Entries from March 2011 ↓

• BBC News – Gravity satellite yields ‘Potato Earth’ view
  ‘Potato Earth’ shows us gravity
• Hover on “Everything But” | CSS-Tricks
  Hover on “Everything But": nice and simple CSS technique –
• Lynsey Addario: ‘It’s What I Do’ — Why She Will Cover War Again – NYTimes.com
  Excellent piece by @LynseyAddario on why women photogs belong in war zones
• Odd Saber-Toothed Beast Discovered—Preyed on … Plants?
  Vegetarian Saber-Toothed Beast Discovered: #science #evolution
• Eurozine – Debt: The first five thousand years – David Graeber
  fascinating 500 year history of debt. full of rich and thought-provoking material. well worth the read
• David Sokol Resigns From Berkshire Hathaway – NYTimes.com
  RT @dangillmor: If "not illegal" is Warren Buffett’s new standard of behavior, he’s slipping badly (I’m a BRK shar …
• Clive Thompson on How Information Can Fuel Jobs | Magazine
  @wired covers #gov2.0 "more public data into the commons could kick-start billions in economic activity"-@pomeranian99
• oppression | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  Surprised to find a statue of a Wall Street oligarch in the Istanbul Archaeology museum
• Beautiful Data
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Beautiful Data – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DDBTD
• Amazon on Cloud Player: we don’t need no stinkin’ licenses
  IANAL, but Amazon’s position on users not needing a license for cloud storage of music they own makes good sense to me
• Fitness gets futuristic: RunKeeper integrates with Fitbit and Zeo – TNW Apps
  Love that runkeeper is integrating with fitbit and zeo. #quanifiedself FTW!
• The Brain: The Trouble With Teens
  | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions
  | DISCOVER Magazine
  The neurological trouble with teens Great @carlzimmer piece
• Cassidy: Internet pioneer Paul Baran showed Silicon Valley how to do business – San Jose Mercury News
  Lovely piece about the late Paul Baran, inventor of packet switching. Must read if you care about Internet history

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• capttaco/Briefs – GitHub
• MESSENGER Web Site
  New Images of Mercury RT @messenger2011: New images are up. .
• (500) http://mobiledesig
  RT @OReillyMedia: RT @fling my entire O’Reilly book – Mobile Design & Development – is now available online for free! …
• (500) http://rails
  RT @OReillyMedia: It’s the last day to get early registration pricing for #RailsConf. Use code RC11TW to save an extra 15%. …
• Obama’s "Secret" Climate Adaptation Plan – Environment – GOOD
  Shhh…keep this one quiet: Pres Obama has put into effect a ‘secret’ climate change adaptation plan: via @good
• Before I Die « Candy Chang
  Candy Chang’s "Before I Die"

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• Fighting Fires With Beams of Electricity – Slashdot
  Sounds super cool: putting out fires with beams of electricity
• To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America
  Nice to see @singlyinc joining @Kiva to sponsor Bay premier of Sundance Winning Film ! Tix:
• To Catch A Dollar Screening Invite RSVP – Bay Area Survey
  Nice to see @singlyinc joining @Kiva to sponsor Bay premier of Sundance Winning Film ! Tix:
• The Enemy Within: A new superbug, KPC/CRKP | Wired Science | Wired.com
  Scary: the end of antibiotics? One of the many tradeoffs we’ve made in our Ponzi society
• Kinect’s AI Breakthrough Explained – Slashdot
  we know #kinect is cool; here’s how it works
• Untitled (http://www.balikcisabahattin.com/index_eng.asp)
  Thanks, @thandelike and @burcsahinoglu for the splendid dinner at Sabahattin
• Women in Computer Science @ Harvey Mudd College: Three Promising Practices
• YouTube – Kirsty MacColl With Billy Bragg – A New England

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• YouTube – Avant Cellist
  zoe keating
• Low Anthem Comes Out With ‘Smart Flesh’ Next Week – NYTimes.com
• Statesman.com : Book review: ‘Pym,’ a novel by Mat Johnson
• Cognitive dysfunction in cats: clinical assessment… [Top Companion Anim Med. 2011] – PubMed result
  Pet cat neurology ‘Cognitive dysfunction in cats: clinical assessment and management’
• I Will Walk Your Dog Craigslist Ad | someecards.com
  Brilliant Craigslist resume by dog walker openly mocks people who need a dog walker.
• The American right is trapped in a hyperbolic and dysfunctional world | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian
• “When It’s Not Your Turn”: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s “The Wire” « The Hooded Utilitarian
• Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)
  Great post by @msuster: Why startups need to blog and what to talk about via @edd
• Untitled (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5182/5564352949_facda98d01_o.jpg)
  RT @mingyeow: Omni, this review of Color is probably the best of all time. (via @seanbonner)
• The Nervous Breakdown
• Log In – The New York Times
  “Freedom isn’t for free.” @NickKristof profiles brave women activists in post #tahrir #egypt
• Welcome – OpenSpending
  a cool resource for tracing government spending around the world. Help make it happen! #occrp

