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RT @guidewiregroup: Post all your good wishes to Chris in this topic on the Guidewire Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/topic...
FYI, the URL gives me a Page Not Found.
- Kelly Fox
Technology Review: Crowd-Sourcing the World - http://www.technologyreview.com/busines...
Participants in a new program called txteagle will be able to earn small amounts of money using their phones to complete simple tasks, such as translating words from one language to another.
- Kelly Fox
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Inventor builds his perfect woman - a robot who cleans and won't nag - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol...
Devoted Aiko — “in her 20s” — has a stunning 32-23-33 figure, pretty face and shiny hair. Aiko is actually a robot, a fantasy brought to life by inventor Le Trung.
- Kelly Fox
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Cat Found - http://skitch.com/duncanr...
Mathew™ one of a kind, Chris Farrugia, Sarah Peterman and 12 other people liked this
That is .... uncommentable
- Tyler (Chacha)
Fluffy, is that you?
- michael sean wright
Hahahahah oposums!
- Brandon
Awesome possum
- Morton Fox
Kitteh is skeery.
- Ayşe E.
I can haz play dead?
- Kelly Fox
Arrested Development: Chicken - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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James Ferguson, Kelly Fox, Shellee and 3 other people liked this
OMG this is a favorite go to gag in my house. Some might wonder if we've ever seen a real chicken!
- Shellee
"cockah! coackah!"
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Cooka ka-cha! Cooka ka-cha!
- Kelly Fox
Honda displays 21st-century supercar concept - http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13...
Carmen, Shellee, Stéphane Guérin and Cee Bee liked this
"At the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, Honda showed off a supercar concept, the FC Sport, powered by an electric motor with energy generated by a hydrogen fuel cell."
- Kelly Fox
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looks really nice. they need to get this past the concept stage
- Cee Bee
That's fierce. Agree with Cee Bee. I NEED cars like this to actually choose from next time I'm buying a new car.
- Shellee
Here are some of the pics I took of this car and one other, a couple of days ago: http://flickr.com/photos.... They released the FCX already and they've been delivered. That's the car that was at the show last year:http://flickr.com/photos...
- Anika
nice photos. it looks really low
- Cee Bee
Scientists Sequence Woolly-Mammoth Genome - http://www.physorg.com/news146...
"Scientists at Penn State are leaders of a team that is the first to report the genome-wide sequence of an extinct animal, according to Webb Miller, professor of biology and of computer science and engineering and one of the project's two leaders. The scientists sequenced the genome of the woolly mammoth, an extinct species of elephant that was adapted to living in the cold environment of the northern hemisphere. They sequenced four billion DNA bases using next-generation DNA-sequencing instruments and a novel approach that reads ancient DNA highly efficiently."
- Kelly Fox
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I have a techie question - does one need to purchase a MySQL license to download WordPress to a host site?
Kol Tregaskes liked this
No.
- Kelly Fox
BTW, I'm happy to assist if you'd like. :)
- Kelly Fox
No, not at all
- Neal Jansons
I didn't think so. The non-profit I help got this in their head somehow.
- Carla Thompson
And Kelly, I just may take you up on that.
- Carla Thompson
RESEARCH: Interactive 360º Light Field Display - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"The 3D display can project both virtual as well as real images from a recorded movie, is autosterescopic (viewers don´t need to wear special viewing glasses to see the 3D effects), and is also omnidirectional, so that multiple viewers can watch the display from all directions and heights."
- Kelly Fox
Anyone have any suggestions or strategies for sharing digital music within the same household while minimizing disk usage and maximizing availability of the music?
Amy J. Kearns, MLIS, AJ Batac and Glenn Batuyong liked this
My wife and I have some overlap regarding the music we like, but we don't always want to keep copies of it on each of our MacBook Pros. I've got a Mac Mini running Leopard Server and a 1TB firewire RAID1 array attached for extra storage. I've got a share set up, but would like to know if there are better tools or techniques I could use. Thanks!
- Kelly Fox
good question. Where are you looking to access the music? Computers, central stereo, over the web?
- Nick
That already sounds like a done deal. Just make sure your music is backed up to the server occasionally.
- Glenn Batuyong
I'd like to access the music mostly from our two MacBooks while at home, but sometimes remotely. I can use a VPN for remote access, though, so apart from the slower connection speed it would essentially be the same as being at home. It'd be nice to be use iTunes to only access the music we each want when we want it, without having to keep our own copies of everything.
- Kelly Fox
Drobo or D-Link DNS-323
- xero
FreeNAS. Works like a charm. Just find yourself a cheap Pentium from the local thrift store and load it with disk.
