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MIT researchers discover new way of producing electricity (10)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say.Shared by Andrew (79) Avi (375) cbsmith (58) chris789 (477) Ken Storey (32) Lao (96) Leena (653) Peter (30) pinkfu (21) rfrancis (32)Comment View comments -
Over 4,000 developers at Google I/O 2010 (20)
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As of today, this year's Google I/O conference has sold out and registration is closed. That means more than 4,000 developers will be joining us on May 19-20 at Moscone West in San Francisco.Like years past, I/O will feature over 90 in-depth sessions and the opportunity to meet and learn from other developers, including those from the more than 160 companies that will demo in the Developer Sandbox. For those unable to attend, video recordings ...Shared by Alberty (22) Allerhed (79) Atul Arora (84) cbsmith (58) Convoluted (36) DrHossein (64) Jamie (25) JH (12) Jigar (53) jsilland (8) and 10 more »Explore read four notesComment View comments -
Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion (63)
permalinkBarack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter to get a few pointers about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and why it's so important. ... Watch videos about Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Bush Sr., Bush Jr, Jimmy Carter, Saturday Night Live, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, former presidents, Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey,...Shared by aaron (424) Adam (15) Amy (14) AmyVernon (448) Ananya Walia (500) Benjamin (2) Bryce Montgomery (11) cbsmith (58) Cristian (36) CrunchyJew (21) and 53 more »Explore read four notes
- CrunchyJew said: Reader won't embed this but go watch it. Great to see all these comedians getting together to help america.
- Shelly said: In case you haven't seen this, though it's been pimped EVERYWHERE. The impersonations are great, but the skit moves kinda slow. Dig it.
- Joe said: This video is awesome. They talked about it on NPR this morning. Awesome.
- J said: WHY ISN'T SNL THIS FUNNY?!?!?!?!?!!?!
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I Am (112)
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Shared by [ebarrera] (7) Aaron (9) Aaron Mayer (26) adrian (25) AirDiogo (18) Al (7) Allie (11) Amir (62) Andy (5) Andy (53) and 102 more »Explore read 10 notes- Skrud said: I need one that understands the binary language of moisture vapourators.
- Matt said: What Randall hath written, many of us hath thought in our hearts.
- kmohr25 said: For Cory...
- j said: <3!
- cbsmith said: ...and I had such high hopes for an "IAM Canadian" joke.
- Trebel said: And this is my counterpart R2-D2! (xkcd)
- Al said: I love XKCD so much.
- Travis said: The alt tag is awesome. :-)
- Hadyn said: Not only did I laugh, I read the punch line in my head with C3P0's voice and cadence. Certified geek.
- Sean said: Just in time for Passover.
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Petition to make "Hella" the prefix for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (73)
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Carl sez, "A petition to make Hella- the official SI prefix for 10^27, for measuring things bigger than Yotta- (the prefix for (US) billion trillion). For instance: 'the sun (mass of 2.2 hellatons) would release energy at 0.3 hellawatts.' It would also come in handy for eventually measuring Internet traffic and US national debt." The Official Petition to Establish "Hella-" as the SI Prefix for 10^27 List of SI prefixes (Thanks, Carl!) Previously:Punk math philosophy ...Shared by Aaron (24) Adam (6) Adi (9) al (8) Alex (247) autodidactic (48) Blake (33) bnoise (12) BoH (28) Bonwag (1) and 63 more »Explore read seven notes- jeddings said: Love this! Though other contenders should include: Lotsa-, Tonza-, Masso-, and Craploadsa-.
- rkaller said: A disturbingly large part of me is delighted at this.
- Dave said: Hahaha, oh god no.
- Jay said: That is hella cool.
- jonezy said: hella cool!
- TheCheapGeek said: Best Prefix Ever?
- Chris said: Can't wait to say, "Back in my day, 'hella' just meant 'a lot'!"
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xkcd: Sex Dice (197)
onShared by 2sheds (2) Aaron (9) Aaron (7) Abo (19) Acau (5) adamconner7 (20) aDeSe (3) Adrian (19) Alexander (206) angol (20) and 187 more »Explore read 12 notes
- Morgendorfer said: Настольные игры )
- norti said: ROTFL
- Jake said: hahaha
- David said: Having played DnD, I know everything goes... but sometimes, things go way left field
- Omegar said: Tarea para hoy: revisar la colección de dados.
