Violent housing evictions and reported land grabs map plotted in China http://bit.ly/bgiklc

BitTorrent Effects on a Starbucks-AT&T Hotspot http://bit.ly/bID09N

RT @SlackistanMovie: http://bit.ly/cUkhht US west coast premiere 5 Nov 9.30p Brava Theatre, San Francisco http://bit.ly/biBBW

Periodic review of Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator video to see what's left to get there from here http://j.mp/9QmFnl tech

iPhone on AT&T and Verizon analysis; Verizon smartphone use more data today; dual GSM/CDMA iPhone? http://ping.fm/UQmTf

Thomas Cook Overseas [non Europe] rail, bus, ferry timetable reported to suspend publication http://ping.fm/S8jtc travel

Google Music India ! currently Hindi only http://bit.ly/96eyOa

Netflix transition to Amazon AWS SimpleDB & S3 high availability storage systems http://bit.ly/cherOc

Emerging preferred camouflage color "dark earth" http://bit.ly/boZF7S military

Analysis of Apple deprecation of Apple produced runtime Java; 3rd party Java install structure laid out http://bit.ly/b7u7ao

Passenger rail service in Cambodia to resume (with basic map showing main SEAsia rail routes) http://bit.ly/bWC5l2 travel

Qwiki Alpha invites. TechCrunch Disrupt top winner http://ping.fm/z8ACn

Africa land area larger than China, USA, India, Europe combined http://bit.ly/9aUiQe

Hipmunk - Flight search visualization http://bit.ly/cHvl62 travel

China unveils its own version of Google Earth - Guardian http://bit.ly/9ZF0td maps

Didn't know you can ask for chopped chili peppers on In-N-Out burgers. I've just been getting the packets. http://j.mp/9d3qd7

tldr.it - feed & URL content summarization; "ADD approved news reading" http://j.mp/ba4tqN

Burmese font for Windows 7 - Padauk http://j.mp/d3xp9x Burma Myanmar

Huh?! Homemade SLR camera! http://bit.ly/9GVnOi GeekOut

Lao Air opens Pakxe-HCM City route Tues/Thurs/Sat Laos Vietnam travel

Chinese executive MBA business school in Africa - Economist http://j.mp/d0dkoA

Preah Vihear political map based on 2008 joint communique http://j.mp/cobBRz cambodia thailand

Preah Vihear with Political Map

This article from The Mirror includes a map from the Joint (Thai, Cambodian, UNESCO) Communique 

Jobs discusses tablet screen size, Android development challenges, why Apple doesn't distribute cash http://j.mp/bFNKhO

Spider versus millipede observed, with an interesting escape http://bit.ly/aLB7Wd

Garmin chirp Review - GPS beacon - 1 year battery - 1-10m range - US$20 http://bit.ly/bT2CDy

Buddhist Temples of Ancient Pagan, Burma / Myanmar

Resolution of the plain near Pagan, Burma / Myanmar is improving enough to map some of the 3,000+ Buddhist temples using Google Map Maker, OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia.

Here's a GMM partial view of the region with some of the sites mapped.  The Panoramio photos of this area are generally poorly geo-located, but here's a view.

Pierre Pichard did an 8 volume inventory of the monuments for UNESCO, which apparently aren't available online except in snippet form.  The inventory includes lat/lon of each site to 3 decimal places.  I don't know how the surveying was done.

Probably should cancel AT&T data service for iPad and just use Verizon mifi as hot spot. I'm grandfathered for both, but AT&T is a waste.

