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What I’m reading and finding for January 31st 2012 through February 3rd 2012:

• From Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches-
  nytimes.com
  - By NICK BILTON and EVELYN M. RUSLI
  

  Facebook’s public offering will make a lot of billionaires and millionaires, some of them prominent people and others not.
• Registration Statement on Form S-1-
  sec.gov
• Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Dropbox Is The Best Overall Startup | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - Josh Constine
  

  This year’s fifth annual Crunchies Awards has just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri, honored former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, and gave wild monkey trophies to tech’s greatest innovators. If you missed the event or our livestream, check out the full list of nominees and winners below.
  The world owes a thank you to Jack Dorsey, the “Founder Of The Year” and leader of Twitter, win…  show all text
• Bowing to anti-abortion politics, breast cancer charity cuts funds for screenings at Planned Parenthood – Boing Boing-
  boingboing.net
  - Xeni Jardin
  

  Collateral damage in the abortion wars, and bad news for working class and low-income women who rely on Planned Parenthood clinics for breast cancer and cervical cancer screening services. The Susan G. Komen Foundation, America’s largest and best-funded cancer charity, is reportedly cutting funding to Planned Parenthood, in response to pressure from anti-women’s health political groups.
  Planned Parenthood provides a wide array of women’s health services, including mammograms and cancer screenin…  show all text
• From Twitter – (RePress, An Internet Censorship Defeating Plugin For WordPress) http://t.co/xPHGnRx8
• Letters of Note: To My Old Master-
  lettersofnote.com
  - Shaun Usher
  In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated). Rather than quote the numerous highlights in this letter, I’ll simply leave you to enjoy it. Do…  show all text
• From Twitter – A working group is pitching a system that will allow providers to authenticate emails better. http://t.co/jqnsSizH

What I’m reading and finding for December 6th 2011 through December 10th 2011:

• Apple Made A Deal With The Devil (No, Worse: A Patent Troll) | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - Jason Kincaid
  

  Over the last two years, Apple has been engaged in vicious legal battles over smartphone patents, many of which are aimed at squelching (or squeezing money out of) manufacturers of devices running Android. And now, for some reason, it has given valuable patents to a patent troll — which is using them to sue many of the top technology companies in the world.
  Meet Digitude Innovations, a firm based in Virginia that recently filed suit with the International Trade Commission alleging patent infrin…  show all text
• The diagnosis – Boing Boing-
  boingboing.net
  - Xeni Jardin
  

  I have breast cancer. A week ago, I had breast cancer, and the week before that, and the week before that. Maybe five, eight, even ten years ago, the first bad cell split inside me, secretly. But I didn’t know. This is how I arrived at knowing.
  Two friends of mine were recently diagnosed. When news of the first came, I felt sadness. When news of the second came a few weeks ago, I felt a different kind of shock. I’d never had a mammogram. Even though I was ten years younger than the time they say  show all text
• A Twitter for My Sister – NYTimes.com-
  bits.blogs.nytimes.com
  - By NICK BILTON
  Non-techies find the @ and # symbols on Twitter don’t make much sense. So the company had to figure out a way to keep the site running for people who are more technologically adept and rely on these symbols but also work seamlessly for those who think these characters are substitutes for swear words in comics.
• Air France 447 Flight-Data Recorder Transcript – What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 – Popular Mechanics-
  popularmechanics.com
  

  Two years after the Airbus 330 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, Air France 447′s flight-data recorders finally turned up. The revelations from the pilot transcript paint a surprising picture of chaos in the cockpit that led to the crash.
• From Twitter – Science Exchange provides a way to outsource and manage experiments. http://t.co/xbHmbCw6
• From Twitter – Amazon retail stores? Interesting read from +Jason Calacanis http://t.co/D2Wcxrq8
• From Twitter – Cores reveal when Dead Sea ‘died’ http://t.co/aona1pSG

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for March 10th 2010 through March 11th 2010:

• Google Reader Play Transforms Feeds into Entertainment Experience -
  mashable.com
  
  Google has just released an alternative player for Google Reader that gives those with a penchant for browsing news the ability to do so in an image-heavy, TV-like fashion.
  Dubbed Google Reader Play, the new tool is an experimental Google Labs project that presents stories one by one — based on their Recommend Items technology — using enlarged photos and auto-playing videos (in lieu of text) on a black backdrop. Viewers can redefine categories and star, like or share stories, with those be..   show all text
  jbruin: Google Reader Play Transforms Feeds into Entertainment Experience – http://bit.ly/bWPFby
• Tattooing My Body “LIVESTRONG” for Cancer Research | Geoff Livingston’s Blog -
  geofflivingston.com
  
  As some of you know, I have a close relative came down with cancer last year (he chooses to remain unnamed, but his cancer is now in remission). It turns out that my Cousin Paula (photo below) also came down with breast cancer last year, too (also in remission). That’s why I have decided to donate a little piece of my body to fundraise for cancer research with the Lance Armstrong Foundation. If I successfully raise $5,000 by midnight on Sunday, I will literally get the LIVESTRONG brand tat..   show all text
  sbspalding: Hey! @geofflivingis raising $5k for cancer research, if he makes it he’ll get Livestrong tattooed on himself at #sxsw http://ike4.me/gll
• Official Google Blog: Biking directions added to Google Maps -
  googleblog.blogspot.com
  Whenever I meet someone who finds out that I work on the directions team for Google Maps, the first question I’m asked is often “So when’s Google Maps going to add biking directions?” We’re big biking fans too, so we’ve been itching to give you a concrete answer. I don’t want to keep the good news a secret any longer, so the answer is: right now! Today we’ve added biking directions and extensive bike trail data to Google Maps for the U.S. My team has been keeping close tabs on all the public ..   show all text
  googlemaps: It’s official! Announcing biking directions. Read all about it from the Product Manager: http://bit.ly/90wxcB #bikewithgoogle
• Twitterlive – Another way to feed your RSS to twitter – Looks like it lets you do more frequent updating that twitterfeed does. Also on Twitter as @twlive
• New Hard Drives May Force XP Users to Upgrade to 7 – As a warning, it’s not all that dire, but it is a wake-up call for Windows XP users–newer hardware just might make your XP life a bit less comfortable. In this case, hard drives coming out starting January 2011 will have a new formatting standard that will make them less compatible with XP, and will result in performance slowdowns.