New and notable for April 28th 2011 through April 29th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for April 28th 2011 through April 29th 2011: One Per Cent: That’s what she said: Software that tells dirty jo… – newscientist.com Researchers have developed a computer system to identify certain kinds of doubl…  show all text   Twitter Confirms It Has Passed 200 Million Accounts, 70% of Traf… – [...]

New and notable for April 27th 2011 through April 28th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for April 27th 2011 through April 28th 2011: From Twitter – RT @sdtips Live on http://j.mp/zo6r4 @ 10a London time. 2a (PST), 5am (EDT), 10a (London), 11a (CEST), 2 30 (IST)… Greplin: 1.5 Billion Documents Indexed, Six Engineers – techcrunch.com – Michael Arrington Late last year we first mentioned Y [...]

New and notable for April 26th 2011 through April 27th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for April 26th 2011 through April 27th 2011: President Obama’s Long Form Birth Certificate | The White House – whitehouse.gov Since President Obama believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country, he requested the long form version, which has been published here.   From Twitter – [...]

New and notable for April 24th 2011 through April 26th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for April 24th 2011 through April 26th 2011: From Twitter – RT @Tinu How to track Social Media within Google Analytics http://t.co/CbgB243 via @tnwsocialmedia Joichi Ito to Be Named Head of M.I.T. Media Lab – nytimes.com – By JOHN MARKOFF Mr. Ito is a 44-year-old Japanese venture capitalist who has [...]

New and notable for April 21st 2011 through April 23rd 2011

What I’m reading and finding for April 21st 2011 through April 23rd 2011: Happy Birthday Shakespeare – birthday2011.bloggingshakespeare.com Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies – michaeleisen.org – Michael Eisen A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a [...]

New and notable for April 19th 2011 through April 21st 2011

What I’m reading and finding for April 19th 2011 through April 21st 2011: From Twitter – visual.ly is launching soon and I'm one of the first in line! Join me. #launch http://t.co/FbdsqlM via @visually From Twitter – RT @thinkupapp Fresh out of the oven ThinkUp beta 10! Download, install, tinker http://bit.ly/gveCCV 3 Major Issues with [...]

New and notable for April 17th 2011 through April 19th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for April 17th 2011 through April 19th 2011: Starting today, the @Squarecredit card reader will be available for $9.95 in all 235 U.S. Apple stores. Online too. – Jack Dorsey – jackdorsey.posterous.com Permalink | Leave a comment » Why Twitter Wants to Acquire TweetDeck – mashable.com – Ben Parr Why [...]

Doctor Who: Everything You Need to Know about the TARDIS – Infographic

via anglotopia.net Infographics and Doctor Who = very cool.

New and notable for April 14th 2011 through April 16th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for April 14th 2011 through April 16th 2011: Square’s Disruptive Payment Service About To Get A Huge Retail Boost From Apple – techcrunch.com – Leena Rao Mobile payments company Square has landed a big coup—sales placement on Apple’s online store. And we’ve just confirmed with Square that the startup has [...]

Recover 3.5GB of Space After Window 7 SP1 Upgrade

The Windows 7 and Win2k8 R2 SP1 upgrade process leaves behind up to 3.5GB of roll back data. If you are OK with not being able to roll back to non-SP1, you can remove this data. You just need open an elevated command prompt and then execute a simple command. Click the Start Orb Type [...]