pinboard April 29, 2011

• Philly Mural Guide
  App by @atogle + @mertonium helps find street art in Philly; for Philly Tech week using the city’s open data catalog
• What Does It Mean to Be Human? | Brain Pickings
  RT @brainpicker: What does it mean to be human? 3 disciplines attempt to answer
• Donald Berwick: The Right Way to Reform Medicare – WSJ.com
  Donald Berwick has his head on straight: The right way to reform Medicare How do other fields improve results?
• Strobe Presents at Under the Radar
  Nice to see that @strobe (@OATV investment) won Best of Show at Under the Radar Cross-platform HTML5 apps FTW!
• Strap On 4 Homemade Rockets and Say Your Prayers | Autopia | Wired.com
  RT @jamesoreilly: This is a childhood fantasy of mine and @timoreilly & @seanjoreilly
• USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Press Release: The Book Is Not Dead > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  80% of Californians Have Read a Book for Fun in the Last Month; 18% own an #ebook reader Turns out CA is a "Read state"
• Bureaucracy
• Startup Weekend Education – San Fran
  Cool. A startup weekend focused on education:
• Wow-Keys Keyboard Turns iPhone Into Computer Touchpad [PICS]
• How SpaceX Plans To Take Over Where Shuttle Left Off [VIDEO]
  Thank god for entrepreneurs: How SpaceX Plans To Take Over Where Shuttle Left Off [VIDEO]
• Lessig: Copyright isn’t just hurting creativity: it’s killing science (video) | Motherboard
  Over-reaching copyright law isn’t just hurting creativity, it’s holding back science, says @lessig I agree.
• Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Leaving the U.S. – BusinessWeek
  Why immigrant entrepreneurs are going back to India and China
• Web 2.0 Expo New York Call for Participation: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2011 – Co-produced by O’Reilly Media & UBM TechWeb, October 10 – 13, 2011, New York, NY
  RT @brady: The CFP for the Web 2.0 Expo NYC (10/10-13) closes today. Get yer talks in! #w2e
• U.S. CIO Kundra Says Government Is Shutting 137 Data Centers – Bloomberg
  Nice to see Federal gov cutting IT costs under the watchful eye of Vivek Kundra
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Once Again Raises Alarm Bells on Global Warming | Jake Schmidt’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC
  RT @TomRaftery: RT @jschmidtnrdc: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Once Again Raises Alarm Bells on Global Warming
• B&N Responds To Microsoft’s Android Suit – Slashdot
  Barnes & Noble’s feisty response to Microsoft’s #Android lawsuit Nice to see them show such spunk.
• OpenDataPhilly.org Launches in Philadelphia | Code for America
  RT @codeforamerica OpenDataPhilly.org Launches in Philadelphia by @atogle #opengov #data

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