Entries from May 2011 ↓

• Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free
• The Book Depository Live
• Rogue Waves Captured – Science News
• Code School – Rails Best Practices
  I just completed Rails Best Practices – Super Deluxe Championship Edition via @codeschool … good stuff 🙂 recommend!!
• motherjones:

  cubicmetaphysics:

  No Arctic Sea…

  Disturbing chart regression of the day: No Arctic sea ice by the 2030s?
• Indian ratatouille recipe, plus tuna confit salad | Yotam Ottolenghi | Life and style | The Guardian
• Untitled (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Cut,_Paste_and_Crash.txt&topic=Technical&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=high&showcomments=1)
  » @dens: You know who’s a genius? The guy who invented copy & paste. « Andy Hertzfeld lovely chap:
• Kati London | Most Creative People 2011 | Fast Company
  RT @brady: Love that @fastcompany picked up on @picklesnumber1 for its 100 most creative people in business
• O’Reilly Android Open Conference Call for Participation: Android Open – O’Reilly Conferences, October 09 – 11, 2011, San Francisco
  RT @brady The Android Open CFP is hopping. We tripled the number of submissions in the past 24 hours. #android
• MongoDB: The Definitive Guide
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: MongoDB: The Definitive Guide – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDD5F
• More Than 40 Percent of Americans Believe the Rapture Is Coming – Culture – GOOD
• Drink « Black Star Co-op
• Google scraps newspaper-scanning project | Deep Tech – CNET News
  Bad news for preservation and newspaper archives, but perhaps good news for a distributed newspaper ecosystem
• YouTube
  – ‪Ignite Show: Scott Berkun – "Why and How to Give an Ignite Talk", Ep 19.‬‏
  "Why and How to Give an Ignite Talk:"
• Futurity.org – Wanted: Gender-free job ads
• FCC Commissioner Issues Statement Opposing TWC Bill to Limit Community Broadband in North Carolina | community broadband networks
  FCC Commissioner issues statement opposing North Carolina bill banning community broadband initiatives NC, speak out!
• Daring Fireball Linked List: Hype 1.0
  Hype 1.0:

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• After DSK, Schwarzenegger: Why Powerful Men Behave Badly — Printout — TIME
• Bill Cunningham New York :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
  New Yorkers and New Yorker readers will love this piece about Bill Cunningham happiness via @ebertchicago
• Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’ – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Grab y’all links. – Chrome Web Store
• Capturing 30 Years of Age – My Modern Metropolis
  Love this, via @Mullies RT @jonnypile Four sisters aging over 35 years .
• BBC News – Fear for mass stranding of whales on South Uist
  Fear for mass stranding of whales
• Eight Out Of China’s Top Nine Government Officials Are Scientists | Singularity Hub
  8 of China’s Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers; ours are all lawyers. via @slashdot
• Apple causes ‘religious’ reaction in brains of fans, say neuroscientists
  Neuroscientists find Apple stimulates same brain regions in fans as religious imagery does in brains of the devout
• Getting Started – Google Prediction API – Google Code
• Joe Astroth: Why Shop Class Is Still Relevant
  Totally true! RT @dalepd Why Shop Class Is Still Relevant via @huffingtonpost #makerfaire
• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Ed – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJS6
• Peeking In On The IT Dashboard Community, Six Weeks After Release. | Civic Commons
  Made my day: RT @civcoms: Peeking In On The IT Dashboard Community, Six Weeks After Release #opengov #gov20
• How Federal Government Can Help Entrepreneurship
  Really good recipe from @bfeld: How the Federal Govt Can Help Entrepreneurship @startupamerica pay attention
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671447483/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=twitter0001-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0671447483&adid=0C9XRVXFZ7X6PGPPEZWP)
  Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier – lovely little vintage book

