Entries from September 2011 ↓

• Fire – cdespinosa’s posterous
  …Amazon now has what every storefront lusts for: the knowledge of what other stores your customers are shopping in and what prices they’re being offered there. What’s more, Amazon is getting this not by expensive, proactive scraping the Web, like Google has to do; they’re getting it passively by offering a simple caching service, and letting Fire users do the hard work of crawling the Web. In essence the Fire user base is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, scraping the Web for free and providing Amazon with the most valuable cache of user behavior in existence. …. This is the first shot in the new war for replacing the Internet with a privatized merchant data-aggregation network.
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• llama font – say it in llama

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• The Wired Atlas of the Human Ecosystem | Magazine | Wired.com
• xkcd: AI
• HackerThings: Products for the discerning hacker

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• A Campus Champion for Women in Computer Science – BusinessWeek

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• Protesters Are Gunning for Wall Street, With Faulty Aim – NYTimes.com
• The Python Tutorial — Python v2.7.2 documentation
• 9. Classes — Python v2.7.2 documentation
• The human brain: turning our minds to the law – Telegraph
• The perils of pragmamorphism | Emanuel Derman
• How Life Arose on Earth, and How a Singularity Might Bring It Down | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
• David Eagleman on CHOICE – YouTube
• Pesto-palooza! Ten Ways to Eat Pesto | Cookie and Kate
• Scrambled Huevos Rancheros | Cookie and Kate
• Cookie and Kate – a photographer’s adventures in cooking & travel
• BBC News – Alpha radiation treats prostate cancers
  London prostate cancer drug trial so successful that it is stopped early
• The Holstee Manifesto: Making The Life You Want To Live | Brain Pickings
  "If you are looking for the love of your love, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love."

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• Log In – The New York Times
  Really insightful op-ed about teen cyber-bulling from @zephoria and Alice Marwick
• Draw a Stickman
• Aboriginal DNA dates Australian arrival – Dani Cooper – ABC News – RichardDawkins.net
  Aboriginal DNA dates Australian arrival – Dani Cooper – ABC News – on RichardDawkins net –
• Amazing video: Planets viewed from Earth as if they were at the distance of our moon
  – YouTube
  Very cool concept video: other planets viewed as if they were at the same distance as the moon.
• We the People: Your Voice in Our Government | The White House
  RT @chrisblizzard: A Petition I can get behind – Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents
• (404) http://t.co/xfT
  RT @fivethirtyeight: Romney surge on Intrade. Now considered almost twice as likely (45%) as Perry (27%) to win GOP nom. …
• Brain Scans On The Go – EEG Hooked Up To Your Smart Phone | Singularity Hub
  RT @Singularityhub Brain Scans On The Go – EEG Hooked Up To Your Smart Phone
• Tim O’Reilly – Google+ – This article about gamers solving a thorny protein folding…
  My thoughts on what Foldit solving the structure of an AIDS protein teaches us about the real meaning of #gamification
• Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come « bunnie’s blog
  This piece about the implications for small inventors of a slowdown in Moore’s law is truly insightful
• Humans Reached Asia In Two Waves – Science News
  Humans reached Asia in two waves suggests DNA study
• Langevin, Maeda to discuss STEM initiative – PBN.com – Providence Business News
  Placing Art at the center of STEM education and research in RI by turning STEM to STEAM.
• USB Typewriter
  Typewriters. USB typewriters. That work with your computer. (Brilliant.)

