• Twitter / roadkillrefugee: RT @brianstelter: Lauer:
  RT @brianstelter: Lauer: "Why is waterboarding legal, in your opinion?" Bush: "Because the lawyers [Addington/Libby/Yoo] said it was legal."
• New license-plate readers help police, disturb some civilians – The Boston Globe
  Worried about privacy on the net? How about police scanners that check out every license plate?
• Dirty Coal, Clean Future – Magazine – The Atlantic
  "Dirty Coal, Clean Future" China, America, and the case for coal’s inevitability: (by James Fallows, new @TheAtlantic)
• Webcast: Probabilistic Data Structures and Breaking Down Big Sequence Data
  Meanwhile, for data geeks, also see Probabilistic Data Structures and Breaking Down Big Sequence Data webcast tomorrow
• GoToWebinar : Webinars Made Easy. Award-Winning Web Casting & Online Seminar Hosting Software
  Hmm. Cloudera and ebay doing a joint webinar next Weds about ebay’s use of #hadoop. via @mikeloukides
• O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, February 14 – 16, 2011, New York
  Cool: Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood to keynote at #OReillyMedia Tools of Change for Publishing Conf in February:
• Daring Fireball: Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It
• Untitled (http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf)
  X-ray scanner health warning from UCSF (pdf) I’ll definitely choose the lines with the old scanners next time I fly…
• All The App Stores – Anil Dash
  .@anildash reminds us that it’s not just mobile that has app stores. Other platforms will be remade in that image.
• Wealth distribution in the U.S.: Something needs to be done – latimes.com
  Interesting results on perception of wealth inequality and reality from @danariely, Michael I. Norton.
• My Endless New York – NYTimes.com
• gitignore: A collection of useful .gitignore templates – The Changelog – Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
  gitignore: A collection of useful .gitignore templates
• India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets – BusinessWeek
  The paradox of India’s infrastructure: Land of more cell phones than toilets
• DHA improves memory and cognitive function in older adults, study suggests
• Gov 2.0: A vote for open data in San Francisco
  A vote for open data in San Francisco via @kmcurry
• Twitter Bot Auto-Debates Climate Change Critics
  Twitter Bot Auto-Debates Climate Change Critics <- Brilliant via @mashsocialmedia @mashable
• BBC News – Dutch sniff cards to help find cannabis plantations
  Dutch to receive marijuana-scented scratch cards in bid to find illegal weed growers. Oddly, not satire.
• Why The Book Business May Soon Be The Most Digital Of All Media Industries

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  While only 7% of online adult book readers read e-books, those readers also spend the most money on books (via @chr1sa)
• Raskin | Beyond Desktop
• The New York Times > Log In
  Worth reading. Three overlapping crises facing US. Ross Douhat: The Unready Republicans via @dalepd
• cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core
  Fascinating post by @cdixon about why Amazon is a bigger threat to Google than FB or Apple we’ll talk about at #w2s
• Home | Management Innovation eXchange
  Love the leading questions banner on : What if…?
• The New York Times > Log In
  Robots to guard your home. via @jstogdill Another cool taste of the future starts with hacking. @make
• Democrats didn’t lose the battle of 2010. They won it. – By William Saletan – Slate Magazine
  RT @pahlkadot: The big picture isn’t about winning or keeping power. It’s about using it. The dems won.
• Google scares Aussie banks – Business – News
  Aussie banks worried that Google and PayPal are more responsive and trusted than banks. Fits right in with #w2s theme
• Make: The Fifth Year Collector’s Box Set
  RT @MakerShed Today’s Deal: Make Year 5 Box Set for 50% off – just $30 #MakeDotD
• Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @MicrosoftPress #Ebook Deal/Day – Excel: Data Analysis & Modeling – $19.99 (Save 50%) Code DDEX7
• Head First Java, Second Edition
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Java, 2nd Ed. $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDHJ2

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