• Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art – Stephen Walter’s The Island
  hand-drawn map of London
• rentzsch.tumblr.com: Public-But-Hackable Git Submodules
• Salt & Fat, Tomato-butter sauce
• Understand The Web · Ben Ward
  "Understand the web" by the ever readable @BenWard; if you only read one tech blog post this week, make it this one -
• Google
  Robert Brulle – sociologist who’s frequent @dotearth voice – nails BP @climateprogress.#oilspill
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks – Ree Drummond
  Ok here’s the cake I had the other night and died and went to heaven
• Apple is the new China « The TNL.net weblog
  Provocative: Apple is the New China, predatory but too big to ignore
• API Scorecard – ProgrammableWeb
  API scorecard from programmableweb.com is relevant to my State of the Internet OS piece
• Twitter / Tim Spalding: Why do free social network …
  Why do free social networks tilt inevitably toward user exploitation? Because you’re not their customer, you’re their product.
• 20 Sea Turtles Found Dead Along Miss. Beaches – New Orleans News Story – WDSU New Orleans
  20 Sea Turtles Found Dead Along Miss. Beaches /via @wdsu, @jimwxgator #oilspill
• Searchtastic.com – search Twitter history and export tweets to Excel
  Yes, @Bill_Romanos, I do like this tool.
• Calvin and Hobbes
  Every single Calvin and Hobbes ever:
• Lean Startup Intensive: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 – Co-produced by TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, May 03 – 06, 2010, San Francisco, CA
  Last chance to sign up for the Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo tomorrow 25% discount code websf10lean25
• Twitter / rands: When the editing becomes a …
  When the editing becomes as exciting as the writing, you’re a writer.
• Book Review – Insectopedia – By Hugh Raffles – NYTimes.com
  An aerial plankton, an ocean over our heads: Insectopedia #books #wildlife #garden #animals #biodiversity #insect
• Digital + Media » Kelly Dobson
  Love that Kelly Dobson is working on "data visceralization" – devices that give physical data feedback #fooeast
• www.MindPowerNews.com: Lucky Charms Work, Claim Psychologists
  Lucky Charms Work, Claim Psychologists
• Vision Gets Better With The Right Mind-set – Science News
  Volunteers’ eyesight improved when they believed that they could see particularly well.

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Links for May 3rd from 01:43 to 11:28:

• API Scorecard – ProgrammableWeb – API scorecard from programmableweb.com is relevant to my State of the Internet OS piece
• Twitter / Tim Spalding: Why do free social network … – Why do free social networks tilt inevitably toward user exploitation? Because you're not their customer, you're their product.
• Searchtastic.com – search Twitter history and export tweets to Excel – Yes, @Bill_Romanos, I do like this tool.
• Lean Startup Intensive: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 – Co-produced by TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, May 03 – 06, 2010, San Francisco, CA – Last chance to sign up for the Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo tomorrow 25% discount code websf10lean25
• Twitter / rands: When the editing becomes a … – When the editing becomes as exciting as the writing, you're a writer.
• Digital + Media » Kelly Dobson – Love that Kelly Dobson is working on "data visceralization" – devices that give physical data feedback #fooeast
• Bad Science – Just discovered Ben Goldacre's Bad Science via @tomcoates at #fooeast We need this commentary for other news as well.
• Crisis Info: Crowdsourcing the Filter – The Ushahidi Blog – Ushahidi Swift River: filtering crowdsourced information via @patrickmeier at #fooeast

Links for May 2nd through May 3rd:

• Twitter / jane lerner: Please explain to me the a … – Please explain to me the appeal of Gary V, the wine guy. It's like someone gave a ferret some cocaine and a corkscrew.
• Download Hugin for Mac – Panorama image tools, now compiled for OS X. MacUpdate Mac Software Downloads –
• Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation – Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline
• Education 2.0: The importance of ownership – O’Reilly Radar – Wonderful post about why students need to own their own learning: education is hard
• How water will play out in the U.S. | Cleantech Investing : Greentech Media – IPosts by a cleantech investor: How water will play out in the US Boston: This is how it happens
• How China Sees Africa: We Get Commodities, You Get Highways. Cool? – How China Sees Africa: We Get Commodities, You Get Highways. "Right now, that model is working better [than ours]."
• Richard Dawkins’ classic still has the power to open our eyes | The Blind Watchmaker |
  Science |
  guardian.co.uk – Richard Dawkins' warm, lyrical, generous "The Blind Watchmaker" is 25 years old.