Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying - The Atlantic bit.ly/padjIl via AddThis

Namaste Steve

Interesting govt report on "benefit" of govt debt. Or is it rationalization? npr.org/blogs/money/20…

Reading: EFF - How #PIPA and #SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation eff.org/deeplinks/2012…

Idiot NY lawmakers ignoring First Amendment? What has happened to liberty in this country? Sad! wired.com/threatlevel/20…

@JDASoftware Announces Industry-Leading Demand Management and Supply Chain Planning Scalability Benchmarking Results jda.com/company/press-…

Interesting from Ars Technica - Self-assembling rafts: how fire ants survive floods http://bit.ly/jCAzL5

Danger, Danger! Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/

All work and no play... Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/05/23/vacation.in.america/

Government camel nose further under the tent with mandatory car "black boxes". http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/05/automotive-black-boxes/

Algorithmic evidence of systematic insider trading by members of Congress. http://huff.to/mKUeTD Not a smoking gun, but interesting.

Seeking runners + volunteers for June 5th MCRRC Capital Crescent 5K. http://www.mcrrc.org/racing/2011/race_descriptions.php#capital_crescent

Summer must be here early... I'm on fire after a solid mid-day run in the sun w/MR. Can't wait for the pool to open tomorrow!

Absolutely brilliant, must-read post by Jim Stogdill (parody) 🙊 @[email protected] on the ethics of personalization and data mining. http://oreil.ly/moXkfr #requiredreading

In Bethesda, MD on Sunday? Come run the MCRRC Capital Crescent 5K http://www.mcrrc.org/racing/2011/race_descriptions.php#capital_crescent

Many thanks to volunteers at today's MCRRC Capital Crescent 5K! They made it a great race for runners and easy for RD!

A doodle you can strum, for musician/innovator Les Paul http://yfrog.com/h7er6dp Info: http://goo.gl/lq5nr via @googledoodles

#Unconstitutional? -- Tenn. law bans posting images that "cause emotional distress" arst.ch/pu1 via Ars Technica

Key court case tests right to record the police with a cell phone arst.ch/puz

Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' http://bit.ly/kM1w8f That's right, we train them, then send them home #startupvisa