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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
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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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March 26th, 2011 — pinboard
- 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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March 25th, 2011 — pinboard
- 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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March 22nd, 2011 — pinboard
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