The LingPipe guys have pushed out another draft of their book, Text Analysis with LingPipe, http://bit.ly/d9zy6p

What @automatoon is doing is so terrific, watch the video and see for yourself http://bit.ly/kbrHQA All browser, HTML5, hackable Javascript.

Spotify Apps really change how I feel about Spotify. The Last.fm & Pitchfork apps in particular definitely helping where Spotify is weakest.

Title of this paper is making me read it: Personal Crunchology: Data Obese Futures and Statistical Fortune Telling http://bit.ly/iQXMc9

Wait long enough & the web will deliver: Pattern http://bit.ly/hiNOed "a web mining module for Python" data retrieval, text analysis, viz

New appreciation for @liebke's cljr, a must-have for experimenting with new code, http://bit.ly/dt3mMN

Instead of endlessly ruminating & tweaking, I pushed up my #clojure bayes code I've been playing with: http://bit.ly/75dhBf Write up later.

Wrote up a little bit about my experiences porting some Common Lisp to #clojure, http://bit.ly/8fcsRR. From Seibel's Practical Common Lisp.

Another nice #clojure-focused blog to add to the rotation, e.g. http://bit.ly/1dtWt1 on implementing "Brian's Brain" CA

#incanter gets better, now you can use processing, http://bit.ly/3PBKD. a fork of clj-processing.

Wonderful Kickstarter project: Re-creating an 18th Century Oeben Mechanical Table  http://kck.st/Wq6bsU  No e-ink required.

@ftrain even as an educational experience, just reading Saseenrath's code is time well spent.

The @echonest makes listening to Christmas music even easier:  http://static.echonest.com/demo/xmas.html  The Vince Guaraldi playlist is particularly good.

Seasonally confused: strawberries, melon & chestnuts are all available at farmers market.

Unique/novel @cascading example, http://t.co/ewMMItIO using Big Data to find a shady tree lined spot for a phone call, thanks @pacoid!

@msimoni a bookmark layer cake with sweet tag frosting holding them all together. that is value. stacks are for books.

Really digging the approach ORA's "Clojure Programming" took, looking forward to real book! Thanks @cemerick, @cgrand, @briancarper

Guy wanted an exact 5mm slice of mortadella, deli guy had to explain the units on the slicer were neither metric nor imperial, confusion.

"We’re also considering porting parts of D3 itself to Clojure on the JVM..." http://t.co/1HlAOWIN definitely want to know more!

"Pythonic JavaScript to CoffeeScript"?! Looking forward to 2012 as the year of #clojurescript, so tired of js syntax artistic license.