- Jerry Schuman
I love FreeNAS and other products like it, but old PCs right off the shelf aren't exactly thrifty afa power consumption goes. We have several Buffalo NAS items here that we like, and some of them can be set up as a music server for iTunes/etc, in addition to straight file-serving.
- abacab
are you wanting to sync the music to portable devices like an ipod too?
- alphaxion
if it's pure sharing, thecus also do the same thing too with intel xscale embedded systems for low power consumption.
- alphaxion
Flash drives, sd cards, and 300gb external drives.
- Jacob
Windows Home Server works pretty well with macs ( aside from backing them up, that is). I think its the MediaSmart Home Server that has an itunes server built in ( its built on top of WHS).
- Roberto Bonini
I don't really need more storage, or a stand-alone media server unless it does something that Leopard Server can't do already. (Backups are also covered since I'm using Leopard Server to provide Time Machine backups to my Mac clients.) And yes, I'd like to be able to sync the music with iPods/iPhones. I'm trying to make everything as annoyance-free as possible, but it seems like iTunes is especially resistant to that. :)
- Kelly Fox
if you want to sync with iphones and ipods you're gonna need a copy of the data on every system the portable device syncs with.. A network sync would be a cool feature to add to an itunes server *hint apple* for those with multiple ipods and multiple systems. Unless someone knows of a system that allows this without syncing copies of a central store to each PC and then syncing from there to the individual ipods.
- alphaxion
Oh, if you already have a dedicated Leopard Server just run mt-daapd. There are a few versions floating around and you might even find one with an installer package. http://nightlies.fireflymedias...
- Jerry Schuman
@Jerry Firefly/mt-daapd looks interesting. I'm definitely interested in something that lets users choose the tunes they want to hear when they want to hear them instead of a semi-random streaming server like Shoutcast or QTSS.
- Kelly Fox
@alphaxion Yes, a network sync option would be very nice. :)
- Kelly Fox
The aforementioned Buffalo devices have DAAP server functionality built in. If you want network-based storage not tied to any actual PC, anyway. EDIT: Ah, I see you have a server you're using already. mt-daapd, then.
- abacab
abacab: they're wanting to sync to their PMP's too.. which kinda means local copies with the way itunes works right now.. unless there is a sync applet that will pull from a share on your network storage and they simply skip using itunes when managing their ipods/iphones.
- alphaxion
I need to stop juggling things and posting here at the same time.
- abacab
how big is your music library? unless you're hurting for space on one of your MBPs it's probably easiest to keep a full combined local copy on both and just ignore the stuff each of you don't like.
- Jon Price
We are running low on local disk space on the MBPs and don't even have all the music on both. Even with bigger hard drives and tools like rsync or unison to keep both of our music libraries in sync with a network share, it seems a little inefficient to keep 3 copies of the same files everywhere. I was just hoping to be pleasantly surprised that better options existed. :)
- Kelly Fox
If you aren't against streaming everything, check out this post: http://friendfeed.com/e... - different story if you want to sync the collections.
- Tim Hoeck
holy cats just passed $1.82 gas
Corvida liked this
I can pass gas for free. Why is yours so expensive?
- Kelly Fox
It is classified by the U.S. Government as a precious mineral and bottled for future use.
- Carla Thompson
Obama Election Ushering In First Internet Presidency - http://www.informationweek.com/news...
Mitch Wagner, Derek van Vliet, R. Ferguson and Glenn Batuyong liked this
"[Joe] Trippi anticipates Obama will create a similar social networking for his legislative initiatives and recruit supporters to lobby Congress to get his policies enacted into law. The result will be further increase of presidential power and the erosion of congressional authority."
- Kelly Fox
But if American public agrees with his policies is that a bad thing? I guess i would rather look at as whatever the public pays attention - not waiting until the mid-term elections. It puts the onus on congress to explain their opposition, if any.
- R. Ferguson
While there will certainly be people who will join Obama's cause simply because they are mesmerized by him and know nothing about the proposal, this can't possibly be a bad thing... I, for one, would LOVE it if our leaders engaged us on a more regular basis to ask for our support... if congress doesn't like it, tell them to get their own facebook page
- Shawn Duffy
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I don't think direct communication between a representative of the people and the people themselves is a bad thing at all. I just find it interesting that the Internet and social networking tools, along with more ubiquitous Internet connectivity in the form of mobile computing devices (these days often masquerading as "phones"), have had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on the dynamics of political discourse.
- Kelly Fox
Obama Election Ushering In First Internet Presidency - http://www.informationweek.com/news...
