Sun 15 May 2011
Twitter highlights: April 17–23, 2011
Posted by Jimmy Lin under Art and music, Business and economy, Computers and technology, Language, Politics, Society, Software and the Internet, Software development, Updates
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- Sadat Shami: “Giving up tenure… and getting happiness in return? Reflections from someone who did” (The Scientist via Nick Diakopoulos)
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- I think I’ll get a standing desk (New York Times)
- Jeffrey Bigham: “How languages may have diffused from Africa, modeling phonemes” (New York Times)
- Boris Smus: “Allow me to explain sorting algorithms through interpretive dance” (YouTube via Pamela Fox)
- This collaboration of cellist Yo-Yo Ma and street dancer Lil Buck is amazing (YouTube)
- Looks like the folks at Red Hat are creating their own JVM language called Ceylon (Ars Technica)
- Sandra Kogan: “Walmart’s $1.85 billion mistake. They relied on what customers said in a survey versus what they actually do.” (Phil Terry)
- Dilbert creator Scott Adams: Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business. (Wall Street Journal)
- Mugizi Rwebangira: “How to fool yourself into working harder” (Dextronet)
- Impressed by Ovi Maps 3D. Besides buildings, trees and overpasses in suburban Silicon Valley are also 3D.
- Republicans paying $575 an hour to defend Defense of Marriage Act (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Sadat Shami: “Google Map Maker allows you to add your local knowledge to a map [currently for the United States only]”
- Kayur Patel: “1998 Onion article on streaming video. It’s more interesting than funny in today’s Netflix age.”
- Frog Design and design innovation in China (Forbes via James Landay)
- Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice? (St. Petersburg Times via Lynn Wu)
- John Regehr: “‘Facts have no meaning on the Internet.’ —Thomas Jefferson”
- Boyce Avenue not only covered Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” they subtly changed some of the lyrics: YouTube video
- Intrigued by Hyde, a static website generator in Python and Django by Lakshmi Vyas. Boris Smus switched his blog to it.
- xkcd: Seismic Waves
- Mike Lee: “So busy bitching about iPhone location logs I forgot to check in on Foursquare”
- The joy of mapping a 2D image on to a 3D terrain model (The Map Room)
- Cities build airport cities — ‘aerotropolises’ — for growth (USA Today via Sara Galligan)
- Sadat Shami: “BO.LT is a web-based tool that enables people to quickly, without code, remix the content presented on a website” (Huffington Post)
- Madhu Prabaker: “Interesting new approach to metered parking in San Francisco. sfpark.org”
- Sadat Shami: “Recommendation service Hunch revisits the Mac vs. PC debate with this infographic based on their users”
- The Onion: ‘The Economist’ To Halt Production For Month To Let Readers Catch Up