links for 2007-11-14

• Martian Colors | Cosmic Variance
  But then here’s my favorite part. They found a synesthete who was color blind. That may seem strange, but what it really means is that the subject had problems with his retina that left him able to distinguish only an extremely narrow range of wavelengt
  (tags: neuroscience research science)
• 19.20.21.
  (tags: maps world history society environment)
• The Fiction of Lucia Berlin: An Appreciation | Books & Writers | New West Network
  (tags: books reviews writing)
• Refresh Austin
  Refresh is a community of developers, designers, usability experts and other new media profesionals working together to refresh the creative, technical and professional aspects of their trade and help foster new ideas in the Austin area.
  (tags: austin web_dev web_design media)
• AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein to Senate: “they’re doing a huge, massive domestic dragnet on everybody in the United States” | Corrente
  (tags: privacy law politics usa)
• The Point – People Solving Problems
• Press Release – I MIEV
  (tags: stuff automobiles environment)
• WikiChix – WikiChix
  WikiChix is a wiki and mailing list for female wiki editors to discuss issues of gender bias in wikis, to promote wikis to potential female editors, and for general discussion of wikis in a friendly female-only environment.
  (tags: gender software/social)
• Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd’s Stick Figures
• Ninjas attack Richard Stallman, reenacting xkcd comic – Boing Boing
  (tags: amusements geekery)
• Gore, Joy See Green Economy Powered by Silicon Valley
  (tags: environment business technology news)
• Thingology (LibraryThing’s ideas blog): Shelfari spam: “basically social networking rapists”
  (tags: books software/social)
• BookJetty: Your Books, Your Libraries
  (tags: books software/social)
• Pivotal Blabs : dot.rake
  (tags: ruby RoR visualization utilities)

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