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wellow... please open the door now??!! - Igusti Anita Lakshana

This made me laugh out loud. - Sonya Smith

great scott :))) - @geekgirls

"Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months. The Waterloo, Ontario high school junior figured that something must make plastic degrade, even if it does take millennia, and that something was probably bacteria. The Record reports that Burd mixed landfill dirt with yeast and tap water, then added ground plastic and let it stew. The plastic indeed decomposed more quickly than it would in nature; after experimenting with different temperatures and configurations, Burd isolated the microbial munchers. One came from the bacterial genus Pseudomonas, and the other from the genus Sphingomonas. Burd says this should be easy on an industrial scale: all that’s needed is a fermenter, a growth medium and plastic, and the bacteria themselves provide most of the energy by producing heat as they eat. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide." - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Pseudomonas is living even on tubes used in surgery. It is a major problem. It simply eats the plastic in a wet environment. - Balint

""string theorists" are exploring a possible scenario in which people, and the entire world in which we live, are actually a 3-D holographic projection of two-dimensional data that exists outside the accessible universe." - bcultral from Bookmarklet

"Osama Bin Laden was trained by the CIA to attack the Russians, liked it and then attacked the World Trade Center in New York. And the bombs in Pakistan (real) and Iran (hypothetical) are due, at least in part, to the same courtesy of the CIA. The current situation of these three countries reflects the past irresponsible behavior of U.S. intelligence." - bcultral from Bookmarklet

я так ни разу и не видел. в детстве как-то не получилось. да диске давно лежит, все никак не погляжу - bifurcafe

я смотрел в кинотеатре... и потом еще несколько раз пересматривал )) последний раз около года-двух назад - cyberpunk soul

У меня двое детей, они "помогают" пересмотреть фильмы прошлых лет - A. T.

This is officially the most awesome internet thing I have ever seen. Google wins. How do we save this for later? - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Thank you!!! :) - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

0_o - holly #ravingfangirl

XD - Neya from fftogo

"The U.S. government suppressed health information after 9/11. For example, as Newsday noted in 2003: In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to give the public misleading information, telling New Yorkers it was safe to breathe when reliable information on air quality was not available.  That finding is included in a report released Friday by the Office of the Inspector General of the EPA. Because the government lied about the health risks involved, many heroic first responders didn’t use any real precautions, and so have gotten sick and died. And see this. The same thing appears to be happening in connection with the Gulf oil spill." - bcultral from Bookmarklet

"The hierarchical organization of the transcriptional regulatory network of bacterium E. Coli, left, shows a pyramidal structure compared to the Linux call graph, which has many more routines controlling few generic functions at the bottom." - Allison Kipta from Bookmarklet

Ehahaha ne şirin. - pelinipçioğlu

hohahahah şu yoğunlukta can sıkıntısında iyi geldi - Fil 

"Doris Eaton Travis, the last surviving dancer from the Ziegfeld Follies troupe, has died in the US aged 106. Travis first performed in the legendary Broadway show famed for its elaborate costumes and dance routines in 1918 aged 14. At the age of 101 the dancer performed in a charity gala at the New York theatre where she made her debut." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"HBO's liberal talk show Bill Maher has never been one to mince words. Last Friday night was no exception. In the midst of a panel discussion on the massive BP oil spill that's contaminated the Gulf of Mexico in recent weeks, Maher took aim at Republican radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who only days prior whipped up a firestorm of rhetorical controversy by claiming that such pollution is "natural" and will simply go away. "That's right, a petrochemical stew is very natural to wetlands," Maher scowled. "You know what, you dipshit? Mercury's natural too, but you don't put it in your Cheerios."" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

I really, really, really hope Blizzard likes my GF's application to them. Sadly, I think she'll need more experience before they do. - alphaxion

"Facebook, Moglen quipped, has turned into a “structure for denigrating the integrity of human integrity.” Joking aside, he called it a poor deal for users who receive a smattering of Web hosting, “PHP doodads,” and “all the spying that you can get for free all the time… It’s grossly overpriced.” “The human race is susceptible to harm,” Moglen said. “[Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg] has the distinction of having done more harm to the human race than anyone else his age.”" - ovigia from Bookmarklet

http://ff.im/jmy1V - ovigia

"George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are long gone. Fox News Channel is Jon Stewart’s new enemy No. 1. Last week that comedian did something that the hosts of “Fox & Friends,” the morning show on Fox News, did not do: he had his staff members call the White House and ask a question. It may have been in pursuit of farce, not fact, but it gave credence to the people who say “The Daily Show” is journalistic, not just satiric. “Fox & Friends” had repeatedly asked whether the crescent-shaped logo of the nuclear security summit was an “Islamic image,” one selected by President Obama in his outreach to the Muslim world. The White House told “The Daily Show” that the logo was actually based on the Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom." - Anna Haro from Bookmarklet

I keep wanting to do my own version of his show for the net (since even Jon is shackled over what he can and can't say), but I'd certainly need more than just me writing on it! If any FF'ers fancy teaming up and doing some seriously heavy current affairs satire, throw me a DM :) - alphaxion

"Apple ranked fifth in the United States, falling yet another place, with 8 percent market share, down 7.2 percent year over year, according to Gartner. But IDC reported that Apple's market share declined to 6.4 percent, from 7.2 percent. Just two years ago, Apple had risen to third place in US PC shipments. However, despite all the hoopla about increasing Mac sales, Apple US ranking declined, with risk the company might fall back out of the top five in some future quarter." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

LOL Kevin: one fool makes many. That's hilarious that the article was the result of a misread. Touche - LANjackal

"When it comes to voyages of discovery, NASA’s venerable Cassini mission is about as good as it gets.In six years of cruising around the planet Saturn and its neighborhood, the Cassini spacecraft has discovered two new Saturn rings, a bunch of new moons and a whole new class of moonlets. It encountered liquid lakes on the moon Titan, water ice and a particle plume on the moon Enceladus, ridges and ripples on the rings, and cyclones at Saturn’s poles. Cassini also released a European space probe that landed on Titan. And Cassini has sent back enough data to produce more than 1,400 scientific papers — at last count. But besides the science, Cassini is state of the art in the arcane discipline of orbital mechanics — how to get from one place to another in space to fulfill a mission’s science requirements without running out of fuel. The plans are for Cassini to keep working for seven more years, but it currently has only 22 percent of the maneuvering propellant it had when it started." - RAPatton

Massive awesome - Mo Kargas

Back To The Future II concept drawings here are some of the original artists’ sketches of the ideas for how to turn the Hill Valley of 1985 to the future of 2015 - Tugce Cengiz

since1948 http://xrl.us/CostBenefit Analysis from state dept not accurate. USA hit w/dirty bomb now not2015 http://ff.im/jcKDJ - NoahDavidSimon

In Cle Elum, the tasty local restaurant is Beau's. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Hehe, yeah, Melanie, and didn't want to disrupt your thread. But seriously, this is what we did on Saturday, hehe. And Joe, cook with gas...no need to leave anything burning. :) - Scoble, Alex Scoble