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May 31st, 2012 — pinboard
pinboard May 28, 2012
May 28th, 2012 — pinboard
- The Most Goddamned American Thing I’ve Ever Seen – Imgur
- Favicons Next To External Links | CSS-Tricks
- Joe Kraus — joekraus.com — Readability
- Splitting the SKA – why a dual-site setup is a win for everyone — theconversation.edu.au — Readability
- One must read. @Queen_UK: One’s full report on the Eurovision Song Contest: j.mp/KN50wH #eurovision
- Why TED Is a Massive, Money-Soaked Orgy of Self-Congratulatory Futurism | | AlterNet
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pinboard May 27, 2012
May 27th, 2012 — pinboard
- 25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English | So Bad So Good
"25 Words That Simply Don’t Exist in English" via @TrevorBramble
- Everest infographic
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pinboard May 26, 2012
May 26th, 2012 — pinboard
- WebSockets – MDN
- Firebase – A scalable real-time backend for your website
- Daniel Kahneman on the Trap of ‘Thinking That We Know’ – NYTimes.com
- The Lazy Stereotyping of Executive Women: A Case Study – Forbes
- Kim Polese: Stop Comparing Female Execs And Just Let Sheryl Sandberg Do Her Job – Forbes
- Bobby Womack: ‘I can sing my ass off, better than I could before’ — www.guardian.co.uk — Readability
- Skeuomorphs, Databases, and Mobile Performance
- Stunningly Life-Like Wooden Figure Sculptures by Bruno Walpoth
- Incredible Photo of a Cat and a Praying Mantis
- Old Farts Know How to Code → — www.marco.org — Readability
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pinboard May 25, 2012
May 25th, 2012 — pinboard
- Alex Honnold on free-climbing Yosemite’s Triple Crown (El Cap, Half Dome, & Mt Watkins) in one day – http://t.co/sJUqTSRJ
- My new post for @EFF is on Google’s new copyright transparency report. Good on ‘em for that. https://t.co/l8xf5aGA
- I know… I know… But this is cool! http://t.co/cUNUg1gj /via @pogue
- Science is finally getting to the big questions: Why do bubbles in Guinness sink? – http://t.co/ZkVgHago
- The VC boys club is now an advantage . . . for competitors — gigaom.com — Readability
- Nick Bradbury: Old Farts Know How to Code
- Facebook: The List of Incompetents — blogs.reuters.com — Readability
- Anyone can do it. Data journalism is the new punk | News | guardian.co.uk
- Ultrathin Keyboard Cover – Logitech
- ZAGG | iPad 3 Keyboard Case | Folio Cover W/ Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard | ZAGGfolio
- CheatSheet
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pinboard May 24, 2012
May 24th, 2012 — pinboard
- Meteor
- This makes me happy: the Mars Rover Opportunity sends back a picture of its own shadow: http://t.co/chzsiZPk /via @KateClancy @pourmecoffee
- Haunting—the path the tornado took across Joplin, MO is clearly visible on Google Maps satellite view. http://t.co/i6me6ZYO
- Social Dimension | Wired Science | Wired.com
- @mediatedlife @carlzimmer also, not the first public university to do so. See e.g. U of Kansas: http://t.co/L1R67WAo
- Best dive into Unicode and Unicode and Python I’ve seen http://t.co/OUwMh9EG
- The VC boys club is now an advantage . . . for competitors | Cleantech News and Analysis
- Famous "Spike Through the Brain" Case Yields New Insights: Scientific American Video
- Hawaii Officials Straight up Messing With Birther-ish Arizona Secretary of State
- What Gamblers and Weather Forecasters Can Teach Us About Risk — www.slate.com — Readability
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pinboard May 23, 2012
May 23rd, 2012 — pinboard
- "Facebook is not only on course to go bust, but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it." MIT throws down: http://t.co/UXMiVfzF
- Last Name Fails: Wedding Announcements That Spell Disaster (PHOTOS)
