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I had this #selfie on my phone, so I thought I would post it as a GPOYW.  http://bit.ly/1a58NFL

There’s a very weak relationship between scroll depth and sharing. Both at Slate and across the Web, articles that get a lot of tweets don’t necessarily get read very deeply. Articles that get read deeply aren’t necessarily generating a lot of tweets. (via How people read online: Why you won’t finish this article. - Slate Magazine)

It doesn’t seem like you could haul many books with this, but this would be a fun project for farmer’s markets and the like. The piece says, though, that the creator moved to Austin, so perhaps it’s not a good solution here.

(via Shifting gears from Chicago Book Bike to the Read/Write BiblioTreka | Library as Incubator Project)

(via Lego Faces Are Getting Angrier | Smart News)

“I think you missed a spot,” he told the woman cleaning the art. http://bit.ly/19n4qax

utaustin:

High-Tech Tattoos Redefine Health Care Solutions

Bio-integrated electronic tattoos, which cling to the skin without adhesive and transmit vital signs wirelessly, are part of a health care revolution. Read more. — http://ow.ly/lTzSq

This seems like something I’d see in The New Aesthetic or Beta Knowledge, not the UT Austin PR Tumblr!

This vehicle was blaring country music. I wondered if it were part of the “computer-ized services.” http://bit.ly/17F90QP

opendataresearch:

…we’re pleased to announce that we have become one of the founding partners of the Global Open Data Initiative (GODI), along with Fundar, the Open Institute, the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.

GODI will be a champion for Open Data globally – sharing successes and failures and providing practical support. We will work particularly closely with civil society organisations – helping them to understand the problems that Open Data could help to tackle and ‘what good looks like’ from government. Our long-term vision is that the production and promotion of a unified set of guidelines will assist governments to build, and civil society to advocate, vibrant and robust systems that maximise the potential benefits of open data for enhanced transparency and accountability; for effective service delivery; and for economic growth.

I read the linked press release, and I wasn’t clear on what the concrete objectives of this initiative are, but I’m all for global cooperation.

OK, here’s the last Deenagram for now. NMASS 2013 starts this Thursday! http://bit.ly/11vxLaN

Oh heck, why not post another #Deenagram. This was after the #Eustress performance at #NMASS. http://bit.ly/13vbo6Z

parislemon:

David Simon (yes, that David Simon) weighs in on the FISA component of all this:

Take a deep breath and think:

When the government grabs the raw data from hundreds or thousands of phone calls, they’re probably going to examine those calls. They’re going to look to establish a pattern of behavior to justify more investigation and ultimately, if they can, elevate their surveillance to actual monitoring of conversations. Sure enough.

When the government grabs every single fucking telephone call made from the United States over a period of months and years, it is not a prelude to monitoring anything in particular. Why not? Because that is tens of billions of phone calls and for the love of god, how many agents do you think the FBI has? How many computer-runs do you think the NSA can do? When the government asks for something, it is notable to wonder what they are seeking and for what purpose. When they ask for everything, it is not for specific snooping or violations of civil rights, but rather a data base that is being maintained as an investigative tool.

There are reasons to object to governmental overreach in the name of law enforcement and anti-terrorism. And it is certainly problematic that our national security apparatus demands a judicial review of our law enforcement activity behind closed doors, but again, FISA is a basic improvement on the preceding vacuum it replaced. 

Simon’s take is brazen (shocking from the writer of The Wire, I know), and is rubbing quite a few people the wrong way. But many of his points are solid ones to at least think about and/or discuss.

This is definitely worth reading.

I came across an old image of @deenaoh performing Alex Keller’s “Eustress” at the first #NMASS in June 2010. #CotFG #Austin http://bit.ly/ZF1MYe

magazine / issue / Fatima Al Qadiri & Lauren Boyle | MOUSSE CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE (via new-aesthetic)

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My annoying next-door neighbor takes issue with her other next-door neighbor’s percussion practice. I think they actually have conga drums. #notes #condescending #apartmentlife http://instagram.com/p/aYTCn_NkVZ/

This dude must really like brostep. #brostep #dubstep http://bit.ly/11rrhJL