Entries from June 2011 ↓

• HOW TO: Turn Your Resume Into a Gorgeous, Web-Based In… | XYDO
• Head First iPhone and iPad Development, Second Edition
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First iPhone and iPad Development – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJN8
• ‪How Making Stuff Helps Make Science More Appealing to Kids‬‏ – dalepd | Dale Dougherty
  RT @dalepd: How Making Stuff Helps Make Science More Appealing to Kids‏
• Rands In Repose: DNA
• Girls Programming Network
• Spain’s Gemasolar Array is the World’s First 24/7 Solar Power Plant! | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
• HttpUnit ServletUnit Overview
• How to get testing working with anything other than the default queue – Google App Engine for Java | Google Groups
• A recipe for unit testing AppEngine task queues « TurboManage
• Biologists Announce Discovery of an Entirely New Branch of Life | Popular Science
  Biologists Announce Discovery of an Entirely New Branch of Life ~ ~ rt @EcoInteractive ~ #biology #biodiversity
• How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen – Harvard Business Review – Arik Johnson
  Spending an hour a day to define the purpose of your life. #AspenIdeas via David Brooks
• Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78 – NYTimes.com
• Massive botnet ‘indestructible,’ say researchers – Computerworld
  Massive botnet ‘indestructible’ with deeply buried TDL-4 trojan that even kills competing malware
• BBC Nature – ‘Singing penis’ sets noise record for water insect
  Mrs. GD marvels:
  Loudest animal has "singing penis".
• HBase: The Definitive Guide – OFPS – O’Reilly Media
• » Peter Kareiva, “Conservation in the Real World” – Long Views: The Long Now Blog
  Interesting @LongNow talk on how environmentalism needs to be redefined for the 21st century
• @milesobrien piloting a cupcake car. | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  RT @xenijardin: Looks like @milesobrien’s @makerfaire piece will air on @newshour tonight. Cupcake car snap: cc: @da …
• Using Facial Recognition Technology To Choose Which Bar To Go To – Kashmir Hill – The Not-So Private Parts – Forbes
  Instrumenting the world: facial recognition to be used to count and report number and gender of people in bars
• FT.com / Comment / Op-Ed Columnists – The Brazilian nappy challenge
  More on why innovation may flow from developing countries to the west
• HP Turning to Chinese to Develop Products for Emerging Markets – Bloomberg
  So much for the idea that we do the innovating here. HP turns to China to develop products for emerging markets
• School district first to permit cell phone use during standardized tests – O’Reilly Radar
  Let the kids use tech like they will when they grow up; learn how to learn, not to memorize facts
• nicoulaj/zsh-syntax-highlighting – GitHub
• Bruce Springsteen News: brucespringsteen.net
  Link to Bruce’s awesomely moving tribute:
• Scientists’ Group Raises Alarm Over Threats to Climate Researchers – The Ticker – The Chronicle of Higher Education
• O’Reilly Media – Deal/Day: Save 50% on Perl Ebooks & Videos In Celebration of OSCON
  RT @OReillyMedia Deal/Day: Save 50% on all #Perl #Ebooks & Videos – Celebrate #OSCON
• The Commons Coming Together Through Volunteers — Get Involved! | Civic Commons
  RT @McAndrew: We’re looking for volunteers for @CivComs – Get involved! #gov20 #opengov
• Water-Starved Town May Face Draconian Restrictions — Water Supply | The Texas Tribune
  Llano has 60 to 90 days of water left, @kategalbraith reports: Water-Starved Town May Face Draconian Restrictions

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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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• Webster’s lays down the law, The Web of Language
• Children learn language in moments of insight, not gradually through repeated exposure, study shows
  New research by a team of University of Pennsylvania psychologists is helping to overturn the dominant theory of how children learn their first words, suggesting that it occurs more in moments of insight than gradually through repeated exposure.
• Why Science Struggles to Correct Its Mistakes – NYTimes.com
• A dose of female intelligence « Mind Hacks
• Everything is a Remix, Part 3: The Elements of Creativity | Brain Pickings
• The New Inquiry – The History of Dialogue: Other People’s Papers
  This is a dialogue between Teach, an adjunct philosophy instructor at a public university in New York, and Cheat, who has authored over 100 papers for pay.

