RT @highscalability: [Guaranteed EC2 Availability Requires Reserving Instances in Specific Zones] http://ping.fm/As8zt

Making Artisan Cheese at Home http://j.mp/tgotG6 maker

Thailand Photo Map via @RichardBarrow http://j.mp/vas9z9 travel

Google rolling out Android 4 to Nexus S GSM http://j.mp/suR4n0 (too bad mine's out for repair)

Google Hotel Finder fail: Motel 6 with 4* and Hilton 3*? Like the price trend data, though. travel http://j.mp/toXLiw

Apple should sell unlocked iPhones at SFO, LAX, and JFK. duh

Datacenter - report that there'll be 141 generators in the Quincy area once Dall & Sabey complete construction. http://j.mp/rEsvvc

Credible approach for Eurozone financial mess. Somewhat technical, but that's presumably why we went to school http://bit.ly/ttPNpv

US citizens to get access to APEC Business Travel Card http://j.mp/rtOqxY Just phone/email contact info at this point http://j.mp/rE7ApJ ?

Protip: Call your investment firm and ask about exposure of your money market fund to Euro debt

Next gen Google phone, Galaxy Nexus, may be arriving just as planned obsolescence kicks Nexus S to the trash. Stalls on startup

Ping and Gist seem oblivious to Google+

Mainstreaming 3D Printing - opportunity for Ikea inventory control? http://j.mp/u9RUpT

Went from too hot to too cold to visit Chaco Canyon. I'm officially now a wuss, I guess. http://j.mp/vYlnpH

Ancient Burmese stupa restored to original glory

Ancient Burmese stupa restored to original glory:

Standing 150 metres above sea level on a promontory of Phnom Yat mountain, the Aung Sula Mani stupa is the only surviving trace of Pailin's Burmese community, which transformed the sleepy town into a regional hub through the gem trade in the mid-19th century.

ANSI/BICSI 002-2011, Data Center Design and Implementation Best Practices http://j.mp/tjQW7L

Navy SEAL and Army Military Free Fall Training | Kit Up!

Navy SEAL and Army Military Free Fall Training | Kit Up!

The Secret War: How U.S. hunted AQ in Africa - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times

The Secret War: How U.S. hunted AQ in Africa - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times

How O-2 Aircraft Got to Vietnam in the 1960s

How The O-2s Really Got There
by Richard Wood

It's 1967 or maybe early 1968, I forget, and the Air Force has bought a mess of Cessna Super Skymasters and called them O-2s. The Cessna factory at Wichita, Kansas is pumping them out at a pretty good clip and your problem is to figure out how to get them to Vietnam where they are needed. Your choices are:
1. Fly them to the West coast and turn them over to the Army for transport by cargo ship.
2. Take the wings off them and stuff them three at a time into the belly of C-124s and fly them over.
3. Fly them over under their own power with no C-124 attached.

Question: Which method was used? Right! Every single one of those puppies was hand-flown across the Big P to Vietnam. That sounds like it might have been a Mickey Mouse operation. Believe me, it wasn't that good.

Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) was running that show and their knowledge stopped somewhat short of knowing anything about ferrying air planes. The Air Force had a perfectly good organization called the 44th Aircraft Delivery Group which operated world wide and managed the ferrying of all aircraft; except the O-2s.

AFSC contracted with some outfit in San Francisco to deliver the planes to Saigon. The contractor hired a bunch of civilian pilots who couldn't find honest work elsewhere. Since the O-2s were technically "public" aircraft (as opposed to civil aircraft) no pilot's license was necessary to fly one and I'm not sure that all of the pilots had licenses. Some of them were pretty good, but the rest of them were the most god-awful collection of unquali fied scruffy-looking alcohol ics you ever saw. The dregs of the flying profession.

The deal worked like this. The pilots were given a plane ticket to Wichita where they got a quickie checkout in the O-2 if they needed one. Then they launched in bunches of four and headed for Hamilton AFB on the west coast of California. Enroute, they were instructed to carefully monitor and record their oil consumption, which, of course, they did not do. That type of pilot does not monitor and record oil consumption.

