Entries from October 2010 ↓

• Hey, Twitter, Enough Of This Crap About "Here’s How You Can Use The Word Tweet"
  Hey, Twitter, Enough Of This Crap About "Here’s How You Can Use The Word Tweet"
• YouTube
  – 3-year-old recites poem, "Litany" by Billy Collins
  Amazing video of 3 year old reciting Billy Collins poem from memory And still a 3 year old. via @energyliteracy
• Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 24
  – O’Reilly Media
  Love @make issue 24: ten DIY space projects Amazing what you can actually do.
• YouTube
  – Macrowikinomics Murmuration
  This video of a murmuration of starlings is amazing. @dtaspscott meditates on similarities to internet collaboration.
• cnewmark: The Knight News Challenge, Jon Stewart, and the country’s immune system
  RT @craignewmark The Knight News Challenge, Jon Stewart, and the country’s immune system
• Dell SP2309W, 23" Full HD Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor with Webcam
• The New York Times > Log In
  Note the "points of control" twist at the end of this story about Microsoft buying 3D vision company Canesta #w2s
• 2011 TED Prize Winner: JR
• 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers – Smashing Magazine
• 7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life | Brain Pickings
• The New York Times > Log In
  Proving Innovation in Medicare Why fixing our #budget and #healthcare problems requires paying for what actually works

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• USAJOBS – Search Jobs
  PTO looking for a senior IT manager to lead the effort on a next gen patent examination system:
• Twitter / Mitch Lasky: William Gibson:
  William Gibson:"I was never interested in Facebook or MySpace because they feel like malls to me. Twitter actually feels like the street."
• Slashdot Story | Ozzy Osbourne’s Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage
  LOL. I knew it! Ozzy Osbourne’s Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage
• YouTube Hits 1 Billion Subscriptions: Here Are 7 Geeky Good Ones
  Nice to see @oreillymedia on @marshallk’s list of his favorite geeky YouTube channels:
• The Challenges of Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) Government » Code for America
  Good post from @codeforamerica about Cameron’s Big Society: The Challenges of Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) Government #opengov
• Today Show Video Player
  Jeff Potter @cookingforgeeksToday Show video: an unusual twist on brownies
• A VC: The Fallacy Of Bimodal Returns
  Important post for entrepreneurs by @fredwilson The Fallacy Of Bimodal Venture Capital Returns So true.
• O’Reilly Media Ebook Deal/Day: PDC package – Save 50%
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 8 top books in honor of Microsoft #pdc10 Code DDRPC
• crowds identifying birds – dalepd | Dale Dougherty
  RT @dalepd crowds identifying birds

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• SAHANA | Free and Open Source Disaster Management System
• The funniest, strangest, and most dramatic moments in Garry Trudeau’s classic comic strip. – – Slate Magazine
• Johann Hari: Protest works. Just look at the proof –
  Johann Hari, Commentators – The Independent
  If I could, I would knight Johann Hari: RT @johannhari101: Protest works. Just look at the proof:
• SRI Technology: the ARPANET
  RT @billt Happy Birthday ARPANET 🙂 First message sent from UCLA to SRI on October 29 1969 >>+1 #arpanet
• PDC: Why Steve Jobs’ Pixar uses Microsoft Windows Azure
  Renderman on Azure is a big win for Microsoft! Democratizing an app that previously required LOTS of dedicated hardware
• Leveraging technology to stand up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Gov 2.0
  via @digiphile Will crowdsourcing & big data help the new CFPB to detect fraud earlier, before a crisis? #gov20 #opengov
• The New York Times > Log In
  Return of the secret donors This bothers me. How about you? #moneyinpolitics
• NYC Voters: Report Problems at the Polls by Tweeting #NYCVOTES or Calling 311 on Election Day
  RT @S_Goldsmith ; more and more use of 2.0 tools; NYC voters can report problems at the polls by tweeting
• O’Reilly Media | LibraryThing for Publishers
  Love the @librarything page for @oreillymedia. Top books selected by users a great list!
• Federal Register and CityAdmin: Two Approaches to Civic Publication. | Civic Commons
  RT @CivComs: Federal Register and CityAdmin: Two Approaches to Civic Publication #opengov #opendata #gov20
• Code Complete, Second Edition
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @MicrosoftPress #Ebook Deal/Day: Code Complete, 2nd Ed. $17.99 (Save 55%) Code DDCC2 #pdc10
• schacon’s showoff at master – GitHub
  ShowOff is a Sinatra web app that reads simple configuration files for a presentation. It is sort of like a Keynote web app engine – think S5 + Slidedown. I am using it to do all my talks in 2010, because I have a deep hatred in my heart for Keynote and yet it is by far the best in the field.

