Entries from August 2011 ↓

• InfoChimps Bundles Many Location Sources in One API
• Infochimps Adds Geo APIs and Takes A Shine to Schema.Org, Too « semanticweb.com
• Underground river ‘Rio Hamza’ discovered 4km beneath the Amazon | Environment | guardian.co.uk
• Tax us more, say wealthy Europeans | World news | The Guardian
• Interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo | creativebitsâ„¢
• Sweet hearts – WWW.THEDAILY.COM
  A new analysis finds a potential link between regular consumption of chocolate and a reduced risk of heart disease. Those who eat the most chocolate on a regular basis lower their risk by one-third.

  The analysis — published yesterday in the online version of the British Medical Journal — examined recent studies involving more than 100,000 people, looking for a trend.

  The studies compared people who ate chocolate more than once a week to those who ate it less often. The chocolate lovers also cut their risk of diabetes by 31 percent and of stroke by 29 percent.

• Using the Prospective Search API on App Engine for instant traffic analysis – Nick’s Blog
• Dispatch from Decaf Sucks · A monthly coffee subscription
• On death threats, responsibility, and making it clear
• Video: How Steve Jobs’s Early Vision For Apple Inspired A Decade Of Innovation | Fast Company
• How Jobs made Apple fit for the future – FT.com
  RT @jseelybrown: Great insight into how Apple – the company – actually works & makes it so innovative.
• Don’t Suspend Scout Finch, Mr. Schmidt. It’s Wrong and It’s Bad for Business. | technosociology
  Excellent, nuanced post about the #nymwars issue at Google+ via @kevinmarks
• The Node Sessions: The Best of OSCON 2011
  – O’Reilly Media
  The Node Sessions: Video from OSCON 2011 Hey @oreillymedia, there ought to be a video deal of the day for this!
• URBEINGRECORDED » Blog Archive » Getting to Know Your Ghost in the Machine
  Fascinating post on ubicomp and identity by @chris23 Definitely relevant to #nymwars
• Arianna Huffington: What Hurricane Irene Can Teach Us About the Jobs Crisis
  RT @ariannahuff: What Hurricane Irene can teach us about the jobs crisis.
• Flickr Nails Photo Privacy With New Geofence Feature
  RT @marshallk: Nice: Flickr nails photo privacy with new geofence feature #mobile #brilliant
• Earthquakes caused by glaciers melting? | 1X57
  RT @sengseng: New @1X57: Earthquakes caused by glacial melting? cc @ravendad
• Secure-Mail – S/MIME mails on iOS – iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
• Conspiracy is Optimistic
  Sad but true quote from Steve Jobs: "Conspiracy is optimistic."
• Inkling, A Digital Pen That Converts Paper Drawings to Digital Files
  Inkling, A Digital Pen That Converts Paper Drawings to Digital Files by @wacom
• Entries —
  Node.js Knockout
  RT @medriscoll: The Node.js community is vibrant. Last weekend’s hackathon had 188 entries:
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/Twitter-Book-Tim-OReilly/dp/0596802811)
  So @SarahM + I are updating the #TwitterBook. Let us know if you have questions or tips you’d like us to cover.
• How Bill O’Reilly Tried to Get His Wife’s Boyfriend Investigated By the Cops
  Assuming Gawker piece holds up, great evidence that investigative journalism won’t die when newspapers do:
• Overview | VLDB 2011
  About to give a keynote at Very Large Databases Conference in Seattle #vldb
• Technology In A Hurricane | Code for America
  Technology in a Hurricane. Insightful post by @abhinemani about NYC’s #Irene response
• Developing Enterprise iOS Applications
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Enterprise iOS Applications – Only $7.49 w/code DDDEA
• How to create sustainable open data projects with purpose – O’Reilly Radar
  More direct link for the @mysociety post about FixMyTransport
• You Can Never Size a Market in Excel
  RT @bryce: You Can Never Size a Market in Excel