Graham English liked this
"[Joe] Trippi anticipates Obama will create a similar social networking for his legislative initiatives and recruit supporters to lobby Congress to get his policies enacted into law. The result will be further increase of presidential power and the erosion of congressional authority."
- Kelly Fox
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Further expansion of executive power is frightening. I do, however, think it will be interesting to see how these campaign strategies become governing strategies. I hope it isn't quite like Trippi imagines it.
- Shellee
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Self-Release New Album | Pitchfork - http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node...
Kelly Fox liked this
Awesome. I love these guys.
- Kelly Fox
Hot nanotube sheets produce music on demand - http://technology.newscientist.com/article...
FFing Enigma (aka Tina) liked this
"Sheets made of carbon nanotubes behave like a loudspeaker when zapped with a varying electric current... more exotic uses might see nanotube sheets stitched into clothing to create 'singing and speaking jackets'."
- Kelly Fox
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Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons | Video on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/index...
A 3-minute "typographical fairy tale".
- Kelly Fox
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Amendment: my husband is the best barrista. Coffee is fresh ground every morning and handed to me before I can remember my name that day.
Carla Thompson liked this
I can attest that Kelly is a fabulous barrista. Anyone looking for a fantastic bed and breakfast in Austin should contact Shellee. ; )
- Carla Thompson
The Dead Milkmen are playing Austin next weekend and the guest room is available.
- Shellee
I'm also available for weddings and bar mitzvahs. :)
- Kelly Fox
ATF says it has disrupted skinhead plot to assassinate Obama, kill 102 black people - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic...
"Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday."
- Kelly Fox
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There are unfortunately some very sick people in this world.
- Kelly Fox
machine-harvestable, machine-parsable, machine-readable, machine-scrapable
Joe Silence is not dead, Neal Jansons, Roberto Bonini and Meryn Stol liked this
And, most importantly, machine-inferenceable.
- Sean McBride
Nothing about machine-excretable? :)
- Kelly Fox
I believe that's called information overload and noise. :)
- Sean McBride
GL - it could happen. No kidding. Think machine-crushable -- us; human beings. So far just a science fiction dystopian fantasy, knock on wood.
- Sean McBride
Red Robot!
- Joe Silence is not dead
I think its likely that by using some form of brain-computer interface, humanity will "evolve" (or at least become intellectually augmented) in parallel with the advancement of machine-based or artificial intelligence. And along with advancements in artificial intelligence, "machine-readable" will eventually be reduced to just "readable".
- Kelly Fox
Kelly - I think you're right. DARPA also seems to agree with you and is investing heavily in the project.
- Sean McBride
Kelly...that's exactly correct, IMHO.
- Neal Jansons
from twhirl
A world living hand to mouth without electricity or readily available medical care may render this pure speculation.
- Joe Silence is not dead
RefD: are you envisioning a scenario in which the collapse of human civilization is caused by peak oil or other factors?
- Sean McBride
Sean: There are many other ways we can arrive at that situation that don't involve peak oil...at least not solely.
- Joe Silence is not dead
For the linguistics mavens: statistically rare phrases: "machine-inferenceable" turns up 0 (zero) Google hits; "machine-inferencable" 5 Google hits. I advise buying stock in these phrases.
- Sean McBride
Mars pioneers should stay there permanently, says Buzz Aldrin - http://www.physorg.com/news143...
"The first astronauts sent to Mars should be prepared to spend the rest of their lives there, in the same way that European pioneers headed to America knowing they would not return home, says moonwalker Buzz Aldrin."
- Kelly Fox
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If nothing else, this could mean a great reality show on FOX. In fact, that might be the best way to get average Americans to care.
- Kelly Fox
Instead of voting people off, can we vote on people to send first?
- Shellee
Me-yow! This cat glows in the dark - TODAY: Pets - MSNBC.com - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
Proof that genetic manipulation can be fun, cute, and entertaining.
- Kelly Fox
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ummm...no.
- Shellee
Walking house can escape floods or unruly neighbours - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
"The 10ft high home is solar and wind powered and can stroll at walking pace across all terrains. It has a living room, kitchen, toilet, bed, wood stove and mainframe computer which controls the legs." A MAINFRAME computer is required to control the legs? If so, I think I know how they could have saved money on this project.
- Kelly Fox
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English Russia » Russian Sausage Art - http://englishrussia.com/...
"The sausage art is now popular in Russia. They have made some major masterpieces out of sausages and wurst and put on display so that anyone can eat them."
- Kelly Fox
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Wurst idea ever.
- Kelly Fox
Oh noze...
- Joe Silence is not dead
Would have been thankful to have missed this. Why did I scroll back? Why?
