March 4th, 2010 — pinboard
Links for March 4th from 03:55 to 07:41:
March 4th, 2010 — pinboard
Links for February 19th through March 4th:
- The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work – From @rforno on Farber's IP list: This brilliant cartoon pretty much sums it all up: Why DRM doesn't work
- GIW Day Three: Bangkok, Beijing, Brussels, Budapest, Dallas, Toronto, Cincinnatti, Raleigh and PDX – O’Reilly Radar – #giw day three started early with Ignite Bangkok already over; 12 more today. Several will be streamed live.
- – Roger Ebert’s Journal – You are invited to join The Ebert Club.
- Atheist Bibles-For-Porn Swap Riles Campus – CBS News –
- One way to end a stuck Time Machine backup | Utilities | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld –
- A collection of favorite Mac OS X Hints tips | Mac OS X | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld –
- Shirky at NFAIS: How Abundance Breaks Everything « The Scholarly Kitchen – Once again, @cshirky shows how to think about what's happening today. Shirky at NFAIS: How Abundance Breaks Everything
- Untitled (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/images/NYT-Clinton-Photo-Caption.jpg) – RT @outragedliberal: Hands down! RT @HowardKurtz Best New York Times photo caption blunder OF ALL TIME.
- Central clock excites vasopressin neurons by waking osmosensory afferents during late sleep : Nature Neuroscience : Nature Publishing Group – No thirst for sleep: body clock-neurohormonal nexus prevents dehydration and the need to drink during sleep
- How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs | Biblical Archaeology Review | Bible History Articles – How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs – fascinating theory #writing #hieroglyphs #alphabets
- Think Progress » On Darwin’s 200th birthday, only 39 percent of Americans believe in evolution. – On Darwin’s 200th birthday, only 39 percent of Americans believe in evolution: #p2
- It is not so much that I miss you by Dorothea Grossman : Poetry Magazine [poem/magazine] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. – "It is not so much that I miss you/ as the remembering/ which I suppose is a form of missing/ except more positive"
- What Apple vs. HTC Could Mean – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – RT @nickbilton: A legal look at what the Apple vs HTC battle could really mean:
- Best Travel Writing – RT @jamesoreilly: Winners of 4th annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing announced:
- 7 Most Mind-Blowing She-Daredevils in History | Environmental Graffiti – I love living in a world with things like this in:
- Hotheaded Emanuel may be White House voice of reason – washingtonpost.com – This appears to be about Rahm; but it's really about the worldview of the savvy. And one of the best texts I have found.
- Alzheimer’s-associated protein may be part of the innate immune system – Alzheimer's-associated protein may be part of the innate immune system
- For Pennies, a Disposable Toilet That Could Help Grow Crops – NYTimes.com – Disposable toilet-in-a-bag could help grow crops: Way better than slums' existing #poverty
- Microsoft’s Charney suggests ‘Net tax to clean computers | ITworld – Microsoft suggests Net tax to clean and police computer networks
- Celebrating the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival –
- Gov 2.0: A Peace Corps for Programmers – RT @laurelatoreilly Read @matthewburton's piece on @govfresh @AndrewPWilson Great idea: A Peace Corps for Programmers
- YouTube – Pedigree Dogs ad shot 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera –
- Free Book Collections – RT @txvoodoo: Amazon creates a Free Book Collection page, makes it easy to find classics:
- Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations – Atlas Obscura relaunched, snazzy and bizarre
- The Evolutionary Reason for Depression –
- Roger Ebert’s New Voice –
- Report from HIMMS Health IT conference: from Silicon Valley technology to Silicon Valley risk-taking – O’Reilly Radar – Report from HIMMS Health IT conference: from Silicon Valley technology to Silicon Valley risk-taking
- Study: Weedkiller in waterways can change frogs’ sex traits – washingtonpost.com – Weedkiller can change frogs' sex traits: No doubt one of many such problems in our chemical soup.
- Twitter / Esther Schindler: – "Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count."–Dr Seuess
- Peter Gabriel Takes Time to Sing Others’ Songs – NYTimes.com – About cover records, and the new one by Peter Gabriel:
- Developer Preview: upcoming geo features (a.k.a "A place is not just a latitude and a longitude – it has a name") –
Twitter API Announcements |
Google Groups – RT @twitterapi: A place is not just a latitude and a longitude – it has a name ^RK #geo (via @chrismessina) #where20
- New Sensors Directly Track the Brain’s Chemical Messengers for the First Time | Popular Science – New Sensors Directly Track the Brain's Chemical Messengers for the First Time
- Debra Medina, new star of America’s right, is firing up the race for Texas governor | World news | The Observer –
- Coffee Party, With a Taste for Civic Participation, Is Added to the Political Menu – NYTimes.com – Coffee Party launches. Federal government not enemy of the people, but expression of collective will
- Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn Is Given Superfund Status – NYTimes.com – Brooklyn Gowanus Canal deemed Superfund site NYC wanted to clean it alone. More on flush propeller:
- Live Webcast – RT @evgenymorozov: Livecast of the Senate hearing on Internet Freedom (not in a format that works on android, sadly)
- SXSW 2010 for Futurists – Nicely done, @rww: SXSW 2010 for Futurists
- Learning Rails: Live Edition
– O’Reilly Media – RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Rails: Live Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDRAS
- BBC News – Dinosaur-eating snake discovered – Scientists identify what they say is the fossilised remains of a snake that dined on dinosaur eggs.
- Climate Change Likely Caused Polar Bear to Evolve Quickly: Scientific American – Genome of polar bear sequenced from old jawbone Shows resilient species only around 150k years.
- Untitled (http://img.skitch.com/20100302-msf9nr1ngeud91qcwqhg3agbpr.jpg) – My video for the OpenVideoAlliance has been DMCA'd.
- YouTube
– OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – RGM version – I so needed this *astounding* OK Go! video today /via @Bash @davea
- PLoS Biology: Predation upon Hatchling Dinosaurs by a New Snake from the Late Cretaceous of India – Predation upon Hatchling Dinosaurs by a New Snake from the Late Cretaceous of India – another great PLoS story #oa
- eGov monitor – A Policy Dialogue Platform | Promoting Better Governance – RT @jensmccabe surprise leader in eHealth…the Bulgarian military?!
- Ignite | Ignite Show Video – Today is the first day of Global Ignite Week. Check out the action #giw
- High Performance Web Sites :: Tethering is exhilarating – Tethering is exhilarating: @souders explores the ins and outs of tethering on iphone and nexus one.
- Code review redux (good news from GitHub) – O’Reilly Radar – Github and code review:
- Welcome to Avro! – Avro 1.3 is available! Awesome.
- Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory | Video on TED.com – one of my fav talks from TED this year : : Kahneman on remembering vs. experiencing
- Slashdot Story | An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" – Worth paying attention: An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina"
- Printing body parts: Making a bit of me | The Economist – Economist: A machine that prints organs is coming to market (via @make in email)
- YouTube – A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything –
