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July 31st, 2010 — pinboard
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- Make: Online : Detroit is the freedom to make things… by Bethany Shorb
Nice piece. RT @dalepd Detroit is the freedom to make things. Bethany Shorb in Making Detroit series. #makerfaire
- Twitter / Mattt Thompson: Watched
Watched "The Unforeseen", a documentary about the effects of urban development on Barton Springs. Must-see for any Austinite.
- It’s our duty to delve into the Wikileaks debate – The Irish Times – Fri, Jul 30, 2010
It’s our duty to delve into the Wikileaks debate Good perspective on open source intelligence
- FBI access to e-mail and Web records raises fears – Yahoo! News
FBI access to e-mail and Web records raises fears (AP)
- Film | The Streets of Ambitiousness | Compare the Meerkat
Today new movie is make grand internet premiere! Grab bucket of salty popcorn-roaches and make way to website!
- Lunar triple sunset | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
RT @jamesoreilly RT @legalnomads Amazing lunar triple sunset, via @badastronomer:
- Revolutions: A free book on probability and statistics with R
A free book on probability and statistics with R – #rstats /via @paulblaser
- OSCON 2010 Report – Open Blog – NYTimes.com
RT @ginablaber Love that New York Times hearts OSCON 🙂 ,
- Twitter / Jon Winokur: I write plays because dial …
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. TOM STOPPARD #writing #writegoal
- Twitter / John Siracusa: Things that are making me …
Things that are making me feel old today: #7 Explaining to people why radio buttons are called radio buttons.
- What is Gov 2.0? – CBS News Video
RT @gov2events Watch this: @timoreilly explains what Gov 2.0 is on CBS News. #gov20 #g2s (I aso talk @codeforamerica)
- DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #44: How You Get Unstuck – The Rumpus.net
- Mind Hacks: Booty calling
Booty call science. Thank you @NoahWG for this study of pure joy.
- Cephalopods In Love
"Cephalopods In Love", a heartwarming stop-motion animation by @tiadoran
- DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract – Boing Boing
- Agent Obvious for iPhone and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store
I just read all the tips in the free AGENT OBVIOUS iPhone app. Writers, you need this
- Backyard Brains
Just had a fascinating demo of at #makerfaire can do camp – neuroscience for everyone
- Welcome to mtelliottmakerspace.com
Fascinating conversation about urban farming and making tools for small farmers w Jeff & Patrick
- Benetech Jobs in Palo Alto, CA | JobScore
RT @gcapiel Come do work that matters at Benetech. We’re hiring Java devs and QA automation engineers –
- Searching Earmarks Isn’t Actually That Hard – Sunlight Labs: Blog
Searching Earmarks Isn’t Actually That Hard via @EllnMllr Increasingly disappointed with gov transparency efforts
- Stieg Larsson becomes first author to sell 1m ebooks on Amazon | Alison Flood | Books | guardian.co.uk
Stieg Larsson first author to sell more than 1 million #ebooks on #Kindle via @slashdot
- YouTube – April 5th: Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson
"April 5th"
- Armed with Science
Panel on Makers and the military here at #candocamp Detroit. Check out the Armed with Science blog also tardec.army.mil
- Poster | Joey Roth
Charlatan, Martyr, Hunter – brilliance from @joeyroth (via @swissmiss)
- Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours | Video on TED.com
Neuroscientist Laurie Santos & her "monkeynomics" experiments show why we’re as irrational as monkeys
- If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged. « Restructure!
"If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged" via @laurelatoreilly
- A Deeper Kind of Joblessness – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review
RT @pahlkadot We need high-quality demand, says @umairh, to have real jobs. And meaning in our lives, says I. Must read
- makerfaire.com: Maker Faire
At the Make Can Do Camp at Eastern Market in Detroit, heading into #makerfaire weekend at the Henry Ford Museum.
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July 29th, 2010 — pinboard
- White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity
- Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever
- Capturing health data in everyday life – O’Reilly Radar
Capturing health data in everyday life
- Font Preview – Google Font Directory
Rad indeed. Google Font Directory preview. Hat tip: @andrewlin
- The Burqa and the Body Electric – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
The Burqa and the Body Electric
- Guest Post: Here’s Why Google’s Paywall Will Work (And The Times’ Will Fail) – SVW
Here’s Why Google’s Paywall Will Work (And The Times’ Will Fail) – good point #paywalls #google #times
- The best magazine articles – india knight’s posterous
The best magazine articles
- @timoreilly I believe this is a compliment – found at #hacks… on Twitpic
Blush. RT @dmadeo @timoreilly I believe this is a compliment – found at #hackshackersnyc
- robots.net – CMU Launches $7 Million Educational Initiative
RT @dalepd "Robots: CMU Launches $7 Million Educational Initiative " and hires head of Dallas Personal Robotics.
- Scaling Big Time with Hadoop
Scale Big Time with Hadoop —
- Human wagering behavior depends on opponents’ face… [PLoS One. 2010] – PubMed result
Poker bets influenced by opponent’s facial expression. Evidence based hustling. Awesome.
- You Are Not So Smart
- Idiot’s guide to OAuth logins for Twitter | Racker Hacker
- Vibram Five Fingers: Discover the Barefooting Alternative
Barefootarians need shoes like this for airports, bathrooms, gravel roads,… I love mine! @rosannecash
- Too Much, Too Young: Brain Overgrowth Correlates with the Severity of Autism Symptoms: Scientific American
Brain Overgrowth Correlates with the Severity of Autism Symptoms. from @sciammind
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– Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Love’s Gonna Live Here [Live] – 1966
This is so cool I can’t stand it. Want the jacket, want the guitar, want those harmonies.
- IBM Researchers Create the Most Detailed Brain Map Yet | Popular Science
- A VC: Startup Showcase
.@fredwilson on the Startup Showcase we’re doing together at Web 2.0 Expo NY #w2e
- The Generation Gap on Government
Why and How the Millennial Generation Is the Most Pro-Government Generation & What This Means via @anemani10
- Evolution of gods, morals and violence | Open Parachute
- Suburban residents now favor more transit spending, poll shows – WGN Radio
RT @T4America Chicago residents prefer investments in transit over new roads by 2-1 margin. via @jamesoreilly
- – Press Center – A Moveable Feast – SunlightFoundation.com
RT @sunlightnetwork: RT @stereogab Fox News reports on House Disbursements based on Sunlight Foundation database
- Detroit 2.0: Motor City to Maker City – O’Reilly Radar
Detroit 2.0: Motor City to Maker City: #Ford on Detroit’s future
- Twitter / John Gruber: @laughingsquid Maybe she s …
@laughingsquid Maybe she shouldn’t have put the "104" right in her user name.
- Evolution of gods, morals and violence | Open Parachute
Evolution of gods, morals and violence: Book review: In the Name of God: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Eth…
- Can Science Feed The World? : Specials : Nature News
Excellent new Nature special: Can Science Feed the World?
- 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site | THINQ.co.uk
Will this teach people to change their privacy settings? 100m Facebook pages collated and dumped on Bittorrent
- OKBB — 500 Worst Passwords Poster
Finally! For Sale!…
Brill – the 500 worst passwords, in a hand-illustrated typographic poster by @kateconsumption
- Yay Hooray | The World at Night
The World at Night – stunning NASA visualization of different light sources at night (HT @paul_steele)
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July 28th, 2010 — pinboard
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July 27th, 2010 — pinboard
- BBC News – Peter Carey makes Man Booker prize longlist again
- Unix Power Tools, Third Edition
– O’Reilly Media
RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition – Only $9.99. Use code DDUPT
- Twitter / Tom Guadagno: No word in the English lan …
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- Stubbornella » Blog Archive » Woman in technology
Too many mediocre men; we need more women: @stubbornella spells it out
- Are Jedi Knights Libertarian or Socialist? | The Atlantic Wire
Big smile: Are Jedi Knights Libertarian or Socialist? via @mcandrew on Facebook
- Make: Online : Makers Dozen: Detroit
RT @makerfaire Makers Dozen: a small portion of the fun and unusual things you’ll find at Maker Faire Detroit.
- The 2011 CfA Projects Start(up) » Code for America
RT @AndrewGreenhill: Check out the innovative @codeforamerica projects for Boston, Philly, Wash DC, Boulder & Seattle:
- Agile Blog : Automatic Syncing Using Dropbox
Oh happy day! @1Password now supports syncing between the desktop, iPhone, and iPad over Dropbox!
- Experimenting with Node.js – Jeff Kreeftmeijer
Wicked cool. Rather creepy. But wicked cool. /via @garru
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Five Pictures of OSCON
Smiling at @timbray’s candid of me from #oscon. And his post makes some good points about the event.
- The Neuroscience of Inception | Wired Science | Wired.com
Didn’t like the movie that much, but I do like this review, The Neuroscience of Inception
- Jane Austen’s Fight Club
Jane Austen’s Fight Club /via @mister_robotics
- Jailbreaking your iPhone and ripping DVDs: Both now perfectly legal | Film | Newswire |
The A.V. Club
Jailbreaking your iPhone and ripping DVDs: Both now perfectly legal.