At Hamilton, the Air Force removed all the seats except the left front one. The seats were shipped to Vietnam by air, which is what should have happened to the rest of the plane, too. Extra fuel tanks were installed in the vacant floor space fol lowed by the pilot himself. He had to crawl over the co-pilot tank to get to the left seat. Next, they installed an oil tank on top of the co-pilot tank followed by a small emergency HF radio on top of that. Now, the pilot was truly locked in. To get out, he could either wait for someone to remove the radio and oil tank or crawl out the emergency escape window on the left side.

Takeoff must have been something to watch. With all that fuel, the planes were way over max gross weight. They had no single engine capability at all for about the first five hours of flight. If either engine hiccupped, the pilot went swimming.

HP's TopShot Printer - 3D Scanner

HP's TopShot Printer Is All That and a 3D Scanner [Printers]:

A great way to spruce up your Etsy product page is with 3D models of the items. But, problem is the process of generating these models can be prohibitively time- and money- intensive. HP's new TopShot printer aims to change that. More »

Flow - A9 Amazon - overlays pricing, availability, reviews, media content directly over an item in view. http://j.mp/sSXF3c

Hexacopter in Cameroon, Africa with great footage (mini drone with video cam) http://j.mp/stov3R

CycleCloud BigScience Challenge 2011 - win equivalent of 8h on 30K EC2 cluster http://j.mp/swkZNJ

What's the difference between Wikileaks and Nigerian 419 schemes? The Web, WikiLeaks, and the Create-Your-Own-Facts Kit http://j.mp/rErgbm

What is the exposure of US financial institutions to European debt, directly or indirectly, through derivatives? http://j.mp/utX1dD FML

Throwable ball spherical panorama camera stitches images from 36 2MP cameras that shoot at highest trajectory point http://j.mp/tWYbR0

RT @Rob_Powell: 100 Gigabit: An operator view - BT, Level 3, Verizon http://bit.ly/u8Y7at

Google considers building fiber network in Europe http://j.mp/n385eD

Interesting question came up on fiber path design for seismically active areas. Great to get a credible, non BS answer for a change

Need a message to phone whenever I use my transit smart card with remaining balance(s)

iPhone 4S vs Samsung Galaxy S II drop test comparison video. (spoiler: iPhone bites it; Samsung is mostly ok) http://ping.fm/XasoV

TSA Pre✓(check) PASS ID for a CBP Global Traveler is shown in GOES system when you sign on travel

Clear win for Android over iOS (4, at least) in handling multiple Google accounts for GCal, GDoc

Chrome 16.0.898.0 Cloud Print now shows pointers to print options for multiple platforms (iOS, Android)

What would it take to save Europe financially? Or, why your 401K lost 15% lately. Or, why people panic & buy gold. http://j.mp/q5GNE0

GMail offline apparently working (finally, for me) on CR48 with Chrome 16.0.898.0 dev

Koomey's "law" - for fixed computing load, battery load decreases by 2 each 1.5 years http://j.mp/n3H9ZQ

Clos networks datacenter fabric http://j.mp/ocfyr5

Apparently I have a TSA PASS ID since I'm part of the Global Entry program, but beats me what it is or how to find it http://j.mp/mYOyJ4

So, Google backs Chromebooks with cloud and now Amazon does, too. Apple soon. Non-US manufacturers (ex: China) don't even seem in the game

Bangkok Floating Market alternative - More Thai, less Tourist Oriented Thailand travel http://j.mp/qDvpIU

SDSC launches 5.5pb cloud storage system for research/education http://j.mp/qq8AKF

xcat Chef Puppet others 6/2010 http://j.mp/rp8Mo5

Condor - specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs http://j.mp/nQSJsu

India - next 1B internet users; 7% penetration vs 71% in US http://j.mp/oE7H4i

Windows Azure - anecdotal disadvantages cloud http://j.mp/qjatA7

RT @highscalability: [5 Scalability Poisons and 3 Cloud Scalability Antidotes] http://bit.ly/qgxcbI

Talking Thai Food Menu for iPhone - http://j.mp/nyFX5S travel Thailand

Rangoon Local Circular Train - 3 hour loop from main station through suburbs & outlying villages http://j.mp/pa4nbi

