Entries from May 2010 ↓

• bit.ly | Basic | a simple URL shortener
  RT @Data4all #BP must copy Goldcorp ,5czXo release all #well data, create Web2.0-based global #crowdsourcing challenge
• Op-Art – Shorting Reform – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com
  Michael Lewis channels Jonathan Swift in this scathing op-ed about financial reform:
• YouTube – HIGH QUALITY Janelle Monáe – Tightrope (on David Letterman) HD 1080p 720p
• aM laboratory
• New Ebola Drug 100 Percent Effective In Monkeys : NPR
  Genetic engineering makes breakthroughs possible: New Ebola Drug 100 Percent Effective In Monkeys (via @slashdot)
• Guest Blog: Michelangelo’s secret message in the Sistine Chapel: A juxtaposition of God and the human brain
• Top 50 Tech Twitter Profiles | Chirrps.com
• Gephi: The Open Graph Viz Platform
  Gephi: The Open Graph Viz Platform: Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for … #datamining
• Thresholds of hypoxia for marine biodiversity — PNAS
  Only if you’re really in the Macondo mood, but important: "Thresholds of hypoxia for marine biodiversity"
• Bodyshock – The Twins Who Share A Brain › e19dd5f52b7a57098ae09433aa705ffad250c82e › isoHunt › the BitTorrent & P2P search engine
  This seems to be a working torrent for "The Twins Who Share a Brain". More info:
• YouTube
  – Gary Vaynerchuk and Kathy Sierra chat at Gov 2.0 Expo
  2 stars interview each other on camera: @garyvee and Kathy Sierra chat.Why Kathy quit twitter,what makes people awesome
• China-India Water Shortage Means Coca-Cola Joins Intel in Fight – Bloomberg.com
  Taste of the future: China-India Water Shortage Means Coca-Cola and Intel in Fight for precious resource via @slashdot
• A VC: Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy
  I love how fair-minded @fredwilson is. Read his post on why taxing carried interest as ordinary income is good policy
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly
  This story from @nytimes brought tears to my eyes, and triggered thoughts about how shame can inspire us.
• Japan Plans a Moon Base by 2020, Built by Robots for Robots | Popular Science
  Japan plans moon base built by robots, for robots (via @slashdot)
• Foxconn suicides: Time for fair trade electronics? Would you buy a fair trade iPhone? | ZDNet
  Must read by @tomforemski: Foxconn suicides: Time for fair trade electronics? Would you buy a fair trade iPhone?
• Twitter / Lorrin Henigan:
  "I want to stay as close to the edge without going over.Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Vonnegut
• Broken Symmetry: Nobel physicist explains why you miss old places, friends | Psychology Today
  bittersweet, sad, intense pain of missing. Nobel physicist on why we miss old places, friends. via @thesocialbrain
• Support for offshore oil drilling, dirty energy production gets dispersed by BP oil disaster « Climate Progress
  Support for offshore oil drilling, dirty energy production gets dispersed by BP oil disaster – pity it took this #bp
• Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Google Describes Wi-Fi Sniffing In Pending Patent
  Google Describes Wi-Fi Sniffing In Pending Patent – corrupted by its own monopolistic tendencies #google #swpats
• Op-Ed Columnist – An Unnatural Disaster – NYTimes.com
  NYTimes: An Unnatural Disaster
• Gov 2.0 Expo: Tim O’Reilly Talks Transparency, Facebook and Privacy
  | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS
  [RR = rerun] RR Hari @Sreenivasan talked w/@TimOReilly about #Gov20, cloud computing, privacy for @Newshour: #g2e
• Untitled (http://podcast.sciam.com/weekly/sa_podcast_100524.mp3)
  Hofstadter succeeded Gardner at Sci Am, and talks about him in this podcast [mp3]
• Ségolène Aymé
  Ségolène Aymé from orpha.net now, great idea, need for info-efficiency well illustrated by resource-poor setting #ecsp
• BBC News – Creative minds ‘mimic schizophrenia’
  Well this explains a lot about people I know 🙂 Creative minds ‘mimic schizophrenia’
• Ruby on Rails 3.0 moves nearer release | Developer World – InfoWorld
  RT @RailsConf InfoWorld: #Ruby on Rails 3.0 moves nearer release (hopefully during #RailsConf) #opensource
• Twitter / Lindy West: Australia, I love you too. …
  Australia, I love you too. Sorry for that time I called you "not so much a country as a snack delivery system for horrifying beasts."
• The secret of Jacques Tati – Roger Ebert’s Journal
  Jacques Tati did the wrong thing and he knew it. A sad letter from his grandson, on my site.
• (404) http://to.pbs.org/oreilly
  RT @digiphile Hari @Sreenivasan talked w/@TimOReilly about #Gov20, cloudcomputing, FB & privacy for @Newshour #g2e
• Twitter / Emma: @caitlinmoran Was refused …
  @caitlinmoran Was refused sale of a Yorkie. No, seriously.

