RT @richardbarrow: best Talking Thai/English Dictionary for iPhone/iPad http://ping.fm/CGOJr thailand travel

Hmm, didn't know that Dianping is the Chinese Yelp http://j.mp/fchExl #大众点评

Amazon working on a method to avoid receiving unwanted gifts! http://j.mp/e6J935

Q:How do we get rid of these toxic Merrill Lynch securities? A: Form a new group in ML and pay them to take them http://j.mp/gDoKKK

Turns out that mechanical portion of book scanning, turning pages and taking image, is about as fast manually as auto http://j.mp/gOyhJl

100K financial transaction per second; <1ms latency http://j.mp/eqdKo6 <-deep hardware, storage, app model/thread design oltp

DIY book scanning http://j.mp/gXvetR

Aircraft carrier launch without steam turbines using roller coaster catapult launch tech http://j.mp/hfttMC

Best Western opens 44 room hotel in Vientiane Laos travel

Historic Saturday Night Live (SNL) episodes available on Netflix Instant highlighted http://j.mp/e73NNT

Chrome CR-48 screen resolution: 1280W x 800H, WXGA 16:10

Is it sociologically or psychologically to have prosthetic limbs that are at least vaguely human? http://bit.ly/fmgvpY

Chrome Cr-48 demolition lab http://j.mp/g9KHQ5

Construction of 3rd & 4th bridges between Thailand & Laos underway travel http://j.mp/el546T

Chrome CR-48: Using webcam: open www.picnik.com > Library > Webcam Photo [Grant Flash permission]. Preview picture seems very pixelated

Chrome Cr-48: Google is developing a free service called Chromoting to remotely access existing PCs and Macs http://j.mp/fkufhn

RT @insideHPC: Berkeley LBL Develops Flexible Reservation Algorithm for Network Provisioning - OSCARS ESnet http://bit.ly/hPAN5N

Possible problems with Google NGrams for scholarly uses: OCR & metadata http://j.mp/hJQyCT <-crank up the lagging humanities tech

Why Google Can Enter Video Conferencing - VoIP Watch http://j.mp/fNLOyJ

datacenter - eBay uses watts/transaction as a common metric for applications & operations http://j.mp/f9AQm9

SGI Air-Cooled Modular DataCenter - 35kw/rack! http://ping.fm/tkKFK

datacenter conferences evaluated: Yes(DataCenterDynamics, Uptime, and 7X24 Exchange); No(Gartner) http://j.mp/gmFjyc

RT @sharad_ag: @loggly cloud based server management system with hadoop, solr, lucene http://bit.ly/gSLqei

iOS 4.2 (iPhone 4 only?) Fast Dormancy to reduce chatty signaling traffic & carrier load http://j.mp/geew3E

Google Demo Slam http://j.mp/fur9FJ

Chrome Cr-48 Shipping Tracker http://j.mp/ia5vsu

China finances restoration of Ta Keo Angkor site Cambodia http://j.mp/eUr3fl

New Siem Reap Cambodia (Angkor) airport will include a new city & industrial estate. http://j.mp/gCvrQj

Google has scanned >11% of published books, about 2*10¹² words. Initial data analysis on 4% http://j.mp/hcmtJl

Netflix at AWS cloud lessons learned: higher instance failure; unpredictable network latency http://j.mp/gD0DGD

Netflix uses AWS, which is somewhat surprising. I wonder what their pipe to Level 3 is. cloud http://j.mp/hhyqFY

Why exactly is my primary storage for music & photos on a local PC disk and not in the, uhh, cloud?

Chrome "Flags" is like Gmail labs. They are beta addons to enable certain functions, like Media Player playing music in ChromeOS

Apparently 40K VoIP lines is the floor, magic number for feasibility HandWaveAnalysis

Google fiber community award announcements delayed until 2011 http://j.mp/fKWZCb <-only thing predictable about any fiber project is delay

Nice discussion of The Social Network in the NYT beyond the usual dumbass retread comments http://j.mp/eGOxzk

Great story from Ray Manzarek about the Doors 1969 Miami concert, totally evocative of the time http://j.mp/gPIiea

What's the global social value of "outsourcing" day trading to China? http://j.mp/hR0fFU

Google CloudPrint enable cheatsheet - needs Chrome 9 http://j.mp/hBIwaY

Diversifying a bond portfolio from an overweighted index, $BND, using ETFs http://j.mp/gcfzt3 financial

Road & rail major route upgrades proposed for Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos http://j.mp/gvotQo

Wikileaks network durability http://j.mp/gzCH7f

Beerlao outlets in the San Francisco Bay Area http://j.mp/hEBAnD laos

Mint Data - average purchases by city, business http://j.mp/hMjsE5 financial

Thomson / Abadi - ACID RDBMS problems; possibly how to fix them without NoSQL http://j.mp/gapn0P pacelc programming

Test drive a Chrome notebook. – Google http://j.mp/dWe0xU

Vietnam and Cambodia to make border map http://j.mp/h3Xm7W

RT @abnerg: ...facebook...deliver video at scale http://ping.fm/rAwRb <-considers case of channel surfing video streams!

UK Foreign Secretary: investigation into death of British aid worker in Afghanistan during US led hostage rescue http://j.mp/g4ldzb

Interesting note in NPR story: "military lawyers...have to approve an operation to capture or kill someone" http://j.mp/hhf6Ck

NY Times rediscovers Lee Marvin in Point Blank (1967) - http://ping.fm/NzI35 movies <-much better than the review

GIS, Google Maps, Ubisense http://j.mp/gdUvE9 <-possibly of use with fiber cable path maps

Using parasitic worms to mitigate human intestinal disease http://ping.fm/3QKxm medicine

Voip.ms - Worldwide VoIP Origination and Termination http://j.mp/eGEGJX travel phones <-Flyertalk http://j.mp/epxRhH

RT @jalegre: Wow, way cool site => Ben the Bodyguard. Coming soon to iPhone and iPod touch http://bit.ly/eI89YS

RT @VMwareArchitect: PCI-Compliant Cloud Reference Architecture; Cisco, Coalfire, HyTrust, Savvis, VMWare http://bit.ly/ekWq9m

Frommer London & San Francisco free iPhone apps http://bit.ly/f5WsdI travel