Michael Moore plans Net-only film premiere (Steven Musil/CNET News.com) (7)
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Steven Musil / CNET News.com: Michael Moore plans Net-only film premiere — Filmmaker Michael Moore plans to premiere his latest documentary exclusively on the Internet for free, forgoing the traditional theatrical release. — Slacker Uprising , which documents Moore's 62-city tour through swing states during …
Say Goodbye to Bike Chains; Say Hello to Belt Drives (20)
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Bikes with chains may be becoming an endangered species. Belt-driven bikes, which were introduced by boutique bike makers a couple of years ago, are just starting to hit the mainstream. Trek has introduced two new urban bikes for 2009 with belt drives rather than chains, and they look pretty sweet. The benefit to a belt drive system over a chain and shifters system is that it won't stretch and break over time like a chain, ...
Molyneux Reviews Fable II, Scores It Out Of Ten [Fable II] (1)
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If Peter Molyneux had to review Fable II, what score would he give it? Putting aside the fact that: a) It's his own game b) This is Peter Molyneux we're talking about ...it shouldn't surprise you that he loves the game. Says that, unlike every other game he's done recently, he hasn't chucked a whole bunch of crap into it and hoped it all came out OK at the other end. No, this one's got ...
Two Styles of Leadership and Their Consequences | Slow Leadership (2)
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A 'pictures-only' post pointing up the differences between Slow Leadership and macho management — and the consequences of following each as a way of managing yourself and others. Read the full text of this article on the blog's website.
A Taste of PAX Bit Boxing [Penny Arcade Expo] (2)
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A pretty huge crowd formed around this trio of chip musicians ensconced in front of the doors to the Washington State Convention Center. I would have taken a longer video, but Dancing Man wouldn't get out of my shot.
A Taste of PAX Bit Boxing [Penny Arcade Expo] (2)
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A pretty huge crowd formed around this trio of chip musicians ensconced in front of the doors to the Washington State Convention Center. I would have taken a longer video, but Dancing Man wouldn't get out of my shot.
Singularity Summit: Oct 25, San Jose CA (7)
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Tyler sez, Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity Summit gathers the smartest people around to explore one of the biggest ideas of our time: the Singularity. Keynotes will include Ray Kurzweil, updating his predictions in The Singularity is Near, and Intel CTO Justin Rattner, who will examine the ...
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Drewcipher said:
I went last year and I can sum it up rather quickly: waste of time and money, Ray is batshit crazy, lousy sandwiches.
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HacKnight said:
It's back! I went last year. Pretty interesting stuff, if a bit unproductive while things are still in the "let's waste time with research dollars" phase.
BBG: the official blank desktop (6)
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In honor of Microsoft's latest update to Windows Genuine Validation, which removes the desktop wallpaper of hacked or illegal copies of Windows and replaces it with an ever-fashionable black background and a warning, BBG presents its official desktop wallpaper for Friday, August 29. Use in close proximity to the Large Hadron Collider at one's own risk — and that of the known universe. This 1600x1200 image is also available at 1024x768 and 1920x1200
Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance (17)
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KentuckyFC writes "We've long thought that nuclear decay rates are constant regardless of ambient conditions (except in a few special cases where beta decay can be influenced by powerful electric fields). So that makes it hard to explain two puzzling experiments from the 1980s that found periodic variations over many years in the decay rates of silicon-32 and radium-226. Now a new analysis of the raw data says that changes in the decay rate are ...
Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance (1)
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KentuckyFC writes "We've long thought that nuclear decay rates are constant regardless of ambient conditions (except in a few special cases where beta decay can be influenced by powerful electric fields). So that makes it hard to explain two puzzling experiments from the 1980s that found periodic variations over many years in the decay rates of silicon-32 and radium-226. Now a new analysis of the raw data says that changes in the decay rate are ...
Mythbusters Pain Mona Lisa INSTANTLY With 2100 Paintballs! (31)
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In a presentation made at Nvidia's NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a 2100 barrel paintball gun and—in an instant—painted a pretty convincing (if not slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical MythBusters fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis. The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively. Of course, the reality of parallel ...
