Category: Links

These are my pinboard links for April 14th from 15:12 to 16:10:

• Mike Krieger, Instagram at the Airbnb tech talk, on Scaling Instagram – We all want to know a bit more of the how
• Instagram as an island economy (11 Apr., 2012, at Interconnected) – Applying Marxist classification to Internet economics. Seems so rich (pun not entirely intended)
• Perhaps the best BBC News caption you will ever, ever see – Real? Or photoshoppery?
• — KickstarterPebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android by Pebble Technology – Because I am a gadget sucker…
• A Chicago Car Elevator Mystery and the Man Who Invented Dialectical Materialism – The 312 – April 2012 – Chicago – Car elevators, proto Marxists, German radicals. Classic Chicago and brilliant sleuthing by Whet.

These are my pinboard links for April 11th through April 14th:

• The Mind Outside My Head by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books – An externalist view of consciousness and conception. Intriguing.
• Surfin’ Safari – online magazine aggregation in a netflix style model
• Sharoma > The Clash – Bootlegs & Rarities – Reviews and catalog of live Clash performances and boots.
• Dubwise Garage Collection – Much music, more music. Mostly reggae and dub.
• Fan website for Wes Anderson’s BOTTLE ROCKET movie staring Owen, Luke, Andrew Wilson and Robert Musgrave – The best of films.

These are my pinboard links for April 8th from 08:25 to 21:51:

• Phil Libin of Evernote, on Its Unusual Corporate Culture – NYTimes.com – Robots with lasers, in the office.
• Primal Chicken Tikka Masala | Mark’s Daily Apple – Dairy free chicken tikka masala!
• paris breakfasts – Paris scenes and images.
• My Biased Coin: The Groupon effect on Yelp ratings (Guest Post) – Businesses: do a Groupon deal and your ratings (statistically speaking) appear to trend downward…
• Grant and the Expulsion of the Jews – Review of a recent book on General Grant's summary expulsion of Jews from Paducah, Kentucky, the resulting social events, and the onward political fallout.

These are my pinboard links for March 24th through April 1st:

• Diary of an iPad (3) Owner — Shawn Blanc – A man and an iPad transition.
• Afghanistan: The Best Way to Peace by Anatol Lieven | The New York Review of Books – Insightful yet dispiriting discussion of the state of affairs in Afghanistan, and how the US position is similar, and (slimly) possibly more optimistic than, that faced by the Soviets in 1989.
• n+1: Slacker at Twenty – On Slacker, Austin, and Linklater after 20 years.
• Occupy Chicago Ready for a Spring of Discontent « Leftist Indignation – Overview of Occupy Chicago state and future plans as of Spring 2012
• Legacy of a Lonesome Death | Mother Jones – What happens after the Dylan Song

These are my pinboard links for March 10th through March 13th:

• Regarding Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule — Shawn Blanc – Inspiring and a nice aggregation of confluence in thoughts.
• Leonard Bernstein’s Masterful Lectures on Music (11+ Hours of Video Recorded in 1973) | Open Culture – Online recordings of Bernstein lectures in the early 70s.
• Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life – Stephen Wolfram by the numbers.
• The Lync Insider » How to Create Custom Lync Presence States – Simple how-to on creation and publication of custom presence states for Lync 2010
• Pecan Pie (Gluten-Free) – Celiac.com –

These are my pinboard links for March 3rd through March 4th:

• Dangerous Minds | Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon interviewed on NYC TV 1982 – More good finds on classic punk from Dangerous Minds.
• Trotsky Eats and Runs – Tipping. Culturally distinct, and a revolutionary problem.
• Clean Eating Slow Cooker Cinnamon Chicken – Who wants chicken?
• The Raspberry Pi can help schools get with the program | Technology | The Observer – John Naughton on the Raspberry Pi and its fit in education.
• Uncharted Books opens in Logan Square on Vimeo – Brief video on Uncharted Books in Logan Square

These are my pinboard links for February 21st through March 3rd:

• 450 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns & More | Open Culture – Many films available online. Stock up!
• Martin Scorsese’s Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film | Co.Create: Creativity Culture Commerce – For queue filling and watching
• Raspberry Pi Foundation – Micro computing device
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO formats – For playingwithery
• SXSW 2012 Q&A: Keith Barraclough – Scatter/Gather: a Razorfish blog about content strategy, pop culture and human behavior – Some bits about publishing and etc
• BBC News – Raspberry Pi network plan for online free-speech role – Combining Raspberry Pi minicomputers plus encrypted chat to form mesh secure collaboration networks.
• n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police – A black bloc participant on blackbloc tactics and history

These are my pinboard links for January 22nd through February 20th:

• The house on Middagh Street by Brooke Allen – The New Criterion – Review of February House, on a home in Brooklyn where Auden, McCullers, and Britten (et al.) lived for a time.
• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Support for Large Meetings White Paper – NextHop – Site Home – TechNet Blogs – Expanding Lync meetings from 250 to 1000 participants in size.
• Seven Reasons to Read A Dance to the Music of Time – advocacy for the great sequence
• The Compatible Time Sharing System (1961–1973) Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Overview – recollections on early computing, including first password hackery
• Mapping the mitochondrial DNA of Zea mays: Ribosomal gene localization – Sometimes when you are looking for something, you find something else entirely. In this case, a paper out of my father's lab in 1982.

These are my pinboard links for January 2nd through January 21st:

• Applidium — Vim – Craziness. Or crazy-cool.
• Port Huron Statement at 40 – Article by Hayden et al about the state of the SDS's Port Huron Statement after 40 years. This being the 50th anniversary, look for an update citing occupy, Arab spring, eyc.
• Has Microsoft Word affected the way we work? – Over owe of recent research into computer impacts on writing.
• ORIGINAL BEATS – YouTube – Short documentary about Herbert Hunke and Gregory Corso.
• r/geb – Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Reddit organized readthrough of GEB, running ~1 chapter/week from 17 January.

These are my pinboard links for December 27th through January 1st:

• Missing Pieces: The Activity Stream Aggregator – Framing of a conceptual model for enterprise activity streams
• Muslim Christmas – Having just finished Samarov's "Hack" and thia, there is a definite richness in taxi literature…
• prostheticknowledge: “Facebook Is The New Suburbia” by Hugh… – Another artifact in the own your online thinking.
• The rise of poetronica – Not really new wxcept cor the electronica / dubatep base. refs the excellent Jamie xx and Gil ScottmHeron release of last year, and a few more names to check out.
• The New Inquiry – Publication focused on literature and social politics. Essays and criticism. Think of post-grad-NYRB.