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"It is a part of the bitter undercurrent of Asian-American life that meritocracy comes to an abrupt end after graduation." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

I'm not saying I haven't met people who exhibited a lot of the issues talked about in the article, I just think it's a limited perspective. I actually think the end of the article gets closer to my, my siblings, and a lot of my friends' experiences: we're doing fine, if people have a problem with us, that's their issue. - Victor Ganata

Wrapper script for git makes common github operations easier - Nelson Minar

Apparently it's an art piece, not something on a menu. Too bad! - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"Physical Pizza Networking Theory is meant to address the ontology of the social as material in art. Using mise en abyme to illuminate a relationship between the layers of material and our experience, and meta symbolic experience of pizza as a hearth, as meeting point, as cultural convergence, as party, as sculpture, as gift, as collage, as pie, and individuals as ingredients within... more... - ⓞnor

Yes, it's quite the description. - Andrew C (✓)

"Have you ever wanted to know whether a mouse is in pain? Of course you have. And now you can, thanks to Langford et al's paper Coding of facial expressions of pain in the laboratory mouse. It turns out that mice, just like people, display a distinctive "Ouch!" facial expression when they're suffering acute pain. It consists of narrowing of the eyes, bulging nose and cheeks, ears pulled back, and whiskers either pulled back or forwards. With the help of a high-definition video camera and a little training, you can reliably and accurately tell how much pain a mouse is feeling. It works for most kinds of mouse pain, although it's not seen in either extremely brief or very long-term pain." - Alexander Kruel from Bookmarklet

Subtitle: It took 19 scientists to figure out that a mouse's face changes when it is in pain. - Jon McAlister

"Address numbering schemes can vary a lot from place to place in the United States. In some cities the system is straightforward enough that by knowing a street number you can know approximately, if not exactly, the location of that address. In some other places… well, luckily addresses are all geocoded and easy to search for these days." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Happy Birthday, Jim!! - Anne Bouey

Happy birthday, Jim! - dominic

I wish I knew in advance when my hump birthday was. Probably happened already. Scary. - Paul Haahr

Thanks guys. :-) - Daniel Dulitz

A bit last minute but still pretty. - Daniel Dulitz from email

I think it was last year that I got an artificial tree. Didn't get the artificial tree out this year. - Sue - Friendfeed is best

Where is this from? Wamu? I can see my building :) - James Prudente

thanks a ton! We are excited about it :) - Elad from email

"Using ultrasound to examine the vessels leading in and out of the brain, Dr. Zamboni made a startling find: In more than 90 per cent of people with multiple sclerosis, including his spouse, the veins draining blood from the brain were malformed or blocked. In people without MS, they were not. He hypothesized that iron was damaging the blood vessels and allowing the heavy metal, along with other unwelcome cells, to cross the crucial brain-blood barrier. (The barrier keeps blood and cerebrospinal fluid separate. In MS, immune cells cross the blood-brain barrier, where they destroy myelin, a crucial sheathing on nerves.) More striking still was that, when Dr. Zamboni performed a simple operation to unclog veins and get blood flowing normally again, many of the symptoms of MS disappeared. The procedure is similar to angioplasty, in which a catheter is threaded into the groin and up into the arteries, where a balloon is inflated to clear the blockages. His wife, who had the surgery three years ago, has not had an attack since." - bob from Bookmarklet

Amazing. - Paul Buchheit

Cool - Dan owns Comicsforge.com

Yep, it's only us now. - Daniel Dulitz from iPhone

that is the cutest thing i've ever seen - Marissa

awwwwww! - Alex

<<dies>> --> - rowlikeagirl

I'll start. I'm enjoying playing with my Pogoplug, which turns any USB hard drive into a network hard drive that you can access from the web anywhere in the world. pogoplug.com - Matt Cutts

My new netbook! - Stephanie

?! - Jim Norris

Congrats! - Brandon Titus

We're slowly getting the band back together! :-) - Kevin Fox

extended thoughts on Inform 7 and why existing languages don't work well for IF [via] - Andy Baio

This is interesting, I'll have to read it more closely later. His criticisms of rule based languages in general mirror my own -- not sure about his proposed precedence system (but then, neither is he), but it's an interesting idea. Wasn't there some wacky language where you would use actual charts to describe the interactions between rules? - ⓞnor

the hard problem of coding up systems with many exceptional cases that he describes reminds me of trying to write elegant code for arbitrary business logic, and for GUIs - Karl Rosaen

I was inspired by this photo (http://www.flickr.com/photos...) to take some pictures of water drops on a DVD. Fun! - Amit Patel

Brain-dead quests, arbitrary achievements, pointless upgrades, autoplay, and story grinding. Five of my least favorite game mechanics, exposed by parody games. - Rob Shillingsburg

This has been quite a real gem. Put in words (and not many at that) some of what my friends and I have been bickering about lately. Great find! - Federico Figueredo

"Co-founder Elad Gil says that TownMe is still in “very, very early stages”, so there are still many features to come, but the core of the site seems to be in place, with local reviews and guides available for plenty of restaurants and events like San Francisco’s street fairs" - Simon from Bookmarklet

hey do you still have your zsh files as examples on your site? - Rob Schonberger

http://www.algorithm.com.au/downloa... - andrep

Woot, thanks! - Rob Schonberger