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- Safari Extensions — minimalGmail by Tim M. Madsen
- Programming Entity Framework, Second Edition
– O’Reilly Media
RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Entity Framework-Only $9.99. Use code DDPEF
- I need to say a few things. – rmurphey
- Twitter / Paula Poundstone: I fear my skin is becoming …
I fear my skin is becoming relaxed fit.
- Twitter / Adam Michela: Array#rand doesn’t work an …
Array#rand doesn’t work anymore. Use Array#sample, which is native in 1.9 and backported in activesupport for 1.8. #rails3 (via @xshay)
- The New York Times > Log In
A Republic of Letters. The founding fathers’ views on patent, copyright and the importance of an intellectual commons
- Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology
First genetic link to common migraine exposed
- As the green economy grows, the ‘dirty rich’ are fading away
As the green economy grows, the ‘dirty rich’ are fading away: (via @vkhosla)
- Plato’s Pop Culture Problem, and Ours – NYTimes.com
Excellent! Plato, Homer, Video games, and censorship: via @mikeloukides. Damon Horowitz, you might like this!
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– NeuroPhone: Brain to Mobile Phone Interface
RT @jsteig this video is about the work described in that NSF Brain-Mobile grant
- Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with ‘force of 100m bombs’ – Yahoo! India News
RT @jamesoreilly RT @spacefuture Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with ‘force of 100m bombs’ #space
- Study finds first genetic link to common migraine
| Reuters
Study finds first genetic link to common migraine
- Untitled (http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1058753)
EAGER: Brain-Mobile Interfaces: Exploratory Research into the Development of Networked NeuroPhone Interesting NSF grant
- Does Your Language Shape How You Think? – NYTimes.com
- Arrington is completely wrong about women in technology | Seldo.Com Blog
- How panhandlers use free credit cards – thestar.com
This reporter gave pre-paid credit cards to panhandlers. Here’s what they did with them.
- How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science? Hint: it doesn’t.
RT @SaraPeyton RT @KateKendall How does biology explain low numbers of women in computer science? Hint: it doesn’t
- 10 ways data is changing how we live – Telegraph
10 Ways Data is Changing the World This is what @strataconf is all about.
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August 29th, 2010 — pinboard
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August 28th, 2010 — pinboard
- Creating ePub files with Pages
- 5 Cookbooks for Dweebs, Nerds, and Geeks – New Finds – Top Stories
– CHOW
"Cooking for Geeks…is probably the best science-meets-the-kitchen book to come out. Ever" Buy
- Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age
- Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age
If you’re an old tech engineer, you’re often at a disadvantage. Interesting @TechCrunch post
- Racing down the neural highway | Northeastern University News
Racing down the neural highway, a competition is seeking the best method to automate brain mapping
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– Biologically Inspired Machine Learning
Biologically Inspired Machine Learning, Stanford University video talk about neuromorphic computing
- U.S. FDA gets tougher with certain drug trials
| Reuters
Big pharma news: FDA limits type of trials that encourage placebo drugs. via @stevesilberman
- Behind the Franzenfreude – The Awl
- Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing by Margaret Atwood
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing by Margaret Atwood via @AddThis //@joweldon just turned me on to this. Brilliant!
- Like Mom Like Dad
Like Mom, Like Dad – @zefrank’s latest project asks you to recreate pictures of your parents, brill
- Twitter / Ian Rankin: Antonio Forcione: flashy, …
Antonio Forcione: flashy, technically brilliant, witty and inventive guitarist. Well worth seeing.
- Slashdot Story | Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source
Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source (Code) How github changes programmer recruiting
- FRONTLINE/World Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground | PBS
The new Sodom & Gomorrah- Ghana, the world’s digital dumping ground.
