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Want. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

No, I'm the White Swan! (a good natured reference to Penguina Ballerina:) - sofarsoShawn

LOL. - Eivind

Huh. Interesting. - Jenny H from Android

appalled is also with double l, honey. what is wrong with you guys and the poor letter L today?? - grizabella

Fantastic infographic illustrating the rise and thrall of sci fi - Maitani

Awesome! - mina_sydney

Review of some article text extraction methods that leverage on machine learning, statistics and a wide rage of heuristics: Boilerpipe, Maximum Subsequence Segmentation, Text-to-Tag Ratio, and VIPS: a Vision based Page Segmentation Algorithm. #scrape - Adriano from Bookmarklet

Photos by Michael Galinksy, No... make that *awesome* photos by Michael Galinsky. - Mark H from Bookmarklet

I'm saving goatee pictures for the 2020 edition. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Or at least your bowels aren't relaxed - Christopher Galtenberg

If an app tweets in the forest and no-one follows it, does the app exist? - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

via http://friendfeed.com/coturni... - Micah from Bookmarklet

"A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago, in mud flats in southern Spain. "This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters. "It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a professor at the University of Hartford who led an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis" - SteVe C from Bookmarklet

++Eivind! *Snorts coffee out my nose* - Mary B: #TeamMonique

"The search initially showed great promise, with Speth's early discovery of his uncle's old Doors records and a copy of The Catcher In The Rye. Over the next two decades, however, the "leads just petered out." Although Speth searched in a wide variety of places--including the I Ching, a tantric-sex manual, and a course in chakrology--he uncovered nothing" - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"Cognition is not a little processing program that takes place inside your head, Robby the Robot style. It is a constant flow of information, memory, plans, and physical movements, in which as much thinking goes on out there as in here. If television produced the global village, the Internet produces the global psyche: everyone keyed in like a neuron, so that to the eyes of a watching Martian we are really part of a single planetary brain. Contraptions don’t change consciousness; contraptions are part of consciousness. We may not act better than we used to, but we sure think differently than we did. (…) the Internet is just a loud and unlimited library in which we now live (...) Yet surely having something wrapped right around your mind is different from having your mind wrapped tightly around something. What we live in is not the age of the extended mind but the age of the inverted self. The things that have usually lived in the darker recesses or mad corners of our mind—sexual... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Perhaps the instrument of the new connected age was already in place in fantasy. For the Internet screen has always been like the palantír in Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”—the “seeing stone” that lets the wizards see the entire world. Its gift is great; the wizard can see it all. Its risk is real: evil things will register more vividly than the great mass of dull good. The peril isn’t... more... - Amira

Reality bites because it can't promise any of these things. Reality rarely gives quests that are small, clearly spelled out and doable. Success is anything but guaranteed. And even if it did there's close to zero chance you'll get any positive feedback or reward. Just as easily you could get screwed. Reality is rarely satisfying in the breezy way games can be. Reality can be lonely and seldom do we legitimately get to find meaning by attaching ourselves to a larger purpose. Often the world is not epic, it's not full of wonder, or awe, it doesn't engineer a feeling of curiosity. The solution: games. Escape the soul-deadening world by playing a game. Reality can be fixed by making reality more like games, framing everything in game terms. There are many great examples. But I find this immensely troubling. It's like taking blue pill in the Matrix. Not that world shouldn't be improved, but I can't see how this is different than becoming a brain in a vat, continuously feeding the correct... more... - Todd Hoff

Ian Bogost Review: http://www.bogost.com/blog... : "Where she values happiness and epic wins, I value wonder and sublimity. The awesome hugeness of the world and its problems, as well as their solutions, always partial, always tentative, like a giant mountain peering through the fog, impossible. Reality is Broken helps me see that we need both kinds of people in the world. " - Todd Hoff

"The rings almost always include the team's name, logo, and Super Bowl number (usually in Roman numerals). Most of the rings also have larger diamonds or diamonds made into the shape of the trophy, that represent the number of Super Bowls that franchise has won." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

The paradox of value (also known as the diamond-water paradox) is the apparent contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market. The philosopher Adam Smith is often considered to be the classic presenter of this paradox. Nicolaus Copernicus[1], John Locke, John Law[2] and others had previously tried to explain the disparity. - Joel Kotarski

In a passage of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, he discusses the concepts of value in use and value in exchange, and notices how they tend to differ: What are the rules which men naturally observe in exchanging them [goods] for money or for one another, I shall now proceed to examine. These rules determine what may be called the relative or... more... - Joel Kotarski

Furthermore, he explained the value in exchange as being determined by labor: The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.[4] Hence, Smith denied a necessary relationship between price and utility. Price on this view was related to a factor of production (namely, labor) and not to the point of... more... - Joel Kotarski

From quantum mechanics, unveiling and sequencing the Neandertal genome, to Exoplanets and metamaterials, what more could we ask for? Amplify’d from www.kurzweilai.net “This year’s Breakthrough of the Year represents the first time that scientists have demonstrated quantum effects in the motion of a human-made object,” said Adrian Cho, a news writer for Science. “On a [...] - Jamreilly