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Sorry guys, no beacon inside :) - Jérôme Flipo

Oh, now that's an interesting idea, Karen. - Graham Steel

karen, yes. The idea being you give them the text and they do whatever they like with the formatting. - Mr. Gunn

But Zee. You're gonna get all this yucky sweat on the MBP. I really don't want you want that. It's kinda gross. - John Wang

I would bust my arse if I tried to exercise while on my computer - Shevonne

An interesting attempt to establish a virtual market associated to scientific publications. - Michael Nielsen

"Human geneticists have reached a private crisis of conscience, and it will become public knowledge in 2010. The crisis has depressing health implications and alarming political ones. In a nutshell: the new genetics will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more than feared about human evolution and inequality, including genetic differences between classes, ethnicities and races." - Fulaan, inna Hebel from Bookmarklet

Uh-Oh... - Christopher Harley

Assuming it's legit, he was 20 years old at the time. Very sweet. - Sprague D from Bookmarklet

wow :) - Hüseyin Mert

it looks like semantic mediawiki? - Mike Chelen

here is a guide to import data (TSV, tab separated values) to Semantic MediaWiki with a script: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki... and some extensions for XML import: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki... - Mike Chelen

"The Portable Chicken Coop covers less ground space than other chicken coops. As well as space efficiency, the covered run gives both hens and costly feed good weather protection. The traditional design satisfies your natural instincts, allowing them to go up at night to roost. The coop has one full-length door allowing easy access to the lower run for feeding and watering and lets chickens exit and roam free. The nesting box, located at one end of the ark, has its own external egg collection door. A removable side door allows for easy cleaning of the upper roosting chamber. All Chicken Arks come with sturdy carrying handles for easy portability. Moved every couple of days, your chickens will mow and fertilize your lawn." - edythe from Bookmarklet

A common programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet. I offer a solution, in the form of the following regex pattern: \b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/))) This pattern should work in most modern regex implementations. I can vouch for it working in Perl, Ruby, and with the PCRE regex library (which in turn means it works in PHP and BBEdit, both of which use PCRE). This pattern attempts to be practical. It makes no attempt to parse URLs according to any official specification. It isn’t limited to predefined URL protocols. It should be clever about things like parentheses and trailing punctuation. - Ho John Lee

The Ubuntu and Debian EC2 images published on http://alestic.com allow you to send in a startup script using the EC2 user-data parameter when you run a new instance. This functionality is useful for automating the installation and configuration of software on EC2 instances. - Deepak Singh

I used this feature last year - it's really handy to be able to pass a script to "apt-get install" various things after startup. In my case I also pulled a BLAST database from s3 using s3cmd. - Andrew Perry

user-data scripts are compatible with official ubuntu amis, and can be used to boot strap other startup utilities like runurl - Mike Chelen

Is this a symptom of writing software for publication and then moving on? - Michael Barton

Isn't it similar to the evolutionary selection, with academics having a set of "pressures" different from those needed to develop #1-type software? Once the paper gets published, there is no pressure for researcher to improve the code, and things remain "good enough". While in a commercial setting there is always strong pressure from the side of the customer/competition, which drives the development further. I.e. to solve the problem one needs to bring some kind of pressure element to the academic setting. - Yaroslav Nikolaev

"Since 1953, when the first issue of the magazine appeared with an interview of E. M. Forster, our Q&A encounters with the great writers of our times have come to be recognized as a sort of literary genre unto themselves: the Paris Review interview." - T. Brent, technopeasant from Bookmarklet

And they all talk craft. And Hemmingway talks about his slippers. A lot. Weird. - T. Brent, technopeasant

We first started work on it almost 8 years ago. It has come a long way since then :) - Paul Buchheit

Joel, you're just not man enough to handle a language where 'top' is an implicitly reserved keyword, and 'undefined' which should be, isn't. But it could be worse, 'null' could be something you could override. :) - Ray Cromwell

I am inclined to submit a proposal for a session on Open Science. If any of you plan to go there or wish to contribute to the session, let me know. - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Still, if any of you would like to join the session remotely (or perhaps even physically), please let us know. - Daniel Mietchen

"When Harry S. Truman was sworn in to office, his poker buddies from the previous war were afraid he might stop playing now that he had been "promoted." They need not have worried. The new chief executive even requisitioned a set of chips embossed with the presidential seal for use in the White House, though he tried to avoid being photographed gambling on its premises. The prudes of America would put up with only so much. Truman had learned to play cards from his aunt Ida and uncle Harry on their Missouri farm back in the 1890s. In a letter to Bess Wallace, the woman he was courting, in February 1911, the sincere 26-year-old suitor wrote, "I like to play cards and dance . . . and go to shows and do all the things [religious people] say I shouldn't, but I don't feel badly about it."" - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"hroughout his 88 years, Truman used poker as both a personal and political means of expression. His motto, "The buck stops here," refers to the dealer's button or placeholder, because during the 19th century hunting knives with buckhorn handles often served that function. It was the president's folksy way of letting Americans know he was responsible for what happened on his watch. That... more... - RAPatton