Category: Links

These are my pinboard links for June 10th through June 22nd:

• The Furnished Room – Soho life in London 1960s. No American punlisher?
• The Slow Web – Jack Cheng – Thoughtful and comebackable.
• @HowardStern embraces @gtdguy’s GTD-System, @RobertABooey and the rest of @SternShow put on alert « IAMREALOK – Howard Stern somewhat profanely but entertainingly discusses his adoption of GTD principles…
• Apple’s Newton MessagePad PDA at Twenty | Techland | TIME.com – What happens when a tech journalist tries to adopt an original Messagepad? Some struggles, some consideration of the history.
• mimezine – we might be stupid but we’re poor – Distributed collective of thought and hack. Sadly, the .org seems to have disappeared…

These are my pinboard links for May 26th through June 9th:

• willathome – Setting Up A Password Database –
• Dave Lee – GTD sucks for creative work. Here’s an alternative system. – Alternative means of building a week's focus and tasks.
• Copying Lync Server Policies – Lync PowerShell – Site Home – TechNet Blogs – Somewhat hacktastic, but it works.
• Street Art… – from a Tumblr, some pretty impressive street art.
• How to use a paper towel – Late to the party on this, but quite excellent, I am shocked at how many towels some people feel they need, but this gentleman has an explanation and mechanism.

These are my pinboard links for May 12th through May 26th:

• (1) Gil Yehuda’s answer to Yahoo!: Why do people still work at Yahoo!? – Quora – I found this answer, reflective of self reflection and "stick-to-itive-ness" a good read.
• Cronic – A cure for Cron’s chronic email problem – A cron wrapper to make things nicer. Ref page also includes pointers to other cron wrappers, a considerate touch.
• Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka » Blog Archive » NTK, Fifteen Years On – NTK on repeat. Brilliant and in keeping with, well, something.
• On Diaspora’s Social Network, You Own Your Data – Businessweek – On part whither Diaspora, one part whither the social data re. Nice samples of data lockers and the Data Liberation Front @GOOG.
• A story about Miles Davis and the nature of true genius – Liking the phrase "cautious courage".

These are my pinboard links for May 5th through May 12th:

• Joycean joy after library says ‘yes’ – The Irish Times – Mon, May 07, 2012 – Joyce archives available as public heritage. Too long, thanks to copyright laws, but very welcome!
• Mission Statement « LiquidFeedback – Interactive Democracy – Liquid feedback is a distributed democracy tool, associated with Germany's Pirate Party in their decision making process.
• Talking Smack About Junk: Shirley Clarke’s ‘The Connection’ by J. Hoberman | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books – Early play turned film loosely baed in beat culture. Also, J Hoberman.
• After the Cold War: Tony Judt –
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel – review – Atwood reviews a novel I am anxious for the release of – Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies (the next on from the spectacular Wolf Hall).
• Re(de)fining Print and the Resurgence of the Magazine | Hypebeast – On the potential resurgences for print. Quality, depth, subscription, diversity.

These are my pinboard links for May 4th from 08:15 to 11:06:

• PHD Comics: The Higgs Boson Explained – Excellent animation of some basic particle physics (and theory). Mass as evidence of a force? Craziness.
• How to Make Observations like a Scientist | TIME Ideas | TIME.com – Interesting piece on observation and notetaking (via Lifehacker). Ed Vielmetti had some good bits on lab notebook use back in the day which may be useful cross references. And in line with some other current thinking, original research is behind a SAGE paywall and can be accessed for *$25* for a day. Outrageous.
• QLOCKTWO BY BIEGERT & FUNK – Purty.
• The truth about caramelized onions – This is a good truth. Good things take time.
• 5 Scientific Explanations for Game of Thrones’ Messed-Up Seasons – "Winter might be coming"
• Prismatic wants to be the newspaper for a digital age – Yet another social news app, but noted as getting good results.
• Taking E-Mail Vacations Can Reduce Stress, Study Says – NYTimes.com – A five day break? That would be a stiff challenge indeed

These are my pinboard links for April 28th through May 4th:

• The academic publishing racket – On academic punlishng, the backlash, and open access. Naughton.
• Annoyingly good advertising – "Try it now…"
• Immaterial reality – visualization of wifi networks in urban environments. pretty. unsurprisingly, some BERG involvement,
• John Peel’s Record Archive –
• Millennium Park Free Summer Concert Lineup – Gapers Block Transmission | Chicago – Events for the summer of a musical variety
• Learn Python The Hard Way | A Beginner Programming Book – Online and offline text for learning Python.

These are my pinboard links for April 28th from 15:55 to 19:54:

• Enchiladas verdes recipe | Homesick Texan – Simple rustic food.
• Recently Released Lync Updates | Inside Lync – Last attribute cleanup…
• Dinner for Two: Hot Hot Hot Chipotle Steak Tacos | Serious Eats – Taco taco taco.
• The Complete Guide to Going Paperless – More on declutter.
• The Step-by-Step Guide to Digitizing Your Life – Reduction of the physical
• Oral history’s quiet heroes | Joe Moran | Comment is free | The Guardian – On oral history, Apted's 7 Up series, and identity

These are my pinboard links for April 23rd through April 27th:

• This is the web right now – The Oatmeal – It is to laugh.
• Ernest Callenbach, Author of ‘Ecotopia,’ Dies at 83 – NYTimes.com – Obituary for Callenbach, author of a pivotal popularizing work related to ecology and intentional communities.
• At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero – NYTimes.com – Piracy with a purpose
• Gluten-Free Tuesday: Low-Fat Vegan Oatmeal Muffins | Serious Eats – Muffins. Tasty.
• Glossary for The Taqwacores – Guide to references and language as used in Michael Muhammed Knight's Taqwacores.

These are my pinboard links for April 21st through April 22nd:

• Timothy Miller CV – CV for Timothy Miller, researcher of intentional communities in the Americas
• Attention Wes Anderson – Open letter of admiration and caution to Wes Anderson from Steely Dan.
• The Secret Life of Alan Z. Feuer – NYTimes.com – On the real and the inspired. The actual and the pretended intersect
• Wheat-free and gluten-free bread, rye, spelt and organic whole grain breads from Grindstone Bakery brick oven. – Whole grain bakery out of California…
• Guide: Update your Galaxy Nexus from ‘yakjuux’ to ‘yakju’ 4.0.4 – Mac OS X « Digital Igloo – Update process for Android device from a MacOSX platform (most guides are written from a Windows perspective).

These are my pinboard links for April 15th through April 21st:

• Seattle Rex vs. Apple: The Verdict Is In | Seattle Rex – Man vs Machine.
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Practical Vim – I like vim.
• A High Frequency Trader’s Apology, Pt 1 – Interesting beginning of a summary…
• Food’s Biggest Scam: The Great Kobe Beef Lie – Forbes – Truth and science.
• In Rural Indiana Town of Medora, Even Basketball Is Suffering – NYTimes.com – NYT article inspiring development of documentary on the Medora Indiana basketball program.
• MEDORA (Documentary) — HELP REACH OUR NEW GOAL OF 50K! by Andrew Cohn & Davy Rothbart — Kickstarter – Kickstarter site for Medora, a film about a small town in Southern Indiana (not far from where I grew up), its struggles, its youth, and a basketball program at the center of it.