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"Aristotle, by contrast, was an optimist. While Plato wanted to leave the dark Cave of physical reality and find something better, Aristotle said that the Cave was not so bad once you turned the lights on - particularly if you started dissecting the animals in it. The beauty which Plato appreciated best in unrealized, unworldly ideals, Aristotle saw all around him." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Think about every bad hair day, every time you pick your nose, scratch your butt, slip and fall, spill something on your shirt, or say something dumb live streamed to the internet. Think people have fun mining shit from google maps now? This will be a laugh a minute. At your expense. - Todd Hoff

Finally, the killer app for QR codes... a 'noindex' tag you wear on your forehead. :) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

""[The paper] is basically an attempt to describe intelligence as a fundamentally thermodynamic process," said Wissner-Gross.   The researchers developed a software engine, called Entropica, and gave it models of a number of situations in which it could demonstrate behaviors that greatly resemble intelligence. They patterned many of these exercises after classic animal intelligence tests." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

"intelligent behavior emerges from the physical process of trying to capture as many future histories as possible" - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

"Creating plasma in a vacuum tube surrounded by powerful electromagnets is no big deal; dozens of labs can do that. Our innovation allows the plasma to hold itself together while it travels through regular air without any need for containment.” - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet

I can't believe it's taken me this long to see the connection between the classical elements of antiquity (earth, water, air and fire) with the 4 states of matter (solid, liquid, gas and plasma)! #somebodysmackme - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

The insurance company silently added hail insurance as a separate option while it always has been included. - Stephan Planken from iPhone

On the new papers it lists hail/wind damage separately. I'll definitely call them tomorrow. - Stephan Planken from iPhone

"Miroslav Tichý was a photographer who from the 1960s until 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of cardboard tubes, tin cans and other at-hand materials. Most of his subjects were unaware they are being photographed. A few struck beauty-pageant poses when they sighted him, perhaps not realizing that the parody of a camera he carried was real. His soft focus, fleeting glimpses of the women of Kyjov are skewed, spotted and badly printed — flawed by the limitations of his primitive equipment and a series of deliberate processing mistakes meant to add poetic imperfections." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet

"Following the 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, private property was nationalized. In 1972, Tichý was evicted from his studio, his work thrown into the street. He stopped drawing and painting and concentrated only on photography, working in the disorderly conditions of his home. Of the transition, he says, 'The paintings were already painted, the drawings drawn. What was I supposed to do? I looked for new media. With the help of photography I saw everything in a new light. It was a new world.'" - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

yeesh. - RepoRat

Yay! - maʀtha

Recommended and o.O - MoTO #TeamMonique

I really, REALLY want him to be Spider-Man now. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

"The image ... is really a Rorschach test more than anything else. Do you see two people standing over a body wrapped in black plastic with an enormous trail of blood behind it? Or do you see two people about to pet a dog that’s just shaken itself off?" - Me from Bookmarklet

Update: http://friendfeed.com/cwelle... - Me

"The authors located a fragment of DNA within the coelacanth’s genome that is also found in land vertebrates but not in fish without lobed fins, such as tuna, tilapia, and sharks. Because researchers cannot study live coelacanths in the laboratory, they inserted the fragment into a mouse embryo in order to learn what it does. The fragment activated a network of genes that forms bones in... more... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

COOL. - Hieronymous Boosh

AWESOME. - Andrew C (✓)

I like that he described it as "a little, tiny hockey puck". :) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

"In the history of science, Laplace's demon was the first published articulation of causal or scientific determinism by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814.[1] According to determinism, if someone knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time are entailed; they can be calculated from the laws of classical mechanics." - Eivind from Bookmarklet

Although both were exorcised by the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, it seems :) - Victor Ganata

wus-ter-sheer I grew up there :) - Pete #TeamMonique

I couldn't tell you how I pronounce it...but I know that a mouthful of marbles would not alter the manner in which I say it. - Bubba was a rollin stone

What if Napolean had a zeppelin at the Battle of Trafalgar? - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Blucher yelling "oh, the humanity!" - Pete #TeamMonique

"In which John Green kicks off the Crash Course Literature mini series with a reasonable set of questions. Why do we read? What's the point of reading critically. John will argue that reading is about effectively communicating with other people. Unlike a direct communication though, the writer has to communicate with a stranger, through time and space, with only "dry dead words on a page." So how's that going to work? Find out with Crash Course Literature! Also, readers are empowered during the open letter, so that's pretty cool." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet

I wish I'd had this guy in high school. I would have started reading much sooner! - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Disengagement. - Steele Lawman

Digg is working on one: http://blog.digg.com/post... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

"On March 18, Dong Energy’s Anholt offshore wind farm connected its 36th Siemens 3.6 megawatt (MW) turbine to the electric grid, thereby bringing the total of Denmark’s connected offshore wind to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts).  This capacity covers the equivalent of about 1 million Danish households’ electricity consumption.  The Anholt complex itself will include 400 megawatts of capacity when completed.  And Denmark has no plans to stop there, recently announcing that it will invite bids for an additional 1,500 MW of offshore wind.  Denmark now gets almost 25% of its electricity from windpower, and this country of 5.5 million in habitants is planning to double that number to 50% by 2020." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

It would be interesting to see an analysis of costs vs other sources. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

There's also a huge value in not being dependent on external sources and/or sources that are environmental destructors. - Todd Hoff

I'll go with "Don't listen to old people, make your own mistakes." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Turkish jazz!! - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

I didn't come up with it, but I think the personal pool is brilliant! http://helablog.com/wp-cont... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Micah, have it two way. :D - Adrian

"In a complex more than 800 stories beneath the desert floor,the United States government has been spending billions of dollars on a top secret project, involving more that 12,000 specialized personnel living in their own self-contained city. The mission, as scientific director of the complex, Doug Philips heads a team that will try to be the first to send a man into time, and return him without harm." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet

Via Malik http://friendfeed.com/malikmq... :) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Fab! - Son of Groucho

I still remember when a megabyte seemed like an impossibly huge amount of memory/storage. - Victor Ganata

I'm glad IBM is still on the ball: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Tegan and Sara are good too! :) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Please note: http://friendfeed.com/kjmorle... ;) - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

I am too old for sarcasm my friend. Too old for most everything, it seems. - MoTO #TeamMonique

“There are thus good reasons for taking the experiences of religion seriously; from an atheistic point of view, too, one must say that religions involve something real and genuine that is concerned not merely with a yearning for the simplicity and innocence of the bicameral mind but with a highly contemporary authentic drama: the relationship between consciousness and nonconsciousness in a person. Atheists also have to live with the conflict described by the religions. Religion is far too important for atheists to leave to the religious.” - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

Excellent point. SEE WHAT I MEAN PEOPLE! - MoTO #TeamMonique

"Jaynes wrote that ancient humans before roughly 1000BC were not reflectively meta-conscious and operated by means of automatic, nonconscious habit-schemas. Instead of having meta-consciousness, these humans were constituted by what Jaynes calls the "bicameral mind". For bicameral humans, when habit did not suffice to handle novel stimuli and stress rose at the moment of decision, neural activity in the "dominant" (left) hemisphere was modulated by auditory verbal hallucinations originating in the so-called "silent" (right) hemisphere (particularly the right temporal cortex), which were heard as the voice of a chieftain or god and immediately obeyed." - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ from Bookmarklet

"Jaynes wrote, "[For bicameral humans], volition came as a voice that was in the nature of a neurological command, in which the command and the action were not separated, in which to hear was to obey."[1] Jaynes argued that the change from bicamerality to consciousness (linguistic meta-cognition) occurred over a period of ten centuries beginning around 1000 BC. The selection pressure... more... - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

"Chinese material scientists have created the world’s lightest material: A graphene aerogel that is seven times lighter than air, and 12% lighter than the previous record holder (aerographite). A cubic centimeter of the graphene aerogel weighs just 0.16 milligrams — or, if you’re having a problem conceptualizing that, a cubic meter weighs just 160 grams (5.6 ounces). The graphene aerogel is so light that an cube inch of the stuff can be balanced on a blade of grass, the stamen of a flower, or the fluffy seed head of a dandelion (see pictures below)." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

If it's lighter than air, wouldn't it float away? Helium is also about 0.17 mg/ml. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ

50ish - VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS

34. I still have it and it still runs, and I have even used it to post on friendfeed. - April Russo

I would wonder why too. If I drank coffee. - Bill Mason from email

Under and over caffinated employees are each unproductive in their own way. - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