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