Entries from July 2011 ↓

• How to back up your Gmail on Linux in four easy steps
• Mobile Crowdsourcing | Code for America
  RT @codeforamerica: Some experiments in mobile crowdsourcing by @maxogden: #gov20
• Sapolsky on Dopamine: Not About Pleasure, But Its Anticipation | Wired Science | Wired.com
  Sapolsky on Dopamine: Not About Pleasure, But Its Anticipation Excellent short video – via @David_Dobbs
• Improve Mac OS X performance under load by disabling spindump. | James Reuben Knowles
• Making Light: The soft and unmistakable sound of a gauntlet landing on the dusty ground
• KAL’s cartoon | The Economist
  This is an awesome cartoon! via @theeconomist
• Umair HaqueEudaimonicsRedesigning Global Prosperity.: Why This Crisis Isn’t Going Anywhere–And What To Do About It
  Great post from @umairh: Why This Crisis Isn’t Going Anywhere We need to reboot industrial age institutions
• NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Africa’s Extremely Prolonged Drought
  NOAA: Graphic of Horn of Africa’s Prolonged Drought -
• H.R. 1981: Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 – POPVOX.com
  RT @albertwenger: I’m using POPVOX.com to oppose #hr1981. Make sure your voice is heard too.
• MoMA | Talk to Me | The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions
  Great reading for a Saturday: The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions From what appears to be a lovely MOMA exhibit
• Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day! – O’Reilly Radar
  OK, it was yesterday that was sysadmin appreciation day, but say something anyway!

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• Australia increases assistance to Horn of Africa
  If you have seen what is happening in the Horn of Africa you will want to help. Find out how here: KRudd
• The idiot’s guide to President Obama’s debt crisis | World news | The Guardian
• I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me | Common Dreams
  F’ing inspiring. RT @EdwardNorton Can’t recommend enough this by #timdechristopher. Incredible courage and integrity
• The newsonomics of Netflix and the digital shift » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
  Important piece about the economics of the print/digital transition, with @NetFlix as a leading indicator via @naypinya
• The world of reading will be a poorer place w/out the serendi… on Twitpic
  The world of reading will be a poorer place w/out the serendipitous discovery afforded by bookstores like @harvardbooks
• Untitled (http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0153903cbe53970b-pi)
  RT @ChrisKubica: PIC: Dude almost sucked into a whale shark #fb
• Ariel Waldman » Blog Archive » OSCON Keynote
  RT @arielwaldman: Video of my keynote from #OSCON is now online: (on open source space exploration + hacking science)
• What the new GDP numbers tell us about stimulus – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post
  RT @ezraklein: What the new — and awful — GDP numbers show about the stimulus. (Sorry @jimpethokoukis)
• Jenkins: The Definitive Guide
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Jenkins: The Definitive Guide – Only $17.49 (Save 50%) w/code DDJEN

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• ‪They Might Be Giants – Can’t Keep Johnny Down‬‏ – YouTube
• Composition 1.01: How Email Can Change the Way Professors Teach – James Somers – Technology – The Atlantic
  Composition 1.01: How Email Can Change the Way Professors Teach Seems right to me. Lean startup equivalent for students
• Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
• The Eight Pillars of Innovation | www.thinkwithgoogle.com | Readability
• The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice | Food Renegade
• The Eight Pillars of Innovation | Think Quarterly by Google
  I really like Susan Wojcicki’s 8 Pillars of Innovation piece. Lots of truth in it. via @digiphile
• What’s new in Google+ – Google+ Help
• Roger McNamee: Apps will rescue Web from Google | Rafe’s Radar – CNET News
  Interesting. RT @Rafe: Will Apps kill Google? Roger McNamee at Always On conference:
• Instagram
  RT @digiphile: Android haircut at #OSCON. @Mayhem has much love for open source.
• Head First jQuery
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD252
• What’s Grandpa Doing on Flickr?
  Hey, that’s my grandpa! People rediscovered by relatives generations later on Flickr–PHOTOS:

