Gallup Tracking: Obama Hits 50% Support (3)
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BackType, A Twitter For Comments (38)
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BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They’re a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Think Twitter for all comments on the web. They are not like the recent barrage of startups focusing on cleaning up the comment experience on blogs - see Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, etc. Blogs ...
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lkratz said:
ça marche pas mal ce truc
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Colide81 said:
This reminds me of friendfeed.
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Jeffrey said:
dangit, another idea i had implemented in the real world =/ sigh...
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That Kid from Omaha said:
This looks to be very useful.
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Bill Shakes said:
worldtv search?
"The Hug" Featured in New Democratic Ads (2)
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Democrats are planning to use advertisements of Sen. John McCain embracing President Bush on billboards and in bus stops around Minneapolis during the Republican National Convention.
The Hysteria-Based Foreign Policy (3)
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Matt Welch has an excellent little reason article putting John McCain’s heated Georgia rhetoric in the context of McCain’s larger record of overreacting to every international event. He wasn’t just worried by North Korea’s nuclear program in 1994, he called it “the most dangerous and immediate expression” of “the greatest challenge to U.S. security and world stability today.” He didn’t just favor military action over Kosovo, he wanted “infantry and armored divisions for a possible ...
Iron Chef Menu (1)
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This week Jose Garces’ restaurants will be serving the dishes he made in his epic battle with Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America. Below is the menu and after the jump is the schedule as to which restaurant will be serving what, when. Desayuno - $8 Fresh Melon, Quail Egg, Bacon Crisp, Cream & Maple, Cooled with an Espresso Granita Sliced Ibérico & Cantaloupe Terrine - $10 Melon & Serrano Ice, Fresh Herb Salad Ceviche ...
A taste of FlickrFan (6)
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FlickrFan, like all rivers of news, is about flow. In this case it's a flow of pictures, from your contacts on Flickr, from AP and AFP, and from anyone else that you know that provides a feed of high-def pictures. I like to view the pictures on a big-screen TV that's hooked up to a Mac Mini, but I also use it on my desktop, and various laptops -- no matter where or how you ...
America by Zoe Strauss (1)
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OK, the book is done. And let me tell you the minutia that went into image selection is even beyond my usual ocd. Oh, way, way beyond. The image selection ended up being a great surprise to me in many ways, with images that best pair together and take into account what I've seen in the last few years about America. There's a few images that I haven't really shown before, although I think all ...
Faster-than-light communication (18)
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In a Swiss experiment, two entangled photons 18 km away from each other were able to communicate with each other almost instantaneously. On the basis of their measurements, the team concluded that if the photons had communicated, they must have done so at least 100,000 times faster than the speed of light -- something nearly all physicists thought would be impossible. In other words, these photons cannot know about each other through any sort of ...
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Chris Wetherell said:
One of the researchers, Nicholas Gisin, notes these events "seem to happen from outside space-time, in that it's not a story you can tell within space-time" and that "what's fascinating here is that we see that nature is able to produce events that can manifest themselves at several locations." The Nature article is behind a paywall, but other articles include slightly more information. e.g. http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080813-spooky-limit.html
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Geoff said:
I got goosebumps when I read this.
Approve This Message (3)
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A lot of you have probably seen this video. It's an amateur/independent pro-Obama, anti-McCain ad. There are a few elements -- tonal stuff -- that would have to be changed for a campaign to run something like this. But it's very good. The makings of a killer ad ...
Movies on Hulu (25)
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Some movies Rex didn't realize you could watch in their entirety (for free and in 480p) on Hulu: Metropolitan, The Fifth Element, 28 Days Later, Requiem for a Dream, Lost in Translation, Koyaanisqatsi, and Eternal Sunshine. Me either! Also available are Raising Arizona, Lost Highway, Hoop Dreams, Sideways, Master and Commander, Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, and Groundhog Day. (link)
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danieltalsky said:
Not bad! There's some good movies in there. I keep meaning to post a page of the decent movies on NetFlix on Demand.
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neal said:
If you haven't checked out Hulu.com, do it NOW.
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Esteban said:
And using a VPN connection to the US you can watch these anywhere in the world.
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Jake said:
Awesome!
Complicated Pile (46)
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“A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday. The art work, titled “Complex S(expletive..)”, is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds ...
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Randy said:
The house sized poop didn't even have to hit the fan.
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twilight fairy said:
Sachee, I tell u - the things ppl do! :)
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Tommy said:
Who comes up with these ideas, I guess art is relative and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what is artistic about feces?
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haggaret said:
Yeah, this is old news, but I only read about it before and didn't see the picture - so for those who may have read about it, here is a picture.
Apothecary, Now With Happy Hour (1)
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Apothecary now has a weekday happy hour to encourage you to try some of their cocktails and other fine drinks. The release is just so Apothecary we’ll just quote it below. In order to prove our point, every Tuesday through Friday of every week - until we decide the point’s been made - between the end-of-day hours of 5:00PM and 7:00PM, we will be offering our guests a selection of specially priced drinks. On special: ...
Boss to Play Super Bowl? (1)
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Jersey girls, rejoice. Joining the ranks of classic rock legends like the Stones, Petty, and Prince, Bruce Springsteen may be the entertainment at this season's Super Bowl halftime show. I've never been a fan, but I'm probably in the minority of Philadelphians in that regard. Either way, it's good to see the NFL continue the trend of actually booking acts people want to see, rather than cramming as many pop stars onto one stage as ...
McCain Lifts Russia-Georgia Speech From Wikipedia (2)
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Via Political Wire, it appears that McCain's vast policy experience and knowledge of international affairs is derived from wikipedia: A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia. They appear similar enough that most people would consider parts of McCain's speech to be derived directly from Wikipedia. First instance: one of the first countries in the world to adopt ...
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