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Wow. - Peter Murray

Yep - Andrew Whitis

Done! http://www.teachinglibrarian.org/weblog... - Stephen Francoeur

Good heavens! - Peter Murray

"At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all." - Peter Murray

"A panicked tea-bagger called up C-SPAN in tears today, worried that he accidentally killed Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe by praying for Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd to die. This is one of the saddest things ever to appear on C-SPAN." - Kendra <3 Three Lions from Bookmarklet

It is a big country, with lots of weird viewpoints. Please just someone tell me that there are enough sane people 'round here to offset this segment of our citizens... - Peter Murray

Designing for the web, not for print: "When I first presented my designs to Mike and Sam, I showed them a Web page made with HTML and CSS in their respective browsers and not a picture of a Web page. By showing neither a static image of my design, I set none of the false expectations that, by definition, a static Photoshop or Fireworks visual would have established." - Peter Murray

25 cents, plus how much in late charges? Did you offer to wave someone's library fines as a quid pro quo? - Peter Murray from BuddyFeed

A wildlife biologist for airports? Sounds like a cool job. - Peter Murray

hmmmm - VAL D. Zone

Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) is to be sold to EQT (www.eqt.se), a Swedish private equity (PE) firm, and GIC, a PE fund backed by the government of Singapore (www.gic.com.sg). The deal is expected to close by late January or early February 2010. - Joe

This happened like a week ago. Surprised I didn't hear of it till today. The email started -- "As you all probably know..." - Joe

Last time I bought a printer I was pleased to find how far prices had dropped... then my wife explained the "business model" to me. - Bill Hooker

Also, we usually don't factor in all the test, cleaning and aligning pages that waste a considerable amount of ink. - Paulo Nuin

More on the business model from Network World: "What's Cheaper: Replacement Ink, or a New Printer?" http://www.networkworld.com/news... - Peter Murray

"In the right hands, high dynamic range imaging can blend multiple exposures of the same scene to more closely reproduce what your eye can see. Here's how to do HDR the right way. So when should you use HDR? It's simple: when you're trying to capture a scene with a wide range between its lightest and darkest areas (aka dynamic range) as accurately as possible. Your camera's sensor can only capture a small portion of the light that your eye can take in and process, so to make up for that, HDR images are created by combining the pixel information from several pictures into one 32-bit Voltron-file that contains the full dynamic range of each of the individual shots used to create it." - Peter Murray

Hmmm -- I find myself in the upper right and lower left sections of this picture. - Peter Murray

Yes, It does seem to assume that one can only be one kind of "fanboy" - DJF

During my morning ritual of combing through comment spam on my WordPress blog, I ran across this gem. I mean, really, is this a common search term? Pardon me if I don't actually visit "stoolhealth.com" ... - Peter Murray

"A hacker broke into a computer server at the North Carolina Community College System, gaining access to the personal information of 51,000 people, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported on Thursday. The breach occurred at a library server in Raleigh, North Carolina, in August. System officials say the server contains driver's license and Social Security information used to track library materials at 46 community-college libraries." - Peter Murray

hoo boy. I'll have to ask my sister about this. wtf are they doing using those numbers anyway? - D0r0th34

Somebody deep-froze snowflakes and put them under a scanning electron microscope. Stunning images. - Peter Murray

Hmmm -- "Additional details of the settlement were not announced." -- I think there is more to the story. - Peter Murray

Hmmm -- a none-of-the-above, but considering the head-shot. - Peter Murray from BuddyFeed

Ha - I'm the in your face tightly cropped one. And I've done the half-face shot, too. Getting to be time to update my profile pic! David Lee King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog twitter | skype: davidleeking - David Lee King from email

I had never considered the possibility of wiping my posterior region while standing up. And considering it now, I can't imagine how this is possible? Clearly experimentation will be needed. - Peter Murray from BuddyFeed

Nice -- although I'm from the web design camp that believes fluid designs are much better than fixed-width ones. - Peter Murray from BuddyFeed

I have 8 invites that I haven't been able to get rid of. - josh neff, geek at large

Actually, Rochelle, Beanie Babies is better: Highly desired at one point, not so much later on. I don't remember any time that AOL CDs were highly desired... - Walt Crawford

Yeah, but waiting for more info: "Many researchers are registered in ResearcherID. Thomson Reuters will prepare FAQs to help delineate ResearcherID from the new Open Initiative. Please check back soon." Their ResearcherID was mired in appearances of proprietarity. - Peter Murray

"Every time Project Honey Pot receives a message we estimate that another 125,000 are sent to real victims. Our billionth message represents approximately 125 trillion spam messages that have been sent since Project Honey Pot started in 2004. At this milestone, we wanted to take a second to report some of our findings. Our goal is not to rehash the same old insights but instead to give a new picture that only looking at five years and a billion data points can produce." - Peter Murray

"When chiropractors use spinal manipulation therapy for symptomatic relief of mechanical low back pain, they are employing an evidence-based method also used by physical therapists, doctors of osteopathy, and others. When they do “chiropractic adjustments” to correct a “subluxation” for other conditions, especially for non-musculoskeletal conditions or “health maintenance,” they are employing a non-scientific belief system that is no longer viable. As the authors of this paper indicate, the subluxation construct must go. And without the subluxation, the whole rationale for chiropractic collapses, leaving chiropractors no justifiable place in modern medical care except as competitors of physical therapists in providing treatment of certain musculoskeletal conditions." - Peter Murray from Bookmarklet

just don't mess with my PTs, that's all. PTs are teh amazing. - D0r0th34

Chiropracty can be divided into "the things that PTs and massage therapists do", and "the whackjob stuff". (which latter includes, claiming that spinal manipulations shown to cause strokes will actually prevent measles. - DJF

only four major multi-bookings of "must attend" events so far?! - awd

it's an extra-$$$ thing, Peter, so don't pay unless you really really wanna be there. I'm just curious. - D0r0th34

"The suit charges each of the defendants with selling products containing BusyBox in violation of the terms of its license, the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)." - Peter Murray

I like this because it equates the use of social media to telling a story. That applies not just to Facebook, as in this case, but in any use of social media. - Peter Murray

Visitors to my house are either mildly amused or majorly annoyed at the 32-character WPA2 password I use on my home hub... - Peter Murray from BuddyFeed

Sarah, all my neighbors are locked! I can only steal from the neighbors when I go visit my mom. - Jàson Puçkett

I like Raffi's early stuff. - s t e v e

Do not disparage Bananaphone. - David Rothman (☤)

Have you seen some of the highway merges on older Penna roads? 30 feet to come up to speed or stop. Really. - Peter Murray from BuddyFeed

Infomaki is an open source “lightweight” usability testing tool developed by the New York Public Library to evaluate new designs for the NYPL.org web site and uncover insights about our patrons. Designed from the ground up to be as respectful of the respondents’ time as possible, it presents respondents with a single question at a time from a pool of active questions. In just over seven months of use, it has fielded over 100,000 responses from over 10,000 respondents. - Peter Murray

So what are the key conditions for open-source hegemony? * Attacking very large markets, not niche ones. * The average customer’s technical requirements are over-satisfied by the incumbent. * Standards are broad enough to reduce vendor pricing power and induce commoditization. With the proper business model, an open-source vendor can exploit these conditions to make their software “go viral.” The vendor wants their software to be ubiquitous so that users get comfortable with it, test it in labs, and begin to fold it into their longer-term IT strategies. The primary goal is a worldwide user community. What capitalists often miss is that every free download is not a lost sale; it’s an advertisement on steroids, a deeply powerful method of engaging a sales prospect. And it was free of marketing cost. - Peter Murray