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"You read it here first: despite its famous "Don't be evil" mantra, we can exclusively reveal that Google is planning a SPECTRE-style operation co-ordinated from an extinct volcano aimed at the complete subjugation of humanity by means of "orbital mind control"." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

pretty you cat - Diana Espinal

Yoleo Reader, digg, theoldreader, OwnCloud, feedly, feedbin, NewsBlur, netvibes, inoreader, commafeed, feedafever, MultiPLX, Minimal Reader, Feedwrangler, noowit.com/pbeta, - Todd Hoff

Feedly. - Steven Perez

"Think you do just fine on five or six hours of shut-eye? Chances are, you are among the many millions who unwittingly shortchange themselves on sleep. Research shows that most people require seven or eight hours of sleep to function optimally. Failing to get enough sleep night after night can compromise your health and may even shorten your life. From infancy to old age, the effects of inadequate sleep can profoundly affect memory, learning, creativity, productivity and emotional stability, as well as your physical health." - Me from Bookmarklet

Studies have shown that about 72 hours of sleep deprivation can induce fibromyalgia-like symptoms. And fibromyalgia is aggravated by a lack of a sufficient amount of good quality restorative sleep. And many people with fibromyalgia do suffer from sleep abnormalities that leave them feeling like they haven't had any sleep, no matter how long they have actually slept. - April Russo

"I got into splines the way many people do: I wanted a way to draw smooth, attractive connectors between graphic objects in a very general way, and with the ability to specify the exact path the curves should take. This is what interpolation implies: that the curve will go exactly through the specified points." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Hahaha..! Oh, that's a serious quote... - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

They're used to cars driving by. The heron was at the side of the road. The hippo was behind a wire (also see my close-up http://friendfeed.com/amitp...). The zebra crossed the road in front of my car. And the ostrich was sitting at the side of the road, not bothered by me driving by. - Amit Patel

"Suppose Homer wants to catch a stationary bus. Before he can get there, he must get halfway there. Before he can get halfway there, he must get a quarter of the way there. Before traveling a quarter, he must travel one-eighth; before an eighth, one-sixteenth; and so on." - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

^ cool! - Amit Patel

That wouldn't be in their best interest (targeted advertising). And how would you know there wouldn't be back door access to the data. - Stephan Planken from iPhone

I do -- but I am still working out the concept. Stay tuned. - Sean McBride

"The 50 worst, ranked by money blown on soliciting costs Totals from the latest 10 years of available federal tax filings" - Me from Bookmarklet

Don't get me started on this whole charity concept especially when the CEO is making six figures. Charity has become quite the business! Local only for me or specific Catholic charities. - Janet:#TeamMonique

Related TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks... - Amit Patel

It looks that way. - Sean McBride

I'll send you a bill, Amit. :) - Todd

"A celebration of transit maps and diagrams from around the world, whether they be real or imaginary, or from the past, future or present." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

The first "diagrammatic" transit map I ever saw was for the S-Tog system in Copenhagen. It was in 1976 and I thought it was wonderful. The version shown in this collection is updated to include new development and stations, but otherwise looks very much like the 1976 version. The critique made here seems a bit harsh to me, particularly since he says he never rode the S-Tog. For me,... more... - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

I love hexagons! Now there's a tumblr I can go to. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Hexagons are nature's example of spatial efficiency elevated to the level of perfection. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

So beautiful. - Amit Patel

Sitting on the deck with a fresh cup of coffee is my favorite thing on crisp mornings as the sun begins to warm up the air. Sometimes I take the computer out with me, but mostly I just like to sit and enjoy. But never, ever, do I write about vendor relationships. ;) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

I just got a flash, in my head, of a fan-fic sort of story involving a studly librarian involved in a steamy BDSM relationship with Elsevier. I think people would pay good money to read about Elsevier getting the shit beat out of it... - WebGoddess

endorsing your nuts! - Joe Silence

The nut job and basket case project? - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

This is satire, right? We're not really stuck in a time loop where Hollywood is releasing the exact same movies they released in the 1980s? - Victor Ganata

If there's a sequel to Titanic, there can be a sequel to anything. (It's called Titanic II, not Titanic 2. "100 years later, lightning strikes twice.") - Amit Patel

