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June 30th, 2011 — pinboard
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- YouTube – Vegan Black Metal Chef Episode 1 Pad Thai
- First Night With Google Plus: This is Very Cool
- The official Google Code blog: Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5
- Crows tell the world who’s bad – life – 29 June 2011 – New Scientist
This is amazing — crows chastise bad behavior, even if it wasn’t directed at them
- » Cancer Surges In Body Scanner Operators; TSA Launches Cover-Up Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!
- Untitled (http://www.snsanalytics.com/QJe1y5)
Emails give insight to UT regents’ handling of controversy – Austin American
- iPad 2: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
– O’Reilly Media
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: iPad 2: The Missing Manual, 2nd Ed. – Only $9.99 w/code DDPD2
- Build A Turntable.fm For Education | Publicyte
How @turntablefm is relevant to a "smart grid" for education outside the classroom via @cheeky_geeky
- Among The Costs Of War: $20B In Air Conditioning : NPR
Puts things in scale, doesn’t it. Annual cost of air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan wars greater than NASA budget
- U.S. Daily Highest Max Temperature Records set on June 26, 2011
- Lisa Bloom: How to Talk to Little Girls
- War in Afghanistan: all the data you need to understand the conflict | News | guardian.co.uk
- Conservative Christian Group Seeks New Reagan on EthicsDaily.com
A group of pastors and other conservative Christian leaders from across the country continue to plan their behind-the-scenes strategy to defeat President Obama in 2012.
However, the group does not seem likely to support a Republican during the primary race or even reach a consensus as to which candidate should receive the Republican nomination.
The group is connected to Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s plan for a large prayer rally in August.
- The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme | Grist
- Audioengine 5 (A5) Premium Powered Bookshelf Speakers
- Typing to power laptops – Laptop News – PC & Tech Authority
- Employees, Not Hackers, Are The Biggest Threat to Security
- Commencement Speech | www.earbox.com | Readability
- Untitled (http://www.snsanalytics.com/queRy0)
Study: Strawberries Offer Many Health Benefits
- Video – Harvard Professor: I’m Worried About America – WSJ.com
RT @bryce: more grist for the #startupvisa mill RT @claychristensen Why I’m worried about the future of the US
- Anonymous releases government records including Australian council data –
News –
ABC Technology and Games
(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Breaking: Anonymous releases Australian council data #infowar #itaintoveritaintevenbegun
- Untitled (http://www.snsanalytics.com/Qwe0y9)
Cap Metro board votes to oursource bus routes – Austin American
- Mental well-being: A New York state of mind | The Economist
Mental well-being: A New York state of mind | The Economist
- New Multimedia Player
RT @makerfaire: Couldn’t make it to @makerfairekc? Catch @timoreilly and @dalepd here:
- New Multimedia Player
RT @makerfaire: Couldn’t make it to @makerfairekc? Catch @timoreilly and @dalepd here:
- How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD – Media – GOOD
- Observations: Sequencing of Tasmanian Devil Genome Suggests New Attack on Contagious Cancer, Clues for Conservation
Sequencing of Tasmanian Devil Genome Suggests New Attack on Contagious Cancer, Clues for Conservation
- Frac! Energy Department Scientists Wonder "What the Eff Am I Really Here For"
Energy Dept researchers pressured to water down findings that might be "inflammatory" to industry #rootstrikers
- Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms : Articles & Tutorials : Amazon Web Services
- Tim O’Reilly-Maker Faire KC, Maker Faire KC, Guest Tim O’Reilly StoryTorch on USTREAM. Other Events
Here’s the video from my second talk at #MakerFaireKC
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June 26th, 2011 — pinboard
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June 19th, 2011 — pinboard
- 3-D movie shows what happens in the brain as it loses consciousness (The University of Manchester)
Using sophisticated imaging equipment they have constructed a 3-D movie of the brain as it changes while an anaesthetic drug takes effect.
Brian Pollard, Professor of Anaesthesia at Manchester Medical School, will tell the European Anaesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam today (Saturday) that the real-time 3-D images seemed to show that losing consciousness involves a change in electrical activity deep within the brain, changing the activity of certain groups of nerve cells (neurons) and hindering communication between different parts of the brain.
He said the findings appear to support a hypothesis put forward by Professor Susan Greenfield, of the University of Oxford, about the nature of consciousness itself. Prof Greenfield suggests consciousness is formed by different groups of brain cells (neural assemblies), which work efficiently together, or not, depending on the available sensory stimulations, and that consciousness is not an all-or-none state but more like a dimmer switch, changing according to growth, mood or drugs. When someone is anaesthetised it appears that small neural assemblies either work less well together or inhibit communication with other neural assemblies.
