pinboard August 23, 2011

• How to Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal – YouTube
• Sydney Water – Desalination
• Analytics-as-a-Service: Understanding how Amazon.com is changing the rules
• Google Plus: Too Much Unnecessary Drama | ZDNet
  New post – IMO Google is seriously too big to screw around like this: Google Plus: Too Much Unnecessary Drama
• Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon ElastiCache – Distributed In-Memory Caching
  Amazon ElastiCache – Distributed In-Memory Caching – #aws #memcached
• How to make your own iPad or iPhone 4 micro SIM | News | TechRadar UK
• New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms – Smashing Magazine
• Debra Weiner: How to Recognize Your Future Ex-Husband
• Cheaper Than Paper: A Firsthand Examination of the Google+ Profile Reporting Process
• Why I’m not on Google Plus – Charlie’s Diary
• Sim to micro sim
• Stellar / Stellar Interesting Links’s faves
• m.e.driscoll’s blog • The Secret Guild of Silicon Valley
  Nice post from @medriscoll, via @mikeloukides: The guild that keeps Silicon Valley running:
• Les Hill — Write Your Own Gemspec
  This post from @leshill is exactly the how-to-build-a-gem document I was looking for a few days ago.
• The Iceman’s Last Meal: Goat – Science News
  It took 20 years, but scientists found the stomach of Otzi the Iceman. And he died with a tummy full of goat. My story
• Convex Optimization – Boyd and Vandenberghe
  Must learn: Convex optimization – solves classification, regression & more, from Stephen Boyd great keynote at #KDD2011
• Say Something Nice
  – YouTube
  Say something nice: (@reddit)
• American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth | Solutions
  To our great shame, among the 20 major advanced countries America now has
  the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children;
  the greatest inequality of incomes;
  the lowest government spending as a percentage of GDP on social programs for the disadvantaged;
  the lowest number of paid holiday, annual, and maternity leaves;
  the lowest score on the United Nations’ index of “material well-being of children”;
  the worst score on the United Nations’ gender inequality index;
  the lowest social mobility;
  the highest public and private expenditure on health care as a portion of GDP,
  yet accompanied by the highest

  infant mortality rate;
  prevalence of mental health problems;
  obesity rate;
  portion of people going without health care due to cost;
  low-birth-weight children per capita (except for Japan);
  consumption of antidepressants per capita;

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