“Do or Do not. There is no Try.”
via Flowing Data.
Elizabeth Iorns, an extremely talented scientist (and my wife), now has her very own Tumblr page…. check it out!
LeBron James has close to 60,000 Twitter followers without even sending out a tweet - perhaps he’s planning to tweet the outcome of his free agency negotiations rather than giving a press conference…. definitely worth watching this space!
UPDATE: almost 120,000 Twitter followers and one tweet, but still no indication of where he’ll play next season.
UPDATE #2: its almost a week since “The Decision” and I still can’t believe it…. @kingjames, @dwadeofficial and @chrisbosh all on the same team! And @m33m! The upcoming Miami HEAT season is going to be insane.
Cool World Cup / Twitter visualization app from The Guardian.
The app is dynamic and you can ‘relive’ each game through the lens of the tweets sent during the game.
Note: The image above is from New Zealand’s game against Italy (paused just after New Zealand took their first ever lead in a World Cup game).
After a bit of Saturday morning HTML hacking (while watching some World Cup soccer), I now have new social media icons - see right ——>
Icons courtesy of MySiteMyWay.

I love getting Dave Lerner’s “Morning Read” in my Google Reader, mostly because the photo, presumably taken in a New Zealand cafe, reminds me of home….
DailyMe is recruiting for two Data / Research Scientists - role is advertised here on KDNuggets, as well as on LinkedIn.
The Data / Research Scientists will support DailyMe’s Chief Scientist and I as we seek to further improve the already impressive performance of our Newstogram recommendation system.
After almost a year on Blogger, I’m trying out Wordpress… so far, so good.
In keeping with every programming text I’ve ever seen, here is my (obligatory) “Hello, World!” blog post.