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• 50 Reasons Why The World Is Definitely Ending On Saturday: Pics, Videos, Links, News
• Untitled (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2011/5/18taub.html)
  JOY: "@HelenLOHara: This is BRILL: I regret to inform you that my wedding to Captain Von Trapp has been cancelled "
• Intellectual Property Office – Independent Review of IP and Growth
  V happy to see Ian Hargreaves’ IP Review get a fair wind. I endorse it 100% (I was an advisor) Over to you, politicians.
• The Dark Mystery Of Emily Dickinson’s “Master” Letters – The Rumpus.net
  These are her letters to the world: All of E. Dickinson’s addictive strangeness, in 3 "master" letters via @The_Rumpus
• Untitled (http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/speeches/2011/speech495.pdf)
  "Investment choice, like other life choices, is being tuned to a shorter wavelength." What capital markets teach us.
• Make: Online | Why Educators Want to Attend Maker Faire
  Maker Faire and the Young Makers Program: Teachers explain why they love @MakerFaire via @dalepd IT’S THIS WEEKEND!
• Kill Math
  This is an insight worth chewing on: "Math needs a new interface." via @monkchips
• First Ever Pulitzer For Non-Print Series – Slashdot
  Meant to tweet this earlier in the month. First-ever Pulitzer for non-print journalism
• Twitter
  Correction from @bfnyc about the claim that Google is the 3rd largest computer manufacturer: 4th largest SERVER mftr
• NationalJournal.com – Beyond Big or Small Government – Monday, May 16, 2011
  Excellent piece: Beyond Big or Small Government Better to talk about "how rather than how much" via @digiphile
• Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language – Slashdot
  Holy sh*t: Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language
• An Elixir of Reminding | booktwo.org
  Lovely. RT arielwaldman [Keller piece] reminds me of @jamesbridle’s great post on An Elixir of Reminding:
• How resilience engineering applies to the web world – O’Reilly Radar
  RT @jesserobbins "How resilience engineering applies to the web world" interview with @allspaw #devops #velocityconf
• Log In – The New York Times
  I’m usually dubious of the various "internet makes us stupid" arguments, but this one was nuanced and thoughtful
• Origins of the Deficit – NYTimes.com
  Wow. Damning quote from Republican Santorum in 2003 "I had to spend the surpluses. Deficits make it easier to say no"
• Node: Up and Running
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Node: Up and Running – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM95
• Recycling
  Good tip: @BestBuy recycles electronics, even those you didn’t buy from them via @pmckie

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• For today’s politicians, it’s all about the influence you hold online – What’s Trending – CBS News
  For today’s politicians, it’s all about the influence you hold online, says @digiphile on @CBSNews @whatstrending
• Warning! | There might be a problem with the requested link
  RT: @marytreseler Real-Time Auctions w/ HTML5, PayPal, & Google App Engine #PayPalX
• Bitcoin: Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea? – Quora
  Adam Cohen pours cold water on @jason’s championship of the disruptive power of bitcoin via @pkedrosky
• Obama administration outlines international strategy for cyberspace – The Washington Post
  Obama’s international strategy for cyberspace "not only will we engage, but here’s where we’d like to end up.”
• NLM Show Off Your Apps: Innovative Uses of NLM Information
  RT @andlynch the National Library of Medicine is looking for Innovative Uses of NLM Info:
• Why you can’t really anonymize your data – O’Reilly Radar
  RT @mikeloukides Great post by @petewarden on the limits to anonymization:
• O’Reilly Media – Ebook Deal/Day: Tech Ed MSP Package
  RT @MicrosoftPress #Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 25 Top IT-Pro and Dev Titles – Celebrate #msteched
• Mild hyperthermia inhibits homologous recombination, induces BRCA2 degradation, and sensitizes cancer cells to poly (ADP-ribose)
  polymerase-1 inhibition
  The Heat is On. Does a hot flush sensitise cancer cells and provide a therapeutic strategy for killing cancer cells?

