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

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

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