Entries from February 2012 ↓

• Right. MT @brycecovert: Senator pushing transvaginal ultrasound is president of a company that makes the equipment: http://t.co/f7AfVDyp
• Brooke the Immortal — www.spiegel.de — Readability
• Download the Universe: "My favorite new thing/site on the web," says @phylogenomics http://t.co/eI8cY0aM
• How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet’s Favorite Spambot — gawker.com — Readability
• Logging with Day One, geek style – Brett Terpstra
• I’m pretty sure "The Lively Morgue" is an unpublished Edward Gorey book, but still, this new NYT feature is great: http://t.co/ijLQSsiA
• Listen first, know your friends, nothing is private, stay on guard, don’t feed trolls, create more than you consume: http://t.co/zu5sFcRY

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• Brilliant article by the New Yorker. 2012 is the GOP’s "last shot" – http://t.co/dAEw0gGx
• Ghastly Outdated Party — www.nytimes.com — Readability
• Chocopornoholic cook book comes to America — boingboing.net — Readability
• A battery breakthrough that could bring electric cars to the masses http://t.co/bTzCSb9X
• "There is something really wrong with modern programmers." [This addresses modern cargo cult programming well -af] http://t.co/Lk8fewwE

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• How Mailinator compresses email by 90% — mailinator.blogspot.com — Readability
• Early Warning: Recent Acceleration of US Oil Efficiency http://t.co/OWaH2An2
• Anonymous tells Wired about new partnership w/ WikiLeaks starting w/ Stratfor. This could get v. interesting. http://t.co/8UnmoTs1
• Wikileaks Pairs with Anonymous to Publish Intelligence Firm’s Dirty Laundry — m.wired.com — Readability
• Here’s my second talk from #pda12 on the ‘Business of Bookmarking’ http://t.co/mzTRTNUE
• How we coped after my wife’s murder — www.guardian.co.uk — Readability
• Obit for Marie Colvin: "she knew she was braver and better than most of the men." http://t.co/sTvswFFB

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• What if we had Google Street View for the Great Barrier Reef? We do, sorta: http://t.co/R2XOcYwi HT @The_Millions
• My Baby, She Wrote Me A Letter – or – Tidbits from Buffett’s Letter to Shareholders http://t.co/JODnT6A3 /by @kiddynamiteblog
• LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS — lareviewofbooks.org — Readability
• The Emperor of Vanished Kingdoms — online.wsj.com — Readability
• Ulric Neisser Is Dead at 83; Reshaped Study of the Mind — www.nytimes.com — Readability
• RT @nxthompson: "Earth is dispensable but our souls are not." James Wood dissects Santorum rhetoric. http://t.co/Y1XedzcX
• Comment: Senator Santorum’s Planet : The New Yorker
• The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever — www.wired.com — Readability
• Bell Labs. 1966. http://t.co/gwrHL8z3
• What have you tried? — mattgemmell.com — Readability
  (Source: http://twitter.com/kurrik/status/172220076798377984)
• Wow, nice interview with Don Walsh, who went down to the deepest place on earth, Marianas Trench, in 1960. http://t.co/c2OC8ERl
• Teller Reveals His Secrets | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
• great piece by john lanchester on the super rich + the UK http://t.co/OizYBWNx

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• RT @modernscientist: Forcing Defendant to Decrypt Hard Drive Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules http://t.co/c3dl4kjm (Finally.)
• I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the big trend hidden inside craft businesses like Etsy. @nytimes has been too http://t.co/VV5cVJ7t
• Fast exponentiation — The Endeavour
• Very lovely time-lapse photos of fireflies: http://t.co/DGK4rydx Via @50WattsDotCom
• RT @Pogue: An owl approaching the camera at 1,000 frames a second. http://t.co/nKuj0NOh
• Amazing: Kickstarter will distribute more money this year than the NEA: http://t.co/tnT7RPRd
• The #CrypTweet sources are up on GitHub, as promised: http://t.co/DQb7qNEY — have fun!
• QotD: "“[Google+ growth is] is like getting high on your own supply." — @Caterina http://t.co/4eTl8zHp
• Remarkable series of interactive before/after photos from Japan quake, one year (almost) later – http://t.co/fVG6d0We
• Women and Islam: A Debate http://t.co/xfM8PTwt
• Nice new Mac app for @Pinboard from @binaryghost http://t.co/uehOPIe4
• http://pinboard.in/talks/pb.pdf
• Authors@Google: David Graeber, DEBT: The First 5,000 Years – http://t.co/OgpmVZJK
• SQUID CAN FLY. (it saves them energy) #fhtagn http://t.co/58eln32F /cc @pomeranian99 [also: "even though the females eat the males…"]
• EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database — www.eff.org — Readability
• Looks like they’ve found the systematic error behind FTL neutrinos: http://t.co/vlSnkXJ9 /via @hannu

