Entries from June 2010 ↓

• Patriotic Quotations in Binary
  Love @mashable’s piece about @anemani10′s Patriotic Quotations in Binary (including decoding directions) t-shirts soon
• Graph Theory and Complex Networks
  Maarten van Steen (VU) has made his excellent new book "Graph Theory and Complex Networks" available for free:
• Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDPCM
• Cops looking for lady robber who knocked off shoe store in cat mask – NYPOST.com
  Cat Woman is robbing fashion shops in New York. Like, for real.
• Brain stem hidden in Sistine Chapel painting? – Boing Boing
  Brain stem hidden in Sistine Chapel painting?
• Impulsive, weak-willed or just too much dopamine? Brain study highlights role of dopamine in impulsive behavior
  Impulsive, weak-willed or just too much dopamine? Brain study highlights role of dopamine in impulsive behavior
• Depressed mice could aid research on drug-resistant depression in humans
  Depressed mice could aid research on drug-resistant depression in humans
• UVa lawyers: Investigation by Cuccinelli ‘unlawful’ | Charlottesville Daily Progress
  GOP witch hunt of #climate scientists illegal, say U Va lawyers -
• Ten Classic Movies Drawn as Little Golden Books | Nerve.com
  This is what Pixar’s illustrators do in their spare time.
• Rolling Stone Back on a Roll With Investigative Articles – NYTimes.com
  RT @pahlkadot Always nice to notice the value of slow journalism. NYTimes on Rolling Stone:
• Baidu to hire U.S. engineers to work in China
  | Reuters
  RT @Janerri Baidu, China’s largest search engine, hires U.S. engineers. CEO to speak @web2summit Nov!
• Jeff Bezos Princeton Commencement
  RT @catallman: It’s harder to be kind than clever. <– great commencement speech from jeff bezos via @CodeforAmerica
• Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Ed. Only $9.99 use code DDLN6
• Fast-tracking: Alternatives to college – O’Reilly Radar
  Fast-tracking: Alternatives to College – @dalepd’s #FooCamp interview w Sridhar Vembu of Zoho and what he’s done in India
• ProgrammableWeb Joins Alcatel-Lucent
  Interesting. programmableweb.com acquired by Alcatel-Lucent.

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• Halting IT Boondoggles
  Halting IT Boondoggles: #gov20 means using transparency to create actionable feedback loops #leanstartup writ large
• @mkapor rocks the red white and blue for @codeforamerica on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  RT @pahlkadot: @mkapor rocks the red white and blue for @codeforamerica
• Groklaw – Here’s Bilski: It’s Affirmed, But . . .No Decision on Software Patentability – Updated
  RT @digiphile Useful analysis, links: "Bilski: It’s Affirmed, But …No Decision on Software Patentability"-GrokLaw
• Probably Bad News: Vuvuzela Fail – FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Funny Pictures and Funny Videos of Owned, Pwned and Fail Moments
  Vuvuzela claims first victim

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• Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Supreme Court Throws Out Bilski Patent
  Supreme Court Throws Out Bilski Patent. This is huge. The question is how huge.
• Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Quantum Entanglement Holds DNA Together, Say Physicists
  Quantum entanglement may hold DNA together, say physicists (via @jamesoreilly)
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy interviewed by Dale Dougherty – Boing Boing
  RT @dalepd dalepd Hackers, a history – my interview with Steven Levy at FOO Camp about his book.
• YouTube
  - DJ Patil explaining LinkedIn social graph visualizations
  First useful social graph viz I’ve seen. Handheld video walkthrough of LinkedIn graph that includes @Joi and me #foo10
• Untitled (http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/26/1701803/oil-spill-the-nightmare-becomes.html)
  Carl Hiaasen outraged, trying to make non-Gulf America feel the pain, anger & helplessness of the #oilspill
• A Year at War – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
  In a chilling way. RT @nickbilton: This interactive piece about the war in Afghanistan is astounding:
• Wife selling – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  ‘Wife selling’, an English tradition that continued until the early 20th century. via @GeekStats
• The Frozen Addicts : Speakeasy Science
  Great @deborahblum piece on how synthetic smack taught us about the neuroscience of Parkinson’s disease.

