pinboard February 11, 2011

• Amazon.com: WOWee One Power Bass Portable Speaker (Black): Electronics
• Lie back and think of England
  Kate and William condoms. "LIke a Royal Wedding, intercourse with a loved-one is an unforgettable experience."
• Untitled (http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2011/02/lawpivot-crowdsourced-confiden.php)
  ReadWriteStart: LawPivot: Crowdsourced, Confidential Legal Advice for Startups
• Natural toxin implicated as triggering Parkinson’s disease
  Natural toxin implicated as triggering Parkinson’s disease
• A year later: Has Oracle ruined or saved Sun?
  Interesting perspective: A year later: Has Oracle ruined or saved Sun? via @slashdot
• Arched fossil explains Lucy’s posture – TIME
  Found: An ancient bone that let humans walk upright |
• James Burke’s Connections: A BBC History of Innovation | Brain Pickings
  Don’t miss James Burke’s iconic "Connections," a BBC history of innovation, now free to watch online
• 64-Year-Old Kayaker Completes Trans-Atlantic Voyage | Playbook
  [Totally Ripped] 64-Year-Old Kayaker Completes Transatlantic Voyage.
• Online personal ads: Beware the "feisty" woman. – By Tom Shone – Slate Magazine
  Online personal ads: Beware the "feisty" woman.: Most of what I wrote about myself in the Nerve personals was …
• SourceKit – Text Editor Inside Chrome – Chrome Web Store
  SourceKit: Text Editor Inside Chrome that saves files directly to Dropbox — #useful
• SXSW 2011 on BitTorrent: 4.49 GB of Free Music | TorrentFreak
  SXSW 2011 on BitTorrent: 4.49 GB of Free Music
• Data Day Austin video: What Big Data Folks Need to Know About DevOps | Opscode.com
  Posted video & slides of my @geekaustinorg #DataDayAustin talk on deploying Hadoop clusters w/Chef #opschef #devops
• Still drinking diet soda? Don’t be a fashion victim! | Grist
  Drink diet soda? You might want to think again. Read Tom Philpott’s stunning piece:
• Health | Stanford research team builds tiny broken heart to study lethal ailment | Seattle Times Newspaper
  RT @jamesoreilly: Amazing stuff–Stanford teams grows tiny heart
• The Interest Graph on Twitter is Alive: Studying Starbucks Top Followers « Brian Solis Brian Solis
• Flavorwire » The Best Quotes from Tina Fey’s New Yorker Piece on Motherhood
  "I have a suspicion — and hear me out, because this is a rough one — that the definition of ‘crazy’ in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”
• Challenges and Opportunities | Science/AAAS
  Working link to that Science special issue on data challenges/opportunities. Good stuff.
• DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things – The Rumpus.net
• myToys.de : Lego Codes [image] | scaryideas.com
  Clever, QR Codes built with legos, as a promotion for German toy store video via @laurelatoreilly
• YouTube
  – The Lego Codes
  Clever, QR Codes built with legos, as a promotion for German toy store video via @laurelatoreilly
• In Focus – The Atlantic
  New photo blog at The Atlantic, In Focus
• Untitled (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/trends/trends_web.pdf)
  What Makes a Lasting Twitter Message? Who tweets isn’t as important as what they tweet, says HP (pdf) via @mikehatora
• See How Tough Your Immune System is With "Blood Wars" – Slashdot
  Very cool: See how tough your immune system is with "blood wars" I want to try this!
• Data Source Handbook
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Data Source Handbook – $7.49 (Save 50%) Code DDDHB
• Surprising view of brain formation: Discovery of a new mechanism may have implications for a host of diseases
  Surprising view of brain formation: Discovery of a new mechanism may have implications for a host of diseases
• Report from Massachusetts Health IT forum – O’Reilly Radar
  Report from Massachusetts Health IT forum #HealthIT is one of the areas @oreillymedia sees as critical for our future
• Communication Nation: The connected company
  This post is brilliant and important: To survive, companies must become social and city-like via @mikeloukides

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