Archive for October, 2013

D. T. Max: After Twitter and Square, What is Jack Dorsey’s Next Move? : The New Yorker

Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

After [big hits at] Twitter and Square, What is @Jack Dorsey’s Next Move: Being a very rich artist! http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/21/131021fa_fact_max MT @Sharmason

TWO-HIT WONDER

Jack Dorsey, of Twitter, is now making big money at Square—and is out
to prove that he’s more than a lucky man.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/21/131021fa_fact_max

U.S. housing map: When most homes were built, by county.

Monday, October 28th, 2013

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/10/27/u_s_housing_map_when_most_homes_were_built_by_county.html

Heavy Smog Clouds Northern China – WSJ.com

Monday, October 28th, 2013

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303448104579149780879040184

Air-movement pattern portends US heatwaves : Nature News & Comment

Sunday, October 27th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/air-movement-pattern-portends-us-heatwaves-1.14033

Our Fear of Al-Qaeda Hurts Us More Than Al-Qaeda Does – David Rohde – The Atlantic

Sunday, October 27th, 2013

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/our-fear-of-al-qaeda-hurts-us-more-than-al-qaeda-does/280897/

YaleNews | Bee sting venom can help develop immunity to bee stings

Sunday, October 27th, 2013

http://news.yale.edu/2013/10/24/bee-sting-venom-can-help-develop-immunity-bee-stings

First Alert 3035DF Digital Security Box, Black/Silver – Amazon.com

Saturday, October 26th, 2013

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MPO6OY

manual:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/sh/fc0a8c6d-c4ac-4190-b312-6cf95e15822a/98f2a4121daa399ab8dc464578dac800

The keys are “black topped”. Mine has a 037 inscribed.

The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review

Saturday, October 26th, 2013

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/

Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life

Saturday, October 26th, 2013

RELATED:

check this out:

http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/04/05/analyzing-your-email-with-mathematica

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life

really useful tools!

(Note, Wolfram’s blog post was written up by the Times, viz:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/mining-our-personal-data-for-our-own-good.html)

.@seinecle @aaronquinlan @_salmoni immersion.media.mit.edu has very impressive viz of one’s email but I’m a bit privacy worried

https://immersion.media.mit.edu/

The Wadsworth Atheneum | Tara Donovan, Untitled (Toothpicks)

Saturday, October 26th, 2013

http://www.thewadsworth.org/toothpicks/