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• Street View cars grabbed locations of phones, PCs | Privacy Inc. – CNET News
• CultureLab: Shouting science from the soap box
• FastScripts
• PeepOpen Application | PeepCode Screencasts for Web Developers and Alpha Geeks
• RVM: Ruby Version Manager – RVM Ruby Version Manager – Documentation
• ‪Saturn Actual Sound‬‏
  – YouTube
  @greatdismal Saturn is holding on line 1
• Money tips for Travellers Xtreme: he sold all to travel the world
  cool story! RT @moneycoach: Think mid-life is too late to leave it all behind and travel the world? Not so. Posted:
• noise and signal: The Myth of Self-Defense
• are brands missing a data opportunity? | Influxinsights
  Very cool idea: are brands missing a data opportunity
• Apply Now to Code for America: Deadline July 31! | Code for America
  RT @dpatil: Prove that you’ve got what it takes. Make America better through data w/ @codeforamerica
• Tracking Big Corporate Donors – USATODAY.com
  Tracking Big Corporate Donors via @USATODAY #citizensunited #rootstrikers #corporatepersonhood #scotus #p2 #eco #climate
• YouTube to mp3 Converter
  YouTube-mp3. Incredibly useful software
• Two doctors build a new medical school in their native Rwanda. – NYTimes.com
  My newest blog on @nickkristof @nytimes on building medical capacity in Rwanda:
• Caren Alpert Fine Art
  terra cibus series
• wwII social media posters
• Insert Tongue Here – flower arrows guide fly tongues | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

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• A Southern Table: Dill Pickles
• The Straight Dope: Is Australia the deadliest place on earth?
• Loom Junior • An 8 foot croc is eaten by an even bigger croc….
• iBank | Mac finance software, personal money management and small business application for OS X
• Design View / Andy Rutledge – News Redux
• t.co / Twitter
  RT @jamesoreilly: Fascinating: Geoffrey B. West, “Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster” …
• This is the web right now – The Oatmeal
• Distracting examples ruin your presentation
• Liminal states :: Why it Matters: Google+ and Diversity (DRAFT!)
  Good post on why diversity on Google+ matters via @jdp23
• Octopress
  "Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of. Simply clone or fork Octopress, install dependencies and the theme, and you’re set."
• The Kill Team | Rolling Stone Politics
• positioned right, with minimum left padding? – Doctype
• Debt Ceiling Deadlock: Why the Markets Don’t Seem to Care | Daily Ticker – Yahoo! Finance
  RT @jamesoreilly: Bald men fighting over a comb? "Debt Ceiling Deadlock: Why the Markets Don’t Seem to Care" by @grossdm
• Nulana
• Supercharged JavaScript Graphics
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Supercharged JavaScript Graphics – Only $15.99 w/code DDSUP
• Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java’s use in Android: What do you say now Oracle? | ZDNet
  Sun CEO Explicitly Endorsed Java’s Use In Android
• Hotspot Found On Moon’s Far Side – Slashdot
  Whoa, cool! Hotspot Found On Moon’s Far Side

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• Custom search shortcuts in Chrome « TurboManage
• Overpopulation: Perpetual growth is the creed of a cancer cell, not a sustainable human society – latimes.com
• What the Indian call centre staff are really told about Australians | News.com.au
• The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling – James Fallows – Politics – The Atlantic
• How the Deficit Got This Big – NYTimes.com
• Men Seek Gender-Specific Bereavement Groups – NYTimes.com
• Vandalising an old master is bad, but not quite as evil as queue-jumping | David Mitchell | Comment is free | The Observer
  "Queue-jumping is a much greater cultural affront than desecrating an art work because the queue-jumper seems to be saying: "My time is more important than everyone else’s." This is annoying because, deep down, it’s what we all feel and suppressing that feeling is a monumental act of politeness and one which we secretly fear is corrosive to our self-esteem. We can’t be standing there in a line, patiently subjugating our senses of self, if some people just don’t bother. It’s like bound feet – it’s too mutilating a convention to catch on unless everyone goes along with it."
• oElP2.jpg (2400×2072)
  "look at that, you son of a bitch"
• Sai . – Google+
• Caterina.net» Blog Archive » Anonymity and Pseudonyms in Social Software
• I Tried to Love Samsung’s Chromebook. I Failed
• BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | A scanner to detect terrorists
• Cost of false positives – Laughing Meme
• Untitled (http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=235338)
  Australia: Report warns of climate change devastation
• The .Gif Friday Post No.185 – 80 Beetles « Tacky Raccoons
  Gorgeous .gif from 80 Beetles.
• Photos of Clouds and Storms by Sean R. Heavey
  Clouds and Storms (Not CGI)
• An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System: Bitcoin is not Anonymous
• Velocity Europe – O’Reilly Conferences, November 08 – 09, 2011, Berlin, Germany
  RT @ginablaber: RT @jeroentjepkema: Call for papers for #velocityconf Europe is now open Join with a great #webper …
• You Can Read, But You Can’t Buy: iOS E-Reader Apps Remove Links to Bookstores
  iOS E-Reader Apps Forced To Remove Links to Bookstores Did $AAPL learn nothing from $MS? #antitrust time
• Algorithms terraforming the earth? You know it…
  RT @bryce: Algorithms terraforming the earth? You know it must be @slavin_fpo!
• Cameron Stokes’s Blog » Compressed Content, Amazon S3, and CloudFront
  Using S3 websites, gzip and #aws CloudFormation for lightening fast static websites: (via @clstokes)
• Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Network | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research , India
  RT @madduri: Open source Drug Discovery Project in India #lick50
• Messing With Medicare – NYTimes.com

