Entries from August 2013 ↓

• Twitter / AlsBoy: Sorry Pound Shop but I still …
  RT @AlsBoy: Sorry Pound Shop but I still think ‘rolling pin’ is a better name for it
• Instagram
  RT @susie_c: Whoa.
• Install wget in Mac OS X Without Homebrew or MacPorts
• Database of Genomic Variants
  The objective of the Database of Genomic Variants is to provide a comprehensive summary of structural variation in the human genome. We define structural variation as genomic alterations that involve segments of DNA that are larger than 50bp. The content of the database is only representing structural variation identified in healthy control samples.

  The Database of Genomic Variants provides a useful catalog of control data for studies aiming to correlate genomic variation with phenotypic data. The database is continuously updated with new data from peer reviewed research studies. We always welcome suggestions and comments regarding the database from the research community.

• Database of Genomic Variants archive | Database of Genomic Variants Archive
• If You Didn’t Love Bill Nye Before You See This, You’ll Love Him After (Or You’re A Cold Robot)
  RT @iamcuan: If you didn’t love Bill Nye before this, you’ll love him after (or you’re a robot) (via @Upworthy)
• The best cat adoption commercial – Boing Boing
  (Source: https://twitter.com/BoingBoing/status/373582282625282048)
• Seamus Heaney: Robert Pinsky remembers the late Irish poet.
  RT @Slate: Do yourself a favor and read Robert Pinsky’s tribute to Seamus Heaney: #poets
• Quadruple Take Masterclass – YouTube
  RT @oliverburkeman: Patrick Stewart gives his fiancee a personal masterclass in the actorly art of the quadruple take (via Metafilter)
• The New York Times > Recommendations for You
• Becoming the All-Terrain Human – NYTimes.com
• 9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask – The Washington Post
  helpful, evenhanded ‘explainer’ on Syria: (via @anildash)
• Before You Conclude That ‘Precision’ Bombing Makes Sense With Syria … — www.theatlantic.com — Readability
• Loving pencils — kottke.org — Readability
• Unprecedented ‘black budget’ leak reveals the scope of $52 billion US spy complex | The Verge
• Poverty strains cognitive abilities, opening door for bad decision-making, new study finds — www.washingtonpost.com — Readability
• Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you — www.theverge.com — Readability
• 9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask — m.washingtonpost.com — Readability
• Seamus Heaney’s poem "In the Attic" nyr.kr/16W2EtJ
• A Day In the Life of a TV Antihero
• Getting the Body You’ve Always Wanted | The Hairpin
• Retronaut – Smiling Victorians

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• Untitled (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/arts/music/linda-ronstadt-discusses-her-memoir-and-parkinsons.html&OQ=smidQ3Dtw-shareQ26_rQ3D2Q26&OP=f27db121Q2FQ27L(sQ27qPsQ27oooQ27Q5DsjQ22Q27MLQ3AetLLsQ24Q27Q24Q3DG@Q27Q3D4Q2
  RT @Revkin: Like a Wheel, but Turning Slower. Beautiful @samtanenhaus feature on Linda Ronstadt incl. Parkinson’s revelation.
• Twitter / ricardopresto: I love this. Victorian couple …
  RT @RichardWiseman: How lovely RT @ricardopresto: Victorian couple crack up after posing for a formal portrait.
• Twitter / GooglePoetics: do you do or die
  do you dream …
  RT @GooglePoetics: do you do or die
  do you dream every night
  do you double space after a period
  do you dream about me

  #GooglePoems

• UCB big data boot camp
  Sept. 3 – Sept. 6, 2013
• LX Group – What the new Google Cloud Platform means for manufacturers
  LX Group
• My Favorite Entrepreneur Story in a Long Time
  RT @cdespinosa:“If you don’t like it hot, use less. We don’t make mayonnaise here.” David Tran and the Sriracha story
• Untitled (http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/08/19/mugshots-from-the-1920s-are-significantly-cooler-than-mugshots-from-today/)
  If Leonard Cohen had a mugshot RT @pourmecoffee: Mugshots for the 1920’s were AWESOME
• Twitter / pourmecoffee: Mugshots for the 1920’s were …
  If Leonard Cohen had a mugshot RT @pourmecoffee: Mugshots for the 1920’s were AWESOME
• So, What’s It Going To Be? | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
  RT @DavidParis: See if you can read this piece on the Onion and not be terrified

