pinboard January 21, 2011

• Scott Base – Ross Island, Antarctica
• YouTube – Urban Camouflage #1
• Pieterhugo.com – Nollywood
  Photographer Pieter Hugo’s stunning series of Nollywood actors and scenarios (via @laurenbeukes)
• Bill Summary & Status – 112th Congress (2011 – 2012) – H.R.96 – THOMAS (Library of Congress)
  HR 96, the "Internet Freedom Act," would prohibit the #FCC from regulating the Internet: (HT @declanm) #netneutrality
• The Saddest Pink Infographic About Women In Tech You’ll Ever See
  ok y’all – wtf??? rt @kcornwall You’re gonna hate this one
• Cairns Blog: Open Grantmaking in Practice, Not Just In Principle
  Very cool: work product produced by $500M in Labor dept grants released under @creativecommons license via @bethnoveck
• Untitled (http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html)
  Lessons learned: how Netflix deploys to AWS: via @sferik
• Saracen International Reportedly Has Blackwater Founder’s Support – NYTimes.com
• Official Google Blog: An update from the Chairman
  Ouch. RT @MParekh Picture says it all in this post by @ericschmidt on Google’s management transitions:
• How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People
  RT @Jason: killer article on How @Facebook/@finkd Ships Code « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People
• What should Larry Page focus on now that he is CEO of Google? – Quora
  RT @junniearreza: Quora: What should Larry Page focus on now that he is CEO of Google? 9 Answers: < @Scobleizer’s a …
• John Resig – Learning from Twitter
• Pterosaur fossil with egg reveals female form | COSMOS magazine
• RobotRollCall comments on What would happen if the event horizons of two black holes touched?
  MT @alanzilberman: a physicist describes what it’s like inside an event horizon
• 100,000 starlings fill the skies in Poole on Vimeo
  100,000 starlings fill the skies – absolutely magnificent to watch
• representations » Configure MySQL for UTF8
• Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff Nobody Teaches You: MicroISV on a Shoestring
• Clustering – Introduction
  A Tutorial on Clustering Algorithms
• FT.com / Life & Arts – Lunch with the FT: Nicolas Berggruen
  RT @jamesoreilly: "Homeless billionaire" Nicolas Berggruen is interested in saving California:
• Natural Language Toolkit
• Log In – The New York Times
  A very bad sign. RT @jstogdill: American mercenaries metastasize?
• We Didn’t Stop The Fire. – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  WE DIDN’T STOP THE FIRE. @zeldman’s passionate appeal not to sell out to people with corporate "black thumb"
• YouTube – Carlin talks about cats
• OR Books — WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency by Micah L. Sifry
  New book from @mlsif looks good: WIKILEAKS AND THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY
• YouTube – George Carlin Talks About "Stuff"
• YouTube – One Year in 90 seconds
• A New Culture of Learning by Doug Thomas & John Seely Brown
  A New Culture of Learning is @jseelybrown’s new book Interview
• Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: A New Culture of Learning: An Interview with John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas (Part One)
  A New Culture of Learning is @jseelybrown’s new book Interview
• BBC News – Alien Hand Syndrome sees woman attacked by her own hand
  An account of alien hand syndrome and video of the hand attacking the patient.
• Starbucks Gets Mobile Payment System – Slashdot
  I’ve been expecting mobile payment players to come out of the woodwork. Here’s Starbucks:

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