HOWTO live in a schoolbus (11)
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Over at Instructables, user Zim started a series on how to live in a schoolbus. The first installment is about how to get the bus, make it road legal, and gut it for interior construction. Zim also links to Skoolie, an interesting online community devoted to school bus conversion. From Instructables: A few years back, I got tired of living the American Dream and struggling to keep up with a horrendous mortgage and rising credit ...
Steps made out of skateboards (17)
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Ted made this skateboard staircase for his skateboard deck-building school: "The aluminium beam is a solid billet of aluminium and the decks were custom made with concave only on one edge. You should see the look on our students faces when they make the treck to the basement." Coolest Steps in the World (via Make)
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
Officially the coolest thing in the world ever.
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sideb0ard said:
fuckin ace!!
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Robert said:
looks like something Nick would do with snowboards!
$208 Million Petascale Computer Gets Green Light (4)
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coondoggie writes "The 200,000 processor core system known as Blue Waters got the green light recently as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) said it has finalized the contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system. Blue Waters is expected to deliver sustained performance of more than one petaflop on many real-world scientific and engineering applications. A petaflop equals about 1 quadrillion calculations ...
Ghostbusters Is First Film Released On USB Key (8)
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arcticstoat writes "Are you the USB keymaster? You could be soon if you pick up PNY's new 2GB USB flashdrive, which comes pre-loaded with Ghostbusters. A spokesperson for PNY explained that it comes with a form of DRM that prevents you from copying the movie. 'They have DRM protection,' explained the spokesperson, 'so customers can download the movie onto their laptop or PC if they wish, but they have to have the USB drive plugged ...
Intel talks up shape-shifting "programmable matter," bugs us out (5)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets We've managed to somewhat wrap our brains around shape-shifting robots and printable circuits, but we're still working on fully understanding the latest Intel spill. As IDF came to a close, Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, presented a keynote speech in which he explained just how close the outfit was to realizing "programmable matter." Granted, he did confess that end products were still years away, but researchers have been looking at ...
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Lee said:
Awesome. The gray goo is not far behind.
Picasa Refresh Brings Facial Recognition (76)
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In the anticipated release of Google’s new and improved Picasa, the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them. Launching at noon PDT today, Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for ...
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DarK FlameS said:
Picasa agora com reconhecimento facial...
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Jrod said:
boom
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Oudi Antebi said:
worked very nice for me!
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Hagdahl said:
Picasa med ansiktigenkänning måste vara det ballaste på länge! Det kan bli hur enkelt som helst att söka efter olika personer i bildarkivet.
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Icefreez said:
Wow, that will be nice. They already developed the technology somewhat for Google maps why not develop it a bit more and release it for free :D
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Jeffrey said:
interesting - this would make life a lot easier on facebook... firefox plugin anyone? =P
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Joey Doll said:
google is on a tear
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kpoirier said:
sounds cool.
GWT 1.5 Now Available (20)
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We're happy — no, ecstatic — to announce that GWT 1.5 is now officially released and available for download. Download GWT 1.5 GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of improvements, about four hundred issues if you're counting. We're also happy that one of those is issue 168, our most-requested feature, Support for Java 5. We've blogged about several of the new features already. Now that it's official, let's recap and expand ...
Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On | 43 Folders (76)
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Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth Take a few minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox. So far, I’ve spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver-like interface it wants to bring to web
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greenergrad said:
ooooooh.
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Aaron said:
i got to start using this.
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q burns abstract message said:
I'm leaping on the bandwagon. As more than half my work day is spent on Firefox, this add-on is a bit revolutionary for me. Stoked to use it as part of my workflow for the first time tomorrow.
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ABrad45 said:
Quicksilver for Firefox :D
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Michael said:
mind = blown.
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Prashant said:
I need this...
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Meromo said:
Quicksilver for the web..hmmm...
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Dedalus said:
Just watch the video. I don't like the rtf-mail features. TXT only all the way!
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schisamo said:
Install this NOW! Best thing to happen to Firefox since tabbed browsing.
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Philip said:
if you are a firefox/gmail/google calendar user... this add on is a must.takes a few minutes to learn (click the link to the tutorial) but really worth it.
