Government Aims To Build A 'data Eye In The Sky'

social scientists are trying to mine the Web searches, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, phone locations and other digital signals to predict the future.

Government Aims to Build a 'Data Eye in the Sky'

Backlink: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2011/10/us-government-data-eye-in-the-sky.html

Fed’s Contrarian Has a Wary Eye on the Past

Thomas M. Hoenig fears that the Fed’s efforts to move the recovery along quickly will create the conditions for repeating past mistakes, like spurring inflation.

Fed’s Contrarian Has a Wary Eye on the Past

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=d82e679a03ab721a7dad184ee40984a1

Eye of Mordor/US dollar bill mashup tee

Threadless's dschwen and murraymullet created this Eye of Mordor/US-dollar-bill-pyramid mashup and have put it to the vote on Threadless. I'm for it! I think the Elvish script under the sigil really makes this.

Eye of Mordor/US dollar bill mashup tee

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Nick DeWolf's hungry eye

Nick Dewolf was one of those passionate, indefatigable amateurs who were just made to live on via the Internet. He wasn't an amateur at his chosen profession, which was engineering; he co-founded Teradyne, a manufacturer of electronic test equipment that survives him. In his spare time, though, he was a photographic hobbyist, and a good one, and over a period of about fifty years he photographed everything: Guys in cars. The Boston skyline. Women on subway platforms. How many images are there in total? Who knows? DeWolf's devoted son-in-law, Steve Lundeen, has been uploading them a few at a time to Flickr for about the last six years. There are now almost 44,000 of them. Taken together they represent a vast, varied swath of the latter 20th century. "He carried a camera with him at all times," Lundeen writes, "usually a family of cameras. If you knew Nick, you got used to this...eventually, he'd be pointing his camera at you." (Via Retro Thing.)

Nick DeWolf's hungry eye

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Microbiologist turns a skeptical eye on Mono Lake arsenic eaters

Microbiologist Rosie Redfield explains why she, and other researchers, are critical of the ostensible discovery of arsenic-loving bacteria in California's Lake Mono. This is a nice, technical explanation, which digs into some flaws in the research methodology. Short story: We know the now semi-infamous paper isn't about alien life. But Redfield says it doesn't show solid evidence of bacteria incorporating arsenic into their DNA, either.

Microbiologist turns a skeptical eye on Mono Lake arsenic eaters

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