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• David Rakoff’s Heroic Couplets : The New Yorker
  RT @fakedansavage: A wonderful and very moving review of David Rakoff’s last book by @Alex_Lily: .
• Mandy Waite and Ian Barber | PHP North West Conference 2013 (PHPNW13)
• Bias and Meritocracy Don’t Mix | Kapor Center
• A wonderful and very moving review of David Rakoff’s last book by @Alex_Lily: nyr.kr/16xNGbZ.
• Researcher reveals how “Computer Geeks” replaced “Computer Girls” | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research — gender.stanford.edu — Readability
• Why there’s no female Nate Silver — www.salon.com — Readability
• Researchers take on crucial question: Are haters gonna hate? — www.washingtonpost.com — Readability

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• Announcement : Google’s Peter S Magnusson to Keynote ZendCon 2013 | Zend Developer Zone
  RT @zend: @PeterSMagnusson, Director of Engineering at #Google to Keynote #PHP 2013 – #Zend
• Strata Data Innovation Awards 2013: Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 – O’Reilly Conferences, October 28 – 30, 2013, New York, NY
  RT @strataconf: Doing cool work in data or know someone who does? Submit nominations for Strata Data Innovation Awards
• Twitter / TheGoodDeath: You have SO MANY friends living …
  RT @TheGoodDeath: You have SO MANY friends living right inside you! To be fair, though, they will start eating you the second you die.

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• Instagram
  RT @megpickard: One of these things is not like the others. Gender stereotyping starts early. #everydaysexism
• SMS and Voice Integration With Twilio – Google App Engine — Google Developers
• US package forwarding services – Google Groups
• USA Address & Mail Forwarding – Shipito.com | English
• Data Sensing Lab – Google+
• Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2013 | Gold Coast CIO and IT Leader Event
  Broadbeach
  QLD 4218
• Google Groups
  A detailed behind-the-scenes look at the very large scale operations of Google App Engine, by @handler: (via @dewitt)

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• A very special woman in my technology history — torvos.azurewebsites.net — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/adainitiative/status/371402972628287488)
• Unprecedented control of genome editing in flies promises insight into human development, disease
• Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now? — thestringer.com.au — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/kasthomas/status/371400485300760577)
• MAPS: A Poll Asked America Which States Were The Drunkest, The Hottest And Which Had The Silliest Accents | Business Insider Australia
• Tweet by George Takei
  25/08/13 6:20 AM
  From a fan. I don’t know where they needed to put this sign up. No "I love ewes" allowed. fb.me/2Jj4bHJyQ
• Twitter / bgswanson: Best. Fridge. Ever. …
  RT @bgswanson: Best. Fridge. Ever.
• Tweet by National Geographic
  24/08/13 5:02 AM
  Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe pic.twitter.com/kumsFuX89w
• Jeffrey Singer: The Man Who Was Treated for $17,000 Less – WSJ.com
• Mothers are not ‘opting out’ – they are out of options – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
• Baby seal sneaks into woman’s home through cat door, curls up on the couch for a nap – NY Daily News
• Guys With Fancy Lady Hair – The Bold Italic – San Francisco
• 303 See Other
  RT @saramayeux: love this story about girl who escaped the heat in the Brooklyn Museum lobby, then learned she could actually go in:
• Aaron Sorkin: What I Read – John Hudson – The Atlantic Wire
• The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography — www.businessinsider.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/counternotions/status/371379813082472448)
• Subtraction.com: Designer Founders and Choosing Problems
• Idno: Open Source Social Networking for the Modern Web
• Greater than the sum of its specs: Google’s Moto X reviewed | Ars Technica
• fantastic. RT @BeschlossDC: Here is Los Angeles, Broadway, as it looked about 1902: #WPA pic.twitter.com/xU9BL1JyTz
• Thousands of people celebrate the end of the First World War on Broad Street, Philadelphia. November 11, 1918 pic.twitter.com/kkkyILdTTI
• I Have a Character Issue – NYTimes.com
• What is @ev’s new thing, Medium? asks @alexismadrigal, usefully: goo.gl/i5bVHm His answer: it’s the incoherence of this web moment.

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• Astrophoto: Photographer Re-Creates E.T. Flying in Front of the Moon — www.slate.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/DavidGrann/status/371066882729582593)
• The Man Who Invented Modern Probability — nautil.us — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/371053600392634368)
• Ladies, What’s Up With the ‘I Feel Like’ Verbal Tic? — jezebel.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/371019144822816768)
• Gitdb — gitdb.elasticbeanstalk.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/nk/status/370983286790574080)
• Twitter / HistoryInPix: Elvis and John Lennon …
  RT @HistoryInPix: Elvis and John Lennon
• Latitude and Longitude for selected cities
• These Songs Could Have Changed Your Life: The Best Rejected Songs of the Millennium — www.grantland.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/runofplay/status/370973179327414272)
• "Culture Fit" Is a Shitty Excuse for Marginalizing Women in Tech
  (Source: https://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/370960646864519168)
• Study: People Far Away From You Not Actually Smaller — www.theonion.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/370957765482532865)
• BuzzBagger Ben — www.nsfwcorp.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/swearyanthony/status/371143595207573504)
• THE SILENT POWER OF THE N.S.A. — www.nytimes.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/jilliancyork/status/370283475091202048)
• Pentel Tradio Stylo and Pulaman Fountain Pen Refill Cartridge – Black – JetPens.com
• NEW NSA story reveals first evidence of financial relationship between NSA and Prism companies. theguardian.com/world/2013/aug…
• Damn. @BiellaColeman nails it in this interview about #Snowden & the #NSA leaks –> blog.press.princeton.edu/2013/08/23/gab…
• Color photos of the once majestic Titanic retronaut.com/2013/08/titani…
• Snark Week: The Souless Flesh-Eating Kea — www.lastwordonnothing.com — Readability
• Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | theguardian.com
  RT @PaulLewis: Edward Snowden tells @ggreenwald he believes the Independent may have been played by the British government:
• Wolves’ Howling Linked To Social Structure, According To New Research Findings — www.ibtimes.com — Readability
• The New New Girl: Mindy Kaling — Vulture
• Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys – CNET Mobile

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• Twitter / HistoryInPix: London, 1899. http://t.co/QUxJRyfq25
  London, 1899. (via @HistoryInPix)
• Seconded. RT @nostrich: “potato faced dick” A+ jezebel.com/how-not-to-rea…
• From the notably feminist publication, Harvard Business Review: "Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?" blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/08/why…
• Put in the post-apocalyptic Detroit file: packs of stray dogs, some 50,000 of them, are roaming abandoned streets bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-2…
• Microsoft, Google, IBM far behind AWS in IaaS, PaaS segments, data shows
• Don’t Fly During Ramadan — varnull.adityamukerjee.net — Readability
• Coming next week, a three part series with @therealfitz on GDL, talking transparency, data liberation and much more. youtube.com/watch?v=YVgQrn…
• hadley/bigrquery · GitHub
  RT @igrigorik: weee.. running HTTP Archive queries on BigQuery, analyzing results in R with bigrquery: – killer combo.
• aallan/DataSensingLab
• So excellent. @JonnyGeller: Anthony Lane explains, better than any I’ve read, why Elmore Leonard was a great writer. m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/b…
• 20 neato facts worth knowing about coffee en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/92 via @ilovecoffeejp
• I like this on saying no (continual project for me) – dld.bz/cNpub /via @dontgetcaught
• Dear Miss Disruption — Medium
  “Dear Miss Disruption:
  An Advice Column from Silicon Valley”

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• AngularJS Sydney – August : FireBase | MyDigitalStructure – AngularJS-Sydney (Sydney) – Meetup
• mydigitalstructure

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• NSA-Proof Your Email! Consider your Man Card Re-Issued. Never be Afraid Again. — Weird Future — Medium
  RT @honorharger: Beautifully written, urgent piece of #postSnowden #postPrism writing by Tim Maly (@doingitwrong) on #FuturesExchange
• No Time for Coffee? Spray Caffeine On Your Skin | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
  RT @FastCompany: No Time for Coffee? Spray Caffeine On Your Skin
• Wal-Mart company buys prime property on East Sixth Street – CultureMap Austin
• Gorgeous Portraits Capture The Feminine Side Of Masculinity (PHOTOS)
• Business Meetings Move Poolside (Don’t Overdress) – NYTimes.com
• The old boys’ network is alive and well | Kate McGuinness | Comment is free | theguardian.com
  Ready to ‘lean in’ and tackle the old boys’ clubhouse? Be prepared to work harder and have your appearance criticised
• David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face | Alan Rusbridger | Comment is free | The Guardian
• Twitter / kamens: Apparently @oreillyfactor …
  RT @kamens: Apparently @oreillyfactor mentioned Khan Academy today.
• U.K. Ordered Guardian to Destroy Snowden Files Because Its Servers Weren’t Secure bit.ly/14hc17D

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