Bookmarks for March 15th from 02:31 to 05:10

Links for March 15th from 02:31 to 05:10:

• Twitter / charles star: 3.141592653589793238462643 … – 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651 328230664709384460955058223
• Twitter / Roger Ebert: – "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." – Mark Twain
• GettingStarted – Cassandra Wiki –
• The Apache Cassandra Project – The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.

  Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed by Avinash Lakshman (one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo) and Prashant Malik. In a lot of ways you can think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0.

• Ushahidi – Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley – How to Track a Crisis – NYTimes.com – Nice props to @ushahidi in NYT: Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis
• Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8 – @marshallk is still writes the best tech analysis out there – look at the sidebar here: #synapticweb
• Untitled (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385533411?tag=braipick-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0385533411&adid=0YW4W035WS47WWKSGA79&) – Solar – Ian McEwan's excellent new novel, smart fiction about a very real crisis #climatechange
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly from Buzz – My Buzz discussion on the two education links I just posted:
• Editorial – National School Standards, at Last – NYTimes.com – Nice to see national education standards coming from the states Complements Obama initiative: