Fusion Man for president (2)
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Yves "Fusion Man" Rossy's personal jetpack flight over the English Channel was just about the only good thing that happened in the world today: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images Rossy, a pilot who normally flies an Airbus airliner, crossed the 22 miles between Calais and Dover at speeds of up to 120 mph in 13 minutes, his spokesman said.When the white cliffs of Dover came into view, he opened a blue and yellow parachute ...
Patricia Barber, Danny Meyer, art and you (8)
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The other night I went to see Patricia Barber perform at the Jazz Standard. It was a tremendous experience. For over an hour, Patricia went to a new place and brought us with her. She used her voice and her piano to make art, right then, right there. No one in the room said, "she's just trying to sell albums," or felt like she was phoning it in. She was present and she demanded that ...
SideTaker: Crowdsourcing Your Private Disputes, With Hilarious Results (48)
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Every couple has its ups and downs, but most people try to keep their dirty laundry to themselves. But what about those times when you just can’t come to an agreement with your significant other? Today sees the launch of SideTaker a site that asks couples to upload both sides of their arguments and let the crowd settle their debates. SideTaker members can vote on which side they agree with, or leave comments to ask ...
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Sandaruwan said:
this is a good example to xkcd guys who divorce over Pluto being a planet ;)
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Steven McClelland said:
This seems really funny to me.
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Daniel Pritchett said:
Funny reads on this site, but some of the stories are hard to believe.
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Jeffrey said:
this is great. x.x or =P
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Jack said:
Pretty fantastic.
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Emil Kaiser said:
Istället för heta stolen?
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Abhinav Modi said:
Good one :)
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AndyF said:
How brilliant. Not that I like it any more than reality shows and talk shows, but it will be as popular or more.
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KevM said:
Honey?! We need to talk.
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Leon said:
This is perfect for people who have no ability to think for themselves.
BITSian makes one of the world's best presentations (2)
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abhilashr: Life in Commonalities Our very own Andy gets a honorable mention in the World’s Best Presentation Contest. Cheers Andy! Cheers BITS Pilani! Beauty!
Ads For Twits On Twitter (TwittAd Launches) (42)
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Do you have 53 followers on Twitter? Shouldn’t you be making money off of them somehow, selling their attention to the highest bidder? Well, now you can with TwitAd. You list how many followers you have and for how much you are willing to sell an ad on your Twitter page, and TwitAd will match you with advertisers. Then the ad sits on the empty left-hand column of your Twitter page. The ads appear on ...
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Brian Junyor said:
Sad, very sad.
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Roger Williams said:
Seems like a neat idea except that no one ever goes to your twitter page, they don't need to.
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Chynna said:
Yea.. I'm doing this.. NOW.
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Devlin D said:
That is a pretty interesting model, but I think it would only work if the actual account owners sent them out so all of their followers could see them. So it would really be a game of balance, if you tweet great stuff people probably won't mind a few ads but if all you tweet are ads your followers will probably drop like flies. Very very interesting.
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Haidong said:
everything catches eyeball means money
Picasa Refresh Brings Facial Recognition (102)
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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.
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Adam said:
oh please, flickr - add this too!!!
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eschnou said:
Picasa is such an amazing application... I truly miss it now that I've switched to Mac !
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pkj said:
While it makes me glad that Facial Recognition is going mainstream, I am afraid that lay people might get upset when it would not be production quality since they do not understand the challenges.
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Ben Timms said:
Sweeet... I've been waiting for this feature for ages!Finally!
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Chuck LeDuc said:
Wow, finally... I have been waiting for this feature for ten years. This could actually inspire me to upload my pictures. Immanentize the eschaton!
This is the way we go to school. (2)
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The train to Hyderabad was moving at a snail’s place. My eyes followed a bunch of 4 to 5 kids walking barefoot in soiled school uniforms, with bags clinging on to their backs. They walked through the puddles and slush that the rains had left behind. As the train came to a halt, I could see them slowly disappear into the distance, making their own road as they walked. Probably a shortcut, I thought. But ...
Google to Offer its Own Browser: Chrome - ReadWriteWeb (120)
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Google watchdog Phillip Lessen has scanned and posted a printed comic he says he received in the mail from Google today describing the company's forthcoming open source browser Chrome. The link to Chrome is currently a 404. Long rumored to be in the works, this appears to be the first formal acknowledgment that Google really is working on its own browser - and it looks very cool. Will you drop Firefox and use Chrome instead? ...
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Forrest said:
Great development - and how interesting is it that we're still competing so heavily over browsers, all these years after microsoft / netscape? As I've said before, it would take something HUGE for me to switch from firefox. But innovations like these are great for competition, and will push the industry forward.
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aak said:
I use so much Google stuff, I'd almost be afraid to download the Google browser. I'd feel like a Google freak if I did. But...
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Ryan S said:
Go read the comic if you are at all interested in this, it's worth it.
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Dedalus said:
There's already Prism (all plats.) and Fluid (Mac), but this one is built on WebKit.