PlanetLab - overlay testbed allows experiments with network apps/services across a wide geographic area http://j.mp/q4l0GG

Big List of Scalabilty Conferences http://j.mp/pntNDs

Inexpensive VMware ESXi (vSphere Hypervisor) Host http://j.mp/o5zo3h DIY virtualization via @ecbanks on G+

Raspberry Pi - ARM Linux box - panned cost $25 http://j.mp/ndrrVz

Internal discussions of using perfSONAR for federated cloud network performance measurement http://j.mp/pFIaM8

Save datacenter power by reducing HDD spin speed for data infrequently accessed? http://j.mp/pY0NIn

Should Any Cloud Be Considered One Availability Zone? http://j.mp/pSOFEr <-note if you have DR failover,cost wouldn't necessarily be double

Machine Learning - free online class - Stanford, via Andrew Ng, G+ http://j.mp/o0LrLV - http://j.mp/nVVw3t

Comprehensive English language Chinese Railway Timetable China travel http://j.mp/r6OF0m

Maps topo - US - Garmin compatible - Above The Timber http://j.mp/nCp5y2

GMail now has Preview Pane in Labs, which allows mail as on a tablet (with a toggle) Yay! http://j.mp/mROyWO

Where can China put its cash? Eurozone in toilet. US in disarray. Gold prices high. http://j.mp/qRTmLB

RT SFoskett: [SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?] http://bit.ly/pY989g enterprise storage

Robot draws a true scale map of imaginary city on surface of the Peruvian desert http://j.mp/qViC3p

Internet 2 project to broker commercial cloud services to universities http://j.mp/pKevvZ

Software architecture topics on YouTube http://j.mp/qQ5QM5 programming

Model network flows over time instead of packets as proportion of delay sensitive traffic increases? http://j.mp/qtiymV

RT UnlockingLaos: photo project Unlocking Laos - documents SEAsia rail project http://j.mp/peJS7n

connecting multiple rat brains in parallel / in series; read output of monkey neurons to control remote robotic legs http://j.mp/pp3I57

China - just like the USA *except* also has 1B peasants http://j.mp/nGZOf0

RC Superheroes that fly! Great videos http://j.mp/ovXQYf

Network of connections that Goodle uses to identify your social search results http://j.mp/ppPV8x

What's new in Google+ http://j.mp/oxmJlP googleplus

China interest in Bangkok Thailand as logistics hub http://j.mp/nsTZPn

Google Contacts needs a specific field for Google+ profile duh

Fanless 4-core desktop PC with power and temperature measurements http://j.mp/pKUgOE

datacenter study - cost of idle servers $.26/h/kW; fully utilized $.33/h/kW #! http://j.mp/p6VmXn

Power Management of Online Data-Intensive Services 6/2011 datacenter google (pdf) http://j.mp/n7oB7T

Second International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'11) http://j.mp/fbjoI3 datacenter

Q: What's your previous job? A: Cobra pit cleaner. http://j.mp/nPOnsu travel

Ta Krabei / Krabey access by funicular video cambodia travel http://j.mp/nFPcdd

Access allowed to disputed Thailand Cambodia border area, including Preah Vihear, Ta Muen, and Ta Kwai temples http://j.mp/rrhdVj

Archaeological map of Angkor region cambodia http://j.mp/otglf3

G+ Android: go to stream, hit menu button, customize circles to add to stream view, swipe & view circle streams http://j.mp/odCCnE

CR-48 replacement parts cr48 http://j.mp/ovZij3

Engineer Guy on Fiber Optics via @make http://j.mp/oQzLLb #!

Access to advanced courses in the US - comparisons - by zip http://j.mp/r3nK0f education

Google's bids for Nortel patents used math primitives - pi, Brun's constant, etc. Makes you wonder if they were serious http://j.mp/lcCMWA

GMail Preview theme opt-in to see new style http://j.mp/l0gIYq

Apple $50 Thunderbolt copper cable is active with transceivers at both ends http://j.mp/m9cNma Yow!

