Entries from November 2014 ↓

• Simon Anholt interview: ‘There is only one global superpower: public opinion’ | Politics | The Guardian
• A War Nerd Thanksgiving: All you drunks, be thankful you’re not in Kuwait | PandoDaily
• RiTeMaiL: Iran in 1960s
• My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK
• Special xmas edition chocolate aroma fart pill – Pilule Pet
• BRCK | Rugged Internet for People & Things
• Peter on Twitter: "In cold weather, animals are attracted to the warmth of a car engine-always check before you drive! http://t.co/WiGFO6uVoR"
  RT @Pietros1: In cold weather, animals are attracted to the warmth of a car engine-always check before you drive!
• Clime Stickers Are Up For Pre-Order, Will Tell You (And Baby) If It’s Cold Outside | TechCrunch
• Sydney Webcam-Sydney Skyline Webcam HD
• BRIE WP 2014-2 Cloud2014.pdf
• Writers pick the best books of 2014: part one | Books | The Guardian
• Thoughts on Google+ — Medium

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• Here’s Proof Pigs Actually Do Fly (Almost) – ABC News
• Amazon.com: Brenthaven MetroLite BP XF X-Ray Friendly Laptop / Tablet / Ultrabook Backpack – Black: Electronics
• eBay Mobile
  Unused punch cards
• NomadKey | Your USB Cable, Key-Sized.
• Amazon.com : Useless Box Kit – Do It Yourself : Office Products
• Handmade Gifts | Independent Design | Vintage Goods Sterling Silver Tentacle Earrings
• OneLook Reverse Dictionary
• Seahawks Fans Manage To Party Without Jaywalking
  Here’s an adorable little video from the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, showing fans waiting for the light to turn green before moving on with the rolling celebrations.
• How to Remove EXIF Data from Images Quickly
• ImageOptim — better Save For Web
  ImageOptim is a free app that makes images take up less disk space and load faster, without sacrificing quality. It optimizes compression parameters, removes junk metadata and unnecessary color profiles.
• Historical Pics on Twitter: "Traffic Jam near the Brandenburg Gate as East Germans move into West Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989. http://t.co/du5jFxwhZH"
• People Search Engines: The Top 8 on the Web
• Oil price slide leaves energy bond investors facing zero returns – FT.com
• ‘We got this, Bob Geldof, so back off’ – Africa – Al Jazeera English
• Calamities of Nature –
  Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth
  RT @MaxCRoser: Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth

  The US are a clear outlier

  (From: )

• Max Roser on Twitter: "Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth

  The US are a clear outlier

  (From: http://t.co/mU2vFqSFxl) http://t.co/ZELHLB1jAl"

  RT @MaxCRoser: Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth

  The US are a clear outlier

  (From: )

• "Hand-egg." pic.twitter.com/xSh5fZAA8A

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• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Civil Forfeiture (HBO) – YouTube
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Correlating the Patterns of World History With BigQuery
• Black Friday. Sofa Sunday. Cyber Monday. Are you ready for a week of shopping hell? | Life and style | The Guardian
• The gender imbalance in IT is real, ongoing and ridiculous • The Register
• If Dr. Seuss Books Were Titled According to Their Subtexts
• Neurons light up Times Square for Midnight Moment – 25 November 2014 – New Scientist
• Muzei on Product Hunt
• Wagatwe Wanjuki on Twitter: "This #Thanksgiving, I am thinking about how this nation was founded and built on racism. #DayofMourning http://t.co/N0V4LhbPRw"
• The Thanksgiving Recipes Googled in Every State – NYTimes.com
• 14 goats that made your heart skip a bleat in 2014
• Garlic with Everything – The New Yorker
• For Keyssa, Faster File Sharing Starts with a Kiss | MIT Technology Review

  Keyssa, whose board is led by Nest CEO Tony Fadell, expects the first products containing its connectors to be released in the second half of next year; it isn’t divulging how much it will cost for manufacturers to add the chips to devices.