Surfing the Qiantang river tidal bore in Hangzhou China http://bit.ly/cYzmd1

Zuckerberg at Facebook says he's taking daily Chinese language lessons China http://ping.fm/URyOy

digital camera with GPS comparison http://bit.ly/d3FduH

Trans oceanic data flows by language affinity and submarine cable planning http://bit.ly/brWxor

No more walking across ceramic sunflower seed replicas art installation at Tate Modern http://ping.fm/ihZVp

Recycled water for datacenter http://bit.ly/9NP1sX <-generally no recycled water transmission/distribution

Need a guide to military imagery interpretation for this Syria missile base - Hezbollah training site http://bit.ly/aEKikn

Use academic literature; Plan for failure; Disk tech matters (SSD); Large data sets need horizontal scalability http://bit.ly/djK4Mo

Garmin Chirp geocaching beacon; 1 yr battery; 10m range http://bit.ly/byQCsF

Wikileaks funding impaired after Moneybrokers terminates relationship http://bit.ly/bQrDaT

DRT co-lo top 20 occupants - sites, sq ft, % net rentable sq ft, rent, % annualized rent, lease term http://j.mp/bh0HYg datacenter

Only in China: police minders bargain on behalf of dissident while shopping http://ping.fm/S6FRD

Google creates inflation measure - cost of goods sold online - forecast using realtime search? http://bit.ly/cVnXVN economics

Tate Modern's New Art Installation: 100M Hand-Painted [ceramic] Sunflower Seeds http://ping.fm/cy21U London #!

Garment industry minimum wage by country shows China (Guangdong region) not that cheap http://bit.ly/cHrZMA

Carlos - NYT movie review http://j.mp/a7NI1L

Get Free Wi-Fi from FedEx Office at all locations by 1 Nov 10 http://j.mp/cRd8Qs

Video interviews with dissenters http://j.mp/9WoSTN Burma Myanmar

‘The Simpsons’ Explains Its Button-Pushing Banksy Opening http://j.mp/bQxwwT

B747 low pass over Golden Gate bridge video http://j.mp/brvSOm cool

The dietary culture of Asia (Asia Society; 2008) http://bit.ly/bAknlu

Value of Burma Foreign Exchange Certificates (FEC) falling.Discontinued after November 2010 election? http://bit.ly/daO4kI Myanmar travel

530km Trans-Asian rail section from Xishuangbanna China to Vientiane Laos to begin work 28 Oct 2010 http://bit.ly/bLkJJm

Ooo, didn't know I could convert dumb paper US Savings Bonds to electronic form http://bit.ly/db6Nmr financial

Maxpedition Sitka didn't work out as a business travel messenger bag substitute. iPad + Thinkpad x61s (12.1") fit ok. http://bit.ly/btuRDP

RFID tags for IT equipment http://bit.ly/91nZJg datacenter

Low power, multi core servers in the enterprise http://bit.ly/dgNfBX cloud datacenter

Pakse Laos airport reopened 1 June 2010. Now supports 737 & A320 travel bit.ly/aHpLFJ

Pakse Laos airport reopened 1 June 2010. Now supports 737 & A320 travel

Thirsty koalas (1/2009) http://bit.ly/aj1LhB

Inside Job, a documentary on the Wall Street looting of the economy
http://ping.fm/lc7eS

Kampot to Phnom Penh Cambodia railway service reopened. Freight only for now bit.ly/ayYYC7 travel

Cue YouTube - append URL #t=XmYs (ex: #t=2m3s)

Burma Myanmar links http://bit.ly/cAuo77 travel

Free market: new Facebook friends $197/1K or Twitter followers $87/1K http://bit.ly/dg4zgP

Tom Stoppard - "Night and Day" at Greenhouse Theater, Chicago, ends 10/31 - WSJ review bit.ly/c5VnWx

Inventory of monuments at Pagan by Pierre Pichard http://bit.ly/9RfQxm burma myanmar

goo.gl Tips

Here's an added bonus tip from Googler Matt Cutts: if you add .qr to the end of any goo.gl-shortened URL, you get a QR code instead of the URL. For example: http://goo.gl/LFwS.qr

If you add "info/" before the short-code, you will give info of where it will send you.


For instance:
URL: goo.gl/LFwS
Preview: goo.gl/info/LFwS

Reinstalled Picasa 3.8 after deleting database and face scanning is working again

Chrome - Added about:labs as a tab to open daily to see what's new