Election ‘08 for iPhone Offers Up-to-the-minute Political Info (12)
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After so long in gestation, the 2008 election season has actually kind of snuck up on me. And what with the App store being released, I thought there would be a ton of politically-orientated apps out there. Incredibly, there are virtually none, and certainly none this cool. You can track polls, electoral vote estimates and so on based on live data, and organize it by state, candidate, percentage and all that. It even has historical ...
Google Chrome's Full List of Special about: Pages [Google Chrome] (115)
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You already saw Google Chrome's humorous about:internets Easter egg, but reader nettleman points out that Chrome's got several special about: pages that reveal all sorts of interesting information about what's going behind the scenes. Here's the full list, with screenshots. about:memory about:stats about:network about:internets about:histograms about:dns about:cache about:plugins about:version Update: Mawin adds that you can also go to two special pages on a per-site basis. view-cache:[URL] shows you some under-the-hood cache details, and view-cache:[URL] shows ...
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Alexander Williams said:
Oooh, extra crunchy happiness. About pages are the shiznit. Pointedly, though, there's no about:config.
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federico silva said:
Chrome, chrome y mas chrome!
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Josi said:
oooh interweb tubes....
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Rick Umali said:
Yes, I've succumbed. I am reading and posting on Google's Chrome. Nifty "about:" URLs here.
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rpy said:
DNS pre-caching - cool idea. Users get a faster web experience, DNS infrastructure is already distributed enough that it can take the hit. Expect to see this in the next generation of all other browsers.
Google Doesn't Want Rights to Data You Enter Using Chrome [Google Chrome] (17)
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Googler Matt Cutts gets official word from the big G clarifying Chrome's vague Terms of Service: "We are working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service. This change will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome." [via]
Does Google Have Rights to Everything You Send Through Chrome? (36)
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Our coverage of the new Google browser Chrome over the past few days has touched on issues like browser performance and business implications for Firefox - but one thing we hadn't noticed until this evening was a curious section of the Chrome Terms of Service. The terms include a section giving Google "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which ...
A British Bank Bans a Man's Password (11)
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Weird story. Mr Jetley said he first realised his security password had been changed when a call centre staff member told him his code word did not match with the one on the computer. "I thought it was actually quite a funny response," he said. "But what really incensed me was when I was told I could not change it back to 'Lloyds is pants' because they said it was not appropriate. [...] "The rules ...
Mythbusters recreate Mona Lisa with massive 2100 cannon paintgun turret (14)
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Sheer awesomeness: this week at Nvidia's Nvision tradeshow, Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman used a massive 2100 barrel paint gun turret to create a pixel art rendition of the Mona Lisa in under 275 milliseconds. The thesis of the experiment was absurd — something about how only an Nvidia GPU can handle the raw processing power required to generate 45 square pixels of pixel art — but we're still impressed. And we're not ...
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Kevin Branigan said:
holy crap, HOLY CRAP
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Dave said:
i freaking love the mythbusters. this is just amazing.
Air Canada shaves fuel costs by eliminating life-jackets (18)
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Air Canada continues its race to the top of the list of the world's shittiest airlines by removing life-vests from its regional carrier Jazz, saving money on fuel in the process. In the event of a water crash, passengers can use their seat-cushions to float. Come to that, they can use their pillows: the last time I flew AC, you had to buy a "pillow" that consisted of a giant ziploc bag that you were ...
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Mike said:
Let's take out the seats and make them stand!
Yankees will drag you out of the stadium if you try to go to the bathroom during "God Bless America" (54)
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The Yankees are serious about their bizarre prohibition on going to the bathroom during the playing of "God Bless America" during the Seventh Inning Stretch: a man was dragged out of the stadium for daring to stand up and move around instead of singing a patriotic, religious song. I really like Tommy Smothers's formulation of the principle at work here: "America, where you're free to say anything you want, and you'd better not say what ...
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Ken said:
"Yesterday Red Sox fan Bradford Campeau-Laurion, a Queens resident, told us about his rough ejection from Yankee stadium at the hands of the NYPD after he tried to go to the men's room during the seventh inning's moment of mandatory nationalism Monday night."
