Entries from January 2011 ↓
January 31st, 2011 — pinboard
- Lucy Mangan: A common complaint | Life and style | The Guardian
To have had a blue-collar job before becoming a politician in this country is still so rare and incredible that it is enough to be a defining feature for ever
- Three Ways to Protect EC2 Instances from Accidental Termination and Loss of Data – Alestic.com
- Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as Much as Hard Drugs: Scientific American
Rats given access to high-fat foods showed some of the same characteristics as animals hooked on cocaine or heroin–and found it hard to quit even when given electric shocks
- Resizing the Root Disk on a Running EBS Boot EC2 Instance – Alestic.com
- Cassandra/Hadoop Integration
- Log In – The New York Times
The troubled history of google.org, as told by @nytimes. Worth reading. Change is hard.
- riccomini – hadoop pig documentation
RT @peteskomoroch: Handy #SQL to #Hadoop #Pig syntax conversion cheat sheet by @criccomini #strataconf #nosql
- Mining the Social Web – O’Reilly Media
- A Kinect Princess Leia hologram in realtime
A Kinect Princess Leia hologram in realtime (sort of – 3D on a screen, not in the room) via @slashdot
- TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for ‘moving and technically flawless’ work | Books | The Guardian
- Untitled (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2011/01/is_google_getting_less_reliabl.html?sid=ST2011012804185)
Meanwhile, this companion @washpost piece shows how Twitter answered a problem search better than Google
- How you and Google are losing the battle against spam in search results
I’m quoted in this @washpost article about how Google is losing to spammers
- The Four Most Important Words At Twitter
I like Twitter’s mission statement. See The Four Most Important Words At Twitter by @rdhjr via @alleyinsider
- List of ad-hoc mesh network routing protocols that can be used during an "internet kill switch". : programming
List of ad-hoc mesh network routing protocols that can be used during an "internet kill switch".
- A VC: A Frightening Week
RT @ericries: Important and honest post from @fredwilson: A Frightening Week
- News Desk: Seeing Spots : The New Yorker
Atul Gawande’s follow up to his excellent health hotspots piece All of his stuff is "must read." via @digiphile
- Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
ubuntu AMIs
- Andrew McLaughlin: An Open Letter to Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt
RT @McAndrew: Open Letter to Tarek Kamel, Minister of Comms of #Egypt: For your legacy & Egypt’s future, re-connect.
- Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Setting up Pseudo-Distributed Apache Hadoop in 10 minutes
- Emerging Technologies and Innovation: A National Security scenario using Hadoop, Map/Reduce and Information Theory
- Hadoop Streaming
- Progressive Data Solutions – Ruby on Hadoop Quickstart
- Man survives 1,000ft plunge off a Scottish mountain – Telegraph
Climber survives 1,000ft plunge off a Scottish mountain. Found standing reading a map.
- Log In – The New York Times
The Power of the Platform at Apple Good understanding of how platform strategy works.
- Samsung ships 2m Galaxy Tabs in its first three months | Electronista
Wow. Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy Tab sold 2M units in first 3 months, 1M of those in last month.
- Untitled (http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/01/netflix-performance-on-top-isp-networks.html)
Fabulous. @netflix uses data from HD streaming to show relative performance of ISPs:
- Yfrog Photo : yfrog.com/h7h2fwj – Shared by theplayethic
♻ @weddady: RT @RaquelEvita: RT@Jasper_Johns: The human wall protecting Cairo museum #Jan25
- Golden Gate Bridge set to shut tollbooths
News from the future: Golden Gate Bridge to go all electronic toll taking, fastrak plus cameras to track all cars
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January 29th, 2011 — pinboard
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January 28th, 2011 — pinboard
- HTML5 Reset
✩ OLD GOLD: HTML5 Reset removes browser styles, creates HTML structures, clears floats, corrects for IE.
- Sukey – A tool for non-violent demonstrations
"Sukey is a free of charge communications tool for non-violent demonstrations." Currently London only; Sukey 2 will be national
- Black Star Co-op
- Atlas chugged: The Black Star Co-op experience
- About Nutch
Nutch is open source web-search software. It builds on Lucene and Solr, adding web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, parsers for HTML and other document formats, etc.
Nutch can run on a single machine, but gains a lot of its strength from running in a Hadoop cluster
- Stephen Wolfram Blog : Jeopardy, IBM, and Wolfram|Alpha
Stephen Wolfram compares Jeopardy-playing IBM Watson and Wolfram Alpha QA paradigm
- Egyptian government on last legs, says ElBaradei | World news | The Guardian
Guardian Exclusive: Egyptian government ‘on its last legs’ says ElBaradei
- Yearly mammograms from age 40 save 71 percent more lives, study shows
Yearly mammograms from age 40 save 71 percent more lives, study shows
- Egypt’s Internet goes dark during political unrest | Privacy Inc. – CNET News
My @CNET article on Egypt’s Internet going dark: #Jan25 #Egypt #Cairo
- Log In – The New York Times
RT @jamesoreilly: Very interesting op-ed by William Gibson. RT @GreatDismal 25 Years of Digital Vandalism
- Johann Hari: Why is it wrong to protect gay children? –
Johann Hari, Commentators – The Independent
Perfectly argued, brilliantly done. Johann Hari on the New Homophobia.
- Egypt Leaves the Internet – Renesys Blog
RT @arwenogriffith: "As Friday dawns in Cairo … keep the Egyptian people in your thoughts." (via @alexismadrigal)
- FluidDB » Blog Archive » How we made an API for BoingBoing in an evening
@terrycojones FluidInfo knocked it out of the park with the BoingBoing API! Well done.
- The Stanford NLP (Natural Language Processing) Group
- newtoy/toystore – GitHub
ORM for key-value data stores
- New Hybrid Whale Discovered in Arctic
Antarctic minke whales are mating with Arctic cousins, DNA shows.
- Untitled (http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1054693)
Interesting NSF grant on smartphones as sensor platforms. via Ross Stapleton-Gray in email
- Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients : The New Yorker
Amazing and important. RT @NewYorker @Atul_Gawande’s piece on health care hot spots:
- Programming Amazon EC2
– O’Reilly Media
Looking forward to Jurg’s O’Reilly book on Amazon EC2 love the tagline "survive your success" 🙂
- PayPal X Developer Network: ScottG’s Blog: Changes in the PayPal platform team
Google is getting even more serious about their payment efforts. PayPal CTO Osama Bedier goes to $GOOG:
- Lost Vivaldi Concerto Resurrected – Click to Listen
Lost Vivaldi Concerto Resurrected – Click to Listen
- From A Left Wing: Do You Get Rape-y Comments Too?: On Sexism & Sports Media
RT @FromaLeftWing Do You Get Rape-y Comments Too?: On Sexism & Sports Media
- PayPal X Developer Network: PayPal X DevZone: Trends to Watch in 2011 – Mobile Banking Part 1
RT @OReillyMedia Payment Trends to Watch in 2011: Mobile Banking: #PayPalX
- Obama’s call for innovation follows slowdown in most sectors, scholars say
- The video above is less than a minute long. Please…
Agree with @fredwilson that @bryce is right on: Is the mobile phone our social net?
- A VC: Is The Mobile Phone Our Social Net?
Agree with @fredwilson that @bryce is right on: Is the mobile phone our social net?
- iPhone Dev SDK
- Apple – Stack Exchange
- Programming iOS 4
– O’Reilly Media
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming iOS 4 – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DDP4R
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January 27th, 2011 — pinboard
- Vox
- Countywide Community Forums | Civic Commons
Really grateful to @ccforums for providing the civiccommons.org and civiccommons.net domain names to @civcoms
- txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator
- A Loophole Means Unlimited Data For AT&T IPhone : NPR
According to @npr, ATT will restore unlimited #iphone data plan if threatened with switch to Verizon via @slashdot
- Secret Geometry: Cathode
hah!
