Hack's Haven

Note to building employees. Please do *not* put your frozen food in the microwave, set the timer for an hour, and forget about your lunch.

#YouKnowYourAvatarIsOldWhen You remember the corn field. Alternatively, you’re older than most the Lindens you hang out with. #SL

Collecting (and voting on) good ideas. Is there really wisdom in the crowd? http://www.goodideas.org/ (via @RobinHarper)

Yes! RT @adrielhampton: DoD is working smart. But wish we had a Dept. of Peace leading #gov20 innovation. #p2 #opengov (via @RitaJKing)

Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web…

The federal government has begun what looms as the largest data center consolidation in history, hoping to dramatically reduce IT operations that are currently distributed among more than 1,100 data…

I’m hoping Kundra’s IT data center consolidation plan doesn’t create a solution with the same reliability as our enterprise email system.

Best Excel 2007 template ever. NodeXL: enter a network edge list, push a button, and see the network graph. http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL

Discovering the limitations of “shared” media. It’s still infinitely better than what we had last week. #secondlife

The Department of Defense released its official policy on new/social media today. The policy (Directive-Type Memorandum 09-026), which is effective immediately, states that the default for the DoD…