Entries from December 2011 ↓

• How to use @ifttt to connect Evernote with other services you use: http://t.co/dcvq32pi
• I don’t know what to think of this: Orangutans to Skype between zoos with iPads [ExtremeTech] http://t.co/U5mbX158
• Gems in here. RT @alexismadrigal: .@TheAtlanticTech’s most-read stories of the year (and a few personal favorites). http://t.co/pJ2uj0kL
• I bet the author of the @SlushPileHell blog drinks a lot (http://t.co/CW2AsuzV).
• The Joy of Quiet – NYTimes.com
• Shrine of the Mall Ninja » LonelyMachines
• BBC Nature – Chimpanzees consider their audience when communicating http://t.co/LXe043N4
• South Pole Reaches Its Highest Temperature Ever Recorded « THE9BILLION

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• Why’s Google care about Google+ profile images being offensive? Cause it shows them so much now in search. More: http://t.co/QZ5zjDQQ
• Book: "Statistical and Machine-Learning Data Mining" offers GenIQ, a ML alternative to regression http://t.co/moYASl7Q #datamining
• most popular on the site: "Forgetting Is Key to a Healthy Mind," by @iwickelgren. http://t.co/6OwkkDDa see also: http://t.co/YhFhAIH3
• More Remembrances of Grace Hopper http://t.co/yoVe16hA
• Google Thumps Oracle In Heavyweight Bout Over Android | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
• melting glaciers cutting Peru’s water supply decades earlier than expected. http://t.co/EEEJBNlL #globalwarming
• Why we shouldn’t let Google (or anyone else) claim their private services are public spaces http://t.co/DnWLXBye
• wmorgan/heliotrope – GitHub
• Study: Vitamins and Omega-3s Lead to Bigger Brains and Better Cognitive Function | Healthland – http://t.co/GvGa1pBV
• Feel Free to Ignore Iowa – NYTimes.com

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• Ground-breaking #MS paper "MS is Not a Disease of the Immune System" goes live! Finally! http://t.co/MGPyNKBF #multiplesclerosis
• Ha! How did I miss this? "Study: Atheists distrusted as much as rapists" http://t.co/Zx21Kzmr
• Interesting and unsettling read on the whole misogyny/atheism discussion on @reddit http://t.co/X2fp7RvO
• You are awful, too | Kate Harding
• Health Department Announces New York City’s Favorite Baby Names from 2010
• So I wrote a story about the cuts, which I’ve just published here, nowhere else: http://t.co/3WxQcH5r
• Amazing photograph of Ancient Shipwreck in Modern Greece on Zakynthos. By Robert Tarpescu: http://t.co/ZTMZfVZg
• Denial of service via hash bucket collisions! | jwz

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• Daily Kos: BOYCOTT these SOPA supporters!
• Academics propose a new calendar in which each date falls on the same day every year, forever. http://t.co/7yqADX5R
• Changing Your Name, and Your Life – NYTimes.com
• The complex gene network behind the spectrum of autism disorders is slowly being unravelled. http://t.co/rrPBOWNr
• New Amazon S3 Feature: Object Expiration Using Bucket-level Policies: http://t.co/BlAm0BBX #aws #s3
• The Rockford Style – Atlantic Mobile
• “In Caffeine We Trust” Poster – Column Five Media
• Good Nature News piece on the mysterious nodding syndrome spreading through Uganda http://t.co/MmPSUWvJ via @DiscoverMag
• Air Dictate app lets you enter text on your Mac by talking into your iPhone 4S
• Geekli.st integrates with GitHub to let you publish achievements with your code
• 4 Reminders That the Iraq War Was A Catastrophe
• Because Barack Obama has adopted so many core Republican beliefs, the US opposition race is a shambles
• Are You Stuck in a Girls’ Club? – Whitney Johnson – Harvard Business Review
• NPR.org » Congress Really Is As Bad As You Think, Scholars Say
• Data mining without prejudice – MIT News Office
• The big idea in Reshef #MIC: if a pattern exists in data, there will be a gridding that captures it also http://t.co/QaKRnPzU #datamining
• One finger typing, I finally wrote my 1st piece on what happened to me in Cairo in November. Dedicated to the fuckers http://t.co/x2iI00SC
• Why perfume is my favourite thing, and what to buy if you’re going shopping now: last-minute perfumes http://t.co/t8EqGrnO

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• Photos of an Empty London on Christmas Morning
• Why (and how) we’ve switched away from Google Maps
• Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz – New Scientist – New Scientist
• App Store – Zite Personalized Magazine
• Laptop Bags – Best Bags for Laptop and Camera Bags
• Winter blas? How about "reverse sunglasses"? http://t.co/EQGzYuXR
• Your Boxing Day TSA Report – Atlantic Mobile
• Wonderful interview with Maria "@brainpicker" Popova, long may she wave: http://t.co/MiTjOzXs… tx @swissmiss @kvox
• Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair

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• Build your "own cloud" on a Mac mini. Free, polished, and as easy to install as WordPress. http://t.co/DRkJk2em