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• RT @eugenephoto: France abolishes official use of "mademoiselle" as honorific. http://t.co/zhIfdf44 (via @nytjim)
• Oh my god. A kitten massages a pug. This is the best thing. http://t.co/fC2grpC2

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• Fascinating notion about "segmented sleep" being the natural pattern: The Myth of the Eight-hour sleep http://t.co/qxLMUpXg
• If you date a girl, and she gets a tattoo done of your face, BEWARE http://t.co/V7bqhrts Actual Facebook timeline; CC @JamesBoase
• New York Times – Linked Open Data
• Scientists Are Building Robot Dinosaurs Out Of 3-D Printed Fossils – Forbes http://t.co/lvyj6C9X
• Attachments.me Goes Automatic, Adds Box To Its Cloud Storage Partners – TechCrunch
• Hiss will forward Growl notifications to Mountain Lion’s Notification Center. (Love the name!) http://t.co/B2ekgyKt

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• Excellent physiological explanation via @nytimeswell abt why + how exercise fuels the brain: http://t.co/bK5K0paP (new Japanese research)(
• 700+ photos of Hiroshima after the bomb found in a suitcase in the trash in Watertown, MA: http://t.co/RGO2xIIs HT @stevesilberman
• Absolutely *love* Wired’s profile of Github: http://t.co/LF9ig1D5 Telling that they don’t even have to reference @cshirky’s effusive praise.
• Google has a secret laboratory where it is working on robots, space elevators… and goggles: http://t.co/RDHIVPBY
• Coffee consumption and risk of chronic disease – http://t.co/gDffhpgX
• Why They Seem to Rise Together: Federal Aid and College Tuition http://t.co/cPXCmLaO
• Rob Delaney
• Fluent – Making the future of email
  dhanji etc.

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• Aussies’ fix for ‘stagnated’ email | smh.com.au
• A few months ago, @omarshahine on Microsoft’s SkyDrive team wrote a *great* overview of cloud storage architectures: http://t.co/72JnpNky
• Fun story RT @jonahlehrer: My favorite Steve Jobs photo is now available. Neat backstory, too: http://t.co/x1KVy1VG
• Timely overview: Top new hybrids/EV cars – http://t.co/nE5ivlwh
• What to do when the sky falls: http://t.co/mh5ZoN8p
• When the Sky Falls — www.randsinrepose.com — Readability

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• Extraordinary. Forbes testing software that writes its basic magazine articles; 30 other clients already using it. http://t.co/IZZj8ikB
• @GreatDismal “@t3dy: Librarian finds a card signed by Borges in 1978 in a copy of Plato’s Republic http://t.co/1e7UMBV0”
• Northern lights and volcanoes in Iceland captured by British photographer — www.telegraph.co.uk — Readability
• “@kansandhaus: The rNews standard is live on http://t.co/67bMB3v – learn how we’ve liberated our databases – http://t.co/aoLwDSI”
• Social Network Login Status Detector Demo — bit.ly — Readability
• "Node.js is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech" – http://t.co/KeoQyO3e
• If you make things, watch this presentation. "Inventing on Principle." It is profound, surprising, and inspiring. http://t.co/c7c6d4Nq
• Promising Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury http://t.co/WUkHQBww
• The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever — www.wired.com — Readability
• season two, the verdict — www.guardian.co.uk — Readability
• Krugman: The austerity confidence fairy has failed to show up – http://t.co/5mzAEafJ
• The minemap is one of our most visited pages. It’s mapped every mine and processing facility in Australia http://t.co/06RpahOk #mining
• Nano-transistor breakthrough to offer billion times faster computer | smh.com.au
• Characteristics of false crime allegations http://t.co/qg19Wk33
• Strong Encryption for Twitter — plexusproject.org — Readability
• Mike Lowery Art on a Grove iPhone 4 Case, Octopuses (i4/4S)

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