- Yfrog Photo : yfrog.com/h3h7cnjj – Shared by mpedson
LOL at @mpedson’s scorecard for the year: via @gnat
- Cairns Blog: Turning Rule Writers Into Problem Solvers: Creating a 21st Century Government That’s Open and Competent by Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review
"the White House needs to retrain rule writers to be problem solvers" says @bethnoveck
- DIY Projects, Inspiration, How-tos, Hacks, Mods & More @ Makezine.com – Tweak Technology to Your Will
RT @make Tune in. Make: Live premiere today, Jan. 26, 9pm ET/6pmPT First episode is all about Arduino. #makelive
- A New Kind of Solution: Learn How Your City Can Partner with CfA | Code for America
RT @codeforamerica Attend our upcoming #webinar to learn about common challenges in #cities across the country #gov20
- Google Algorithm as Extinction Model, The – NYTimes.com
Google Pagerank as extinction prediction algorithm. Fascinating. Want to learn more. via @jstogdill
- Who Are the Most Followed Users on Quora?
@SimonRobic Re And I hardly use Quora. Better start being more active
- All America Heard Last Night: ‘Salmon’ — Daily Intel
Ouch. Word clouds of what Obama said vs. what America heard: #sotu
- Sass – Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
ass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
- Microsoft Press Top 25 of 2010 – Ebook Deal of the Day
RT @MicrosoftPress Best of 2010 #Ebook Deal/Day – SAVE 50% on Top 25 from @MicrosoftPress
- YouTube
– The 2011 State of the Union Address: Enhanced Version
We’ve posted the graphics from the enhanced #SOTU to @slideshare Video here:
- Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/2011-enhanced-state-of-the-union-address-graphics)
We’ve posted the graphics from the enhanced #SOTU to @slideshare Video here:
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January 26th, 2011 — pinboard
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January 25th, 2011 — pinboard
- FT.com / Life & Arts – The art of good writing
Stanley Fish
- nelhage/reptyr – GitHub
Reparent a running program to a new terminal
- Google App Engine Java and GWT Application Development Book & eBook | Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store
ze book
- Chopin’s hallucinations were probably caused by epilepsy, study suggests
Chopin’s hallucinations were probably caused by epilepsy, study suggests
- BBC News – Two-clawed and parrot-sized: new T.rex cousin unveiled
Two-clawed T.rex cousin found
- curiosity counts – Wirefy lets you turn any existing web page into a…
Brilliant! Wirefy lets you turn any existing webpage into a wireframe
- FireDepartment iPhone App
Can’t tell you more about this before tomorrow, but I do think it’s pretty cool:
- open source and Henry Ford – dalepd | Dale Dougherty
RT @dalepd: open source and Henry Ford
- BBC – About the BBC: Reshaping BBC Online
Peak News watch: BBC cutting budget by 25%, & shuttering large portions of its online presence (via @DrVes)
- National Geographic – Inspiring People to Care About the Planet Since 1888
From @NatGeoSociety: cool interactive map of the US, showing origins & popularity of surnames. »
- eScienceCommons: New theories reveal the nature of numbers
Oops — meant to include this with that Holy Freaking Cow, What Awesome #Math
- AIM math: American Institute of Mathematics
I can barely even comprehend the #math here, but it’s enough to say: holy freaking cow, that’s awesome.
- Firefox and Chrome Add "Do Not Track" Tools To Their Browsers
Firefox and Chrome Add "Do Not Track" Tools To Their Browsers
- Agile Project Management with Scrum
– O’Reilly Media
RT @Microsoft Press #Ebook Deal/Day: Agile Project Mgmt w/Scrum – $15.99 (Save 50%) Code DDAPJ
- Head First Web Design
– O’Reilly Media
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Web Design – $19.99 (Save 50%) Code DDHFW
- A VC: The Independent Web
.@fredwilson’s take on The Independent Web echoes my "create more value than you capture" ethos
- Melbourne housing now ‘severely unaffordable’
Sick. "London is more affordable than Geelong.Sydney,the second least affordable city in the world,in spot number 324":
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January 24th, 2011 — pinboard
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January 23rd, 2011 — pinboard
- The Loss of a Good Man – NYTimes.com
He was the founding director of the Peace Corps, the signature success of Kennedy’s New Frontier. He founded Head Start, created the Job Corps and Legal Services for the Poor, and gave us Volunteers in Service to America, which was the domestic version of the Peace Corps. He served as president and chairman of the Special Olympics, which was founded by Eunice Shriver. Indefatigable and unrepentantly idealistic, Mr. Shriver may have directly affected more people in a positive way than any American since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- Strata Gems: The emerging marketplace for social data – O’Reilly Radar
- Andrew Alexander – Can The Post regain its legacy of excellence?
