Seed: Wing of Bat, and Mouses Leg (2)
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A bat's elongated paw results from altered interactions of ancient genes. Illustration: Alison Schroeer Consider the relationship between bat and mouse. Separated from their last common ancestor &mdash a little mouse-like thing &mdash by somewhere between 80 million and 100 million years, the two have had plenty of time to pick up new habits. Bats, beautifully adapted fliers, flit through the sky on membranous wings stretched over long limbs and outsized paws. Mice, those small, ...
We Are Making al-Qaeda Stronger (1)
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Despite any efforts on the part of the United States, the Middle East remains awash in violence. In July, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice famously described the moment as “the birth pangs of a new Middle East,” but that seems to have been wishful thinking. A recent U.S. National Intelligence Estimate states that al-Qaeda has regrouped and is more powerful than at any time in recent history. A 2007 report from the National Counterterrorism ...
Major and minor reasons for US newspaper crisis. (4)
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Tip of the hat to Martin Stabe for highlighting this link as he does with so many must-read media stories. Vin Crosbie has a lengthy and thoughtful post, nay essay, on why the US newspaper industry is in dire straits in two parts, see Part 1 and Part 2. Vin's prediction is this: More than half of the 1,439 daily newspapers in the United States won't exist in print, e-paper, or Web site formats by ...
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Kevin Marks said:
Great analysis in here about the nature of publics, and newspapers old model:they came to believe that producing a common edition for everyone is their raison d'être, forgetting it arose as a limitation of their technology. Fitting psychologist Abraham Maslow's statement that "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail," the editorial production limitation of Gutenberg's technology has led most newspaper editors to believe that they set the 'common agenda' for their community and likewise that their community's readership is somehow homogenous because it reads the same newspaper edition on any given day.
Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong (22)
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Have you turned up your nose at YouTube for being born from low quality, financially unsustainable, pirated content? If you've made that argument in conversation before (and we now many people do) - new claims from YouTube itself now indicate that you'd be wrong. The official Google Blog made a post this morning following up on a New York Times story last week where the company claimed that 90% of the owners of copyrighted content ...
Back to School: 10 Great Web Apps for College Students (49)
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For a lot of college students, the new semester is just around the corner. Last year, we created a long list of great Web 2.0 tools that we thought would be helpful for college students, but given how fast things develop on the web, we thought we would revisit this topic again this year and look at some of the most useful Web 2.0 tools that have the potential to help students do better in ...
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izensun said:
大家都快開學了阿?
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catepol said:
take note
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Bob Hazlett said:
I had the idea of a rate my professors site back in 99. Glad to see someone pulled it off.
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Jbud1 said:
Hey all you college kids! Check out the tools that make your lives easier! They are great!
Latvia’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Shutdown, Admins Arrested (3)
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Much to the disappointment of more than 100,000 users, Latvia’s largest BitTorrent tracker has been shut down by the authorities. Following a joint operation by Lativa’s Economic Police and a local IFPI-affiliated anti-piracy agency, two administrators were placed under arrest. File.lv, Latvia’s largest BitTorrent community, was taken offline a few days ago. The 100,000 member tracker reportedly went dark after a joint effort by the Latvian Economic Police and the IFPI-affiliated Latvian Music Producers Association, ...
If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity. (77)
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Aza Raskin at Mozilla Labs thinks there’s got to be an easier way to create Web mashups. Today, he is announcing the launch of Ubiquity, an experiment in using natural language to invoke Web services. Ubiquity is an extension to the Firefox browser that lets you type in what you want to do—insert a map, translate this page, Twitter this block of text, search on Google—and invokes one of 30 Web services. As Raskin describes ...
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Flyhorse said:
This is awesome!
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Devlin D said:
I am loving the work that Aza is doing! He is a user experience GENIUS!!!
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Derick Valadao said:
Holy smokes. That looks really really cool.
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Noah J said:
One to watch.
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Klemo said:
Aza Raskin at Mozilla Labs thinks there’s got to be an easier way to create Web mashups.
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Daniel said:
Now this is awesome!
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Praneet said:
Installed it today.. cool thing.
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Dominic Hopton said:
The new hotness, IMHO
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Luke G said:
Huge.
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ModernBizzle said:
Cool name, logo, and idea!
Acoustic Band ‘Utterly Depends’ on Piracy (2)
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Steve Knightley is one half of ‘Show of Hands’, an award-winning acoustic and folk duo from the UK. Steve says he is thankful to the people that pirate the band’s music and go out of their way to promote the band. In fact, he says the band utterly depends on them. The music industry’s position is clear, every download is a lost sale and there is no such animal as ‘piracy is promotion’. However, some ...
Dexter - Season Two (1)
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My name is Stella and I am an addict. I am addicted to a show about a sympathetic serial killer. How ironic that season two of Dexter should feature our anti-hero going through a twelve step program. Initially, the "Inconvenient Lie" is to appease Dexter's girlfriend Rita who thinks Dexter is a drug addict. Little does she know that murder, not heroin, is his drug of choice. The NA cover also throws Doakes off the ...
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Kerry said:
i love dexter,
Multiple Value CCK Field as Context Relationship (1)
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Hi. On a panels_page, I'm trying to pass the values of a Nodereference CCK field with multiple values to a panel_view, using a Relationship in the context system. The nodereference relationship only seems to support passing the first value to the view. Looking at other relationships (term_from_node, user_from_node, etc) they all seem to pass only one object. I'm surprised that I've been unable to find a plugin that supports passing multiple values. I'd be pleased ...
Victorian Aliens Trace Our Monster Lineage [Monster Heritage] (5)
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Sift through grainy old monster pictures from artist Travis Louie, and reminisce about a time when monsters had a simple dignity. Louie has an amazing eye for creating cool scifi creatures putting them against a realistic historical backdrop. Not only that, but each painting comes with its own monster back story. Click through to meet the Queen of the Sea Monkeys and Karl The Humanzee. Louie recently had a large showing at the Roq La ...
A Protein That Helps Create Immortal Cells [Longevity] (3)
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Every time your cells divide, the "telomeres," or caps on the ends of your chromosomes, get a little shorter. Elderly creatures begin to suffer diseases of old age partly because their telomeres have become so short, and cellular division becomes difficult and error-prone. That's why telomeres are the subject of intensive study: If we could figure out the mechanism that keeps our telomeres from shortening, it's possible we could prolong our lives. Now a group ...
Alleged UK Pirates Offered Free Legal Representation (5)
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Over the last year, UK residents accused of sharing games like Dream Pinball have been threatened by lawyers Davenport Lyons. Stuck in a trap of not having enough money to defend themselves, many choose to pay compensation demands - guilty or not - fearful of a much bigger punishment if things go bad. Now a UK IP lawyer says he will defend as many people as he can - for free. Last week, thousands of ...
How-To: Fit a Circle In a Square Hole (15)
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Being a designer in an environment where most people adhere to a strict path of logic can be challenging. There are few logic-centric people who understand the value design has to a product or service. Instead of beating your head against your desk, do something to get the company on common ground. The Only Orange in the Apple Orchard Think back to the first time you discovered that not everyone holds the same respect for ...
Be a Socialist Hero! Your Photographed Face as Mao’s Special Helper (14)
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~Our advertisers come back over andover and over again. Find out why.~ Need to convince your friends of something? Nothing works quite like, well, propaganda… Especially if it has your face on it. Maopost, a site dedicated to an extensive collection of Chinese propaganda posters, will seamlessly paint your face (or your friend’s) from any of your photographs into a classic propaganda oil painting. You supply the photograph and choose one of the 35 suggested ...
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mucio said:
Gesù, che meraviglia
mySQLgame, playing with database queries (2)
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mySQLgame is a quirky App Engine game that has decided to forgo flashy UIs and just stick with the core of the system: a database. You start the game by creating your own row in the shared game database. Game time increments your fuel and money resources every ten seconds. . .
The heretic (1)
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Giordano Bruno has been called a martyr to science and an occultist, but a new book argues that the brilliant philosopher's unconventional behavior did him in.
Can You Guess Which Facebook App Is Making A Million Dollars A Month? I Can. (34)
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Facebook is a famously difficult place to make money. Despite the popularity of the social network, most ads go for pennies per thousand impressions (CPMs). Even Social Media, a Facebook ad network that is able to get effective CPMs of about 50 cents, has only paid out a little more than $8 million total to application developers since it launched a year ago. Yet AllFacebook claims: There’s a pretty well known secret among top Facebook ...
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kfc said:
interesting article
Police Arrest Ninja Team That Targeted Drug Dealers (3)
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Police arrested two men dressed like ninjas and armed with Asian martial arts weapons who said they were delivering warning letters to drug dealers and users.
