Entries from June 2013 ↓

• Twitter / rollingingraves: two gay guys get it exactly …
  RT @rollingingraves: two gay guys get it exactly right. lol #MarriageEquality
• 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand | ExtremeTech
  RT @jackschofield: 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand, says @ExtremeTech Video
• The Hollow (Thermoelectric) Flashlight – Google Science Fair – YouTube
  RT @jackschofield: 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand, says @ExtremeTech Video
• Don’t Mess With Them — Gender Justice/Feminism — Medium
  RT @Medium: “Don’t Mess With Them ” by @timbray
• Lunatech Blog: What every web developer must know about URL encoding
  RT @igrigorik: What every web developer must know about URL encoding: – it’s (much) harder than it looks.
• Twitter / amygdala: Whoa, the Day Star actually …
  Whoa, the Day Star actually appeared this afternoon
• Untitled (http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/pycon-au-announce/2013-June/000019.html)
  RT @pyconau: There’s a @PyLadies Breakfast at #pyconau this year! Details and RSVP info at
• What lava looks like when poured over ice
  ooooh
• Twitter / amygdala: I love this, of a mouse (?) …
  I love this, of a mouse (?) photobombing the night wildlife cam (from the “Instant Wild” mobile app)
• David Mitchell: learning to live with my son’s autism — www.guardian.co.uk
• Maybe the Most Unforgettable Place Ever — www.theatlantic.com
  (Source: https://twitter.com/kvox/status/351108742491807744)
• Twitter / RamsdenLouis: Amazing – this ocean wind farm …
  ocean wind farm causing cloud ribbons. (via @RamsdenLouis,@Hudsonweather)
• Gate A-4- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
  by Naomi Shihab Nye
• What I learned from the women (and men) at Gluecon 2013 | A Line At the Ladies’ Room
• Los Infiltradores
  How three young undocumented activists risked everything to expose the injustices of immigrant detention—and invented a new form of protest.
• (500) https://onetoday.google.com/project?match=sodnWPRm
  Give $1 to the nonprofit project ‘Educate And Empower 25 Girls In Cameroon’ and I will match your donation.
• Google Creates Developers Cloud Playground for Code Testing
• "FAQ: What You Need to Know About the NSA’s Surveillance Programs" (motherjones.com)
  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/faq-nsa-surveillance-programs
  (Sent via the Longform App)
• The Physics Behind Traffic Jams
• TidBITS: The State of Google Reader Replacements
• a pickup artist’s guide to seducing a sandwich: theatlantic.com/health/archive… a+++ would laugh again (via @scalzi)
• Miraculous, breathtaking plunge in NYC murder rates this year, 25% lower than last year, that was already lowest. nytimes.com/2013/06/29/nyr…
• Totally marvelous. RT @JBennet: Watch an octopus vanish. Because you might as well think about something marvelous. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
• The great @NewYorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff picks his 11 favorite New Yorker cartoons. j.mp/122XDdm via @matthiasrascher
• tiny party hats on utrecht’s surveillance cameras, for george orwell’s 110th birthday: front404.com/george-orwells… (via @neb cc @greatdismal)
• Joni Mitchell – Slouching Towards Bethlehem — literaryjukebox.brainpickings.org — Readability
• How Diane von Furstenberg Is Like a Cowboy — www-nc.nytimes.com — Readability
• Pretty great reference for html/css/jquery devdocs.io

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• Twitter / amygdala: @ftrain (source unknown) …
  @ftrain (source unknown)
• go read
  RT @anildash: Relatedly, this is cool – @mjibson from the @StackCareers team made Go Read, a nice open source Reader replacement:
• A Line At the Ladies’ Room | Tired of the echo in the ladies’ rooms at tech conferences
• Closing The Tech Industry’s Gender Gap Requires Better Data : All Tech Considered : NPR
• Sieve of Eratosthenes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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• Dramatic Golang Gopher – YouTube
  RT @mitchellh: Just rediscovered my “dramatic #golang gopher”:
• Schulz on J.M. Ledgard’s Submergence — Vulture
  RT @kathrynschulz: Can someone nominate J.M. Ledgard’s stupendous SUBMERGENCE for the Pulitzer Prize? All I could do is write about it:
• Twitter / astro_luca: Like a Mondrian, fields in …
  Like a Mondrian, fields in Kansas (via @astro_luca)
• TX DevFest
  Is anyone a) an astrophysicist; b) has played with Google Compute Engine; and c) is attending TXDevFest ()? 🙂
• dataarts/tailbone · GitHub
  tailbone
• Bro looks like a lady: from Ryan Lochte to Cameron Diaz.
  “Bros are evidence that masculinity is as fastidiously constructed as femininity is.”
  (by @amandahess)
• Twitter / amygdala: “New Hot-Pink Slug Found …
  “New Hot-Pink Slug Found in Australia”— …only on Mount Kaputar
• New Hot-Pink Slug Found in Australia – News Watch
  “New Hot-Pink Slug Found in Australia”— …only on Mount Kaputar
• Elevated gluten antibodies found in children with autism
  Elevated gluten antibodies found in children with autism (via @EWDolan)

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• Twitter / GooglePoetics: this would be a beautiful …
  RT @GooglePoetics: this would be a beautiful death
  this would be a good death
  this would be the day that I die
  this would be paradise

  –

• Welcome to the Google User Experience Research Sign-up Survey
  Welcome to the Google User Experience Research Sign-up Survey

  Please fill in this form if you’re interested in participating in Google User Experience research studies.

