pinboard August 24, 2010

• Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!
  "Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn’t include with OS X."
• PlayNicely – Beautiful collaboration for software developers
  "PlayNice.ly helps you manage code, set milestones and track bugs without losing the sense of excitement that got you programming to begin with.

  We integrate with Git and Subversion so you can jump right in."

• Datasift – Tuning Your Tweets
• Feedera – Read Reviews & Compare Twitter Apps – oneforty
• Threads without Locks (1)
• Combining events and threads for scalable network services implementation and evaluation of monadic, application-level concurrency primitives
• File: README [Rainbows! - Unicorn for sleepy apps and slow clients]
  Rainbows! is an HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long request/response times and/or slow clients.
• Op-Ed Columnist – Taking bin Laden’s Side – NYTimes.com
• Study Links Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to a Class of Virus – NYTimes.com
• Extinction Countdown: Reefs at risk: Roundup at the not-so-OK coral corral
  Reefs at risk: Roundup at the not-so-OK coral corral
• io9. We come from the future.
  Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked (via @jhagel)
• The Mother Lode: Welcome to the iMac Touch – Patently Apple
  Transition between OS X and iOS. On the fly. Automatically. On desktops and laptops. The patents:
• Readme Driven Development
  README-driven design I’ve had excellent success doing this- @mojombo presents the case perfectly, all devs should read.
• The New York Times > Log In
  Nick Kristof suggests (accurately, I think) that Bin Laden would oppose the "Ground Zero mosque."
• Twitter / News 8 Austin: Update: now Mabry’s high i …
  Update: now Mabry’s high is 106, setting a new record for this date. The old one was 105 from 2009 #News8wx #TXwx
• BBC News – The secret life of Dr Marie Stopes
  Excellent piece on the unusual life of Dr Marie Stopes. From coal to birth control.
• mental_floss Blog » Hummingbirds in Slow Motion (HD Video)
• YouTube
  - NATURE | Behind the Scenes of "Hummingbirds" | PBS
  Amazing hummingbird slo-mo’s (via @boingboing)
• Observations: New research linking chronic fatigue syndrome to retrovirus is released after being held by journal
  New research linking chronic fatigue syndrome to retrovirus is released after being held by journal
• Evernote: A Surprising Center for Collaboration
  Evernote: A Surprising Center for Collaboration
• Observations: Plucked hairs can keep track of circadian rhythms
  Plucked hairs can keep track of circadian rhythms
• Observations: All-out geoengineering still would not stop sea level rise
  All-out geoengineering still would not stop sea level rise
• The New York Times > Log In
  Books on Science: Peeling Away Theories on Gender and the Brain
• POPVOX
  Glad to see that @marcidale has started going public about popvox. What they are working on is important.
• Algorithms in a Nutshell
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Algorithms in a Nutshell – Only $9.99. Use code DDAN9
• The New York Times > Log In
  Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say The world moves on, as Stephen King once said.

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