Modified New Zealand Wool Resists Blowtorches, Dog Bites, Sharp Knives [Flameproof] (13)
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Call it cliche (or just inevitable), but those sheep-herders down not-quite under have created the ultimate fabric by weaving a synthetic textile fiber called Vectran with ordinary sheep's wool. It's so amazing, its said to withstand blowtorches, dog bites and even knife attacks. "We have tested it...putting the fabric over a cushion. With a screwdriver or something, using two hands and all your force, it won't go through," Dr. Peter Ingham, a scientist at New ...
Six Ways to Create Online Social Databases (27)
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There are countless online spreadsheets and word processors these days, but not too many online databases. Sometimes the best way to work with data is naturally within a database. Managing data in a spreadsheet can only get you so far. Sure, it’s great for number crunching and financial analysis, but if you want to enter data once and use it over and over again in queries and reports and share them with others, then the ...
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Nancy Sagar said:
More fantastic web apps -- check out this group of shareable database apps, several of them free.
ION's LP 2 FLASH records LP straight to flash (6)
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Filed under: Home Entertainment When dealing with product names like FTD-HD2232HSR/BK, it's quite refreshing to come across something such as this which explains itself so well. ION's LP 2 FLASH turntable does exactly what you think it does -- it transfers your old records directly to a USB flash drive, SD card or computer without any additional equipment. It even detects the gaps between tunes and creates individual tracks accordingly. It's available now for £130 ...
A Deep Thaw: How Much Will Vanishing Glaciers Raise Sea Levels? (19)
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Greenland, the world's largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet (seven meters). Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet (60 meters). Satellite measurements from space and speed measurements on land confirm that Greenland's glaciers are melting and on the move. And although the picture is less clear in Antarctica, the global warming seems to be having an impact there, too.So the ...
Stimuli 3.0 Lamp Is Perfect for Home, Work, Spaceship [Concepts] (6)
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Honestly, we'd have posted the Stimuli 3.0 lamp even if it did nothing special. Just look at it, sitting there all science fiction-y, like some huge alien computer's vulnerable data core. But it just so happens that the spherical shape and surrounding panels have a specific function, to constantly adjust the lamp's light levels to correspond with that coming in through the windows. By shifting around the panels with an internal 3 axis gearbox, light ...
Cake Financial Turns One And Pushes A New Social Stock Index (32)
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One year after it launched at TechCrunch40, Cake Financial is rolling out a new design today with a load of new features. One of the most interesting is a new stock index called the Cakedex that is based on the top 100 holdings of the top performing investors on the social investing site. Over the past five and half years, the Cakedex would have outperformed the S&P 500, the Dow Jones, and the Nasdaq. Although, ...
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Matt said:
I'd definitely be interested in that ETF when it comes out. Would definitely be interesting to watch.
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jaehyun said:
stock을 추천해 주고, 사고팔고 하나 보네. 어떤 시스템인지 잘은 모르겠음..
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 ...
Pipes dream (2)
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If you haven’t played around with Yahoo! Pipes, I highly recommend it. It’s a usable and useful service that brings web mashups to the masses, making this favorite hacker pastime as easy as dragging objects around on the screen. For example, it took me probably about ten minutes as a first-time user to create a map mashup showing Barack Obama’s upcoming campaign stops. I “piped” the output of Washington Post’s RSS feed to a location-extractor ...
THE FALL AND RISE OF R IN NEW ZEALAND. (1)
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An article by linguist Laurie Bauer discusses the strange fate of the phoneme /r/ in New Zealand:When North America was settled, many of the early settlers came from the west or still pronounced "r", with the result that standard North American varieties still have an "r" sound in words like "far" and "farm" (such accents are called "r"-ful or, more technically, "rhotic"). By the time Australia and New Zealand were settled, it was a lot ...
10 Promising Web Platforms (121)
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In this post we review 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We're not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those have been covered extensively already. The list below features some of our favorite 'lesser known' web developer platforms. There are bound to be other excellent developer platforms not noted below, so as always please use the comments here to point out your own favorites. We've written a ...
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shanusmagnus said:
Nice rundown on various API technologies, including a bunch I'd never heard of.
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Simon said:
www.EventsListed.com - Events
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CB said:
tie all of our data together.
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Haidong said:
to many platforms to follow for developers...but I believe there will be something interesting come up if you can somehow mixed some of those
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Unseen said:
Early Web 3.0 or what?
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (8)
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A while back, Richard Monson-Haelfel was working on a presentation called "10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know", which was a great idea for a talk. To solicit ideas, he posted to several mailing lists where architect-types lurk about, and he got flooded with responses. I was one of the early contributors because I had been thinking about some of this stuff anyway at the time he posted the call. Richard liked the entries so ...
World's Largest Record Collection is Worth $50 Million; No One Wants it for $3 Million [Physical Media] (52)
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If you're looking for a sign that we live in a digital world that cares not for the physical manifestations of our analog past, you need only look at Paul Mawhinney's record collection. At over 3 million records, it's the largest in the world. He's trying to sell it due to his advancing age and health problems. Unfortunately, as he puts it, "no one gives a damn." Paul's been building his collection for most of ...
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mcphee said:
Yeah - apparently they did :-). That's a heck of a record collection...
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Matthew Vaughan said:
Interesting story.
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Alex said:
Sad.
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Angus said:
what a pity
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oniquet said:
Bien fait de me débarrasser de mes CD..
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Vudoo Vu said:
this is sad... but seriously, where the hell would you put all these records? and there's no way you'd ever listen to it all.
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Will Stranathan said:
Simple economics - if nobody is willing to pay X dollars for it, it does not value at X dollars. It's only worth what the highest bidder is willing to pay for it.
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Dominic Hopton said:
I'll put money into this if someone wants to fund buying it, and donating it to the public, or keeping in the basement where i also have a key..
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Rémy said:
wish i had $3MM laying around
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Kluzter said:
This is so terrible, a few years ago it could've work not its just so sad.
Writing Testable Code (45)
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by Miško HeverySo you decided to finally give this testing thing a try. But somehow you just can't figure out how to write a unit-test for your class. Well there are no tricks to writing tests, there are only tricks to writing testable code. If I gave you testable code you would have no problems writing a test for it. But, somehow you look at your code and you say, "I understand how to write ...
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Seth said:
One of the most concise pieces of writing I've ever seen to sum up how to design good code. Following these rules will almost guarantee a good design. Almost.
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Vishy007 said:
some nice solid advice
What Google Should Learn From Startups (18)
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Google has become a major force on the web. There is no denying that fact as more and more people are using its variety of services other than just search. Gmail, Google Docs, GTalk and web related services like Google Analytics. It has gotten incredibly wealthy from advertising based on its search. However it appears to be suffering from the same problem that many accuse Google’s competition of having – their seeming inability to communicate ...
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