Google form to comment (aka rant) on products http://j.mp/j6H90f

Hipmunk adds filter for flights with wifi http://j.mp/mGBJoG travel

GMail people widget finally shows up, 4 weeks after announcement (not the 2 weeks mentioned)

Google Goggles imports business cards into Contacts http://j.mp/k6t6sf

AT&T is institutionally incapable of documenting a fiber demarc (& is immune to Twitter ranting) FML

Netflix: Your Account & Help -> Manage [streaming] Video Quality http://j.mp/kRZgGS

Yojimbo (Kurosawa/Mifune) remakes: Fistful of Dollars (Eastwood) http://j.mp/lP2lGK - Last Man Standing (Willis) http://j.mp/iQCKNq

Best use of 3D in movies: Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams http://j.mp/kfWltL

realtime emergency room wait times http://j.mp/iNHZzm <-but I don't see how this can work since wait time depends on triage assessment

Forgot to go to Maui oops

RT @highscalability: 35+ Use Cases for Choosing Your Next NoSQL [or SQL] Database http://bit.ly/jdZD5B

Cisco 4900M no like 2 post rack. Fix: Chatsworth *1U* 12751-719 bracket is ok with 4900M side-to-side airflow datacenter

Set up alerts when your personal data is posted on the web from Google Dashboard - Me On The Web http://ping.fm/FOrbO

Flash! Al Qaeda cyber attack on YouTube deletes Rebecca Black Friday video. Obama mobilizing SEALs. West in mourning. Pope to speak.

Making out during a riot http://j.mp/mvvYP9 focus

Earthquake video damage survey by Parrot drone - New Zealand cathedral http://bit.ly/mnTVeO

Is a country's network access blocked or impaired? http://j.mp/jDA5ee

Samsung Google Chromebook - RAM soldered like MacBook Air http://j.mp/jCqAFR 1960s

Lunar eclipse live online viewing http://j.mp/lYu7jQ

World Development Indicators (subset) (Google Public Data Explorer) http://j.mp/kg5T6n

Internet users as % of population by country - World Bank World Development Indicators http://j.mp/ml6Cq5

Steve Jobs's selling concept of new Apple office building to city council http://j.mp/iCP7Bl

Herb Sutter - The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software (2005) http://j.mp/jYayjf

"Nominee Tells Senate Panel Afghan War Is Not Hopeless" http://j.mp/kHYuBi <-Translation for layman: War is hopeless

Apple Store to open in old Slater Marinoff, 4th St (Berkeley, duh) space? How did I miss this? How about downtown, too? http://j.mp/jwuAoY

What makes America great - Movie Theater Turns Customer's Angry Voicemail Into Anti-Texting PSA http://j.mp/kfPCLY

Reverting to Chrome beta. Just too unstable with extensions I really like

iPhone display image shown on linked Pioneer car radio screen http://j.mp/kcxhoT

Afghanistan Oops Read Anderson http://j.mp/iQW4o5 then Foust http://j.mp/inMXda

Google Dengue fever selective global trends http://j.mp/mignb5 travel disease

pipe ((network performance time series) (Google Correlate))

Google Wallet wants a *Sprint* Nexus S?! WTF! What about the TMobile Nexus S. Fail http://bit.ly/k5rNKy

Google Music song list includes Rating & Plays columns, unlike Amazon CloudPlayer. Android Music recognized beta program.

Google Music invite arrived, as did invites for zillions of others according to tweet search

Google Labs Correlate finds search patterns that correspond with real-world trends http://j.mp/iUupat

@afahad China technopreneurship analysis possibly of interest for MENA http://j.mp/ivfakb

Installed Ubee U10C035 DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem (Comcast), which supports IPv6. Seems ok. http://bit.ly/mv3u1i

http://ping.fm/Ivt24

CloudSave - Chrome extension saves files to, duh, cloud - CR48 http://j.mp/jTL7cM

To request a Google Music invite http://bit.ly/mH6PVI

Removing current AOL IM integration from GMail Chat is a takeaway if only using native AOL IM will show my online status http://j.mp/kvodH5

Generator start in 10 seconds - tips - datacenter http://j.mp/k9kdYD

Google announced Android video chat on 4/28/11. OTA push upgrade showed up 5/2. http://j.mp/jrHIAf

