"This demands that the President impose stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran, and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials. This is unbelievable! This is closing down Iran. Where do we have this authority? Where do we get the moral authority? Where do we get the international legality for this? Where do we get the Constitutional authority for this? This is what we did for ten years before we went into Iraq. We starved children—50,000 individuals it was admitted probably died because of the sanctions on the Iraqis. They were incapable at the time of attacking us. And all the propaganda that was given for our need to go into Iraq was not true." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

We're discussing this issue here: http://friendfeed.com/e/637da2... - Sean McBride

"On a recent afternoon deep in the Amazon's rain forest, members of the Surui tribe, which made contact with the outside world less than 40 years ago, could not resist the urge known to modern man - they googled themselves. Then they looked up football. Computers with an Internet connection, video cameras, Global Positioning System devices and other high-tech gadgets are replacing bows and arrows in the small indigenous village about 1,600 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, which has teamed up with Google Earth to help protect its 600,000-acre reserve from illegal miners and loggers." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

pretty soon they'll be the next big import/export place. - Chris Harris

It's not about whether they're more advanced. It's about making it their choice whether they want to change their way of life. Forcing them to change would be bad but so would forcing them to stay the same. - Adewale Oshineye

@Adewale , I agree its thier choice.. however given the fact that so called western influence has ALWAYS been detrimental to native cultures' . I am still pretty much a skeptic on this issue - Peter Dawson

That's true but we don't get to choose what the effects of our influence are. Once we make contact there will be unintended consequences and some of those will be bad. However beyond a certain point it's no possible to control the manner in which _we_ influence them because they start acting in our world in their own right. The tribe's chief has flown all over the world they can't be the same again. So why try? - Adewale Oshineye

"The Atlas begins with an overview of regional maps of the wind, solar, biomass and geothermal resources. The second section describes the current status of renewable energy development, including a summary of the region's current electricity supply mix and a map of the locations and installed capacity of existing renewable energy facilities. A regional map shows state-level policies, including tax incentives, system benefits charges and portfolio standards, which have been implemented in several states to stimulate the development of renewable energy. The final section in the overview addresses important issues to consider in developing new renewable energy projects, including transmission capacity, load growth, land use and environmental impacts. The Atlas continues with individual sections for each of the eleven Western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

quite apropos: http://www.webfilehost.com/ima... - Nick

Lol - I know the feeling! That happens to many developers once we learn how to normalize database tables. - Tad Donaghe

And then eventually you realize that it mostly just doesn't matter. - ⓞnor

lol, nice. great thing about this is lots more people can relate to it more then "mo' money, mo' problems". really? more problems?!? give me all your money and i'll tell you myself snoop. - Chris Harris

"my parents are really nice people, mother fucker!" - Nick

Awesome. - John Samuelson

We had one of those not too far from my hometown, Trondheim. It was known as Speilsalen ("hall of mirrors"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.... Sadly it collapsed last autumn - one of the very tangible effects of a warmer climate. - Thomas Brox Røst

I saw one of those last year in Iceland. Incredible experience. - Ole Begemann

"Thanks to Alternativa3D, it is now availiable to show three-dimentional worlds, games, virtual tours or objects in browser." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

Cool shots- except now daughter wants a turtle..... - Abby Martin

Hehe. I think they come in smaller sizes? - Jason Wehmhoener

But she wants THAT particular turtle. She's named it sparkles... - Abby Martin

an elf and his pet ham! a giraffe surrounded by weeezards! microscopic canaries! this guide is a veritable showcase of life!! thanks to Why's Poignant Guide... even infants can learn Ruby! it's just that simple! - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

Um...just because it's got weird stuff in it doesnt make it any more understandable, well not for me;) I found it quite disturbing and a little sad. - Pete Gilbert

Dive Into Python http://www.diveintopython.org/ is definitely a more "conventional" learning-to-program book. - Jason Wehmhoener

Or, if Ruby is a must, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide is probably a good way to go http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/P... - Jason Wehmhoener

Oooohhh... - Mitchell Tsai

What he said. That is stunning...and weird. - Abby Martin

STEAMPUNK!!!! - melmcbride

I like this with the Radiohead playing - combine both ... totally cool. I just looked at the other video. It's actually a small helicopter he's made with a spinning blade on top. Not sure why all the videos are being titled "plane" ? - melmcbride