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• Log In – The New York Times
  Health Insurers Making Record Profits, Still Raising Rates, while patients postpone care
• Log In – The New York Times
  NY attorney general investigates major banks’ role in home loan crisis – nytimes.com
• Log In – The New York Times
  Turn up the heat!!! New York Investigates Banks’ Role in Fiscal Crisis
• BBC News – Twitter ‘vital’ link to patients, say doctors in Japan
  RT @monkchips: Twitter a ‘vital’ link to patients in the aftermath of the quake, say Japanese doctors RT @Avinio by …
• Making the BurdaStyle Blog More Interactive With Thinglink! – Sewing Blog | BurdaStyle.com
  RT @jyri Cool, Burda Style is now using @thinglink to tag craft, fashion and sewing finds on its blog:
• And I Should Know
• Why eliminating Big Oil loopholes isn’t a tax increase « Climate Progress
  Repealing tax breaks for oil companies is NOT a tax increase! via @TomRaftery
• Video: High fiber | Need to Know
  RT @brainpicker: PBS explores why Europe is miles ahead of the U.S. in internet connection
• Programming the Mobile Web
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming the Mobile Web – Only $17.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDPMB
• 8th Email from Japan-Preparation for disasters | GLOBIS CEO Yoshito Hori Blog
  Nice long view reminder. How an old tsunami marker ("don’t build below here") saved lives in Japan
• Dichloroacetate and cancer : Pharyngula
  Dichloroacetate and cancer: So many people have sent me this sensationalistic article, "Scientists cure cancer, …
• Scalzi’s Fuzzy Nation: a masterful, likable reboot of one of the great sf classics – Boing Boing
  Scalzi’s FUZZY NATION: masterful, likable, terrific reboot of sf classic
• Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Persistent Bacteria Go Down – Slashdot
  Cool. A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Persistent Bacteria Go Down

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• Hacker News | How to make wifi work at tech conferences
• NonBlocking.io – Malte Ubl’s Asynchronous Identity Disorder: How to make WIFI work at tech conferences (Part 1 of N)
• Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman | Video on TED.com
  RT @tempo: If you can’t explain something simply, then you probably don’t understand it. (A Feynman contention)
• Carousel: The best way to experience Instagram on your Mac
  Carousel — desktop app for Instagram — with themes named after Wes Anderson movies: (@ wellplacedpixel)
• FUCK YEAH NERVOUS SYSTEM
  The Fuck Yeah Nervous System blog actually has lots of wonderful brain images
• The world’s most inspiring bookstores | Slide Show – Salon.com
• Untitled (http://www.justin.tv/phbanner)
  My #STC11 talk will be livestreamed in 10 or 15 minutes at
• How Viral PDFs Of A Naughty Bedtime Book Exploded The Old Publishing Model | Fast Company
  important “@MediaReDEF: How Viral PDFs Of A Naughty Bedtime Book Exploded The Old Publishing Model
• Man travels back in time 35 years, through reverse-chronological video clips – Boing Boing
• “There are some people who don’t wait.” Robert Krulwich on the future of journalism | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
  “There are some people who don’t wait.” Robert Krulwich on journalism and so much more. Must read via @eur_1965
• Gates puts energy into climate change solutions
  Bill Gates puts energy into climate change solutions
• Scientists find master switch gene for obesity
  | Reuters
  Scientists find "master switch" gene for obesity
• The Rules of Thumb For Tech Purchasing – Slashdot
  Good advice: The rules of thumb for tech purchasing
• The Dreamliner nightmare – The Washington Post
  I’m with George Will on this one. Unions and big companies are alike in using govt to distort the market via @sanuzis

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• Howtoons » Eco Knievel
  RT @Howtoons Check out Eco Knievel – the first ever eco stunt man!
• (500) http://www.tedxsv.org/
  RT @ahier Great source for #TEDxSV tweets = @rjenbarr / Livestream here:
• TEDx Silicon Valley on Justin.tv
  RT @ahier Great source for #TEDxSV tweets = @rjenbarr / Livestream here:
• The secret is to bang the rocks together – O’Reilly Radar
  Great post on #arduino by @aallan The secret is to bang the rocks together "a lever that lets people move the world"
• Maker Faire Bay Area 2011: Locations
  RT @Frauenfelder Take a look at the great speaker line-up for Maker Faire. and /Next weekend
• Maker Faire Bay Area 2011: Locations
  RT @Frauenfelder Take a look at the great speaker line-up for Maker Faire. and /Next weekend
• Can’t quite believe I was able to capture this on my phone… – May 14, 2011 – lewis502’s photo on p
  Fantastic photo for nature lovers. RT @Lewis502 Can’t quite believe I was able to capture this on my phone. via @dalepd
• Makers: Mini Maker Faire Toronto on Vimeo
  Lovely video from the mini-MakerFaire in Toronto via @dalepd

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• Photopic Sky Survey
• Neanderthals Made Last Stand at Subarctic Outpost?
  Neanderthals Made a Last Stand at Subarctic Outpost?
• 04-13-2011 – Senate Investigations Subcommittee
  Releases
  Levin-Coburn Report On the Financial
  Crisis
  RT @b6n: @timoreilly Press release and almost 6000 pages of footnotes for Levin committee report are here
• Untitled (http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2011/PSI_WallStreetCrisis_041311.pdf)
  RT @b6n: @timoreilly Incredible article. Levin committee report is here
• Matt Taibbi’s Latest Attempt to Wrangle the Vampire Squid – Business – The Atlantic Wire
  Must-read: Matt Taibbi’s Latest Attempt to Wrangle the Vampire Squid. I agree. Why aren’t these guys going to jail?
• Log In – The New York Times
  Sitting too much shortens your life redux. Not a fancy infographic, but a more reputable source
• Make: Online | Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters and is This the End of “Made for iPod” (TM)?
  Why Google getting behind Arduino is so important I agree that this could be a breakthrough moment for innovation
• Official Google Blog: Keynote and session videos from Google I/O now live
• The Heart of New York: 1907 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive
  NYC, 1907 – (via @stevesilberman)
• Cell Phones Are Killing The Bees: Study | Fast Company
  New study furthers the evidence that cell phones are killing bees And some bee love
• Bees, Bees, Bees | Brain Pickings
  New study furthers the evidence that cell phones are killing bees And some bee love
• One-Third of World’s Food Wasted, Report Says – NYTimes.com
  The world may be on the brink of another food crisis, but it isn’t from a lack of food. 1/3 of world’s food is wasted
• Cats in Tanks
  Cats in Tanks
• Programming the Mobile Web
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT@OReillyMedia #Ebook deal of the day: ‘Programming the Mobile Web’ just $17.99. Save 50% w/code DDPMB
• Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything? – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review
  Eudaimonia is a term fit only for us classicists, but @umairh’s concept of the economics of the good life is spot on
• Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief – storify.com
  Fabulous @storify thread showing how @seanpower got back his stolen laptop using @preyproject and twitter
• Guantánamo After Bin Laden by David Cole | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books
  “Surely it should take more to lock up a human being for life than it does to search an automobile.” #Guantanamo
• Log In – The New York Times
  McKinsey is bullish on the power of big data to transform the economy; need people with the right skills #strataconf
• Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/faberNovel/amazoncom-the-hidden-empire)
  Fascinating slideshare presentation: Amazon.com, The Hidden Empire
• U.S. Navy creates MMO to fight Somali Pirates « GamePron
  U.S. Navy creates MMO to crowdsource strategy for fighting Somali Pirates via @slashdot
• MasterCard and Brighter Planet Announce New Offering to Help
  Companies Manage Their Environmental Footprint | MasterCard Social Media Newsroom
  Using Mastercard data to help companies track their carbon footprint via @slashdot
• Canvas Pocket Reference
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Canvas Pocket Reference – Only $5.49 (Save 50%) w/code DDCNV #HTML5
• dangerouslymad.com
  RT @simonmonk2: @timoreilly Great collection of weekend make projects here:
• Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/introduction-to-elastic-mapreduce)
  An introduction to #aws Elastic MapReduce – slides from the recent #Hadoop User Group meeting:
• Shut My Mouth – The Texas Observer
  no need to feel lonely going to the ob-gyn, ladies.the texas legislature is coming with you:

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• The Museum of Mathematics
  Cool idea, opening in NYC this fall: the Museum of Mathematics via @catallman
• Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture – The Washington Post
  Excellent!! op-ed by John McCain: Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture We must live our values
• Factory farms the only way to ‘feed the world’? Not so, argues Science paper | Grist
  RT @drgrist Factory farms the only way to ‘feed the world’? Not so, argues Science paper Wonder what @billgates thinks
• The Filter Bubble: How the Web Gives Us What We Want, and That’s Not a Good Thing | Brain Pickings
  Eli Pariser’s new book, The Filter Bubble, reviewed by @brainpicker I think we need human AND algorithmic curators
• Initial Web 2 Summit Lineup Announced – John Battelle’s Searchblog
  Initial Web 2 Summit Lineup Announced – in case you missed @johnbattelle’s tweet from last night #w2s
• A Convenient Myth
  Sorry. Correct link for second Hayek article on manufacturing is Or just add an l to the end of the 404 link.
• Thomas Kalil: Information Technology and Social Progress
  Information Technology and Social Progress Good post by Tom Kalil. Work on Stuff that matters!
• Panabee: Find Domain Names
  RT @pkedrosky: Two interesting search tools: Pannabee () for domain searches, and Zanran () for …
• Zanran Numerical Data Search
  RT @pkedrosky: Two interesting search tools: Pannabee () for domain searches, and Zanran () for …
• We Don’t Make Anything Anymore
  Good post on manufacturing output vs manufacturing employment via @russnelson Also l
• (404) http://cafehayek.com/2010/09/a-convenient-myth.htm
  Good post on manufacturing output vs manufacturing employment via @russnelson Also l
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/)
  RT @joe_hellerstein: @timoreilly To be clear: was quoting research about women in CS, not opining. margolis/fisher link: …
• DNS and BIND on IPv6
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: DNS and BIND on IPv6 – Only $8.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDDV6
• How Google Spies on Your Gmail Account (And How To Stop It)
  "How Google Spies on Your Gmail Account (And How To Stop It)"

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• Manufacturing’s Death Greatly Exaggerated « The Enterprise Blog
  @russnelson I’d love to see your source for that date. I was thinking peak manufacturing employment
• After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commish becomes Comcast lobbyist
  RT @mkapor Unbelievable. After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commish becomes Comcast lobbyist / #stoptherevolvingdoor
• Code for America: Bring MuralApp to San Francisco! #gov20
  RT @codeforamerica our response to "Bring MuralApp to San Francisco! #gov20":
• SpyParty – A Spy Game About Subtle Behavior » Sign Up for the SpyParty Early-Access Beta!
  Nice. @checker’s already influential Spy Party game is now opening its (paid) public beta
• U.S. On The Verge Of ‘Manufacturing Renaissance’ – PSFK
  BCG says US on verge of ‘a manufacturing renaissance’ @make has been forecasting that for a while (via @sarawinge)
• HackForEgypt (Unconference & Hackathon) – Activism- Eventbrite
  RT @saadventures Co-hosting #HackForEgypt (Unconference & Hackathon) Sat with @stanforddschool @Liberationtech Join us!
• Safari To Go for iPad on the iTunes App Store
  RT @andrewsavikas Safari To Go currently #4 free iPad book app
• R in a Nutshell
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: R in a Nutshell – Only $17.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDRN5
• Political Animal – Wall Street, GOP aren’t on the same page
  RT @simonstl For once I agree with Wall Street – /Me too!
• Safari To Go 2.0 iPad App Now Available Worldwide « Safari Books Online’s Official Blog
  Safari To Go iPad app from @safaribooksonline now live in the App Store More details at
• Obama revealed: A moderate Republican – The Washington Post
  Worth reflecting on: Obama revealed–A moderate Republican

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