- Polina said: haha, I'm pretty sure this could happen to people I know.
- zobie said: lol
- Kim said: LOL
- James said: This could definitely enliven board game nights at our house...
- px said: DnD #gaming
- Trebel said: Playing AD&D with a.... (XKCD)
- Jason said: The alt-text is a plus.
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How We Hate NBC’s Olympics Coverage: A Statistical Breakdown (15)
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The coverage of the Winter Olympics on NBC has been painful to watch. In addition to the tape delays which ruined the outcomes for anyone paying attention to any other news, sports or social media outlet other than NBC, there are a lot of other complaints. In between the hard-hitting reports of polar bears in the Canadian North and life among the lumberjacks, NBC did manage to squeeze in some actual Winter games, which were ...Shared by Amit (7) armyofgnomes (117) cbsmith (58) Greg (4) Jamie (25) kaushik1000 (7) kskobac (10) LouCypher (393) Mitch (4) pagecrusher (17) and five more »Comment View comments -
NSFW: Cherchez la fame – or why the media’s obsession with Twitter campaigns will make customer service smell French (33)
onTime was, companies knew how to keep track of their important customers. First, they set up loyalty programs: computerised systems that tracked the monetary value of everyone who shopped in their stores or flew on their planes or ate at their restaurant. When a high spender made a booking, the company was alerted to their status and they were treated accordingly. Frequent fliers got upgrades and champagne, frequent diners got a visit from the chef ...Shared by Aaron (17) ahsteele (1) Alex (5) AndrewTerry (105) armyofgnomes (117) Bill (178) Bj (1) Boris (24) bruno (43) C (240) and 23 more »
- bruno said: "Companies are going to have to start treating every single person in the world like a VIP."
- Robotech_Master said: It's about darned time!
- Ian said: Paul Carr is the only reason to read TechCrunch. The guy can write.
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Twitter To Add “Nifty” Site Features That May Make You Forget Third-Party Clients (57)
onTwitter appears to be on the verge of some big changes to its website if a tweet that Twitter engineer Alex Payne sent today is any indication. In fact, the new features may be so good that they could make some people re-examine their use of desktop Twitter clients, apparently. As Payne writes: If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop ...Shared by `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN (7) _dot_ (97) 100rabh (45) Aaron Traffas (33) Andrew (67) armyofgnomes (117) Ashish (6) askarnett (274) balintd (74) Barbara (10) and 47 more »Explore read five notes
- Isaac said: heh. i start there in 9 days...
- Eduo said: Deben ser los años, porque he visto este compartido varias veces ya y en todos los casos es de gente que quiere utilizar más la versión web y yo, la verdad, no puedo entenderlo.Quiero decir, mola que haya una webapp decente para un servicio pero preferir la webapp a clientes dedicados es la parte que no comprendo. Imagino que sí debe ser por la edad porque en mi cabeza las páginas web y las webapps son inherentemente efímeras. Cualquier cosa puede cerrarte una ventana, pestaña o navegador y no son nativas del S.O. que utilizas.Y sí, si hubiese un API de GReader que lo permitiese y una app de greader que lo aprovechase no tocaría la web.
- Fast said: Suddenly Twitter is asking me for my email, cell phone and geolocation. I think it is getting too personal now. I don't know it that well.
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN said: Friendfeed uyuma, Friendfeed2e sahip çık! Twitter yürüdü gidiyor, tutabilene aşk olsun
- Jordi said: Pues ya sería hora, la verdad, porque no me gusta usar clientes externos, y de momento sólo pbtweet me ha servido como sustituto decente para navegar desde la web.
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Engineers Solve 80-Year Old Puzzle to Make Computer Modeling 100,000 Times Faster [Science] (62)
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A quantum physics breakthrough that can predict the kinetic energy of electrons in simple metals—and semiconductors—will enable computers to simulate the behavior of new materials up to 100,000 times faster than they currently can. That's huge. Princeton engineer Emily Carter led the project, which took an equation by Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas and Enrico Fermi that calculates how many electrons are distributed in a theoretical gas with evenly distributed electrons and figured out how to apply ...Shared by Alex (145) Andrew (3) arturopelayo (190) balintd (74) Blaze (4) cagdas (1) cbsmith (58) Chad (69) Chantal (10) chrisbrogan (212) and 52 more »Explore read five notes- malix said: The future is now
- rveguilla said: Love the last sentence... "Innovation just got an upgrade"
- stratus said: show me the data.
- Jaron said: This sounds important. Not sure why.
- pootzko said: A quantum physics breakthrough that can predict the kinetic energy of electrons in simple metals—and semiconductors—will enable computers to simulate the behavior of new materials up to 100,000 times faster than they currently can. That's huge.
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Jenny McCarthy’s Son May Not Have Had Autism After All (37)
permalinkMy favourite bit: "I'll continue to be the voice" of the disease. Like there couldn't be another voice more compelling.Shared by adam (720) alejandroz (19) Andrew Hughes (68) Blake (33) Brian (235) cbsmith (58) Charlene Endre Burgett (0) Chris (61) Claire Hawley (256) Colin (30) and 27 more »
- Blake said: Really? I thought she was an MD and should know this. I mean, she's touring the country, recommending that parents not vaccinate their kids.I wish the best for her son, but man, this idiot has done some real harm. Should we expect an apology?
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So, Apple, How Do You Avoid Corporate Hubris? [Blockquote] (12)
onDuring a Goldman Sachs tech conference today, Apple COO Tim Cook revealed Apple's secret to success: High standards, and a low tolerance for half-assed proposals. Except, that wasn't the question.Tim was responding to a question about complacency and hubris—specifically, how a company that's been right on so many big issues can avoid it, and stay clearheaded. Said Tim: Yeah, that is a great question. The executive team of the company spends a lot of time ...Shared by Bryce (92) cbsmith (58) Dafpoo (8) Daniel (4) JD (3) jsnyng (6) justin (73) Mark (13) Mustafa (63) Pat (21) and two more »Explore read four notes
- Mustafa said: " We say no to good ideas every day; we say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose, so that we can deliver the best products in the world."
- Daniel said: focus on the great - toss the good
- Pat said: makes sense to me
- Robotech_Master said: I love that paraphrase at the bottom.
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Google Earth's View of the Boneyard, Where Planes Go to Die [Aircrafts] (35)
onThe 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), also known as the Boneyard, is a four square mile site in Arizona housing 4,000 retired aircraft—or at least one of almost every US armed forces plane since WWII.Google Earth has recently released this gorgeous (in a maudlin sort of way), 1.5MB satellite view of the facility. You can see the entire shot over on the BBC, and if you're annoyed by their tiny frame, just right ...Shared by Akiva Moskovitz (9) Alex (7) Andreas (3) balintd (74) Barbara (58) Ben (31) Brodie (1) cbsmith (58) CoolCriSyS (23) CSP (33) and 25 more »Explore read four notesComment View comments
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Devotion to Duty (651)
onShared by ◄ani625Ξ (17) 0m4r (50) A Roy (2) a48 (29) Aaron (22) Aaron (72) Aaron (10) aaronh (0) abas (3) Abhishek (7) and 641 more »Explore read 44 notes
- Setu said: LOL
- Justin said: I can relate to that!
- Alex said: Ah the tireless sysadmin - never let us take them for granted.
- dvd said: es la diferencia entre las páginas que están el 99.8% del tiempo y las que están el 99.9%
- levhita said: Porque me suena a duro de matar 4.0?
- chitchu said: lollerskates
- Jason Adam Young said: hahahahahaha
- Delilah said: I LOL'd IRL.
- Ram said: McLane era BOFH
- Razzu said: LOLOL
- ant said: If only...
- dannyman said: uptime
- Dextro said: If you have a problem and no one else can handle it, maybe you can hire: THE SYSADMIN!
- Morgendorfer said: Bazinga! Ыыыыы :-D
- Kim said: True devotion :)
- Lorenz said: heheheheeee!! :)
- Doktor said: Haha, töntigt. Men roligt.
- jodrell said: yep, I know people like this ;-)
- Trebel said: [XKCD]
- martingeber said: WTF!? Hihi.
- Jim said: Cory Doctorow will love this one...
- Meh said: amen.
- Savocado said: jedberg from reddit?
