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What I’m reading and finding for January 29th 2012 through January 31st 2012:

• Uncensored – Leanpub-
  leanpub.com
• A Glimpse of Murdoch Unbound-
  nytimes.com
  - By DAVID CARR
  

  While many modern executives live behind a wall of communications operatives, Rupert Murdoch, the chief of News Corporation, is openly expressing his opinions on Twitter.
• From Twitter – How to Stop YouTube From Crashing Google Chrome http://t.co/6vPAdn73
• The Bookstore’s Last Stand-
  nytimes.com
  - By JULIE BOSMAN
• From Twitter – DNSCrypt Could be interesting. Mac only preview at the moment. http://t.co/8uNOY3ay
• Twitter’s censorship is a gray box of shame, but not for Twitter | Paul Smalera-
  blogs.reuters.com
  - Paul Smalera
  

  Twitter’s announcement this week that it was going to enable country-specific censorship of posts is arousing fury around the Internet. Commentators, activists, protesters and netizens have said it’s “very bad news” and claim to be “#outraged”. Bianca Jagger, for one, asked how to go about boycotting Twitter, on Twitter, according to the New York Times. (Step one might be… well, never mind.) The critics have settled on #TwitterBlackout: all day on Saturday the 28th, they promised to not tweet, …  show all text
• From Twitter – NASA telescope discovers 26 alien planets around 11 different stars http://t.co/5vdorUIx

Probably the best movie of the Shuttle I’ve seen. Shows the whole sequence from shuttle prep to launch from STS-131. My favorite part is seeing attachment to the external tank. Amazing.

What I’m reading and finding for May 16th 2011 through May 18th 2011:

• For Buyers of Web Start-Ups, Quest to Corral Young Talent -
  nytimes.com - By MIGUEL HELFT
  

  Some companies want talent so badly, they buy start-ups for their employees and…  show all text

   
• BBC News – Microsoft’s Bill Gates says he advocated Skype takeov… -
  bbc.co.uk
  

  Chairman and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates says he was strongly behind the c…

   
• Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In Nor… -
  techcrunch.com - Erick Schonfeld
  

  Netflix video streaming is now the single largest source of peak downstream Int…  show all text

   
• blip.tv – discover the best in original web series -
  blip.tv
  

  blip.tv is home to the best in original web series from professional and up-and…

   
• Schwarzenegger paternity: Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fath… -
  latimes.com
  

  His wife, Maria Shriver, moved out of their Brentwood home earlier this year af…

   
• Here’s another Photo of the shuttle from my plane. on Twitpic -
  twitpic.com
  
• NASA – NASA TV -
  nasa.gov
  NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique per…

   

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 2nd 2011

• From Twitter – Added the new Missing Remote podcast to my Tech Podcasts http://j.mp/gwyo7t The Gillmor Gang feed changed so I fixed that
• News Desk: Does Egypt Need Twitter? : The New Yorker –
  newyorker.com - Malcolm Gladwell
  

  When Mao famously said that power springs from the barrel of a gun, it was assumed that he was talking about guns. There wasn’t much interest at the time in how he chose to communicate that sentiment: whether he said it in a speech, say, or whispered it to a friend, or wrote it in his diary or published it in a book. That would never happen today, of course. We now believe that the “how” of a communicative act is of huge importance. We would say that Mao posted that power come..  show all text
• From Twitter – RT @KatRow Awesome stats & diagrams on Facebook's growth in 2010. http://j.mp/i5Voyf via @davepeck#nstpr
• Google Tried To Buy Path For $100+ Million. Path Said No. –
  techcrunch.com - Michael Arrington
  

  Yesterday we reported on Path’s new $8.5 million venture round, led by Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures. I was curious about the valuation and pulled on a couple of threads. What unraveled was a stunning story about a startup that almost ran out of cash, a rebuffed $100+ million buyout offer from Google, and, finally, a new round of financing.
  Path is still very small, with just “hundreds of thousands” of users, said the company yesterday. It’s a private mobile network..  show all text
• From Twitter – RT @NASA Watch a NASA video on Kepler's exciting new planetary discoveries http://youtu.be/WhWReKpM1tg

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 26th 2010

• From Twitter – Moment of silence for Spirit RT @BreakingNews NASA ends effort to free Spirit rover from Martian sand http://bit.ly/9wwoHC
• Google Reader Lets You Subscribe to Any Page on the Web -
  mashable.com
  
  RSS technology makes it possible for anyone to keep up with fresh content without having to visit the site in question. Now the same holds for webpages without RSS thanks to a new Google Reader feature. Today Google has rolled out a subtle change to Google Reader that lets you create custom feeds to track pages that don’t already have them. So you can subscribe to updates for any webpage simply by typing the URL into the “Add a subscription” text box.
  Should you put the new feature to work..   show all text
  jbruin: Google Reader Lets You Subscribe to Any Page on the Web – http://bit.ly/7H7Kpk

Sites that I found interesting for November 25th 2009 through November 30th 2009:

• It’s Whale-Watching Season – SanDiego.com – Every November, gray whales embark on an extraordinary, 10-12-week journey south from their summer feeding grounds in Arctic seas to the warm-water breeding lagoons of Baja.
• From Twitter – via @bobbiejohnson Always love the World Press Photos of the year. Latest selection is just as exciting and astonishing as usual http://bit.ly/6NjHSp
• From Twitter – via @GuyKawasaki How to take your site to the next level http://om.ly/cdCf
• From Twitter – RT @newsycombinator The man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz http://bit.ly/53tCHW
• Always On Top Maker – Sometimes, for simplifying the operate, you need to make an application on top of other applications, but this application has not “always on top” option, or sometimes you need to make an application not always on top, in these conditions, you need Always On Top Maker.
• From Twitter – LiveStreaming from your Mobile Phone http://qik.com http://flixwagon.com http://bambuser.com http://livecast.com via @AlexKaris
• From Twitter – RT @newsycombinator Evidence of life on Mars lurks beneath surface of meteorite, Nasa experts claim http://bit.ly/5VaHQI
• From Twitter – RT @newsycombinator Amazing Tutorials Search Engine For Programmers and Designers http://bit.ly/6UhKPR
• Image comparing Google image search results on both sides of the Great Firewall of China -
• “GHOST SHIP” PICTURES: Gold Rush-Era Wreck Found – Recently photographed for the first time, the gold rush-era sternwheeler A.J. Goddard was discovered sitting upright and remarkably intact in a lake in the Yukon Territory, Canada
• “Turkey Day” tech support survival kit – Thanksgiving is a time of year when non-techies hunt you down looking for free advice and “help” troubleshooting a problem. This survival kit is guaranteed to make you look like a superhero in front of friends and family.

Sites that I found interesting for October 5th 2009 through October 8th 2009:

• NASA preps to shoot the moon – On Friday morning October 9 at 4:31:19 a.m. PDT, NASA plans to have two spacecraft crash into the lunar surface to dig up some moon dust and search for water.
• CopyTransManager is a Snappy and Light-Weight iTunes Alternative – If all you really want out of your iPod experience is the ability to load music, movies, and podcasts onto your iPod without any bulk or bloat, portable and free CopyTransManager is a speedy iTunes-alternative. via @isdixon on Twitter.
• Gravatar – Globally Recognized Avatars – Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. via @MrsNatalie on Twitter.

Sites that I found interesting for September 25th 2009 through September 27th 2009:

• It’s Official: Water Found on the Moon – New observations from three different spacecraft return what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon. via @Macht_Nichts on Twitter.
• Install Picasa 3.5 In Linux – Want the same kind of facial recognition, name tagging and easy geo-location of Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac on your Linux desktop? There’s no official release, but you can fairly easily plug Picasa into your system.
• Microsoft’s Chiller-less Data Center – Microsoft today announced that its huge facility in Dublin, Ireland is running without any chillers. Outside air is drawn into the facility to cool the thousands of servers powering the company’s “Live” suite of online services for users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sites that I found interesting for June 11th 2009 through June 12th 2009:

• Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified – Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified.
• Ain’t She a Beauty? – A Look at Some HTPC Chassis Solutions. Via @Java_Jack on Twitter.
• LG Ships First Netflix-Ready HDTV Sets – LG Electronics said Thursday it has started shipping a pair of flat-panel TVs that are among the first with built-in capability to stream movies from the Netflix online service.

Sites that I found interesting for November 18th 2008 through November 24th 2008:

• Low Cost Video Production in Your Pocket – Good article on shooting video at a lecture with a Flip camera.
• 10 Cool Secrets About Disneyland – Neatorama – Regardless of where you believe to be the true “Happiest Place On Earth” is, you have to admit, Disneyland is at least pretty magical.
• Name The Rover – NASA is asking kids (K-12) for help naming their next rover. Enter the contest!