- Dude builds strange utopia for homeless cats (18 Photos) : theCHIVE
- Gov 2.0 Summit Preview: Info Sharing In Afghanistan — InformationWeek
Gov 2.0 Summit Preview: Info Sharing In Afghanistan
- Fiorina: Politicians don’t care about Silicon Valley | Politics and Law – CNET News
I have to say that Carly Fiorina’s tech policy positions make sense (except the one on copyright): (via @digiphile)
- East Bay Mini Maker Faire | Make • Create • Craft • Build • Play
RT @dalepd "Call for Makers Closes August 31 > East Bay Mini MakerFaire October 24 Oakland #kids #homeschool"
- Paul Allen Files Patent Lawsuits Against Entire Web … Except Microsoft | Epicenter | Wired.com
Paul Allen’s Interval Research files patent lawsuits against most of the web: and
- “On the Inevitable Decline…†: The New Yorker
Best poem @NewYorker has run in years
- From Venice to Varanasi : The New Yorker
- Books on Science – ‘Delusions of Gender’ Peels Away Popular Theories – NYTimes.com
Peeling Away Theories on Gender and the Brain
- Miracle baby saved by mother’s warmth – Channel 4 News
Miracle baby: Twin baby boy pronounced dead by doctors is revived after 2 hours of cuddling from mother in Australia
- When Value Judgments Masquerade as Science – NYTimes.com
When Value Judgments Masquerade as Science: a critical view of assumptions hidden in economic analysis:
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August 27th, 2010 — pinboard
- The Big Picture: What are we making in school? – O’Reilly Radar
Love the concept of "thinkering" – learning by tinkering and making. #education
- SMRT // ShaunInman.com
- Op-Ed Columnist – This Is Not a Recovery – NYTimes.com
- Untitled (http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/energy/energy-1974.dtl)
.@energyliteracy in email: "the full 1974 Science magazine #energy issue is available as PDF. get your deja-vu on."
- Windows Phone 7 Gets $500 Million In Support – Mobile Blog – InformationWeek
Will be interesting to see old marketing vs. new marketing: Windows 7 phone to get $500MM in marketing support:
- iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition
– O’Reilly Media
RT @oreillymedia Ebook Deal of the Day: iPhone The Missing Manual by @pogue Only $9.99 Covers iPhone 4 Use Code DDMFE
- O’Reilly: Government needs to close the feedback loop – The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
Government needs to close the feedback loop. My interview with @HilliconValley #gov20 #g2s
- Of Distress Being Humiliated by the Classical Chinese Poets- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
Fabulous gloss on the article about language shaping thought – a poem about translation, via Janet Egan on facebook
- Two heads better than one (if the heads talk and know how competent they are) | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Groups optimise decisions when people communicate their evidence and how reliable it is. by @edyong209
- Slashdot Story | How To Index and Search a Video By Emotion
Cool: how to index and search a video by emotion.
- Cost is only part of the Gov 2.0 open source story – O’Reilly Radar
Cost is only part of the #gov20 #opensource story: D.C. CTO Bryan Sivak adds realism to open source advocacy #g2s
- yourtwapperkeeper – Project Hosting on Google Code
- Google App Engine Blog: Migration to a Better Datastore
- Technology evangelist O’Reilly worried about consumer privacy ‘witch hunt’ – The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
RT @HilliconValley: O’Reilly worried about consumer #privacy ‘witch-hunt’ (We’ll be talking about this at #g2s )
- Does Language Influence Culture? – WSJ.com
Charlemagne: "to have a second language is to have a second soul" Great piece on language via @jamesoreilly #neuroscience
- Software Requirements, Second Edition
– O’Reilly Media
Congrats to @MicrosoftPress author Karl Wiegers: His classic book on software requirements has sold >100K copies.
- Untitled (http://twitgoo.com/1jw4f6)
YO @timoreilly HULK READY FOR BOOK DEAL
- Twitter / Hilary Joyce Held: Margaret Atwood said it be …
Margaret Atwood said it best in her novel BODILY HARM: "Pretend you’re really here. Now what would you do?"
- Scientists create ‘dry water’ – Telegraph
Scientists create ‘dry water’: #insertpossiblejokeaboutdryheaves
- Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0810995972?tag=grf-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0810995972&adid=0MFFEQHPWE63M34CQPE2)
Max’s Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll – ace new photography book about a critical era of art
- (500) http://ow.ly/18JRg5
Insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes linked to plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease
- Insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes linked to plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease
Insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes linked to plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease
- How to Minimize Politics in Your Company // ben’s blog
- Blekko: A Search Engine Which Is Also A Killer SEO Tool
Blekko: A Search Engine Which Is Also A Killer SEO Tool: Blekko is a stealth search engine which aims to change…
- Two Cities Vie to be Next Silicon Valley
Two Cities Vie to be Next Silicon Valley – #Austin vs. #NYC
- A Podcast with Oliver Sacks : The New Yorker
Oliver Sacks discussing his and others’ prosopagnosia (‘face blindness’) on New Yorker podcast.
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August 26th, 2010 — pinboard
- Using an iPhone without a wireless service plan
- GossTech Products > Eon
"on displays events and tasks right on your desktop using Eon widgets. Adding and removing events and tasks in Eon synchronizes immediately with iCal."
- Tracking the signal of emerging technologies – O’Reilly Radar
The first NASA IT Summit: a report by @digiphile covers #augmentedreality, internet in space, tech competitiveness
- Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Second Edition
– O’Reilly Media
RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows PowerShell Cookbook, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99. Use code DDWPC
- The Word – Control-Self-Delete – The Colbert Report – 8/24/10 – Video Clip | Comedy Central
the Eric Schmidt privacy/name change issue… v. funny
- HelTweetica for iPad and Mac
- jQuery Retina Display Plugin | Troy Mcilvena
jQuery Retina Display Plugin: simple way to add Retina display support to your site – (via @macx)
- ThinkGeek :: Resistor Jewelry Set
- Costume-O-Rama-Rama! | East Bay Mini Maker Faire
Nice: There’s a Swap-o-Rama planned for the @EBMakerFaire in Oct! t
- Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 – Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, September 07 – 08, 2010, Washington, DC
RT @JulesPolonetsky Excited to be speaking for this first time on #privacy at @timoreilly #Gov20 #g2s
- Why Google Has No Game
RT @gigaom: Why Google Has No Game tip @techmeme
- Why working at home is both awesome and horrible – The Oatmeal
To understand me, you must read this:
- Technology Review: Why Privacy Is Not Dead
The way privacy is encoded into software doesn’t match the way we handle it in real life. Nice perspective, @zephoria!
- Abby Normal Soap In A Jar
Abby Normal Soap In A Jar via @thinkgeek
- (400) http://ow.ly/18J56x
Freeze or run? Not that simple: Scientists discover neural switch that controls fear
- Freeze or run? Not that simple: Scientists discover neural switch that controls fear
Freeze or run? Not that simple: Scientists discover neural switch that controls fear
- Strata 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, February 01 – 03, 2011, Santa Clara, CA
New conference from @oreillymedia: The business (and science) of data. CFP open now. This should be really cool.
- (400) http://ow.ly/18J2D0
Major moral decisions use general-purpose brain circuits to manage uncertainty
- Major moral decisions use general-purpose brain circuits to manage uncertainty
Major moral decisions use general-purpose brain circuits to manage uncertainty
- New mechanism of memory formation discovered
New mechanism of memory formation discovered
- (400) http://ow.ly/18J2CZ
New mechanism of memory formation discovered
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– Time Lapse from Space – Earth
Amazing timelapse video of Earth from space:
- Bering in Mind: Polyamory chic, gay jealousy and the evolution of a broken heart
Polyamory chic, gay jealousy and the evolution of a broken heart
- A New Take on the "Pocket Reference" — Public Beta of new O’Reilly Mobile HTML App – O’Reilly Labs
A New Take on the "Pocket Reference" — Public Beta of new O’Reilly Mobile HTML App #html5 #ebooks
- mumble mumble: fyeahafrica: Farin Ruwa in Nasarawa State is…
- All Consuming § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
- TwitterTranslate | josh is gross
- Inflatable Research Lab Rolls Across the Arctic Tundra | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
- visionmedia’s git-extras at master – GitHub
GIT utilities — repo summary, commit counting, repl, changelog population and more
- Git Extras: Helpful tools for Git – The Changelog – Open Source moves fast. Keep up.
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August 25th, 2010 — pinboard
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August 23rd, 2010 — pinboard
- CouchDB: The Definitive Guide
RT @nslater: Just launched the new CouchDB: The Definitive Guide website, with updated content and public source code.
- Press – Markus Jokela
Researcher rebuts ‘evolution making women more beautiful’ mis-coverage of his study. via @edyong209
- Data mining the heart – The Boston Globe
How interesting RT @jonmsutton what psychologists are learning from online dating
- The New York Times > Log In
"The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and its sea ice is melting at a near-record pace."
- The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Metaprogramming Ruby
Metaprogramming Ruby is a well-written, must-read book. #ruby
- The New York Times > Log In
NYT: "Near the North Pole, Looking at a Disaster" –
- Gene scan finds link across array of childhood brain disorders
Gene scan finds link across array of childhood brain disorders
- As I go sleep, I ponder: Forget the logo, even the cyclops cr… on Twitpic
RT @GammaCounter: Forget the logo, even the cyclops creature, but how did this *font* happen?
- Alfred App
- Artificial intelligence: Riders on a swarm | The Economist
Swarm modeling started as a poor man’s AI – but it may be the key to the real thing.
- Frontiers | A personal view of the early development of computational neuroscience in the USA | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
"The earliest days of computational neuroscience. Wonderfully geeky, great photo." [though apparently there were no women in those days]
- The rich have more money but the poor are rich in heart: study
The less people have, the more generous they are.
