Entries from February 2011 ↓

• Home – GitHub
  Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub.
• mgutz/nanoc3_blog – GitHub
  Nanoc3 blog starter kit
• nanoc: a Ruby site compiler that generates static HTML » home
• Cappuccino Blog » Blog Archive » GitHub Issues Cappuccino App: Desktop and Web
• Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS – Slashdot
  Oh, what a future we’re heading into! Kids who skip school get tracked by GPS

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• Programming Praxis
• 2011/personal-digital-archiving at master from anarchivist/conferencenotes – GitHub
• Home – LOCKSS
  LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), based at Stanford University Libraries, is an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so that they can easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content. LOCKSS, in its eleventh year, provides libraries with the open-source software and support to preserve today’s web-published materials for tomorrow’s readers while building their own collections and acquiring a copy of the assets they pay for, instead of simply leasing them. LOCKSS provides 100% post cancellation access.
• (500) http://pinktentacle.com/2011/02/japanese-graphic-design-from-the-1920s-30s/
  Cool Japanese posters and magazine covers from the 1920s-30s via @ediefr
• The Technium: Free Kindle This November
  RT @marcprecipice: Whoa, interesting post on Kindle pricing:
• Watson at HIMSS: DeepDDX for Healthcare | Mastering Data Management
  Important: #IBMWatson at #HIMSS11 – Deep Differential Diagnoses for Doctors

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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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• Pen – Simple Online Publishing
• Semantic Versioning
• Leading article: Now we can see the folly of our Faustian bargain on oil –
  Leading Articles, Opinion – The Independent
  Commodities markets remind us of the folly of our Faustian bargain on oil via @umairh
• Cohuman Fleur De Sel Caramels | The Cog
  These caramels that @cohuman was giving out at #L11 are truly awesome. Recipe:
• Piracy once again fails to get in way of record box office
  Piracy once again fails to get in way of record box office results for movie industry. What gives?
• Pattern | CLiPS
  RT @drewconway: This looks awesome: Pattern, a Python module for mining web data
• Feds Help You Find Your Fastest Internet Service – Slashdot
  Use the national broadband map to find the fastest ISP serving your address:
• Spaceflight Now – live streaming video powered by Livestream
  RT @rael: Go go go!
• Given our current technology and with the proper training, would it be possible for someone to become Batman? – Quora
  RT @davegray Fun link of the day: Given our current technology, would it be possible to become Batman? 🙂
• Using the Kinect to Assess Involuntary Motion at Health 2.0 | Ideas For Dozens
  .@duskgreg tells how his team used a Kinect at the #health2dev code-a-thon in Boston Awesome hacking for good
• Untitled (http://cdn.oreilly.com/radar/2011/02/SoCBM_2010.pdf)
  Complete @OReillyMedia "2010 State of the Computer Book Market" report (PDF) is worth reading in its entirety

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• Mason Jar Music Presents… Josh Garrels on Vimeo
• Pants Down on Madison: Salinger’s Slightly Salingeresque Boswell Wants to Be Left Alone | The New York Observer
  Great little story on Salinger’s Salingeresque biographer.
• Needle-in-a-haystack search identifies potential brain disease drug
  Needle-in-a-haystack search identifies potential brain disease drug
• New clue to the genetics of bipolar disorder: Piccolo
  New clue to the genetics of bipolar disorder: Piccolo
• Spare Capacity Theory | Gregor.us
  Definitely worth reading if you care about the price of oil: Spare Capacity (Not) via @pkedrosky
• Fluidinfo » Blog Archive » Putting domain names onto data with Fluidinfo
  Cool idea from @terrycojones: Using domain names as a trust metric, attaching to other types of data with fluidinfo
• RunKeeper: Keeping The Blind Running | Adapting to Going Blind
  Holy cow! Blind runner uses @runkeeper to train solo, without a guide runner via @bryce
• Webstock: Josh Clark, expert iPhone dabbler – Technology – NZ Herald News
  RT @globalmoxie Um, an "expert dabbler" is better than an amateur one, right?
• How We Know

  by Freeman Dyson

  | The New York Review of Books

  Fantastic Freeman Dyson review of @jamesgleick’s new book. From drum language to Wikipedia by way of Claude Shannon
• Log In – The New York Times
  "Designer labels without freedom of speech or the rule of law constitute a virulent form of contemporary savagery."
• Google Person Finder: Christchurch Earthquake, February 2011
  RT @nzherald: Google has developed this people finder for the Christchurch earthquake. #donline via @dfletcher
• Accommodation Finder: Christchurch Earthquake, February 2011
  Any #chch folks need a place to stay? Anyone, anywhere, got a bed to spare? #eqnz via @sptweets
• Amazon Prime Instant: A Closer Look – Clicker Blog
  RT @dannysullivan: awesome mega chart of amazon v netflix v hulu offerings from @clicker

