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I ♥ Skeuomorphism - http://dribbble.com/shots...
Can anyone explain this to me?
- Dane Deasy
File Transfer - http://xkcd.com/949/
There needs to be a better way. Like AirDrop for the internet.
- Dane Deasy
Drugs and the Meaning of Life - http://www.samharris.org/blog...
An incredible read. MUST MUST MUST READ.
- Dane Deasy
Eric MacDonald defines and defends free will - http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011...
Good stuff here!
- Dane Deasy
What Tablet Developers Really Need to Work On - http://www.zeusjones.com/blog...
I'm very fast on both my iPhone and iPad! I just need better space bar recognition. Current I something dobthis. (though that time it correct inserted a space, I just removed it for the example)
- Dane Deasy
Dutch junction design - safer for cyclists - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Awesome.
- Dane Deasy
Craigslist Apartments - http://xkcd.com/886/
I love the reference to House of Leaves!
- Dane Deasy
Checking In On The Space Jam Website - http://videogum.com/291982...
Awesome.
- Dane Deasy
The Kodak Girl: 1909 - http://www.shorpy.com/node...
Love it!
- Dane Deasy
Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months | Wired Science | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/wiredsc...
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"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
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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...
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- 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
Server Attention Span - http://xkcd.com/869/
I HATE when sites do this!
- Dane Deasy
Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World - http://www.pheedcontent.com/click...
Agree. The first sets of images make it impossible to tell the scale of the lava lake. #20 is spectacular!
- Dane Deasy
Vintage Tins as Functional Fridge Magnets Creature Comforts - http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago...
Note.
- Dane Deasy
Re: iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom vs. HP TouchPad vs. BlackBerry PlayBook: the tale of the tape - http://www.engadget.com/2011...
"Wow, defensive much?"
- Dane Deasy
Re: iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom vs. HP TouchPad vs. BlackBerry PlayBook: the tale of the tape - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"Wow, defensive much?"
- Dane Deasy
Re: An iPad Lover’s (Initial) Thoughts On iPad 2 - http://techcrunch.com/2011...
"Um. iPad has a Kindle app you dummy."
- Dane Deasy
Re: An iPad Lover’s (Initial) Thoughts On iPad 2 - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"Um. iPad has a Kindle app you dummy."
- Dane Deasy
Must-have iPad app to stay cool in the kitchen - http://thenextweb.com/apps...
Holy crap! I was just thinking how i wanted an app like this earlier today, and here it is!
- Dane Deasy
OS X Lion Interface Tweaks - http://www.usabilitypost.com/2011...
Cool details. Monochrome is great when working with images or video. I'm looking forward to see how it affects Finder usage.
- Dane Deasy
Apple CEO Steve Jobs photographed at dinner with President Obama - http://www.pheedcontent.com/click...
Haha! Mark Zuckerberg puts on a dress shirt coat and Steve Jobs keeps his usual black turtleneck! Awesome.
- Dane Deasy
Irina Werning - http://gabrielaherman.com/blog...
Great stuff!
- Dane Deasy
Re: DOUBLE GIVEAWAY: KOR Vida and KOR ONE Gift Sets - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"Water is important to me because it's the only fluid our body needs (besides our mother's milk when we are babies)."
- Dane Deasy
Re: DOUBLE GIVEAWAY: KOR Vida and KOR ONE Gift Sets - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"Water is important to me because it's the only fluid our body needs (besides our mother's milk when we are babies)."
- Dane Deasy
Re: DOUBLE GIVEAWAY: KOR Vida and KOR ONE Gift Sets - http://blog.korwater.com/inside-...
"Water is important to me because it's the only fluid our body needs (besides our mother's milk when we are babies)."
- Dane Deasy
Billy Ray Cyrus Blames David Lynch, Satan for Miley’s Current Condition - http://nymag.com/daily...
Hilarious! Damned atheists!
- Dane Deasy
irony2.jpg - http://pics.kuvaton.com/kuvei...
Wow. Wild picture.
- Dane Deasy
stonerparty:samuraifrog:time-turner PONYO - http://kec.tumblr.com/post...
I love this movie!
- Dane Deasy
Now What? Vol. 1: Why Being Busy Can Mean Being Broke - http://justinmott.blogspot.com/2011...
Good share!
- Dane Deasy
Meet Chase No Face, the heroic, seriously disfigured kitty - http://www.boingboing.net/2011...
Awful.
- Dane Deasy
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