Professor Pollard, whose team is based at Manchester Royal Infirmary, said: “Our findings suggest that unconsciousness may be the increase of inhibitory assemblies across the brain’s cortex. These findings lend support to Greenfield’s hypothesis of neural assemblies forming consciousness.â€
- Time-Traveling Male Sea Monkeys Make Bad Mates | Wired Science | Wired.com
- Gaming the library | The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory
Interesting note about an MIT professor who "hacked" (socially) the library as a way of recruiting interesting students
- Blind Eye In The Sky: Weather Satellites Lose Funding : NPR
Insanity: Federal budget cuts threaten weather satellites
- Google Docs Tests Offline Support, Powered by HTML5
Google Docs Tests Offline Support, Powered by HTML5
- Egypt in the Early 1900s: Rare Vintage Lantern Slides | Brain Pickings
(Correct link, sorry!) Amazing vintage lantern slide images of life in Egypt from the early 1900s
- Project Kleinrock – OmegaSDG Project Wiki
Wondered how long it would take before someone started thinking seriously about this The alternative Internet, WiFi based
- Log In – The New York Times
Researchers design memory-strengthening implant via @slashdot
- Revenge Of The Prey: How A Deer Killed My Dad – The Rumpus.net
Day before Father’s Day piece ("How a Deer Killed my Dad") via @Sugar_TheRumpus:
- Log In – The New York Times
Christopher Hitchens’ perfect @NYTimes review of David Mamet’s book & apostasy from dumb liberal to dumb right-winger:
- Someone, somewhere, at BBC local news is totally getting fire… on Twitpic
Another delightful cock-up from BBC local news (via @saj23x @DanielTaylor247 @BillDares )
- Beauty: Facial sunscreens | Sali Hughes | Life and style | The Guardian
Your skin still needs protecting even if it’s not bright sunshine. @salihughes is here with the best facial sunscreens
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June 18th, 2011 — pinboard
- The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran | From the Guardian | The Guardian
- Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger – New Scientist – New Scientist
- Log In – The New York Times
"Mr. Haast was bitten at least 173 times by poisonous snakes, about 20 times almost fatally." Yet he just died – at 100:
- Log In – The New York Times
"Mr. Haast was bitten at least 173 times by poisonous snakes, about 20 times almost fatally." Yet he just died – at 100:
- Pictures from the Terra Nova expedition – Watercolours by Dr. E. A. Wilson
- GM Patents Data Mining Method For Refining the Chevy Volt – Slashdot
Sounds like what Ford is already doing with Google, but… GM Patents Data Mining Method For Refining the Chevy Volt
- My Finder toolbar – All this
It took getting a new computer, but my Finder toolbar now has only the tools I use:
- Time-Lapse of The Milky Way Over the Plains of South Dakota
Time-Lapse of The Milky Way Over the Plains of South Dakota by @dakotalapse
- Roger Friedland: Looking Through the Bushes: The Disappearance of Pubic Hair
Exceptionally good essay on the disappearance of female pubic hair & its semiotics
- Untitled (http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7021687902)
OMFG. Amazing Google presentation to FCC on growth of Internet vs. telecom. The tail wagging the dog.
- Pregel | DDI
Maybe you’ve heard of MapReduce, GFS, or Bigtable. But have you heard of Pregel? Good for large-scale graph computation.
- Google I/O 2011 full-text search
- A Rare Look at Antarctica, 1911-1914 | Brain Pickings
A rare look at Antarctica – amazing archival photos of the first Australian expedition, 1911-1914
- Spam clogging Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing
| Reuters
One reason why publishers will be reinvented even in the face of a self-publishing torrent on #kindle
- Republican New York Senator Comes Out For Gay Marriage With Awesome Quote – Featured on BuzzFeed
Republican NY State Senator explains why he’s voting for gay marriage in the plainest of language: Gotta love him.
- EBooks (PDF)
RT @MakerShed Forget Fathers Day? 50% off E-Books w/Coupon Code IFORGOT #MakeDOtD
- ReadWriteWeb – Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking and Social Media
RT @mstrohlein: Salesforce Chief Scientist JP Rangaswami–avoid "putting the lipstick of gamification on the pig of work." …
- (500) http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/15/european-rail-data?page=all
Good opportunity for government as a platform: making the case for opening up European rail data via@dhinchcliffe #gov20
- Why Businesses Move To the Cloud: They Hate IT – Slashdot
Putting it baldly: ‘Why businesses move to the cloud: they hate their own IT department’
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June 17th, 2011 — pinboard
- Guardian News & Media to be a digital-first organisation | GNM press office | guardian.co.uk
Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of the Guardian, has revealed plans to become a digital-first organisation, placing open journalism on the web at the heart of its strategy.
