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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) [original tweet]
  • I think I’ll get a standing desk (New York Times) [original tweet]
  • Jeffrey Bigham: “How languages may have diffused from Africa, modeling phonemes” (New York Times) [original tweet]
  • Boris Smus: “Allow me to explain sorting algorithms through interpretive dance” (YouTube via Pamela Fox) [original tweet]
  • This collaboration of cellist Yo-Yo Ma and street dancer Lil Buck is amazing (YouTube) [original tweet]
  • Looks like the folks at Red Hat are creating their own JVM language called Ceylon (Ars Technica) [original tweet]
  • Sandra Kogan: “Walmart’s $1.85 billion mistake. They relied on what customers said in a survey versus what they actually do.” (Phil Terry) [original tweet]
  • Dilbert creator Scott Adams: Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business. (Wall Street Journal) [original tweet]
  • Mugizi Rwebangira: “How to fool yourself into working harder” (Dextronet) [original tweet]
  • Impressed by Ovi Maps 3D. Besides buildings, trees and overpasses in suburban Silicon Valley are also 3D. [original tweet]
  • Republicans paying $575 an hour to defend Defense of Marriage Act (San Francisco Chronicle) [original tweet]
  • Sadat Shami: “Google Map Maker allows you to add your local knowledge to a map [currently for the United States only]” [original tweet]
  • Kayur Patel: “1998 Onion article on streaming video. It’s more interesting than funny in today’s Netflix age.” [original tweet]
  • Frog Design and design innovation in China (Forbes via James Landay) [original tweet]
  • Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice? (St. Petersburg Times via Lynn Wu) [original tweet]
  • John Regehr: “‘Facts have no meaning on the Internet.’ —Thomas Jefferson” [original tweet]
  • Boyce Avenue not only covered Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” they subtly changed some of the lyrics: YouTube video [original tweet]
  • Intrigued by Hyde, a static website generator in Python and Django by Lakshmi Vyas. Boris Smus switched his blog to it. [original tweet]
  • xkcd: Seismic Waves [original tweet]
  • Mike Lee: “So busy bitching about iPhone location logs I forgot to check in on Foursquare” [original tweet]
  • The joy of mapping a 2D image on to a 3D terrain model (The Map Room) [original tweet]
  • Cities build airport cities — ‘aerotropolises’ — for growth (USA Today via Sara Galligan) [original tweet]
  • 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) [original tweet]
  • Madhu Prabaker: “Interesting new approach to metered parking in San Francisco. sfpark.org” [original tweet]
  • Sadat Shami: “Recommendation service Hunch revisits the Mac vs. PC debate with this infographic based on their users” [original tweet]
  • The Onion: ‘The Economist’ To Halt Production For Month To Let Readers Catch Up [original tweet]

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