Entries from November 2010 ↓

• 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. # …
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  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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• My Helical Tryst: Review of the TSA X-ray backscatter body scanner safety report: hide your kids, hide your wife
• PLoS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
• The Guardian gave State Dept. cables to the NY Times – Yahoo! News
  V interesting piece on the Guardian being the source for the NYT cables rationale being to avoid potential injunction
• Are You Building Something That Will Move the Ball Forward?
  RT @peteskomoroch: TC50 interview w/ @timoreilly "Are You Building Something That Will Move the Ball Forward?"
• Gene therapy prevents memory problems in mice with Alzheimer’s disease
  Gene therapy prevents memory problems in mice with Alzheimer’s disease
• Understanding Python decorators – Stack Overflow
  Brilliant explanation of Python decorators on stackoverflow: #win
• First Electric Cars Have Power Industry Worried – Slashdot
  Everything is interdependent. How adoption of electric cars will stress the power grid
• Rare Earth Ruckus – Reason Magazine
  Rare Earth Ruckus – Reason Magazine –
• Community-Wealth.org: Wealth-Building Strategies for America’s Communities
  Love it: Best piece in Some Very Creative Economic Fix-its
• US embassy cables: browse the database | World news | guardian.co.uk
• Business Day > Image >
  Saw that awful customer service story in the paper @nytimes. Lovely, huge cartoon spread that I missed online Awesome

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• Download FTP iCal Calendars for Mac – Companion app for PHP iCalendar. MacUpdate Mac Software Downloads
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  Sad story about the hypocrisy of Countrywide Financial talking out of both sides of its mouth about "liar loans"

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  RT @jamesoreilly: The Real Threat to America –
• The Public Square Goes Mobile – NYTimes.com
  .@nytimes piece on CEOs for Cities/ @ccoletta local public engagement project, giveaminute.info – Fits w my #gov20 ideas
• Darkness in the East | Mulholland Books
  Joe R. Lansdale on TX noir
• 50 Free Apps We’re Most Thankful For
  Lifehacker curates 50 free apps they’re grateful 4 – priceless list via @brainpicker
• The New York Times > Log In
  Good reminder from @pogue about how much has changed in tech over the past ten years. And it’s still happening!
• Data Analysis with Open Source Tools
  – O’Reilly Media
  Reading great new @oreillymedia book: Data Analysis with Open Source Tools
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  Fascinating @nytimes article about intense exercise and aging. "It’s pretty clear that intensity wins":
• NationalJournal.com – Will the GOP Embrace Innovation and Transparency? – Thursday, November 25, 2010
  RT @nationaljournal The platform on government innovation, transparency: Will the GOP embrace it? @digiphile asks.

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• James Kibbie – Bach Organ Works – Download
• Team:Hong Kong-CUHK – 2010.igem.org
  RT @mikeloukides: Very cool. Encrypted data storage in bacteria. In biobricks.
• Untitled (http://twitter.com/#!/usdatagov/statuses/4566013349728256)
  Nice to see @usdatagov recommending new @oreillymedia book Tapworthy
• Thought-Controlled Apps On Android May Not Be Far – Slashdot
  Thought-Controlled Apps On Android May Not Be Far Agree the emotiv headset is amazing. Wish it worked on MacOSX
• Damn You Auto Correct! – Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories
  Good for a laugh:
• The New York Times > Log In
  Something’s wrong when corporations are doing well, but people aren’t: US corporate profits highest on record

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• 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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• 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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• Bruce Schneier Interview – Security Theater and the TSA – Popular Mechanics
  RT @chrissutton: Bruce Schneier on the TSA –
• (500) http://cancerpreventionresearch.aacrjournals.org/content/3/11/1443.abstract?sid=b5a81d48-19b3-4b45-b192-25e107b3cda6
  Black Raspberries prevent Colorectal Cancer: chemoprevention in mouse colorectal cancer models targets key pathways
• Great front page – Don’t think Irish Daily Star are too … on Twitpic
  RT @guideguardian: novel approach to headline writing…
• Short Sharp Science: Leo and $50 million: is it enough to save the tiger?
  Leo *and* $50 million: but is it enough to save the tiger? @LeoDiCaprio
• YouTube
  – "It Gets Better" — Love, Pixar
  Pixar staff on being gay: < Is there anything Pixar does that isn’t amazing? #in
• 13 Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Ads Aimed at Kids | Cracked.com
  Good night, and remember to shave yourself …
• bnm9q.th8.us: http://www.howtoons.com/?p=2783
  RT @Howtoons: Great info graphic on how to solve a Rubik Cube puzzle in 20 moves or less.
• Holiday Gift Guide: Sewing : Daily source of DIY craft projects and inspiration, patterns, how-tos | Craftzine.com
  Sewers, drool: Holiday Gift Guide: Sewing via @craft
• meskyanichi’s gitpusshuten at develop – GitHub
  Easy server admin and deployment: this looks awesome
• Decoding the Value of Computer Science – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  RT @CodeforAmerica "This ‘geek shortage’… endangers everything from innovation and economic growth to national defense"
• REST in Practice
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal/Day: REST in Practice – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDRPT
• Red wine packed with antidiabetes compounds – health – 19 November 2010 – New Scientist
  Red wine, diabetes aid?

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• Thinking like an octopus | Harvard Gazette
  Harvard researchers probe the unusual intelligence of the octopus (via @NewMindMirror)
• Important brain area organized by color and orientation
  Important brain area organized by color and orientation
• PLoS Biology: Evolutionary Relationships of Wild Hominids Recapitulated by Gut Microbial Communities
  Evolutionary Relationships of Wild Hominids Recapitulated by Gut Microbial Communities – clever stuff #genomics
• The Royal Society’s lost women scientists | Science | The Observer
  The Royal Society’s lost women scientists
• YouTube – Angry Birds Peace Treaty
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  Shakespeare on Wall Street and the financial crisis: “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here”
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  Results of the interactive @nytimes exercise on how to fix the deficit:
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  Results of the interactive @nytimes exercise on how to fix the deficit:
• Teacher Magazine: Pittsburgh Launches 1-Year Residencies as Alternative Certification
  RT @val_green: RT @teachermagazine: Pittsburgh Launches 1-Year Residencies as Alternative Certification for Teachers:
• Twitter / R.L. Ripples: Sausage rolls, in suggesti …
  Sausage rolls, in suggestive shapes, can now be seen in the shop windows. KY1883
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061956228?tag=twitter0001-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0061956228&adid=1KZ34MQDAM3F97E3MTD6)
  How did I not know of this?! The New Brooklyn Cookbook – recipes and stories from 31 top culinary gems (via @Wantist)
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  Great companion piece to the previous: The Attention Span Myth via @dalepd
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  Useful perspective: "Bring back boredom." Early part of the article not as good as the later. #education #neuroscience
• Untitled (http://www.skeptic.com/downloads/10_Easy_Psychic_Lessons.pdf)
  via @RadiumYttrium Learn to be psychic in 10 easy lessons. The simple art of cold reading.
• YouTube
  – Authors@Google: Garry Kasparov
  Cool: Garry Kasparov makes a quick reference to "O’Reilly books" at 27:19 in this video (via @terrycojones)

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• Twitter / FEMINIST HULK: HULK’S SENSE OF HULK WORTH …
  HULK’S SENSE OF HULK WORTH NOT DEPENDENT ON BELITTLING OTHERS. HULK IMPRESSED BY EMPATHY, NOT COMPETITIVE COOLNESS.
• Twitter / pip: Graceful koru / bashful fe …
  Graceful koru / bashful fern / convolute fronds
• The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy: 100 Years Ago | Open Culture
• New York Times Looks for Answers in Data – Keji Technology Blogs
  Nice to see that my tweets influence the propagation of @NYTimes columns….
• USAJOBS – Search Jobs
  Want to work for a federal agency that’s also a startup? CFPB’s hiring coders -python, ruby, mobile dev, etc #gov20
• Skirting the Limits
  A terrific blog by a young American woman traveling the world, volunteering for women’s orgs:
• Whoa, Google, That’s A Pretty Big Security Hole
  Whoa, Google, That’s A Pretty Big Security Hole by @arrington

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