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• Technology Review: A Private Social Network for Cell Phones
  An obscured cloud: content sharing in the cloud, but w/o the cloud operator having access to the content via @digiphile
• BBC News – Africa ‘witnessing birth of a new ocean’
  Africa ‘witnessing birth of a new ocean’
• Defense Experts Press for Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Climate Change: Scientific American
  RT @sciam Defense experts say it’s what you *don’t* know about climate change that’s most important: #resilience
• Vital fruit and berry collection set for destruction – life – 24 June 2010 – New Scientist
  RT @rowanNS World’s biggest scientific repository of fruits & berries could be bulldozed for housing
• Chicago Journals

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  The Journal of Infectious Diseases

  Nifty mutation network analysis pinpoints southern China as pathogenic H5N1 cluster/incubator.
• Texas GOP comes out against oral sex, the UN, and the Supreme Court – Boing Boing
  #Texas #GOP rebrands itself as the "No #Blowjob Party" — that’ll be popular.
• FT.com / Asia-Pacific – Underground girls classes defy Taliban
  RT @jamesoreilly These Afghans are very brave people: "Undergound girls’ classes defy Taliban"
• Sungha Jung’s Official site
  south korean 13-year-old
• Quotable quotes from Government 1.0 — in binary – Boing Boing
  Rock the Red, White, and Blue, in Binary (via @doctorow) Suggest additional quotes for posters & tees #gov20 #opengov
• Amazon.com: Music, Language, and the Brain (9780199755301): Aniruddh D. Patel:…
• Twitter / Kelvin Koh: The England team visited a …
  The England team visited an orphanage in Cape Town today. "It’s heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope" said Jamal, aged 6
• tomgara | TweetPhoto
  !!! RT @tomgara: Melbourne’s Brunetti is now making some of Dubai’s best gelati (pictured: coffee and lemon)
• Clickable Map of Mathematics
  Clickable map of mathematics. Very nice resource.
• YouTube
  - Velocity 2010: James Hamilton, "Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation"
  OH: @kellan: "James Hamilton’s talk at #velocityconf was a barn burner." Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation. Video:
• Most Followed On Twitter: #140 Most POPULAR Tweeters
  RT @HuffPostEngage: Congrats Tim! You’re featured on @HuffingtonPost as one of Twitter’s 140 most popular users:

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• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly
  "when the paper clip grows up into a creepy disembodied face" @jstogdill on Microsoft AI for medical reception
• Sustaining a 14-day Release Cycle • laststation.net
  Agile development: RT @RomanStanek Maintaining a 14 day release cycle at @gooddata #devops #velocityconf
• Breaking Things Down to Particles Blinds Scientists to Big Picture | Magazine
  Just stumbled upon @jonahlehrer’s great essay on the limits of fMRI brain-scanning:
• Smarter Than You Think – Computers Make Strides in Recognizing Speech – NYTimes.com
  Rapid improvements in speech recognition via @laurenweinstein. Was just talking to CEO of Nuance about this yesterday
• No Sleep ‘Til Fusion
  Here’s the link for @quinnnorton’s No sleep til fusion piece: Love the #maker spirit. "Don’t tell me it’s impossible!"
• IT Jobs Offer Growth, But Women Are Bailing Out | Womens eNews
  RT @CarriBugbee: 56% percent of women in tech companies leave 10-20 years into careers; largely due to gender bias.
• Live map of London Underground trains
  Love this taste of the always real-time computing future: Live train map for the London Underground via @naypinya
• Protect your WordPress login | Tiger Technologies Blog
  Good post about protecting your WordPress login/password with a self-signed SSL certificate: Recommended.
• "yeah thats not what I was looking for at all."
  That’s not my cat. (via @joemfbrown)
• YouTube – Star Trek: Tik Tok
• YouTube
  - Velocity 2010: Tim O’Reilly, "O’Reilly Radar"
  Video of my #velocityconf keynote yesterday: Slides
• Twitter / Steve Jobs: I heard the CEO of AT
  I heard the CEO of AT
• Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff | Video on TED.com
• The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
  Awesome piece: The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is
• Busted on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  RT @bryce speeding tickets- not just for cars anymore:
• Drink – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  I find the Simple Wikipedia very funny. I particularly like their explanations of complex ideas.
• The CrowdFlower Blog – Crowdsourcing the Goldman Sachs Investigation
  Great idea from @crowdflower: Crowdsourcing the Goldman Sachs Investigation #gov20 #opengov
• Alaska & New Zealand Travels on the Behance Network
  The stark beauty of New Zealand and Alaska. In photos:

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• "If you don’t vote, you can’t bitch" – O’Reilly Radar
  Marc Hedlund is so fundamentally *sane*. His thoughts on #iphone4 and #attfail "If you don’t vote, you can’t bitch."
• Python Cookbook, Second Edition
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Python Cookbook, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99 Use code DDPCK
• Twitter / Katie Jacobs Stanton: Cool, list of @verified/wo …
  Cool, list of @verified/world-leaders (h/t @chloe)
• Twitter / Breaking News: Australia PM Kevin Rudd st …
  Australia PM Kevin Rudd steps down, Julia Gillard to become country’s first female prime minister – Reuters, Sky TV
• Women’s bodies ‘choosy’ about sperm | COSMOS magazine
  A woman’s body may be unconsciously selective about sperm: #science #pregnancy #sex
• Curious Chimp — Congo’s Chimps — Video — National Geographic Magazine
  This footage of a young chimp discovering a hidden camera must be one of the best wildlife videos I’ve ever seen
• Twitter / Mattt Thompson: @austinonrails Just puttin …
  @austinonrails Just putting it out there, I’d be interested in talking i18n and l8n on Rails at some future meeting.
• В офисе Apple on Twitpic
  Wow! Steve Jobs & Medvedev RT @KremlinRussia_E Inside Apple’s offices
• Google: How We’re Making the Web Faster « Data Center Knowledge
  Google: How We’re Making the Web Faster « Data Center Knowledge tip @techmeme $GOOG
• Eliot Spitzer – Kathleen Parker – Photos | Silda Spitzer | Mediaite
  Just Saying: Eliot Spitzer’s New Co-Host Kathleen Parker Sure Looks Like His Wife Silda: SK
• High Performance Web Sites :: Zen and the Art of Web Performance
  RT @strangeloopnet: Steve Souders: Zen and the Art of Web Performance: Awesome. #velocityconf
• Increased Brain Fatty Acid Uptake in Metabolic Syn… [Diabetes. 2010] – PubMed result
  Obesity alters fatty acid uptake in the brain. Technical but important study.
• (500) http://tsort.us/p56k3z
  Marieke Hardy Recommends Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook
• Sign up for your account: Velocity 2010, Web Performance & Operations Conference – O’Reilly Conferences, June 22 – 24, 2010, Santa Clara, CA
  RT @ginablaber We’re streaming #velocityconf keynotes live at

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• dpaste: New
  django-powered pastebin
• Twitter / R.L. Ripples: Dallas has a new ordinance …
  Dallas has a new ordinance against allowing horses to stand at one place on asphalted streets longer than 30 minutes. TX1910
• Twitter / Mignon Fogarty: Just gave my sister @Sleep …
  Just gave my sister @SleepPhones for her birthday, and she loved them. Everyone was oohing and aahing.
• Download Fraise for Mac – Easy to use and powerful text editor based on Smultron. MacUpdate Mac Software Downloads
• Twitter / Daring Fireball: HTML5Rocks: http://✪df.ws/fms
  HTML5Rocks: http://✪df.ws/fms

