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

RT @lonniehodge: People's Daily (!): As China rises, its people grow arrogant http://ping.fm/ytvbU

Optimizing internet peering relationships probably could use network (not datacomm) graph tech http://j.mp/eG2c9z

Interactive USA Development visualization http://j.mp/ebJhfI

RT @rgaidot: Google Trends: Hadoop versus Big Data versus MapReduce hadoop bigdata mapreduce http://bit.ly/hvhwnn

Agents of Secret Stuff movie premiering online http://ping.fm/BZ9hz

Kunming China to Yangon Myanmar high speed (170+km/h) rail construction to begin 2011 http://bit.ly/f7nJNy

Google App Engine Issues

Carlos Ble tries Google App Engine and finds shortcomings for his application. Useful comments on his post.

Comprehensive New York Times Blog Post on Current Airport Security Issues

NYT FiveThirtyEight blog by Nate Silver discusses airport security and current public backlash.

Some excerpts:

• short mention of false positives
• derivation of basis for statement "My guess is that the fraction of Americans who travel by plane each year is in fact probably not more than about 1 in 3." As opposed to "Gallup poll conducted in 2008, for instance, found that just 44 percent of Americans reported having flown at least once in the past year."
• frequent fliers — those who take 4 or more round trips per year — account for the 57 percent majority of all air travel, even though they make up just 18 percent of air travelers and something like 7 percent of the overall American population.

Unclear where frequent flyer = 4 or more round trips/year came from.

I need to pay more attention to the 100G WAN stuff such as LBL's http://j.mp/a0FZwD

iPhone + Google Voice screened calls + driving = not so good

Alternate reality plans from 1942 of Nazi invasions of North America http://j.mp/aihzRc

Photos of disappearing China http://j.mp/9kfRVL

Syrian Military Area

including missiles (or missile decoys) in Syria

Interesting read on cyber thieves http://ping.fm/hyylR security

Protein sports drinks probably don't add to exercise, especially event, performance http://ping.fm/BmQS4

Laos abandons plans for Vientiane-Nong Khai rail to avoid duplication with planned China-Lao-Thai high speed rail http://bit.ly/bH095c

Saw Inception again at $1 movies. Feel like the pig in the YouTube mashup, "You're talking about dreams..." http://ping.fm/8vdJh

Didn't know about Chrome Profiles http://bit.ly/9iXaTk

GMail and GCal don't display (for me) with apparently just dropped Chrome 8.0.552.28 beta, Windows 7

Google Map Maker Africa Conference 2010 africamm http://j.mp/9d8DkS maps

F3X Optical Network Fiber Fault Finder Gun http://j.mp/9wnXF3 <-wonder if this works

Mapping Resource Links

Some mapping references:

• Open, geographic information systems at Geonames.org
• National Geospatial Program Standards
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• NGA Geonames

(3 Nov 10)

RT @AndyBrouwer: You Khin Guesthouse [art gallery] Phnom Penh http://bit.ly/akNWAA travel cambodia

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