- PopTech
: Popcasts : Ben Goldacre Talks Bad Science
Ben Goldacre talks Bad Science
- Visualization deconstructed: Mapping Facebook’s friendships – O’Reilly Radar
I like @radar’s new Visualization deconstructed series: e.g. Mapping Facebook’s friendships
- How novels came to terms with the internet | Books | The Guardian
- gleeBox Release Notes
- (500) http://j.m
RT @mikeloukides: Fascinating article on @PBSMediaShift: How mobile devices affect the way we read nice data-driven analysis. …
- Process flow design at the module effects level through the use ofacceptability regions – United States Patent 5912678
- Women in research have it tough, says study – The Times of India
we knew that, didn’t we, gals? more hard data: RT @smartgirlsrock: Women in research have it tough, says study
- Problem Sets | MIT Global Challenge
I really like the problem sets for the MIT Global Challenge
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January 22nd, 2011 — pinboard
- This column will change your life: With friends like these… | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian
‘Perhaps all we need is some kind of technological fix, to display a message under every chipper status update, and as a permanent subtitle on numerous television shows: "Don’t forget: this person is barely holding things together."’
- Colorado River Water Shortages: Present Concerns and Future Fears – Environment – GOOD
The Colorado River, a water source to at least 30 million people in seven states and Mexico, is drying up. It hasn’t reached the sea in ages, and in 2002, for the first time, total demand for the river’s water climbed higher than the total river’s supply.
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- All In The Mind – 22 January 2011 – Stem cells and brain tales
Stem cells and brain tales: Acclaimed neuroscientist Fred Gage is a serial trailblazer
- Deadspot On Hisense Arena – ESPN Video – ESPN
A deadspot delayed the start of the Sharapova match
- 7 Data Blogs To Explore – ReadWriteCloud
ReadWriteCloud: 7 Data Blogs To Explore
- Font Collection: 10 Free Excellent Monospaced Fonts
Font Collection: 10 Free Excellent Monospaced Fonts
- Center Focuses On Treating Alzheimer’s By Comforting Residents, Not Medicating Them | Here & Now
#Alzheimers drugs don’t do much, here’s a different approach: evidence-based compassion from @hereandnow (via @9brandon)
- Official Google Blog: Google search and search engine spam
About time! "We hear the feedback… loud and clear: people are asking for even stronger action on content farms."
- Kindle Direct Publishing: Self-publish to Amazon’s Kindle Store
Kindle Direct Publishing: Amazon competes with its suppliers. This will get ugly for publishers, ultimately for AMZN 2
- railsready: Setup script to get Ruby and Rails running on Ubuntu with one command – The Changelog – Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
- New Scientist TV: Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell
- I Can Stalk U – Raising awareness about inadvertent information sharing
scans tweeted and FB posted photos for geotags. Turn off geotagging on your smartphone!
- The Beautiful Mind – Slide Show – NYTimes.com
RT @DrMarsha Geekily gorgeous photos of neurons & the like from NYT Science section via @christineottery
- Global warming, climate change: Warming effect of melting ice fields stronger, report finds – latimes.com
RT @stevesilberman Report: #Climate scientists *underestimated* warming effects of melting ice via @tvjrennie
- In the comments on on my TripIt post earlier in…
RT @bryce ITP kids see the future
- Myth of the Hero Gunslinger – NYTimes.com
RT @hush6: Timothy Egan: Myth of the Hero Gunslinger – NYTimes.com
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January 21st, 2011 — pinboard
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