Entries from December 2010 ↓

• Floods in northeast Australia strand 200,000 – latimes.com
• Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010 | Wired Science | Wired.com
• Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
• Picture of the Day: Enormous Storm Sweeps Across Saturn – Nicholas Jackson – Technology – The Atlantic
• YouTube – Cats Playing Patty-cake, what they were saying…
• The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method : The New Yorker
• Amazon.com: How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times (9780452295834): James Wesley Rawles: Books
  TweetList – How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques & Technologies for Uncertain Times– excellent read http://is.gd/jMUwj – http://is.gd/jMUwj
• smoser’s thoughts: Using Ubuntu Images on AWS "Free Tier"
• ‘sproke: Install script for ThinkUp 0.7 on Ubuntu EC2 instance
• Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of Understimulation – WSJ.com
• Gallery: Kodachrome Is Dead, Long Live Kodachrome – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic
  As the last roll of Kodachrome is delivered today, @TheAtlantic commemorates with a spellbinding gallery (via @BBHLabs)
• Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010 | Wired Science | Wired.com
  The top scientific breakthroughs of 2010, compiled by @wiredscience
• Fixing Snow Leopard ruby readline | Jorge Bernal
  Had to recompile Ruby 1.8.7’s readline bundle for OS X Snow Leopard, found this blog post useful:
• Underpaid Genius • Why We Shouldn’t Trust (Most) Economists
  …research showing the economists are untrustworthy, selfish ideologues, in general…

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• Site Streams | dev.twitter.com
• Why Tech Already Has Women (And Why They’re Better Than Arrington) | Geoff Livingston’s Blog
  Great Post: Why Tech Already Has Women (And Why They’re Better Than Arrington) #women #tech
• Rails 3 Cheat Sheets « Envy Labs
  Rails 3 Cheat Sheets:
• Google & George Clooney Aim Satellite Surveillance at Sudan, Hoping to Prevent Genocide
  Google & George Clooney Aim Satellite Surveillance at Sudan, Hoping to Prevent Genocide
• Damn You Auto Correct! » Best Of DYAC
  Best of DamnYouAutoCorrect. Assuredly NSFW, but funny.
• Untitled (http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/12/28/a-guide-to-the-market-oligopoly-system/)
  Love this chart explaining the economy of the art world. From @felixsalmon: A guide to the market oligopoly system.
• $15 phone, 3 minutes all that’s needed to eavesdrop on GSM call
  "GSM is insecure, the more so as more is known about GSM" via @hackernews
• Smiling Victorians « How to be a Retronaut
  Smiling Victorians – could the stereotype of sternness be a byproduct of the era’s photo equipment?

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• BBC News – ‘Spy cams’ film polar bears up close
  Polar bears filmed by ‘spy cams’
• Thought of a Day
  Further discussion of that "Venn diagram" about people touching your junk: Ontologists for the win!
• BBC News – Ancient humans, dubbed ‘Denisovans’, interbred with us
  Okay, who was it? Who did the dirty with the Denisovans?
• Untitled (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/material/graphs/2010/Mobile_cellular_00-05-10.jpg)
  Amazing graph of developed/developing mobile phone trends implies poor world is on up side of "digital divide": #tech
• The Unbearable Inevitability of Being Android, 1995
• Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs | Threat Level | Wired.com
  Wired’s Hansen and Poulsen take it to Greenwald. Worth reading in full.
• "Man in a Blizzard," by Jamie Stuart – Roger Ebert’s Journal
  This beautiful film about the relentless blizzard is worth nine hours of the Weather Channel. What else is there to say?
• A gene that could explain why the red mist descends – Telegraph
  A gene that could explain why the red mist descends – Telegraph via @Telegraph
• Kentucky Creationist Museum to Feature Dragons, Unicorns | The Atlantic Wire
  "The absence of a unicorn in the modern world should not cause us to doubt its past existence." Oh, Kentucky!
• SwiftRiver | Verifying and Filtering News (FOSS)
  SwiftRiver is a free and open source platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time. The SwiftRiver platform was born out of the need to understand and act upon a wave of massive amounts of crisis data that tends to overwhelm in the first 24 hours of a disaster. Since then, there has been a great deal of interest in this tool for other industries, such as news rooms and brand monitoring groups.
  In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels such as Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds. This free tool is especially useful for organizations who need to sort their data by authority and accuracy, as opposed to popularity. These organizations include the media, emergency response groups, election monitors and more. This might include journalists and other media institutions, emergency response groups, election monitors and more.
• An Examination, in Nine Haiku, of IBM’s Breakthrough in Racetrack Memory
  RT @RWW: An Examination, in Nine Haiku, of IBM’s Breakthrough in Racetrack Memory <= best tech blog post of the year
• InfoQ: Using REST for SOA
  – much better presentation that covers many of the things I hear from the REST haters
• Glenn Gould: Variations on an Artist | CBC Archives
  …
• Batch comparison of Git repositories – All this
  Shell and Perl scripts to check the status of several Git repositories and the preserved corpse of Jeremy Bentham:
• Log In – The New York Times
  Krugman: signs of finite planet in commodity $ @dotearth explores if innovation’ll keep winning day
• Which Comes First – Peak Everything or Peak Us? – NYTimes.com
  Krugman: signs of finite planet in commodity $ @dotearth explores if innovation’ll keep winning day
• Stars and Scars | Unmuzzled Thoughts (about Teaching and Pop Culture)
  What scars say about male and female movie characters.
• Protecting Your Online Anonymity with Tor
  Protecting Your Online Anonymity with Tor
• Humor
  Really fun time waster…New Yorker cartoons via RSS #humor
• Humor
  Really fun time waster…New Yorker cartoons via RSS #humor
• How to use an iPhone to keep in touch with friends and relatives overseas for free – O’Reilly Answers
  RT @oreillyanswers: How to use an iPhone to keep in touch with friends and relatives overseas for free
• Rare: An Intimate Portrait of Extinction | Brain Pickings
  Rare – an intimate portrait of the world’s most endangered species by NatGeo photographer Joel Sartore
• YouTube
  – Google で、もっと。 "Air" Skydiving with Google Earth
  Brilliant! Simulated skydiving with Google Earth (via @CultureBrain > @swissmiss)
• In Matthew Gallaway’s ‘Metropolis Case,’ Loving ‘Tristan’ – NYTimes.com
• Venn Diagram of People Who Touch Your Junk
  Venn Diagram of People Who Touch Your Junk
• #MooreandMe: the hashtag that roared | Richard Adams | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  #MooreandMe: the hashtag that roared | Richard Adams

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• Genocide is ‘an American concern’
• A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning – NYTimes.com
  Tracking climate change
• Solio Mono-a Solar Battery Pack – Apple Store (U.S.)
• Apple – Apple Battery Charger – The energy-efficient way to power your accessories.
• Resources for Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications
  ReadWriteHack: Resources for Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications
• Women 2.0 – Founding Startups » Women 2.0’s Female Founder Successes of 2010
  RT @women2: Who says women aren’t founding companies in tech? Check out our 2010 list of successes
• Untitled (http://mutinycompany.com/spec/idiot.mov)
  RT @RayPride this beautifully shot short more than anything perfectly evokes yesterday’s blizzard in NYC
• Batman Hoodie
  Batman Hoodie
• Amygdala at the centre of your social network : Nature News
  Researchers find a larger amygdala is linked to a larger social circle #brain (via @DanielPink)
• Google’s Marissa Mayer: Girls Can Be Geeks, Too – Newsweek
  Marissa Mayer, Google geek (h/t @hblodget)
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http:%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Ffeature.html%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Damb_link_354383462_2%26docId%3D1000628621&tag=twitter0001-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957)
  Good call, some real gems there – RT @DanielPink: I prefer the list of *customer* favorites!
• Creative Review – New York magazine: data done right
  RT @MichaelSurtees Creative Review – New York magazine: data done right (via @lmjr)
• On Meaningful Observation § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
  Thanks for posting, @adambly: STEAM instead of STEM (A for Art) @seedmag
• Malarkey Software – Software – Photo Grabbr
  Photo Grabbr lets you backup and download entire Flickr sets (via @slavin > @Malbonnington)

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• NY Snowstorm 47 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  NYC Snowstorm – wonderful photo
• MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG
  Sublime sleep Michael Wolf’s photos of people pressed against fogged-up Tokyo subway windows
• Best HTML5 and CSS3 Tutorials – December 2010 | AjaxLine
  Best HTML5 and CSS3 Tutorials – December 2010 | AjaxLine
• FLANNAGAN & O’REILLY DEAD HORSE AND DONKEY TRADERS – OCCASIONALLY DEALING IN SWINE LTD :: OpenCorporates
  Best company name found so far:
• Hackety Hack!
  Simple on-ramp to Ruby. RT @hackernewsbot Want to learn programming?
• Where 2.0: Raffi Krikorian explains Twitter’s geo infrastructure | ZDNet
• jQuery UI – Home
• Mel Torme
  A day late, but still worth the click: my favorite Christmas story on the Web, courtesy of @evanier. »
• Lacquer
  HTML5 animation app- Radi: Made by the same guy who wrote Conduit:
• Radi
  HTML5 animation app- Radi: Made by the same guy who wrote Conduit:
• Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition – Ralf Klamma – FriendFeed
  Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition
• QR Stuff: Free Printable QR Code Generator, Creator And Encoder For T-Shirts, Labels & Stickers
• Part of brain that suppresses instinct identified
  Part of brain that suppresses instinct identified
• Mind Over Matter: Controlling Individual Neurons By Your Thoughts
  We can exert conscious control over firing of single neurons in our brain via @jhagel
• Discussion: The Year In Music, 2010 : NPR
  NPR’s @idislikestephen picks @sharonvanetten’s (#crush) ‘Love More’ as 2010’s best song;lyrics completely capture my year