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• 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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• Marco.org – Subscriptions and the new In-App Purchase requirement
  RT @marcprecipice: The best post yet on Apple and in-app purchases, by @marcoarment: Nice job. (Been wondering about …
• US cities using tech to cull ideas from citizens – WSJ.com
  RT @digiphile #Gov20 in the @WSJ! "US cities using tech to cull ideas from citizens"
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048ELECM?tag=twitter0001-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B0048ELECM&adid=1RV0C4DEK14CM8TDS963)
  The Other Brain – a brief history of the neuron
• Wrangler Demo Video on Vimeo
  Wrangler: an interactive tool designed to make it easier to manipulate data. Demo video: Try it:
• MediaShift Idea Lab . See an Error at the Washington Post? Now You Can Easily Report It | PBS
  Nice to see @washpost taking the Mediabugs approach to letting readers help make corrections to news stories
• Fred Trotter » Blog Archive » Direct gathers steam
  Really good news for the Health Internet: the open source Direct project gathers steam via @fredtrotter
• 2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 4 – The Languages – O’Reilly Radar
  RT @mikehatora: Just posted #4 out of 5, in the State of the Computer Book Market, Post 4: The Languages
• Home of the (UNOFFICIAL) SXSW Torrents
• 10 Steps To Open Government — InformationWeek
  10 Steps To Open Government – good piece, though most of the meat is at the bottom via @digiphile #opengov #gov20
• Power Struggle Ends: Volkswagen to Acquire Porsche – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International
  .@chl pointed me to the ultimate denouement of the Porsche financial hack Good reminder to create real value
• Debtris
  Sobering visualization from @infobeautiful: debtris
• Log In – The New York Times
  Paul Krugman: the highest paid hedge fund manager in 2006 made the same as all 80,000 NYC teachers in 3 years. #wiunion
• isaiah’s weblog : Apple’s Three Laws of Developers
• Log In – The New York Times
  Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins (I once got to look at marginalia in Newton’s copy of Galileo)
• Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia Ebook Deal/Day: Cocoa & Objective-C: Up&Running-$13.99 (Save 50%) Code DDCRN

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• ivan krstić · code culture » How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing
  Oldie but goodie -a classic short squeeze: How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing via @peterpascale
• Alexander Howard: Civic developers code for America on Presidents’ Day in DC
  Civic-minded developers: Go make stuff good happen at Presidents’ Day #DataCamp in DC Happening #NOW #opengov #gov20
• Margaret Atwood: Year of the Flood | Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood on WordPress.com weblog
  Lovely: RT @TOC @MargaretAtwood: Tools of Change: The Publishing Pie, (Dead Author T-Shirts To Come!)
• ‘Digital Inspections’ at U.S. Border Raise Constitutional Questions – NYTimes.com
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly
  My answer to @aral, @macsmarts @cwcooper @netgarden @marksigal re @gcolony’s take on Apple 30% cut of in-app sales
• City to create apps for students – BostonHerald.com
  The @cfabos team in the Boston Herald! Great quotes from @joelmahoney & @maxogden & Boston CIO Bill Oates.
• Flickr: Tor Even Mathisen’s Photostream
  aurora borealis photos
• Rumors I’ve Heard About Anna Wintour | The Hairpin
• Human Rights Video, Privacy and Visual Anonymity in the Facebook Age : Video For Change :: A WITNESS blog
  Important: Human Rights Video, Privacy and Visual Anonymity in the Facebook Age via @sarawinge
• On Chronicling The End of the Chain Bookstore Era
  "superstore chain bookstores were the subprime loans and credit default swaps of the publishing industry" via @naypinya
• Soundcheck:

  Ear Wars: Biology of Music
  – WNYC

  NPR on the neuroscience of music featuring @danlevitin
• (403) http://blogs.forrester.com/george_colony/11-02-18-the_top_for_apple
  I agree with @gcolony: 5%, not 30%, is right cut for $AAPL to take from content providers

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• The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt – review | Books | The Observer
• Fred’s Five Rules for Product/Market Fit
  I love @fredwilson’s Five Rules for Product/Market Fit #entrepreneurs
• Graffiti, Trash and Other issues getting fixed in SF now that SeeClickFix is connected to 311 – SeeClickFix
  Graffiti, Trash and Other issues getting fixed in SF now that @SeeClickFix is connected to 311
• BBC News – Loss of faith in the Irish fairy tale
  Still ahead for the US: RT @jamesoreilly "Nothing is so pervasive now in Ireland as the feeling of betrayal."
• In Kenya, Huts Far Off the Grid Harness the Sun – NYTimes.com
• Empire at the End of Decadence – NYTimes.com
• Congresswomen Electrify Planned Parenthood Abortion Debate – The Daily Beast
• peHUB » It’s Not a Bubble, People; It’s a Pyramid Scheme
• SpyTunes
• How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
  Erudite and eloquent @newyorker Adam Gopnik on attitudes towards internet effect on our minds Must read! via @jstogdill
• Neither Clean Nor Abundant–New Reports Bury Coal Claims
  Corporate cheerleaders claim coal is cheap, copious, and can be "clean." The evidence shows they’re wrong.
• Pennant
  Cool data visualization #ipad app for Baseball fans (not me, but I know you’re out there) via @m_reese
• First cyber curriculum goes to Meade Schools (www.HometownAnnapolis.com – The Capital)
  Whoa: #cybersecurity hits the high school curriculum (near Fort Meade, to be sure, but still an interesting data point)

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• 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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