Entries from November 2010 ↓
November 30th, 2010 — pinboard
- Tower – The most powerful Git client for Mac
- Movie Quotes – Subzin.com
- WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets – Andy Greenberg – The Firewall – Forbes
- Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice – now for humans | Science | The Guardian
Harvard scientists were surprised that they saw a dramatic reversal, not just a slowing down, of the ageing in mice. Now they believe they might be able to regenerate human organs
- Siblings Share Genes, But Rarely Personalities : NPR
- ABC The Drum – Hiss and makeup: PM faces the last gender divide
Sigh. We (you, I, we, us, them) have a way to go.
- Genome Biology | Abstract | Quake: quality-aware detection and correction of sequencing errors
RT @mza: Very cool: RT @mike_schatz: Quake: quality-aware correction of sequencing errors #hadoop #genomics
- Neurological protein may hold the key to new treatments for depression
Neurological protein may hold the key to new treatments for depression
- BBC News – Picasso’s electrician reveals artist’s ‘treasure trove’
Man who installed Picasso’s burglar alarms produces 271 missing paintings
- Twitter / John Perry Barlow: Build a man a fire, and he …
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life. – Terry Pratchett
- Analysis of retractions in PubMed | What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate
Analysis of retractions in PubMed: via @neilfws
- Free to Choose ebook deal reveals the programmer zeitgeist – O’Reilly Radar
Free to choose #ebook deal from @oreillymedia hints at programmer zeitgeist #bigdata #python #javascript
- Web type news: iPhone and iPad now support TrueType font embedding. This is huge. – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Hallelujah! iPhone and iPad now support TrueType font embedding! I agree with @zeldman, this is huge!
- Fritz Lang’s Metropolis – Official Website
- Mirror Gadget Turns iPhone and iPad Into Handheld 3-D Theater | Co.Design
2011 Xmas stocking stuffer:
- US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
Excellent commentary by Guardian UK on wikileaks, democracy, transparency & journalism &
- 4thamendmentwear
For when unwarranted searches go too far:
- Big Things | G’day Pubs – Enjoy our Great Australian Pubs
- Textual: IRC for Mac OS X
- carnovsky: RGB exhibition at johanssen gallery
- Did WikiLeaks’ "Cablegate" Result From Too Much Information Sharing? – Andrew McAfee – Harvard Business Review
RT @digiphile: Did #Cablegate result from too much info sharing? A person was the culprit, not tech, says @amcafee. # …
- The New York Times > Log In
Wow. "If the current growth patterns continue, PayPal will surpass its parent [Ebay] in revenue around 2014"
- "Men of a Certain Age": Cool is overrated – Heather Havrilesky – Salon.com
"Men of a Certain Age": Coolness is overrated
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November 25th, 2010 — pinboard
- Mapping a Day in the Life of Twitter | Seeing Data
- UN Africa Water Atlas
The Atlas tells the paradoxical story of a continent with adequate renewable water resources, but unequal access because water is either abundant or scarce depending on the season or the place. Water is the most crucial element in ensuring livelihoods since more than 40 percent of Africa’s population lives in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas and about 60 percent live in rural areas and depend on farming for their livelihoods. This particular story is complemented by the encouraging revelation that although rain-fed agriculture is widely constrained, there are also many dry areas where long-practiced and new water-harvesting strategies can be expanded.
- Shunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback – WSJ.com
One of the most potentially intrusive technologies for profiling and targeting Internet users with ads is on the verge of a comeback, two years after an outcry by privacy advocates in the U.S. and Britain appeared to kill it.
The technology, known as "deep packet inspection," is capable of reading and analyzing the "packets" of data traveling across the Internet. It can be far more powerful than "cookies" and other techniques commonly used to track people online because it can be used to monitor all online activity, not just Web browsing. Spy agencies use the technology for surveillance.