Netflix & Amazon outage - rely on durable S3 instead of EBS. cloud storage http://j.mp/kJPyTh

Adobe / Google integrate Flash into Chrome with Pepper cr48 http://j.mp/lFdGoR

Documents from photo by OCR with Google Docs Android app (like Evernote) http://j.mp/julMLK

Yelp NYC - parody video of actual quotes "Urban Daddy says Brooklyn is pretty dope!" http://j.mp/dHVXGG

SmokePing - performance guy's recommendation for network latency measurement http://j.mp/hMuDbe

The Big List Of Articles On The Amazon Outage - cloud http://j.mp/i85U9k

Guantánamo detainees questioned by China, Russia, Tajikistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Tunisia intelligence officers http://j.mp/dQjSBu

Bing imagery of Preah Vihear is pretty good http://ping.fm/iATqM Cambodia

Database test suite - OLTP including web based - B2B - decision support http://j.mp/hUFKEk programming

Google datacenter #tape system shown in video. #storage
http://j.mp/h13TVc

RT @ullrich: [15 biggest ships emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars, 2009] http://bit.ly/eSlZpx

Skydiving in slo-mo http://j.mp/e8IQQy

Avoid China Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) - bilingual instructions travel http://j.mp/e0XqPE

@jmichelmetz FCoE - Max distance between two Cisco switches 10k to begin with, 40 soon, not as http://j.mp/gSKhyg says <-Link, please

Under The Milky Way by The Church - Free today from Amazon http://j.mp/hWIh3N music

1954 In-N-Out burger stand razed http://j.mp/gCOELf

datacenter - Recycled water http://j.mp/gn75eT

Portable Modular DataCenter / Container event - Critical Facilities Round Table http://j.mp/g5Enxn

datacenter site selection criteria http://j.mp/dUcDVS

Cost of Lifestyle Diseases; smoke, eat too much & the wrong stuff, no exercise = sick + $$ http://j.mp/g83o1w

FCoE (lossless Ethernet) between datacenters - Cisco solution - Max distance between two switches 3000m http://j.mp/gSKhyg

Why it isn't easy to get a chip & PIN, EMV credit card in the US travel http://j.mp/gyOu6g

Rebels Hijack Gadhafi's mobile Phone Network http://j.mp/fma2Tk Libya

China - Laos train construction and affected villages http://j.mp/ech1jR

Google Apps, Microsoft, & FISMA http://bit.ly/hlVCIZ security

Timelapse of Flight Between San Francisco and Paris Captures Northern Lights (via @Gizmodo) http://ping.fm/Em4uN

Google Chrome to Phone Extension - send data, links, phone numbers from Chrome to Android phone http://j.mp/fpBEOV

RT @Canby_Cambodia: Allison in Cambodia: A few early spring links http://bit.ly/hORPan archaeology

RT @Canby_Cambodia: Cambodia Maps: 5 Map Series available... http://bit.ly/gvBdMA

search(power over ethernet LED lighting)

Bob Dylan leaves out protest songs in China concert http://j.mp/edyE2s <-I guess we all get old

Using kanban workflow management for tasks in the home http://j.mp/dUo1de #!

Switching from Java to Scala at the Guardian http://j.mp/edZxkq programming

datacenter - site in MX *off grid* for power; 30MW capacity from burning garbage; meets Swiss emission standards Yow!

RT @thatadamguy: [Larry Page as Google engineer-CEO] http://j.mp/f3Gd3I

RT @reedrunner59: [#Cambodia guesthouse sign: leave explosives at front desk] http://ping.fm/949Zw

Joined +1 button Google lab rat experiment http://j.mp/gDu4XP

Trailblazer Guides - downloadable .gpx GPS files to accompany guidebooks http://j.mp/ewkyHR travel

Amazon Cloud music player - 5GB free storage http://j.mp/gYXOLY

Life On A Chain (2011 Remaster): Pete Yorn free MP3 download http://j.mp/gmaN4M #!

