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Via a website that is using one of my (CC licensed) photos of the Santa Cruz highlands in the Galapagos Islands, a blog called My Bella Vita, I found out about the TripAdvisor Causes contest. The idea is that TripAdvisor is collecting votes for various causes such as Conservation International, National Geographic, and Doctors Without [...]

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Cory Doctorow recently authored an article for Nature News called Big data: Welcome to the petacentre in which he discusses three big datacenters, including the Wellcome-Sanger, XS4ALL, and CERN facilities.
As a technologist for a datacenter operator, it’s always fun to read this sort of thing. An excerpt:

I am, admittedly, prone to swooning over a well-designed [...]

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A recent post from A Softer World:

I don’t know whether to call it a comic or art, satire or philosophy. But I always love it.
Such as this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one…

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Via David Strom’s blog, I found this photo essay of labs at night. One of my favorite moments is walking into a dark lab, or closing up at the end of a long night… When I switch off the room’s lights and turn-around to close and lock the door, the shining LEDs of every color, [...]

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