Entries from April 2011 ↓
April 30th, 2011 — pinboard
- Localtunnel
- Girl Develop It! – Meet Us
- Shed a Tear: The Age of Broadband Caps Begins Monday | Epicenter | Wired.com
- Court lifts ban on federal funding for stem cell research by: CNN’s Bill Mears
- Warning! | There might be a problem with the requested link
RT @marytreseler Who will corner the market on mobile card readers? #PayPalX #square
- Why the Online Identity & Data Ownership Debate Matters « emergent by design
RT @venessamiemis: Why the Online Identity & Data Ownership Debate Matters I agree. It does matter.
- Migrating OSX 10.5 Client to Mac OSX…: Apple Support Communities
- Log In – The New York Times
RT @jamesoreilly Good piece by David Brooks, "What Government Does" Agree. Lots of reality captured in this piece.
- Log In – The New York Times
RT @jamesoreilly Good piece by David Brooks, "What Government Does" Agree. Lots of reality captured in this piece.
- The Monkey Cage: How Wasteful is Spending on Homeland Security?
RT @normative How Wasteful is Spending on Homeland Security? (Even if it wasn’t what Schneier calls "security theater")
- Layer 8: US goes after some game-changing energy projects
Five DARPA-E funded energy initiatives
- Untitled (http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/11/17/hlsa1117.htm)
Dancing, sleep, novelty, learning new skills among the recommendations for brain health.
- Log In – The New York Times
Love to see Michael Porter speaking out on these issues: Pain at the Pump? Try a Charge on Carbon Emissions
- OSCON 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 25 – 29, 2011, Portland, OR
RT @oscon Registration for OSCON 2011 is now open. See the full schedule of tutorials, sessions, speakers, and events
- Word Spy – zombie lie
RT @wordspy: zombie lie n. A false statement that keeps getting repeated no matter how often it has been refuted.
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April 24th, 2011 — pinboard
- willclarke.net » Apple is not “recording your moves,” Urban Edition!
- willclarke.net » Apple is not “recording your moves”
- I foresee that nobody will do anything about this problem – Bad Science
- Slipping away from the Perl community – Perlbuzz
- Remarkable Results In Research On "Iceman" Wim Hof
- Kopernik |
- Design for the Other 90%: Design
- ufahari: stories of innovation
- The Times Record > Features > A stinging rebuke against missed bee havens
Without bees, mankind would starve in 4 years. Yet we punish them with pesticides and single-crop farms.
- Cranking | 43 Folders
Cranking
- John Muir, the Original Environmentalist – Readability
6 essays by John Muir, rather of American environmentalism, from @TheAtlantic archives #longreads
- Professor Deeply Hurt by Student’s Evaluation | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
haha an awesome piece on the onion … "Professor Deeply Hurt by Student’s Evaluation" /via @jason_a_w
- But what do they do with their legs? | sex education | Life and style | The Guardian
- Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
Supply/demand… Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
- The Saddest Music in the World :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
Guy Maddin’s ineffable "The Saddest Music in the World" is on Netflix Instant. My review:
- The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish…
Absolutely astounding – the world’s largest jellyfish
- How Are Mac & PC People Different? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Survey of Mac vs. PC people confirms every stereotype you can think of, and then some:
- Lessons from California: The perils of extreme democracy | The Economist
RT @Brilliantcrank: California offers a warning to voters all over the world.
- National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
If you have a cell phone to recycle, here’s a super easy way to donate it to battered women, just print this:
- Log In – The New York Times
"We’ve moved from the lonely tinkerer to the social tinkerer who can share ideas." @dalepd in #make #makerfaire #diy
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April 23rd, 2011 — pinboard
- pesticides and child IQ
- Honest logos by @Viktor | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork
- 10 best tricks of fooling myself to work « Productivity « How to get organized, how to be productive, GTD, Swift To-Do List tips and tricks – Dextronet Blog
- Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Who Owns the World? | TomDispatch
- The Power of Platforms from Web 2.0 to Gov 2.0 | Esri Video
RT @LindaHecht Interesting talk at #Esri #Devsummit by @timoreilly about #web20, #geoweb and the importance of data
- swombat.com on startups
The Founder’s Library – great collection of articles for entrepreneurs via @edd
- Mr. Jassy, Tear Down This Wall! « Roman Stanek’s Push-Button Thinking
Mr. Jassy, Tear Down This Wall! Open letter from @RomanStanek of @gooddata in response to the AWS outage
- Southwestern Water: Going, Going, Gone? – NYTimes.com
- Locavore :: Home
In honor of Earth Day, @enjoy_locavore is making the Locavore phone app free today. Local food FTW!
- Meet Science: What is "peer review"? – Boing Boing
Meet Science–a new series on @BoingBoing–kicks off with "What is peer review?" Thanks to @ivanoransky!