- RT @brainpicker: 10 life lessons from Esquire’s "What I’ve Learned" series of interviews with cultural icons http://t.co/kxgKXSM2
- “What was your most embarrassing moment?” “My whole life, but I wouldn’t change it.” Charming 2010 Q&A with Robin Gibb. http://t.co/ACHE1WI5
- Behold: the Marvel Avengers Assemble 3D experience — www.guardian.co.uk
Charlie Brooker
- Why The iPhone’s Success Has Women To Thank — www.readwriteweb.com
- Readlists
- Scripps Florida scientists identify neurotransmitters that lead to forgetting | Science Codex
- Burn Note – Questions and Answers
- The Problem With Cory Booker’s Twitter Feed — nymag.com
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pinboard May 22, 2012
May 22nd, 2012 — pinboard
- Surprising: Genome Sizes and the Benford Distribution http://t.co/mOALzVQc
- Go forth and curate. @readlists is live. Congrats to @arc90 lab and the @readability teams. http://t.co/vWxcFmli (via @richziade)
- Indeed RT @Simon_Cullen: The new OECD Better Life index puts Australia at the top, according to WSJ – http://t.co/jQ22tsJb
- RT @Tzarimas: This is amazing – New bionic-eye for the totally blind – and, it’s AUSTRALIAN. http://t.co/D5ODh86b @702Sydney
- In Demand: Ninjas, Jedis and Gurus — blogs.wsj.com — Readability
- "one-bit ‘memory’ made of DNA that can record, erase and rewrite data within living cells" http://t.co/D5t9tovq
- Sign this White House petition: If taxpayers pay for scientific research, the results should be available to all http://t.co/1xpdtmQQ
- Albert Edwards: "[Once China bursts] Canada might be a lightly done muffin, but Australia will be absolutely toast.” http://t.co/TGxHvMXe
- How I Got 50% Women Speakers at My Tech Conference | Geek Feminism Blog
- Sign the White House Petition on Open Access to Research Today! (SPARC)
- Vintage Clothing, Cute Dresses, Indie & Retro Women’s Clothing | ModCloth
- Diet Coda
iPad
- ‘Father of the Internet’ warns Web freedom is under attack – The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
- A Life Worth Ending
- Maturing as Publisher and Platform — www10.nytimes.com — Readability
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pinboard May 21, 2012
May 21st, 2012 — pinboard
- http://t.co/MqYivSo *How the crime of thinking positively wrecks America. C’mon, how could this book not be good? #Demotivational
- This is my favorite BeeGees song of all time. From the album Still Waters. RIP Robin Gibb. http://t.co/YfrYduoV @Caissie
- Global warming: Researchers say recent temperature trends in Australasia are unprecedented during past 1,000 years « Summit County Citizens Voice
- 978 Grid System for Web Design
- Want to end partisan politics? Here’s what won’t work — and what will. — www.washingtonpost.com — Readability
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pinboard May 20, 2012
May 20th, 2012 — pinboard
- Spice Temple | Rockpool
- Tim O’Reilly – Google+ – Really interesting notion from +Jamie Heywood of Patien…
Really interesting notion from +Jamie Heywood of Patients Like Me at #healthfoo: the probability that a published scientific result is true is the cost of the study to make a claim divided by the cost of a study to refute the claim. I’m hoping that he’ll publish his Ignite talk in which he makes that case. (The bad news: an awful lot of scientific studies these days are crap.)
- http://t.co/D0qckpyn Cool post by Mike Hearn @ Google re: What they do about attackers w/ user passwords.
- eugene gordin — www.eugenegordin.com — Readability
- Baldwin Woods
- naming: abuse and acknowledgement of the truth | meganhunt.me
- The Pretenders – Back on the Chain Gang, live in London http://t.co/vz4mKPps
- White House praises Twitter implementation of Do No Track. http://t.co/PntNAmtn #DNT
- On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name — kateharding.net
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