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Infochimps (infochimps.org) Tracking tools for tots: http://bit.ly/babytracking - Waiting for one to track chimp babies' swinging abilities!
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Allen Fawcett admits he and his wife are mildly addicted to keeping track of their babies' schedules. The pair of economists have been recording every
Infochimps (infochimps.org) Cool digital art exhibit in London: http://bit.ly/datavizexhibit
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As more of the images we encounter every day go digital, two exhibits can help us understand how this area of design has developed and is likely to evolve.
Infochimps (infochimps.org) What are your favorite opendata apps? http://bit.ly/7H2Zvh
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With President Obama's Open Government Directive and news about Data.gov's overhaul, more and more people have been talking about the benefits of open data.
Infochimps (infochimps.org) NYT: local governments - wake up to opening your data! http://bit.ly/8UNxXo
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Many local governments are turning over big chunks of data to programmers to create useful Web sites and apps.
Infochimps (infochimps.org) Stunning fractal art: http://bit.ly/fractex
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A fractal twist to the ever inspiring illustrations from the nineteenth century German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
Infochimps (infochimps.org) Greenest data center in the world? Cloud computing heats homes in Finland: http://bit.ly/greenclouds
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HELSINKI - In the chill of a massive cave beneath an orthodox Christian cathedral, a city power firm is preparing what it thinks will be the greenest data center on the planet.
Infochimps (infochimps.org) The Climategate scandal continues.. They are sharing their data: http://bit.ly/crudata CRU, come talk to us!
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Get your weather Viz fix at: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/ (via @matthewhurst) and http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ClimateEssentia
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Yes, it is true. The weather stretching into the middle of next week is going to be very different from the rain and wind of November. We are talking DRY now. But with dry this time of year comes the potential for fog.Take today. ...
Infochimps (infochimps.org) is wondering what you think -- "Big Data on Grids or on Clouds?" http://bit.ly/4HDo3B
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Wolfgang Gentzsch, Senior Strategist at GridwiseTech, Open Grid Forum, and EU Project DEISA Now that we have a new computing paradigm, Cloud Computing, how can Clouds help our data? Replace our internal data vaults as we hoped Grids would? Are...
Infochimps (infochimps.org) You get a supercomputer! You get a supercomputer! Ev-ry-body-gets-a supercomputer! NYTimes on democratization of HPC http://bit.ly/suprcomp
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A drop in the price of supercomputers and other advances are pulling down the high walls around computing-intensive research, possibly democratizing the field.