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April 22nd, 2011 — pinboard
- RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, unusable | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld
Ouch. Devastating review of RIM PlayBook as "the homeless guy who plays air guitar in front of the mall." via @slashdot
- Learning Python, Fourth Edition
– O’Reilly Media
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Python, 4th Edition – Only $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD4PY
- Librarians React to Amazon’s New Lending Library: More Questions Than Celebrations
- Android phones record user-locations according to research
- BBC News – Ozone hole has dried Australia, scientists find
- Preckwinkle, Fritchey Move to Open Up Cook County Data | Cook County Blog
Politicians making Open Gov their platform: via @alissa007
- bit-rank and the Bitly Data Stack
RT @bryce bit-rank and the Bitly Data Stack Yes, indeed, there’s more there than meets the eye…
- back of a webpage
- Hyperarchy: Open Decision-Making for Open Organizations | Code for America
Hyperarchy: Open Decision-Making for Open Organizations: from dinner choices to democratic institutions
- Warning! | There might be a problem with the requested link
RT @ginablaber: Live streaming Where 2.0 keynotes now: Ben Fry, etsy, DJ Patil/Color, Julia Grace/Almaden, Groupon etc …
- Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
LOL. Onion: Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People via @danprimack via @sacca
- Cooking for Geeks
– O’Reilly Media
Oops. Seems to be my morning for botching link shortening. Here’s the @oreillymedia deal of the day link again
- news.me | THINK / Musings
Oops. Broken link on post about news.me. This one should work
- (500) http://t.co/zO2KnB3
Oops. Broken link on post about news.me. This one should work
- (404) http://oreil.ly/d
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Cooking for Geeks – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD4GK HLKR6
- (404) http://bit.ly/gzlMoII
(I love news.me!) RT @Borthwick news.me launched. Finally. Some background on why and how we built it
- Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music, despite democratization – Little White Earbuds
Absolutely fascinating teardown of the economics of the music scene from the perspective of an artist via @mikeloukides
- Metamarkets Blog » Blog Archive » Node.js and the Javascript Age
- Dana Blankenhorn: Unemployment and Mexicanization
Good piece by @DanaBlankenhorn on why concentrating wealth at the top makes society as a whole poorer
- Books I own that were published by O’Reilly Media, Inc. on Twitpic
RT @arh: Fifty-two reasons I’m thrilled to have @timoreilly as #stc11 keynote speaker.
- Cute tickled will make your brain explode – Video : theCHIVE
Ever tickle a penguin? maybe u should.
- (500) http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2011/04/advice-for-a-young-entrepreneur/
.@tonystubblebine’s Notes from his talk to an entrepreneurship class at Carnegie Mellon are fabulous. Must read.
- petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub
- Oscar nominee, another photographer killed in Libya – CNN.com
RT @kwiens: RIP, Tim Hetherington. Your photos made the world better.
- Obama Visits Facebook, Holds Online Town Hall | Liz Gannes | NetworkEffect | AllThingsD
Good way to catch up if you can’t watch live or missed the start RT @karaswisher: Liveblogging Obama at Facebook
- Twitpic – Share photos and videos on Twitter
"I don’t think there’s a problem out there that we can’t solve if we work together" @BarackObama I agree
- Obama, Zuckerberg Hold Town Hall At Facebook HQ Today: Watch The Livestream Here
RT @TechCrunch: Zuckerberg, Obama Answer Questions At Facebook HQ Today: You Can Watch The Livestream Here by @alexia
- Animated GIF QuickLook plugin | Download Animated GIF QuickLook plugin software for free at SourceForge.net
- Best Seller Differences (robinsloan.com)
List updated each week with highlighted differences between #ebook and hardcover @nytimes bestseller lists
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April 20th, 2011 — pinboard
- Video: Where 2.0 2011 – O’Reilly Conferences, April 19 – 21, 2011, Santa Clara, CA
.@scobleizer is doing a great job of interviewing @dens at #where20 live stream
- Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves – O’Reilly Radar
RT @radar: A hidden file in iOS 4 is recording the location of devices. @petewarden and @aallan explain #where20
- Make: Online | Enter the MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest!
RT @make Got bots with character? Enter the @MAKE robot contest and get your project published in Volume 27.
- Seth’s Blog: Economies of small
RT @brainpicker: Seth Godin on "economies of small" as the new economies of scale
- lucas dixon : Scooping the Loop Snooper
Awesome, the Halting Problem as a Dr. Seuss rhyme, THE LOOP SNOOPER:
- Coming Soon From the Air Force: Mind-Reading Drones | Danger Room | Wired.com
RT @digiphile: ESPRIT d’aircorps RT @dangerroom Coming Soon from the Air Force: Mind-Reading Drones Happy Judgment Day.
- Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/pskomoroch/geo-analytics-tutorial)
Posted slides from my Geo Analytics tutorial on Hadoop, Pig, Mechanical Turk: #where20 #in
- The Enterprise End-Run » wrkng
If you want to reach the enterprise, see@nickgrossman’s The Enterprise End-Run @bryce just wrote something on this too
- Grey Hairs And Red Herrings: IBM mainframe skills resurgence is a triumph of Developer Relations – James Governor’s Monkchips
RT @monkchips i think you might enjoy this alternative take on developer relations and skills shortages
- Git Cheatsheet
- Untitled (http://i.imgur.com/aLGOQ.jpg)
OK, @patcito. Not as similar, but good point about Apple copying Samsung, not the other way around
- Untitled (http://www.tmobileniles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/iphone4-vs-galaxy-s-head.jpg)
@_ds Yes, you’re right, that is a clear rip off. If that’s what Apple is suing about, they need a better description
- ShortStack: The Top Twittering Cities & Counties | Code for America
RT @codeforamerica List: The Top Twittering Cities & Counties #gov20 #social #opengov
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