links for 2009-10-28

• Geeking with Greg: Advice from Google on large distributed systems
  (tags: distributed scalability google)
• Perspectives – Jeff Dean: Design Lessons and Advice from Building Large Scale Distributed Systems
  (tags: distributed scalability google)
• Adam Pasick | Journalist Profiles |
  (tags: environment global_warming vegetarianism)
• Macnification | Overview
  Most scientists rely on the Finder to manage their microscopic images. While the Finder is great for general purpose file management, it has never been designed for managing scientific images. Macnification, on the other hand has been built from the ground up for microscopic image data: it knows how to handle many file formats (including JEOL tiff and Zeiss lsm, among others) and image metadata. Imagine all your microscopic images, available in one, easy-to-use interface.
  (tags: osx software)
• AT&T, Google Battle Over Web Rules – WSJ.com
  (tags: net_neutrality policy communications)
• Joe Queenan: 'Man Up, Obama' and Other Nonsense – WSJ.com
  (tags: usa politics)
• Editorial – The Cover-Up Continues – NYTimes.com
• TinEye Reverse Image Search
  (tags: photography web_services image_processing images copyright)
• YouTube – Cream- Sunshine of Your Love
  (tags: music videos UK)
• David Sedaris on the kookaburra : The New Yorker
  LAUGH, KOOKABURRA
  A day in the bush, a night at home.
  by David Sedaris
  (tags: australia literature)
• YouTube – Web 2.0 Summit 09: Tim Berners-Lee and Tim O'Reilly, "A Con
  (tags: videos technology web)
• Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) – All Things Distributed
  (tags: amazon aws mysql rds rdbms)
• Rates of heart attacks increasing for middle-age women — latimes.com
  (tags: gender health)
• 1Password 3.0 goes public beta with Snow Leopard support – Ars Technica
  (tags: osx software security)
• I, Cringely » Blog Archive » No Joy in Mudville – Cringely on technology
  on Moffat
  (tags: ibm finance)
• Web 2.0 Summit 2009 – Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, October 20 – 22, 2009, San Francisco, CA
• Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle”
  (tags: google search social_media)
• Batman Vanishing – CollegeHumor video
  (tags: amusements videos)