Entries from March 2013 ↓

• Prevent Smarty from writing compiled templates | Rodney Rehm
• Soaring Bee Deaths in 2012 Sound Alarm on Malady – NYTimes.com

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• Austin Go Language User Group (Austin, TX) – Meetup
  RT @ATXGolang: Day 2 and we’re up to 19 gophers and counting! #austin #golang
• Texans mock Kim Jong Un’s apparent plan to strike Austin
• (404) http://t.co/BqEl
  RT @DBNess: RT @tpdorsey: Build a Better Tech Community, a profile of the @codeproject Advisory Board for Women in Tech …
• North Korea’s latest absurd threats: Missles that can reach Austin and Washington, D.C.
  Kim Jong-Un apparently had a disappointing pulled pork sandwich in Austin one time: #MesssingWithTexas (via @Slate)
• Twitter / Fascinatingpics: A baby sloth. http://t.co/02E1NmdY1m
  RT @Fascinatingpics: A baby sloth.
• SaneBox
• Twitter / kristoncapps: Nick Cave with Nick Cave. It …
  RT @melenar: !! RT @kristoncapps: Nick Cave with Nick Cave. It was bound to happen some day.
• AnnuRev
• 4-Billion-Pixel Panorama From Curiosity Rover Brings Mars to Your Computer Screen | Wired Science | Wired.com

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• North Korea plan to attack US mainland revealed in photographs – Telegraph
  RT @ozmox: North Korea’s targets: Hawaii, LA, and Austin?! WTF…
• Newly Discovered Bacteria Lives on Caffeine | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
• Good morning. Scientists just made bacteria that love coffee as much as you do. qz.com/68337/bacteria…
• 4-Billion-Pixel Panorama From Curiosity Rover Brings Mars to Your Computer Screen | Wired Science | Wired.com
• Twitter / AstroTerry: A view of the #Soyuz launch …
  RT @AstroTerry: A view of the #Soyuz launch from the #ISS. Amazing!
• The World’s Languages in Your Pocket (No Internet Required) – Google Translate Blog
• Des Hommes et des Chatons
  “Des Hommes et des Chatons”
  
• Gene therapy cures leukaemia in eight days zite.to/ZopVxf
• Boxes sealed with ATHEIST tape lost by USPS 10X more often than controls zite.to/XbSUJt
• You’re Distracted. This Professor Can Help. – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Want to see the future of book printing? Check out this video: youtu.be/cZ67taoh0xg
• We wanted to know how far women in North Dakota may have to go to find an abortion clinic. buswk.co/YHbuez twitpic.com/cf310g
• ATTENTION STARTUPS: Here’s a list of 10 simple tips that are *guaranteed* to increase your odds of success. 2.dashes.com/XJnjL8
• Ah, @anildash creates list of startup success rules. So few words, so much said. dashes.com/anil/2013/03/t…
• Fired SendGrid Developer Evangelist Adria Richards Speaks Out – AllThingsD
• If I Admit That ‘Hating Men’ Is a Thing, Will You Stop Turning It Into a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
• This is so many shades of awesome, I don’t even… deshommesetdeschatons.tumblr.com (h/t @evarley)
  Des Hommes et des Chatons
• The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet – CloudFlare blog
• Google Apps Script — Google Developers
• Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse | Footsteps

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• Mailstrom, A Machete For Overloaded Inboxes, Makes Its Official Debut With 400M+ Emails Already Under Storage – TechCrunch
• Connect Mobile Apps to the Cloud Without Breaking a Sweat
  dan’s endpoints preso

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• Google’s Go Appears on Brazilian Cloud | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
  Collison’s new company, Apcera, is building some sort of mystery cloud platform using Go. His old Cloud Foundry team recently rebuilt a portion of their platform with the Google language. Saleforce.com’s Heroku has long used the language. And it has even popped up as far afield as Brazil, where Globo.com — the country’s largest internet company — has used Go to build a Cloud Foundry-like tool called Tsuru.

