pinboard May 20, 2010

• Twitter / Don Carli: This is Spinal Tap: The MI …
  This is Spinal Tap: The MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group www.bit.ly/aXzt2C
• 5 famed paintings stolen from Paris museum; police find few clues
  Cat burglars steal $100 million in art from Paris museum
• Scientists Make Cell From Synthetic DNA : NPR
  It’s Alive! Scientists Make Cell From Synthetic DNA from @nprscience
• Some Advice for Life Sciences PhDs Seeking Alternate Careers : Bio Job Blog – StumbleUpon
  Some Advice for Life Sciences PhDs Seeking Alternate Careers
• Paul’s Views on Civil Rights Cause a Stir – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com
• Twitter / Andy Ihnatko: Watching the Google keynot …
  Watching the Google keynote. G is so worked up on spanking Apple with this talk that they’ve stopped listening for the safeword.
• OpenPlatform Content API Explorer
  The new API explorer for the Guardian Content API – try it in your browser, no API key needed
• Buzz by Tim O’Reilly
  More thoughts on Apple, iphone, 1984, and @vigundotra’s keynote at #googleio
• YouTube
  - Apple 1984 iPhone Mash-Up
  Watch this mashup of Apple’s 1984 ad with a fast forward to the present for context on the Android vision
• Fermilab Finds New Mechanism for Matter’s Dominance over Antimatter: Scientific American
  Fermilab Finds New Mechanism for Matter’s Dominance over Antimatter
• YouTube
  - GoogleDevelopers’s Channel
  Backstage at #googleio. Don’t miss @VicGundotra’s opening at 8:30 PT. You can watch the live stream here @googleio
• Make-offs: DIY indie innovations – O’Reilly Radar
  "make-offs" are low-budget knock-offs of scientific and industrial technology built with off-the-shelf components
• Bat fellatio causes a scandal in academia – science-in-society – 17 May 2010 – New Scientist
• Unawave
  Unawave is an easy to use work management application developed on the breakthrough Google Wave collaboration framework
• Paging David Pogue – Rob Cottingham – Open Salon
  .@pogue’s Missing Manuals have become a cultural icon. Check out this cartoon: Paging David Pogue.
• Welcome | ScraperWiki
  ScraperWiki code libraries make scraping, parsing and geocoding simple
• Because Every Country Is The Best At Something
• BBC – Earth News – Turtle ‘super tongue’ lets reptile survive underwater
  Musk turtles use an extraordinary tongue to breath underwater and stay submerged for many months, scientists..
• The Guardian Open Platform | Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
  The Guardian’s Open Platform is now open for business #openplatform
• Travellers to be searched for porn
  SMH: Travelers to be searched for pr0n: (dammit, that ruins my trip to the fleshpots of LA)
• Cyclist Floyd Landis Admits Doping, Alleges Use by Armstrong and Others – WSJ.com
  U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis admits and details drug use to cycling officials, says Armstrong, others doped too
• Introducing WebM « Lachy’s Log
  Interesting technical info on WebM by @Lachy:
• timoreilly | TweetPhoto
  fom the makerfaire.com preview party at #googleio
• Too Many People | TweetPhoto
  fom the makerfaire.com preview party at #googleio
• Sleeping newborns are data sponges – life – 19 May 2010 – New Scientist
  Sleeping newborns are data sponges:
• Untitled (http://s3.springsource.com/MRKT/spring-metrics/Spring_Insight-Milestone_3-Screencast.mp4)
  RT @jontravis: You can watch screencast of new Spring Insight+Speed Tracer combo here: #io2010 #springsource #vmware
• John Resig – HTML5 Shiv
  How to force IE to recognize HTML5 elements -
• The Vimeo HD Channel on Vimeo
  Superb short film, winner of the "Wait For Me" video competition, hand-picked by Moby
• Google Prediction API – Google Code
  The Prediction API enables access to Google’s machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes. Upload your data to Google Storage for Developers, then use the Prediction API to make real-time decisions in your applications. The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant information to your users. Run your predictions on Google’s infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity.
• Not-ify
  documenting spotify’s ever-changing answer to the question "when are you launching in the u.s.?"

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