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• Elizabeth Taylor: Eyes so liquid with life – Truman Capote
• Push Browser
• Chris Woebken I Animal Superpowers
  RT @briansuda: chatting with @timoreilly about Animal Superpower
• Technologies for Aging Gracefully
  | TAGlab
  The center for aging gracefully @tag_lab looks like it’s doing fascinating work on assistive technology for aging
• What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots | Slacy’s Blog
  "What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots" via @JeSuisVick
• Log In – The New York Times
  Not my usual twitter fare, but worth sharing: Mark Bittman’s 101 incredibly easy summer recipes
• Push Browser for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
  One of my favorite apps, Push Browser, is now FREE. Get it.

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• Push Browser: An App That Sends Webpages from iOS to OS X
  One of my favorite apps, Push Browser, is now FREE. Get it.

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• » Best. Female. Tech. Infographic. Ever. : Girls In Tech :
  Best. Female. Tech. Infographic. Ever. –
• Untitled (http://w.sns.ly/qOcDy0)
  Stanford scientists build Parkinson’s disease in a dish with cells from Google …
• Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/sxsw-new-rules-for-the-new-bubble-031211)
  Entrepreneur must-read: Steve Blank, "Rules for the New Bubble", esp for the biz model generation walkthroughs.
• Gamasutra – News – Hecker Visits UC Berkeley To Talk SpyParty, Future Of Emotion In Games
  Liking @checker’s talk at UC Berkeley about SpyParty, Future Of Emotion In Games the turing test reversal is smart
• Friends Don’t Let Friends Get Into Finance
  Great read about the perncious effect on society when engineering grads go into finance instead of building real stuff
• Create TextExpander Group download URL
• This column will change your life: Advice from the dying | www.guardian.co.uk | Readability
• Spring onion recipes | Yotam Ottolenghi | Food and drink | Vegetarian | Life and style | The Guardian
  "Two ideas for making the most out of the humble spring onion: a sharp soup with an Iranian twist, and a flavour-packed Tunisian street snack, brik"

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• On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft | Books | The Guardian
  How do you set about writing a novel? What inspires a poem? Pencil or computer? Pain or pleasure? Listen in to interviews with some of our most celebrated writers recorded for the British Library, and enter our competition to identify the mystery writer
• Dan Sinker – The Colbert Report – 3/8/11 – Video Clip | Comedy Central
  Dan Sinker questions the sanity of anyone who actually thought he was Rahm Emanuel on Twitter. (06:04)
• What If There Weren’t So Many White People? « OkTrends
• A Whole Lotta Nothing: Apple Keynote feature request: easy recording of your talks
• Hotmail Update – HTTPs issue resolved
  Turns out the hotmail https block was a bug, not intentional cooperation with repressive regimes via @petewooten
• Security In A Box | Tools and tactics for your digital security
  Good session on security for reporters and activists at #occrp; one good resource
• Microsoft switches off privacy for Hotmail users in war-torn and repressive states – Boing Boing
  Boo, hiss: RT @normative Microsoft switches off privacy for Hotmail users in war-torn and repressive states
• Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
  Well worth reading: Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power we need to put our fears in context
• Log In – The New York Times
  I’ve been saying this to location privacy advocates for years: cellphones already track your every move
• Tim O’Reilly on Piracy, Tinkering, and the Future of the Book – Jon Bruner – Datanaut – Forbes
  RT @mattmay: "People who don’t pay you generally wouldn’t have paid you anyway." @timoreilly
• Kathryn Schulz on ‘Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World’ by Tina Rosenberg — New York Magazine Book Review
  Kathryn Schulz on ‘Join the Club – How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World’ by Tina Rosenberg — New York Magazine Book Review
• Reviewer Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness – NYTimes.com
  Reviewer Spotlight – Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness – NYTimes.com
• NounProject
  Wow, is awesome.
• Would I attend my own conference? – O’Reilly Radar
• 6 Free E-Books on Learning to Program with Python
  ReadWriteHack: 6 Free E-Books on Learning to Program with Python
• Report: Despite Piracy, Music Is More Alive Than Ever Before | TorrentFreak
  Everybody except the music labels already knew this. New report: despite piracy, music industry more alive than before
• Water-Powered Spaceship Could Make Spaceflight Cheaper | Space Travel and Exploration | Spaceship Concepts | Space.com
  Lovely concept car, or rather, covered wagon: Water-Powered Spaceship Could Make Mars Trip on the Cheap
• Hacker News | Designers, Women, and Hostility in Open Source
• Tim O’Reilly on Piracy, Tinkering, and the Future of the Book – Jon Bruner – Datanaut – Forbes
  The long version of my Forbes interview about #DRM-less #ebooks, #kindle, and the persistence of tinkering.
• An Ode to the Brain: TED + Carl Sagan, Autotuned | Brain Pickings
  RT @brainpicker: BRILLIANT! An Ode to the Brain – ace autotune remix of TED + Carl Sagan by @musicalscience
• An Amazing Look at the Northern Lights! : Starts With A Bang
  Wow, that’s beautiful. RT @TimHarford The Northern Lights, seen from space. Totally amazing: #fb
• Dates – The Bright Light Social Hour
• Austin Music People