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• Rebuttal: Make Room In the Bubble For Everyone | TechCrunch
  “We’ll know we have parity when mediocre black women get funding for bad ideas at the same rate as mediocre white men.”
• Ge.tt | Gett sharing
  "The best way to publish and share your files"
• (500) http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/content/video
  RT @edd: Tune in live to OSCON Java keynotes this morning
• (404) http://www.icis.anl.gov/programs/summer2011-2a
  "Lab notebooks are write once, read never." How can scientific lab notes be reinvented for the digital era? Q at ICIS
• The Rise of Information-Based Cleantech | Cleantech Investing : Greentech Media
  The Rise of Information-Based Cleantech Seems like @oatv’s investment in @ameehq was ahead of the wave
• This column will change your life: Poverty and willpower | Life and style | The Guardian
  it’s not that failures of will cause poverty. It’s that poverty causes failures of will.
• Think Stats
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Think Stats – Only $8.49 w/code DDSTS
• Heat your home with a server or two
  Microsoft Research suggests "data furnaces" – home heating units that also do computation via @slashdot
• Why Women Shouldn’t Go to Tech Conferences – Susannah Breslin – Pink Slipped – Forbes
• Panton Principles
  Just learned about the Panton Principles open data in science FTW. Should be mashed up with
• 8 Principles of Open Government Data – OpenGovData.org
  Just learned about the Panton Principles open data in science FTW. Should be mashed up with
• Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM: OSCON 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 25 – 29, 2011, Portland, OR
  RT @caniszczyk: want to hear about @twitter moving from Rails to the JVM? see @raffi’s keynote at #oscon
• Wonkbook: Republicans have won. But can they stop there? – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post
  RT @ezraklein: Republicans have won. But can they stop there?
• Saving space with sips – All this
• Distraction-free – All this
• Software exoskeletons — The Endeavour
  I love the notion that scientists write "software exoskeletons" that later need to be made into software robots
• Bill Gross – Google+
  Time to 20 million users: Google+ vs Twitter and Facebook via @edd
• How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans – Magazine – The Atlantic
  Really interesting article about the brokenness that is party politics via @ kmartino
• Americans Elect 2012 | The first-ever open presidential nomination
  Direct Link to Americans Elect internet-based 3rd party
• Baked tomatoes with baguette recipe, plus cherry and apple fritters with fennel sugar | Yotam Ottolenghi | Life and style | The Guardian
• Summer short story special | Books | guardian.co.uk
• sexism-all.jpg (950×6137)
• Make Way for the Radical Center – NYTimes.com
• Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No – O’Reilly Radar
  New blog post: Sexual Harassment at Conferences: A Big No-No
• Tax Soda, Subsidize Vegetables – NYTimes.com
• Log In – The New York Times
  Tired of gridlock in Washington? Is it time for a third party?
• Untitled (http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1115417)
  Interesting NSF grant: Improving Data Quality and Data Mining Using Noisy Micro-Outsourcing
• Jeff Jarvis: #f*ckyouwashington: The Story of a Hashtag and a Movement
  RT @cheeky_geeky: Looks like @JeffJarvis has recovered from his pinor noir and written up his latest movement – #p …
• A Young Steve Martin Performs Magic on the Smothers Brothers Show
  A Young @SteveMartinToGo Performs Magic on the Smothers Brothers Show in 1969
• Manhattan’s first legally married same-sex couple.. There are no words. – Imgur
  Manhattan’s first legally-married same-sex couple. (via @Reddit)