- Shellee
McCain: Gimmie the keys! I'm okay to drive and I know how to get us there. Palin: Shotgun!
Joe Silence is not dead, Kelly Fox, Alex Scoble and 2 other people liked this
I only wrote this for the double entendré of Palin yelling 'shotgun'. Maybe I should have said 'reins' instead of 'keys'.
- Kevin Fox
Did I miss something?
- Jenna Bilotta
This reminds me of the SNL skit about another pair of candidates, Ross Perot and Admiral Stockdale: http://www.hulu.com/watch...
- Kelly Fox
_________ will win the '08 Presidential election?
jcunwired, orionstarr, Joe Silence is not dead and Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ liked this
Alfred E. Neuman
- JA Castillo
Pat Paulson.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Obama
- orionstarr
Barack Obama (FTW!)
- Alex Scoble
That guy
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
James Madison. (At least in spirit, I hope.)
- Kelly Fox
Obama!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Hopefully, the American People
- Kelly W.
Joe The Plumber
- Bastard Operator From FF
Obama! (I hope)
- judithsweet
OpEd: Stolen Votes and Stolen Elections | GlobalPundit.org - http://globalpundit.org/2008...
Cheryl Jones, Joe Silence is not dead, Alex Scoble and 3 other people liked this
"If elections could change anything, they’d be illegal. Don’t vote — it only encourages ‘em."
- Kelly Fox
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This is a stance predicated on extreme pessimism, but an interesting read nonetheless. Thoughts?
- Kelly Fox
I'm extremely nervous about this election. If vote numbers vary wildly from exit polling, the Bradley Effect will be blamed, but I think a much more sinister cause will be the real culprit, and it could seriously damage the fabric of democracy in the USA.
- Jason Carreira
Watch "Hacking Democracy" http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/
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The Bradley Effect is a myth. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com
- Alex Scoble
I love Obama but I want him to stop emailing me. I've given all the money I'm going to give!
B. Hatin, Alex Scoble, Jennifer Dittrich and Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF liked this
Uh whut?
- Cyndy
LOL, that comment was out of nowhere. Welcome to FF, Out Wrong.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
I, um, yeah. Don't even know what to do with that.
- Carla Thompson
Out Wrong's logic is irrefutable: 1. You love Obama. 2. Obama is fighting his war in Afghanistan. 3. Wars are dirty work. 4. Dirty work is for lovers. 5. If you love someone, you will fight their dirty wars for them. Ergo, you are a selfish, confused, short-sighted hater of America. MCCAIN '08!
- Kelly Fox
Actually, Out Wrong seems to be as anti-McCain as he is anti-Obama: http://outwrong.com/2008...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: I don't think that should keep the McCain campaign from using the argument. It seems to be better than some of the others they've employed lately.
- Kelly Fox
I finally had to block Obama from emailing me. Even after asking to be removed, he kept going. I was all "Dude, you're too skinny for me!"
- B. Hatin
When did Afghanistan become Obama's war? If I'm a pacifist, does that mean I have to hate Obama? And can't I just complain about email spam without starting a political discussion? To quote Caribou Barbie, it was a lame attempt at humor.
- Carla Thompson
Plastic Logic reader - http://www.plasticlogic.com/PRPlast...
Steve Spalding, teh Dork Knight, RAPatton and 6 other people liked this
""The Plastic Logic reader supports a full range of business document formats, such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and Adobe PDFs, as well as newspapers, periodicals and books. It has an easy gesture-based user interface and powerful software tools that will help business users to organize and manage their information. Users can connect to their information either wired or wirelessly and store thousands of documents on the device. The reader incorporates E Ink technology for great readability and features low power consumption and long battery life. The Plastic Logic reader is scheduled to ship in the first half of 2009."
- Cee Bee
Ooooh! *pant. pant, pant*
- Dread Pirate PJ
I'm still waiting for the color version of e-paper displays, but this is still pretty cool.
- Kelly Fox
Philips Designs the 'Light Blossom,' an Intelligent Street Light Concept - http://www.physorg.com/news143...
Shellee liked this
"The Light Blossom collects energy from the sun and wind during the day. At night, the device glows dimly when no one is around, and brighter when it senses motion, such as people walking nearby."
- Kelly Fox
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Talking heads on CNN is saying Obama was professorial like that is a bad thing.
Mike Reynolds, Cee Bee and Karim liked this
Somebody tell them that Joe the Plumber is also a professional.
- Thaths
Yeah, who wants anyone knowledgeable leading the country? Sheesh. Note that the two pundits who said that were the strong McCain supporters.
- Kelly Fox
the dumbing down of america and these pundits lead the way
- Cee Bee
mel +1
- Karim
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