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• What men can learn from women about leadership in the 21st century – The Washington Post
• What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? – NYTimes.com
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• New JavaScript hacking tool can intercept PayPal, other secure sessions
  New JavaScript hacking tool can intercept PayPal, other secure sessions
• Walter Kirn’s Permanent Morning: At Iowa Methodist Hospital My Mother Died from A Strep Infection of the Brain
  Why saying "I love you" has meaning and matters. RT @Atul_Gawande: Read this. RT @walterkirn:
• William Gibson: beyond cyberspace | Books | The Guardian
  William Gibson: beyond cyberspace
• Scientists on trial for failing to predict quake – Technology & science – Science – LiveScience – msnbc.com
  RT @Revkin: Unreal: Seismologists on trial for manslaughter for failing to predict ’09 Italian quake: via @msnbc
• Putting America Back to Work 2011 | LinkedIn
  RT @LinkedIn: Users have submitted 100s of questions for the President. Have you submitted yours yet? #intownhall
• I got your class warfare right here |
  Rumproast
  Wow, Elizabeth Warren just got my support in her Senate race. Big time common sense and straight talk!
• Four short links: 21 September 2011 – O’Reilly Radar
  .@gnat’s observation about gun parts on thingiverse hints at a mind-bending future
• Back to School Special – Save 50% All Ebooks – Microsoft Press – O’Reilly Media
  RT @MIcrosoftPress *Free to Choose* – Save 50% All Ebooks w/code: B2SDEAL – Ends Sep 28
• Kanaal van teachers
  – YouTube
  RT @gatesfoundation: Learn. Teach. Share. YouTube Teachers–A new tool to help #teachers in the classroom: #edtech
• Newest ‘google-app-engine’ Questions – Stack Overflow
• Face Substitution on Vimeo
• National Geographic Magazine – NGM.com
  A portfolio by Peter Essick pays tribute to Ansel Adams and the craggy California wilderness named in his honor.
• Geena Davis: Hollywood Still Typecasting Women [VIDEO]
  “We know that the more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life,” she said. “So there’s clearly a very, very strong message coming through — that boys are picking up too, by the way — that girls can’t do as many things as boys can.”
• Austin Film Festival News: How to Rock AFF by Pamela Ribon
• Live Blog: Google’s Eric Schmidt At The US Senate Hearing
  RT @dannysullivan: That’s it. Schmidt part of [Google congressional] hearing done. Here’s the live blog:
• Skype CEO: Our Goal Is to Connect 1 Million Classrooms
  RT @mashable: Skype CEO: Our Goal Is to Connect 1 Million Classrooms – #socialgood
• Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests (Updated) | ThinkProgress
  Wow. Yahoo! was apparently blocking emails referencing the Occupy Wall Street protests #occupywallst #censorship
• Bankers Go Bonkers Over Big Data’s Future
  RT @RWW: Bankers Go Bonkers Over Big Data’s Future #strataconf
• (404) http://www.growthology.org/-/
  RT @lesamitchell: @pkedrosky Real Cost of Patent Trolls must read
• Thoughts on Our Federal Government, Taxes and Small Business and More « blog maverick
  .@mcuban’s take on taxes, job creation is so refreshing. Washington should be listening. and
• The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do « blog maverick
  .@mcuban’s take on taxes, job creation is so refreshing. Washington should be listening. and
• Gay service members come out and celebrate – latimes.com
  This makes me smile. 🙂

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• Ikea introduces Mänland, an Xbox-laden daycare for non-shopping men – Shareables
  Ikea introduces Mänland, an Xbox-laden daycare for non-shopping men #genius
• A future for drones: automated killing – The Washington Post
  RT @vaughanbell: Washington Post on research to develop artificially intelligent drones What could possibly go wrong?
• Transom » Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass
• Kids today need a licence to tinker | Technology | The Observer
  Yes indeed: "kids today need a license to tinker" via @digiphile
• How an arcane statistical law could have prevented the Greek disaster | Economics Intelligence
  How data literacy could affect public policy: Benford’s law suggests Greece economic stats were faked #strataconf
• Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control – Slashdot
  There you have it: gut bacteria exert mind control
• Daring Fireball Linked List: How to Clean Apple Products
  How to Clean Apple Products:
• Untitled (http://www.slideshare.net/peoplebrowsr/tv-analytics-deck-v11-rdr)
  Here’s @wingdude’s #strataconf presentation on how social media tracking will replace Nielsen for TV stats
• OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit | Jonathan Zdziarski’s Domain
  An important read if your vehicle uses OnStar: MT @laurenweinstein: OnStar Begins Spying On your Location For Profit –
• 10 things to remember about Netflix while scratching your head about Qwikster – SplatF
  RT @brainpicker: The most lucid take on the Netflix/Qwikster ordeal yet, courtesy of @splatf (HT @kottke)
• The long slow make – O’Reilly Radar
  Great post about the maker movement by @anildash: Make the Revolution Video with @dalepd

