Bookmarks for April 28th through April 29th

Links for April 28th through April 29th:

• DCJ: FOOTBALL, AMERICA, JESUS – !!!
• (500) http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/04/29/apple-aims-googles-heart-siri-purchase.htm – Wow. Good move! Apple buys Siri. The battle for control of the web heats up! Competition is great. @web2summit
• Emergent Universe: Online Interactive Science Museum about Emergence | emergentuniverse.org – Cool, evocative online science site: Still under construction, but the beginnings of an online science museum.
• index – Trying out by @dvydra – bulk-load stories from today's Guardian/NYTimes to your instapaper account
• ‘You can’t talk about immigration’ – This is BRILLIANT: RT @gracedent: lovely piece on how you can't talk about immigration, apparently.
• Effective ML | ocaml.janestreet.com – "Make illegal states unrepresentable"
• Panel finds insufficient evidence for Alzheimer’s disease preventive measures – Panel finds insufficient evidence for Alzheimer's disease preventive measures
• Beanstalk, a Simple and Fast Queueing Backend – Stalker: job queueing DSL for beanstalkd /via @JEG2
• Mind Hacks: Breathing a sigh of relief to reboot respiration – Breathing a sigh of relief to reboot respiration: A delightful study on the function of sighing has just been publ…
• Heroku | Experimental Node.js Support – experimental node.js support on @heroku
• Twitter / Marla Erwin: RT @basilwhite: Arizona: I … – RT @basilwhite: Arizona: It's hate, but it's a dry hate. /via @Amyloo
• Vending Spree – Talkin’ Snack – "I am going to consume and review every item in my office vending machine."
• Vending Spree – Talkin’ Snack – "I am going to consume and review every item in my office vending machine."
• My Anti-Creativity Checklist – "Anti-Creativity Checklist: 14 Things to Remeber to Do" Youngme Moon
• If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them | JoeTrippi.com – Hugo Chavez now on Twitter — more on the blog…
• TouchScroll Demo – Touchscroll – iPhone-like scrolling reimplemented in JavaScript for webkit touch devices:
• Books of The Times – Lonely Texas Girl – Laura Bush’s ‘Spoken From the Heart’ – NYTimes.com – Kakutani's very thoughtful review of Laura Bush's new book: –
• Cellphone Payments Offer Alternative to Cash – NYTimes.com – Mobile payments are heating up. This @nytimes article barely scratches the surface #w2e @web2events
• The Health Care Blog: Clinical Groupware: Platforms, Not Software – Clinical Groupware: Platforms, Not Software applies my Internet operating system metaphor to healthcare. via @ahier
• (500) http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2010/04/22/understanding-the-open-graph-protocol/ – Worthwhile perspective from @factoryjoe on problems with Facebook's Open Graph protocol.
• On Google’s Brand – John Battelle’s Searchblog – Good post by @johnbattelle on Google's brand challenge:
• The March Toward Global Gov 2.0: Gov 2.0 Expo 2010 – Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, May 25 – 27, 2010, Washington, DC – RT @March toward a global Gov 2.0 = how we consider the global citizen (@katelundy @timberners_lee @timoreilly) #g2e
• In Defense of Deficits – In Defence of Deficits by Galbraith: Not sure he's right, but an important POV in the face of hysteria. via Dave Farber
• O’Reilly DRM-Free Ebooks – RT @OReillyMedia Final Days! Ebook Special: Buy 1, Get 1 Free – Buy 2, Get 2 Free – Buy 3, Get 3…
• Twitter / Roger Ebert: @susanorlean My best writi … – @susanorlean My best writing tip: The Muse visits during the process of writing, not before.
• The "Greatest Nature Photographs of All Time" – NatGeo News Watch – The "Greatest Nature Photographs of All Time"
• Slashdot Story | Fair Use Generates $4.7 Trillion For US Economy – CCIA report: Fair use generates $4.7 trillion in revenue Nice to see an IP study that isn't banging the copyright drum
• Redis tutorial, April 2010 – by Simon Willison –
• Ian’s Shoelace Site – "Better Bow" Shoelace Knot – @gruber Knots are hard to explain. But I've used this one for YEARS and never had an untie: In a nut: wrap twice.
• Forensic science: The “CSI effect” | The Economist – The “CSI effect” – a little knowledge is a dangerous thing – especially when applied to DNA evidence #dna #csi
• 40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins – Smashing Magazine – New article on SmashingMag: 40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins –
• BitTorrent Magnet Links Explained – The major advantages of magnet links over .torrent files – Softpedia – BitTorrent Magnet Links Explained – something important I'd missed: removing the Napster problem of central indexes
• Merely seeing disease symptoms may promote aggressive immune response – Merely seeing disease symptoms may promote aggressive immune response
• Blood protein triggers scars in the brain after injury; New target might help aid recovery for patients with traumatic injuries – Blood protein triggers scars in the brain after injury; New target might help aid recovery for patients with trauma…
• Jon Stewart: Arizona is the meth lab of democracy | Raw Story – RT @todayspolitics: Jon Stewart: Arizona is the meth lab of democracy HT @kteej
• (500) http://is – RT @dalepd: Phil Shapiro writes: If your library does not currently subscribe to MAKE magazine, a question to ask is: Why not? …
• Oil Rig Blast Complicates Push for Energy and Climate Bill – NYTimes.com – NYT on how Gulf oil spill complicates compromise efforts on #KGL climate-energy bill: #agw
• Rutgers lab studies female orgasm through brain imaging | – New Jersey Magazine | Living in New Jersey | Inside Jersey – NJ.com – Reporter Mara Altman volunteers for a study on female orgasm in the brain scanner.
• toddlipcon’s gremlins at master – GitHub – Relevant to the interests of distributed systems folks, probably:
• New Google Maps Option: "Avoid Arizona" (alright, it’s a joke) – Boing Boing – New Google Maps Option: "Avoid Arizona" (alright, it's a joke)
• Three Studies Now Refute the Presence of XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) « Laika’s MedLibLog – Excellent technical post on failure to find XMRV virus in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). via @BoraZ
• How not to write an internship cover letter – Boing Boing – Laughing out loud… or, should I cry? RT @MitchWagner: How not to write an internship cover letter
• (500) http://trst.me/ – i am wondering… do you ? site by @infochimps /via @steveodom
• DIYbio » Projects – Learning about DIY biology at #GET2010. Spooky and cool. More:
• Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate — O’Reilly School of Technology – RT @OReillySchool Deal of the Week: Linux/Unix System Admin Certificate Series all 4 courses 50% off through Friday.
• How Do Americans Access Government Data? Search Engines. – My thoughts on the new Pew Internet study on how we access govt information:
• Free Online OCR – Convert JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and PDF to Text – NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service. NewOCR.com can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer.
  Unlimited uploads, no registration, layout analysis (multi-column text recognition), 29 languages support, image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, multipage TIFF) up to 5 MB, multipage PDF documents up to 20 MB
• Injection of Melanin Nanoparticles Could Make Human Body Radiation-Resistant | Popular Science – Injection of Melanin Nanoparticles Could Make Human Body Radiation-Resistant
• The 21st-century textbook – O’Reilly Radar – Excellent: The 21st-century textbook
• Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010) « fox @ fury –