• 12 new Netflix movies to stream on Thanksgiving | The Verge
• The frog with kaleidoscope eyes: psychedelic close-ups of nature | Art and design | The Guardian
• The 25 Best Inventions of 2014
• Hilarious Mashup Reimagines Sloths on Famous Album Covers – My Modern Met
• The Twisted Psychology of Busyness (You’re Not as Busy as You Think You Are) | Inc.com
• Email templates for 27 of your toughest work tasks
• What’s New on Netflix Streaming in December 2014 – The Moviefone Blog
• Help Right Now in Ferguson
  Here’s a way to do something for Ferguson right now: Join me in donating to one of the Ferguson-area classroom projects below.
• plotting – How do I draw a pair of buttocks? – Mathematica Stack Exchange
• Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. | Talk Video | TED.com
• The Hedonic Treadmill – If Only Happiness Were As Easy As Marriage, a Big House, and Kids
• The Internet of Anything: A Smartphone App That Lets You Control Your Office Environment | WIRED
  Those motion sensors that automatically turn on the lights when you walk into a corporate office? Vivian Loftness doesn’t like them. And she’s doesn’t like those thermostats that only answer to some computer sitting on the other side of the internet.
  “The trend is to take control away from users, because the thought is that users mess things up,” says Loftness, a professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon University who explores the modern office through the university’s Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace project. “We don’t like this. We want to reverse that trend.”

  Loftness and her fellow researchers have built a mobile app designed to give office workers more control over their environments—without sacrificing what comes from automated tools. Known as IDO—short for Intelligent Dashboard for Occupants—it provides a way for office employees to take hold of automated building systems and actively oversee things like lighting and temperature from their smartphones. It’s part of a collection of workplace technologies the project will sell to both businesses and government agencies in the coming months.

• The tech industry is in a bubble—but not the one you’re thinking of
  The tech industry is in the midst of another troublesome bubble, but this time it has little to do with monetary excess.

  For years, technology companies have brought us devices and products that, in many cases, improved our lives. What has gone unfixed is the culture, however, and it seems we may have finally reached the breaking point. The rampant sexism and sexual harassment, the lack of diversity and cultural awareness, and the severe lack of respect for the public (who, for instance, may not want to be experimented on by a social network) continue to propagate the industry, nearly unchecked.

• Shakespeare Folio Discovered in France – NYTimes.com
• Kurtwood Farms » Cheese
• Michael Russell: Six Seattle restaurants to visit on your next trip | OregonLive.com
• Uber Driver Tells Cancer Patient She Deserves To Be Sick For Canceling Ride: Gothamist

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• RelativeWave Gets Acquired By Google And Starts Giving Its $80 App Design Tool Away For Free | TechCrunch
• Exacompta Record Index Cards – JetPens.com
• Pilot Oil-Based Twin Markers – JetPens.com
• Mesos Graduates from Apache Incubation | Twitter Blogs
• Tech comm on a map: See all the tech comm groups, meetups, conferences, events, and consultants on a Google map | I’d Rather Be Writing
• Tech Comm on a Map
• https://ffeathers.wordpress.com/tech-comm-on-a-map/
• – Open Science Data Cloud
• Women In Astronomy: It’s Not About That Damn Shirt
• The Ping-Pong Theory of Tech Sexism — Matter — Medium
• Budget Blunders and Funding Follies
• Women doing STEM right | craigconnects
• Twitter Help Center | What is app graph on Twitter?
• Recent: a news app with personalized recommendations
• Uber’s data-sucking Android app is dangerously close to malware | Cult of Mac
• Planetary Glass Set | ThinkGeek
• Proposal: Host management · Issue #8681 · docker/docker

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• New Gene Studies Suggest There Are Hundreds of Kinds of Autism | WIRED
• Climbing a Glass Building? Try a Gecko’s Sticky Pads – NYTimes.com
• Officer Darren Wilson’s story is unbelievable. Literally. – Vox
• Why women leave tech: what the research says
• OneFold unveils its cloud-based BigData Warehouse for mobile and Internet of things | VentureBeat | Big Data | by Dean Takahashi