- SQL and Relational Theory
– O’Reilly Media
RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: SQL and Relational Theory – Only $9.99. Use code DDSQR
- DNA advance and $8 theft capture killer – National – NZ Herald News
Familial DNA searching – Used in NZ to good effect. RT @BMR789
- How to Focus – A Healthy Information Diet – InfoVegan.com
That latest @cjoh post is "How to Focus" (an answer to Nick Carr etc.)
- Healthy Information Diets – InfoVegan.com
RT @gnat trying to resist the urge to stick every one of @cjoh’s posts on 4 Short Links. delivering bigtime goodness
- AppleInsider | US government legalizes iPhone ‘jailbreaking,’ unlocking
#iphone jailbreaking now legal! US gov steps in. via @slashdot
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July 26th, 2010 — pinboard
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July 25th, 2010 — pinboard
- Photoblog – Pilot ejects an instant before fighterjet crashes
- Editorial – Elizabeth Warren – NYTimes.com
- [T] Apple Approaching Oil Heights in Sales/Employee
Apple Approaching Oil Co Heights in Sales/Employee Fascinating how comments turn to gov pensions…
- Might Ryu Murakami’s switch to the iPad signal the beginning of the end for traditional publishers? | Books | The Observer
Japanese author Ryu Murakami is the first big name to publish new novel via iPad, bypassing publisher
- Lucy Mangan: All style and substance | Life and style | The Guardian
Word nerds: I’m so enjoying @lucymangan’s rage/pedantry in yesterday’s Weekend. Quite right.
- It’s more than genes, it’s networks and systems : Pharyngula
It’s more than genes, it’s networks and systems – excellent explanation of what’s really going in #evolution
- In praise of…The ghost highway « Spike Japan
Japan’s ghost highway
- Does Language Influence Culture? – WSJ.com
In Mandarin, future can be below & past above. In Aymara, future is behind & past in front: How languages shape us
- If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one | Comment is free | The Observer
"I should not of done this" is either a weird mistake for @RealDMitchell to make, or an absolutely pitch-perfect joke
- TwitHit for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
RT @ brainpicker Twithit – new "Bump for Twitter" app lets you auto-follow people by bumping phones
- The New York Times > Log In
RT @monstro “Life inside the Beltway has become a combination of speed chess and Mortal Kombat.†Excellent. #gov20
- The Dangers of Friending Strangers: the Robin Sage Experiment | Armed with Science
The Dangers of Friending Strangers: the Robin Sage Experiment #gov20
- Triple-slit experiment confirms reality is quantum – physics-math – 22 July 2010 – New Scientist
- Serotonin cell discoveries mean rethink of depression – health – 22 July 2010 – New Scientist
- I work on Farms; I am a Criminal | Organic and Sustainable Agriculture | Ecological Farming Association
Eye opening piece via my local CSA: I work on Farms; I am a Criminal Gov regulation gone wrong. #gov20
- Bearjacking! Sandwich-seeking Ursus americanus invades car, drives it, honks horn, poops, flips out – Boing Boing
RT @boingboing: Bearjacking: Sandwich-seeking Ursus americanus invades car, drives it, honks horn, poops, flips out.
- the u.s. middle class is being wiped out here’s the stats to prove it: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance
The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it Has anti-globalism agenda but…
- One-pan wonder recipe | Yotam Ottolenghi | Vegetarian | Food | Life and style | The Guardian
- Halva flapjacks | Dan Lepard | Baking | Food | Life and style | The Guardian
- caldersphere’s warbler-1.1.0 Documentation
- Bundler: The best way to manage Ruby applications
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July 24th, 2010 — pinboard
- The New York Times > Log In
Health insurers fighting rule that requires 80% of premiums to go towards patient care.
- Twitter / name: The hardest thing to hide …
The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there, which is why our grandest pretenses conceal not evil or ugliness, but emptiness.
