pinboard May 14, 2011

• Photopic Sky Survey
• Neanderthals Made Last Stand at Subarctic Outpost?
  Neanderthals Made a Last Stand at Subarctic Outpost?
• 04-13-2011 – Senate Investigations Subcommittee
  Releases
  Levin-Coburn Report On the Financial
  Crisis
  RT @b6n: @timoreilly Press release and almost 6000 pages of footnotes for Levin committee report are here
• Untitled (http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2011/PSI_WallStreetCrisis_041311.pdf)
  RT @b6n: @timoreilly Incredible article. Levin committee report is here
• Matt Taibbi’s Latest Attempt to Wrangle the Vampire Squid – Business – The Atlantic Wire
  Must-read: Matt Taibbi’s Latest Attempt to Wrangle the Vampire Squid. I agree. Why aren’t these guys going to jail?
• Log In – The New York Times
  Sitting too much shortens your life redux. Not a fancy infographic, but a more reputable source
• Make: Online | Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters and is This the End of “Made for iPod” (TM)?
  Why Google getting behind Arduino is so important I agree that this could be a breakthrough moment for innovation
• Official Google Blog: Keynote and session videos from Google I/O now live
• The Heart of New York: 1907 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive
  NYC, 1907 – (via @stevesilberman)
• Cell Phones Are Killing The Bees: Study | Fast Company
  New study furthers the evidence that cell phones are killing bees And some bee love
• Bees, Bees, Bees | Brain Pickings
  New study furthers the evidence that cell phones are killing bees And some bee love
• One-Third of World’s Food Wasted, Report Says – NYTimes.com
  The world may be on the brink of another food crisis, but it isn’t from a lack of food. 1/3 of world’s food is wasted
• Cats in Tanks
  Cats in Tanks
• Programming the Mobile Web
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT@OReillyMedia #Ebook deal of the day: ‘Programming the Mobile Web’ just $17.99. Save 50% w/code DDPMB
• Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything? – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review
  Eudaimonia is a term fit only for us classicists, but @umairh’s concept of the economics of the good life is spot on
• Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief – storify.com
  Fabulous @storify thread showing how @seanpower got back his stolen laptop using @preyproject and twitter
• Guantánamo After Bin Laden by David Cole | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books
  “Surely it should take more to lock up a human being for life than it does to search an automobile.” #Guantanamo
• Log In – The New York Times
  McKinsey is bullish on the power of big data to transform the economy; need people with the right skills #strataconf
• Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/faberNovel/amazoncom-the-hidden-empire)
  Fascinating slideshare presentation: Amazon.com, The Hidden Empire
• U.S. Navy creates MMO to fight Somali Pirates « GamePron
  U.S. Navy creates MMO to crowdsource strategy for fighting Somali Pirates via @slashdot
• MasterCard and Brighter Planet Announce New Offering to Help
  Companies Manage Their Environmental Footprint | MasterCard Social Media Newsroom
  Using Mastercard data to help companies track their carbon footprint via @slashdot
• Canvas Pocket Reference
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Canvas Pocket Reference – Only $5.49 (Save 50%) w/code DDCNV #HTML5
• dangerouslymad.com
  RT @simonmonk2: @timoreilly Great collection of weekend make projects here:
• Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/introduction-to-elastic-mapreduce)
  An introduction to #aws Elastic MapReduce – slides from the recent #Hadoop User Group meeting:
• Shut My Mouth – The Texas Observer
  no need to feel lonely going to the ob-gyn, ladies.the texas legislature is coming with you:

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