pinboard August 25, 2010

• Hipmunk: Better Flight Search
• Collaborative Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, available soon under GPL
  Competing Hypotheses: "Made for the CIA. Now free to the public."
• O’Reilly Media – Your Top 10 Ebook Deal of the Day Geek Beach Reads – Only $9.99 each
  RT @oreillymedia Your Top 10 #Ebook Deal of the Day-Geek Beach Reads-Only $9.99 ea. Use code DDGRD
• Twitter / Dan Cederholm: Wondering if we can stop c …
  Wondering if we can stop calling everything ‘social media’ and start calling it… the web. Again.
• YouTube – Google I/O 2010 – GWT Linkers target HTML5 WebWorkers & more
• An implausibly illustrated introduction to HTML5 Web Workers
• Alexander Howard: What Is Gov 2.0? Putting SEC Data Online, In 1993
  Nice piece from @digiphile highlighting @carlmalamud’s leadership on #gov20 as far back as 1993. Carl will be at #g2s
• Caissie’s Thing • A Supposedly Fun Thing I Would Do Again in a Second
  Don’t read this cuz I say so or cuz @caissie is awesome (though she is); read because it’s really, really good:
• Twitter / Joshua Porter: RT @hnshah:
  RT @hnshah: "Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight." Thomas Carlyle
• Add emacs key bindings to Microsoft Word – Mac OS X Hints
• The Top Three hottest new majors for a career in technology : Microsoft JobsBlog
  The top three new tech majors, according to Microsoft. I agree. These are all hot fields. via @kjones44
• Theodore e. Woodward award: The evolution of obesi… [Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2010] – PubMed result
  The evolution of obesity: insights from the mid- miocene (On our evolved response to fructose)
• Psychology: Too good to live | The Economist
  This is lovely: An experiment found that people dislike those who are too generous. Why? It shows up everyone else
• Technology Review: Q&A: Bill Gates
  Bill Gates again, on controlling emissions: "Most things that are low-hanging fruit are not scalable."
• BP engineer who wrote telling e-mails pleads the Fifth to avoid testifying at oil spill hearings | NOLA.com
  BP engineer pleads the Fifth to avoid testifying at oil spill hearings – TImes-Picayune
• Top 10 Lost Technologies | Top 10 Lists | TopTenz.net
  Ten lost technologies. Miles better than your average "top ten" list.
• The Knight Foundation Invests $250,000 in CfA » Code for America
  RT @CodeforAmerica Thank you to @knightfdn! New Tech for Engagement Initiative funds CfA & 4 others
• Movies scenes + Cee-Lo’s Fuck You
  Cee-Lo + Dirty Dancing mash-up
• Artificial Ape Man: How Technology Created Humans
  Interesting interview with a scientist who posits the baby sling as the accelerant for human evolution
• Using SQLite
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Using SQLite – Only $9.99. Use code DDSLE
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307592162?tag=braipick-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0307592162&adid=152VQY4C2E026828HJ77)
  Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk – hilarious read by the "Association for the Betterment of Sex" @cindygallop1, you’d get a kick
• Austin All-Girl Hack Night (Austin, TX) – Meetup
  Know any female developers in Austin? Think they’d be interested in a hack night?

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