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"Using tissue grown in a laboratory, researchers have engineered fully functional replacement penises. The organs were made for rabbits, but the technique may someday be useful for people. “This technology has considerable potential for patients requiring penile construction,” wrote researchers in a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Sometimes a "like" is just a "like"? - Louis Gray

love! - Ashwin Bharambe

Quite useful for some. :) - Daniel Schildt

Yay! - Simon

No. Start from an AbstractBaseRepresentationClassFactory. - Private Sanjeev

Or you could do what we all did before the Java "community" went apeshit will all that stuff, and write the same kinds of classes you would if you were sitting down to write Python or whatever :) - Joel Webber

I barely use classes with Python any more, closures are much nicer. - Jim Norris

Shhh, don't tell Robert Scoble. - Kenton

Or have a substantive discussion about LOLcats. - Jim Norris

"Levitt and Dubner tell the horseshit story as a prelude to discussing climate change: “Just as equine activity once threatened to stomp out civilization, there is now a fear that human activity will do the same.” As usual, they say, the anxiety is unwarranted. First, the global-warming threat has been exaggerated; there is uncertainty about how, exactly, the earth will respond to rising CO2 levels, and uncertainty has “a nasty way of making us conjure up the very worst possibilities.” Second, solutions are bound to present themselves: “Technological fixes are often far simpler, and therefore cheaper, than the doomsayers could have imagined.”" - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet

"Given their emphasis on cold, hard numbers, it’s noteworthy that Levitt and Dubner ignore what are, by now, whole libraries’ worth of data on global warming. Indeed, just about everything they have to say on the topic is, factually speaking, wrong." - Simon