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"Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars." - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick from Bookmarklet

It looks like it aggregates MIT Open Courseware, Stanford, Harvard and one more university - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

It was to cloudy to see the 600m drop off. 10 people fell off that day, mainly Italians... A few tourbus guides were pushing... Anyway. Preikestolen is in the south of Norway, Lysefjord. It is a few hours hike towards this place. Below there is a parking place which is crowded with tourists in summer time. So if you want to see Preikestolen for your self, not shared with hundreds of other tourists, it might be a good idear to start rather early (or come in winter). One last thing: don't go up there when it is cloudy or raining. Because then you won't see this incredible view. See more photos at www.nielsbreve.nl - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet

Added to my list of places to visit when in Norway - Abbas Haider Ali

"MODESTO, California (CNN) -- The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said it brought shame -- and determination -- to her family. "I wanted to make sure I never lived like that again," says McIntosh, who turns 77 on Saturday. "We all worked hard and we all had good jobs and we all stayed with it. When we got a home, we stayed with it." McIntosh is the girl to the left of her mother when you look at the photograph. The picture is best known as "Migrant Mother," a black-and-white photo taken in February or March 1936 by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson, then 32, and her children." - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

It's going to be much worse when the next depression hits. - Michael Forian

awkward.... :) - Zee.

Part II is up now: http://www.kyte.tv/ch... - Robert Scoble

"for the 25th year in a row, the photography industry is converging on New York for the Photoplus Expo. Since companies always push for October/November releases to take advantage of the holiday season, it's a perfect opportunity to try out the latest and greatest. I spent all day testing equipment and taking to representatives from companies big and small, and will discuss some of my favorites. My reviews always skew toward user experience and what niche a product might play in your life instead of exhausting, rigorous tests, and will be doubly so when using products that usually have security standing around making sure you don't use it in any way they don't want you to (in one weird extension, not only did Nikon not want people taking pictures of the new 50mm f/1.4G, they tried to keep people from taking pictures of it.)" - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"The big stories of the year in the DSLR world are higher resolution at lower prices and movie modes, and the Canon 5d Mark II is where those two things interact. With a movie mode more robust than the Nikon D90 and nearly 22 megapixels, this camera performs the hard feat of being a bargain at around $2,700. It's hard to say anything bad about it -- but there is one thing that even the... more... - RAPatton

"Casio wins the "most inventive display" award. To show off the capabilities of their super-high-frame-rate cameras, the EX-FH20 and the EX-F1, they had a group of apparently tireless cheerleaders jumping and throwing each other around. While motion-stopping capability is a function of a camera's high-ISO quality and maximum aperture, in well-lit environments these cameras are particularly useful for turning high speed events into slow-motion replay." - RAPatton

Such a cute puddy!! Ours ("Bubbles") is almost identical. - Matt Harwood

looks like a slightly smaller version of my Luna - Kamilah Gill

Mark lives a life most of us would love to have. Of course he didn't explain how HE got rich. He sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for billions. That requires something far beyond discipline: luck. Some people DO win the lottery! But, I find that following people who always chase money is pretty damn boring. I've been on private jets. I've been in expensive cars that cost more than nearly everything I own. Yawn. What is rich? My friend Teresa Williamson inviting me to an awesome concert. My wife hanging out with me on the couch. A conversation with someone who is changing the world. Money ain't everything. I watched my mom die with a bunch of gold in her basement. She couldn't take it with her. On the other hand, money does open doors easier and gets you into wild experiences, but it's not the only way to have wild experiences. That said, I'm following much of Mark's advice because, well, it's good advice for our times. - Robert Scoble

I've always liked something Walt Disney said about the value of money: "Money is something I understand only vaguely, and I think about it only when I don't have enough to finance my current enthusiasm, whatever it may be. All I know about money is that I have to have it to do things. I don't want to bank my dividends, I'd rather keep my money working.... Money — or, rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas — may worry me, but it does not excite me. Ideas excite me." - Will King

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Friday night photowalk in Sacramento. We had about 40 or so people and near perfect weather -- just enough rain to wet the streets for those awesome neon reflections, but not enough rain to keep us from enjoying ourselves. Especially thanks to Trevor Carpenter and Tom Spaulding for helping organize and the tour of the best spots to shoot neon downtown. Many more photos coming in the weeks and months ahead. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

دنیای زیبایست این آی مکس... - ‎‎Emad

"If we’re really going to avoid crises, we’re going to need something more imaginative, starting with a more open-minded attitude to how science can help us understand how markets really work. Done properly, computer simulation represents a kind of “telescope for the mind,” multiplying human powers of analysis and insight just as a telescope does our powers of vision. With simulations, we can discover relationships that the unaided human mind, or even the human mind aided with the best mathematical analysis, would never grasp." (Maybe the time has come to look at alternative theoretical framework in economics and how to study markets?) - kamla bhatt from Bookmarklet

Hmmm... the results for Taylor (my maiden name) weren't very surprising (except, perhaps, for the high concentration of Taylors in Australia-- hi Australian distant cousins!). But I wonder if they are using stats from the whole world. Jimenez shows a high concentration in Spain and Argentina (expected), but nothing in the rest of Latin America. Are there really more people named Jimenez in New Zealand than Guatemala (where my name comes from)? Doubtful. - Shannon Jiménez

Not very accurate. It claims the top country for my surname is Japan. Umm no. - Jauder Ho