These are my links for December 15th through December 29th:

• The loneliness network – The Boston Globe – Loneliness is bad for us. A substantial body of research links loneliness with everything from depression to high blood pressure and cholesterol to poor sleep, weight gain, diminished immunity, and Alzheimer’s disease.

  And if a paper published this month is to be believed, loneliness isn’t just a health risk – it is, like the flu, a contagious one: Lonely people make the people around them lonely, too.

• Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem | Magazine –
• Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub –
• Nardol: PubSub with XMPP4R-Simple –
• Some experiments with the Google Maps API –

These are my links for November 26th through December 15th:

• Fastest XMPP Sessions with HTTP Pre-Binding –
• lib/geokit/mappable.rb at master from andre's geokit-gem – GitHub – Contains class and instance methods providing distance calcuation services.
• Reel history | The Elephant Man: close to the memoirs but not the man | Film | guardian.co.uk –
• Eureqa | Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory –
• flickr™ wrappr – The flickr wrappr extends DBpedia with RDF links to photos posted on flickr. For each of the 1.95 million DBpedia concepts, the wrappr generates a collection of flickr photos that depict the concept.