  The idea is that you setup your markdown slide files in section subdirectories and then startup the showoff server in that directory. It will read in your showoff.json file for which sections go in which order and then will give you a URL to present from.

• SRSLY SORRY
• Slashdot Story | British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests
  British Airways Chief Slams US Airport Security Requests About time. One of many areas where we need to speak truth.
• JavaScript Patterns
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript Patterns – $11.99 (Save 50%) Code DDJPT #pdc10
• Dancing out of time: Thoughts on asynchronous communication – O’Reilly Radar
  This @terrycojones piece on asynchronous vs. synchronous communication as applied to data seems really important
• Untitled (http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/10/27/jquery-and-yui-3-a-tale-of-two-javascript-libraries/)
  "jQuery and YUI 3: A Tale of Two JavaScript Libraries" by @codeinfront:
• Connect Pro Meeting Login
  About to do my @web2summit webcast Battle for the Internet Economy with @johnbattelle at 1 PT (10 mins). #w2s
• Faded: super simple fading image and content viewer for jQuery – The Changelog – Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
• nathansearles’s Faded at master – GitHub
  "Faded is a super simple fading image and content viewer for jQuery. Easy to setup and design to your specifications. Features auto generated pagination, an awesome sequential image loader, some fancy crossfading, essentially no CSS required and a number of custom option for you to set if you like"
• Nasa: Climate Change: Evidence
• Extinction Countdown: Extinction crisis revealed: One fifth of the world’s mammals, birds and amphibians are threatened
  RT @sciam: Extinction crisis revealed: One fifth of world’s mammals, birds and amphibians are threatened

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• Twitter / Justin Ritchie: The number of people unemp …
  The number of people unemployed in California is approximately equivalent to the populations of Nevada, New Hampshire and Vermont combined
• Twitter / Daniel Jalkut: I once had an URL, or shou …
  I once had an URL, or should I say it once had me. Norwegian web.
• Twitter / Jim Coudal: I just jotted down a quick …
  I just jotted down a quick reminder note to myself and w/out thinking, added an exclamation point. What has become of the man I used to be?
• MapCrunch – Random Google Street View
• The New York Times > Log In
  Excellent and balanced piece by Leonhardt about Obama’s economic shortcomings, esp on jobs –
• The Web on Vimeo
  Stunning, haunting macro footage of a spider and its dewey web
• Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey
  Prey: lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times (open source) – #useful
• Board of Supervisors: approve the #OPENDATA legislation in #SF
  petition @sfbos to approve the #OPENDATA legislation in #SF RT to sign #gov20
• Eric Butler – Software Developer in Seattle WA
  Firesheep: A Day Later (by the author) – highly recommended
• City Paper Staff Memo on Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rallies – City Desk – Washington City Paper
• Rand Paul supporter apologizes for stepping on activist’s head – Politics AP – MiamiHerald.com
  2010 election > nutshell: "Rand Paul supporter apologizes for stepping on activist’s head"
• Unwanted penis tattooed on man’s back
  hate when this happens
• Wijmo Open – Open Source jQuery UI Widgets – The Changelog – Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
• R Cookbook
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @mikeloukides R Cookbook available as a rough cut at #OReillyMedia!
• Military iPad and Smartphone Apps Make Angry Birds Look Somehow Childish | Popular Science
• Jake Brewer: The Tragedy of Political Advocacy
  RT @jakebrewer The Tragedy of Advocacy Jake has put his finger on something important #gov20 @popvox
• gist: 647455 – GitHub
  By popular demand (and long overdue), I have finally added a built-in profiler to JRuby:
• SF Open Data Legislation
  Show your support for SF #OPENDATA Legislation this Thursday City Hall rm 263 10:45am. #gov20

