Entries from September 2013 ↓

• Untitled (http://lorempixel.com/130/130/cats/)
  hah, only now have discovered Lorem Pixel-
• lorempixel – placeholder images for every case
• Images From Space Confirm Pakistan Earthquake Created New Island — www.wired.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/383646571167887360)
• brunogaspar/laravel4-starter-kit
  https://github.com/brunogaspar/laravel4-starter-kit.git
• Twitter / amygdala: Kansas sky http://t.co/zaIR5nbyPe
  Kansas sky

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• Latest Google App Engine release makes Search API Available To All
• HTTP API « WordPress Codex
• Refresh App | An Instant Dossier to Refresh Your Relationships
• Twitter / willbrownsydney: Major brushfire at Barrenjoey …
  RT @NewsAustralia: Extraordinary pic – headland at Palm Beach, on Sydney’s northern beaches, on fire today
• Maps Live: Visualizing Correlations: Big Query and Maps – YouTube
  RT @francesc: "If you have spatial data and you like it, put a map on it"
  @felipehoffa and @jlivni in a #GDL on #Maps and #BigQuery

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• The only photo of a living Quagga, London Zoo, 1870. The species became extinct in 1878 pic.twitter.com/YLJPlHcb1q
• New profile of the derangedly fit mountain runner Kilian Jornet bit.ly/15yywaD
• what the actual fuck. “Gun lobbyist proudly shoots an elephant in the face on NBC’s NRA-sponsored TV show” deathandtaxesmag.com/206559/gun-lob…
• mind-bending minimal ray tracer, C source code small enough to fit comfortably on the back of a business card fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_bac…
• The science of global warming has changed a lot in 25 years. The basic conclusions haven’t.
  RT @ezraklein: Scientists are as certain that humans are causing global warming as they are that cigarette smoke causes lung cancer:
• Scientists are as certain that humans are causing global warming as they are that cigarette smoke causes lung cancer: wapo.st/1dMAFzm
• @darth @allthatmel "Cats Sitting in Chairs Like Humans" (The one on the right is kinda owning this situation.) laughingsquid.com/cats-sitting-i…

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• Kareem Strong Woman Myth – Kareem Stop Calling Women Strong – Esquire
• Twitter / HistoryInPix: Golden Gate Bridge during …
  Golden Gate Bridge during construction. 1937. (via @HistoryInPix)

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• Thursday, October 3rd | Grace Hopper 2013
• dotScale 2013 – Brad Fitzpatrick – Software I’m excited about – YouTube
  (Source: https://twitter.com/enneff/status/382618728333979649)
• http://dld.bz/cQ5nx
  (Source: https://twitter.com/catehstn/status/382595434445029376)
• Seven Principles for Big Data and Resilience Projects | iRevolution
  Seven Principles for Big Data and Resilience Projects (via @edd)
• Twitter / baznet: 539: the total number of photos …
  RT @baznet: 539: the total number of photos of boobs in National Geographic.

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• Twitter / DawnHFoster: So this all-white, all-male …
  RT @HelenJMacdonald: Ugh. Speakers should pull out. MT @DawnHFoster: So this all-male science event () has this FAQ:
• Bill Bailey | Richard Dawkins | Richard Fortey | Richard Wiseman | Quentin Cooper | ExCel London Sat 16th November
  RT @HelenJMacdonald: Ugh. Speakers should pull out. MT @DawnHFoster: So this all-male science event () has this FAQ:
• BREAKING: If You Are a Woman, Your Work is Irrelevant. — medium.com — Readability
• startupspring | NSW
• The American robbers, and criminals Bonnie and Clyde in front of a Ford V-8 automobile, early 1930s. pic.twitter.com/z0IA2SVbRM
• $270 million worth of cocaine found on Air France flight — edition.cnn.com — Readability
• Lightning, tornado and rainbow all in one picture, Colorado, USA. pic.twitter.com/v0vBnsxZXY
• Rosanne Cash and the Many Meanings of Love | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
• today I learned that in 1961 the US very nearly accidentally detonated an enormous atomic bomb over North Carolina theguardian.com/world/2013/sep…
• andrew13/Laravel-4-Bootstrap-Starter-Site
  Laravel 4 Bootstrap Starter Site is a sample application for beginning development with Larvel 4.
  It began as a fork of laravel4-starter-kit taking the starter kit changing the included modules and adding a few as well.
• Plant Link | Making you a smarter gardener.
• Silicon Valley: What do people in Silicon Valley plan to do once they hit 35 and are officially over the hill? – Quora
• exercism.io
  Crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems.
• on snowden
• Twitter / UpworthySpoiler: RT @Upworthy: The great @MattBors …
  RT @MattBors: Ha!
• 303 See Other
  RT @pkedrosky: More Americans added to population of Mexico over the past few years than vice-versa – /v @joehas

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• The Ph.D.-Industry Gap – The Ph.D. Placement Project – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  (Source: https://twitter.com/counternotions/status/381751338688073728)
• The GOP’s “Hunger Games” vision of America — www.salon.com — Readability
• Francine Prose on the ordinary heroism of “Enough Said” j.mp/1b2qfy0
• SAT questions for adults: funniest thing I’ve read all week (via the @NewYorker): pic.twitter.com/4wEVtFZFyp
• "The teachers at my high school do this to the graffiti in the bathroom" pic.twitter.com/AKXF6SzrAH
• http://kottke.org/13/09/go-pro-on-a-soaring-eagle
• Great presentation by @derekcollison on distributed systems: slideshare.net/derekcollison/…
• Twitter / IFLScience: http://t.co/RLfdWI2mV6
  RT @IFLScience:
• Twitter / sturdyAlex: Is this the funniest thing …
  RT @sturdyAlex: Is this the funniest thing a librarian has ever done, ever? I think so.
• A Primer on Sexism (in Tech) j.mp/16h1AnB (Republished for preservation)
• laravel/laravel
• Forbes Calls Goldman CEO Holier Than Mother Teresa — readersupportednews.org — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/Margoandhow/status/381471586421063680)
• Google BigQuery Reddit
• Store — Data Sensing Lab
  @capable_monkey @DataSensingLab @felipehoffa The ones at TwilioCon are now needed elsewhere… but see
• NSA subversion of internet security: bad for the US, good for criminals — www.theguardian.com — Readability
• Hug a red panda today. #redpandaday pic.twitter.com/pq2QTZYxM3
• I wrote about 7 command-line tools for data science | jeroenjanssens.com/2013/09/19/sev…
• "I was like, ‘What do you mean it worked?’" Scientists shoot block of ice with hyper-fast gun, produce…amino acids. lat.ms/18sE0Eh

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• America’s “reality” is white and male – Salon.com

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• Jony Ive: The man behind Apple’s magic curtain
• Twitter / HistoryInPix: A man photographing the streets …
  A man photographing the streets of New York City from above, c. 1925 (via @HistoryInPix)

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• Increasing Diversity at Your Conference | ashe dryden
• A Long Way from the End of Men — prospect.org — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/cpreston/status/380476171239956482)
• Signal – Edit emails in your inbox
  (Source: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/380472794233847808)
• TIME Feature: CSO Aubrey de Grey on Google’s Newly Launched Anti-Aging Initiative — www.sens.org — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/aubreydegrey/status/380432763238629377)
• Simplenote reborn: the first great notes app is back — www.theverge.com — Readability
  (Source: https://twitter.com/borismus/status/380428709938753536)
• Inside Dropbox’s Quest to Bury the Hard Drive | Wired Business | Wired.com
  RT @megangarber: "A previous version incorrectly quoted Drew Houston saying ‘anyone with nipples’ instead of ‘anyone with a pulse’"

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