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Roberto Bonini
Typical cat. If he’s out, he wants in. « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009...
Typical cat. If he’s out, he wants in. « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/04/29/funny-pictures-hes-out-he-wants-in/
wellow... please open the door now??!! - Igusti Anita Lakshana
Cee Bee
aretha franklin's hat on flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups...
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This made me laugh out loud. - Sonya Smith
The hat looked better on Aretha - Bob Gannon
That's hilarious! - Louis P. from twhirl
Tupac! [THUD] - Anika
Actually thought Tupac was able to pull it off quite nicely. - Mlibrarianus
silliness! - Sarah Perez
OK, this is hilarious! - Jeff P. Henderson
OMG She's started a trend of FAIL pics - The Real sofarsoShawn
that first dog is very william wegman. - Karim
quick glance threw me for a loop i thought #1 was Worthington! - Carlos Ayala
It isn't Johnny?! - WoH: Minding her Steves
hahahhahaha EPIC! - Mona Nomura
Is this gonna be memefied ? :D - Mo Kargas
Hrm...I want one now - Rah-PM 2012
Check out my twitter and facebook :O) Man, that was such a good hat!!! - Will Higgins™
Must. Reshare. - MLx
I need to make some of these. - Sullivan
:D - Mo Kargas
...this was over a year ago, guys - WHERE DID THE TIME GO?!? - WoH: Minding her Steves
aahahahahahahah. its very funny. i love the hat. iam new to friendfeed. could u please suggest friends for me. This is my link jolamps.blogspot.com - KINGSLEY OSEVWE
great scott :))) - @geekgirls
April Buchheit
Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months | Wired Science | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/wiredsc...
Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months | Wired Science | Wired.com
"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
So why is carbon sequestration a good idea when it's all complicated and expensive, but bad when it involves burying plastic bags in landfills? - Paul Buchheit
I think it's better to sequester carbon as dirt than as bags. - Gabe
But if it's already in plastic bag form, why not leave it that way instead of turning it into CO2? - Paul Buchheit
Paul: that's exactly what I've been thinking. Particularly since the City of Seattle no longer allows residents to sequester food based carbon in landfills and instead requires us to burn it into compost. - Hayes Haugen
Dirt is useful because you can grow stuff in it. Most waste products are not so useful. - Gabe
Yes, but the choice isn't between dirt and plastic -- it's between plastic and CO2. - Paul Buchheit
I have to agree with Paul on this one: atmospheric CO2 is much more of a pressing concern at the moment than landfill space. Though I do admire the kid's scientific spirit. - Louis Simoneau
Concur with Louis and Paul. Here's an interesting Penn & Teller bit about landfills: http://www.youtube.com/watch... (from their Bullshit episode on Recycling myths). - Stephen Mack
It doesn't say what the process actually produces. They mention the feed material (plastic) and the waste material (water, CO2), but not the real products. I assumed it produced globs of carbon. Am I wrong? - Gabe
Why would you assume that Gabe? - Paul Buchheit
the carbon in the CO2, perhaps? - Jack Jones
Has nobody considered this for an artificial ecosystem? Compost your scraps for fertile soil, and compost your bags for the CO2 for the plants growing in it. Sure you'll need an airlock on your greenhouse (and an oxy mask whenever you enter it) but you'll have the best damned tomatoes on your street. - Chris Charabaruk
You don't want to leave it in plastic form as it screws up the ocean large! Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I hope they can use this to make something that would eat the plastic in the ocean rather than the sea life dying from it. - Luke Kilpatrick
Since it said that the waste products were CO2 and water, I assumed there were also non-waste products. The good thing about landfills is that they can later be mined for all the great things that were too cheap to recycle. - Gabe
Yeah, I think landfills have an unjustly bad reputation. When properly managed, they are a great way to deal with garbage that our technology can't yet efficiently recycle. (we're saving for the future!) - Paul Buchheit
that's great news. now i can really finish my threat to all my damn *invincible* plastic bags! (waves fist) - ed fry
The two biggest problems with landfill are the leachate seeping into groundwater (or contaminating local soil) and methane (a greenhouse gas). Even if you can mitigate those problems, they're difficult to eliminate entirely, making the land almost useless once it's full. - Gabe
Gabe, not to minimize the problems, but I live right next to Shoreline Ampitheather in Mountain View, which is built on landfill is proof that the landfill land is hardly useless. - Stephen Mack
It's not just landfills, though. Take the large floating trash gyre of the Pacific, and its effects in the ecosystem. So the tiny little plastic balls in water are fake food, and animals eat them, and then die in various ways, lowering populations and making species even more fragile. Landfill may be a good way if it's contained and monitored more closely, or CO2, in various areas- such... more... - anna sauce
@anna at least he is coming up with a solution rather than just finding more things to complain about - Chris Johnston
anna's right -- the problem is when the stuff ends up in the ocean. Landfills are a good way to keep the stuff out of the ocean. - Gabe
Stop speculating and start experimenting! - Dane Deasy
Lazy online commentators... ;) - Dane Deasy
What's the risk in providing a specific kind of bacteria an unlimited food source? - dthree
Old news. - Will Higgins™
Pseudomonas is living even on tubes used in surgery. It is a major problem. It simply eats the plastic in a wet environment. - Balint
AJ Batac :)
bcultral
World Science Festival Explores 'Humans as Holograms' - http://www.redorbit.com/news...?