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• gist: 646570 – View Generated Source in BBEdit- GitHub
• Future Perfect » Hand Pause
  What hands do whilst waiting for devices to catch up with their intent.
• Netflix suffers big outage as stock hits new peak – Forbes.com
  Netflix streaming is now the largest source of U.S. Internet traffic during peak evening hours – tidbit in
• A Robot With Coffee-Filled Balloons For Hands Is The Best Grabber Yet | Popular Science
• MSNBC documentary hints at larger forces behind Tiller murder – KansasCity.com
• The N.F.L.’s Head Cases – NYTimes.com
• Facebook pages very much public, even when set as private • The Register
• Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
  Just a reminder to help keep things in perspective: 46% of Americans don’t believe in evolution
• Google’s Schmidt: People Upset With Street View Can Always Move | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD
• Guernica / Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
• GroupMe
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science – Magazine – The Atlantic
  RT @ahier This is well worth reading: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
• ‘Adderall Diaries’ Blurs Books-Apps Line – NYTimes.com
• Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie
  Ray Ozzie’s parting letter to Microsoft is well worth reading. A clear picture of the future tech cos need to embrace
• Good on Paper | 7×7
  Stephen Elliott
• Increasing the efficiency of stem cells
  Increasing the efficiency of stem cells
• Daily vibration may help aging bones stay healthy
  Daily vibration may help aging bones stay healthy
• The Sunday Edition | October 24, 2010
  Interview with medical stats debunker Dr Donald Redelmeier in hour 3 of CBC Sunday Morning is very good.
• Wary of Google Street View? Move, CEO says – MarketWatch
• Daring Fireball Linked List: Eric Schmidt Says People Unhappy With Google Street View ‘Can Just Move’
  Eric Schmidt Says People Unhappy With Google Street View ‘Can Just Move’:
• The Worst Beers In The World | RateBeer.com
• Welcome to Code City! by Carl Malamud | Ignite Show Video
  "…a monopoly on the law hurts innovation as much as it hurts justice." Awesome #igniteseb talk from @carlmalamud:
• Knight News Challenge | You invent it. We fund it.
  he Knight News Challenge opens today. Deadline Dec. 1 (via @NiemanLab)
• Floating islands, inspired by nature « Marc Gunther
  now *that’s* a 21st century biz. too bad most vc’s will never see it.
• WordPress › Plugin Central « WordPress Plugins
  Pleased with @vprelovac’s Plugin Central for #WordPress; installed 20 #plugins in seconds: #wp
• Overthinking-It-Female-Character-Flowchart.png 2147×1926 pixels
• The Fantasy of Girl World: Lady Nerds and Utopias – The Awl
  Sady Doyle Sady Doyle Sady Doyle RT @Awl: The Fantasy of Girl World: Lady Nerds and Utopias –
• O’Reilly Media, Inc.
  Remember, on Wednesday *free* Points of Control webcast with me and @johnbattelle #w2s
• Gallery – Brilliant SF books that got away – Image 1 – New Scientist
  Dawkins, @MargaretAtwood, @GreatDismal, Lovelock & other luminaries nominate their lost sci-fi classics

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• Firesheep In Wolves’ Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily
• Online Tracking Company RapLeaf Profiles Users by Name – WSJ.com
  The *only* reason companies give you ‘free’ stuff is to sell your private info, which has to be valuable
• Alzheimer’s has ‘infectious’ mechanism | COSMOS magazine
  Alzheimer’s has an ‘infectious’ mechanism. #science #health
• Oakland’s East Bay Maker Faire shows anyone can do it – Inside Bay Area
  Nice Oakland Tribune article about @ebmakerfaire. It was anything but Mini. A fantastic time was had by all.
• Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/mf99dhj – Uploaded by kentkb
  Thanks for the pictures.That was a blast to do. I’ve never made jam in public before. It went well. (@kentkb)
• Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/65w3coj – Uploaded by kentkb
  I just saw that @kentkb tweeted this on #yfrog.
• Iran Must Not Meddle in Afghanistan, U.S. Says After Bag of Cash Reported – Bloomberg
  It shouldn’t be possible for this headline to appear anywhere except the Onion – (@SteveHynd)
• Aubergine with herbs recipe | Yotam Ottolenghi | Vegetarian | Life and style | The Guardian
• xyu’s jquery-tmpl-php at master – GitHub
  Rendering of jQuery Templates server side using PHP
• Keith Richards: the Keef facts | Music | The Guardian
• The New Norm in the Arctic: Change – NYTimes.com
• Cat Vs. Printer, Translated [VIDEO]
• ‘Hawaii is the guinea pig’ – Hawaii News – Staradvertiser.com
  Hawaii is the "guinea pig" for grid power storage solutions /@nelderini
• Why Americans Don’t Care About Climate Change « Gerry Canavan
• Repair, Don’t Replace! The Fixit Clinic is Here | East Bay Mini Maker Faire
  Remember to bring your broken appliances to the Fixit Clinic at @ebmakerfaire
• Twitter / Poppy Z. Brite: I kind of feel like reread …
  I kind of feel like rereading FEAR
• Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/mg356vj – Uploaded by ruv
  A picture of a real police car in Beijing. ‘to punish and enslave’
• New protein target for antidepressants – health – 24 October 2010 – New Scientist
  New protein target for antidepressants
• Couchpubtato Lets Your CouchDB Store PubSubHubbub Feeds
  ReadWriteHack: Couchpubtato Lets Your CouchDB Store PubSubHubbub Feeds
• The New York Times > Log In
  We do Afghan women no favors by keeping 100,000 troops in an unsustainable war- my column:
• Streamie
• YouTube
  – O’Reilly MySQL CE 2010: Tim O’Reilly, "O’Reilly Radar"
  @bramvandenholen So glad you find it "inconceivable" that only 14K people have watched my mysql keynote from April
• Pre-Peeled Potatoes In Supermarkets
  Laughing sadly: The world ends with a peeler via @energyliteracy
• The Goldmine Of Opportunities In Gov 2.0
  My feelings exactly: The Goldmine Of Opportunities In Gov 2.0

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• New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source | Onion News Network
• Twitter / Kir: No matter what anyone says …
  No matter what anyone says, cats are not sweet, cute, low-maintenance or clean. They are filthy, needy, hateful bastards.Omg I’m a cat.
• 30 Places We Want to Work – Business – GOOD
  Really nice to see @CodeforAmerica on the @Good list of "30 Places We Want to Work": Love the criteria they use.
• Currently Hanging: Lead Pencil Studio | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
  Strangely beautiful non-sign commissioned at US Canada border
• Chelsea Hotel For Sale – Stereogum
  Chelsea Hotel For Sale (via @stereogum)
• Where 2.0 2011 Call for Participation: Where 2.0 Conference 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, April 19 – 21, 2011, Santa Clara, CA
  RT @oreillymedia We’re looking for location/mobile/social talks for our Where 2.0 Conference. Submit your idea by 10/25
• Iraq war logs: An introduction | World news | guardian.co.uk
  RT @arusbidger: Overview of tonight’s massive leak of Iraq war documents at the Guardian:
• Rule No. 1 for Innovation: Have Fun | Business | GreenBiz.com
  Rule #1: Have Fun. Summary of my talk on innovation at Greenbiz Innovation Forum:
• WhiteyBoard – The Original Stick-On Whiteboard
  These are awesome! WhiteyBoard – The Eco-friendly, multi-use, stick-on Whiteboard –
• Quite Interesting: the QI cabinet of curiosity – Telegraph
  Napoleon wasn’t short, dust isn’t made of human skin, and most people survive plane crashes.
• poet CAConrad
• (404) http://www.goodreads.com/api-
  Goodreads Connect API: nice idea, but snowflake – PoCo + Activity Streams please #BiB10
• Strata 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, February 01 – 03, 2011, Santa Clara, CA
  Registration is now live for and we’re getting in some awesome proposals. Data is indeed the Intel Inside.
• Dopamine attenuates evoked inhibitory synaptic currents in central amygdala neurons
• Emotion processing and the amygdala: from a ‘low road’ to ‘many roads’ of evaluating biological significance : Abstract : Nature Reviews Neuroscience