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• Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?
  Is this really the future of magazines? Critique of the Wired iPad app: #ebooks
• Book Review Preview – Book Review – The Second Sex – By Simone de Beauvoir – NYTimes.com
• Data and simplicity can build the government platform – O’Reilly Radar
  Data, simplicity, and government as a platform. My conversation with Aneesh Chopra at #g2e: #gov20
• Burkas and Birkins by Lindy West – Film – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
  I’m retweeting this @thelindywest SATC2 review again, because it’s so fucking stone-cold MAGNIFICENT I could cry:
• No Comment… « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
  Just to be clear, the new blog is – you don’t need the iPad FryPaper app to read it. x
• The Conversation: Kidnapped in Yemen – ABC News
  Video from my interview with Glen Davis and Ludmila Yamalova, kidnapped in Yemen
• Twitter / Howard Rheingold: William James (1):
  William James (1): "The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgement…"
• BBC News – Today – Fonteyn: Revolutionary ballerina?
  Dame Margot Fonteyn, one of Britain’s most famous ballerinas, was "up to her neck" in a coup plot in Central America – along with Fidel Castro, according to government files released today at the National Archives.
• BP
  That is excellent. I love Despair. RT @overprocessed: @marlaerwin This is a good BP logo too
• iwan baan images of mass studies pavilion at world expo 2010
  More, better photos of the *absolutely incredible* Korean pavilion at World Expo 2010
• The Swinger « Music Machinery
  The Swinger: Python script turns any song into swing version via @BoingBoing
• Gov 2.0: The Next Internet Boom – BusinessWeek
  RT @corbett3000: Gov 2.0: The Next Internet Boom – BusinessWeek – /cc @seeclickfix @timoreilly @kmerritt #gov20 #g2e
• Untitled (http://anitaborg.org/files/Senior-Technical-Women-A-Profile-of-Success.pdf)
  60% tech men see selves as “innovator" vs 38% tech women. BUT- women solve more problems than men

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• Gregarious desert locusts have substantially larger brains with altered proportions compared with the solitarious phase — Proceedings B
• Crisis Commons releases open source oil spill reporting – O’Reilly Radar
  Crisis Commons releases open source oil spill reporting Follow @OilReporter for ongoing reports
• When "Cool" Got Cool : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
  Now on Word Routes @VisualThesaurus: When "Cool" Got Cool.
• Six Degrees of Black Sabbath
• OSCON 2010, The O’Reilly Open Source Convention – O’Reilly Conferences, July 19 – 23, 2010, Portland, OR
  RT @OSCON Exploring intersections of #opensource w/ Health, Gov20, Edu, Cloud + more at OSCON 2010. Best price ends June 2
• Protecting biodiversity reduces poverty in developing nations
• Protected areas reduced poverty in Costa Rica and Thailand — PNAS
• What’s the best way to punish BP for the oil spill? – By Daniel Gross – Slate Magazine
  "We could tar & feather the BP executives.There’s an ample supply of both tar & feathers—& tarred feathers—in the Gulf"
• Pinkwater’s ADVENTURES OF A CAT-WHISKERED GIRL, sequel to Neddiad and Yggyssey – Boing Boing
  Daniel #Pinkwater’s ADVENTURES OF A CAT-WHISKERED GIRL: absolutely genius gonzo #YA from the master
• Steve Martin – Atheists Don’t Have No Songs | Atheist Planet
  Steve Martin – Atheists Don’t Have No Songs
• SlowTV | Lionel Shriver in conversation with Caroline Baum. Sydney Writers’ Festival | The Monthly
  Lionel Shriver…tough, compelling & provocative…"Anger can be a very productive emotion, it has energy in it…"
• New King of Technology – Apple Overtakes Microsoft – NYTimes.com
  A milestone: Apple’s market cap passes Microsoft’s
• Weekly World News: Space alien delivers message to Obama!!! | Philly | 05/26/2010
• Emily Nussbaum on ‘Law & Order’ — New York Magazine TV Review
• Twitter / Daring Fireball: Google Dictionary Chrome E …
  Google Dictionary Chrome Extension: http://✪df.ws/fey
• Key-Value Benchmarking | VoltDB
  VoltDB is out, benchmarks against Cassandra
• (404) http://j.mp/BPBrands%0AKnow
  @gruber which brands to boycott.
• WEBSITE.WS – Your Internet Address For Lifeâ„¢
  Google Dictionary Chrome Extension:
• YouTube
  – Gov 2.0 Expo 2010: Tim O’Reilly, "Government as a Platform for Greatness"
  My keynote at #g2e, Government as a platform for greatness. How do we make sure that #gov20 is really revolutionary?
• It’s Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft
  It’s official: Apple is now worth more than Microsoft $AAPL $MSFT
• If you have a laptop, I’m sure you’re familiar… » RocketBoom Tech
  Photo: If you have a laptop, I’m sure you’re familiar with how hot and uncomfortable they can become. Enter-…
• Novel RNA interference screening technique identifies possible path for malignant glioma treatment
  Novel RNA interference screening technique identifies possible path for malignant glioma treatment
• LittleDog Learns Several Terrifying New Tricks

