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So all the music was just the sound of the Death Star booting up. Nice Find - Ben Shoemate

More companies are using the free-cycles of their graphic designers to create infographic advertisements. Education for you, viral marketing for them. - Ben Shoemate

Mexico based designer - Ben Shoemate

Only the BP spills coffee one is funny, very very funny - Ben Shoemate

I remember reading somewhere that the ultimate purpose of life is consume and covert free energy. By that standard, the purpose of intelligent life (expressed in humans) would be to uncover and consume difficult to reach energy stores (such as oil and other hydro-carbons) - it's good to see this model is being played out elsewhere. Where there is energy, there is life. Burn baby burn. - Ben Shoemate

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog... - Robert Scoble

Just saw this post randomly. Hope things are well. - Janis Krums

I imagine that to make sure this pesticide is truly safe to use, scientists will make sure no other animal makes use of these pathways...right? - Ben Shoemate

Isn't this the same guy that justified invading Iraq by saying "Saddam is a madman who tortures people". As far as I'm concerned, America turned its back on torture in 1776 and I'm not willing to go back. This is a principle worth fighting for. Today they may only torture the people "suspected" of being terrorist, tomorrow it will be those suspected of maybe knowing a terrorist, then it will just be people they don't like. Being free comes with a price - that price is tolerating and protecting freedom in others. No one is free if they are afraid that their own government has a flexible policy on pre-conviction punishment and torture. Imagine a world where your afraid to speak or even start a business that might compete with an established and corrupt corporation with powerful friends. Somehow, your name "accidentally" ended up on a terror suspect list. Under our system before Cheney, your just held and inconvenienced while your name is cleared. After Cheney you may be tortured to... - Ben Shoemate

I've seen this before but didn't know this toilet was in Houston, I'll have to check it out. - Ben Shoemate

In my dream office, when I'm on a video conference call, this is what people would see in the background. - Ben Shoemate

I have always wondered about how a sewing machine works...even after watching this graphic I still don't think I could explain it very well. - Ben Shoemate

I think its important to read the comments on this one as it seems the author might have gotten it wrong. - Ben Shoemate

Someone needs to do this in Atlanta and add the little Airplane symbol to all the signs going to the airport - I miss the turn every time. - Ben Shoemate

very interesting read - Ben Shoemate

wow....just wow. Really inspirational. At a time when google is growing ever more omnipresent in our lives with access to most (if not all) of our digital lives on their servers and thus operating with more trust than what we allot the government and often more than we give our friends and families if you really think about (people will google questions they wont talk about with anyone after all) - it is a great feeling to know that perhaps that trust was not completely misguided. Google is big, but they are not as big as China. They will most likely lose this battle and it will cost them. Microsoft and others will be tempted to capitalize on Google's losses. But I hope they don't. I'd like to see corporate might facilitate the peaceful revolution we all hope for. Today - I Support google! - Ben Shoemate

I'm really surprised to see Houston above DC I would have thought Houston really much lower ... I guess times have changed in the last 5 years... - Ben Shoemate

This is a copy of this chart which has more info http://themessthatgreenspanmad... also remember this does not show the services industry which is where most people work. Manufacture jobs decline with machines while gov grows with the population... - Ben Shoemate

It's funny cause its so true. - Ben Shoemate

IE 9 - and I just debugged another app to work with IE 6...again. sigh... - Ben Shoemate

This is one of the best ideas I have see this year. Really smart. - Ben Shoemate

WTF!? How can something so meaningless have such great graphics? - Ben Shoemate

I was actually thinking about memory over the weekend. It seems to me that our mind uses language to "objectify" the present into words. Once our surroundings are broken up into objects, a narrative is stored in our minds as a memory. If a memory has no corollary to a present object, for example if you see something once, but then never see anything like it again and can not describe it with words, it is be difficult to retain in memory. Once it's described with words, you can remember the words which are a low bandwidth recipe to recreate the event. Since words are reusable, they take up less space than storing the experience itself. We always imagine robots as having high-bandwidth memory. That is, a detailed audio-visual-tactical recording that can be replayed in high fidelity. But that would take a lot of space, and the memories would not actually be adding to intelligence since they would be of no use to understand other events, to compare and contrast until they are broken down... - Ben Shoemate

Everyone needs to watch this video to help understand why we need healthcare reform to change the way doctors and hospitals make money - not based on the quality of services, but the quality of health. - Ben Shoemate

Is it just me, or does the "flexible path" plan sound like a recommendation to build a starship Enterprise. - Ben Shoemate

Here is a disturbing trend that is sure to catch on - selling the land your family is buried on. - Ben Shoemate

If any one is looking for gift ideas for me - bookmark this. - Ben Shoemate

This is why I pay taxes - go get'em boys! - Ben Shoemate

I think this blogger misses the point that these images ARE very similar. And as a sub-set of the larger set are dead on. - Ben Shoemate

Moral of the story - don't go to Dubai. - Ben Shoemate

I love it. LOL - Ben Shoemate