- If Historical Events had Facebook Statuses | Cool Material
RT @girlonetrack: If anyone missed it earlier: If Historical Events Had Facebook Statuses: It really is rather GOOD.
- The HTML5 Experiments of Hakim El Hattab
Linkage: The HTML5 Experiments of Hakim El Hattab >> Hakim.se #fb
- The New York Times > Log In
Really nice credit to @elliottjustin from Frank Rich on his definitive "The making of a faux-scandal" piece:
- The New York Times > Log In
The Overconfidence Problem in Forecasting (NYTimes) "Most of us think we are ‘better than average’ in most things"
- Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source | Freedom to Tinker
"eVoting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source"-@JHalderm Hari Prasad in India. [HT @mpawlo] #Gov20
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August 22nd, 2010 — pinboard
- Twitter / Roger Ebert: Ovidio Cartagena:
Ovidio Cartagena: "When people are too concerned with the legal aspects of what they do, what they are doing is most probably immoral."
- Forget Ads In Books, Lit-Lovers Face An Even More Hideous Prospect
- Innovation Grows Among Older Workers – Newsweek
Contrary to stereotype, most "innovative" age group in US is 55-64. (via/ @stevesilberman & @josholalia)
- Webtype
RT @ellenLupton More real fonts for the web: FontBureau launches new web typography service. Webtype
- techstartu.ps
Check out /via noahkagan
- CSS reset, CSS framework, Toucan CSS reset ~ Borderleft Labs
.toucan-css-reset: a yet another CSS Reset –
- Waiting for Superman | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Steve Jurvetson speaks highly of the movie Waiting for Superman. Looks like a must see #education
- How to be Cooler : Openyear
Thought-provoking piece from @openyear: How to be cooler
- Google Is Anakin, Verizon Is The Emperor, And The Dark Side Is Winning
"Google Is Anakin, Verizon Is The Emperor, And The Dark Side Is Winning"
- The Health Care Blog: Trust Me I’m a Doctor vs. Physician Quality Report Cards
Really good article about #healthcare, self-knowledge, and measurement, via @ahier:
- Twitter / James A. Reeves:
"The people of New Orleans weren’t going to play along…" How the city saved its soul after Katrina: www.is.gd/euxmp via @HumidCity
- Wondermark » Archive » #650; The Typographical Terror
RT @JoBrodie: Haha RT @understood: One for the typography geeks:
- Biotechnology: Crossing the barrier : Nature News
- Slashdot Story | Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure
Why unions have such a bad name: LA teachers boycott release of classroom performance scores
- Twitter / Don Carli: Massive oil plume discover …
Massive oil plume discovered in the Gulf by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) www.bit.ly/9A9xYb
- Daily Show: Lewis Black Expresses His ‘Profound Disappointment’ With “Eat, Pray, Love†« SpeakEasy
- Ten things I know about the mosque – Roger Ebert’s Journal
Ten things I know about the mosque – Roger Ebert’s Journal
- A Chip That Digests Data and Calculates the Odds
A Chip That Digests Data and Calculates the Odds: The company is redesigning processing circuits from … #datamining
- Bin Laden’s special complaint with the World Trade Center. – By Laurie Kerr – Slate Magazine
The World Trade Center, "swathed in a shimmering skin…"
- SimpleGeo Blog
If you love big data and mapping, you might like what @SimpleGeo + @Stamen did together. via @mg
- Space IT, the final frontier – O’Reilly Radar
Climate@Home – NASA takes the SETI model for distributed processing & applies it to climate science (via @digiphile)
- Junk DNA Can Revive and Cause Disease, Study Finds – NYTimes.com
- Rare Sharing of Data Led to Results on Alzheimer’s – NYTimes.com
- YouTube
– Monty Python: Working Class Playwright
Do watch this: coal mining versus writing (a companion to this week’s column):
- drewcrawford’s Phone-Pipe at master – GitHub
"Phone Pipe lets you send push notifications to your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad from the command line. You’ll need to have the Notifo app installed on your device as well as an account on their website."
- ben’s blog
by @bhorowitz is a fabulous resource for entrepreneurs and executives. Love it. Thanks @gnat.
- Digital copycats: Personal digitization of books catching on across Japan – The Mainichi Daily News
Wow – this could change the dynamics of #ebooks: in Japan, people are digitizing their own via @naypinya
- Beyond City Limits – By Parag Khanna | Foreign Policy
The age of nations is over. Good article from Foreign Policy about why it’s the century of cities via @codeforamerica
- Inkling – Interactive textbooks for iPad.
- Google Analytics
– O’Reilly Media
RT @oreillymedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Google Analytics – Only $9.99. Use code DDGAE
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