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"I watched a whole bunch of it, and it's so on point - but that voice he does the whole time.... ouch." - Colin Ashe

How exactly is this different from what the Whole Earth Catalogue generation did, also en masse (with more hippie grease and teepees)? - Colin Ashe

"It's just a little shocking to see such huge disregard for such an important principle - but then again, maybe all it really does is serve simultaneously as explanation and consequence of CNN's chief loser ranking in cable news ratings." - Colin Ashe

"Hey, thanks – I had been wondering about the context of that quote." - Colin Ashe

"oh hey now. (maybe *safari* is to blame here...)" - Colin Ashe

"#NewFavoriteGermanWord." - Colin Ashe

"Downloaded it the other day – it's like listening to a video game soundtrack that you can't quite place with a specific memory, or listening in to some alternate universe where 8-bit gaming turned into a forum for some seriously strange art. I'm a fan :)" - Colin Ashe

"Was about to make fun of you for reblogging another self-referencing post, but i see you snagged it before i slipped in your attribution - my bad :)" - Colin Ashe

"Ah, nevermind the typo, I'm just OCD enough to correct it in passive-aggressive quotation driveby :) Where'd you hear that they're upset they're not getting enough credit? I actually think the idea that he/we rallied anyone is a bit overblown. The Cairo speech was good in a much-needed, "Hey, we don't actually want to bomb your deserts to glass," kind of way, but it was a far cry from HW Bush's rallying of Iraqis in Gulf War 1. What worries me is your closing question, regardless of who rallied who. All the elements of the ridiculously overhyped web aspect of the protests – twitter, youtube et al – while transformative, are incredibly fragile. Iran basically bought their networks from Nokia and Siemens wholesale, and didn't quite have a lid on it. But how many videos, how many tweets, how many accounts of any kind have leaked out of Xinjiang? Or, for that matter, from Sri Lanka?" - Colin Ashe

""...the [reckless] impact of the Cairo speech." really...?" - Colin Ashe

All known life forms need carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and an energy source to live. Plants need nitrogen, but can’t just pull it from the atmosphere and start using it to make amino acids. Instead, they rely on archaea for that task. Interconnections like these form the basis of an ecosystem, often cheesily called the ‘web of life’. What makes D. audaxviator so special is that its genome, cobbled together from bacterial and archaeal genes, can carry out all life’s functions by itself. - Colin Ashe

what? Authors should pay $3,000 if they want Open Access for making their stuff publicly available for others? Not sure I understand. Do you? - Attila Csordas

"the OA/author pays model" -- just to clarify, OA and "author side fees" (a more accurate term) are two different things. The majority of OA journals don't charge any author side fees (though the best known ones, PLoS and BMC, do), whereas many toll-access journals charge page and color fees in addition to their subscriptions. For details see Peter's comments here: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters... - Bill Hooker

"Huh, so I guess using chunks of now public-domain books is a (charming) way of slipping past spam filters? I was secretly hoping the spambot was actually creating its own works of fiction." - Colin Ashe

"Best thing is: this video is actually being promoted by Rep. Barton's office as a sort of victory." - Colin Ashe

"god i want to watch that now." - Colin Ashe

"You bastard." - Colin Ashe

"Haha, judging by your chosen disqus name I'd say that's not a 'maybe' at all." - Colin Ashe

"Oh, very serious. Actually, digging through search.twitter.com, I couldn't find any of them - and indeed it looks like the Powers That Be have caught on: http://twitter.com/wheeepo... both redirect to the Owl of silence. But yeah, for example, I tweeted this: http://twitter.com/colinas... and received a "wooooo BACON!" from someone. Twitter is weird." - Colin Ashe

"Oh, very serious. Actually, digging through search.twitter.com, I couldn't find any of them - and indeed it looks like the Powers That Be have caught on: http://twitter.com/wheeepo... both redirect to the Owl of silence. But yeah, for example, I tweeted this: http://twitter.com/colinas... and received a "wooooo BACON!" from someone. Twitter is weird." - Colin Ashe

"Where is this?" - Colin Ashe

"Fuck yeah." - Colin Ashe

"Was Twitter ever the pub? :)" - Colin Ashe

"Ouch, that could be nice enough to make me migrate back to google reader from netnewswire! Again." - Colin Ashe

another guerilla gardening how-to... "Seed balls are simply scattered direct onto ground, and not planted. They could be useful for seeding dry, thin and compacted soils and for reclaiming derelict ground. This method takes a fraction of the time or cost of other methods to cover large areas and is also very applicable in small areas..." - Colin Ashe

how-to for a guerilla gardening technique - Colin Ashe

"Ah, the good ole home state comes through every time. Unless you're trying to assemble a (not liquor) cabinet." - Colin Ashe

"I thought the Sparks were all gone!" - Colin Ashe

a sort of private group twitter / easy-access groupware. calendar, polls, mass txt/voice/emails, file hosting, conference calls, chatrooms. free. - Colin Ashe

"Shit, man, you have to stop posting these things. :P She's gonna start haunting my dreams!" - Colin Ashe

"Hah! Good full post-reading skills, me. For some reason I did think it had already briefly closed down or something, though. <shrugs>" - Colin Ashe