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• Untitled (http://veterinarybusiness.dvm360.com/vetec/Veterinary+business/Checking-it-twice-Lists-help-improve-client-servic/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/731141?contextCategoryId=44515)
  RT @Atul_Gawande Interesting to see veterinarians start thinking about using checklists in animal surgery…
• Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers | ZDNet
• Science, Superstars & Stocks: Is Everything Getting Harder?
  Interesting: Science, Superstars & Stocks: Is Everything Getting Harder?
• Los Angeles and the Lesson of Carmageddon – NYTimes.com
  Lovely insight on the true lesson of "Carmageddon" via @arwenogriffith
• Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Automation Release Notes
  maosx lion – automator "Text to EPUB File"
• What hope is there for us if America is driven to the brink of meltdown? | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer
  This might be the best summation of our predicament, and who gets much of the blame. A must read. #p2
• Rescue privacy before it vanishes forever • The Register
  Right on: RT @mjasay How web companies are turning "architecture of participation" into architecture of conscription
• Obama Should Raise the Debt Ceiling on His Own – NYTimes.com
• Paint Your Roofs White – Bill Clinton – Business – The Atlantic
• JollysFastVNC

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• Making Desktop Webapps in Lion – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
• Untitled (http://twitter.com/scottsil/status/94516105028190209/photo/1)
  RT @scottsil: This is the CellScope, a microscope built on an iPhone 4. Always way cool stuff @codeforamerica
• The Liquidator Cometh
  - Ann Arbor Observer
  Encomium to Borders quotes my friend, former computer book buyer Carla Bayha, who played a big role in O’Reilly success
• The Art of Community Second Edition Confirmed | Art Of Community Online
  Follow @artofcommunity to help with second edition of @oreillymedia book The Art of Community
• Cassandra: The Definitive Guide
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Cassandra: The Definitive Guide – $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDCSD
• Apple Loses Tablet OS Share in Q2, Android Picks It Up | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
  Shipments, not necessarily sell through, but #android tablets taking share from #iPad:
• Cooking For Geeks » How I Made a Monster Donut on Food Network’s Monster Kitchen
  RT @OReillyMedia Jeff Potter (@cookingforgeeks) makes ‘monster’ donut -yes, it’s on a crane- today on Food Network

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• The secrets of Node’s success – O’Reilly Radar
  Why Node.js has caught on while other server-side JavaScript implementations faltered
• Rick Perry’s “Abstinence Only” Sex-Ed Resulted In Highest Teen Pregancy Rates In U.S. « Alan Colmes’ Liberaland
  RT @jazgar: Rick Perry’s “Abstinence Only” Sex-Ed Resulted In Highest Teen Pregancy Rates In U.S.
• BBC News – Russia classifies beer as alcoholic
  Russia recognizes beer is an alcoholic beverage
• ‪Live from the Exhibition Hall at Velocity 2011‬‏
  – YouTube
  RT @souders This is a great video of #VelocityConf exhibitors talking about the show. Makes me proud.
• Google App Engine Blog: App Engine 1.5.2 SDK Released
• Apple – OS X Lion Recovery – Introducing Lion Recovery
• Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
  spotlight search – nested boolean logic
• Jen Pahlka: Civic Startups are the Next Disruption | Code for America
  RT @codeforamerica: "The Next Disruption: The Opportunity for Civic #Startups" – @pahlkadot talk @FOWA #VIDEO #gov20
• Cat-At Loves You
  Cat-At Loves You
• Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to the Pirate Bay — Tech News and Analysis
  Solidarity w/ @aaronsw: Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to The Pirate Bay Out of copyright, but still paywalled
• Deep packet inspection used to stop censorship in new "Telex" scheme
  A foolproof way to get around government net censorship:

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