RT @travelfish: How to get a Burma visa in Singapore http://bit.ly/eJaaMr travel

SPB 802.1aq TRILL datacenter http://j.mp/dRRmvU

15K drives -> SSD (& 3.5" -> 2.5") storage http://j.mp/idxaTV

Hilton Als in the New Yorker doesn't much like Stoppard's Arcadia. Maybe this means I can get a good seat. Yay! http://j.mp/fFLPDX

Sucker Punch

Fact check: NYTimes - phone calls in China are disconnected after intercepting word "protest." Nope. http://j.mp/ghhvYT

Kestrel 4500 Pocket Weather Tracker figures crosswind! Needs fiddling when operating at <14F http://j.mp/fw976x

Can it be true that doing a simple screen shot on an Android phone requires root access? Oh Noooooooooooooo! WTF

Ha ha, are you kidding? Lady Gaga interview at Google http://ping.fm/V4PJ2 cool

Create a recovery drive for Google cr48 http://j.mp/gSox70

datacenter - diesel or natural gas fuel for generators? http://j.mp/e0HyV5

Apparently some people are being given free NYTimes access for the rest of 2011, including smart devices

search(reactor decay heat curve)

Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' with Billy Crudup on Broadway - WSJ.com http://j.mp/ijXAGa

Room 77 - hotel room search - view, floor, distance from elevator & connecting rooms, ranks rooms http://j.mp/gedYem travel

iPhone 4 - cost factory unlocked - global - infographic arbitrage http://j.mp/el8AN1

How news is manufactured in China http://j.mp/g4WXZF

Tsunami within San Francisco Bay (Emeryville) photo http://j.mp/gAPAA2

Disaster Recovery equipment - catalog http://j.mp/dNRDTD

Google Nexus S with no contract from Best Buy comes with a TMobile SIM, but you can't use it to activate

Hooray! Another way to waste time! Reserve your connect.me username http://ping.fm/GqISg connectme

China plans Tibet - Xinjiang rail links http://j.mp/gFNctR travel

GMail Smart Labels: Bulk, Notifications, Forums http://j.mp/i9K2wJ

CR48 CTRL-ALT-T opens crosh, terminal window. Type, for example, modem status. Exit: "exit"

RT @NREL: [Building energy modeling tool] http://ping.fm/p9zKb datacenter

Tactical Nav - iPhone military oriented app with MGRS

Trying Chrome extension Quick Note http://j.mp/gmfUdY Wonder if it syncs better across machines than Google desktop

High speed rail analysis: suitability-link dense urban pairs; China, USA contexts http://j.mp/fDJuPO

Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives SSD storage http://j.mp/fH7kFh

Oops, Android malware fix will require carriers to update 2.2.1 & earlier. How likely is that anytime soon? http://j.mp/gElEEM

Comparing Costco to Amazon’s commodity subscription service http://j.mp/ekoj2E

iPhone: Verizon gaining approx .2%/day over AT&T http://j.mp/hXz1fs

China deploying their own satellite navigation network http://j.mp/hTAJNL GPS

Quora: What tape technology does Google use for backups? Answer: http://ping.fm/Z1jxR

Gluster - GlusterFS open source scale-out NAS storage http://j.mp/esx77t cloud

Hahahaha, there's a crowd sourced Saif Gaddafi Thesis Wiki with a plagarism section http://j.mp/ejyi3C

Palo Alto wants GFiber. Existing muni fiber system has 154 licensed connections and generates about $2m/year profit http://j.mp/hiM5Y9

Colocate leaf nodes with "parent" nodes in a rack to reduce LAN network load. Parents filter responses to root http://j.mp/fqLUbQ

Visualization of wifi signal strength with light in urban settings. (cool video & discussion) http://j.mp/g0W10h

PCI Express as a High-Performance Cluster Interconnect http://j.mp/gwr8Q7 hpc

Dual Wan with 3G/4G modem for home office, Internet access fail over http://j.mp/fIGkNy

Changing from DNS set by DHCP to Google DNS http://j.mp/ejl0n2

20 free iTunes songs from Southwest Air music http://j.mp/ffYxBY

Google Fiber list of 1077 government applicants http://ping.fm/Mu30b

Dos Chinos Latin-Asian food truck in LA! Die, die, must try. http://bit.ly/dRvNvZ

