Links for 11-14-2013

• Chart: The Family Tree of Bourbon Whiskey
• Worst Client Comments Turned Into Posters | Bored Panda
• Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - The focus on completion percentage seems misplaced--lots of people sign up for courses which they decide they don't have time for or just aren't interested--but the broader point about MOOCs not really doing much for those not served by traditional education has a lot of truth to it.
• Narrative - automatic lifelogging camera
• Food Matters | The Professional Women Who Hunt, Shoot and Gut Their Dinners - NYTimes.com
• IBM’s strategy in a nutshell: All roads must lead to profit — Tech News and Analysis - RT @theRab: “We don’t have permission to not make money. We’re not Amazon.” ~Steve Mills on IBM's strategy, interview for @gigaom
• Untitled (https://plus.google.com/+GordonHaff/posts/AF85nKnby41) - Tried The Dumpling Place in Central Square Cambridge this evening. My comments:
• Red Hat halves prices, blackens European skies with OpenShift PaaS • The Register - RT @barton808: Red Hat halves prices, blackens European skies with OpenShift PaaS • The Register
• Balsamic Brussels Sprouts
• Untitled (http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Security_Best_Practices.pdf) - RT @merv: #awsreinvent A new version of Amazon’s Security Best Practices Whitepaper is out now at
• Conan O’Brien’s Brush With the Death of Comedy | Acculturated
• The TLS blog: Not the hundred best novels?
• Backblaze: Our bet on consumer hard drives looks good so far | Business Tech - CNET News - Interesting data from @backblaze on consumer drive reliability by @stshank
• Online Release for November 2013 | OpenShift by Red Hat - New deployment options and more for #redhat OpenShift Online
• technology analyst 101 for startups - introduction - blog.aneelism -
• Red Hat Paves the Way to the Future with Open Hybrid Cloud | Business Today - Malaysia's Premier Business News Portal
• How To Create A Pure White Background For Video Or Stills | Fstoppers
• How To Build A White Background Home Video Studio | DIYPhotography.net
• The Down & Dirty Lighting Kit
• Cargo Ship Travel | Passenger Ships | Freighter Cruises | Container Ships