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Linklog (also at del.icio.us)

Feb 14 2010: TEDTalks as of 10.26.09

A google docs spreadsheet of hundreds of TED talks

[ kw: ted ted talks]

Feb 14 2010: The Future of Reading: iPad: Apple Upsets The eBook Apple-cart...

"The trouble with the Kindle is that for all its vaunted modernity, it’s really a backward-looking device. So is the eInk technology at its heart. Both are aimed at creating an experience close to paper. But that’s not the Future of Reading."

[ kw: amazon apple books ebooks ipad kindle]

Feb 01 2010: Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal, Department by Department

A slick drillable treemap of the 2011 budget.

[ kw: data treemaps visualization]

Jan 22 2010: threadsy

A social network aggregator with some potential

[ kw: email facebook networks tools twitter]

Jan 09 2010: RaopX - stream any audio to Airport Express

A free alternative to the very good Airfoil

[ kw: mac music os x]

Jan 03 2010: Thinklinkr - real-time collaborative web-based outliner

with a really ell-done UI, this could be a nice addition to a toolbox

[ kw: organization outline outliner tools]

Jan 02 2010: southwestern pulled brisket | smitten kitchen

Looks great.

[ kw: brisket food recipes]

Dec 31 2009: Lightroom Secrets: 10 Suggestions for 2010

A great bunch of photo tips for developing technique and getting better in 2010

[ kw: photography tips]

Dec 12 2009: Must-Have R Packages for Social Scientists

Solid rundown of useful R packages from an interesting-looking blog

[ kw: data r statistics tools]

Oct 15 2009: vi

vi implemented in javascript. Whoa.

[ kw: javascript vi web whoa]

Oct 14 2009: OpenMx - Advanced Structural Equation Modeling

[ kw: modeling r r-project statistics]

Oct 07 2009: gRaphael: Charting JavaScript Library

Produces nice in-browser plots and charts

[ kw: charts data graphs plots tools web]

Oct 03 2009: justinguitar.com

Lessons, tips, videos -- a really great guitar resource

[ kw: guitar music]

Sep 13 2009: Edward Tufte on Project Management Graphics (or Gantt Charts)

[ kw: edward tufte information project management visualization]

Sep 07 2009: Last Pandora

Found via link from yesterday, a great solution for listening to pandora and sending to last.fm for record-keeping.

[ kw: last.fm music pandora radio tools]

Sep 06 2009: Phase Portrait: Scrobbling Pandora Songs to Last.fm!

A nice roundup of solutions for integrating Pandora with Last.fm

[ kw: last.fm music pandora radio tools]

May 12 2009: Lightroom: Deleting Keywords

I had not known about the Purge Unused Keywords command. Good way to clean up from quick or typo-ridden keywording

[ kw: keywords lightroom photography tips tools tutorials]

Mar 23 2009: +SHARPENING IN LIGHTROOM - PART 2 OF 2 | x=blog+stay+informed

The second part of the excellent sharpening tutorial from X-Equals covers export sharpening.

[ kw: lightroom photography sharpening tips tools tutorials]

Mar 21 2009: booleansplit.com: Pentax K10D Lightroom custom develop settings

Very good description of setting default camera-specific develop settings in LR2. I have not worked much with this yet, but this tutorial has me thinking that it is time to do so for my own Pentax.

[ kw: lightroom lightroom 2 pentax photography]

Mar 19 2009: Code and Culture

Stata, Sociology and Culture. Brayden is right: Bitchinest soc blog title in a long while.

[ kw: code culture sociology stata]

Mar 19 2009: Photography: Lens metadata fixer script

Some 3rd party lenses use ID numbers that duplicate Pentax lens IDs, and this causes confusion for photo software. A bit of perl magic rewrites the IDs with unique text descriptions.

[ kw: code lightroom pentax perl photography tools]