RoamingHunger - Web site for "gourmet" food carts & trucks in the US http://bit.ly/fFXc7w

Schematic map showing present & future Thailand - Laos bridges http://j.mp/fxsNLt travel

RT @EnjoyThaiFood: The five colours of sticky rice http://ping.fm/xHO9Y <-ok, green - pandan, yellow - corn, blue - dok anchan?

jclouds open source library - cloud java http://j.mp/fXHrF6

Fog Ruby Cloud Services Gem http://j.mp/fs0qpW

DIY telepresence robot $500 iRobot Create + netbook + Skype http://j.mp/h4WgRQ

DC power in commercial buildings FAQ datacenter http://j.mp/dSL7gN

Global network visualizations - Akamai - broadband adoption, app performance, usage(news,music,retail), more http://j.mp/hVy7iN

3 Interesting Reads on Recommendation Systems (Note comments) http://j.mp/eCiRNo

STC 235mi optical fiber ring; 3 counties in western New York; $12.2m; 30 months; Corning funding $10m http://j.mp/eCpbVt

Google CR-48 about:flags - USB / SD card support; media player; remoting client; background webapps

Evolving Programming for the Cloud http://j.mp/f30Iuk <-workload partitioning, cost/resource metering, automation readiness, deployment

RT @InfoQ: Consistency Models in New Generation Databases http://bit.ly/dVU4Bv <-49m video; HA, failover, compared with RDBMS

Content & networks at Google & Facebook http://j.mp/gtRRu8

RT @afahad: [Egypt Twitter influence visualization] http://bit.ly/f3UkRM <-interaction of Arabic & English

Google Building Maker / Earth - see what's been modeled, awaiting review, not accepted http://j.mp/eOvpXU

Google - Two step account verification optionally available http://j.mp/eksXNd security

RT @RichardBarrow: Some great 360° pictures of Temple of Preah Vihear by @isaanDOTcom http://bit.ly/hVXiVw Cambodia travel

Autovirt -migrate, consolidate, replicate, tier data without affecting enduser access to networked files storage cloud http://j.mp/hCLbMm

4 wheel, off road, self driven, guided Flomo tours Siem Reap Cambodia travel http://j.mp/epR72Q

RT @drelu: [#cloud science - comparisons of Iaas and clusters] http://ping.fm/bLUkc

RT @drelu: ...failure behaviours and availability models for the Google File System (GFS): http://j.mp/i9ug7E storage cloud

RT @highscalability: [Piccolo - Distributed Programs; compare with Hadoop] http://bit.ly/iaLzsp <-exposes shared global state

Streetview for Museums! Hermitage, MoMA, Freer, Versailles Palace, Met, Uffizi, more... art Yea! http://j.mp/e1jnE0

Follow Your World Google app - notifies when geographic area of interest gets updated imagery http://j.mp/faXtZf maps

I had forgotten about IBM's remote z/OS offering, now "cloud," right? Not sure web enabling IMS is good strategy http://j.mp/fBPHab

RT @travelfish: Finally, after 6.5 years (cough cough) have set up RSS feed for our feature stories. http://bit.ly/gYgbNz <- Like travel

RT @highscalability: [hardware/network performance numbers everyone should know - disk seek; packet latency] http://bit.ly/eEBB4y

2nd International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'11) MCO 25-28 Jul 11 http://j.mp/fbjoI3

RT @highscalability: Relational Cloud: Database-as-a-Service DBaaS http://bit.ly/glQFBh <-workload aware multitenancy; SQL over encrypted

Promotional video of Laos - China railway http://j.mp/f8jvCO travel

Why Hu Jintao went to Chicago China http://j.mp/hqVnoB

Nosilife - Clothing with claimed permanent insect repellent http://j.mp/e8iXxk

RT @damrhein: @billynewport ... SQL / NoSQL discussion http://bit.ly/fDPN21 <-classic enterprise versus Web 2+ focus

@djai @KellyKidson Tiger JAG-B18U rice cooker http://j.mp/dYpVd5 at Amazon, but I got at Costco. 30-40m no soak!; keep warm 12h

