These are my recent Pinboard.in links:

• Prelim Finding the holdouts: Who is Required to publicly archive data but still doesn’t? « Research Remix

  "So it seems the specific words in a journal policy that requires data archiving doesn’t matter much, though policies that include a general statement about data sharing and request the sharing of other datatypes have higher rates of data archiving.  The highest-impact journals that require data archiving have slightly higher archiving rates than those with impact factors between 4 and 7.  Mentioning exceptions in a journal policy may be associated with increased rates of archiving.  Core clinical journals tend toward high rates of data archiving (likely overlap with the high impact factor journals).

  Disheartening to see again that studies about cancer are least likely to publicly archive data, even when required.  Some disciplinary trends:  studies on bacteria more likely to follow journal mandates.  Perhaps related:  studies that archived other types of data were more likely to also archive gene expression microarray data."

  open-access data-access raw-data-now academic-culture publishing

• Even Tiny Bouts of Exercise are Associated with Increased Fitness | Obesity Panacea

  "These results are encouraging and suggest that random, short duration physical activity, which may be more feasible and enjoyable for inactive individuals attempting to engage in physical activity for health benefit, is indeed beneficial."

  exercise healthcare fitness statistics

• The Philosophy Smoker: Crowd sourcing peer review? Free open access?

  "The idea is to create an open-access online philosophy journal (and then journals in other disciplines), with the peer review process crowd sourced. As many reviewers as want to read a paper can vote to accept/reject, with brief comments. Accepted papers will immediately be published online.

  From what I can see, the open access will be free for authors. They are now recruiting reviewers.

  Interesting idea."

  academic-culture publishing peer-review open-access disintermediation-in-action

• Poor Mojo’s Newswire: Why are movies so dim these days?

  "Fifty percent! It can be worse than that. I quote: "Chapin Cutler, a cofounder of the high-end specialty projection company Boston Light & Sound, estimates that a film projected through a Sony with the 3D lens in place and other adjustments not made can be as much as 85 percent darker than a properly projected film." Your best bet is apparently to (1) find a theater that doesn't use digital at all, (2) doesn't use Sony projectors, or (3) still projects light through celluloid the traditional way."

  laziness cinema habit-trumps-gadget

• Ron Paul and Feudal Society – Grasping Reality with Both Hands

  "Before there were police forces so that you could run to the government to get it to evict trespassers from your land and recover your stolen stuff, there was… seisin: had you actually ploughed the land and reaped the harvest, protected the villages from Irish or Viking raiders, administered justice–or had others done so, or had the jobs been left undone? if you weren't man enough to do the job, it wasn't yours…"

  libertarianism history politics conservatism feodality

• Long Live the Anomalocaridids! | Wired Science | Wired.com

  "…The discovery of anomalocaridids in the Ordovician shows that they did not become extinct around 510 million years ago but persisted at least a further 30 million years.  More exploration in the right kind of settings to preserve soft-bodied fossils might well reveal more examples.  But clearly anomalocaridids persisted as important predators at later times. They played a role as marine communities became more complex and the number of animal genera in the seas increased nearly four times during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event"

  paleontology fossils GOBE reanimation-targets

• New Wholesale Electronics | Latest China Wholesale Products | Cheap Electronics From China

  OK. Do want.

  wholesale importer gadgets

• LED Mood Lights Offer a Touch of Color with a Touch of Your Fingertip – Technabob

  "Here’s a cool way to add a little extra splash of color to your room without breaking the bank. These compact LED mood lights let you choose from 256 different colors using a clever touch-sensitive color chart on the side."

  lighting industrial-design photography