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• G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether | www.nytimes.com | Readability
• Autodizactic
• Steal This E-Book – Forbes.com
  Forbes interview with me about why @oreilymedia doesn’t use DRM on #ebooks hope they also publish the full interview
• Bertrand Serlet leaves Apple: Google speech-to-text heaves sigh of relief | Technology | guardian.co.uk
• Why Jumpcut is better than LaunchBar – All this
• Apache Hadoop takes top prize at Media Guardian Innovation Awards | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  RT @guardiantech: Apache Hadoop takes top prize at Media Guardian Innovation Awards
• The 50 books every child should read –
  News, Books – The Independent
  nice lists for anyone with kids or with a young spirit: The 50 books every child should read
• Carbon Zero: A Short Tour of Your City’s Future by Alex Steffen — Kickstarter
  RT @AlexSteffen: We’re just $1,219 away from hitting Kickstarter funding goal for Carbon Zero! We only need about 2 …
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @monkchips: General Electric pay no US corporate taxes, but does claim tax benefits. nice.
• The Like Log Study: What can we learn from Facebook reactions to online news?
  what can we learn from facebook likes for online news? #occrp
• Investigative Dashboard – Resources | Resources for investigators
  #occrp investigative dashboard is a tool for journalists to cooperate in uncovering cross-border organized crime
• The Freight Train That Is Android « abovethecrowd.com
  brilliant post by @bgurley about #android in terms of warren buffet’s castle and moat analogy
• Data Science Toolkit Brings Big Data Analysis to the People: Tech News and Analysis «
  "Big data? Cheap. Lawyers? Not so cheap,” @petewarden on his data science toolkit 🙂
• (500) http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2011/03/17/framework-traction-on-hacker-news/
  programming frameork traction on hacker news – compares Rails, Django, node.js, and Spring nicely done @sogrady
• O’Reilly Media – Free to Choose Deal: Support Japanese Disaster Relief – Save 50% Ebooks & Videos
  RT @oreillymedia O’Reilly controller Peter Meechan sending $200k wire to #Japan Red Cross Thanks to all who helped
• A recipe for unit testing AppEngine task queues – 2010 March 03 « TurboManage
• O’Reilly Media – Technology Books, Tech Conferences, IT Courses, News
  RT @al3x: This post from @timoreilly is almost two and a half years old, but if anything, it’s even more relevant today: …
• Untitled (http://www.reportingproject.net/)
  At the #occrp meetinug in Istanbul. These guys are the real deal, reinventing and sustaining investigative reporting.
• Buzz by John Blossom
  RT @jblossom: #media Will Fluid Flow to Reality? " Some thoughts about @fluidinfo, a @timoreilly backed startup

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• TRY THE NEW VERSION FOR MAC – Ommwriter
• Iranian hackers obtain fraudulent HTTPS certificates: How close to a Web security meltdown did we get? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  The EFF on #comodogate:
• Protovis-GWT Examples
• Should Open Source Communities Avoid Contributor Agreements? – Simon Says…
  "trade control for influence: in a meshed society, control gets marginalised, while influence delivers success"
• (500) http://ed
  RT @edd: This is why we’re doing #OSCON Data: "Twitter is a … distributed network of queues, daemons, caches, and databases. " …

