links for 2008-02-01

• Some Datasets Available on the Web » Data Wrangling Blog
  (tags: machine_learning datamining mashups research collaborative_filtering information_retrieval)
• This Wednesday: Seventeen tips for coping with a medical catastrophe.
  …notes on the writers’ advice about how to cope with one. It seems reductive to sum up these profound experiences in a tips list, but the writers themselves seemed eager to try to help others learn from what they went through.
  (tags: medicine health tips)
• Final Salute Gallery – The Digital Journalist
  (tags: photography journalism news war iraq usa)
• [daily dose of imagery]
  (tags: photography journalism blogging)
• How Sar Lock – Portable door lock
  a portable and universal door lock
  (tags: stuff gadgets travel security)
• Geeking with Greg: Yahoo Research on distributed web search
  (tags: scalability search distributed research)
• Eventually Consistent – All Things Distributed
  (tags: architecture distributed scalability research consistency database amazon)