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Well, it's worrydream. Expect to be blown away :) - Amit Patel

I hope Bret plans to share some of those tools with us. Open source, commercial, whatever works for him. - Jason Wehmhoener

Nothing like Bret's tools, but still pretty interesting: http://livecoder.net/ - Jason Wehmhoener

amazing talk that gets increasingly amazing; I want that code editor and iPad app - Andy Baio

I agree, amazing talk. - Amit Patel

So, I made a weird new thing with my 15-year-old nephew, Cooper McHatton. It's experimental and has lots of rough edges, but quite frankly, I'm tired of working on it, so here you go. Playfic is a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka "text adventures") entirely from your browser, using a "natural language"-inspired language called Inform 7. Inform 7 is incredibly awesome and weird. For example, this is a fully functional game: East of the Garden is the Gazebo. Above is the Treehouse. A billiards table is in the Gazebo. On it is a trophy cup. A starting pistol is in the cup. In the Treehouse is a container called a cardboard box. Type that into Playfic, and you end up with this simple game, ready to send to the world. The official documentation is extensive, with a great manual and recipe book. I've collected a list of resources to help you get started. For now, there's very little documentation on Playfic itself, but you can click the "View game... - Andy Baio

Have to 'like' on David's behalf too! - Helensleydale

Good question, Curdy. I think you should do some research and report back in a couple of days. :^) - Friar Will (:^)

Good to see you back, Eric. - Sean McBride

Welcome back Eric - آريوبرزن - Aryo

lololol - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

I felt a smidgen guilty wearing mine as I devoured half a box of Thin Mints. ;) - Kelli H.

"I was in clinic when I heard the overhead STAT page to the emergency room. As I sprinted down the stairs, I ran through the possible scenarios. I wasn’t on call, so the day to day gynecologic emergencies weren’t my purview. I hadn’t operated on anyone in the past few weeks, so unlikely to be one of my own patients with a complication. Logically there was only one conclusion." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

:-/ - John (bird whisperer)

Kevin, this was a pretty big update. I found the release notes on the web site. I've copy and pasted a few and I'm sure others can contribute some as well. - Stephen Mack

* Anthropomorphic car models that achieved sentience in January are now much less likely to question the futility of their existence. - Stephen Mack

I think I'll wait for anti-grav :-) - Todd Hoff

Nice! - Stephen Mack

Will it become part of my personalized search results? - Brian Johns

(Photo credit: http://www.cvcomics.com/artands...) - Stephen Mack

That reminds me of one of the final shots from The Terminator. - Akiva

Didn't you back up? - The original Kevin

GURU MEDITATION ERROR (crossing the OS streams here). - Akiva

#represent - Eric

hawwt - The Real sofarsoShawn

Me - Treasure Hunter: "Merits: Adventurous, Cultured, Quick thinker; Demerits: Greedy, Loner, Cavalier with laws/rules." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

I can't deal with yoiu!!!!!!!!11elevenetcetera - Akiva

Congrats! - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Thanks all! Be inspired - if I can do it, *anyone* can! :) - Ken Gidley

"Not so long ago, common ravens were uncommon in the Bay Area. A 1927 reference calls them "rare" except at Point Reyes. American crows lived mostly along the Marin County coast, not in the East Bay. In 1991, Audubon Christmas Bird Counts tallied 17 crows and 54 ravens in San Francisco; 60 crows and 23 ravens in Oakland. The 2011 San Francisco count reported 599 ravens and 566 crows; Oakland had 1,152 crows and 193 ravens. Remarkable, especially considering that crows, if not ravens, are highly susceptible to the West Nile virus. California Department of Public Health statistics show more dead crows than any other bird species testing positive for West Nile: 1,792 in 2008; 468 last year. (Raven mortality was minor.) The disease devastated crow populations in the East and Midwest, but California populations weren't dented. Much of the crow and raven boom is urban. Birder Josiah Clark has seen flocks of 90 ravens in San Francisco. City crows are hard to miss in Berkeley and elsewhere in the East Bay; they're certainly, noisily, all over our neighborhood." - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

:) - Anne Bouey

You look fantastic today. - AJ Batac :)

Some of those guys in the back there have a bit of a "so who do I need to take out"-look, particularly Kevin. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

That's amazing. I'm with Gizmodo on that too... - Juan Pablo González

This is fantastic. - Stephen Mack

Wow. That's awesome. - Amit Patel

"It's made by cooking spicy green chiles (I use Thai bird chiles, you can use serranos or jalapeños if you prefer) along with onion, garlic, ginger, cilantro stems and red peppers. The key to great flavor development is to cook down the aromatics in oil until almost all the moisture is driven from them and they become sticky and begin to brown. To this flavorful base, a few spices are added (hot paprika, cumin, coriander, and turmeric), along with chopped tomatoes. Chicken is the typical main element of choice, and while many vegetarian versions use cauliflower and chickpeas, I prefer the tender texture of potatoes. I'm always looking for more ways to get leafy greens into my diet, and spinach works very well in this dish. Traditional? Not at all. Delicious? You betcha." - Derrick from Bookmarklet

Oooh. That sounds really good. I might sub a different pea (lentils? hmm.), but the whole Idea sounds awesome. - Jennifer Dittrich

"The La Niña that helped fuel some of the wild weather over the past year may die down again this spring, after a brief fall comeback, government climatologists announced today (Feb. 9). For those with an eye on the weather, the La Niña climate pattern has become a household name. The name is Spanish for "little girl," and it's a cyclical system of trade winds that cools the waters of the equatorial Pacific (El Niño is La Niña's warm-water counterpart.). La Niña can muck with global weather patterns, recurring every few years and lingering for as long as two years at a time. The strong 2010-11 La Niña contributed to record winter snowfall, spring flooding and drought in different regions of the United States, as well as extreme weather events throughout the world, such as heavy rain in Australia and an extremely dry equatorial eastern Africa. The recent La Niña is one of the strongest since climatologists began recording the phenomenon 50 years ago. The La Niña died over the summer,... more... - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

We've had some very weird weather over the last two years. - John (bird whisperer)

Cherry blossoms are in bloom down here, too. My neighborhood is covered in them. Between those and the magnolia, my eyes are so happy! - Anika

fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu - !lker yoldas. )°(

ignore the awful visualization and skip to the table; Angry Birds sends your contacts to third parties!? - Andy Baio