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I should copyright this, or something? :p - directeur

I wouldn't be surprised if he actually said that to Coltrane, Sonny or Cannonball. He loved to ignite competition between them :) - directeur

I'm sorry :) - directeur

Awesome! - Martha

"Facebook is proud to play a part in promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other. By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world conflict in the short and long term." - Atul Arora from Bookmarklet

"We are witnessing a new evolution in the online world. The When and Where pose many questions, most of them associated with privacy. The “WHO are you” and “WHAT are you doing” is rapidly evolving to “Who are you” “What are you doing” “WHEN are you doing” and “WHERE are you”. We can fairly say that the WWW became the WWWW. Below are some examples:" - Howard Rheingold

FD: i'm creator of Babelshot - andrei_c from Bookmarklet

It's wonderful application. - Amin Sabeti

"An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity. A theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed in a paper published earlier this year by Evgenii Narimanov and Alexander Kildishev of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Their idea was to mimic the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards. Narimanov and Kildishev reasoned that it should be possible to build a device that makes light curve inwards towards its centre in a similar way. They calculated that this could be done by a cylindrical structure consisting of a central core surrounded by a shell of concentric rings." - Alejandro from Bookmarklet

It works. I was just praising vi a few minutes ago and then... :) - Andrés David Aparicio

Andrés, doh! Can I resist?! ;-) - directeur

"A unique study of former guerrillas in Colombia has helped scientists redefine their understanding of the key regions of the brain involved in literacy. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, has enabled the researchers to see how brain structure changed after learning to read." - Howard Rheingold

Last week we asked a simple question: How will you use Google Wave? Over 600 responses later, we're sending Wave nominations to the people who had the best use cases. Here are a few. Education: Increasing Interactivity and Collaborative Learning Dozens of teachers, students, and academics of all stripes wrote in saying that they need better and faster ways to communicate and collaborate in and out of the classroom. Middle School Technology Coordinator Dov wrote: I am taking part in a program called Powerful Learning Practices (PLP, or PlanetP, if you like). PLP is a professional development model that immerses educators into environments that allow them to learn literacies of 21st Century teaching. The goal is that the teachers bring this new paradigm of learning and teaching back to their schools, becoming its best advocates. While the impact isn't as large as, say, the crew of the Enterprise saving a planet from Klingon destruction, it has the potential to affect thousands of... - Jorge Escobar

"Successful knowledge management results in a competitive advantage in today's information- and knowledge-rich industries. The elaboration and integration of emerging web-based tools and services has proven suitable for collecting and organizing intellectual property. Due to an increasing information overload, information and knowledge visualization have become an effective method for representing complex bodies of knowledge in an alternative fashion by using visual languages. The focus of this research is the development of a "Visual Wiki", which combines the notion of a textual and a visual representation of knowledge. " - Howard Rheingold

"EARLIER this year, a puzzling report appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine. It described two Italian people who never truly slept. They might lie down and close their eyes, but read-outs of brain activity showed none of the normal patterns associated with sleep. Their behaviour was pretty odd, too. Though largely unaware of their surroundings during these rest periods, they would walk around, yell, tremble violently and their hearts would race. The remainder of the time they were conscious and aware but prone to powerful, dream-like hallucinations. Both had been diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disorder called multiple system atrophy. According to the report's authors, Roberto Vetrugno and colleagues from the University of Bologna, Italy, the disease had damaged the pair's brains to such an extent that they had entered status dissociatus, a kind of twilight zone in which the boundaries between sleep and wakefulness completely break down (Sleep Medicine, vol 10, p 247)." - RAPatton

fascinating - anna sauce

Some quotes about interactive programming - Juan Manuel Caicedo

Sometimes I sing others songs in the voice of the guy from the B-52s. I also crack myself up doing this. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

ditto on the making myself laugh to tears while alone. - Felicia Yue

Unfortunately Google is making us to get down on our knees to get it. Hell, some people are ready to pay $27,000 to get it. Others are, I have to say it, abusing people to subscribe to their blogs, newsletters, marketing ploys to have a shot at one invite. - Jorge Escobar from Bookmarklet

I should have sold my invites for $27,000..... - Tamar Weinberg

If you don't code, maybe you can help with some design, art... help promote the idea? :) Thank you! — I'm not saying that this idea is the "next BIG thing" (it will probably, I don't know) I'm just a man who'd love to see something happen and asks for help from smarter people :) - directeur

Kore wa totemo ii desu, Kazutaka! :) Btw, have you seen Matt's work on xmpp and pubsubhubbub? - directeur

It's a pretty cool fb app. - Paul Buchheit

nice! I never want to goto facebook.com again! - Jay

Also started a Hacker News discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item... - Bret Taylor

Hi Bret, we are looking for a technical keynote for Facebook Garage in Montreal October 26th could you come by and give us a Tornado/Realtime-web talk? Or recommend a speaker from Facebook/Friendfeed? I know this is a long shot, but I figured asking you on FriendFeed was the best "context" to reach you about this... - Sylvain Carle

In The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2019 we will all be able to experience 3-D virtual reality through glasses and contact lenses that beam images directly to our retinas (retinal display). Coupled with an auditory source (headphones), we will be able to remotely communicate with other people and access the Internet. These special contact lenses (available also as eyeglasses) will deliver “augmented reality” and “virtual reality” in three different ways: They can project “heads-up-displays” (HUDs) across the user’s field of vision, superimposing images that stay in place in the environment regardless of the user’s perspective or orientation. Virtual objects or people could be rendered in fixed locations by the glasses, so when the user’s eyes look elsewhere, the objects appear to stay in their places. The devices could block out the “real” world entirely and fully immerse the user in a virtual reality environment. Thin, lightweight, handheld displays with... more... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

Tim: a glorified teleprompter :) - Andrés David Aparicio

"Moreover, our algorithm is conceptually simple: we use transactions to manipulate B-tree nodes so that clients need not use complicated concurrency and locking protocols used in prior work. To execute these transactions quickly, we rely on three techniques: (1) We use optimistic concurrency control, so that B-tree nodes are not locked during transaction execution, only during commit. This well-known technique works well because B-trees have little contention on update. (2) We replicate inner nodes at clients. These replicas are lazy, and hence lightweight, and they are very helpful to re- duce client-server communication while traversing the B-tree. (3) We replicate version numbers of inner nodes across servers, so that clients can validate their transactions efficiently, without creating bottlenecks at the root node and other upper levels in the tree." - Paul Buchheit

The design seems reasonable. The only part that is under-specified is the way they switch from a master node to a slave. I'm curious why they don't use transactions to maintain replicas but instead rely on some unspecified master/slave replication scheme. - Private Sanjeev

Late on Friday, I read a post from Allen Stern in FriendFeed saying that his blog, CenterNetworks had been, once again, injected with spam links. Allen runs his blog on the latest Wordpress installation, 2.8.4, which we all figured was really secure. I had upgraded barely a week ago, so I instantly checked my blog and lo and behold, I had been hacked as well. There is something inherently wrong with Wordpress' code if it's this easy to hack it, even with the tightest security measures, which in my case, include the top 5 of the 7 items listed below. I felt completely let down by Wordpress and for a moment thought that it's time for me to move on to something else for my blog. I am giving Wordpress a last chance, and have enforced the following security measures to see how it goes, and I highly recommend you enable these as well if you are running Wordpress. - Jorge Escobar

Still exploring Japanese Jazz, and I'm happy that I have a lot to discover! - directeur from NoiseRiver Extra!

Inspired by Ben: http://www.benjamingolub.com/e... - Bret Taylor

Thanks Ken and Brett! - Jason Williams

"Tragedy struck today across the United States as millions of Americans died from suffocation as a result of Barack Obama’s speech last night about the importance of breathing. The trouble began weeks ago as conservative journalists and bloggers began to notice President Obama’s frequent inhalations and exhalations. Their online and television reporting led to a grassroots movement across the nation, in which self-proclaimed American patriots began holding what they termed vacuum parties. At these vacuum parties, a group called “Concerned Citizens for Freedom from Air” (CCFA) provided makeshift vacuum chambers for members to demonstrate their freedom from what they refer to as Socialist Air. September 6, 2009 vacuum party protesters in Atlanta, Georgia “You think the American people are free from tyranny? Just look at video footage of the worst dictators in history,” said Philip J. Ruthmore, Chairman of the Chattanooga chapter of Citizens Revolting Against the President (CRAP), a... more... - Alejandro from Bookmarklet

LMAO..this is brilliant. - Admiral Anika

my6sense's super duper AI (artificial intelligence) technology learns what is most important to you based on your consumption habits, serving you as a digital sense, or as we call it 'Digital Intuition'. There is nothing you need to do other than simply use the service like you would any other reader/aggregator. No preferences need to be set. No surveys to fill out. No blood samples needed. The m6s service 'senses' your interactions with every message - Howard Rheingold

This is where we do our UI design. - Paul Buchheit

I knew html5 development processes were going to be weird - dthree

Hi Jack! I wrote a longish post about this some time back. Blog post here:http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/2009... I now use Mendeley (http://bit.ly/181tmi) to collect and share papers. An RSS feed for new entries and a recommendation engine would make it a lot better for my purposes. - Mr. Gunn

An example of an effective platform was used in this topic: Google Docs. It allows multiple collaborators to edit a document through a graphical user interface. Concepts through text, and support for presentations and spreadsheets is improving. Access can be controlled, or published to allow collaboration, with compatible machine readable file formats to provide federation. - Mike Chelen

"It has changed the way I consume and share content, and the coolest thing is that Feedly supports the SUP methodology that FriendFeed uses, so that things that you react to on Feedly are immediately posted to your FriendFeed page. You can even “like” and comment right from the application and see the conversations around the posts back on FriendFeed." - Jorge Escobar from Bookmarklet

Edwin, any reason why my saved items page never loads anymore? Its been like this for about 3 days now. - Amani

"Via web application software, data citation standards, and statistical methods, the Dataverse Network project increases scholarly recognition and distributed control for authors, journals, archives, teachers, and others who produce or organize data; facilitates data access and analysis for researchers and students; and ensures long-term preservation whether or not the data are in the public domain." - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

Okay. I'll try to give a bit more info about the JRA thing once I have it. Incidentally, on association studies (QTLs too?) I ought to mention one of the projects we have registered at MIBBI for reporting QTLs and association studies: http://mibbi.org/index... - Chris from twhirl