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• ThinkGeek :: Brain Freeze Ice Cube Molds
• Gov Tech Clinic: Bring Us Your Problems: Gov 2.0 Expo 2010 – Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, May 25 – 27, 2010, Washington, DC
  RT @pahlkadot Got a tech problem? Bring it to our govtech clinic at 11am on the expo floor at #g2e Geeks needed too.
• YouTube
  – OreillyMedia’s Channel
  Aneesh Chopra came to Gov 2.0 Expo for a meeting with me, and I snagged him for a video interview #g2e
• Cloud Summit: OSCON 2010, The O’Reilly Open Source Convention – O’Reilly Conferences, July 19 – 23, 2010, Portland, OR
  RT @swardley #oscon #cloud summit with @martenmickos , @timoreilly and @mjasay – – cloud, its future and open source.
• Preliminary evidence that plasma oxytocin levels a… [Psychiatry Res. 2010] – PubMed result
  RT @vaughanbell: Major depression associated with *raised* oxytocin levels. ‘Hug hormone’ meet social withdrawal.
• Photoblog
• Go.USA.gov – Create short, trustworthy .gov URLs
  is a gov URL shortener – lists the most popular gov URLs at any point. Built in Drupal, lives in the cloud. #g2e
• All evolution, all the time: Scientific American
  All evolution, all the time
• Forum One Launches County Sin Rankings: Fun Riff on Community Health Data | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development
  RT @SusannahFox Health data winner at #g2e: County Sin Rankings (chlamydia rate – lust; adult obesity – sloth)
• Official Google Research Blog: Recent Accomplishments by Research Award Recipients

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• HTML5 form demo – HTML5 Watch
• Ten of the greatest maps that changed the world | Mail Online
• Underpaid Genius – photojojo: A look at thousands of abandoned…
  A look at thousands of abandoned pools in foreclosed California houses.
  Eerily beautiful.
• Creating Passionate Users: You ARE a marketer. Deal with it.
  As @kathysierra says: "You ARE a marketer. Deal with it". /cc @frogandcode
• Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear and friends launch The Mongoliad: a shared universe that could only live on the Web – Boing Boing
  Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear and friends launch The Mongoliad: a shared universe that could only live on the Web – cool
• Soil Bacteria Might Increase Learning: Scientific American Podcast
  Soil Bacteria Might Increase Learning
• No Jail Time For Man Arrested In Captain America Costume – News Story – WFTV Orlando
  RT @sepinwall: RT @KenTremendous: Via Deadspin, the best opening graf in news history:
• Twitter / Ushahidi: Follow @SwiftRiver to keep …
  Follow @SwiftRiver to keep up with our initiative to manage and make sense of large streams of data
• Art.sy – The place to discover and share original fine art online
  – intriguing new startup offers a platform for discovering and sharing original fine art (via @amritrichmond)
• Mineral Isotopes Could Reveal Whether Dinosaurs Were Cold- or Warm-Blooded: Scientific American
  Mineral Isotopes Could Reveal Whether Dinosaurs Were Cold- or Warm-Blooded
• CSS World Clocks!
• Remarkable Creatures – Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years – NYTimes.com
  Remarkable Creatures: Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years
• About at artmuse.com
• Publish2 Wants To Disrupt The Associated Press With An Online News Exchange
  Publish2 Wants To Disrupt The Associated Press With An Online News Exchange – by @robinwauters
• Twitter / Marla Erwin: RT @pourmecoffee: BP to US …
  RT @pourmecoffee: BP to US: "It puts the lotion on its beaches."
• Getting Started with HTML5 Local Databases « Dark Crimson Blog
• BitTorrent Open Sources ‘Improved’ BitTorrent Protocol | TorrentFreak
  BitTorrent Open Sources ‘Improved’ BitTorrent Protocol – what’s not to like? #bittorrent #opensource
• Disruptions Mar Ahmadinejad Speech in Iran – WSJ.com
  Underappreciated story of the day: Ahmadinejad jeered at speech by unemployed Iranians. Why sanctions matter. #iran
• Doing It for the People: The 25 Greatest Philanderers in American Political History: Politics: GQ
  They groped. They skirt-chased. They lusted in their hearts. And now they will live in infamy

  Read More http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201006/the-twenty-five-greatest-philanderers-in-american-political-history#slide=11#ixzz0osKt3WTl

• Poolga. iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us.
  Artwork and wallpapers for iPhone, iPad and other mobile devices created by selected illustrators and designers.
• The Twitter Tim.es – a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account
• NYC Way iPhone App: A thoughtful take on local apps that add real value
  NYCWay – if you’re in New York, this free 50-iPhone-apps-in-one app is a must-have (via, of course, @amritrichmond)
• Untitled (http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20100524/43267-the-tim-o-reilly-factor.html)
  RT @maureenjennings Read this terrific interview with @timoreilly in Publishers Weekly:
• Willow Garage
  To be clear, Texai is from Open source robotics FTW!
• Gov 2.0 Expo Event Preview – General News
  Here’s more detail on what to expect at Gov 2.0 Expo from the OhMyGov preview article: #g2e

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• Twitter / Simon Willison: Via @openplatform:
  Via @openplatform: "try going to any page on guardian.co.uk and replace the domain with content.guardianapis.com" -works for gu.com URLs too
• After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all – News, Books – The Independent
• Daring Fireball: Post-I/O Thoughts
  Post IO Thoughts: Excellent analysis of the smartphone wars from @gruber

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• Google App Engine Blog: MicroApps from The Guardian and Google AppEngine – Both ready for business
• Darkroom
  DarkRoom: an online image editor – (via @codepo8)
• Review: Nomad, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali – The Globe and Mail
• Martin Gardner – 3quarksdaily
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly
  Nice to see how flyontime.us is using twitter hashtags to monitor the length of airport security lines.
• Sneak Peek: Obama Administration’s Redesigned Data.gov | Epicenter | Wired.com
  Happy birthday, data.gov (OK, it was Friday). Good, detailed look at the redesigned site from @wired: #gov20
• Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog: Small amount of dark chocolate daily reduces blood pressure without weight gain
  Be still my heart!! "Dark chocolate helps keep arteries open for business" via @drves
• The mobile device vs the car or the mobile device working with the car, discussion of the future of cars makezine on USTREAM. Other Technology
  Video of panel with Ford about automakers 2.0 at #makerfaire Also my remarks about makers and innovation at about 13:30
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
  LOL "why are there so few girl engineers?" /via @geekgirldiva
• YouTube
  – Africa Women Play Guitar solo
  A revelation. RT @rosannecash: This is fantastic. RT @hush6 Absolutely amazing guitar solo by a woman in Botswana.

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• The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson – NYTimes.com
• Gov 2.0 Week in Review – O’Reilly Radar
  Good insight from @digiphile about the impact of Facebook privacy changes on government use of the service #opengov
• The Open Gov Initiative: Enabling Techies to Solve Government Problems
  .@techcrunch on why open government matters to entrepreneurs mentions @gov2events and @CodeforAmerica #opengov #gov20
• Maker Faire 2010 – a set on Flickr
  Photos from #makerfaire setup yesterday. The music stage with synchronized lightning is especially awesome
• One on One: Dale Dougherty, Make Magazine and Maker Faire – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
  Nice NYT piece from @nickbilton about @dalepd, the man behind this weekend’s #makerfaire in San Mateo:
• Researchers start up cell with synthetic genome : Nature News
  The JVCI watermark: "The sequences contain … a URL" ( Every synthetic genome will encode its own home page. Nice!
• polishlinux.org » Open source film recommendation engine from Filmaster.com
  Open source film recommendation engine – released under AGPL; presumably applies to other domains #films #agpl
• Come party with Lady Gaga – Times Online
  So, @caitlinmoran’s Gaga piece in today’s Times is a must-read.
• Untitled (http://americanjourney2.com/picupload/20100521-184231-Interior.jpg)
  RT @AJtheFiesta: Showing off AJ at the Maker Faire with @timoreilly: ^JR
• YouTube
  – Scorpion Attack
  Video: Scorpion vs. Beetle. Costa Rica’s La Selva Biological Station: #nature #wildlife #insects
• Google’s new Android is divine, GoogleTV no sure thing :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko
• Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable – The Oatmeal
• Levitating glass bead proves Einstein wrong – physics-math – 20 May 2010 – New Scientist
  Albert Einstein said it couldn’t be done, but now the velocity of a microscopic particle as it zigzags through air has been directly measured.