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• Yardley- books
• Of serendipity and synchronicity (or a year in reading) | Need to Know
• Age and happiness: The pattern isn’t as clear as you might think – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
  Age and happiness: The pattern isn’t as clear as you might think
• "Although" Versus "While" : Grammar Girl :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™
  Although vs though vs while. (Al)though it may not matter to you.
• After a wasted year, climate change must once again be our priority | Robin McKie | Comment is free | The Observer
  RT @guardianscience: After a wasted year, climate change must once again be our priority | Robin McKie
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @jayrosen_nyu The NY Times editorial page finally takes a stand on the financial industry shutting off Wikileaks
• Kod is now open source –
  Kod.app |
  Google Groups
  Intriguing new code editor, Kod, goes open source: (via @iTod)
• New IBM memory promises faster, higher-capacity devices | Cutting Edge – CNET News
  A new kind of memory from IBM Labs is promising to revolutionize how much data we can store and how fast we can access it on our mobile and desktop devices.
  After spending six years as a theoretical concept, the memory, dubbed Racetrack, finally is a huge step closer to reality. Researchers at IBM have recently confirmed that their theories of the physics behind Racetrack are valid and can be used to develop and manufacture this new type of memory.
  …
  How does Racetrack work? Unlike conventional memory, which needs to seek out the data it needs, Racetrack automatically moves the data to where it can be used. That serves to not only speed up data access but allow much more data to be stored in a smaller area.
  The memory is so named because it moves the magnetic bits of data along thin, nanowire "racetracks," 1,000 times finer than a strand of hair.
• Best of 2010: Benford’s Law And A Theory of Everything – Technology Review
  Best of 2010: Benford’s Law And A Theory of Everything

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• Log In – The New York Times
  Off grid in Africa, a little (solar) power goes a very long way- Beyond Fossil Fuels series. NYT
• Kittens In My Christmas Tree
  Kittens In My Christmas Tree via @rathergood
• My Blackberry is not working – Boing Boing
• The Open Internet: A Case for Net Neutrality
  Pass it on:
• 4 Tips for MongoDB Beginners
  ReadWriteHack: 4 Tips for MongoDB Beginners
• Austin news, sports, weather, Longhorns, business | Statesman.com
  Man killed after stabbing officer identified as Maurice Pierce, once charged in ’99 for yogurt shop slayings

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• The 10th Annual Year in Ideas – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
• Home | Jumo
• ExpertNet: How ThinkUp Can Help Today
• The Believer – Barry Hannah in conversation with Wells Tower
  "Barry Hannah in conversation with Wells Tower" (Oct. @BelieverMag) #longreads
• BBC News – New solar fuel machine ‘mimics plant life’
  BBC News – New solar fuel machine ‘mimics plant life’
• YouTube
  – Frost over the World – Julian Assange
  Sir David Frost’s interview with the almost-too-articulate Julian Assange.
• Untitled (http://aws.amazon.com/articles/5249664154115844)
  RT @adpowers: Finding trending topics using Google Books n-grams data and Apache Hive on Elastic MapReduce #aws
• A Day With an E-mail Scammer – NYTimes.com
• Daily Kos: Building the shadow Internet
• Ten Favorite iPhone Apps – NYTimes.com
• Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com
  This is a talk that means a lot to me. Advice for women on how to stay in the workforce
• Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Video on TED.com
  *Thrilled* to see #TED has discovered @BreneBrown’s excellent talk on vulnerability
• brainSCANr

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• Will Visa, MasterCard, Paypal, BofA & Apple Terminate Relationships With The NYTimes For Revealing Military Secrets? | Techdirt
  Will Visa, MasterCard, Paypal, BofA & Apple Terminate Relationships With The NYTimes For Revealing Military Secrets? –
• Early Reports From the ‘Dark Matter’ of the Genome | Wired Science | Wired.com
  Early Reports From the “Dark Matter” of the Genome – truly exciting stuff: #genomics 2.0 #rna #epigenomics
• Poking around your Chrome OS Notebook – The Chromium Projects
• Giant Slides Should be Obligatory In Every University and School Building
  OMG! Slides between floors of this building–I’ve been campaigning for indoor slides since I was six! Why not?
• Log In – The New York Times
  My new Times column: 3 pocket-size cameras with supersized sensors for low light (the Canon S95 has company!) :
• The Denisova genome FAQ | john hawks weblog
  RT @katewong: Must-read post by @johnhawks on the nuclear genome of the "X-woman" species from Siberia, human ancestor
• Mind and brain science: an instant overview « Mind Hacks
  Just been playing with @bradleyvoytek ‘s great new brainSCANr tool Visual CogSci reviews in an instant
• Finger Points to New Type of Human – ScienceNOW
• ‘Somewhere,’ Melancholy Film From Sofia Coppola – Review – NYTimes.com
  RT @raypride I am in love with Mr. Scott’s review of Ms. Coppola’s SOMEWHERE / Really nicely done.
• Welcome
• Denisovans Were Neanderthals’ Cousins, DNA Analysis Reveals – NYTimes.com
• A chilly solstice (and lunar eclipse) – The Big Picture – Boston.com
• Chirpstory Lets You Filter And Bundle Tweets Into Stories
• Log In – The New York Times
  Wall St. Computers Read the News, and Trade on It (via @jstogdill)
• Photoshop CS5 Review | Macworld
• Video | Jonathan Franzen: ‘America is almost a rogue state’ | Books | guardian.co.uk
  Intvw. Franzen. Never occurred to me that Walter/Richard was based on Franzen/DFW. Because I am an idiot.
• How to Integrate Your Ruby on Rails Application With Google Apps and the Apps Marketplace
  How to Integrate Your Ruby on Rails Application With Google Apps and the Apps Marketplace
• mgan59/python-pinboard – GitHub
  A Python module to access Pinboard.in via its API.
• Nobel-Winning Microlender Accused of Corruption | Mother Jones
  Eek. Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Mohammed Yunus under investigation for corruption (via @TrackerNews)
• Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not–But You Can Have Fun Trying: Scientific American
  The neuro-immortalists Stand-out chapter from @carlzimmer’s excellent Brain Cuttings book is online
• Subtraction.com:

  What’s Old Is New Again on iPad

  Just wrote a quick blog post re: David Hockney’s iPad paintings + why I think they’re boring.
• BAO for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
  Cool. ESRI’s Business Analyst Online tool (cool demographic analysis) has a free iPhone equivalent

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• Christina Patterson: How a prophet of protest lost the moral plot –
  Christina Patterson, Commentators – The Independent
  Julian Assange explains that, let’s see here, his private life is "nobody’s business."
• Genetic trait could triple odds of whites’ susceptibility to heavy cocaine abuse
  Genetic trait could triple odds of whites’ susceptibility to heavy cocaine abuse
• WikiLeaks: imperial precedent | openDemocracy
  WikiLeaks: imperial precedent – fascinating historical precedent #SykesPico
• AI Defeats the Hivemind – Technology Review
  Bayesian algorithm beats Amazon’s Mechancial Turk humans in tests
• Home Internet with Anonymity Built In – Technology Review
  Home Internet with Tor Anonymity Built In
• US FCC fumbles ball on net neutrality: yes for fixed, not really for mobile | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  Great piece by @charlesarthur on the FCC’s net neutrality ruling >>
• Running Apache and Node.JS Together – arguments.callee
  Running Apache and node.js together (geeky but good stuff) –
• Pivot View of Netflix Instant Watch Movies
  If more people knew about @smarx’s there wouldn’t be enough bandwidth to watch the movies the app finds.
• Google Shared Spaces
• Congress Grants Broad Prize Authority to All Federal Agencies | The White House
  Congress gives broad authority to federal agencies to hold prize competitions check out
• Challenge.gov : The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges, contests, competitions and open innovation prizes
  Congress gives broad authority to federal agencies to hold prize competitions check out
• Challenge.gov : The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges, contests, competitions and open innovation prizes
  Congress gives broad authority to federal agencies to hold prize competitions check out
• Challenge.gov : The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges, contests, competitions and open innovation prizes
  Congress gives broad authority to federal agencies to hold prize competitions check out
• Schneier on Security: Recording the Police
  RT @mikeloukides: Important article by Bruce Schneier on photographing/recording the police, and why it’s important.
• ThinkGeek :: Luxeed U5 Dynamic Pixel LED Keyboard
• Java Programming Certificate — O’Reilly School of Technology
  RT OReillySchool Happy Holidays! Deal of the Week: #Java Programming Cert. All four courses 25% off through 12/26.
• persistent.info: Making git faster on large repositories on Mac OS X
• PHOTOS: Antarctic "Time Capsule" Hut Revealed
• Seals in the snow photo gallery by Nathan Harrison | BBC Wildlife Magazine
• Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com
  @sherylsandberg on why we have too few women leaders from @TED_TALKS #SherylIsMyHero
• The Theory of Hipster Relativity

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