Opposites attract, kiddo. Oh, and I'm already married. - Bubba da Troll

I didn't mean to be tongue in cheek so I'm a bit confused. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

"A little collection of things redesigned by Sir Jony Ive." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"I first saw Emscripten a few years ago. It compiled C++ to Javascript. My mind boggled! How cool! This year at Game Developers Conference there was a talk showing that Emscripten plus asm.js could run C++ games in the browser with good performance. I was amazed." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Screenshot on the left is from OS/2, 15 years ago; screenshot on the right is from a web browser, 15 minutes ago. - Amit Patel

"SimBlob. This is the project that got me interested in tile games, hex maps, pathfinding, road drawing, economic simulation, AI, and procedural map generation. Those of you who have been following me for a long time know that these are topics I'm especially fond of. This project was a huge influence on me and my game programming site. It ended 15 summers ago." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"Working on SimBlob was great for me. I learned a lot about science, economics, simulation, and programming. I learned that finishing a game wasn't as interesting to me as understanding a topic and writing about it. " - Amit Patel

"LLVM.js takes Emscripten a step further by compiling LLVM itself to JavaScript, using Emscripten (which uses LLVM).  Whoa!  This means that you can now compile and run LLVM assembly directly in JavaScript without installing the native LLVM tools.  If language compilers supporting LLVM such as Clang were also compiled to JavaScript, you could compile and run C/C++ code directly in JavaScript as well." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

We're nearing Inception for the web… - Amit Patel

"Look at all the little people working for me down there. It makes me feel calm." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Finished the Tropico 4 campaign :) - Amit Patel

That side cliff looks like something from Apple Maps. - Me

*HIDE* - bde

Nah, not enough salmon and teal colours - Mo Kargas

"65 megawatts of electricity per year" - Amit Patel

"Massive data centers can store billions of bytes of information." - Amit Patel

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I *should* be on FriendFeed all the time. - Amit Patel

"WHERE PRACTICAL FACTS GET RENDERED INTO UTTERLY USELESS ONES." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"Who among you haven’t wondered how many dried tears it would take to fill a salt shaker or how long it would take to sip an Olympic-sized pool through a straw? Doubtless, you’re similarly inclined to have contemplated the size of the screen that could be made if the displays were ripped out of every iPhone ever sold and combined into a single colossus. It’s likely still that you’ve... more... - Amit Patel

1 - Tinfoil 2.0

2. - Mary B: #TeamMonique

Nothing happened today. - Amit Patel

(I) (D)(I)(S)(A)(G)(R)(E)(E) - SAM

The wonders of unicode. - Amit Patel

"If aliens landed on earth tomorrow—proper aliens, in ships and crap—they would, I believe, be astonished and dismayed to see us using a decimal radix as the basis of our mathematics and of our civilization. They would wonder how we got as far as we did using a counting system derived, ultimately, from the rather incidental number of prehensile outcroppings on our hands. And I have to wonder myself. I am at least mildly embarrassed to be associated with a species so dependent on such a nonsensical and counterproductive system. Dozenalism, in various forms, has had its triumphs throughout history. Next to decimalism, it is by far the most prominent and well-represented grouping value across all fields of human endeavor. We are therefore not starting from nothing—momentum and history are on the side of the dozenalist cause." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"The permutohedron of order n is the n-1 dimensional polytope embedded in an n-dimensional space, the vertices of which are formed by permuting the coordinates of the vector (1, 2, 3, ..., n). Thus, the first-order permutohedron is a vertex at coordinate 1 on a line (though this is again a somewhat degenerate case); the second-order permutohedron is a line segment formed between coordinates 1,2 and 2,1; and the third-order permutohedron, our beloved hexagon, can be visualized as a hexagon bisecting a cube spanning two units between coordinates 1 and 3 (if the diagram of the hexagon above was consistent with the diagram of the second-order permutohedron, it would include the 0,0,0 origin of the embedding space, which lies one further unit cube beyond the far vertex perpendicular to the plane of the hexagon). The truncated octahedron represents the fourth-order permutohedron, embedded in 4-space, and the omnitruncated 5-cell (or 4-simplex) represents the fifth-order permutohedron in 5-space, etc." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet