pinboard April 30, 2010

• Slashdot Story | Microsoft Tips the Scale In Favor of HTML 5
  Microsoft also jumps on the HTML 5/H.264 video bandwagon (i.e. no Flash)
• YouTube
  – Live interactive mega billboard against agression
  RT @monkchips whoa! RT @sintaxi practical use of augmented reality in netherlands to reduce street violence
• Joys of the Window Seat – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
  Worth a look. Reader photos from the window seat. Gorgeous images.
• Southpaws: The evolution of handedness – life – 30 April 2010 – New Scientist
  Southpaws: The evolution of handedness. Why do animals favour one claw, paw, antenna or eye over the other?
• CultureLab: The artistic choices lurking within Hubble images
  The artistic choices lurking within Hubble images, OR: Why Hubble pics look like landscapes of the American west
• Debt, A Love Story
  Google timeline of the word "debt" 1550-present: Last peak also characterized by fraud see
• Data mining with WEKA, Part 1: Introduction and regression
  Data mining with WEKA, Part 1: Introduction and regression: an intro to data mining and to WEKA, free a… #datamining
• Celebrate Explicit Legal Pants Day (except in Mississippi schools) – Boing Boing
  Celebrate Explicit Legal Pants Day (except in Mississippi schools)
• The Tea Party Agenda –

  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  Tea Party is revolt against what America’s becoming: multi-racial/faith,gay-inclusive,women-friendly,majority-minority.
• Twitpic – Share photos on Twitter
  Enough said:
• Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline
• The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model ✩
  Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
  like a breath of fresh air… css3 box model (via @maxkiesler @dalmaer @bradneuberg)
• What can you learn from a whole genome sequence? : Genetic Future
  What can you learn from a whole genome sequence? – "glimpse into future of personalised medicine" (via @genomicslawyer)
• Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data
  Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data – good move for scientific info #bibliography #mendeley
• Huge NASA Science Balloon Crashes in Australian Outback – Yahoo! News
  when giant @nasa balloons attack & wipe out an SUV, expensive science experiment, terrorize Australians…
• Starting your business, in less than a week, with Rails on Google App Engine
• Using the Google Maps APIs from App Engine – Nick’s Blog
• Twitter / Pinboard: RT @paulkruczynski: Wrote …
  RT @paulkruczynski: Wrote my own "Post to Notes" bookmarklet for @PinboardIN. Itch = scratched. Interested? @ me.
• Paint It Black: Giant Oil Spill Threatens Gulf Coast | TPM Photo Galleries
  Amazing, awful photos of the oil spill:
• The iPad isn’t a computer, it’s a distribution channel – O’Reilly Radar
  Don’t know how I missed this key @radar piece by @jstogdill The iPad isn’t a computer, it’s a distribution channel
• New York State Honors Andrew Hoppin As NYS Public Sector CIO of the Year
  The NY State Public Sector CIO of the Year: @ahoppin Andrew is doing terrific work. (via @pahlkadot)
• Justin.tv – Twitter Chirp Conference – Tim O’Reilly – Twitter is a Force for Good.
  RT @jdlasica: Video of @timoreilly discussing Twitter as a force for good w @kateatstate, @anildash, @patrickmeier
• Malcolm Gladwell, William P. Young, & Dan Brown Top "Most Highlighted Passages of All Time" List on Amazon Kindle – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
  "Amazon knows every detail of Kindle users’ ereading habits. (And publishers don’t.)" via @naypinya
• Elections could hold major changes for tech subcommittee – The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
  Important news re tech and Congress: Elections could hold major changes for tech subcommittee via @marcidale
• Promiscuous online culture and the vetting process – O’Reilly Radar
  This is the kind of change that we’re covering at Gov 2.0 Expo: Promiscuous online culture and the vetting process
• X Power Tools
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: X Window System Power Tools – Only $9.99 use code DDXPT
• 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
• Cancer-causing viruses exploit genetic achilles heel, finds study |
  Science |
  The Guardian
  Guardian UK: "Cancer-causing viruses exploit genetic achilles heel" –
• charltonbrooker | TweetPhoto
  RT @charltonbrooker: Front page of BBC site = like a choir singing about the finest boobs they ever saw:

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