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• Heart Gelatin Mold – Archie McPhee & Co.
• Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes – Bloomberg
  This story is not really about Google, but about conflict between govt and multinationals Google just draws eyeballs.
• The New York Times > Log In
  Me too. RT @arwenogriffith Just jealous. That’s all I have to say.
• Webcast: Points of Control: The Battle for the Internet Economy
  "Battle for the Internet Economy" free Web2Summit webcast w/ me and @johnbattelle Wed 10/27 at 1pm PT #w2s
• Enterprise Development with Flex
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Enterprise Development with Flex – $21.99 (Save 50%) Code DDFXE
• The Future of Publishing? Esquire Will Sell $2,500 Couches and $200 Lamps | Co.Design
  Supports my contention in that advertising and e-commerce are merging in surprising ways:
• Fred Trotter » Blog Archive » Facebook Places powers the first social election game
  Facebook Places powered social election game Alas, for a tea party candidate. But I like the ideas here.
• Make Way for the East Bay Mini Maker Faire | Events | East Bay Express
  Love it: @ebmakerfaire "does not distinguish between the curiosity of a child and the curiosity of an adult" This Sun!

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• Help us give away 100,000 free children’s books online from A Story Before Bed to parents in the U.S. Military. | Jackson Fish Market
  Please help @astorybeforebed give away 100,000 free children’s books online to military families. #military #deployment
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_354251742_7?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000620861&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0464SFGV6BCV2A6V50MC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1278078342&pf_rd_i=69860)
  Nice list of featured @oreillymedia titles available on kindle:
• Introducing ‘climate hawks’ | Grist
  "Climate hawks": people who think the risks of climate change are sufficient to warrant a robust response I like it.
• Information Arbitrage – Big Ideas around Big Problems in Big Data
  RT @mikeloukides Nice summary of IAVentures Big Data Conference, by @infoarbitrage It was great.

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• Programming WCF Services, Third Edition
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming WCF Services, 3rd Ed – $19.99 (Save 55%) Code DDPWS
• The war between broadcasters and cable companies has spilled over to the Web. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine
• Make It Fly | East Bay Mini Maker Faire
  RT @pahlkadot A successful test of the @ebmakerfaire rocket launcher! Simple, but awesome.
• Untitled (https://login.zooniverse.org/login?service=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oldweather.org%2F&gateway=true)
  Very cool crowdsourcing opportunity: help recover climate records from WWII: via @bobgourley
• The World Is Full of Interesting Things
  Google’s Slideshow of Interesting Things Great stuff. Via @slashdot
• Slashdot Story | Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick
  Love this. Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick
• Civic Commons Needs an Executive Director | Civic Commons
  Big, bold ask: RT Civic Commons Needs an Executive Director. We’re now accepting applications for a leader of this org
• Parkinson’s disease insights: Damage to control circuits in the brain responsible for habits
• Untitled (http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/becites/cfb/88600451.html)
  Lovely piece about how technologies don’t just replace one another. Search for 3rd occurrence of "Displacive Fallacy"

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