• GoogleCloudPlatform/solutions-ios-push-notification-sample-backend-java · GitHub
• (500) https://onetoday.google.com/project?match=-yomoD_M
  Give $1 to the nonprofit project ‘Save a child’s life.’ and I will match your donation.
• Twitter / caitlindewey: Google the word "gay." (HT …
  RT @caitlindewey: Google the word "gay." (HT @tjortenzi)
• Edith Windsor And Thea Spyer’s Great American Love Story
  RT @anildash: Thank you so much to Edith Windsor, an American hero. I’m sorry it took so long.
• Cloud Platform Blog: Get Coding Faster Thanks to Little Green Buttons
  RT @fredsa: Live in the cloud. Write code without having to install software:

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• Untitled (http://roxanegay.tumblr.com/post/53908739850/lets-recap-what-happened-in-texas#_=_)
  RT @rgay: Let’s Recap What Happened in Texas –
• Orchestrating iOS Push Notifications on Google Cloud Platform — Cloud Platform
• 10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks | Smashing WordPress
  add_action ( ‘publish_post’, ‘myCustomFunction’ );
• WordPress › Support » add_action with publish_post?
• Google Cloud Platform Videos – Google Cloud Platform — Google Developers
  RT @ryguyrg: Organized all the @googlecloud videos and slides from Google I/O 2013 onto a handy webpage. Want some brain fuel?:
• Codecademy for the cloud: Google’s new Cloud Playground is pure genius | VentureBeat
• Ginsburg Slams SCOTUS ‘Hubris’ On Voting Rights Act | TPMDC
  RT @TPM: Justice Ginsburg slams Supreme Court’s "hubris" in fiery dissent on Voting Rights Act:

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• Twitter / bos31337: This one goes out to all the …
  RT @bos31337: This one goes out to all the Unix historians out there.
• Twitter / FelicityMorse: It was Alan Turing’s 101st …
  RT @FelicityMorse: It was Alan Turing’s 101st birthday yesterday. This is what his statue in Manchester looked like
• Why We Need to Rethink the "Women in Tech" Boom | The Daily Muse
• (500) https://onetoday.google.com/project?match=sZFPBgQS
  Give $1 to the nonprofit project ‘Water Changes Everything’ and I will match your donation.
• spring-appengine/src/main/java/com/github/marceloverdijk/springappengine/cache/memcache/MemcacheCacheManager.java at master · marceloverdijk/spring-appengine · GitHub
  (Source: https://twitter.com/marceloverdijk/status/348340613265096704)

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• Twitter / StuartSumner: This is one of the best photos …
  RT @StuartSumner: This is one of the best photos ever. Norwich council takes delivery of its first computer.
• Stop Watching Us | Stop Watching Us
• Improving Photo Search: A Step Across the Semantic Gap
• Sample BigQuery queries for the HTTP Archive dataset.
• HTTP Archive + BigQuery = Web Performance Answers – igvita.com
• Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database | USENIX
• Vagrant
  Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.
• Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
• Google may chuck Spanner into Datastore • The Register
• This Australian Start-Up Decided To Launch A Co-Working Space Over Lunch Yesterday | Business Insider Australia
• What’s more important: a college degree or being born rich? — mattbruenig.com — Readability
• 10 Lesser-Known People Who Were The First To Accomplish Things
• Camlistore 0.2 is now out: camlistore.org/docs/release/0… … #golang #indiewebcamp
• The Google artificial brain continues to get smarter. Exciting stuff: googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/06/improv… (image search)
• Woody Harrelson Introduces a Paper to Prevent Deforestation | TIME.com
  Staples is now carrying Woody Harrelson’s sustainable wheat paper: (via @adamwilsoninc)

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• SALI LOVES: Astalift Jelly Aquarysta | Sali Hughes Beauty
• Schemas in Gmail — Google Developers
• 6 Cloud, Big Data Startups To Watch – Cloud Computing – Platform as a
• PHP Master | Google App Engine and a Plea for Phalcon
• WordPress Security – An Infographic on common Malware and Attacks | Page.ly Blog
• The Remarkable Properties of Mythological Social Networks | MIT Technology Review
  The social network between characters in Homer’s Odyssey is remarkably similar to real social networks today:
• NSA surveillance leaks suggest Microsoft may have misled public on Skype eavesdropping.
• What happened when I started a feminist society at school | Education | guardian.co.uk
  “What happened when I started a feminist society at school”—

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• 10 Day Perth to Broome | Broome Tours | Adventure Tours Australia

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• BIG DATA 2013 – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
  A strong special section on Big Data 2013. (via @NYTFridge,@nytimesbits)
• Big Data News: A Revolution Indeed – Forbes
  Big Data makes it into OED, @gilpress report on #BigData history (longer than you think) (via @kdnuggets)
• Alice Munro retired? Canadian author says she is probably done writing.
  Alice Munro says she is probably done writing.
• Untitled (http://24.media.tumblr.com/cd00c4607c29d0070531fa0ca7a5faf3/tumblr_mns9pasgtu1r7uyl0o1_500.jpg)
  RT @TomChivers: It’s funny how you can go for years at a time without thinking of Sting wearing wingèd Speedos in Dune
• Google Compute Engine Performance Test with RightScale and Apica | RightScale Blog
  During our tests we created a massive load that simulated a real-world application experiencing a planned promotional push or viral-type event using a fairly vanilla configuration with very little tuning or tweaking. Through this process we showed that GCE, managed by RightScale, can help deploy, run, and manage intensely demanding applications on the cloud. Throughout the testing process, GCE exhibited extremely high performance, low complexity, and great flexibility. As a result, I am very excited about what GCE has to offer.
• Google App Engine Plugin Ready For Your Installs! – WP Daily
• Linux creates scholarship for developer do-gooders and women | VentureBeat
• Google exec to girls: Tech needs you – CNN.com
  RT @codemiller: +1 "For all the girls…who think it’s too late to get into tech…it’s never too late to pursue a good opportunity."

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