Entries from August 2011 ↓
August 31st, 2011 — pinboard
- 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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August 30th, 2011 — pinboard
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August 29th, 2011 — pinboard
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August 28th, 2011 — pinboard
- 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 CÃvica » 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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August 27th, 2011 — pinboard
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August 26th, 2011 — pinboard
- 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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August 25th, 2011 — pinboard
- 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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August 24th, 2011 — pinboard
- 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 bankersâ€
- 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
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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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August 23rd, 2011 — pinboard
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August 22nd, 2011 — pinboard
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