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yooper1019 said:
"You may take my life, but you'll never take... MY FREEDOM!" Oh, what's that? You can take that too? This place sucks!
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vforrestal said:
you have got to be kidding me. this is what the bush government has turned this country into? a police state? and people thought his power grabs in the name of 'national security' were no big deal... land of the free my ass!
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ydant said:
what. the. fuck?
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CKL said:
Yet another reason to hate baseball.
What's worth more, a pound of grass or a pound of peacock feathers? Or a pound of human blood? (24)
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The Evil Mad Scientist Labs folks have conducted exhaustive investigation into the value of objects relative to their weight, starting with coins and bills and working through commodities like flour, and thence to exotics like human blood and antimatter. This is extremely useful information if you're ever trying to get a lot of valuta through a narrow aperture. People have been saying that the new industrial grade swimsuits like the LZR Racer are worth their ...
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Mike B said:
Gold is the only thing worth its weight in gold.
Usain Bolt Is Freaky Fast, But Nowhere Near Human Limits (1)
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As astonishing as Usain Bolt's record-breaking 100-meter sprint was, his time of 9.69 seconds is nowhere near what biostatisticians predict is the natural limit for the human body. But because he broke the mathematical model that had fit 100-meter record data for almost a century, Bolt resets how fast researchers believe humans can run.
Ratatat Music Video Made Entirely w/ Clips From 'Predator' (3)
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This is Ratatat's music video for Mirando off their LP3 release. The entire video is made up of clips from Predator cut in various ways and is extremely cool. Basically exactly what you'd expect from these guys.
Data-centers built out of sealed shipping containers filled with servers (41)
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Microsoft's new data-centres are comprised of entire sealed shipping containers that are slotted into racks and left to run until a critical mass of their processor units have failed, then are swapped out. Starting with a Chicago-area facility due to open later this year, Microsoft will use an approach in which servers arrive at the data center in a sealed container, already networked together and ready to go. The container itself is then hooked up ...
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Dom Derrien said:
Is Jonathan Schwartz, SUN's CEO, going to approve the concept reuse? See http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/a_logical_end_point, published in October 2006...
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Steve said:
Now we just need robots to swap the containers in and out and we're on track for technological dystopia!
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Rui said:
huge racks ...
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Josh Bancroft said:
Those are big servers.
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Doctor Setebos said:
This is interesting to know - especially since Microsoft will soon be building a data center right here in Des Moines.
“Demo of the year” of 2006 released by Microsoft (36)
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If you go to Google and search for “demo of the year” you’ll find my 2006 post about Microsoft’s Photosynth. It was that good. The demo is still among my favorite I’ve ever seen (and I’ve sat through thousands of demos). A few minutes ago Microsoft released Photosynth for all of us to use. What does Photosynth do? You take a bunch of photos of something, like the outside of your house. Shoot a bunch ...
How I Photosynth’d my family room (11)
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I just put up a Photosynth of my family room. Unfortunately you need a Windows machine to view it. But, this is a combination of 50 images I made this afternoon with my Canon 5D. It took only a few minutes to upload them all and complete the Photosynth. Very easy to do. Anyone can do it, you just need to plan out your Photosynth a bit. Sort of like a big stitched panorama, except ...
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Shane Conder said:
Looks like the site has been "Scobleized"... I had missed the fact that they opened it up for creating them from any images. Dang, that's great!
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Vishy007 said:
sounds like kind of thing that google uses for street view
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runbuck said:
Interesting technology here. Can take 3D Surround of a home.
How I Photosynth’d my family room (22)
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I just put up a Photosynth of my family room. Unfortunately you need a Windows machine to view it. But, this is a combination of 50 images I made this afternoon with my Canon 5D. It took only a few minutes to upload them all and complete the Photosynth. Very easy to do. Anyone can do it, you just need to plan out your Photosynth a bit. Sort of like a big stitched panorama, except ...
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