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• Instagram – Embedding Endpoints
  We provide two simple ways to get information about a shared link in order to display a preview: an OEmbed endpoint and a simple URL append endpoint. Neither requires an access_token or client_id.
• Johann Hari: In The Age of Distraction, We Need One Thing More Than Ever: Books
• Toward Better Master Passwords | Agile Blog
• E. Coli: Some Answers, Many Questions Still | Wired Science | Wired.com
• In Which Pauline Kael Finds Something To Be Happy About – Home – This Recording
• YouTube – That’s Vaginal: Cat On A Mission
• Generation Facebook – NYTimes.com
• Roger Friedland: Looking Through the Bushes: The Disappearance of Pubic Hair
• The false, the confused and the mendacious: how the media gets it wrong on climate change
• The School of Life : In Praise of Bohemia by Robert Wringham
• 10 Things You Should Never Say or Do to a Woman at a Networking Event – @RealAustin
• Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity – New Scientist – New Scientist
• A rule of thumb for choosing column order in indexes – MySQL Performance Blog
• Oblong Has Built The Future Of Computing. I’ve Seen It. Used It. It’s Beautiful.
• Australia’s Plasma Thruster Could Get a Space Trial as Soon as 2013 | Popular Science
• Here Are Some New Details On The iPhone 5…
• Knight News Challenge 2011: Sixteen winners, from mapping to data viz, from water shortages to interactive documentaries » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
• coffee alzheimers: coffee may protect against alzheimers, FSU study says – Health Key
• Interview with Sydney Google Women Engineers Group – The Ada Initiative
• Lytro: A Camera That Couldn’t Care Less About Focus
• Climate of Denial | Rolling Stone Politics
• Light Field camera | Lytro
• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant – NYTimes.com
• LexisNexis open-sources its Hadoop killer
• To Gaze Upon A Weiner: A Rumpus Lamentation With Sad Sexual Parts – The Rumpus.net
• I Call This Blackmail – Gizmodo
• HTML Purifier – Filter your HTML the standards-compliant way!
• Use A Google Voice Number From Outside The US | Lifehacker Australia
• Google to open ‘Google Ideas’ global technology think tank – Google 24/7 – Fortune Tech
• Dropbox authentication: insecure by design
  "Dropbox authentication: insecure by design" (via @ryanwersal)

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• Frank Chimero’s Blog – The Storm and The Line
• HN Trends — See what hackers have been talking about.
  Hacker News Trends. An example: via @brady
• The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History « Flavorwire
• Amina and the Way New Journalism 3.0 | David Strom’s Web Informant
  "Storify is the reporter’s new notebook." Great piece about @acarvin and the Amina hoax
• As Cloud Computing Takes Hold, Data Caps Are Sure to Follow – NYTimes.com
  US will come to rue its cable and telco monopolies: Excited About the Cloud? Get Ready for Capped Data Plans
• (500) http://t.c
  RT @copystar: . @dingstweets @timoreilly New library catalogs like @bibliocommons can let everyone try to "game" the library …
• Snap Galleries : Born to Run by Eric Meola
• Snap Galleries : Bruce Springsteen by Eric Meola
• Eric Meola photos from Snap Galleries

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• 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.”

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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
   
  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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• Boehner Calls for Weiner’s Resignation as Entire Nation Snickers
  ‘It’s hard to imagine any headline better than the one imagined by Yahoo.com’s Dylan Stableford: "BOEHNER HARD ON WEINER".’
• Women are better investors, and here’s why David Weidner’s Writing on the Wall – MarketWatch
• DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic
  RT @accessRipe: Road Warrior Redux, facinating RT @pkedrosky: DIY-weaponry among Libyan rebels. Remarkable visuals. …
• RIGZONE – Global Deficit Between Oil Consumption and Production Remains the Norm
  The gulf between global oil production and consumption (in the BP data) attracting more analysis: via @Rigzone $$
• Debating the Value of College in America : The New Yorker
  Excellent New Yorker piece on theories of education and the purpose of college Really, very good.
• Meet Amazon.com’s first employee: Shel Kaphan – GeekWire
  RT @jensmccabe Meet Amazon.com’s first employee: Shel Kaphan (fascinating interview)
• Tim O’Reilly’s Progressive Stance on Privacy – Connect.Me Blog
  Liking what I see of the Connect Trust framework for privacy via @DrummondReed in
• Connect.Me
  Liking what I see of the Connect Trust framework for privacy via @DrummondReed in
• The Lean Startup
  RT @EricRies Help choose the #LeanStartup Book cover. Just click here:
• Google Should Be Logging In To Facebook – Slashdot
  Why Facebook should allow Google to spider and present "stranger" view of FB profiles, make missing privacy transparent
• AES text encryptor
  AES Text encryptor for Google Mail or anything else

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