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http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life now featured in nytimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/mining-our-personal-data-for-our-own-good.html

Some thoughts:

* Interesting and very precise measurement of daily email flow, meetings, and phone calls.

* Found the consistency of his late night schedule and the
exponentially decreasing length of his phone calls interesting. It’s also interesting how working on his book affected all of this.

* He felt that this form of personal quantification was a bit more useful currently than his personal genome and I’m inclined to agree.

http://bioethics.gov/cms/node/676

QT:
”
SUMMARY: The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is requesting public comment on the ethical issues raised by the ready availability of large-scale human genome sequence data, with regard to privacy and data access and the balancing of individual and societal interests.
DATES: To assure consideration, comments must be received by May 25, 2012. … The Commission is particularly interested in policies, practices, research, and perspectives on issues of privacy and data access as they relate to the integration of large-scale human genome sequencing into research and clinical care.
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http://lifehacker.com/5867446/the-always-up+to+date-power-users-guide-to-chrome?tag=googlechrome
ctrl-shift-R to do a non-cache reload, calcs on the omni bar, readability, send2phone
chrome://memory-redirect + chrome://plugins

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000864