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Spy Software Could ID You By Your Shadow | Wired Science from Wired.com

"In a speech last month to a security conference in the UK, Stoica explained that by using shadows you can read the length and rhythm of someone's gait and do an identification, even from above." - Shellee via Bookmarklet

It's a long way off from capturing Bin Laden but the article concludes with the suggestion you sometimes skip from place to place - Shellee

Skipping FTW. - Kelly Fox

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Ice Cream Flavor Random Generator

yesterday at 6:28 pm - Link

Thomas Brox Røst, David Ward, Hutch Carpenter, Mathew A. Koeneker and 12 other people liked this

A Random Ice Cream Flavor Generator. Mix your own ice cream recipe with the touch of a button. - edythe

mmmmmm. That reminds me, Kelly said he'd make pistachio ice cream this weekend. Hey, Kelly, are you listening? - Shellee

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Fun link. Sorry I haven't had time to read all the other comments in this thread yet. May not get to that until next week sometime. - Kelly Fox

"Foaming Rutabega Sausage Gelato." [makes retching noise] [runs to bathroom] - Karim

"Lemon Curry?" </obvious> - Karim

Liver & Onion - Geoff Longman

I got evil cheeseburger potato ice-cream - BeeLing

"Dirty Eel Pepper Freeze" - Pete Delucchi

"Cool Mint Peach Sorbet" - Abby Martin

"Churned Earthworm Ape Freeze" - Mona N.

Foaming Soybean Moose Delight - Rochelle

With "weird" on: "Mystic Petunia Moose Ice Cream" - Abby Martin

Sarah Palin brought a quart of that to the last PTA meeting. - Karim

Karim: Hee. Good one. - Abby Martin

"Melted Beer Haddock Ice Cream" - Hutch Carpenter

Baskin-Robbins Flavor of the month is..........Burnt Noodle Nebula Sorbet! YUM! - Matrixx333

Karim++ - Matrixx333

Ultimate Ape Ice Cream - edythe

Kelly Fox favorited a video on YouTube

Crayon Physics Deluxe

yesterday at 2:00 pm - Link

sergiooo and Geoff Schultz liked this

Perhaps this could help Geoff create some romantically interactive doodles to accompany his notes. - Kelly Fox

That is f'ing sweet. - Geoff Schultz

And this explains why Kelly never writes romantic notes. Always too busy playing games. - Shellee

love. - sergiooo

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Microbes for Off-the-Grid Electricity

Thursday at 7:14 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Abbas Haider Ali liked this

"Microbial fuel cells, which use electrodes in dirt to power a small motor, have long been more or less a laboratory curiosity. Because they generate such a small amount of power, developing them to charge devices would not be practical in places where electricity is readily available. However, Lebônê Solutions, a startup based in Cambridge, MA, aims to use microbial fuel cells to provide power to Africans who are off the grid. In some parts of Africa, a small amount of energy is enough for a few hours of lamp light in the evening, or for powering the ubiquitous cell phones--something that some residents will walk five hours to a generator to do." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

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Space Junk: 12 Examples of Abandoned Space Technology

Thursday at 6:58 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Too bad the Buran never really took off, so to speak. Would've been nice to have more reusable space vehicles and some friendly competition to spur more innovation. - Kelly Fox

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Massive $208 million petascale computer gets green light

Thursday at 7:10 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"The 200,000 processor core system known as Blue Waters got the green light recently as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) said it has finalized the contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

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New music site gives fans a cut of tune sales

Thursday at 6:49 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Berkeley, Calif.-based Popcuts, which publicly launched its Web site in early August, charges users 99 cents per song. Thereafter, whenever someone else buys the same song, those who have already bought it get paid in credit that can be redeemed for more Popcuts music. The earlier you buy a song, the larger your cut of future sales. And while credit is currently the payment option, the site's founders hope to eventually pay users in cash, too." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

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Governor Sarah Palin Vlog #1

Tuesday at 3:16 pm - Link

Beware the expletive if viewing at work. - Kelly Fox

Carla Thompson posted a message

“What product do you use to take screencaps of various apps on your computer?”

