pinboard August 8, 2011

• beta620 | Experimental Projects From The New York Times
  "At The New York Times, our software engineers, journalists, product managers and designers are constantly striving to create new and innovative ways to present news and information and interact with our readers. Yet it’s often difficult to try out new inventions on the world’s largest newspaper Web site. That’s why we created beta620, a new home for experimental projects from Times developers — and a place for anyone to suggest and collaborate on new ideas and new products."
• Drew Westen’s Nonsense | The New Republic
• Time Machine – Frequently Asked Questions 30. What are Local Snapshots?
• Old companies make space for newcomers | nicolasrapp.com
  "bytes beat bricks"
• I’m Quitting Phone Calls | TechCrunch
  I’m Quitting Phone Calls by @robinwauters
• Untitled (http://www.snsanalytics.com/qsfby5)
  Bad health, habits may cause serious cognitive problems
• Spoonful of Medicine: VIDEO: Developing world diagnostic
  Cheap as Chips Infectious Disease Diagnosis: diagnostic ‘laboratories’ on credit card-sized devices
• Microfluidics-based diagnostics of infectious diseases in the developing world : Nature Medicine : Nature Publishing Group
  Cheap as Chips Infectious Disease Diagnosis: diagnostic ‘laboratories’ on credit card-sized devices
• Untitled (http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Sea_level_rise_less_from_Greenland_more_from_Antarctica_999.html)
  Sea level rise less from Greenland, more from Antarctica
• Untitled (http://www.snsanalytics.com/qsfby6)
  Vampire bats could hold key to nervous system
• When Data Disappears – NYTimes.com
• elastic threads – nvIt — Chrome and Safari extensions for nvALT
• What is OpenPCR | OpenPCR – Open source, hackable PCR machine
  Most astonishing bit of technology that has been pointing out to me (by @fcw):
• What Happened to Obama’s Passion? – NYTimes.com
• sethclifford – things – Why yes, that is a Galaxy Tab 10.1 in my pocket.
• One Thing Well | Disable Local Time Machine Backups
  If you’re using a small drive, you can disable local backups with tmutil, like so:

  sudo tmutil disablelocal
  then later you can:
  sudo tmutil enablelocal

• SublimeText/LaTeXTools – GitHub
  LaTeX plugin for Sublime Text 2
• nvALT 2.1 – Notational Velocity Fork

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