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- Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software
Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
- The Goulet Pen Company
- Graph Your Inbox
- Use It Up, Wear It Out – Consumers Hold On to Stuff Longer – NYTimes.com
- cohuman
- Poverty and Lack of Research Block Path to a Well-Fed World – NYTimes.com
Poverty and Lack of Research Block Path to a Well-Fed World – NYTimes.com
- America in the World
American shame: Empire at the End of Decadence Eye-opening graphic.
- Anthropocene: Age of Man – Pictures, More From National Geographic magazine
"human biomass is…a hundred times larger than that of any other large animal species that has ever walked the Earth"
- The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All – O’Reilly Radar
@zooko Ah, got it. Yeah, see my post on the Ponzi economy from 2009
- HIT Worker Demand – The Mad Dash | healthsystemcio.com
Surge in demand for Health IT professionals via @praxagora
- Book – Natural Language Toolkit
Natural Language Processing with Python
— Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit
Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper
- bit.ly | Basic | a simple URL shortener
RT @andrewsavikas: Glad to know, but terrified by, the answer: @newsycombinator: Why does Adobe Reader need so many updates? …
- The Rude Warrior | Vanity Fair
The Rude Warrior
- Can Health Care 2.0 Be as Easy as Craigslist? Craig Thinks So | Fast Company
RT @fastcompany: Can Health Care 2.0 Be as Easy as Craigslist? @CraigNewmark Thinks So #hcsm #hcmtg #healthIT
- Log In – The New York Times
This is good news. Consumers Hold On to Products Longer Let’s end the disposable society!
- ePayments Week: More Androids banking – O’Reilly Radar
RT @MaryTreseler: Banking with the Android on the rise: #android #PayPalX
- "30 Rock" takes on feminist hypocrisy — and its own – Salon.com Mobile
- Model 1. Hubs Focused on Community Government Information | KnightComm
I’m quoted in this Knight Commission report on community hubs:
- r – Fastest & most flexible way to chart over 2 million rows of flat file data? – Stack Overflow
why do I use #Rstats? Ability to do this in just a few minutes: Reproducible, version controllable, fast to build.
- Make: Online » Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators
Bad plan: Sony’s War On Makers, Hackers, And Innovators
- A new kind of hello
The surprising disconnect between #ebooks and how most people discover new books
- Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/michelleminkoff/almost-scraping-web-scraping-without-programming)
@CindyRoyal Slides here. . Will post roundup of all my materials on blog on Sun.
- How to Make Oatmeal . . . Wrong – NYTimes.com
Kakonomics eg from @nytimes: "McDonald’s … is doing everything it can to turn oatmeal into yet another bad choice"
- Miscellanea: Kakonomics. Or, the strange preference for Low quality outcomes
RT @mikeloukides: Kakonomics: mutual acceptance of mediocrity in economic exchange. Brilliant; explains a lot via @ …
- Chris Vein Goes to the White House | Code for America
Congrats to SF’s Chris Vein on his new White House post via @codeforamerica @civcoms
- The painful truth about trainers: Are expensive running shoes a waste of money? | Mail Online
The controversy over running shoes vs. barefoot running Reads like marketing, but still a fun read. Via @seanjoreilly
- Texas Census Data Finder Search by address| News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News
Nifty indeed. MT @skins96 Check out the DMN’s nifty Census app:
- Real World Haskell
– O’Reilly Media
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Real World Haskell – $19.99 (Save 50%) Code DDRWH
- A List Apart: Articles: Web Cryptography: Salted Hash and Other Tasty Dishes
RT @mikeloukides: Basic Cryptography for web developers: an essential skill
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February 25th, 2011 — pinboard
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February 24th, 2011 — pinboard
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February 23rd, 2011 — pinboard
- 5 Ways Mobile Will Transform Commerce
Good piece by Dave Sims: 5 Ways Mobile Will Transform Commerce One of the areas that will change the most, and soon
- Brooklyn Museum: Split Second: Welcome
Brooklyn Museum applies Gladwell’s Blink to crowdsource help curating an art exhibit: Split Second Indian Paintings
- It’s the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones
If U send 1 link to your list, today…make it this: "It’s the Inequality, Stupid" (props > MoJo)
- IBEX catches space weather in the act | COSMOS magazine
NASA’s IBEX has snapped the first shots of the magnetic tail and plasma sheet in Earth’s magnetosphere. #science #space
- FoxBusiness.com – Amazon Rolls Out Instant Streaming for ‘Prime’ Members
Whoa – great deal from $AMZN -Prime membership now includes free video streaming Entering a period of hyper-competition
- 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter
– O’Reilly Media
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter – $8.49 (Save 50%) Code DDMTW
- Nine Health Track Sessions at SXSWi That Show Promise – Med Men
RT @HCB_Joe: Where you’ll find me at #SXSWh: 9 Health Sessions at #SXSWi That Show Promise – via @laurelatoreilly
- Nine Health Track Sessions at SXSWi That Show Promise – Med Men
RT @HCB_Joe: Where you’ll find me at #SXSWh: 9 Health Sessions at #SXSWi That Show Promise – via @laurelatoreilly
- Log In – The New York Times
Good David Brooks piece on deficit reduction: don’t make it partisan, make everybody hurt
- Penis Ice Luge
"pour at the hip, drink at the tip"
- On Gender and Genre: The Nonfiction Count « BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
- The Illumination – The Barnes & Noble Review
- Revolution U – Otpor, CANVAS, Burma, and the Egypt Revolution – By Tina Rosenberg | Foreign Policy
RT @PascalVanHecke How Gene Sharp’s nonviolent tactics came to Egypt via Serbian anti-Milosevic veterans
- In Which We Teach You How To Be A Woman In Any Boys’ Club – Home – This Recording
- On This Presidents’ Day: A Brief History Of Presidential Sex – The Rumpus.net
- iPhone notes app comparison – All this
- They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 | Head Butler
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 – great and timely review by @headbutler
- Webcast: SproutCore: Writing Code for a Multi-Device World
RT @OReillyMedia SproutCore: Writing Code for a Multi-Device World: Free Live Webcast – Feb 22 @ 10am PT #Startssoon
- Lawyers Using Facebook Research For Jury Selection – Slashdot
Lawyers using facebook for jury selection. Note the social hack to "friend" prospective jurors
- Understanding the Brain’s "Brake Pedal" in Neural Plasticity: Scientific American
Understanding the Brain’s Brake Pedal in Neural Plasticity
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February 22nd, 2011 — pinboard
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February 21st, 2011 — pinboard
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February 20th, 2011 — pinboard
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February 19th, 2011 — pinboard
- Obama’s Plan to “Win the Future” : The New Yorker
fiscal “responsibility” can actually be irresponsible, says James Surowiecki in @newyorker. The case for R&D investment
- BrainDriver: A Mind Controlled Car – IEEE Spectrum
Whoa, that future is sure coming at us… A Car You Can Drive With Your Thoughts via @slashdot
- Strata Round Up Part 1: Overview and Takeaways « // jake porway //
Great job by @jakeporway teasing apart themes from #strataconf: big data vs data science, using data vs showing data
- Stack Overflow Rides Experts And Order To Q&A Success: Tech News and Analysis «
Stack Overflow Rides Experts And Order To Q&A Success
- Go Viral to Improve Health – Institute of Medicine
Health hackers, here’s an opportunity: IOM/NAE Health Data Collegiate Challenge
- Topspin Media » Getting Practical: A Step-By-Step Guide to Building an Online Marketing Plan That Works (Ian’s Presentation From New Music Seminar Los Angeles, February 2011)
I’m quoted in this interesting presentation about building an online marketing plan for musicians: (via @allennoren)
- Molecules seen rebounding before they hit a surface – physics-math – 18 February 2011 – New Scientist
Molecules seen rebounding before they hit a surface
- Hacker Chat: Max Ogden Talks About CouchDB, Open Data and Couchappsora (Part 1)
Hacker Chat: @MaxOgden Talks About CouchDB, Open Data and Couchappsora (Part 1) Max is awesome!
- Eat more anchovies, herring and sardines to save the ocean’s fish stocks | Environment | The Guardian
RT @guardianscience: Eat more anchovies, herring and sardines to save the ocean’s fish stocks via @seedlingproject
- McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Git
– O’Reilly Media
RT @OReillyMedia Video Deal/Day: McCullough & Berglund on Mastering #Git – Save 50% w/code DDBRG
- Log In – The New York Times
#IPad Subscription Service Draws Antitrust Scrutiny See also comments from Last.FM founder
- Last.Fm Founder Criticizes Apple Over Music Subscription Fees – Slashdot
#IPad Subscription Service Draws Antitrust Scrutiny See also comments from Last.FM founder
- What Are President Obama, Zuck, Jobs And Other Silicon Valley Tech Stars Toasting To?
Interesting: Jobs + Zuck got prime seating next to Obama, while Schmidt was at the end of the table via @thewavingcat
- Totnes: Britain’s town of the future | Environment | The Observer
Totnes in Devon might be the most forward-thinking eco settlement in the world. As fossil-fuel reserves dwindle and the economy contracts, will resident-led Transition Towns become the way that we all live?
- Why Are Vendors Annoyed by this IAP Thing?
Interesting commentary on Apple’s In-App Purchasing power grab from former developer at Kobo: #ebooks
- Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android – Slashdot
Ouch. Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android In any event, it will be interesting to see this play out.
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