Prototype Based Programming Language based on Squeak Smalltalk for Educating Kids. (more)

USV has invested in WattPad, a Story Telling (and Social Reading) site.

With all the discussion of OPML directories and Easy News Topics and Topic Exchange, I thought I'd throw out a different perspective. (more)

Les Orchard thinks that Twitter needs tags. (more)

The state of Mary Land may push a higher Population Density (Traditional City) model, in part to decrease the Infrastructure costs of supporting sprawl. In many respects the fear displayed by local authorities reflects the strength of the plan. While livability critics often cry about public expenditures, Plan Maryland demonstrates a significant public savings.

Catalina Island (California) has too many Bison. They're giving them Birth Control medication. This is the last season the females will become pregnant en masse," said Ann M. Muscat, president and chief executive of the conservancy. Contraception, she said, "is the next evolution of management strategy." That kind of talk worries Darrell Geist, habitat coordinator for the Buffalo Field Campaign, a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting the last wild bison herd in the United States at Yellowstone National Park. "When you intervene with natural selection," he said, "you are unraveling a very complex relationship among herd animals, particularly among matriarchal females and bulls who compete for those females." (more)

Cooking note Of The Day: was feeling cranky late last week, and after considering pitiful alternatives like going to the gym (perhaps I'll cultivate Nero Wolfe-ish gravitas), decided to cook a decent meal. Had bought some NJ Bison steak at the Union Square Farmers Market, but Jihi doesn't love "gamey" tasting meat, so I decided to disguise it. Took the meat, some baby carrots, a couple sliced onions, dumped them in a saucepan with roughly 1/3 salsa and 2/3 beer, cooked low for a couple hours (as it reduced, I added more beer as a water-substitute). Roasted asparagus and sauteed squash blossoms on the side, plus a green salad. Plus a beer, of course. To maximize conversion to fat, ate at 10:30pm. Could feel the difference in my buoyancy the next day at someone's pool. :)

A variety of links in the realm of reclaiming empty Rural lands. (Re-Wilding)

healthier beef-substitute

Bison Gateway Drug

from Alexander Patterns... (more)

page was renamed from 2010-07-20-PhpForAndroid (more)

Work Community is the Page Of The Day for the Fractally Generative Pattern Language. (Also, this and other pages that have been structured as Pattern-s are now bold on the Fractally Generative Pattern Language page.)

Robert Scoble jumps off from Eric Schmidt's rationale for Google Plus's Real Name requirement into envisioning a Product Roadmap. It involves making better people- and content-discovery recommendations based on collecting 5 different streams (Life Streaming) of activity from the user:* (more)

One path toward Sustainable Capitalism might be to increase the Sharing of physical goods, rather than having energy going into making/transporting new ones that get little use. (more)

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/artconf.htm (more)

Jihi's not satisfied with Battery Life on her Nexus One. She hardly uses it, so she expects it to last 4 days between charges. (I use mine a lot, so assume I have to charge it every night.) So I decided to assemble some notes: (more)

From Alexander Patterns (more)

Venessa Miemis on people who are reimagining the Public Library as Hacker Space. (Necklace Of Community Projects, Activity Node)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Vote-for-Nobody-Campaign/212874912064941 (more)