Entries from April 2010 ↓

Links for April 30th from 07:38 to 21:01:

• Debt, A Love Story – Google timeline of the word "debt" 1550-present: Last peak also characterized by fraud see
• Twitpic – Share photos on Twitter – Enough said:
• Huge NASA Science Balloon Crashes in Australian Outback – Yahoo! News – when giant @nasa balloons attack & wipe out an SUV, expensive science experiment, terrorize Australians…
• Starting your business, in less than a week, with Rails on Google App Engine –
• Using the Google Maps APIs from App Engine – Nick’s Blog –
• Twitter / Pinboard: RT @paulkruczynski: Wrote … – RT @paulkruczynski: Wrote my own "Post to Notes" bookmarklet for @PinboardIN. Itch = scratched. Interested? @ me.
• Paint It Black: Giant Oil Spill Threatens Gulf Coast | TPM Photo Galleries – Amazing, awful photos of the oil spill:

• Slashdot Story | Microsoft Tips the Scale In Favor of HTML 5
  Microsoft also jumps on the HTML 5/H.264 video bandwagon (i.e. no Flash)
• YouTube
  - Live interactive mega billboard against agression
  RT @monkchips whoa! RT @sintaxi practical use of augmented reality in netherlands to reduce street violence
• Joys of the Window Seat – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
  Worth a look. Reader photos from the window seat. Gorgeous images.
• Southpaws: The evolution of handedness – life – 30 April 2010 – New Scientist
  Southpaws: The evolution of handedness. Why do animals favour one claw, paw, antenna or eye over the other?
• CultureLab: The artistic choices lurking within Hubble images
  The artistic choices lurking within Hubble images, OR: Why Hubble pics look like landscapes of the American west
• Debt, A Love Story
  Google timeline of the word "debt" 1550-present: Last peak also characterized by fraud see
• Data mining with WEKA, Part 1: Introduction and regression
  Data mining with WEKA, Part 1: Introduction and regression: an intro to data mining and to WEKA, free a… #datamining
• Celebrate Explicit Legal Pants Day (except in Mississippi schools) – Boing Boing
  Celebrate Explicit Legal Pants Day (except in Mississippi schools)
• The Tea Party Agenda –

  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  Tea Party is revolt against what America’s becoming: multi-racial/faith,gay-inclusive,women-friendly,majority-minority.
• Twitpic – Share photos on Twitter
  Enough said:
• Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline
• The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model ✩
  Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
  like a breath of fresh air… css3 box model (via @maxkiesler @dalmaer @bradneuberg)
• What can you learn from a whole genome sequence? : Genetic Future
  What can you learn from a whole genome sequence? – "glimpse into future of personalised medicine" (via @genomicslawyer)
• Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data
  Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data – good move for scientific info #bibliography #mendeley
• Huge NASA Science Balloon Crashes in Australian Outback – Yahoo! News
  when giant @nasa balloons attack & wipe out an SUV, expensive science experiment, terrorize Australians…
• Starting your business, in less than a week, with Rails on Google App Engine
• Using the Google Maps APIs from App Engine – Nick’s Blog
• Twitter / Pinboard: RT @paulkruczynski: Wrote …
  RT @paulkruczynski: Wrote my own "Post to Notes" bookmarklet for @PinboardIN. Itch = scratched. Interested? @ me.
• Paint It Black: Giant Oil Spill Threatens Gulf Coast | TPM Photo Galleries
  Amazing, awful photos of the oil spill:
• The iPad isn’t a computer, it’s a distribution channel – O’Reilly Radar
  Don’t know how I missed this key @radar piece by @jstogdill The iPad isn’t a computer, it’s a distribution channel
• New York State Honors Andrew Hoppin As NYS Public Sector CIO of the Year
  The NY State Public Sector CIO of the Year: @ahoppin Andrew is doing terrific work. (via @pahlkadot)
• Justin.tv – Twitter Chirp Conference – Tim O’Reilly – Twitter is a Force for Good.
  RT @jdlasica: Video of @timoreilly discussing Twitter as a force for good w @kateatstate, @anildash, @patrickmeier
• Malcolm Gladwell, William P. Young, & Dan Brown Top "Most Highlighted Passages of All Time" List on Amazon Kindle – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
  "Amazon knows every detail of Kindle users’ ereading habits. (And publishers don’t.)" via @naypinya
• Elections could hold major changes for tech subcommittee – The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
  Important news re tech and Congress: Elections could hold major changes for tech subcommittee via @marcidale
• Promiscuous online culture and the vetting process – O’Reilly Radar
  This is the kind of change that we’re covering at Gov 2.0 Expo: Promiscuous online culture and the vetting process
• X Power Tools
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: X Window System Power Tools – Only $9.99 use code DDXPT
• DCJ: FOOTBALL, AMERICA, JESUS
  !!!
• (500) http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/04/29/apple-aims-googles-heart-siri-purchase.htm
  Wow. Good move! Apple buys Siri. The battle for control of the web heats up! Competition is great. @web2summit
• Cancer-causing viruses exploit genetic achilles heel, finds study |
  Science |
  The Guardian
  Guardian UK: "Cancer-causing viruses exploit genetic achilles heel" -
• charltonbrooker | TweetPhoto
  RT @charltonbrooker: Front page of BBC site = like a choir singing about the finest boobs they ever saw:

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Links for April 29th through April 30th:

• The iPad isn’t a computer, it’s a distribution channel – O’Reilly Radar – Don't know how I missed this key @radar piece by @jstogdill The iPad isn't a computer, it's a distribution channel
• New York State Honors Andrew Hoppin As NYS Public Sector CIO of the Year – The NY State Public Sector CIO of the Year: @ahoppin Andrew is doing terrific work. (via @pahlkadot)
• Justin.tv – Twitter Chirp Conference – Tim O’Reilly – Twitter is a Force for Good. – RT @jdlasica: Video of @timoreilly discussing Twitter as a force for good w @kateatstate, @anildash, @patrickmeier
• Malcolm Gladwell, William P. Young, & Dan Brown Top "Most Highlighted Passages of All Time" List on Amazon Kindle – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat – "Amazon knows every detail of Kindle users' ereading habits. (And publishers don't.)" via @naypinya
• Elections could hold major changes for tech subcommittee – The Hill’s Hillicon Valley – Important news re tech and Congress: Elections could hold major changes for tech subcommittee via @marcidale
• Promiscuous online culture and the vetting process – O’Reilly Radar – This is the kind of change that we're covering at Gov 2.0 Expo: Promiscuous online culture and the vetting process
• X Power Tools
  – O’Reilly Media – RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: X Window System Power Tools – Only $9.99 use code DDXPT

Links for April 28th through April 29th:

• DCJ: FOOTBALL, AMERICA, JESUS – !!!
• (500) http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/04/29/apple-aims-googles-heart-siri-purchase.htm – Wow. Good move! Apple buys Siri. The battle for control of the web heats up! Competition is great. @web2summit
• Emergent Universe: Online Interactive Science Museum about Emergence | emergentuniverse.org – Cool, evocative online science site: Still under construction, but the beginnings of an online science museum.
• index – Trying out by @dvydra – bulk-load stories from today's Guardian/NYTimes to your instapaper account
• ‘You can’t talk about immigration’ – This is BRILLIANT: RT @gracedent: lovely piece on how you can't talk about immigration, apparently.
• Effective ML | ocaml.janestreet.com – "Make illegal states unrepresentable"
• Panel finds insufficient evidence for Alzheimer’s disease preventive measures – Panel finds insufficient evidence for Alzheimer's disease preventive measures
• Beanstalk, a Simple and Fast Queueing Backend – Stalker: job queueing DSL for beanstalkd /via @JEG2
• Mind Hacks: Breathing a sigh of relief to reboot respiration – Breathing a sigh of relief to reboot respiration: A delightful study on the function of sighing has just been publ…
• Heroku | Experimental Node.js Support – experimental node.js support on @heroku
• Twitter / Marla Erwin: RT @basilwhite: Arizona: I … – RT @basilwhite: Arizona: It's hate, but it's a dry hate. /via @Amyloo
• Vending Spree – Talkin’ Snack – "I am going to consume and review every item in my office vending machine."
• Vending Spree – Talkin’ Snack – "I am going to consume and review every item in my office vending machine."
• My Anti-Creativity Checklist – "Anti-Creativity Checklist: 14 Things to Remeber to Do" Youngme Moon
• If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them | JoeTrippi.com – Hugo Chavez now on Twitter — more on the blog…
• TouchScroll Demo – Touchscroll – iPhone-like scrolling reimplemented in JavaScript for webkit touch devices:
• Books of The Times – Lonely Texas Girl – Laura Bush’s ‘Spoken From the Heart’ – NYTimes.com – Kakutani's very thoughtful review of Laura Bush's new book: -
• Cellphone Payments Offer Alternative to Cash – NYTimes.com – Mobile payments are heating up. This @nytimes article barely scratches the surface #w2e @web2events
• The Health Care Blog: Clinical Groupware: Platforms, Not Software – Clinical Groupware: Platforms, Not Software applies my Internet operating system metaphor to healthcare. via @ahier
• (500) http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2010/04/22/understanding-the-open-graph-protocol/ – Worthwhile perspective from @factoryjoe on problems with Facebook's Open Graph protocol.
• On Google’s Brand – John Battelle’s Searchblog – Good post by @johnbattelle on Google's brand challenge:
• The March Toward Global Gov 2.0: Gov 2.0 Expo 2010 – Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, May 25 – 27, 2010, Washington, DC – RT @March toward a global Gov 2.0 = how we consider the global citizen (@katelundy @timberners_lee @timoreilly) #g2e
• In Defense of Deficits – In Defence of Deficits by Galbraith: Not sure he's right, but an important POV in the face of hysteria. via Dave Farber
• O’Reilly DRM-Free Ebooks – RT @OReillyMedia Final Days! Ebook Special: Buy 1, Get 1 Free – Buy 2, Get 2 Free – Buy 3, Get 3…
• Twitter / Roger Ebert: @susanorlean My best writi … – @susanorlean My best writing tip: The Muse visits during the process of writing, not before.
• The "Greatest Nature Photographs of All Time" – NatGeo News Watch – The "Greatest Nature Photographs of All Time"
• Slashdot Story | Fair Use Generates $4.7 Trillion For US Economy – CCIA report: Fair use generates $4.7 trillion in revenue Nice to see an IP study that isn't banging the copyright drum
• Redis tutorial, April 2010 – by Simon Willison –
• Ian’s Shoelace Site – "Better Bow" Shoelace Knot – @gruber Knots are hard to explain. But I've used this one for YEARS and never had an untie: In a nut: wrap twice.
• Forensic science: The “CSI effect” | The Economist – The “CSI effect” – a little knowledge is a dangerous thing – especially when applied to DNA evidence #dna #csi
• 40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins – Smashing Magazine – New article on SmashingMag: 40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins -
• BitTorrent Magnet Links Explained – The major advantages of magnet links over .torrent files – Softpedia – BitTorrent Magnet Links Explained – something important I'd missed: removing the Napster problem of central indexes
• Merely seeing disease symptoms may promote aggressive immune response – Merely seeing disease symptoms may promote aggressive immune response
• Blood protein triggers scars in the brain after injury; New target might help aid recovery for patients with traumatic injuries – Blood protein triggers scars in the brain after injury; New target might help aid recovery for patients with trauma…
• Jon Stewart: Arizona is the meth lab of democracy | Raw Story – RT @todayspolitics: Jon Stewart: Arizona is the meth lab of democracy HT @kteej
• (500) http://is – RT @dalepd: Phil Shapiro writes: If your library does not currently subscribe to MAKE magazine, a question to ask is: Why not? …
• Oil Rig Blast Complicates Push for Energy and Climate Bill – NYTimes.com – NYT on how Gulf oil spill complicates compromise efforts on #KGL climate-energy bill: #agw
• Rutgers lab studies female orgasm through brain imaging | – New Jersey Magazine | Living in New Jersey | Inside Jersey – NJ.com – Reporter Mara Altman volunteers for a study on female orgasm in the brain scanner.
• toddlipcon’s gremlins at master – GitHub – Relevant to the interests of distributed systems folks, probably:
• New Google Maps Option: "Avoid Arizona" (alright, it’s a joke) – Boing Boing – New Google Maps Option: "Avoid Arizona" (alright, it's a joke)
• Three Studies Now Refute the Presence of XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) « Laika’s MedLibLog – Excellent technical post on failure to find XMRV virus in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). via @BoraZ
• How not to write an internship cover letter – Boing Boing – Laughing out loud… or, should I cry? RT @MitchWagner: How not to write an internship cover letter
• (500) http://trst.me/ – i am wondering… do you ? site by @infochimps /via @steveodom
• DIYbio » Projects – Learning about DIY biology at #GET2010. Spooky and cool. More:
• Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate — O’Reilly School of Technology – RT @OReillySchool Deal of the Week: Linux/Unix System Admin Certificate Series all 4 courses 50% off through Friday.
• How Do Americans Access Government Data? Search Engines. – My thoughts on the new Pew Internet study on how we access govt information:
• Free Online OCR – Convert JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and PDF to Text – NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service. NewOCR.com can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer.
  Unlimited uploads, no registration, layout analysis (multi-column text recognition), 29 languages support, image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, multipage TIFF) up to 5 MB, multipage PDF documents up to 20 MB
• Injection of Melanin Nanoparticles Could Make Human Body Radiation-Resistant | Popular Science – Injection of Melanin Nanoparticles Could Make Human Body Radiation-Resistant
• The 21st-century textbook – O’Reilly Radar – Excellent: The 21st-century textbook
• Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010) « fox @ fury –