World Science Festival Explores 'Humans as Holograms'
""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
bcultral
Blowback: Legacy of the CIA in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan - http://english.pravda.ru/world...
Blowback: Legacy of the CIA in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan
"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
A. T.
silpol liked Flight of the Navigator (1986). - http://filmfeed.ru/movie...
silpol liked Flight of the Navigator (1986).
silpol liked Flight of the Navigator (1986).
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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.
Nir Ben Yona
Google Pac-Man ROCKS! http://twitpic.com/1pp6ki Check it out on http://www.Google.com (Update: Now available permanently at http://www.google.com/pacman/)
Google Pac-Man ROCKS! http://twitpic.com/1pp6ki Check it out on http://www.Google.com (Update: Now available permanently at http://www.google.com/pacman)
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)
Agreed!. Not sure we can save it though. Anyway, there's a bug at the 256th level that makes it impossible to keep playing :) - Nir Ben Yona
cos it's full of bombs and/or keys? - Joe The Sausage
Wish I knew...it just gets stuck. - Nir Ben Yona
wow, you can have simultaneous Pacman and AND Ms. Pacman! - Joe The Sausage
Yup...just insert a virtual coin :) - Nir Ben Yona
w, a, s, d - Joe The Sausage
BTW it's written in HTML 5 so you can play it with your iPhone/iPad. - Nir Ben Yona
Kamilah, PacMan is now permanently available at: http://www.google.com/pacman/ - Nir Ben Yona
Thank you!!! :) - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Sky1 Insider
Facial fur helps if you'd like to pass as a citizen of Ankh Morpork:A #goingpostal set report from some Pratchett fans! http://sky1.sky.com/going-p...
Derrick
OH: "So we were having sex and everything, and then she put bacon bits in my hair..."
ROFL I hope they were in the kitchen at least. - Anika
Ewww. - Lix from iPhone
XD - Neya from fftogo
JazJaz
The Aesthetics of Unique Video Game Characters - http://gamecareerguide.com/feature...
The Aesthetics of Unique Video Game Characters
The Aesthetics of Unique Video Game Characters
The Aesthetics of Unique Video Game Characters
bcultral
Just Like 9/11? Oil Spill Responders Are Getting Sick … But Are Being Told They Don’t Need Any Safety Gear - http://www.prisonplanet.com/just-li...
"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
Kol Tregaskes
Steven Perez
Allison Kipta
Yale Scientists Explain Why Computers Crash But We Don’t - http://opa.yale.edu/news...
Yale Scientists Explain Why Computers Crash But We Don’t
"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
serkeş panda
sinyal ile dişleriniz bembeyaz!
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Ehahaha ne şirin. - pelinipçioğlu
benim favorim ikinci :D - serkeş panda
3 çok tatlı, ay hepsi tatlı.djhfd - pelinipçioğlu
hohahahah şu yoğunlukta can sıkıntısında iyi geldi - Fil 
Steven Perez
BBC News - Last Ziegfeld Folly dies aged 106 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
BBC News - Last Ziegfeld Folly dies aged 106
"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
M F
YouTube - Cleese explaining Proportional Representation i - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Steven Perez
Maher on Limbaugh’s oil remarks: ‘You know what, you dipsh*t? Mercury’s natural too’ | Raw Story - http://rawstory.com/rs...
Maher on Limbaugh’s oil remarks: ‘You know what, you dipsh*t? Mercury’s natural too’ | Raw Story
"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
Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Rene thinks it's pretty ironic that the people who oppose #hcr and Wall St reform because it is government takeover have no problem with a very intrusive government takeover imposed by AZ SB1070 ...
Aram Zucker-Scharff
Death and Taxes 2011 Shows Where Your Money Is Going - http://gizmodo.com/5521994...