On a Phone, Interfering With Flight Safety - http://ping.fm/VOoRT <-what a bunch of crap. Pseudo science at work travel

RT @NickLippis: Results of the 10GbE Private/Public DataCenter Cloud Network Fabric Test 2/1/11 12m ET http://bit.ly/ibQ9vW

Praetorian STARShip The Untold Story of the Combat Talon military http://bit.ly/egJv4E

Road conditions Phnom Penh to Kampot & Kep via blogger LTO Cambodia cambodia travel http://ping.fm/Yz0QY

GDP equivalents: US states and non-US countries. Example: Texas/Russia http://j.mp/dMywkP economics visualization

OnStar to be available standalone. $299, $75 install, $199/year http://j.mp/e5Ysi5

Don't expect carriers to update Android at all, Google phones excepted. Comparison chart http://j.mp/eoocqw

Ok, I'm spamming, I guess, but this is a cool commercial http://ping.fm/NAfXE

Using Credit Cards in China - Get charged in RMB, not your home currency http://j.mp/gvw2k0 travel

Activating AT&T prepaid sim card with 3G data for iPhone in US http://j.mp/eALvFi

Unlockit - APN Changer for your iPhone http://j.mp/fEUvbH travel

A New Yorker article about some economic issue isn't worth reading until you can read the follow up, credible letters that point out it's BS

The Longest War [American & Al Qaeda] by Peter L. Bergen; Reviewed by Thomas Ricks http://ping.fm/kHEw0

Google: all downtime, including scheduled maintenance & intermittent (<10m) outages, to be counted toward SLA http://j.mp/gMvQVO datacenter

RT @aschmitt: Brilliant. Analogous to 40G to 100G "Skip The Water" http://j.mp/hXdCuF <-elegant, short engineering solution narrative

Online Unicode character map http://j.mp/fL7XNU <-useful for CR48

Mekong River: dams for hydropower might help the region but risks loss of biodiversity and a way of life Laos http://j.mp/eH0G14

3iPhone: Calculate your cost to dump AT&T for Verizon using WolframAlpha widget http://j.mp/fkliWj

Google CR-48: works with Swiftpoint mouse but can't charge mouse on USB dock & CR-48 using AC at the same time http://ping.fm/O9Jza

Rolling your eyes at the pontificating on Quora? Review the Annie Hall - Marshall McLuhan scene http://ping.fm/KD5UP

Huh? There's no Wikiloc track for the Routeburn tramp in New Zealand? *grabs passport, compass & checks batteries in GPS*

Resolution: New remote hands co-lo power orders *require* labels on both ends of each cable within a rack

iPhone 4 factory unlocked currently unavailable in HKG and (new to me) Singapore; 1 week in Canada arbitrage

Google Calendar handles events that start/end in different time zones, such as trans oceanic flights travel

Influential but now-discredited study that childhood vaccinations caused autism was based largely on falsified data http://j.mp/eiInuU barf

Bookmark: Crucial (Micron) SSD storage http://j.mp/hKPn43

bookmark: cheap HDMI cable monoprice.com (amazon 2nd possibility)

Western & Chinese expat life compared http://ping.fm/BZe0X via @TheEconomist

@damrhein RAMCloud <-See LMAX: HPC *financial* system; >100K tps; <1ms latency; exploiting L1-3 cache, SSD http://j.mp/e380Kb

RT @damrhein: Stanford's RAMCloud effort http://bit.ly/fdCqYn <-Yeah, but see also dissent at http://j.mp/hUH8iZ

Kinber selects Quanta/Sunesys to design/install a statewide 1600mile fibre optic network in Pennsylvania. $118.5m http://j.mp/exV5TQ

Time lapse prep for a space shuttle launch, video (4 min, initially silent) http://ping.fm/V0Dz2

RT @tperuzzi: RT @radar: [2011 watchlist] @mikeloukides http://ping.fm/2aIoE <-incl. meaning of privacy, more "instant"

RT @djai: [Food From Northern Laos blog] http://j.mp/gCygAm

RT @drelu: ...@brucedang (Microsoft) on analyzing Stuxnet... hour video http://bit.ly/ik2yFq security