Entries from January 2013 ↓

• Dept. of Homeland Security Forced to Release List of Keywords Used to Monitor Social Networking Sites – Forbes
  Mitigation, initiative, recruitment, erosion – a few words on the list used by DHS to monitor Twitter (via @tsimonite)
• Male-to-female transition time lapse video
  RT @moximer: Male to female transition time-lapse video
• There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written | Smart News
  There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written (in 1851): /v @stevesilberman,@kathrynschulz
• Data Sets | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
• The Eye Practice | Optometrists Sydney – Optometrists Sydney CBD
• Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix? — HBS Working Knowledge
• Cloud Hosting Pricing
• Software developer Bob outsources own job and whiles away shifts on cat videos
  “Software developer Bob outsources own job and whiles away shifts on cat videos”-

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• Cat Database
• (404) http://t.co/2yrl62
  RT @elisewho: Coders, why use any ol "Lorem Ipsum" when there’s Samuel L Ipsum to make your placeholder text badass?! …

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• Errata Security: I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
• bitly API Documentation
  bitly ‘social’ apis
• bitly API Documentation
• Untitled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/15/guardian-launch-digital-australia-edition)
  Guardian expansion into Australia explained (via @emilybell)

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• The Panasonic Toughpad Press Conference – LOOK, ROBOT
  RT @kim_partridge: Hungover non-tech journalist covers a tech launch. Very funny.
• Untitled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/jan/13/investments-stock-picking)
  Cat outperforms investment managers: (cat “not available to give an interview because of a claws in his contract.”)
• JSTOR liberator
  RT @textfiles: The Archive Team Aaron Swartz Memorial Academic Paper Liberator is now live. – violate a TOS in Aaro …
• Global Daily Weather Data from the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) data set | Infochimps
  wget -r -l3 —no-clobber —no-parent —no-verbose -a /tmp/wget_log.log —wait=1.0 ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/
• Twitter Word Usage data set | Infochimps
• Research Projects in the Intelligent Agent Laboratory
  adrian

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• Damien Katz: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
  RT @kevinmarks: “@timbray: A love letter to the C language: ” sounds like someone needs to find Go
• StartupAsia – Tech in Asia
• Twitter / sm: Just about the best map of San Francisco …
• she++: Inspiring Women to Empower Computer Science
• One of my favourite uses of gifs is as visual explanation. Here’s a beaut: a cutaway lock-and-key. 24.media.tumblr.com/19b2a9219fe516… /via @sispurrier
• It’s time to concentrate our anger on a culture that turns men into rapists — www.guardian.co.uk — Readability
• Good Night Lamp by The Good Night Lamp team — Kickstarter
• I’ve stared at this for five minutes and it’s still magic to me… i.imgur.com/PdJUk.gif How does sewing work?
• On Depression & Getting Help — robdelaney.tumblr.com — Readability

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• My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved. | Quinn Said
• Customizing Organizer | OtherInbox
• "Prosecutor as bully": In re @aaronsw lessig.tumblr.com/post/403474630…
• Untitled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/11/australia-burns-attitudes-changing-too-late)
  “As Australia burns, attitudes are changing. But is it too late?”
• Tupperwolf – Suicide reporting on the internet
  RT @vruba: Internet, I love you and/but/so here is a reminder about discussing suicide:
• Easily open Safari tabs in 1Password for iOS using custom URL schemes | The Spiral Arm
  Open Safari tabs in 1Password for iOS using custom URL schemes (via @mikemorrow)

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• Today’s Edition of ‘Not the Onion’ | TPM Editors Blog
  In today’s edition of Not The Onion, CNN interrupts coverage of Biden on the NRA with news of another school shooter.
• This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
  This isn’t the petition response you’re looking for. Awesomeness from US govt: (via @GlennF)
• Video of Apollo Robbins Pickpocketing : The New Yorker
• Australian dust storm spectacle – World – NZ Herald Pictures
• (404) http://t.co/z
  RT @monstro: “Get used to it because I am going to live to be 100, and I am going to show my thighs every day till I die.” …

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• PHD Comics: Punctuation mark decoder
  hah
• The Best Aerial Image of New York City You’ll Ever See – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
• The Go Programming Language Blog: The App Engine SDK and workspaces (GOPATH)
• 62 Real Time APIs: Twitter, Thrutu and Pusher
• NYC DOT – Data Feeds
  Traffic Speed
• buzz.py – google-api-python-client – Google APIs Client Library for Python – Google Project Hosting
  use local discovery doc

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• Views performance in MySQL for denormalization – Stack Overflow
• MySQL Tutorial: How to Denormalize a Normalized Table Using SQL | WebDesignForums.net
• Sample MySQL 5 User-Defined Function for Denormalizing Tables into a Delimited List / Creating Changesets / Knowledge Base – Transparensee Support
  This document includes a MySQL script that illustrates how to use a user-defined function to denormalize to-many relationship values using a delimited list (string).
• OpenRefine/OpenRefine · GitHub
  OpenRefine is a power tool that allows you to load data, understand it,
  clean it up, reconcile it internally, and augment it with data coming from
  Freebase or other web sources. All with the comfort and privacy of
  your own computer.

  This software was created by Metaweb Technologies, Inc. and originally written
  and conceived by David Huynh <dfhuynh@google.com>. Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
  was acquired by Google, Inc. in July 2010 and the product was renamed Google Refine.
  In October 2012, it was renamed OpenRefine as it transitioned to a
  community-supported product.

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• Twitpic – Share photos and videos on Twitter
  RT @ozdj: Australia: you’re totally #WINNING news right now. (via @erkpod)
• Twitter Engineering: A Storm is coming: more details and plans for release
• AngularJS-Sydney (Sydney) – Meetup
• Dangerous Minds | Leonard Cohen sings ‘Suzanne’ with heartbreaking beauty in Montreal, 2012
• Lousy Book Covers
  "Lousy book covers" doesn’t quite do it justice. Can’t… stop… looking: (via @readmatter)

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