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• Rufus Roo
• What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth? – YouTube
  A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night.
• Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
  OMG, this Onion article. I laughed until I cried, or possibly the other way around. (thanks, @sweetmachineSP)
• Tim O’Reilly – Google+ – I just went down to check out the scene at the…
  My photos from and a few thoughts about the OccupyWallSt.org protest at #libertyplaza
• Texting and Facebooking While Studying Related to Lower GPA | Hack Education
  Texting, Facebooking while studying related to lower GPA via @hackeducation cc @reyjunco
• Austin will pay to let St. Augustine die, sow a less thirsty lawn
  Austin Water Utility is offering to pay residents to let their St. Augustine grass die and plant a replacement.
• Video: Strata NY – O’Reilly Conferences September 19 – 23, 2011, New York, NY
  now up on #strataconf live stream: @dpatil on building data science teams
• X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference 2011 – PayPal Innovate
  RT @oreillymedia Register for #innovate2011 (Oct 12-13) + get $100 off w/code OREILLYUSERS #x_commerce
• Untitled (http://viewfinderadventures.smugmug.com/Other/ACL-2011/i-MsDRvj2/0/XL/Skylinewinner-XL.jpg)
  RT @rhackleman Best #ACL skyline shot I got. The rain felt so good! Now we just need more. (VERY NICE!)
• Unraveling a new regulator of cystic fibrosis
  Unraveling a new regulator of cystic fibrosis
• The Renderings for the Delancey Underground Park on the Lower East Side — New York Magazine
  “We’re channeling sunlight the way they did in ancient Egyptian tombs": NYC’s High Line could get an underground analog
• Spencer Tunick 1,000 Person Nude Photo Shoot at Dead Sea in Israel
  .@SpencerTunick 1,000 Person Nude Photo Shoot at Dead Sea in Israel
• Windows Azure Marketplace
  Windows Azure data market show that Microsoft understands my thesis about data and the future of software #strataconf
• Obama’s Economic Quagmire: Frank Rich and Adam Moss Talk About What’s Really in Ron Suskind’s Revealing New Book About the White House — Daily Intel
  Must read RT @ariannahuff: QOTD: "You’ve picked the wrong people!" Sen. Dorgan to Pres-Elect Obama on his economic team
• Untitled (http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S178241.PDF)
  Zipcode ruling (Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma) only applies in California. PDF of decision:

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• Cosmic Log – Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists
  Structure of protein causing AIDS in monkeys was mystery to researchers for 15 yrs. Gamers solved it in 10 days.
• New York City Channeling Its Inner-Copenhagen | ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip
  RT @ecorazzi: New York City Channeling Its Inner-Copenhagen With New Bike Sharing Program
• kippkitts.com – cool products coming soon
  Yes @digiphile I meant & @Kipworks’ work "making stuff that matters?" #makerfaireNY
• Maker Faire New York – Sept 17 and 18, 2011 – DIY, science, demos, recycling, entertainment, and fun
  Yes @digiphile I meant & @Kipworks’ work "making stuff that matters?" #makerfaireNY
• kippkits.com
  Awesome "stuff that matters" DIY project from #makerfaireNY: lifesaving device for ambulances
• Obama vs. Bush: Who’s the Bigger Tax Cutter?
  Interesting: Obama vs. Bush: Who’s the Bigger Tax Cutter? via @sacca
• Tinkercad – Solid modeling for artists and makers
  @hoopeekoo yes tinkercad is cool – Browser-based solid modeling for everyone. Just met @kaibackman at #makerfaireny
• PVCBendit – Shaping the Future of PVC
  Very cool tool. #makerfaireny
• A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation – NYTimes.com
  RT @abhinemani: A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation:
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @DavidLivermore: Sobering, important wake-up call from @NickKristof on growing famine in Somalia:
• Log In – The New York Times
  RT @DavidLivermore: Sobering, important wake-up call from @NickKristof on growing famine in Somalia:
• cityofsound: Journal: Festa 2010, Turin
  Lovely account of a political festival in Turin hints at the potential when politics and life aren’t so separate

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