Death and Taxes 2011 Shows Where Your Money Is Going
zeroinfluencer
Earning your sword: the magical inner sanctum of Blizzard - http://arstechnica.com/gaming...
Earning your sword: the magical inner sanctum of Blizzard
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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
☆ Mellyboo ☆
OH HI - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010...
OH HI - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Erdëm GULTEKIN
ovigia
"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
Anna Haro
Jon Stewart of ‘The Daily Show’ Takes On Fox News - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
Jon Stewart of ‘The Daily Show’ Takes On Fox News - NYTimes.com
"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
“This is how relentless Fox is” in savaging President Obama, Mr. Stewart said. On the subject of Fox, Mr. Stewart is pretty relentless too. As demonstrated by that crescent segment and dozens of others since Mr. Obama took office, he may well be television’s pre-eminent fact-checker of Fox News, the nation’s highest-rated cable news channel." - Anna Haro
"It is true that the often-left-leaning “Daily Show” deals with a wide array of topics, but Fox is one that Mr. Stewart is overtly passionate about; he said on the show this week that he criticizes the network a lot because it is “truly a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization.” - Anna Haro
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
LANjackal
Soaring PC shipments: Good for Microsoft, not as much for Apple - http://www.betanews.com/joewilc...
Soaring PC shipments: Good for Microsoft, not as much for Apple
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"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
Joe Wilcox doesn't know how to read a simple chart, apparently. He says that Apple's market share was 'down 7.2%, year over year' when the chart clearly states that their market share in 1Q10 was 8%, up from 7.2% in 1Q09. In my book that's a gain of 0.8%, or an 11% improvement. - Kevin Fox
I marked this to read later and never got back to it. Aye, I think he was reading it as 1Q09 to 1Q10 from left to right when it's the other way around. Tho, it is interesting to note that they have dropped down a ranking, but that's just because others selling even more than they are. - alphaxion
LOL Kevin: one fool makes many. That's hilarious that the article was the result of a misread. Touche - LANjackal
RAPatton
With Gravity’s Help, Cassini Puts On a Saturn Spectacular - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
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"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
"Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004 for a four-year mission, but it was so successful that NASA gave it a two-year extension, to September 2010. Then, in February, NASA extended it a second time for what it calls the Solstice mission, lasting until Saturn’s northern hemisphere summer in 2017. If all goes as planned, on Sept. 15, 2017, Cassini will die a warrior’s death, diving inside the... more... - RAPatton
"Equatorial orbits, however, make it impossible to see the rings, which appear as a knife edge in the middle of the planet. For ring observations, inclined orbits are a must. The spacecraft has orbited Saturn at latitudes as high as 74.7 degrees, enabling the spacecraft to look down — or up — at the rings, and also to observe the poles. Throughout Cassini’s lifetime the tour designers... more... - RAPatton
Massive awesome - Mo Kargas
Tugce Cengiz
It was 2015....
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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
Great work! - Tugce Cengiz
Ne var ne yok toplamak istiyorum bu filme dair.. - Tugce Cengiz
aynen - Çetin Yıldız
Great find! FB bttf grubumuza ekliyorum.. bu arada http://www.facebook.com/album... - Berk Günsev
Tuğce, kaynağını verebilir misin? - Berk Günsev
@Berk, çok haklısın ama ben bir zaman bunları kaydetmişim, hep link veririm ama bunları bilgisayarımda tuttuğum için bilemedim nerden aldığımı.. - Tugce Cengiz
Ben bulduklarımı topluyorum ebay'den filan... :) - Tuçe Köngül
Harika! Teşekkürler Seçkin.. - Tugce Cengiz
Rica ederim akşam seriyi izleyeceğim tekrar sayende. :) - Seçkin Şimşek
Reality Hurts: Iranian missiles may reach US by 2015 http://www.jpost.com/Iranian... - NoahDavidSimon
Noah: and that's related to this how? Tho, on a tangent, how do other countries feel with the knowledge that the US has missiles they can point at and reach their citizens? - alphaxion
since1948 http://xrl.us/CostBenefit Analysis from state dept not accurate. USA hit w/dirty bomb now not2015 http://ff.im/jcKDJ - NoahDavidSimon
Scoble, Alex Scoble
Campfire cooking: Step 1: Leave the campfire, Step 2: Go to the tasty local restaurant and get a pizza and some Irish Death...there is no step 3
In Cle Elum, the tasty local restaurant is Beau's. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Smokey the Bear would maul you for saying to just leave the fire burning. - Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
Now Alex, you must have been reading my feed again. How flattering! :) - Melanie Reed
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
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