pinboard June 18, 2011

• The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran | From the Guardian | The Guardian
• Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger – New Scientist – New Scientist
• Log In – The New York Times
  "Mr. Haast was bitten at least 173 times by poisonous snakes, about 20 times almost fatally." Yet he just died – at 100:
• Log In – The New York Times
  "Mr. Haast was bitten at least 173 times by poisonous snakes, about 20 times almost fatally." Yet he just died – at 100:
• Pictures from the Terra Nova expedition – Watercolours by Dr. E. A. Wilson
• GM Patents Data Mining Method For Refining the Chevy Volt – Slashdot
  Sounds like what Ford is already doing with Google, but… GM Patents Data Mining Method For Refining the Chevy Volt
• My Finder toolbar – All this
  It took getting a new computer, but my Finder toolbar now has only the tools I use:
• Time-Lapse of The Milky Way Over the Plains of South Dakota
  Time-Lapse of The Milky Way Over the Plains of South Dakota by @dakotalapse
• Roger Friedland: Looking Through the Bushes: The Disappearance of Pubic Hair
  Exceptionally good essay on the disappearance of female pubic hair & its semiotics
• Untitled (http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7021687902)
  OMFG. Amazing Google presentation to FCC on growth of Internet vs. telecom. The tail wagging the dog.
• Pregel | DDI
  Maybe you’ve heard of MapReduce, GFS, or Bigtable. But have you heard of Pregel? Good for large-scale graph computation.
• Google I/O 2011 full-text search
• A Rare Look at Antarctica, 1911-1914 | Brain Pickings
  A rare look at Antarctica – amazing archival photos of the first Australian expedition, 1911-1914
• Spam clogging Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing
  | Reuters
  One reason why publishers will be reinvented even in the face of a self-publishing torrent on #kindle
• Republican New York Senator Comes Out For Gay Marriage With Awesome Quote – Featured on BuzzFeed
  Republican NY State Senator explains why he’s voting for gay marriage in the plainest of language: Gotta love him.
• EBooks (PDF)
  RT @MakerShed Forget Fathers Day? 50% off E-Books w/Coupon Code IFORGOT #MakeDOtD
• ReadWriteWeb – Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking and Social Media
  RT @mstrohlein: Salesforce Chief Scientist JP Rangaswami–avoid "putting the lipstick of gamification on the pig of work." …
• (500) http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/15/european-rail-data?page=all
  Good opportunity for government as a platform: making the case for opening up European rail data via@dhinchcliffe #gov20
• Why Businesses Move To the Cloud: They Hate IT – Slashdot
  Putting it baldly: ‘Why businesses move to the cloud: they hate their own IT department’

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