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• Build Communities not Apps Contests. – A Healthy Information Diet – InfoVegan.com
  Good reminder from @cjoh: Build Communities, Not App Contests #gov20 #opengov #innovation
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly
  .@alleyinsider: "Whoa! Did The #Nook Have Better Sales Than The #Kindle In March?" My comments:
• Twitter / Don Carli: RT @EnvironUpdates Yahoo!: …
  RT @EnvironUpdates Yahoo!: Oil threatens key Gulf algae
• Twitter / Don Carli: RT @mrchrisadams More ener …
  RT @mrchrisadams More energy wasted than used. www.bit.ly/9j2iz8 Efficiency is single greatest untapped energy source in US. via @leashless
• Untitled (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/44000/44375/USA7_TMO_2010170_lrg.jpg)
  Incredible hi-rez photo of the gulf oil slick -
• Scientists: Gulf oil spill threatens breeding ground for bluefin tuna – Food CEO
  Scientists: Gulf oil gusher threatens breeding ground for bluefin tuna
• Everything you need to know about the internet | Technology | The Observer
  Also from last night, this brilliant, overdue piece
• Apple Now Stores and Shares Your iPhone’s Location
  Apple Now Stores and Shares Your iPhone’s Location (via @pulsepad)
• Rucker’s WARE books back in print — and free to download!!!11!ONE! – Boing Boing
  Rucker’s WARE books back in print — and free to download!!!11!ONE!
• On the performance of clouds – O’Reilly Radar
  RT @radar On the performance of clouds
• Data Mining and Rule Engine Software Download
  Data Mining and Rule Engine Software Download: CMSR is a new generation data mining and rule engine sof… #datamining
• The Wrong Stuff : On Air and On Error: This American Life’s Ira Glass on Being Wrong
  RT @AmandaRMichel {Also see] @Slate interview w/Ira Glass on how being wrong plays into narrative & life
• EEG Scans May Be Key to Communication for Vegetative Patients | Popular Science
  EEG Scans May Be Key to Communication for Vegetative Patients
• is.gd – Forwarding Script
  "Obama’s Energy Pipe Dreams" is no magic bullet in clean energy. We need a carbon tax. via @jamesoreilly