Tuesday at 8:47 am - Link

Using built-in keyboard shortcuts (http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/...), you can easily grab screenshots of application windows, the entire desktop, or any selected portion of what's visible on your desktop. Oh wait, you don't have a Mac yet... :) - Kelly Fox

This is what I used to use on Windows systems: http://www.irfanview.com/ - Kelly Fox

If you have Vista there's a built-in app called the snipping tool that makes it easy to take screenshots (in the Start menu under Accessories). - Shannon Jiménez

Shannon - thank you! I didn't know that about Vista. Kelly, suck it. : ) - Carla Thompson

snagit - excellent app - riaz

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Many Eyes

September 1 at 2:43 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

A beta site "for shared visualization and discovery". (If using a Mac, best viewed with Safari.) - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

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Bloomberg mistakenly publishes Steve Jobs obituary

August 28 at 7:46 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

Whoops! - Kelly Fox

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Gene therapy for ultimate human running speed and strength

August 28 at 7:26 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Professor Peter Weyand, Southern Methodist University (Texas), known for his expertise in terrestrial locomotion and human and animal performance says that humans would soon have the ability to modify and greatly enhance muscle fibre strength. This would enable speeds of 45 miles per hour and 5 seconds times for 100 meters." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

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Red Eye Robot Belt Buckle

August 27 at 1:20 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

RAPatton, Evangeline, Mo Kargas, edythe and Adam Turetzky liked this

Best way to hold y our pants up EVER - Geoff Schultz via Bookmarklet

Seriously, you think that's better than the original NES belt buckle? http://nesbuckle.com/product-i... - Brooks Bishop

was there a belt buckle in that pictures? All I saw was yummy tummy. - Geoff Schultz

This might be a good argument to wear pants. - Kelly Fox

I have to have! Anything robots, just gotta! - Mo Kargas

I have that!!! I bought it last Easter!! - Amy Tureen

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BtBx Jam

August 27 at 7:17 am - Link

Joe Blair liked this

Really cool synth/sequencing app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. - Kelly Fox

The korg ds10 on the nds kicks this thing's ass. This app seems pretty limited. - Rafael Robayna

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Aaron Sorkin Announces New 'West Wing' Animated Series At SorCon | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

August 22 at 8:18 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"I'm excited to bring my Emmy Award–winning writing to the field of animation," Sorkin said in a speech before approximately 30,000 screaming fans, many of whom were dressed up in the business-suit costumes of their favorite Sorkin characters. "The costs of live-action production restricted me to a set only slightly larger than the actual White House and an ensemble cast of under 15 actors. But animation technology will enable us to provide fans with extended 40-minute walk-and-talks, digitally compressed dialogue for faster delivery, and a cast of over 70 main characters. My vision will finally be presented in its truest, most uncompromised form." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

Should I be embarrassed to say I'd watch it? I've been looking for something new and worthwhile to watch on TV. - Shellee

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Efficient technique enables thinking

August 20 at 8:00 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"It appears that nerve cells can also obtain information about their neighbours even without a synapse. Neurobiologists Christian Lohmann and Tobias Bonhoeffer from the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology have now explained how they do that. The scientists marked a number of nerve cells with fluorescent dyes, observed them under a special microscope and discovered the secret to how the information is exchanged: local calcium signals very quickly transmit all the necessary information to the cell. A synapse only actually develops when the cell and the contact point prove to be suitable candidates for long-term contact." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

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Technology Review: How Obama Really Did It

August 20 at 7:57 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

The social-networking strategy that took an obscure senator to the doors of the White House. - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

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Video: Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games

August 20 at 7:49 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Uh, wow. This is extremely realistic-looking. - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

creepy. really. really. creepy. - Shellee

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Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will?

August 18 at 9:22 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

I'm not sure if I chose to post this to Friendfeed or not. - Kelly Fox

I saw the title of this article before I saw who submitted and thought, "If Kelly didn't submit this, I'll eat my shoe." - Carla Thompson

:) - Kelly Fox

Holly Smith posted a message on Twitter

“@Traivor: I give a crap. Happy birthday.”

August 15 at 8:11 am - Link

Sounds like a terrible present to give for someone's birthday. Unless you really don't like them. - Kelly Fox

Depends on their tastes, i suppose...err, EW! - Joe Blair

Charlie Anzman posted a message

“Poll (Be honest ! :) What is your current start-up page set to?”

August 15 at 8:01 am - Link

Franklin Pettit, Mike Reynolds, Glenn Batuyong, Steve Spalding and 8 other people liked this

Google.com - Andy Murdoch

My daily list of tasks. - Kirk Kittell

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Andy - Google or iGoogle? - Charlie Anzman

about:blank - Mark Trapp

netvibes - Toby Graham

about:blank but I always restore the last Firefox session anyhow - Nathan Rein

about:blank - felix

Friendfeed! *puts head in hands*. It..took me by suprise - Mo Kargas

google with tabs to FF, Google Reader & AOL - Ruth Ferguson

http://today.ask.com - Bjorn Tipling

gmail | gcal | basecamp | friendfeed in FF3 - Morgan

My blog :P - Michael Forian

Google - Michelle Martinez

Friendfeed, LiveJournal, and my Email. - Nine - Like the number

Big G - AJ Batac

iGoogle - Eric @ CS Techcast

my.yahoo.com - MikeAmundsen

Firefox Google start page: http://www.google.com/firefox?... - Shey

iGoogle - Stellina

about:blank - Jordan Hofker

Remember the Milk - James Williams (willia4)

gotApi. as soon as I start firefox I load up gotApi, Gmail, Reader, FriendFeed and localhost:3000 all in tabs. - John Duff

