Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 March 2009

arrested on charges of online solicitation, promotion of kiddie porn and sexual performance of a child. ... playing Warhawk on PS3s when O'Shea convinced the girl to take nude photos of herself and send them to him

* Governments, corporations snooping on website visits... * Next big thing on Web is linked data...* Berners-Lee says future of Web is on mobile phones Surfers on the Internet are at increasing risk from governments and corporations tracking the sites they visit to build up a picture of their activities, the founder of the World Wide Web said on Friday.

Twitter has jumped the shark for the digerati attending South by Southwest here in Austin. Daniel Terdiman at CNET points out what everyone trying to follow the #sxsw tweets has discovered — there are just too many of them. It seems that, while Twitter's hardware can scale for the many millions of people who have joined the community, the actual service cannot. Twitter is still up and running, but the idea of generating a real time picture of what folks are doing, and extracting relevant information from that picture, is kind of like trying to pick out your grandma at the Washington Mall on the satellite image taken during President Barack Obama's inauguration.

With the world swirling about it, the House took a moment Thursday to honor pi, the Greek letter symbolizing that great constant in mathematics representing the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

The Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra's production "Baroque and Beyond" was the first Twimphony — a symphony with Twitter accompaniment — held anywhere, worldwide.

our mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22. ... in nine out of 12 tests the average age at which the top performance was achieved was 22. The first age at which performance was significantly lower than the peak scores was 27 — for three tests of reasoning, speed of thought and spatial visualisation. Memory was shown to decline from the average age of 37. In the other tests, poorer results were shown by the age of 42.

Like characters in Charles Dickens' 1859 novel, the triumphs and tragedies of Bartlesville and Ponca City will forever be entwined. Separated by just 70 miles of highway, the fortunes of these two mirror image Oklahoma communities have been tied to the oil and gas industry for nearly a century.

He's been confined to a wheelchair for 20 years. Now a paraplegic man is walking again. And his doctors call it a miracle. ... A Brown Recluse sent him to the hospital, then to rehab for eight months. "I'm here for a spider bite. I didn't know I would end up walking...."

Police in Washington state have located a 14-year-old Tecumseh girl and the 41-year-old man Oklahoma investigators believe she left with more than a month ago.