- Michael said: It was me!
- Jake said: The guy at XKCD has done it again. Created a comic that made me laugh out loud, and put a reference to a cat blog in the hover-over.
- Marco said: capolavoro (anche questo)
- brier said: Guaranteed to be shared by every sysadmin you know.
- Jerome said: :D
- dataphage said: Hmm. Partially true
- Korn said: พี่ฮอร์สปล่าวเนี่ย
- Milosz said: A good xkcd. First in a while.
- Alessio Sclocco said: Damn sysadmins!
- Murray said: Proud to be a sysadmin today :-)
- Jason said: You know who you are.
- BenTheMeek said: apologies for the foul language, but too funny not to share ;)
- renesilva said: "...he ignored them...", genial xD
- Steve said: I can't believe no one shared this for brian after his story about his crazy devotion to unix uptime.
- Kevin said: Reminds me of Cory's http://www.baens-universe.com/articles/When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth
- Edwin Perello said: LOL I wanna be a sysadmin...
- iveney said: UPTIME...
- Juanito said: Bueniiiiiiiiiiiiiisimo jajajaja
- James said: WoW! A sysAdmin should be like this!!!
- dogznm said: ... takes "being focused on the job" to a whole new level!
- Scott said: Clogging the Buzz-Waves. Thought this was funny and oh--so---true
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Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud (14)
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A few days ago, we ran word of a report alleging that Windows 7 consumed more memory than it should, based on a report from Devil Mountain Software; a followup post linked to Ars Technica's robust deconstruction of that claim. Now the story gets weird: Fred Flowers writes The original story quoted the company's CTO, Craig Barth on the issue. Now, InfoWorld editor in chief Eric Knorr has still more to add. From Knorr's blog ...Shared by Ashkan (0) Bman (16) Buff (20) cbsmith (58) chatruc (0) ehu4ever (157) jackv (0) Jonathan (22) NileshBabu (175) podcastdoors (2) and four more »- Buff said: Man this story took a weird turn. I hate misinformation and for crying out loud Windows is bad enough without someone just making stuff up.
- Jonathan said: haha that's what you get for not checking your facts and just assuming the bash M$ theme
- jackv said: Well that put a very different spin on the earlier article I posted. I will be removing the previous article in a moment.
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Skeptical birds debunk "Artificial Flight" (11)
onDresden Codak's "Artificial Flight and Other Myths (a reasoned examination of A.F. by top birds)" is a superb, spot-on critique of artificial intelligence skeptics (like, ahem, me), comparing the our arguments against the emergence of "real AI" to the arguments a bird might make against "real" artificial flight. I love being made to re-examine my own convictions while laughing my ass off: We can start with a loose definition of flight. While no two bird ...Shared by barrywynn (7) cbsmith (58) cmdln (108) dltallan (6) ecmendenhall (16) EdCrypt (21) gilmae (4) Ingotheranchhand (2) jfno (0) Ken (17) and one more »Comment View comments
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Pollice Verso: Google Buys Awesome iPhone Email App; Kills It (30)
onAs you might have heard earlier today, Google made another acquisition — the email search startup reMail. While its topical description may make it seem like an obvious buy, there’s another layer that makes this really interesting. reMail isn’t just any email search startup, it’s a startup working to perfect email search on the iPhone. Or rather, it was. Here’s the key part of reMail founder Gabor Cselle’s post about the acquisition today: “Google and ...Shared by ◄ani625Ξ (17) Abo (19) AntonioASA (10) Ari (28) Ata (23) buckmin (5) cbsmith (58) Daniel (42) Fabiano (15) grudelsud (11) and 20 more »
- Toy said: Competition is good for the consumer?
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HTML5 (25)
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It’s all over the news these days, because it’s A Good Thing: the Web will be smarter and faster and better. And for other reasons involving politics and vituperation. I love parts of HTML5, but it’s clear that other parts are a science project. And as a sometime standards wonk, I’m puzzled by aspects of the way the spec (not the language, the spec for the language) is put together. What’s Good I suspect I ...Shared by aNTwNHs (113) bookwormat (3) cbsmith (58) Colin (0) dannywahlquist (199) Dhananjay (6) Dr (117) hans (51) hober (20) Janne (7) and 15 more »Comment View comments
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