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• The Hive Mind Needs More Women
• Eric Fischer uses maps, Twitter and Flickr to explore the contours of cities – The Washington Post
  Eric Fischer uses maps, Twitter and Flickr to explore the contours of cities
• August is the Cruelest Month « an/archivista
• Data Scientist: The Hottest Job You Haven’t Heard Of – Careers Articles
  RT @sarawinge: "Data Scientist: The Hottest Job You Haven’t Heard Of" Actually, we have, hence #strataconf http://t. …
• Holden’s Blog: Automatic spelling corrections on Github
  Human-computer symbiosis at work again: A spell-correction bot for Github projects
• Two AI chatBots attempt to have a conversation with each other – Boing Boing
  Must see: Two AI chatBots attempt to have a conversation with each other (a la Python’s Argument Clinic) .
• How Irene Lived Up to the Hype – NYTimes.com
  Absolutely fascinating, even "must read." RT @fivethirtyeight How Irene Lived Up to the Hype Quantification ftw!
• 10 Tips To Conserve iPhone Battery Life
• Log In – The New York Times
  Bacterial Genome Sequencing Offers Latest Tool Against Diseases
• The application of real-time data – O’Reilly Radar
  RT @OReillyMedia: New @radar post: Hilary Mason (@hmason) on how Bitly applies the Internet’s real-time data #Strata …
• Twitter hires former top FCC aide – Kim Hart – POLITICO.com
  RT @khart: @Twitter hires @colin_crowell as new Head of Global Public Policy. Big hire for Twitter @Politico
• SignalGuru uses network of dashboard-mounted smartphones to help drivers avoid red traffic lights
  SignalGuru gathers data from dash-mounted smartphones, recommends speed to avoid red lights via @slashdot
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @BiellaColeman: Masked Anonymous Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Profits:
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @BiellaColeman: Masked Anonymous Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Profits:
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @BiellaColeman: Masked Anonymous Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Profits:
• jQuery Cookbook
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Cookbook – Only $13.99 w/code DDJQR
• HTML for Babies gets a new generation up to speed on web standards | This is my next…
  RT @cameronmoll: Start ’em early. "HTML for Babies" board book: (thx @meyerweb)

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• iTerm2 – Mac OS Terminal Replacement
• Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion

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• Year two documentary on the Blue Brain project « Mind Hacks
• What Has Obama Done, Anyway? | The New Republic
• DNA spray marks out thieves | smh.com.au
• Nobody Asked For A Refrigerator Fee | TorrentFreak
  Love this: Nobody asked for a refrigerator fee #copyright
• Untitled (http://twitter.com/dblanchard/status/107626401565380608/photo/1)
  Here’s the official word from Austin Fire. It is so hot that brush fires just start. Mind your mulch/compost.
• Amazon S3 Bucket Public Access Considerations : Articles & Tutorials : Amazon Web Services
  New (and important): Amazon #S3 Bucket Public Access Considerations – #aws #tellyourfriends
• Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people | Books | The Observer
  You have to read this –> MT @GuardianBooks: Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster & not alienate people
• Equal Rites Awards – Boston.com
  …Despite all this, our one-woman panel of judges prepares in good spirit to hand out the Equal Rites Awards to all those who did their best to do the worst for women in the past year.
• BBC News – LHC results put supersymmetry theory ‘on the spot’
• How Carriers Hamstring Your Smart Phone – Technology Review
  How Carriers Hamstring Your Smart Phone I wonder how companies justify these kinds of business practices to themselves
• Untitled (http://www.snsanalytics.com/qZgVy8)
  How to train your aging brain
• Medical Bills You Shouldn’t Pay
  "balance billing": health-care providers are going after patients for money they don’t owe
• Rowers reach ‘impossible’ North Pole, thanks to global warming –
  Home News, UK – The Independent
  Independent: Rowers reach ‘impossible’ North Pole, thanks to global warming #climate change
• The Coming Prosperity: Repurpose
  Good one: The wealth that was lost in the crash of 2008 never actually existed.
• Información Cívica » The Technology of Corporate Accountability
  Technology and corporate accountability by @oso
• Now Can We All Agree That The “High Quality Web Content” Experiment Has Failed? | TechCrunch
• Log In – The New York Times
  University of the People: open courses, peer to peer learning, reducing the cost of education in poor countries
• Log In – The New York Times
  University of the People: open courses, peer to peer learning, reducing the cost of education in poor countries
• Log In – The New York Times
  University of the People: open courses, peer to peer learning, reducing the cost of education in poor countries
• Death & Taxes & Identity Theft – Forbes
  Apparently IRS considers your SSN and records no longer private when you die, big help to identity thieves
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @ariannahuff: "He does very well with the alternative-reality right" – David Brooks on Rick Perry
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @ariannahuff: "He does very well with the alternative-reality right" – David Brooks on Rick Perry
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @ariannahuff: "He does very well with the alternative-reality right" – David Brooks on Rick Perry
• cityofsound: Sketchbook: Melbourne Smart City, for City of Melbourne/C40 Cities (incl. a note on why it’s easier to crowdsource a revolution than a light-rail system)
  Melbourne Smart City, or why it’s easier to crowdsource a revolution than a light-rail system #gov20