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• Multimedia – Gulf Oil Spill : Ways You Can Help
  $10 = a clean habitat for 300 oysters, give $10 txt "COAST" to 50555 or visit #CNNHelpGulf #oilspill
• Debunking the myth of the internet as energy hog, again: How information technology is good for climate « Climate Progress
  Debunking the myth of the internet as energy hog, again: How information technology is good for climate – important
• Twitter / Conan O’Brien: Only one thing on Earth ma …
  Only one thing on Earth makes me afraid: When my rostral anterior cingulate cortex fails to dampen hyperactivity in my amygdala.
• Boost to next generation human genetic research | Life Sciences
  The 1000 Genomes Project, an international public-private consortium to build the most detailed map of human genetic variation to date, has completed three pilot projects and announced the deposition of the final resulting data in freely available public databases for use by the research community…n addition to distributing the results on the Project’s own web sites, the pilot data set is available via the Amazon Web services (AWS) computing cloud to enable anyone to access this unprecedentedly large data set, even if they do not have capacity to download it locally.
• Google Troubles Mounting From Data Collection by Street View Cars | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD
  No Harm, Big Foul: Google Intercepted Passwords and Email Extracts
• Smart Grid Projects Cut Costs for Consumers, Utilities — Energy | The Texas Tribune
• PlainText – Synced text files for iOS (Preview)
  PlainText – Synced text files for iOS (Preview)
  A new app for reading and writing text files on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. PlainText is a fast, clean, synchronized text editor. Unlike Notes, PlainText works with Dropbox to instantly sync your changes to your Mac, Windows, or Linux desktop.
• Twidiot | The New Republic
  MUST READ: Buzz Bissinger asks, "How the Hell Did I—a Pulitzer Prize Winner, for Chrissakes—Fall in Love With Twitter?"
• Austin company to receive $10.3 million from state-funded cancer institute | Statesman Business Blog
• YouTube
  - Superb Lyrebird imitating construction work – Adelaide Zoo
  I know we should all be working, but here’s a lyre bird imitating construction work:
• EU sees solar power imported from Sahara in five years | EurActiv
  EU sees solar power imported from Sahara in five years – cool – er, I mean hot #solarpower #sahara
• Slashdot Story | Why Being Wrong Makes Humans So Smart
  Really worth reading: Why Being Wrong Makes Humans So Smart
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/Home-Sea-Robert-Louis-Stevenson/dp/093518029X)
  RLS = Robert Louis Stevenson. If you want to fall in love with his wise spirit, read Berman’s Home from the Sea
• QuickMark Mobile Barcode – Web Site QuickMark
• What’s Inside Worcestershire Sauce? Fermented Surf for Your Turf | Magazine
  What’s Inside Worcestershire Sauce?
• Will iPhones edge out BlackBerrys in Washington?
  Interesting to see how #blackberry still dominates #iphone in Washington DC. via @digiphile
• TED 2011 on Plancast
  #plan TED 2011 (Long Beach Performing Arts Center, Long Beach, CA) Feb 28 – Mar 4, 2011
• Feared side effect of Alzheimer’s drugs is unlikely, new model suggests
  Feared side effect of Alzheimer’s drugs is unlikely, new model suggests
• Peak Oil Task Force
  RT @alexevansuk #Peakoil experts tell me the best energy descent plan in the world right now belongs to Bloomington, IN
• Unicode In Python, Completely Demystified
• Unicode Consortium
• How to Say "Where Is the Bathroom" in Several Different Languages – wikiHow
  crucial information
• Is there an emergency or should the elevator be stopped? on Twitpic
• The flipper bridge
• YouTube – Rachel Maddow The force is strong with this one
• The Real Science Gap | Miller-McCune Online
  The real science gap. Not education, but jobs. via @slashdot

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• Inside the writers room: Top scifi TV writers reveal tricks of the trade
• Copyright Issues Ripe for Reform – Tools of Change for Publishing
  .@macgill reviews some of the legal issues raised by #ebooks: #copyright
• From the Desk of David Pogue – Is Verizon Wireless Making It Harder to Avoid Charges? – NYTimes.com
  Profit above all. It is so sad. Verizon makes helping customers find a better deal a fireable offense, says @pogue
• Rethinking The Laptop
  Rethinking the laptop from @bfeld hits the mark. I’ve been finding myself doing more work on other devices too #ipad
• The Chinese behemoth awakes | Simon Tisdall | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  In other #China news, trade deal w/Greece is latest aggressive move to extend influence via @jamesoreilly
• In China’s Energy Plan, Security Tops Environment – NYTimes.com
  #China on #energy and national security: "energy supply should be where you can plant your foot on it."
• Twitter / Daring Fireball: The Making of Pixar’s ‘Day …
  The Making of Pixar’s ‘Day
• Twitter / Daring Fireball: Rene Ritchie’s iOS 4 Walkt …
  Rene Ritchie’s iOS 4 Walkthrough: http://✪df.ws/fm0
• Levenger Press – Winston Churchill: The Making of the Finest Hour
  RT @n2vip if only interesed in his ‘Finest Hour’ speech, try this – a reproduction of marked-up speech text #Churchill
• The Happy Warrior – Winston Churchill Graphic Novel – Levenger
  RT @n2vip Check this out if you really want to get your ‘#Churchill on’, a cartoon biography! – (1/2)
• WEBSITE.WS – Your Internet Address For Life™
  Rene Ritchie’s iOS 4 Walkthrough:

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