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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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June 25th, 2010 — pinboard
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June 24th, 2010 — pinboard
- "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.
- Ð’ офиÑе 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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June 23rd, 2010 — pinboard
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June 21st, 2010 — pinboard
- 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
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– 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
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- 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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June 20th, 2010 — pinboard
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