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• Elderly homeowner foreclosed upon for paying mortgage a few days early
• The Blog : How to Lose Readers (Without Even Trying) : Sam Harris
  Everything that needs saying about libertarian fundamentalism: Sam Harris : "How to Lose Readers (Without Even Trying)" :
• Untitled (http://www.snsanalytics.com/qagVy1)
  IBM: thinking chips are the end of the beginning
• At Last, A Reason Why Stress Causes DNA Damage – DukeHealth.org
  At Last, A Reason Why Stress Causes DNA Damage via @slashdot
• Untitled (http://crisislanding.appspot.com/)
  Google’s Irene overlay maps are supremely useful / the best out there.
• East Bay MIini Maker Faire returns this Fall–participants wanted! | Oakland Local
  East Bay MIini Maker Faire returns this Fall– apply to show/teach/perform by Sept 1. @oaklandlocal
• xkcd: Depth Perception
• Revolution in The Valley
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Revolution in The Valley – Only $9.99 w/code DDREV #Jobs #Apple
• Official Google Blog: Another look under the hood of search
• Nirvana › Tour
• As NYC.gov buckles, city government pivots to the Internet to share Hurricane #Irene resources | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms
  As NYC.gov buckles, city government pivots to the Internet to share Hurricane #Irene resources
• How Carriers Hamstring Your Smart Phone – Technology Review
• Do More, Own Less: A Grand Theory of the Sharing Economy – Lisa Gansky – Business – The Atlantic
  Great piece by @sharethemesh for the Atlantic: Do More, Own Less: The Sharing Economy

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• Credit Cards Are Killing Creativity: The Case for a New Online Payments System
• Webcast: People, Data and Dollars — A Preview of Strata NYC
  An @oreillymedia webcast: Strata NYC preview on data, dollars + disruption. Aug 31, 9am PT #Strata
• Stanford opens some information technology courses to the world | ZDNet
  RT @mikeloukides: Once again: AI, machine learning, databases courses online from Stanford. Not to be missed.
• A Short Rant About Hosting (Pinboard Blog)
• Pinboard.in – high-memory hosting options – Google Docs
• Maker Faire New York – Sept 17 and 18, 2011 – DIY, science, demos, recycling, entertainment, and fun
  RT @makerfaire: Volunteer at #WorldMakerFaire. Perks include free admission and comradarie!
• Infecting Mosquitoes With Contagious Gonad-Attacking Bacteria Could Block Dengue Fever | Popular Science
  New method of fighting dengue-fever-carrying mosquitoes goes right for the gonads:
• Wells Fargo’s $3 Debit Card Charge: A Sign of More Bank Fees to Come? – DailyFinance
  RT @jeffreymcmanus: Banks starting to charge usurious debit card fees. Time to switch to a credit union.
• HTML5 Canvas
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94
• Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs – O’Reilly Radar
  Truly spot-on: @netgarden’s ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs A genius who will be studied for generations
• Tim O’Reilly on Steve Jobs’ departure
  – YouTube
  Laughing at YouTube comments on claiming I’m an Apple fanboy since I use #android. Just love how Jobs raised the bar.
• Daring Fireball Linked List: ‘However Vast the Darkness, We Must Supply Our Own Light.’
  ‘However Vast the Darkness, We Must Supply Our Own Light.’:

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• A VC: Users First, Brands Second
  RT @mikeloukides: Users First, Brands Second. Excellent startup advice from Fred Wilson.
• You’re the ones – Marc Hedlund’s blog
  Awesome Steve Jobs story from @marcprecipice: "You’re the ones"
• Watch Now – Al Jazeera English
  RT @JawBfl: @timoreilly @AJELive Just Remove The : So
• (404) http://t.co/AqCcOg4:
  Here’s the @AJELive feed where I’ll be talking about Steve Jobs’ resignation. 9:10 PT live on
• Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes – Digits – WSJ
  WSJ compiles some of the best Steve Jobs quotes of all time:
• Think Different
  – YouTube
  RT @marcprecipice: If you want a great memento of Steve Jobs’ career, go watch: An ad for Apple that says a huge amo …
• The Fire Hose: Fracking, Sea Level, Climate and Conflict – NYTimes.com
  What a great list of links from @dotearth: The Fire Hose: Fracking, Sea Level, Climate and Conflict
• spin.js
  Super nice .js spinner code — smaller than a .gif — that uses divs, border-radius, and animation. (from @fgnass)
• The Rising Generation
  Really good reminder from @bryce: The Rising Generation "The world has moved on."
• First Details About Lift, the Next Social Network From the Founders of Twitter
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/Generative-Social-Science-Agent-Based-Computational/dp/0691125473)
  Looks fascinating: Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling cia @carolmccall
• Air Mozilla
  .@petewearspants talks #hacktivism, #telecomix, #JavaScript mirror networks at Mozilla. Webcast Noon PT today:
• Untitled (http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/080221p1.pdf)
  Love it: "The chasm of semantic despair" at the gap between biology and clinical medicine slide 8, via @CarolMcCall
• Inside Google+: The virtuous circle of data and doing right by users – O’Reilly Radar
  Really nice job by @macslocum pulling out key points from my G+ interview with Bradley Horowitz #Strataconf

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• Dan Benjamin – Google+ – Today is Reevaluate Your Cloud Backup Strategy Dayâ„¢ here at…
  discussion of online backup alternatives
• See ya later, ex-dictators – WWW.THEDAILY.COM
  "a quieter, happier time to be a despot. "
• Gotham Gal: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Baby’s Got Bass – NYTimes.com
• WikiHouse.CC
  I know this is oversimplifying a bit, but Google Sketchup getting a "Print House" command is mindblowing.
• Derek Powazek – “Nobody Uses Their Real Name” and Other Outdated Notions
  Community management is the process of making decisions with good intentions and then cleaning up after the explosion.
• Does Religion Influence Epidemics? – ScienceNOW
  Fascinating look at the connections between religious belief and epidemic disease via @slashdot
• Nassim Taleb : The Banks are more powerful today than they were before the crisis |
  Nouriel Roubini Blog
  Nassim Taleb: “We have wasted three years doing nothing but transferring money to the pockets of the bankers”
• Untitled (http://twitter.com/GoogleDoodles/status/106216379346202624/photo/1)
  Wishing Jorge Luis Borges a happy 112th birthday! "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."
• Log In – The New York Times
  Well-deserved @nytimes profile of the lovely @gregorybrothers I’ve met them several times, and they are terrific
• Cleanweb Hackathon
  Cleanweb hackathon Sept 9-11. More on @SunilPaul’s cleanweb concept
• What is the "CleanWeb?" – sunilpaul’s posterous
  Cleanweb hackathon Sept 9-11. More on @SunilPaul’s cleanweb concept
• SXSW 2012 – Austin 2032-Shaping Future Cities with Mobile Data
  Interesting one from #SXSW panel picker: Austin 2032-Shaping Future Cities with Mobile Data via @digiphile
• What is a Career in Big Data?: Strata New York 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, September 22 – 23, 2011, New York, NY
  RT @edd: What is a Career in Big Data? @jrauser will explain in keynote at #strataconf NYC
• Amazon.com: Our Blood: Richard Buckner: MP3 Downloads
• PICNIC
  :

  //
  Re/designing the Biology of Cities

  Ah, sounds like that Picnic talk is NEXT month. My bad, your good luck. Sounds fascinating.
• Startup Quote
  RT @startupquote: When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for… – @timoreilly
• danmaclean/gee_fu – GitHub
  Gee Fu: #ruby #rails #bioinformatics
• Google App Engine Blog: App Engine 1.5.3 SDK Released
• Confessions of an Ex-Moralist – NYTimes.com
• How to Sleep on a Plane – NYTimes.com
  GUYS, it’s not so easy to sleep on an airplane, and Virginia Heffernan is, once again, ON IT.
• DSK walks, but Nicolas Sarkozy will run | Anne Daguerre | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
• Cut Medicare, Help Patients – NYTimes.com
• Roberta’s – NYC – Restaurant Review – NYTimes.com
• Infographic: How one Danish island became 100% energy self-sufficient | SmartPlanet
  Infographic: How one Danish island became 100% energy self-sufficient
• Peter Martin: Mining hurts us more than we think
  Wednesday column. Mining hurts us more than we think:
• I’m A Climate Scientist – Extended Version (NSFW) – YouTube
• Basia Bulat covers Ted Leo & The Pharmacists | Video | A.V. Undercover 2011 | The A.V. Club
• In Texas schools, response to misbehavior is questioned – The Washington Post
  Is this the kind of education system we want for our country? Texas criminalizes student discipline