  The same technology used to make the measurement may eventually be used to force such beads to exhibit quantum mechanical behaviour that is normally seen in subatomic objects.

• World’s Oldest Sex Toy [PIC]
• My Contrarian Stance on Facebook and Privacy – O’Reilly Radar
  New blog post: My contrarian stance on Facebook and privacy:

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• The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front)
  .@dewitt Indeed, it doesn’t surprise me that you & other Googlers strongly agree with @kellan. Thx for pointer
• Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping. – Laughing Meme
  Fab piece that Facebook and Google should study carefully: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping via @gnat
• Home – ExtensionFM
  ExtensionFM is a browser extension for Chrome that finds every MP3 file on pages you visit and automatically creates a library of those songs for you to enjoy
• 10+ “hidden gems” not to miss at Gov 2.0 Expo | GovTwit
  RT @dslunceford 10 "must see" sessions at #Gov20 Expo – #1: @TimBerners_Lee/@KateLundy/@TimOReilly: #g2e
• Untitled (http://blog.iteleportmobile.com/quality-over-quantity-how-we-built-iteleport?c=1)
  How iTeleport is building a profitable business in the App Store without going the low-price route. via @andrewsavikas
• Toyota Partners With Tesla to Make Electric Cars! | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
  Toyota invests in, partners with Tesla to make electric cars in CA: (via @slashdot)
• Twitter / E. M. Maximilien: MapReduce (well only map f …
  MapReduce (well only map functions
• YUI Theater — Ryan Dahl: “Introduction to NodeJS” (58 min.) » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog)
  Video — Ryan Dahl (@ryah): “Introduction to NodeJS”: #yuitheater
• Beautiful Mount Ararat, Turkey. 5,137m. on Twitpic
  Beautiful Mount Ararat, Turkey. 5,137m.
• The Way We Live Now – Metric Mania – NYTimes.com
  Good @nytimes article about the use and misuse of measurement and statistics. Worth reading.
• Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole – WSJ.com
  myspace & facebook sent user names/ids to ad companies when consumers clicked on ads says @wsj (via @techmeme)]\
• Panic Attacks as a Problem of pH: Scientific American
  In general, the pH of our brain is carefully regulated. A large increase or decrease in brain acidity can seriously disrupt brain functioning. This new study indicates that pH can sometimes rise and fall in synapses, the points of communication between individual neurons in the brain. Some synapses include specialized proteins that "sense" acidity. These proteins (called "’acid-sensing ion channels", or ASICs) stimulate neurons when increased acid is detected.

  The Iowa study shows that genetically modified mice lacking these acid-sensing proteins have a greatly reduced capacity to show either instinctive or learned fear. When the researchers restored the ASIC gene only in the amygdala of these genetically modified mice, they observed a normalization of fear behaviors. So their studies suggest that the ability to detect changes in synaptic pH in the amygdala is essential for normal fear behavior.

• Mapreduce & Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers (3rd update)
• Grand Challenges: The First Results – Expert Labs
  ThinkTank
• Benson (TV series)
  Who knew? Apparently "Benson" may have been the first TV show to mention the Internet (ARPANET, actually)
• Just Be And You Are – Tim O’Reilly Explaining Gov2.0
  RT @sarawinge "like taking a bath in ideas I’d never heard about" @akshaykapur on @timoreilly’s webcast on Gov 2.0
• Error (ACS Publications)
  Hydrogen peroxide generated on the fly with potentional applications to oxidations in organic synthesis |
• I, microbe: Sequencing the bugs in our bodies – health – 20 May 2010 – New Scientist
  Our bodies are more microbial than they are human, and now we’ve got their genomes to prove it.
• makerfaire.com:
  Singularity U cafe at @makerfaire this weekend:
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Info Architecture for the WWW, 3rd Ed. – Only $9.99 use code DDAWW
• Arctic Drilling Proposal Advanced Amid Concern – NYTimes.com
  A proposal to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean as early as this summer received initial permits from the Minerals Management Service office in Alaska at the same time federal auditors were questioning the office about its environmental review process.

  The approvals also came after many of the agency’s most experienced scientists had left, frustrated that their concerns over environmental threats from drilling had been ignored.

• Twitter / Lizz Winstead: Rand Paul is however, tot …
  Rand Paul is however, totally in favor of A Civil Whites Act
• Man-made Genetic Instructions Yield Living Cells for the First Time: Scientific American
  Man-made Genetic Instructions Yield Living Cells for the First Time

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