pinboard August 22, 2010

• Twitter / Roger Ebert: Ovidio Cartagena:
  Ovidio Cartagena: "When people are too concerned with the legal aspects of what they do, what they are doing is most probably immoral."
• Forget Ads In Books, Lit-Lovers Face An Even More Hideous Prospect
• Innovation Grows Among Older Workers – Newsweek
  Contrary to stereotype, most "innovative" age group in US is 55-64. (via/ @stevesilberman & @josholalia)
• Webtype
  RT @ellenLupton More real fonts for the web: FontBureau launches new web typography service. Webtype
• techstartu.ps
  Check out /via noahkagan
• CSS reset, CSS framework, Toucan CSS reset ~ Borderleft Labs
  .toucan-css-reset: a yet another CSS Reset –
• Waiting for Superman | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  Steve Jurvetson speaks highly of the movie Waiting for Superman. Looks like a must see #education
• How to be Cooler : Openyear
  Thought-provoking piece from @openyear: How to be cooler
• Google Is Anakin, Verizon Is The Emperor, And The Dark Side Is Winning
  "Google Is Anakin, Verizon Is The Emperor, And The Dark Side Is Winning"
• The Health Care Blog: Trust Me I’m a Doctor vs. Physician Quality Report Cards
  Really good article about #healthcare, self-knowledge, and measurement, via @ahier:
• Twitter / James A. Reeves:
  "The people of New Orleans weren’t going to play along…" How the city saved its soul after Katrina: www.is.gd/euxmp via @HumidCity
• Wondermark » Archive » #650; The Typographical Terror
  RT @JoBrodie: Haha RT @understood: One for the typography geeks:
• Biotechnology: Crossing the barrier : Nature News
• Slashdot Story | Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure
  Why unions have such a bad name: LA teachers boycott release of classroom performance scores
• Twitter / Don Carli: Massive oil plume discover …
  Massive oil plume discovered in the Gulf by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) www.bit.ly/9A9xYb
• Daily Show: Lewis Black Expresses His ‘Profound Disappointment’ With “Eat, Pray, Love” « SpeakEasy
• Ten things I know about the mosque – Roger Ebert’s Journal
  Ten things I know about the mosque – Roger Ebert’s Journal
• A Chip That Digests Data and Calculates the Odds
  A Chip That Digests Data and Calculates the Odds: The company is redesigning processing circuits from … #datamining
• Bin Laden’s special complaint with the World Trade Center. – By Laurie Kerr – Slate Magazine
  The World Trade Center, "swathed in a shimmering skin…"
• SimpleGeo Blog
  If you love big data and mapping, you might like what @SimpleGeo + @Stamen did together. via @mg
• Space IT, the final frontier – O’Reilly Radar
  Climate@Home – NASA takes the SETI model for distributed processing & applies it to climate science (via @digiphile)
• Junk DNA Can Revive and Cause Disease, Study Finds – NYTimes.com
• Rare Sharing of Data Led to Results on Alzheimer’s – NYTimes.com
• YouTube
  – Monty Python: Working Class Playwright
  Do watch this: coal mining versus writing (a companion to this week’s column):
• drewcrawford’s Phone-Pipe at master – GitHub
  "Phone Pipe lets you send push notifications to your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad from the command line. You’ll need to have the Notifo app installed on your device as well as an account on their website."
• ben’s blog
  by @bhorowitz is a fabulous resource for entrepreneurs and executives. Love it. Thanks @gnat.
• Digital copycats: Personal digitization of books catching on across Japan – The Mainichi Daily News
  Wow – this could change the dynamics of #ebooks: in Japan, people are digitizing their own via @naypinya
• Beyond City Limits – By Parag Khanna | Foreign Policy
  The age of nations is over. Good article from Foreign Policy about why it’s the century of cities via @codeforamerica
• Inkling – Interactive textbooks for iPad.
• Google Analytics
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Google Analytics – Only $9.99. Use code DDGAE

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