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• How to Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal – YouTube
• Sydney Water – Desalination
• Analytics-as-a-Service: Understanding how Amazon.com is changing the rules
• Google Plus: Too Much Unnecessary Drama | ZDNet
  New post – IMO Google is seriously too big to screw around like this: Google Plus: Too Much Unnecessary Drama
• Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon ElastiCache – Distributed In-Memory Caching
  Amazon ElastiCache – Distributed In-Memory Caching – #aws #memcached
• How to make your own iPad or iPhone 4 micro SIM | News | TechRadar UK
• New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms – Smashing Magazine
• Debra Weiner: How to Recognize Your Future Ex-Husband
• Cheaper Than Paper: A Firsthand Examination of the Google+ Profile Reporting Process
• Why I’m not on Google Plus – Charlie’s Diary
• Sim to micro sim
• Stellar / Stellar Interesting Links’s faves
• m.e.driscoll’s blog • The Secret Guild of Silicon Valley
  Nice post from @medriscoll, via @mikeloukides: The guild that keeps Silicon Valley running:
• Les Hill — Write Your Own Gemspec
  This post from @leshill is exactly the how-to-build-a-gem document I was looking for a few days ago.
• The Iceman’s Last Meal: Goat – Science News
  It took 20 years, but scientists found the stomach of Otzi the Iceman. And he died with a tummy full of goat. My story
• Convex Optimization – Boyd and Vandenberghe
  Must learn: Convex optimization – solves classification, regression & more, from Stephen Boyd great keynote at #KDD2011
• Say Something Nice
  – YouTube
  Say something nice: (@reddit)
• American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth | Solutions
  To our great shame, among the 20 major advanced countries America now has
  the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children;
  the greatest inequality of incomes;
  the lowest government spending as a percentage of GDP on social programs for the disadvantaged;
  the lowest number of paid holiday, annual, and maternity leaves;
  the lowest score on the United Nations’ index of “material well-being of children”;
  the worst score on the United Nations’ gender inequality index;
  the lowest social mobility;
  the highest public and private expenditure on health care as a portion of GDP,
  yet accompanied by the highest

  infant mortality rate;
  prevalence of mental health problems;
  obesity rate;
  portion of people going without health care due to cost;
  low-birth-weight children per capita (except for Japan);
  consumption of antidepressants per capita;

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• American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth | Solutions
  To our great shame, among the 20 major advanced countries America now has
  the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children;
  the greatest inequality of incomes;
  the lowest government spending as a percentage of GDP on social programs for the disadvantaged;
  the lowest number of paid holiday, annual, and maternity leaves;
  the lowest score on the United Nations’ index of “material well-being of children”;
  the worst score on the United Nations’ gender inequality index;
  the lowest social mobility;
  the highest public and private expenditure on health care as a portion of GDP,
  yet accompanied by the highest

  infant mortality rate;
  prevalence of mental health problems;
  obesity rate;
  portion of people going without health care due to cost;
  low-birth-weight children per capita (except for Japan);
  consumption of antidepressants per capita;

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• Living in SF Means… – The Bold Italic – San Francisco
• World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic
  Grimly important photos from the U.S. internment of Japanese during WWII –
• It’s Almost
  It’s Almost – brilliantly simple web app lets you create a countdown to anything
• Oldest well-preserved fossils found in Western Australia | COSMOS magazine
  The oldest well-preserved fossils on Earth have been discovered in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia.
• Ahna O’Reilly Slips Into Fall’s Retro Looks :: Articles :: Los Angeles Confidential Magazine
  My niece, actress Ahna O’Reilly from The Help, dresses up like Veronica Lake Amazing seeing someone you know like this
• The Interrupters reviewed: This documentary on Chicago gang violence is the most necessary film of the year. – By Dana Stevens – Slate Magazine
• ‘EBay for Science’ Could Enable Outsourcing of Experiments: Scientific American
  An ebay for science? Another part of the big trend that @sharethemesh has been evangelizing

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