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Kluzter said:
ZOMG no no nooo... será que habrá betas pronto?
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neal said:
The fact that I'm excited about this probably just adds strength to my dork portfolio.
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Cuélebre said:
A ver que nos ofrecerá Google
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Josh said:
Knew it.
When last did a politician have this effect on us? (4)
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Justin Sullivan of Getty Images captures a superb slice of history at the Democratic National Convention in Denver: Moe Spencer, a delegate from Washington, being comforted by a colleague after the nomination of Barack Obama as the party’s candidate for the November presidential elections. Besides the symbolism of being in the midst of a man who could be America’s first black president, Obama’s 46-minute acceptance speech apparently left many in the 80,000 audience teary-eyed with ...
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Asfaq said:
Is there any hope of this happening in our lifetimes?
Watch Olympic Games on YouTube - For Viewers in India, Korea, Middle East.. (6)
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While NBC has exclusive rights to broadcast Olympic Games live on the Internet, Google’s YouTube will now stream Olympic videos in countries where the rights haven’t been sold. These include places like South Korea, India, Iraq, Nigeria, etc where sports fans will get to enjoy three hours of daily highlights on YouTube from the Beijing Olympics without having to turn on their television sets. There’s a new channel on YouTube dedicated to Olympic videos. Unlike ...
RVCE Students Builds super fuel efficient car (200Km/L) (7)
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Students of RV College of Engineering Bangalore, in order to represent their college in international events like SAE Supermileage and the Shell Eco-Marathons have built a super fuel efficient car that gives a mileage of 200Km/Litre. Coined ‘Garuda RVCE supermileage car’, Key features of the car prototype include: HONDA GK 100 97 cc, 2 Hp air cooled engine; TAV 2 Torq_A-Verter and asymmetric CVT transmission systems; Tubular A1 6063 T6 chassis; use of glass fibre ...
RVCE Students Builds super fuel efficient car (200Km/L) (3)
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Students of RV College of Engineering Bangalore, in order to represent their college in international events like SAE Supermileage and the Shell Eco-Marathons have built a super fuel efficient car that gives a mileage of 200Km/Litre. Coined ‘Garuda RVCE supermileage car’, Key features of the car prototype include: HONDA GK 100 97 cc, 2 Hp air cooled engine; TAV 2 Torq_A-Verter and asymmetric CVT transmission systems; Tubular A1 6063 T6 chassis; use of glass fibre ...
What’s killed 96 people a day for 38 months? (2)
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Shekhar Gupta in The Indian Express: “Last week, Somini Sengupta of The New York Times quoted a stunning fact from a report of the Washington-based National Counter-Terrorism Centre. It said, between January 2004 and March 2007, India had lost 3,674 lives to terrorism, second only to Iraq. And we can’t even claim that this is happening because some imperialist occupation army is running amok here. In fact that number, by now, must have crossed 5,000. ...
Do you have it in you to go hungry on August 15? (1)
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BHAMY V. SHENOY writes: The attacks on two cities, Bangalore and Ahmedabad, in the space of two days, July 25 and July 26, is comparable to 9/11, if not in scale, at least in the manner in which they have pierced the conscience of an entire nation. How should “We the People” react? Should we follow in the footsteps of our political parties and leaders who have already begun playing their favourite sport of pointing ...
The world’s worst-performing Olympic country? (10)
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With the Olympic Games in Beijing scheduled to begin at 8 am on the 8th day of the 8th year, Foreign Policy magazine lists the “The World’s Worst Olympians“. On top of the pile: India with 17 medals from 108 years of trying. “Think of India as the Washington Nationals of Olympic sport. India is by far the worst-performing Olympic country—no matter how you slice it. It’s not for lack of trying. A games participant ...
Biggest. Largest. Highest. Mostest. Anywhere. (1)
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ASHVINI A. writes from Bangalore: The Bangalore edition of The Hindu has a piece today on the second unit of the Global Education Centre coming up on the Mysore campus of Infosys. And it takes your breath away: for the purpleness of the prose, and the megalomania of those articulating it. Paragraph #1: ”Independent India’s biggest structure that surpasses Rashtrapati Bhavan in size and equals it in grandeur…” Paragraph #3: “For comparison, the floor area ...
India Developing World’s Cheapest ($10) Laptop (3)
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IIT M and IISC have partnered to build the world’s cheapest laptop - that will be priced at $10! For the $10 laptop, research is being carried at IIT M. The laptop, when produced, will prove to be a breakthrough device that could solve the problems of low computer literacy and e-learning not only in India, but also the world over - HRD Ministry.[via] India earlier rejected OLPC’s proposal which was later taken by Reliance’s ...
India Developing World’s Cheapest ($100) Laptop (1)
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IIT M and IISC have partnered to build the world’s cheapest laptop - that will be priced at $10! $100 (see below for details) For the $100 laptop, research is being carried at IIT M/IISC: The laptop, when produced, will prove to be a breakthrough device that could solve the problems of low computer literacy and e-learning not only in India, but also the world over - HRD Ministry.[via] Not sure how much of this ...