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of GNM, and Andrew Miller, chief executive of parent company Guardian Media Group (GMG), today outlined to staff a major transformation programme in response to "inexorable trends" in media consumption.
Rusbridger told employees that GNM would "move beyond the newspaper, shifting focus, effort and investment towards digital, because that is our future".
- Influence Explorer
Type in the name of a COMPANY, your LAWMAKER or a prominent INDIVIDUAL, and see how they’re influencing the political system.
- HMRC To Use ‘Web Robots’ To Hunt Down Tax Cheats | eWEEK Europe UK
British tax authorities do spidering and data mining to find tax cheats. #NewsFromTheFuture via @slashdot
- White Male Bloggers Want Everything But the Burden of Oppression – COLORLINES
Someday I’ll stop tweeting about this, but for now, kudos to @akibasolomon for one of the better #amina pieces I’ve read
- foursquare
I’m at Automattic w/ @sferik
- Untitled (http://flavorwire.com/187793/linda-mccartneys-intimate-photos-of-the-beatles-hendrix-and-twiggy)
Linda McCartney’s intimate photos of The Beatles, Hendrix and more Reminds me of The Lost Beatles
- The Lost Beatles Photographs | Brain Pickings
Linda McCartney’s intimate photos of The Beatles, Hendrix and more Reminds me of The Lost Beatles
- Nat Friedman – Instant Company
Great post for entrepreneurs by @natfriedman: Instant Company (aka "the startup stack, CxO edition" per @edd in email)
- On Diversity | Code for America
RT @ycombinatornews: Code for America on diversity in recruiting
- Make: Online | Microsoft Channel 9 Live’s day of Kinect SDK hacking starting right now
Sorry I didn’t get this livestream news out earlier $MS Channel 9 Live’s day of Kinect SDK hacking is going on now
- Why Twitter’s media critics are missing the point – Telegraph
»@dangillmor: as @shanerichmond explains, calling Twitter smug "is like saying the telephone is smug" «
- – O’Reilly Radar
My storified take on the disastrous implications of Apple’s new video-blocking patent
- Report: Facebook mobile platform will circumvent Apple’s App Store – FierceMobileContent
It’s starting to look like a movement: then Revolts happen whenever companies overreach
- The FT Escapes The App Trap – Simon Says…
It’s starting to look like a movement: then Revolts happen whenever companies overreach
- Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues – Slashdot
Now consider the implications of *this* architecture: Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues
- How early Twitter decisions led to Weiner’s downfall – CNN.com
The importance of software architecture: How early Twitter decisions led to Weiner’s downfall
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June 16th, 2011 — pinboard
- GirlHacker’s Random Log
- 4 tips (and a hack) to make your iPad work-worthy | Online Collaboration
- Your iPad’s a Telephone With Google Voice | Apple News, Tips and Reviews
- Your Life In 2020
Your Life In 2020
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John Maeda
- F.lux: software to make your life better
Worth downloading f.lux if you work late at a computer and value your sleep
- Voyager 1 Reaches Surprisingly Calm Boundary of Interstellar Space: Scientific American
Voyager 1 has reached the outermost limit of the solar system, where the solar wind no longer flows outward.
- Twitter API Gets Its Own YouTube Channel
ReadWriteHack: Twitter API Gets Its Own YouTube Channel
- Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and the Terrifying Truth About New Technology – WSJ.com
Do robots and Twitter make you nervous? Growing old is what you’re really afraid of –
- Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community
- A Note To My Fellow White Males – The Rumpus.net
- iLabs: Community, Connection and a Culture of Innovation: a conversation with InSTEDD’s CTO Eduardo Jezierski « Tracker Editor’s Blog
long interview w @edjez re innovation labs: part of this: TrackerNews.net / overview:
- Bar, Hack, Lab, Fix: The Genius of Play and the Power of Opportunity « Tracker Editor’s Blog
long interview w @edjez re innovation labs: part of this: TrackerNews.net / overview:
- Places to eat in Sydney
- stubbornella/csslint – GitHub
RT @souders: CSSLint just open sourced by @stubbornella and @slicknet – #velocityconf
- Maker Faire: Kansas City adds Dougherty, O’Reilly to speaking slate – Silicon Prairie News
RT @ruralocity: May need to change my plans on 6/25 and check out @timoreilly’s talk at Maker Faire KC instead.
- All sizes | MailChimp Design Patterns | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
RT @marcprecipice: MailChimp UI Pattern Library (full size). I want this everywhere I work from now on.
- Video: Velocity 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, June 14 – 16, 2011, Santa Clara
I’m up next @VelocityConf: @timoreilly Watch live: Going to be talking about why web performance and ops MATTERS
- andreasgal/pdf.js – GitHub
This is great: PDF Reader in JavaScript –
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June 15th, 2011 — pinboard
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