These are my Pin​board​.in links for May 15^th from 08:31 to 12:15:

• Car­roll­Blog: Car­roll­Blog 5.15 — “Life is like a box of choco­lates. It’s a cheap thought­less per­func­tory gift that nobody ever asks for.…”

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• Hyphen-​​ation : CJR — “Dur­ing the recent gath­er­ing of the Amer­i­can Copy Edi­tors Soci­ety, a lot of “hyphen” jokes made the rounds. One was “Why we need hyphens: …”

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• Cook­ing for Ass­holes: Shrimp and Grits — For years shrimp and grits was exactly that: shrimp and grits. Recently a bunch of self-​​righteous ass­hats started gussy­ing it up with all sorts of bull­shit so they can feel bet­ter about them­selves. For this recipe I have pro­vided you the back­bone of shrimp and grits. What you choose to do with it is your own fuck­ing busi­ness but remem­ber that there is beauty in simplicity.

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• Faye: Sim­ple pub/​sub mes­sag­ing for the web — Faye is an easy-​​to-​​use publish-​​subscribe mes­sag­ing sys­tem based on the Bayeux pro­to­col. It pro­vides mes­sage servers for Node.js and Rack, and clients for use in Node and Ruby pro­grams and in the browser.

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• Diag­nos­ing the DSM — Dana Foun­da­tion — With respect to the DSM-​​5, I am agnos­tic about the diag­nos­tic cri­te­ria for indi­vid­ual con­di­tions, such as panic dis­or­der or gen­er­al­ized anx­i­ety dis­or­der; in the end, I am not cer­tain that either of these cat­e­gories cap­ture nature or will even appear in the DSM-​​6. When it comes to indi­vid­ual diag­nos­tic cat­e­gories, I would rec­om­mend that the DSM-​​5 take a con­ser­v­a­tive approach, leav­ing cri­te­ria unchanged unless com­pelling new evi­dence sug­gests that a change would be ben­e­fi­cial. What­ever the ulti­mate approach to the DSM-​​5, it is crit­i­cal that the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity escape the arti­fi­cial diag­nos­tic silos that con­trol so much research, ulti­mately to our detriment.

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• HOW TO: Build a Local Startup Com­mu­nity — The process of bring­ing together entre­pre­neurs has been made expo­nen­tially eas­ier by the cowork­ing phe­nom­e­non. If done right, these spaces become incu­ba­tors for new busi­nesses and help drive job growth in the area.

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• More shock­ing por­traits of robot abuse — io9 — It’s called the DLR Hand Arm Sys­tem. It has an anthro­po­mor­phic design and packs 52 motors, ultra-​​miniaturized con­trol elec­tron­ics, a supercapacitor-​​based power sup­ply, and a web of high-​​strength ten­dons. But what makes it stand out com­pared to con­ven­tional sys­tems is its abil­ity to with­stand col­li­sions, thanks to inge­niously designed joints and actu­a­tors that can absorb and dis­si­pate energy, much like our own arms and hands do.

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• HOW TO: Make Your PR & Mar­ket­ing Believ­able — “Affin­ity has become the new secret weapon — we believe in peo­ple and com­pa­nies that we like,” said Bhar­gava. For those in the pub­lic rela­tions and mar­ket­ing indus­tries, it is impor­tant to gain back the trust they’ve lost from con­sumers by under­stand­ing what makes peo­ple, ideas and orga­ni­za­tions more believable.

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• How Gaiman’s “8in8” is Excit­ing SFF Fans | tor​.com | Sci­ence fic­tion and fan­tasy | Blog posts — The group ended up record­ing a 6 song album, “Nighty Night,” in the space of 12 hours. You can lis­ten to the full record stream­ing on Amanda Palmer’s site. The Cre­ative Commons-​​released mate­r­ial and some­what egal­i­tar­ian nature of the project has led to the online SFF and rock com­mu­ni­ties pick­ing up the music and using it to craft their own orig­i­nal works. Below the cut, we list the coolest videos that have grown out of the project so far!

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• Copy­right laws pre­vents release of his­toric jazz record­ings — Boing Boing — The ques­tion, how­ever, is whether that will hap­pen any­time soon. And if it doesn’t, music fans might be jus­ti­fied in putting the blame on copy­right law. “The poten­tial copy­right lia­bil­ity that could attach to redis­tri­b­u­tion of these record­ings is so large–and, more impor­tantly, so uncertain–that there may never be a pub­lic dis­tri­b­u­tion of the record­ings,” wrote David G. Post, a law pro­fes­sor at Tem­ple Uni­ver­sity in Philadel­phia, on the Volokh Con­spir­acy blog.

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• Gos­sip, Col­lab­o­ra­tion, and Per­for­mance in Dis­trib­uted Teams « Skil­ful Minds — Those cor­po­ra­tions that suc­cess­fully imple­ment these tech­niques will be torn apart as their tra­di­tional hier­ar­chies and silos dis­solve into right-​​sized com­mu­ni­ties; those that fail will be nib­bled to death by community-​​based “com­peti­tors” who ignore those hier­ar­chies. Either way, it’s full of win.

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• Empa­thy and Col­lab­o­ra­tion in Social Busi­ness Design « Skil­ful Minds — Col­lab­o­ra­tion means get­ting to know that other employ­ees pos­sess exper­tise on this or that topic, but also devel­op­ing com­fort with one another by shar­ing sig­nif­i­cant sym­bols relat­ing to self, fam­ily, friends, and social activ­i­ties, thereby under­stand­ing one another as people.

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• Are Cam­eras the New Guns? — Giz­modo — In 2001, when Michael Hyde was arrested for crim­i­nally vio­lat­ing the state’s elec­tronic sur­veil­lance law — aka record­ing a police encounter — the Mass­a­chu­setts Supreme Judi­cial Court upheld his con­vic­tion 4–2. In dis­sent, Chief Jus­tice Mar­garet Mar­shall stated, “Cit­i­zens have a par­tic­u­larly impor­tant role to play when the offi­cial con­duct at issue is that of the police. Their role can­not be per­formed if cit­i­zens must fear crim­i­nal reprisals….” (Note: In some states it is the audio alone that makes the record­ing illegal.)

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