @PatsMc: @DanAriely introduces "self herding" concept – we make irrational decisions then repeat reinforce them #SXSW
• Social Media’s Effect on Learning – Digits – WSJ – Social Media's effect on learning: Patricia Kuhl's work on neuroscience and language acquisition is awesome.
• Grand Challenges of the 21st Century; Request for Information | The White House – White House RFI: Grand Challenges of the 21st Century Nice to see them using my line: "architecture of participation"!

Links for March 15th from 02:31 to 05:10:

• Twitter / charles star: 3.141592653589793238462643 … – 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651 328230664709384460955058223
• Twitter / Roger Ebert: – "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." – Mark Twain
• GettingStarted – Cassandra Wiki –
• The Apache Cassandra Project – The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.

  Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed by Avinash Lakshman (one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo) and Prashant Malik. In a lot of ways you can think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0.

• Ushahidi – Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley – How to Track a Crisis – NYTimes.com – Nice props to @ushahidi in NYT: Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis
• Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8 – @marshallk is still writes the best tech analysis out there – look at the sidebar here: #synapticweb
• Untitled (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385533411?tag=braipick-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0385533411&adid=0YW4W035WS47WWKSGA79&) – Solar – Ian McEwan's excellent new novel, smart fiction about a very real crisis #climatechange
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly from Buzz – My Buzz discussion on the two education links I just posted:
• Editorial – National School Standards, at Last – NYTimes.com – Nice to see national education standards coming from the states Complements Obama initiative: