50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts from Around the World | The HostelBookers Blog
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50 breakfasts from around the world:
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NASA -
Sunset on Mars
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Still one of my favourite images, this is sunset on Mars:
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Moo North: Cattle and Deer May Sense Earth's Magnetic Field: Scientific American
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Are cows just magnets? RT @genmon When grazing or resting, cows tend to align themselves with Earth's magnetic field
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Waterstones Oxford Street | Five Books About You - Stories Written in the Second-person
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RT @WstonesOxfordSt: Blog: Five Books About You - Stories Written in the Second-Person -
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Unleash the power of open financial data – join the Development Data Challenge!
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Aid, tech or transparency geek? Join the Development Data Challenge on June 1st in DC! #opendata #IATI
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World History
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I can't recommend the "Crash Course in World History" enough: by @realjohngreen informing, and entertaining at once.
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Poverty & Equity
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RT @worldbankdata: #DataoftheDay: 95% of the Democratic Republic of Congo's population lives on less than $2 a day:
DataoftheDay
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Untitled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/23/text-mining-research-tool-forbidden#start-of-comments)
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"What do academic publishers have against text mining?" @alokjha on #openaccess and #opendata cc @WBPubs
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BBC News - Waterstones to sell Amazon's Kindle book reader
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RT @WstonesOxfordSt: As we're going to sell the Kindle soon (), we need a new, non-Amazon enemy. We'll be holding au ...
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RT @ICT_Works: How will International Aid Transparency Initiative impact development? Answer at next Technology Salon ...
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Untitled (http://api.worldbank.org/countries/all/indicators/SP.POP.TOTL?format=csv)
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@rufuspollock doh! you can already do it. Just add "?format=csv" to the end of the API call: Not "flat" though...
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Indicator Queries | Data
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@rufuspollock BTW: You can also get a JSON version via the API: Special reason for wanting CSV?
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The end of fish, in one chart - The Washington Post
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Just. Damn. "The end of fish, in one chart"
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Population, total | Data | Table
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@rufuspollock OK, so CSV download option here? Bulk CSV download for those is also available:
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Data Catalog | Data
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@rufuspollock OK, so CSV download option here? Bulk CSV download for those is also available:
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Erik Johansson Photo & Retouch – Personal work
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"The impossible photography of Erik Johansson"
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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
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"Slinky on a treadmill" is a surprisingly emotional video:
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EV'ing through Africa | MetaFilter
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Frenchman Xavier Chevrin is driving an electric car 3,000 miles through Africa, from Nairobi to Johannesburg:
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Governance and Development: Tax Inspectors Without Borders: A Seriously Good Idea
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RT @RichardJMurphy: Tax Inspectors Without Borders - a seriously good idea
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BBC News - Wingsuit flyer dives through hole in Chinese mountain
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Holy Shittake: "Wingsuit flyer dives through hole in Chinese mountain"
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Mapping for Results | Openness for Whom? and Openness for What? | The World Bank
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"Openness for Whom? and Openness for What?" Soren from @worldbank on open development: cc @meowtree #opendata #opendev
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Presidential Innovation Fellows | The White House
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RT @digiphile: .@Todd_Park: @WhiteHouse recruiting 15 "innovation fellows" to help #opengov: #tcdisrupt #gov20
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RT @OpenGovSummit: 'Why gov should seriously consider #openstandards & #opensource solutions' w quote from @swardley ...
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Big Data Troves Stay Forbidden to Social Scientists - NYTimes.com
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RT @TimoSmura: Good article in @nytimes on #opendata in science: Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
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Top Bone-Luge and Cocktail Pairings Around The Country
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Nice try Internet: you've trained me too well to be surprised. RT @TimHarford The latest odd food craze: the bone luge.
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Using Aid Data - MediaWiki
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RT @timdavies: @tkb @samuelslee1 Great to see #ddc2012. RHOK Soton in UK hoping to look at Aid Data so could feed i ...
ddc2012
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Native Americans Struggle With High Rate of Rape - NYTimes.com
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RT @Carrie_Golden: "One in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape" | #ep ...
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Encourage Hitchhiking Again? | Brewster Kahle's Blog
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RT @brewster_kahle: What if we Encouraged Hitchhiking Again?
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You Call That Innovation? - WSJ.com
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My fave NASA quote: "What most call innovation, we call engineering" RT @Integrilicious You Call That Innovation?
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Twitter hands your data to the highest bidder, but not to you - The Globe and Mail
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RT @daeaves: "Twitter hands your data to the highest bidder, but not to you." Great piece by @ivortossell Making me ...
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Google Public Data Explorer
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@Lucie_M Also: Google ingest our data into Public Data Explorer - it's translated into 34+ langs!