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llopis said:
Wow! Maybe the biggest change in the browser for me since GMarks!
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Eric said:
WOWOWOW
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Nicolas Untz said:
This looks really neat.
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Denver said:
This is amazing. Also, why do people type so loudly in these videos?
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Daniel Bachhuber said:
Holy bejeebas. Here comes the full power of the internet. Or phase two, at least.
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Doogie said:
watch the video. OMG. It'll be a while until I can pick my jaw back up off the floor. The Mozilla Labs RSS feed just made into my Google Reader Feed list because I WANT to know when this project goes gold.
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Geoff said:
Ok... this one is really cool!
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dmkanter said:
user generated mashup. love the idea!
Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On (64)
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Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth Take a few minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox. So far, I’ve spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver-like interface it wants to bring to web browsing. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. And, like our favorite OS X launcher, Ubiquity also has an ambitious mission: to move beyond onesie-twosie key shortcuts by using user-extensible ...
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ABrad45 said:
Quicksilver for Firefox :D
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q burns abstract message said:
I'm leaping on the bandwagon. As more than half my work day is spent on Firefox, this add-on is a bit revolutionary for me. Stoked to use it as part of my workflow for the first time tomorrow.
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Michael said:
mind = blown.
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Dedalus said:
Just watch the video. I don't like the rtf-mail features. TXT only all the way!
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Meromo said:
Quicksilver for the web..hmmm...
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Prashant said:
I need this...
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Denver said:
This is amazing. Also, why do people type so loudly in these videos?
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Eric said:
WOWOWOW
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Doogie said:
watch the video. OMG. It'll be a while until I can pick my jaw back up off the floor. The Mozilla Labs RSS feed just made into my Google Reader Feed list because I WANT to know when this project goes gold.
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Daniel Bachhuber said:
Holy bejeebas. Here comes the full power of the internet. Or phase two, at least.
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schisamo said:
Install this NOW! Best thing to happen to Firefox since tabbed browsing.
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llopis said:
Wow! Maybe the biggest change in the browser for me since GMarks!
MyEclipse Blue Gives Websphere an AJAX Booster Shot (1)
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Genuitec announced today the immediate availability of the first milestone release of MyEclipse 7.0 Blue Edition. This release provides WebSphere developers with advanced Ajax tooling, enhanced reporting technologies and Eclipse 3.4 support, among other enhancements.In addition to supporting Ganymede and delivering advanced Ajax tooling, MyEclipse 7.0 Blue Edition M1 includes:
$249 Kindle 2.0 significantly thinner and Frog stylish? (26)
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Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets Like the 1st generation Kindle unearthed by Engadget snoops way back in September of 2006, Amazon's having a tough time keeping the lid on its 2nd generation e-book reader. Seems everyone and his analyst brother is confirming a new, larger screened collegiate reader and at least one other variation, presumably the Kindle 2.0. Now BusinessWeek steps up and "confirms" the collegiate reader while claiming knowledge of a new 2.0 base ...
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Aaron said:
Hmmm, I might buy one of these at this price point...
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Greg Lowe said:
I've been waiting for this. I'm very excited that this may replace the glut of books that collect dust
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Tim said:
At $249 I would consider this, as many books as I read.
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nybble said:
If Frog design did Kindle 2.0 (and if Kindle 2.0 actually exists), that will be very cool on a few levels.
Cassandra – A structured storage system on a P2P Network (2)
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When I joined Facebook I was eagerly looking forward to a new challenge. Fortunately, Facebook cannot be accused of a lack of challenging assignments. Prashant Malik,a colleague in Facebook from the Search team, was thinking about how to solve the Inbox Search problem. This challenge is about storing reverse indices of Facebook messages that Facebook users send and receive while communicating with their friends on the Facebook network. The amount of data to be stored, ...
Clemson climbs to No. 22 in U.S.News ranking; University also recognized as a 'school to watch' (1)
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CLEMSON - Clemson University is the 22nd best national public university in the country, according to the annual ranking by U.S.News & World Report. In a new category Clemson also received recognition as a school to watch. Clemson is No. 2 among national public universities in the "up and coming" category as "a college that has recently made striking improvements or innovations - a school everyone should be watching," according to the magazine. read more
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