Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Greasemonkey Manual:Editing – GreaseSpot [creating userscripts] Transform Your DSLR into a Supercharged, Professional Video Camera tags: diy Miniaturize Your Desktop with These Tilt-Shift Wallpapers | io9 tags: photography The Laughing Heart (Charles Bukowski) your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into [...]
‘Big Data’ Means Business Needs Mathematicians – Technology Review The proliferation of ways to measure things — point of service terminals, web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information — means businesses are drowning in data. This has led to a new class of engineer, the “data scientist,” whose job it is to perform [...]
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AVOS broke my linkblogging engine! Fortunately, my Delicious account is mirrored at diigo.com/user/Camryl9. The tags below point to delicious. Is That Cordite I Smell? | forensics4fiction Cordite was a type of smokeless propellant for firearm cartridges developed by the British from the early 1890′s to about the end of WWI when better smokeless powders were [...]
Staff Picks: Sites that Spark Creativity Nearly A Third Of Netflix Users Are Considering Canceling Their Service | SocialTimes.com • by Megan O’Neill 24 Fabulous One Page Web Layouts | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch Create An Animated Bar Graph With HTML, CSS And jQuery – Smashing Coding Epistemic Utility Arguments for [...]
Pro-slavery propaganda from the 1800s USA | Feministe • by Clarisse Thorn …in the early 1800s, pro-slavery authors reacted to the anti-slavery classic Uncle Tom’s Cabin by writing their own pro-slavery propaganda. I guess that makes sense. What’s really cool is that you can go ahead and read one of those pro-slavery books, in all [...]
Neutrinos | xkcd.com > science skepticism You Have Disturbed My Slumber | Cute Overload • by Not That Mike The Other Mike That was most unwise, puny mortal. And now you shall pay for your insolence… > cute_animals You can use World War I Royal Navy weather logs to help improve climate projection models | [...]
Tea Partiers dead wrong – TheHill.com …here’s what I find interesting — and totally contradictory. Those conservative Tea Partiers who support the death penalty so strongly are the very same anti-government forces who claim that government can’t do anything right. > death_penalty Supercommittee unlikely to embrace proposal for CBO `jobs’ score, aides say – The [...]
Women’s History Image of the Week: Peace Day September 21 is International Peace Day. Peace activism has been a cause for many women reformers, with many of the early 20th century suffrage activists also active in peace movements. Eliza Palmer Peabody | About.com Women’s History Meet Eliza Palmer Peabody, mother of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Mary [...]
Emotional Bag Check Lets You Trade Problems for Music | Underwire | Wired.com …a site that lets you suggest songs to cheer people up. It’s simple. Go to Emotional Bag Check, and choose whether you want to offload a problem or help out with someone else’s. If you want to get something off your chest, [...]
Arctic ice at second-lowest extent since 1979 | Bad Astronomy …the lack of ice means that the northernmost latitudes are able to be plied by ships in the summer. But every year there is less ice even at maximum, meaning more and more area is accessible year-round. It’s well-known that there are deposits of oil [...]
Do You Have to Work for Peter G. Peterson to Be Cited on Budget Issues in the Washington Post? | Firedoglake • by Dean Baker That’s the question that readers are undoubtedly asking after seeing this piece on President Obama’s budget proposals. Pet Parrot Takes a Bite Out of Crime; Authorities Seek Suspect With Hole [...]
Emergency Team Of 8th-Grade Civics Teachers Dispatched To Washington | The Onion – July 27, 2011 > satire Tea Partiers: Light Rail an Invitation to Al Qaeda | Mother Jones In other words, Van Brink is arguing that because terrorists fantasize about blowing up American infrastructure, we should avoid spending any money on infrastructure. Remembering [...]
Protesters Take Trash From Foreclosed House To Bank Of America Branch | The Consumerist • by Ben Popken The bags contained refuse collected from the yard of a house the bank foreclosed on and let fall into disrepair, becoming a blight in the neighborhood and threatening to drag down property values. The Salary Science Infographic [...]
OMG, Ponies! (Or… my love affair with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) | Geek Feminism Blog • by Terri There’s an excellent interview with Lauren Faust up at Equestria Daily which I think will appeal to many geek feminists, even if you’re not fans of the show. … Not only does it show the [...]
Report says more civic engagement means less unemployment | All Things Reform • by David Weller, OSL Also worth noting: it has been shown that formerly incarcerated felons who vote in elections have a lower recivitism rate (they are less likely to return to prison.) Thin Film Transforms Any Surface Into a Massive Multitouch Screen [...]
Michael Goldman-Gilad – Interview – Education I think one of the important achievements of the trial was that as a result of the witnesses’ appearances, Holocaust survivors finally began to speak out, to tell their stories thinking that they will be believed. …Maybe they would have left their personal memoirs at home, in a language [...]
Putting innovation and tech to work against breast cancer | In April, Jeff Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley and made an observation to Businessweek that spread like wildfire: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” he said. … Tim O’Reilly moderated two panels during the launch yesterday [...]
A New and Improved Moore’s Law | Technology Review Under “Koomey’s law,” it’s efficiency, not power, that doubles every year and a half. Researchers have, for the first time, shown that the energy efficiency of computers doubles roughly every 18 months. > podcast In-Car Algorithm Could Rapidly Dissolve Traffic Jams | Technology Review If cars [...]
FTC Proposes Changes To Law Protecting Kids’ Privacy Online | The Consumerist • by Chris Morran The proposed modifications to COPPA would extend privacy protections to more digital platforms popular among children, including mobile devices and Internet-enabled gaming. The changes would update the definition of what constitutes a child’s “personal information” to include the child’s [...]