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May 10 2012
Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf
"The article notes that unlike earlier devices, which used costly ingredients, the new device is made from inexpensive materials and employs low-cost engineering and manufacturing processes."
May 08 2012
What I learned at the Feminist Porn Awards
TL;DR - "A lot of porn is bad, here's some that's not."
May 07 2012
The case of the 500-mile email
"We could send email. Just not more than--" "--500 miles, yes," I finished for him, "I got that. But why didn't you call earlier?" "Well, we hadn't collected enough data to be sure of what was going on
until just now." Right. This is the chairman of *statistics*. "Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--"
May 02 2012
edX
"Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners."
April 23 2012
This Homemade Headphone Amplifier is a Work of Art
"I've seen many good looking electronics projects in my time, but few of them can compare with the simplicity, style, and elegance of the build that I am about to show you."
Space is really big!
"Let's start by first shrinking the Earth to the size of a Tennis Ball."
April 05 2012
Colorado River: Running Near Empty by : Yale Environment 360
"Photographer Peter McBride traveled along the Colorado River from its source high in the Rocky Mountains to its historic mouth at the Sea of Cortez. In this Yale Environment 360 video, he follows the natural course of the Colorado by raft, on foot, and overhead in a small plane, telling the story of a river whose water is siphoned off at every turn, leaving it high and dry 80 miles from the sea."
April 02 2012
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February 25 2012
Plug It In | Blog | Tesla Motors
"A single blogger is spreading a rumor about electric vehicles becoming inoperable. “Bricking” is an irrational fear based on limited information and a misunderstanding of Tesla’s battery system. Here is why the rumor is unfounded: "
Dun-dun-dun!!
Ruby Poetry - Andrew McDonough
"As the couplet finding algorithm was fairly crude, only looking for matches of the last three letters, and not the phonetic reprentation, I allowed myself to pick the best couplets as generated on the day. To demonstrate my code, I reran the program on the day of my talk, and read the best couplets it generated at the end:
"...
"Storm at C-word in BBC weather forecast Top Irish dancers set for Belfast
"..."
February 19 2012
Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired's Kevin Kelly
Dyson: In some creation myths, life arises out of the earth; in others, life falls out of the sky. The creation myth of the digital universe entails both metaphors. The hardware came out of the mud of World War II, and the code fell out of abstract mathematical concepts. Computation needs both physical stuff and a logical soul to bring it to life. These were young kids who had just come through World War II, who could repair the electronics on airplanes and get them flying the same day, and von Neumann put them together with mathematical logicians who could imagine a universe created entirely out of 0s and 1s.
February 11 2012
A Case against Wayland
"Imaging you'd simply hold your smartphone besides your PC's monitor a NFC (near field communication) system in phone and monitor detects the relative position, and flick the email editor over to the PC allowing you to continue your edit there. Now imagine that this happens absolutely transparent to the programs involved, that this is something managed by the operating system. This is where I want to go. Not that cheap effects lollipop desktops Ubuntu/Canonical, Intel, RedHat/Fedora and Gnome(3) aim for."
February 05 2012
December 30 2011
Play fullscreen
Or would Giggerota prefer this‽
December 29 2011
John Stump, composer of Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz
My uncle, John Arthur Stump, who was my father’s youngest brother, died on January 20, 2006. His memorial service was held at a Vedanta monastery in Hollywood, where my other uncle (known there as “Jnana Chaitanya,” but to me as Uncle Dave) serves as a monk. I was not at the ceremony, but my family brought back some memorabilia from the service and from Uncle John’s “estate,” including a large piece of paper densely printed with musical notation.
N-Control Responds To Ocean Marketing Fiasco | GamerFront
N-Control has hired an independent consultant, Austin, Texas-based Moisés Chiullan, to field press inquiries and oversee sales and marketing operations going forward. ... "We have to move forward and take care of Avenger’s customers," Chiullan said. "I can't worry about the fact that there isn’t a bus big enough for me to throw Paul Christoforo under. The internet did that for me. I think they set him on fire too."
December 24 2011
The Story Behind Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters - The Atlantic
"Winning the Iowa caucuses would change all that instantly. Undoubtedly the movement that Paul inspired has moved far beyond the race-baiting it engaged in two decades ago. Young people from college campuses aren't lining up to hear him speak because of what appeared in those newsletter about the 1992 L.A. riots. Rand Paul tried his hardest to place Paul-style libertarianism into the context of the Tea Party. And he will likely carry on the movement without this 1990s baggage.
"But the questions remain. If Ron Paul is so libertarian that he won't even police people who use his name, if his movement is filled with incompetents and opportunists, then what kind of a president would he make? Would he even check in to see if his ideas are being implemented? Who would he appoint to Cabinet positions?"
Big 14 Tour - Fairy Bridge
"Fairy Bridge (Xian Ren Qiao) is a meander natural bridge carved through limestone karst by the Buliu River. It is located about 40 km (as the crow flies) northwest of Fengshan in northwestern Guangxi Province, China. ... Estimates using Google Earth and other photos suggested that the span might be the largest in the world."
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