- mWomen Mobile App Challenge – Make an App for women in the developing world
Make an App for women in the developing world – fab idea – more, please (via @megpickard) #mobiles #women
- Restoring gene for cancer protein p53 slows spread of advanced tumors, biologists find
Restoring gene for cancer protein p53 slows spread of advanced tumors, biologists find
- How people perceive sour flavors: Proton current drives action potentials in taste cells
How people perceive sour flavors: Proton current drives action potentials in taste cells
- Glass globe doorknob is a whole-room fisheye for the other side of the door – Boing Boing
Glass globe doorknob is a whole-room fisheye for the other side of the door
- Untitled (http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html)
The Mother of All Demos
- MathJax, Markdown, and Instapaper – And now it’s all this
MathJax, Markdown, and Instapaper:
- It’s Official: The Economy Is Set To Starve – Blogs at Chris Martenson
Worth reading: Peak cheap oil, and starving the economy, by @chrismartenson
- The Connectr
- A Big Bach Download | Open Culture
Bach’s complete works on the organ, free to download (via @openculture)
- An answer to a longstanding question: How HIV infection kills T cells
An answer to a longstanding question: How HIV infection kills T cells
- Google Wave may become an Apache project – Computerworld
Google Wave may become an Apache project (Computerworld):
- Untitled (http://reasoning.cs.ucla.edu/fetch.php?id=104&type=pdf)
cacm carries a nice 10 page Bayesian networks intro. Unfortunately the article is members-only. The author’s preprint:
- YouTube
– Toilet Trained Cat Doing Number 2
can’t… type… or.. breathe…
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November 24th, 2010 — pinboard
- Twitter / Robyn O’Brien: The world’s cattle alone c …
The world’s cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people – more than the entire human population
- twc_mundie.doc – Powered by Google Docs
trustworthy computing
- rubenfonseca’s map_crowd_reduce at master – GitHub
Massively Distributed Browser-based Javascript Map Reduce Framework. node.js + socket.io (websockets) + webworkers + fun = global warming
- Map Crowd Reduce – There’s no place like ::1
My latest open project is a “SETI-at-home-like infrastructure for massively distributed CPU-intensive jobs based on HTML5 WebWorkers and node.js for distributing tasks”
- Twitter / Mark Pilgrim: Some people, when confront …
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I’ll give up Freedom 0." Now they have two problems.
- Data Mining Map
online datamining book
- News Desk: Before the Junk Jokes: Airport Security Cartoons : The New Yorker
New Yorker airport security cartoons, 1938 to present:
- Warren Buffet Says Tax the Rich More | taxgirl
Warren Buffet Says Tax the Rich More
- Untitled (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/304/17/1903)
Fish Oil is not the good oil for Alzheimer’s: Docosahexaenoic acid supplementation does not slow cognitive decline
- Top ten technology firsts of 2010
Breaking News: @gizmag named #car2go one of the key world first breakthroughs #smart #Daimler #Austin #iPad
- ongoing by Tim Bray · What Android Is
A really clear, high-level breakdown of exactly what Android is: Nice informative post by Tim Bray.
- Age estimation from blood has immediate forensic application
Age estimation from blood has immediate forensic application
- Environmental toxin may play important role in multiple sclerosis: Hypertension drug possible treatment
Environmental toxin may play important role in multiple sclerosis: Hypertension drug possible treatment
- All In The Mind – 20 November 2010 – Glenn Close: We are exactly who we are meant to be
MT @DoctorZen ..can now listen to excerpts from Glenn Close’s acclaimed presentation at #SfN10 thanks to @allinthemind
- JustNotes – selfcoded
syncs w simplenote
- VisualEyes
VisualEyes is web-based authoring tool developed at the University of Virginia to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations.
- ‘Squid worm’ emerges from the deep | Science | The Guardian
‘Squid worm’ emerges from the deep
- Goodbye Google App Engine (GAE) « El blog de Carlos Ble
- Twitter / Hilary Joyce Held: I only want 2 things – ple …
I only want 2 things – pleasure without sentimentality,
- A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder.
- Plug an HTML5 Photo Editor Into Your Site With Aviary Feather
Plug an HTML5 Photo Editor Into Your Site With Aviary Feather
- Anne R. Dick’s Memoir, ‘The Search for Philip K. Dick’ – NYTimes.com
- See the Perfect Sidecar Crime — Vulture
Stealing sheep from a moving truck via @vulture
- Twitter and the Accelerating Line
"Invest in lines, not dots." in @bryce’s post Twitter and the Accelerating Line
- Online book: Introduction to data mining
Online book: Introduction to data mining: this online book was created by the Data Mining group at t… #datamining
- highlight
“Which brings us to last week’s hottest and most hated new image meme, Privilege Denying Dude…” (via @randomdeanna)
- Hacker’s Guide to Tea | World of Tea
A hackers guide to tea:
- Despite Backing from Google, Alan Turing’s Papers Fail to Sell at Christie’s Auction
Despite Backing from Google, Alan Turing’s Papers Fail to Sell at Christie’s Auction
- Hack your Kinect: Links and resources to get started – O’Reilly Answers
Also, awesome list of #kinect hacking resources via @macslocum:
- Make: Online : How-To: Modded camera looks at Kinect infrared output
Turns out Kinect does its vision in infrared. Modded camera takes a look at what it sees: via @dalepd
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November 23rd, 2010 — pinboard
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November 22nd, 2010 — pinboard
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November 21st, 2010 — pinboard
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