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• Calling Out Bill Cosby’s Media Enablers, Including Myself – NYTimes.com
• Symantec Discovers ‘Regin’ Spy Code Lurking on Computer Networks – NYTimes.com
• Seattle mayor pardons Tofurky, because it’s Seattle – The Washington Post
• Amy Unruh: The ‘Internet Of Things’ and Data Pipelines – DevFest Praha 2013 – YouTube
• Conference Presenter Consent: Strata + Hadoop World in London 2015 – O’Reilly Conferences, May 05 – 07, 2015, London, UK

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• Kitcheree the wonder food! | Om Maker

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• Google’s new bookmarking feature is just like Pinterest
• Cara Parks Reviews Leonard S. Marcus’s "Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L’Engle in Many Voices" | New Republic
• Custom T-shirts » Design & Sell T-Shirts for Your Group | Teespring
• Next Glass Wine and Beer Recommendation App Replaces Sommeliers With Science | Re/code
• Bill Evans Trio – Nardis [1970] – YouTube
• Bill Evans Trio – Emily (Helsinki 1969) – YouTube
• The Netflix cloud team loves OSS — and would love to stop building it — Tech News and Analysis
• HandUp – Direct giving for the homeless and others at-risk
• Open-sourcing tools for Hadoop
• Walmart workers increasingly rely on food banks, report says | Money | The Guardian
• How to Get Away with Uber — Matter — Medium
• internet of things | SQLstream | Big Data Stream Processing & Operational Intelligence for the Internet of Things
• JD Maturen on Twitter: "“Remarkably, perceiving one’s judgments as objective predicted greater gender bias.”

  https://t.co/XNOCi15qkH http://t.co/XhVg57uOQi"

  RT @jdmaturen: “Remarkably, perceiving one’s judgments as objective predicted greater gender bias.”

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• Seattle mayor pardons tofu turkey ahead of Thanksgiving | The Today File | Seattle Times
• Twitter "Exhaust" Reveals Patterns of Unemployment | MIT Technology Review

  Twitter data mining reveals surprising detail about socioeconomic indicators but at a fraction of the cost of traditional data-gathering methods, say computational sociologists.

• Violence in Post-Verdict Ferguson: What We Should Really Be Worried About | Heather Ann Thompson
• USB tentacle squirms, does nothing else – CNET
• There’s a Suicide Epidemic in Utah — And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why – Mic
• Silence-Heart-Nest
  3508 Fremont Pl N, Seattle, WA 98103, United States
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• jessie frazelle on Twitter: ""Uhhh Skipper wtf did you apt-get install on my host?!? You know I containerize everything!!" http://t.co/yOzdLKfk6w"
  RT @mccrory: “@frazelledazzell: "Uhhh Skipper wtf did you apt-get install on my host?!? You know I containerize everything!!" ” <+1
• Confessions of a Digital Packrat: The un-phonetic alphabet
• These are a few of my favourite species: sarcastic fringehead | Deep Sea News
  RT @treelobsters: RT @seelix The Sarcastic Fringehead is the best animal name ever.
• Tree Lobsters! on Twitter: "RT @seelix The Sarcastic Fringehead is the best animal name ever. http://t.co/t0vSRS0wrT http://t.co/XDceoAGIk9"
  RT @treelobsters: RT @seelix The Sarcastic Fringehead is the best animal name ever.

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• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Framestore Frees Up Designers to Create Unforgettable Visual Effects, with Help from Google Compute Engine
• Urban Water Blueprint
• Gecko-inspired adhesives allow people to climb walls | Science/AAAS | News
• An Oral History of the Epic Space Film The Right Stuff | WIRED
• LUNAR MISSION ONE: A new lunar mission for everyone. by Lunar Missions Ltd — Kickstarter
• Andrew Rader on Twitter: "Antarctica from space. You don’t see it a lot because you have to be in a specific polar orbit to get this view. http://t.co/lP6l0z9xil"
  RT @marsrader: Antarctica from space. You don’t see it a lot because you have to be in a specific polar orbit to get this view.

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