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