FriendFeed/iGoogle - Brian Sullivan

It's dynamic for me. I have Firefox bring up my last session so it depends on what I had open last (usually 8-15 tabs) - Al Degutis

netvibes (one tab) friendfeed (another tab) - Sean Sharp

http://tech.walla.co.il - it's where I work - Didi Chanoch

about:blank - Lindsay Donaghe

about:blank or better my last session. everything else is oriented in my bookmark toolbar. - Nicole Simon

My homepage is my iGoogle. But, I have it set in Firefox where what ever tabs I had open in my last session are what open when I open FF. So it can pretty much be anything. - Mathew Ballard

gmail | reader | google analytics | in FF3 | w/twhirl on side - Peter Troast

empty page - Soulhuntre via twhirl

iGoogle, although, based on my Most Visited links, it should be FF. - Jason Toney

I always use a blank home page, but I have Firefox set to load my last set of tabs on startup. - Kelly Fox

thredr.com--which is something like TechMeme that I wrote, which tracks specific topics I'm most interested in. - Loren Heiny

porn site. - rambn via twhirl

Netvibes. I see some people open up lots of tabs, doesn't that cut down on concentration or productivity? I usually have quite a few open, but I start with one in the hope I won't open up a massive amount :) - Patrick Sweeney

about:blank - Steven Perez

netvibes - Simian DA (Amber)

Well... I admit it. So far one that I haven't visited in over a year - NetVibes. (That was the idea :) For the record, mine is Friendfeed with Duncan Riley's Greasemonkey scripts turned on for Gmail, RB, TechMeMe, Facebook, TechCrunch, Mashable and Disqus. Hmmm.... - Charlie Anzman

news.google.com - RAPatton

about:blank - Paul Whitaker

about:blank like it has been for years. - xero

@rambn which one? :) - Paul Whitaker

Thinkin' Yahoo hates me at the moment :) - Charlie Anzman

about:blank - Vinay | विनय

about:blank, though I always restore my previous windows at start up. - Evan Sims

Depending on browser and system it's either igoogle or nothing - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)

regator.com - Scott Lockhart

about:time:I:had:a:shower - Josh Haley

SEO & Tech Daily - Mike Fruchter

google - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

google reader actually - Pete Delucchi via fftogo

about:robots - Vezquex

blank: - John Cooper

about:blank - Wade Dorrell

my blog at home, about:blank at work - Carsten Ringe via twhirl

iGoogle - Denton Gentry

A few tabs: FF, then Gmail, then Google Docs, then Google Reader. - Evangeline

FriendFeed and Google Reader - David Cook

Home - boring FF google start page; Work: techmeme - Eric Berlin

four tabs: FF, GReader, Gmail, and Techmeme - Frederic

igoogle - Tad - just Tad via fftogo

iGoogle - richrecruiter

about: blank - Robert Seidman

blank - Mitchell Tsai

Google.com - Steve Spalding

FriendFeed - Hutch Carpenter

Yahoo - Outsanity

ff - Peter Dawson

speeddial FF3 extension. 8^D - Chieze Okoye

Google - Corvida

blank page. I'm a developer and i want my browser windows to open up quickly. - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl

Yahoo! Finance - Ricardo Rabago

Friendfeed, of course, I'm an obsessive and this is still the shinest toy. - susan mernit

iGoogle - Mike Reynolds

Gmail & Friendfeed - Bita

iGoogle - Les

Friendfeed or about:blank - Kevin Fox

about:blank forever! - Bwana McCall

Man this is getting almost as long as a Mona post! :) Kinda interesting. Little worried about the about:blank'ers :) - Charlie Anzman

iGoogle. - Trish R

about:blank with restore the last session - Dobromir Hadzhiev

protopage.com/virtuallin - perfect - Cheryl Allin via NoiseRiver

google - kamla bhatt

techmeme.com - ian kennedy

http://glemak.com/ - mike "glemak" dunn

google and youtube - Jax Dragon

Tabs: Friendfeed,Twitter, Gmail,Techmeme - Igor Poltavskiy

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Johnson & Johnson Introduces 'Nothing But Tears' Shampoo To Toughen Up Newborns | The Onion