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• Did file-sharing cause recording industry collapse? Economists say no
  RT @arstechnica: Did file-sharing cause recording industry collapse? Economists say no: by @matthewlasar
• Is Getting Rid of Last-In, First-Out Disrespectful to Teachers? | StudentsFirst.org
  Is ending LIFO disrespectful to teachers? via @m_rhee
• Move over, Einstein: Machines will take it from here – physics-math – 22 March 2011 – New Scientist
  Move over, Einstein: Machines will take it from here – scientific laws derived via evolutionary algorithms
• The truth about copyright pirates and profits
  Good read: The truth about copyright pirates and profits: a market failure not a legal failure
• Looking For Women In VC: O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures A Trendsetter – Work in Progress – Career talk for women – Forbes
  Looking For Women In VC: O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures A Trendsetter via @forbes
• Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/peoplebrowsr/a-brief-cartoon-history-of-social-networking-19302011)
  .@peoplebrowser presents a brief cartoon history of social networking
• Portraits from Japan’s disaster: Picking up the pieces | The Economist
  Touching story about the devastation in Japan:
• O’Reilly Media – Free to Choose Deal: Support Japanese Disaster Relief – Save 50% Ebooks & Videos
  .@oreillymedia reached $100K in donations for #Japan from #ebook sales by 5 pm PT today. Help us reach $200K!
• Google spends $1 million on censorship and throttling detection
  Google gives $1 million to develop tools to detect Internet throttling, censorship, and other "transparency" problems
• Ben Krasnow: DIY scanning electron microscope – Overview video
  Now that’s a Maker! Ben Krasnow builds a DIY scanning electron microscope: via Robert Bruce Thompson
• Untitled (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/report-to-the-president-every-federal-agency-needs-a-big-data-strategy-118433704.html)
  Love it. Report to the President: Every Federal Agency Needs a ‘Big Data’ Strategy #strataconf via @digiphile
• Listbox.com: Your Mailing List Solution
  Congestion Pricing Myths Exposed: A Guide to the ‘Bandwidth Crisis’ at AT&T (or Anywhere Else) and
• Listbox.com: Your Mailing List Solution
  Congestion Pricing Myths Exposed: A Guide to the ‘Bandwidth Crisis’ at AT&T (or Anywhere Else) and
• Adopt a Hydrant
  RT @digiphile: Just learned about Boston’s "Adopt a Hydrant" app from its CIO. #gov20
• Fooducate – eat a bit better
  RT @ginablaber Very cool Fooducate app (free food barcode scanning) + other data-driven apps at Health 2.0 @health2com
• Prioritizing system measures stress in emergency services callers’ voices
  New system prioritizes emergency calls based on stress in caller’s voices #sensors #predictiveanalytics
• (500) http://pulsene.w
  RT @mikeloukides: OpenFlow: dynamically self-reconfiguring networks. Could be the next stage of network infrastructure. …
• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b/ref=topnav_storetab_mas?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011)
  Just installed Amazon App Store for Android on my Nexus S So far, everything works. Slick.
• The Leaky New York Times Paywall & How “Google Limits” Led To “Search Engine Limits”
  The Leaky New York Times Paywall & How "Google Limits" Led To "Search Engine Limits"

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• Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium – Telegraph
  Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium (Great preso on this a few years ago at #scifoo)
• curiosity counts – Amazing photo of ISS Discovery crossing the face…
  Amazing photo of ISS Discovery crossing the face of the sun by amateur astronomer Alan Friedman
• Downhill bike race in Chile is insanity at its finest | Gadling.com
  RT @jamesoreilly: You’ve simply got to watch this downhill bike race in Valparaiso, Chile:
• Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com
  Great TED talk with Sal Khan of @khanacademy Let’s use video to reinvent education
• Open Source Ecology « Encyclopedia Pictura
  Love it. The Global Village construction set
• Opt Out
• 25 Other Energy Disasters From the Last Year – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic
  RT @alexismadrigal: 25 other energy disasters: as we ponder #Fukushima, let’s not forget the fossil fuel baseline.
• Social Media in Politics: Is POPVOX the Game Changer We’ve Been Waiting For? [INTERVIEW]
  Nice interview with @marcidale: Social Media in Politics: Is POPVOX the Game Changer We’ve Been Waiting For?
• Apply Early to Code for America | Code for America
  Early application open for the @codeforamerica 2012 fellowship
• Listbox.com: Your Mailing List Solution
  Simple and stark: the telecom death spiral Not sure @bobfrankston’s prognosis is right, but his prescription sure is
• HP Gets With the (Developer) Program. CEO pimps PaaS, NoSQL – James Governor’s Monkchips
  "traditional relational databases are becoming less and less relevant to the future stack" HP CEO Leo Apotheker
• A writable API for O’Reilly – O’Reilly Radar
  We’re holding an app contest for the new writeable data API for O’Reilly books More background
• A writable API competition – O’Reilly Radar
  We’re holding an app contest for the new writeable data API for O’Reilly books More background
• The Technology to Make Mobile Payments a Reality – NYTimes.com
  RT @nickbilton: Bye bye Credit Card! Apple, Google & Microsoft all working on N.F.C. enabled mobile phones:
• How About Sharing Your Sheriff? – BusinessWeek
  How About Sharing Your Sheriff? @businessweek on cross-jurisdiction collaboration @CivComs is the software equivalent
• The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada | For Designers | From Japan – Urgent Request for Information
  Japanese group looking for help doing info visualization of radiation levels via @monkchips
• Beautiful Code
  – O’Reilly Media
  RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Beautiful Code – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DDBC5

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