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• 5000 New York City Pay Phones Transformed Into Time Capsules | The Awl
  RT @JamesGleick: Time travel by pay phone: via @hujane
• Cat Walks Dog
  Cat Walks Dog (via @LaughingSquid)
• Schneier on Security: Our Internet Surveillance State
• jwz: BUNNY
• Twitter / Cmdr_Hadfield: Sydney, Australia, glowing …
  RT @Cmdr_Hadfield: Sydney, Australia, glowing green and lovely in the night.
• Women Take Over #safetytipsforladies and Make It 100 Times Better
  RT @sparkdiana: Women Take Over #safetytipsforladies and Make It 100 Times Better

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• Digging Beneath the Surface: That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It Seems | Gayle Laakmann McDowell | Technology Woman
• Log In – The New York Times
  Kate Atkinson is a favourite— looking forward to reading her new book:
• (404) http://t.co/5CjYh
  RT @secretsquirrel: This is a pretty great article on about tech money and philanthropy: "The Bacon-wrapped Economy. " …
• Amazon Redshift | Partners | Pervasive Big Data & Analytics
  Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Amazon Redshift offers you fast query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications you use today. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can launch a Redshift cluster, starting with a few hundred gigabytes of data and scaling to a petabyte or more, for under $1,000 per terabyte per year.
• First experience: Google Compute Engine | NuoDB Techblog
• Issue 28 – appengine-devappserver2-experiment – Allow starting debugger while running – An experimental new development server for Google App Engine – Google Project Hosting
• Single Origin Roasters Blog/Shop
• Super Elastic Clouds: Is it Time to Remove the OS From Cloud Computing Stacks? – Forbes

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• A painful mourning means that we have truly lived | Yvonne Roberts
• Introduction to Google Compute Engine – Online Training Course for .NET Developers
  lynn langit
• T-Shirts & Apparel :: Unisex Shirts :: Generic Geek :: ThinkGeek
  Datasaurus
• The Wind’s Twelve Quarters – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• “It’s called "freedom of speech," not "freedom of speech justified by the circumstances."” j.mp/11y8DFn Smart points by @chrisyeh
• This is really good. RT ‏@dailydot The truth about convention culture, or why @adriarichards spoke up: dly.do/YKYGgu
• Grumpy Cat Stars in Friskies Cat Game Show, "Will Kitty Play With It?" wp.me/p4t6s-177V
• David Ferguson
  Alfred workflow tips
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hypercolor Mercury in Full dlvr.it/37B1n2
• Behold, the thought process of conservatives everywhere! #auspol pic.twitter.com/YsFcUGas97
• The week in absolutely jaw-dropping PHOTOS: slate.me/Y4J6Ra
• CIA: Big Data Is The Future And The Agency Owns It [PRESENTATION] | Business Insider Australia
• Cloudera ML: New Open Source Libraries and Tools for Data Scientists | Apache Hadoop for the Enterprise | Cloudera
• 25 badass ways to say no | Justine Musk
• Google Opens Universal Analytics Beta To All, Brings Analytics To More Devices And Online/Offline Interactions | TechCrunch
• Every. Sentence. RT @iamandyhoffman: Just because….i present what just might be the finest news story ever written: guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/aug/03…
• The New Yorker just published a big story on more alleged sexual abuse at Horace Mann. newyorker.com/reporting/2013…
• Silicon Valley Discriminates Against Women, Even If They’re Better to.pbs.org/11p26Jj by @wadhwa
• Terrific piece on rape and women’s sexual agency at Salon: salon.com/2013/03/22/my_…
• Obit of Peter Scott, ‘King of the Cat-Burglars’. telegraph.co.uk/news/obituarie…
• Spot On: RT @triketora There are Ladies Present prsm.tc/dKks1D
• The future needs fixing – the future needs fixing – sugru
• I have come to regard anyone who speaks more than one language as the bearer of great and unearned power. bit.ly/16OTG1B

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• Retronaut – Sean Connery in a wedding dress
• Researchers make ‘stunning’ Alzheimer’s breakthrough, return affected neurons to normal state – McKnight’s Long Term Care News
• The 40 Hottest Cats In Tech – BuzzFeed Mobile

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• Getting the data on startups – the first cut
  Startup Australia
• Starting up #startupAUS
• Wireless ‘under the skin’ prototype implant beams instant blood test read-outs to your smartphone

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