August 15 at 8:18 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Jennifer Dittrich, Tad - just Tad and Carla Thompson liked this

"After decades of coddling young children, Johnson & Johnson unveiled its new "Nothing But Tears" shampoo this week, an aggressive bath-time product the company says will help to prepare meek and fragile newborns for the real world. A radical departure for the health goods manufacturer, the new shampoo features an all-alcohol-based formula, has never once been approved by leading dermatologists, and is as gentle on a baby's skin as "having to grow up and fend for your goddamn self."" - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

I love the Onion. I'd have its babies if that were possible and Lindsay didn't mind. ;) - Tad - just Tad

"The result of five years of intensive research and market testing, the company's "Nothing But Tears" shampoo contains only the most abrasive of natural ingredients and is nearly impossible to rinse from a baby's screaming face. According to directions printed on the label, the bath-time product is best used with scalding hot water for optimal toughening-up of newborns." - Tad - just Tad

Lindsay Donaghe posted a link

5ives » Five terrible fake astronomical pickup lines

August 15 at 8:04 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Kim, AlexScoble(Robert'sBro), Holger Eilhard, Tad - just Tad and 5 other people liked this

1. Ever wonder what’s happening under Orion’s belt? 2. Hop in my van, and I’ll show you something else that’s constantly expanding. 3. Was Democritus the first one to postulate your mysterious Milky Way? 4. I’d like to Sagittarius your Pisces, and that’s no Taurus. 5. How about we go outside and discover Uranus? - Lindsay Donaghe via Bookmarklet

What, no "big bang" references? :) - Kelly Fox

Last one is awful... - Michael Forian

I LOLed. - Lindsay Donaghe

"The Hubble's 52" diameter ain't got nothin' on me, baby!" - Tad - just Tad

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Networks of the Future: Extending Our Senses into the Physical World

August 14 at 9:48 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Like cell phones, wireless sensor networks depend on small, independently powered devices, often called motes, to communicate. But unlike cell phones, which always relay their signal through a base station such as a tower, multihop sensor motes use each other to relay signals, transmitting communiqués through a series of "hops" from one mote to the next. Without the need to build a mesh of base stations that must be wired or have a substantial supply of energy, creating information-bearing ad-hoc networks to suit each unique set of circumstances would significantly reduce costs." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

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Scientists to study synthetic telepathy

August 14 at 9:45 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Chuck Fishman, Dan Kaplan and Jennifer Dittrich liked this

"The brain-computer interface would use a noninvasive brain imaging technology like electroencephalography to let people communicate thoughts to each other. For example, a soldier would “think” a message to be transmitted and a computer-based speech recognition system would decode the EEG signals. The decoded thoughts, in essence translated brain waves, are transmitted using a system that points in the direction of the intended target." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

I would write a comment, but I think I'll just think it instead. Damn. - Dan Kaplan

Shellee favorited a video on YouTube

SICKBOY "SILENCE IN CONVERSATION" EXCLUSIVE!!!

August 13 at 6:39 pm - Link

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+1 for distorted bass guitar. - Kelly Fox

+100 for being from Dublin - Shellee

singularity: Kelly Fox posted a link

A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain

August 13 at 6:35 pm - via Reshare - Link

A hand holding a biological brain and a robot. The brain consists of a collection of neurons cultured on a Multi Electrode Array (MEA) which communicates and controls the robot via a Bluetooth connnection. Scientists in Britain announced that they had stitched together thousands of rat neurons into primitive brains capable of controlling the movement of robots. - Kelly Fox

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Measuring the 'Colbert Bump'

August 13 at 6:29 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Democratic politicians receive a 40% increase in contributions in the 30 days after appearing on the comedy cable show The Colbert Report. In contrast, their Republican counterparts essentially gain nothing. These findings appear to validate anecdotal evidence regarding the political impact of the program, such as the assertions by host Stephen Colbert that appearing on his program provides candidates with a "Colbert bump" or a rise in support for their election campaigns." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

Link to the original paper here: http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest... - Kelly Fox

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A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain

August 13 at 6:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"A hand holding a biological brain and a robot. The brain consists of a collection of neurons cultured on a Multi Electrode Array (MEA) which communicates and controls the robot via a Bluetooth connnection. Scientists in Britain announced that they had stitched together thousands of rat neurons into primitive brains capable of controlling the movement of robots." - Kelly Fox via Bookmarklet

Stitched together thousands of rat neurons...What do you say when someone asks what you do for a living and that's the answer? - Shellee

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