Christopher Galtenberg

"Here's the one-line summary of the Kindle DX: It's Kindle 2 with a larger screen, hair-trigger orientation sensor, and an awful keyboard. Seriously awful." - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

"High five, Tesla fans -- everyone's favorite incredibly controversial electric car company has just been granted $465m in loans from the Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program. The bulk of the money will go towards that postponed Model S factory, while the remaining $100m will be used to fund an electric powertrain manufacturing facility that will sell parts like motors and battery packs to other carmakers. Tesla wan't the DOE's only big winner: Nissan received $1.6b (billion!) to build batteries and EVs in Tennessee and Ford received an undisclosed amount to build two upcoming electric cars, but since those companies are have largely drama-free upper management that isn't constantly involved in lawsuits, it feels a little more routine. Still, it's an exciting time -- let's hope all these tax dollars turn into affordable, convenient electric transportation sooner rather than later." - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

"The digital age, Anderson argues, is exerting an inexorable downward pressure on the prices of all things “made of ideas.”" - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

"Anderson cautions that this philosophy of embracing the Free involves moving from a “scarcity” mind-set to an “abundance” mind-set. Giving something away means that a lot of it will be wasted. But because it costs almost nothing to make things, digitally, we can afford to be wasteful. The elaborate mechanisms we set up to monitor and judge the quality of content are, Anderson thinks,... more... - Christopher Galtenberg

Closest thing to Google Maps for Bikes that I've found... - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

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"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that they will be expanding the Best Picture category from a meager five nominees to a full whopping TEN nominees. The announcement was made at a press conference in Beverly Hills today." - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

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App is called Paintbrush - link: http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/screens... - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

“That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them,” Harrington wrote. “They are not simply neglected and forgotten. . . . What is much worse, they are not seen.” - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

"This is the disease of modern democracy: the system cannot impose any short-term pain for long-term gain." - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

"The world economy had become the equivalent of a race car—faster and more complex than any vehicle anyone had ever seen. But it turned out that no one had driven a car like this before, and no one really knew how. So it crashed. The real problem is that we're still driving this car. The global economy remains highly complex, interconnected and im-balanced." - Christopher Galtenberg

"More broadly, the fundamental crisis we face is of globalization itself. We have globalized the economies of nations. Trade, travel and tourism are bringing people together. Technology has created worldwide supply chains, companies and customers. But our politics remains resolutely national. This tension is at the heart of the many crashes of this era—a mismatch between interconnected economies that are producing global problems but no matching political process that can effect global solutions." - Christopher Galtenberg

With release 1.2.3 of the Python SDK, we are psyched to present an exciting new feature - the Task Queue API. You can now perform offline processing on App Engine by scheduling bundles of work (tasks) for automatic execution in the background. You don't need to worry about managing threads or polling - just write the task processing code, queue up some input data, and App Engine handles the rest. If desired, you can even organize and control task execution by defining custom queues. - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

"You've likely seen updates in the past week about the transition of gaia.com to a new cluster/server host. Well every single piece and every moving part had to somehow be moved by human hands, and I'll tell you... they were the best hands this site could be in. This entry is pretty much a paean to Jesse and Stephen, and all of BlueBoxGroup -- the new home for gaia.com." - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

The city is buying up houses in more affluent areas to offer people in neighbourhoods it wants to demolish. Nobody will be forced to move, said Mr Kildee. "Much of the land will be given back to nature. People will enjoy living near a forest or meadow," he said. Mr Kildee acknowledged that some fellow Americans considered his solution "defeatist" but he insisted it was "no more defeatist than pruning an overgrown tree so it can bear fruit again" - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet

"Children are exceptions to the country’s work ethic" - Christopher Galtenberg via Bookmarklet