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Brian said:
Whoa.
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Alex said:
omg. awesome.
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GarthDB said:
Awesome!
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jon|k said:
heh that slow-mo at the end is f'n awesome!
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Josh said:
Brilliant demo. Mythbusters, oversized comparison...brilliant marketing move that will absolutely go viral.
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Vorak said:
This is pretty damn cool.
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Yay!
How Buildings Learn (2)
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How Buildings Learn--Stewart Brand, 1997, BBC, 6 Parts; Flow, The Low Road, Built For Change, Unreal Estate, The Romance of Maintenance, Shearing Layers. "What happens after buildings are built? Why do some buildings get better over time and others get demolished? Stewart Brand says architecture is a prediction, and all predictions are wrong, so the more monumental the architecture, the more wrong the building is. The buildings that thrive are those that can adapt to ...
I'll cross that bridge when -- HOLY CRAP! (5)
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Pascal Bernabe breaks a scuba record – 330 meters below the Mediterranean! (1)
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Three summers ago, Pascal Bernabe strapped on a scuba tank, stepped off a boat and descended 330 meters into the Mediterranean. This is his account of the dive. Definitions of some terms used herein: High Pressure Nervous Syndrome Trimix Decompression
Ubiquity for Firefox on Vimeo (22)
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This looks pretty awesome. Scoble shared it out today. I agree that I don't think this will go mainstream but I think some people will love it.
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Ben said:
Damn interesting natural language command interface for Firefox.
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jeffmincey said:
here's an awesome find thanks to scoble; i almost did this myself in python...
The Peloton (2)
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The Peloton. A gallery of professional bike racers taken just moments after they crossed the line after a brutal long stage of 2006's Giro d'Italia. After a hundred miles of racing, the rider dumps their bike on a team soigner and enters a makeshift tent for a quick photo among the finish line chaos. The photos showcase the pain and suffering well, but some photos also capture a bike racer's most damaging feeling: doubt.
Microsoft Patents PgUp-PgDn (16)
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theodp writes "What do you call it when you're viewing the middle of one page and a Page Down command causes the middle of the next page to be shown? U.S. Patent No. 7,415,666, which the USPTO granted to Microsoft Tuesday for Navigating Paginated Content in Page-Based Increments. It's nice to see Microsoft make good on their pledge to improve patent quality!" Permalink | Comments | Email This Story
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I hate patents
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Wow!
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As soon as you think you've seen the height of patent absurdity, something comes along to prove you wrong.
Just use jQuery. (4)
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A slick tool from the MooTools team to compare the speed and accuracy of DOM selectors in the various JavaScript frameworks. Running the tests on my MacBook in Safari showed my beloved jQuery to be the fastest of the bunch, though not by much, with YUI being the slowest by far. Never been a fan of any framework other than jQuery. They all seemed to clunky, too focused on abstract design patterns, instead of the ...
Apparently, folks study us. (3)
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has spent half a life time studying the creative personality, attempting to understand what makes them so very special. Apparently, they’re pretty strange folks: Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it’s complexity. They show tendencies of thought and ...
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Twenty five years ago this month, a man called Richard Stallman announced to the world his intention to create a complete operating system from the ground up. He called it, GNU, which stands for GNU’s Not Unix. To help celebrate this occasion, I’ve made a video to tell you about GNU, and free software. Stephen Fry wishing GNU a very Happy Birthday You can watch the video over at gnu.org, download gNewSense to try it ...Shared by Alex Kapranoff (17) Andrew (6) Ben (7) cgsheldon (151) Chavtastic Jinx (8) Chris Nixon (20) D-Arb (18) danliebke (56) Dave (29) ilennox (20) jillesvangurp (10) Joe Cooper (29) kebernet (85) Kevin (30) Lou (6) MiramarMike (26) pr1000 (16) Preoccupations (43) R. Francis (29) Ross (5) Rowan (14) Shane (16)