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• Exclusive: Leaked Details of How Facebook Plans To Sell Your Timeline to Advertisers | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
• Inpaint
  remove unwanted objects from photos
• Holy smokes: Pinterest is more popular than Tumblr or Google + http://t.co/00HrLVtk
• Reusing HTML/CSS/JS across Web & Mobile
• How Wall Street Occupied America | The Nation
• Gotta love the fact that "Brain-Eating Amoeba" and Oprah Winfrey’s Worst Endorsements fit in the same story. http://t.co/oxqBdWBe
• Fascinating moment. RT @normative: Law Firms Removing Their Name From SOPA Supporters’ List; SOPA ‘Support’ Crumbling http://t.co/qZzk2LUx
• A 300 year-old mystery about elephants may have finally been solved. (Via @BBCscience) http://t.co/ZXllOiJN
• FINALLY: The Difference between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram http://t.co/2xEL1KKE
• Dignity cannot wait for better times. TED video worth watching. http://t.co/xx5YYsMu
• What should we actually *do* to influence Congress about SOPA? @cjoh goes beyond the boycott: http://t.co/qjKrElNH
• I’ve been enjoying dipping into Radio 4’s Four Thought podcasts (HT: occasional presenter @benhammersley): http://t.co/Q8QMiNMJ
• Large Hadron Collider discovers new form of quarkonium http://t.co/mrgZJLF8
• That’s It. I’m going to be more disagreeable in 2012. Disturbing Research on How to Get Ahead http://t.co/0RgD8V5f c @om
• How To Make Your iPhone’s Home Button More Responsive [iOS Tips] http://t.co/58hH6FMo
• @carlzimmer you didn’t mention the lethal IL4-expressing mousepox, which is scary too! http://t.co/THU18CL6 http://t.co/BZOhwWLv
• [ Tagamac ] [ In search of a scratchpad, part two ]
• Unwrapping a new Ice Cream Sandwich: Android 4.0 reviewed
• ttscoff/QuickQuestion – GitHub
• A solution for scatterbrains – Brett Terpstra
• Pelican — Pelican v2 documentation
• Calepin Guide – Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson
• Matters of Grey
  geek gift guides…
• Excellent: Scientists have generated a strain of bird flu dramatically more dangerous than H5N1 http://t.co/lDvatuBf
• Mysterious nodding syndrome spreading through Uganda – New Scientist – New Scientist
• Neanderthal home made of mammoth bones discovered in Ukraine

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• look closely – a protective ring formed around female protesters allowing them to demonstrate freely #tahrir http://t.co/pjL26kRf
• The Compass Within: http://t.co/q5xlMGnO excellent summary of current understanding of animal magnetoreception by @dcastelvecchi
• Our newest iPhone app, Air Dictate, is live! http://t.co/MMa6YG2l Type on your Mac keyboard by speaking into your iPhone 4S with Siri.
• Rethinking the Neanderthal: first jewelery and burials, and now homes built of mammoth bone! http://t.co/AFctofnx #archaeology #france
• For those wondering, here’s how I ended up installing sshfs: http://t.co/s1MIYfGN (the non-brew instructions)
• Why Has Natural Selection Left Us So Vulnerable to Anxiety and Mood Disorders? http://t.co/w5lscejN http://t.co/PiREU43j
• Beautiful!! RT @quimpg: #bondia Girona http://t.co/1WFVDJ15
• No Ordinary Genius – BBC on Richard Feynman, free online in its entirety http://t.co/SkHV7mLU
• If you are nuts enough to have domains there RT @HackerNewsYC: Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy http://t.co/4KybjncZ
• Why Pilot Projects Fail – Atlantic Mobile
• Group of brown bats in New England potentially resistant to white nose syndrome – http://t.co/Cz3EMHcc @carlzimmer
• Must-read of the day for ocean ppl: Promoting Ocean Literacy by @para_sight http://t.co/iAiopusT #DeepSN
• BBC News – LHC reports discovery of its first new particle
• Deadliest weather disaster of 2011: the East African drought http://t.co/cyEUch88
• Good NYT/Kolata update on research related to older runners – http://t.co/ETZFuhlZ
• Fucked in Park Slope – A Brooklyn Blog – Home – Gail Force Winds: A Park Slope Essay About My Asshole Neighbor

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• Alan Turing: My Favourite Scientist | GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk
• RT @ArchiveAtBBC: 1973, David Bowie performs The Jean Genie on Top of the Pops #totp #Bowie http://t.co/Gjw50Uor (I remember it well!)
• 365 days: Images of the year : Nature News & Comment
• End of year lists are often dumb, at best. But it’s impossible not to be amazed by @NatureNews’ Images of the Year: http://t.co/XU88OUfZ
• Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
• Why I Resigned from The Good Men Project | Hugo Schwyzer

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• U.S. routes as a subway map: http://t.co/aEYniuCy (@coudal)
• Why Has Natural Selection Left Us So Vulnerable to Anxiety and Mood Disorders? http://t.co/w5lscejN http://t.co/PiREU43j
• Electronic artist Alan Braxe accused of joining France’s proud tradition of symbolically pissing on things
• Blog: The founder gap: Why we need more women in open source http://t.co/IdpsPSZa
• The Paradox: "The more assertive a student found the female venture capitalist to be, the more they rejected her" http://t.co/lQIFyYPW
• At Swords’ Point: Humor As Weapon | The Comics Journal
• One of the best articles about gamification I’ve seen. http://t.co/7SEdSQz3 #cowclicker
• GeekWire » Confessions of an Uber driver: An inside look at Seattle’s new private driver service » GeekWire
• Among this year’s finest videos – Steve Jobs on the secret of life in 46 seconds, circa 1995 http://t.co/Q80nqQYR
• Calif. teen takes $100K national science prize – WSJ.com
• 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself
• "I could do this all day… it’s so cool" http://t.co/85BYnspv
• This reminds me of seething through a VC speaking about specifically looking for start ups by young white men http://t.co/Sayf6C5V
• I’m filing this away: a dog shows you how to respond to a really awful day, in anigif format. http://t.co/uwrQAcgi /via @TPHD

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