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Dude, This Diplomat's No Stiff | Fast Company
3 days ago
RT @bonnie: Love the @fastcompany interview w/ the awesome @suzkp on being a diplomat + (tech) savvy
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Obama campaign ads: How the Analyst Institute is helping him hone his message. - Slate Magazine
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RT @J_Panaretos: How the Obama campaign is using empirical analysis, rather than guesswork, to decide which ads to run:
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Untitled (http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.50/2012/19_Eurostat.pdf)
3 days ago
Hearing Christiaan Laevaert of @eu_eurostat on collaborations with Google + Public Data Explorer: #msis2012 #opendata
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Twitter / UNGlobalPulse: Working lunch session with
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Yummy! RT @UNGlobalPulse Working lunch with @undp to talk #realtime data in #globaldev and brainstorm research areas.
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4 days ago
Professor Nigel Shadbolt outlines plans for Open Data Institute (Wired UK)
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RT @tkelsey1: ODI launches today: global first for #uktransparency “@uktechnews: plans for Open Data Institute ”
uktransparency
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The Future Of Web Searching | The Kojo Nnamdi Show
4 days ago
Kinda badass :-) MT @digiphile First up on @kojoshow: @google's @theamitsinghal Kojo went *right* to the EU news.
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FAOSTAT
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Hey @FAOKnowledge - love the new FAOSTAT but persistent URLs for sharing views are a must these days, non?
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EIA - Eia.gov BETA
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Persistent URLs! RT @neilfantom Impressive data browser built in 10 wks by @eiagov w/ jQuery & FOSS libraries #msis2012
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The Benefits of Being Bilingual | Wired Science | Wired.com
Beckett would later expand on these comments, noting that his use of French prevented him from slipping into his usual writerly habits, those crutches of style that snuck into his English prose. Instead of relying on the first word that leapt into consciousness – that most automatic of associations – he was forced by his second language to reflect on what he actually wanted to express. His diction became more intentional.
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OECD – Your Better Life Index
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Hey @OECD - congratulations on the new Better Life Index - - site seems very slow, heavy load?
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4 days ago
Better life: relaunching the happiness index | News | guardian.co.uk
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The @guardian on @OECD launching the "Better Life Index" that let's YOU decide indicators to measure welfare. #opendata
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Also HD Zen Edition: RT @drmaciver @pervocracy This is what a baby capybara looks like.
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Zen Capybara in Japanese Zoo | Geekosystem
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Also HD Zen Edition: RT @drmaciver @pervocracy This is what a baby capybara looks like.
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Meeting on the Management of Statistical Information Systems - UNECE
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Agenda & papers from IMF Statistics Systems Meeting #msis2012 is online at: - some nerdy but cool stuff there.
msis2012
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David R. MacIver
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"A bug indicates a failure to understand something. Fix the bug AND fix the failure of understanding" by @drmaciver
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Why Open Data is all about Apps, and why it shouldn’t be! « DataMarket blog
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"Why #opendata is all about apps and why it shouldn't be" by @datamarket
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Untitled (http://twitter.com/aidinfo/status/204889617512669184/photo/1)
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Waves! RT @aidinfo We were out in the sun this morning to watch the Olympic #torchrelay pass DI's office in Wells
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Untitled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/may/22/amazon-newspaper-review-fiction?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)
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RT @guardiantech: Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review?
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Volunteer (Morogoro): Communications Coordinator
- idealist.org
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RT @HeroRATs: APOPO is looking for a Communications Coordinator to join our team in Tanzania:
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IBM CEO Study 2012 infographic | Flickr: Intercambio de fotos
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Nice! I'd give it a week for the #occupy remix to come out :-) RT @eurydice13 Inside the brain of a CEO.
occupy
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Hans Rosling's Shortest Talk Ever - information aesthetics
4 days ago
Beautiful 50 second talk by @HansRosling :
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EBRD Raises the Bar for International Appointments | Owen Barder | Global Development: Views from the Center
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RT @owenbarder: Blog post: @EBRD raises the bar for international appointments.
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(404) http://t.co/6nc
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RT @worldbankdata: Unleash the power of financial #opendata - join the Development Data Challenge on June 1st @worldbank ...
opendata
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Harvard Library: subscriptions too costly, faculty should go open access | Ars Technica
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"Harvard: subscriptions too costly, faculty should go #openaccess" Suber on spending > $9M on closed research: #wblive
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What the World Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development - Liveblog & webcast | World Bank Live
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RT @worldbankdata: We're live! What does the @worldbank #openaccess policy mean for development? Join online: #wbli ...
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Special Report: The algorithmic arms race
| Reuters
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RT @AaaLee: The algorithmic arms race
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Home | MINE: Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration
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Relationship hunting in large datasets? You need maximal information-based nonparametric exploration (MINE) statistics
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Prince Charles's complementary medicine charity has been dissolved
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RT @thirdsectordave: I see Prince Charles' charity promoting homeopathy has been dissolved. Presumably that will on ...
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Open Access India: Movement for Making Public Funded Research Open | Australian Science
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Open Access India: A Movement for Making Public Funded Research Open #openaccess #opendata
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Official Statistic’s SWOT « Blog about Stats
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A Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis of the Official Statistics industry: #opendata
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