Maggie will like this one: A live, mesmerizing map of wind speed in the United States. Currently the top of hacker news so in case it wont’t load try the cahed version: http://goo.gl/7TeJM
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Mesmerizing Map of Live Wind Data
WONDERFUL @crisnoble
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Open Knowledge Foundation and P2PU.org launch the School of Data
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OKFN.org and P2PU.org have joined forces to launch the School of Data with the aim of training today’s journalists, activists and digital citizens.
“Data (open or otherwise) needs to be used, and to use data effectively requires certain skills.1
The explosive growth in data, especially open data, in recent years has meant that the demand for data skills — for data “wranglers”2 or “scientists” — has been growing rapidly. Moreover, these skills aren’t just important for banks, supermarkets or the next silicon valley start-up, they are also going to be cruicial in reserach, in journalism, and in civil society organizations (CSOs).
However, there is currently a significant shortfall of data “wranglers” to satisfy this growing demand, especially in civil society organisations — McKinsey expects a skills shortage in data expertise to reach 50-60% by 2018 in the US alone.3″
View Link [blog.okfn.org]
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Guy Fawkes Stencil PDF
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Warner Bros doesn’t have to receive a profit from every Guy Fawkes mask after all. I’m sure the boingboingers can spruce this up and spread it far and wide. Maybe someone will make a 3D print available for download from the thePirateBay’s new Phisibles category? https://thepiratebay.se/browse/605
View Link [clker.com]
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Lamar Smith, the author of SOPA, thinks our fears are unfounded and that the opposition is small.
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“The criticism of this bill is completely hypothetical; none of it is based in reality. Not one of the critics was able to point to any language in the bill that would in any way harm the Internet. Their accusations are simply not supported by any facts,” Smith said in a statement.
Members and aides said the move was typical for Smith, who is famously steadfast, even “stubborn,” as some Republicans on the Judiciary Committee privately said, once he has determined a course on legislation.
Asked for a response to the bill’s vehement critics on Internet sites such as Reddit, Smith told Roll Call, “It’s a vocal minority. Because they’re strident doesn’t mean they’re either legitimate or large in number. One, they need to read the language. Show me the language. There’s nothing they can point to that does what they say it does do. I think their fears are unfounded.”
View Link [rollcall.com]
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In case SOPA passes: key IP addresses for your favorite sites.
POSTED @crisnoble
The people over at Reddit they are making a google docs list of crucial IP address, just in case.
via http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nf5p1/sopa_emergency_list/View Link [docs.google.com]
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SOPA hearing is LIVE, watch it at keepthewebopen.com
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Right now old people who “don’t understand these complex issues” are deciding on the future of the internet.
View Link [keepthewebopen.com]
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Bill of Bytes
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The United States Bill of Rights, in QR Code format. Built entirely with open source and free use tools.
View Link [t.co]