RT @big_spiders: @geekandahalf Don't know if you're a dog person or not,but i feel like yourself and this fella could b great friends :) http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_Skxzn...
It took me 1.5-years to get RSS after Dave Winer first showed it to me. So, I am getting faster. Took me just a few months to get friendfeed. Glad you kept after me.
- Robert Scoble
So how do I access it? <---I take that back. Didn't realize what I was looking at when I went to the site.
- Mattie Kenny
Josh: it was a seasonal thing last year at this time, so it is no longer possible. We may have to bring it back by popular demand, but for now the entries you see are all from last year.
- Bret Taylor
Bret - bring back those cute little red icons next to the FF posts! easy seasonal "flair" feature!
- Susan Beebe
"Just like everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day and all the world is in love on Valentine’s Day, everybody is part Cajun on Mardi Gras. True, is it not cherè? Maybe it is the colors that draw us in, the rich purple and green, the flashes of bright gold. Perhaps it is the freedom of a little wine and a lot of good food that calls our spirits. True Mardi Gras has nothing to do with inebriated co-eds flashing their …er… um… cupcakes to earn beads. It is a family-based FREE celebration of joy, fellowship and heritage."
- Katy S
from Bookmarklet
My cousin, who is from New Orleans, is just sick. I, on the other hand, still will not wash in #SOPA, so I cannot watch them, or even any NFL teams I actually care about.
"The world’s smallest magnetic data storage unit is made of just 12 atoms, squeezing an entire byte into just 96 atoms, a significant shrinkage in the world of information storage. It’s not a quantum computer, but it’s a computer storage unit at the quantum scale. By contrast, modern hard disk drives use about a million atoms to store a single bit, and a half billion atoms per byte. Until now, it was unclear how many (or how few) atoms would be needed to build a reliable, lasting memory bit, the basic piece of information that a computer understands. Researchers at IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science decided to start from the ground up, building a magnetic memory bit atom-by-atom. They used a scanning tunneling microscope to create regular patterns of iron atoms aligned in rows of six each. They found two rows was enough to securely store one bit, and eight pairs of rows was enough to store a byte. (...) “If you take a single atom, you have to look at quantum mechanics when you describe its behavior,” (...)"
- Amira
from Bookmarklet
10^80 atoms in the universe, so after FF -- we need to start digesting 10^78 bits of information :-)
- Adriano
According to Wolfram it's 1,25 X 10^68 GB of information... I'll better stay with my 1 to 3 posts a day... ;-) Take a look also here (article from yesterday): 'Scientists Create World's Tiniest Ear' -- "Have you ever wondered what a virus sounds like? Or what noise a bacterium makes when it moves between hosts? If the answer is yes, you may soon get your chance to find out" http://news.sciencemag.org/science...
- Amira
That's insanely detailed, you can see the detail of the compound eyes, amazing
- Halil
The photographer says, "The image above is a manual focus stack of two images taken at f/11 with an SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/2.0 prime lens reversed to a set of extension tubes on a Pentax K200D." I don't know what that last part means. He mounted the lens backwards? At any rate, the other photos of it, are also pretty wonderful.
- Anika
Yeah, if you mount a lens backwards, it can focus at much closer distances. Of course, by doing that you lose a lot of the lens's automatic features. There are adapters for reversing lenses.
- John (bird whisperer)
Looking at me learning something new. I had no idea. Now, I want to play with my 50mm.
- Anika
and the extension tubes give even more macro ability. this does make want to play with the reverse mounted 50 again...
- Michael W. May
video by the same guy, you may have already watched it, but I only came across it last night, enjoy: An Introduction to High-Magnification Macro Photography of Arthropods http://thomasshahan.com/otherpa...
- Halil