Entries from December 2010 ↓
December 31st, 2010 — pinboard
- 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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December 30th, 2010 — pinboard
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December 29th, 2010 — pinboard
- weight table
- 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
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- 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 ã§ã€ã‚‚ã£ã¨ã€‚ "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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December 28th, 2010 — pinboard
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December 27th, 2010 — pinboard
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December 26th, 2010 — pinboard
- 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 â„¢
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.
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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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December 25th, 2010 — pinboard
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December 24th, 2010 — pinboard
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December 23rd, 2010 — pinboard
- 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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December 22nd, 2010 — pinboard
- Datavisualization.ch
- 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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