- Twitter / Cory Doctorow: Copyright maximalists have …
Copyright maximalists have created a generation of lawbreakers, some guilty, some joyful. This is a great harm @thepublicdomain #ORGcon
- Ancient tablet bears scars of dark history
Tell Tayinat – Julie’s dig
- The New York Times > Log In
UVA makes available an archive of Faulkner recordings from 1957-58, when he was writer in residence via @naypinya
- Where Science, Art and Photography Intersect (25 photos) – My Modern Metropolis
Insanely awesome science/art photos [via @stevesilberman & @guykawasaki]
- Yes Men documentary goes online via Bittorrent to evade censorship – Boing Boing
Yes Men documentary goes online via Bittorrent to evade censorship
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Internet Needs
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Internet Needs. via @AndreaKuszewski
- Race in Film: Tammy & the Bachelor : Mirror: Motion Picture Commentary
Remember Tammy and Debbie Reynolds? There were slave quarters out back the house.
- Memphis Cuts Crime With Predictive Analytics
Memphis Cuts Crime With Predictive Analytics: reports 31% drop in crime rate to knowing when and where … #datamining
- NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: News and videos from the evening broadcast NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: News and videos from the evening broadcast- msnbc.com
Ok here’s a glimpse of what is ripping my heart out. I fear people won’t care.
- Web 2.0 risks and rewards for federal agencies – O’Reilly Radar
Web 2.0 risks and rewards for federal agencies
- wrttn.in – a simple online notepad
wrttn is a simple notepad with many useful features.
- FluidDB » Blog Archive » Open sourcing Tickery
Tickery has been open sourced: #FluidDB (I like Tickery a lot.)
- Untitled (http://spectrum.ieee.org/images/dec08/images/data02.gif)
RT @pkedrosky Top 10 countries by robots per capita
- Google executive frustrated by Java, C++ complexity | Developer World – InfoWorld
Google’s Rob Pike makes the case for simpler programming languages at #OSCON
- Editorial – Climate Bill Out With a Whimper – NYTimes.com
On Thursday, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, abandoned the fight for meaningful energy and climate legislation. The Republicans — surprise — had been fiercely obstructionist. But the Democratic leaders let them get away with it, as did the White House. It has been weeks since President Obama spoke out about the need for a serious climate bill to address the very real danger of global warming and to lessen this country’s dependence on imported oil.
- Cooking for Geeks
– O’Reilly Media
RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Cooking for Geeks – Only $9.99. Use code DDC4G
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July 23rd, 2010 — pinboard
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July 22nd, 2010 — pinboard
- JavaScript Cookbook
– O’Reilly Media
RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: JavaScript Cookbook – Only $9.99. Use code DDCKB
- Time-Lapse Twitter Visualization Shows America’s Moods [VIDEO]
- Amazon.com: J. M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature (9780231148412): Anton Leist, Peter Singer: Books
- Frontal Cortex | Wired Science | Wired.com
- Twitoaster – the Twitter conversations service
Twitoaster is a Twitter web application that threads and archives your conversations in real time, bringing you all the context and statistics you need to improve the way you communicate with your followers.
- write.fm
- YouTube – Woman’s Last Stand: Dodge Charger Commercial Spoof
- Hacker News | If you change the window.history.pushState() call to window.history.replaceState…
Holy cow… scrolling text in the URL bar (in Chrome and Safari)! paste JS in to your URL bar
- Agora :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
"Agora," sort of an intellectual "Troy" about a feminist mathematician. My review is now online.
- The incredible journey of mankind: Helicobacter pylori as the narrator Desikan P – Indian J Med Microbiol
The incredible journey of mankind, thru lens of Helicobacter pylori
- maxfield parrish – Google Search
Trust me: this is the most gorgeous demo of the new Google Image Search possible. »
- How Much Oil Spilled in the Gulf? Less than Six Hours’ Worth – The New Ideal – GOOD
How Much Oil Spilled in the Gulf? Less than Six Hours’ Worth (@GOOD stuff)
- Twitter / Touré:
"When you’re falsely villified and sacked you’ve been VIlsacked." Lawrence O’Donnell.
- O’Reilly Media — Bookstore: Complete List of Ebooks
RT @OReillyMedia Celebrate #OSCON Buy 1 #Ebook, Get 1 Free, Buy 2, Get 2 Free, Buy 3, Get 3 Free…Code BXGXF
- Detroit Can Do Camp
RT @dalepd Can Do Camp, 7/29 in Detroit before Maker Faire. Building hands-on communities, fostering innovation
- Going Big with the CS5 PhotoMerge
- Whitening Cities’ Roofs Is Environmental Equivalent of Taking 300 Million Cars Off the Road, DoE Study Says | Popular Science
Whitening Cities’ Roofs Is Environmental Equivalent of Taking 300 Million Cars Off the Road, DoE Study Says
- Oscon2010 Keynote
Slides from my #oscon keynote this morning: Video soon.
- Garden & Gun: Soul of the New South
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