Once it goes to school it will demand clothes. - Russellreno

Nice ambient netaudio, free mp3 downloads. Track #3 is nicely percussive. - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

"Something that has long been a dream of mine looks like it will be a reality soon. I have always wanted to see a solar powered solar panel factory, or a wind powered wind turbine factory. Basically you use a little fossil fuels to get started, then the first however many turbines/panels off the line power the factory, from then on in it’s all carbon neutral." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

http://sharp-world.com/corpora... - rutawa

Michael: Japan is an island nation. Those problems simply require solutions. - Jason Wehmhoener

And it is the solutions I am interested in. - Michael W. May via twhirl

The dutch seem to be pretty innovative with regard to dealing with a rising sea level. - Jason Wehmhoener

""It's not so much about how far a sail will go compared to a rocket; the key is how fast," says Montgomery. "The Voyagers have escaped the solar system, and they were sent by rockets, but it's taken more than three decades to do it. A sail launched today would probably catch up with them in a single decade. Sails are slower to get started though. So, for example, between the Earth and the moon, rockets might be preferred for missions with a short timeline. It's a trip of days for rockets, but months for a solar sail. The rule of thumb, therefore, would be to use rockets for short hops and solar sails for the long hauls."" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

"Much like when you drive your car through a light snowfall, dark matter "sticks" to the Solar System when it is gravitationally bound by the Sun and planets. Just as some of the snow melts on your windshield (hopefully), some doesn't stick to the hood and most just flies right by, dark matter isn't distributed evenly throughout our Solar System, either. Some planets have more dark matter surrounding them than others, depending on where they are. Shown below is the density distribution of the dark matter in the Solar System" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

""If you get some atoms moving really slowly, you can control them very well," said University of Virginia physicist Cass Sackett. "And once you bring them to a complete stop, you can do a number of very interesting things."" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

""It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard, you know, alkaline. You might be able to grow asparagus in it really well. ... It is very exciting for us."" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

"Overall, the foundation of the argument for a replacement for science is correct: the data cloud is changing science, and leaving us in many cases with a Google-level understanding of the connections between things. Where Anderson stumbles is in his conclusions about what this means for science. The fact is that we couldn't have even reached this Google-level understanding without the models and mechanisms that he suggests are doomed to irrelevance. But, more importantly, nobody, including Anderson himself if he had thought about it, should be happy with stopping at this level of understanding of the natural world." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

"Along with these major stride in pricing, Nanosolar just put into production the solar industries first 1GW thin-film photovoltaic production tool. The tool shown in the video above is printing thin-film solar panels at 100 feet-per-minute and is capable (in theory) of ramping up to over 2,000 feet-per-minute. The photovoltaic printer cost Nanosolar $1.65 Million. Now considering that the current high-vacuum process that other manufacturers are using will generally produce 10-30MW per year and cost almost ten times as much as Nanosolar’s printer, I’d say Nanosolar is about to dominate the solar industry and give coal a run for its money." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

This was on their blog a few days ago. I think it will be news if they are actually producing cells at 100 ft/m, not just theoretically capable of doing so. Their web site seems thin on details. 100 ft/minute * 525,600 minutes/year = 52,560,000 ft of solar cells/year. 1 GW / 52,560,000 = 19 Watts per foot printed. I'm assuming the printing press is 2-3 feet wide, so say 7 watts per square foot. Does that sound right...? - Karim

You convert it into heat and store that. - Chris Baskind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... - Laurence Gonsalves

Energy storage coming to a power grid near you: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1112... - Jason Wehmhoener

"3-D printing has been out of reach for most of us. Now thanks to do-it-yourself types all that has started to change" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

I hadn't heard of the CompuCarve, that's interesting. Reminds me of my Modela, though it appears to be actually marketed, and relatively modern, though more limited in some ways (no scanning and a strong emphasis on ornamental woodwork). - ⓞnor

My hope is that less atrocious software (Gershenfeld totally rips on standard CAD/CAM software in _Fab_, and he's totally right) can make that sort of thing way more accessible. I started working on that, but of course, no free time. I don't think milling has to be a black art. - ⓞnor

the Desktop Factory fab seems to print using hot nylon and metal powder. the output feels a bit gritty. i still want one. - joshua schachter

Yeah, I still get their little newsletter updates, each one of which tries to be upbeat about how they have, yet again, completely failed to have anything like an actual shipping product. The latest one was all positive about how the machine only needs two hours of maintenance per week. - ⓞnor