I find it hilarious that a relatively obscure *nix command (lsof) is being presented as part of a tip for Mac users. Mac OS: as easy to use as "lsof | grep /Volumes/Workspace". - Laurence Gonsalves
Very cool stuff. Some of the gestures seem complex and unintuitive, but maybe it would be quick to learn. It seems like they could simplify it a lot by letting you use a finger as a stylus of a different flavor, maybe to handle rotations. Then you wouldn't have to draw every line at least twice. - seth
Yeah, I agree about the gestures not seeming very intuitive, but like you say it might not be too hard to learn them. I actually kind of liked the drawing lines multiple times thing. People often do that when sketching with pencils, but I've never seen any kind of graphics software that worked like that before. - Laurence Gonsalves
I do think it's awesome what they do with the repeated lines. It'd just be nice if it weren't required for every stroke. And I wonder how long it'll be before there's a macro for deleting all the stray ends. - seth
"The 'Gastronomical Festival of the Cat' – dubbed the 'Massacre of the Moggies' – sees townsfolk in Canete, near Lima, feast on the fluffy pets for two days.
They believe that eating cat burgers – and fried cat legs and tails – can cure bronchial disease.
It is also believed that feline meat serves as an aphrodisiac.
The cats are bred especially for this festival – which takes place at the end of September on the Day of Santa Ifigenia." - Paul Buchheit
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Like lambs, but I eat lamb. Like cows, eat them too, ducks are quite cute, wouldn't say no to a nicely roasted duck breast, chickens have character, and taste really good... ...I'm sure if I was somewhere where I didn't understand the language, and no-one miowed at me, i'd not only eat cat, but i'd probably like the taste too. - Vicky Pearce
I see the picture and keep misreading the title of the story as "Furry over cat eating festival" - Andrei M. Marinescu
@Vicky: but cats are too intelligent to be served as dimsum... :,-( - Ron
What's the big deal? Every night is an eating festival for my cats! - Gabe
liked for Paul's cheezburger comment :-) - mathew ingram
very different than the furry cat overeating festival - Ivan Kirigin
I'm thinking about shifting my diet from vegetables and meat (very little, actually, I'm a quasi-tarian) to PETA activists. My cat, too, and he's all "I can has PETAburger". - dario
It didn't land on me how awful Palin's response was until now. - Robert Konigsberg
I was thinking the exact same thing as I watched part II of the Couric interview. The comment about Putin and our airspace is a classic. - Wil Witherspoon
"after decades of American anti-intellectualism, now we are supposed to trust that the people in power are smarter than we are, and simply hand them $700 billion" (not 100% accurate quote, but as close as I can remember). Why is it a bad thing to be smart in America? Why are the jocks running our country? - Robert Felty
Because all the people that used to tease you in school for being a nerd, or smart, or doing your homework - they're all voting now and they hate those damn smart people that used to make them look bad. - Brian Johns
I like that he used the word "anti-intellectualism". That's a topic I think about often. - Brian Johns
Originally the Galactica motion picture (for overseas distribution) was filmed with dialog explaining that the Cylons were creatures. They were blind and created helmet scanners to see. That explains the helmets... The living Cylons were changed to robots for the TV series because of an hourly body-count limitation for prime-time television. There was, however, no limit to how many robots could be ‘killed’ per hour so they became robots and dialog was revised to explain it all. - Zoe
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From Concept Ships: "Richard sent me some high resolution Battlestar Galactica concept art. Thanks so much! Check out the scale on the header image... Insane. " - Mark Trapp
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that first one looks like a water gun. - Sean O'Hanley
"raw muktuk can serve up an impressive 36 milligrams in a 100-gram piece" according to http://discovermagazine.com/20.... Lemons have 40mg of vitamin C per 100g according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V... which isn't quite consistent, but the numbers are close. The table on the wikipedia page is pretty interesting. - Laurence Gonsalves
"Known as muktuk, this favorite food is eaten raw when fresh or boiled when it has been stored." I wonder when Trader Joes will carry it. - torque
"It is unlawful to sell or purchase edible portions of Cook Inlet beluga whales, and edible portions of threatened or endangered species may only be sold by Alaska Natives in Native towns or villages for Native consumption. Additionally, edible portions of marine mammals other than Cook Inlet beluga whales and threatened and endangered species may be sold either A) for Native consumption or B) to non Natives if sold in Native towns and villages in Alaska (Native villages include Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau). Once purchased, these products do not have to be consumed in the Native village or town." - http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/prote... - torque
But a tall glass of ice cold blubberade is downright butt-nasty. - DeWitt Clinton
Laurence, the discover article is great, you should FriendFeed it! - Sanjeev Singh
whales look up, roll their eyes, go back to munching - Gregory Lent
It's also a great energy food....if you happen to be of the Innu (colloq. Eskimo) people. For people in more normal climates, or with access to normal food stores, citrus fruit has plenty of vitamin C, - Slippy Lane
before anybody decide to munch on muktuk, ought to take a look at this first, "Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is in reality home to some of the most contaminated people and animals on the planet." http://books.google.com/books?... - Lim, Kok Kim
Spore gets mostly 1-star reviews from people complaining about DRM. - Amit Patel
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I just bought the game but the post prompted me to do a quick search on SecuROM. Their official FAQ doesn't inspire much confidence. For example their uninstall instructions are written without much care: "To remove all SecuROM related files [...] type 'cmd' and press on the keyboard. Please type enter the path to the protected executable, e.g. C:\Program Files\My Game\game.exe
Add the following parameter and hit : /uninstall" http://www.securom.com/support... - Simon
They're up to 535 1-star reviews. Sheesh. - Amit Patel
“Idea for a useful webapp: A tool for doing web page mockups that's better than Photoshop because things actually look right (because it's rendered by the browser). It doesn't need to generate good html, so absolute positioning, etc is ok.”
Totally brilliant idea. I write my own bad html mockups in a text editor or whatever IDE I'm playing with at the time, but a tool to ease this process would mean I could get on to abandoning the half-finished project much sooner than usual. :-) - Slippy Lane
Please god no, don't create another "doesn't need to generate good html" code generator. srsly - Jason Wehmhoener
Well, as for the mockups, there is really great Firefox extension called Pencil. You should try it. - Mladen Srdić
using Cappuccino, an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser? - huixing
Paul, have you checked out Axure http://www.axure.com/? I've typically used Visio or resorted to whiteboards/paper as they are easier to edit. - Jauder Ho
Jason, I would be fine with it not generating html at all. As for Balsamiq and some of the others, the idea is actually that it would look more like the final product instead of less. Photoshop gets fonts wrong and stuff because it isn't a web browser, and yet people still keep using it, so it seems that it must have some advantage over the other tools. - Paul Buchheit
Photoshop has two major advantages, multiple uses and precision. Photoshop can be used for more than just web mockups. One person can achieve multiple goals with Photoshop while a mockup tool just makes mockups. The second advantage is the mockups look great in presentations because the author has complete control. Photoshop mockups aren't real they're hyper-real. - Kevin D. White
i would like to take my pencil on paper design straight into an app ... - Gregory Lent
Depends whether your goal is to sketch and idea or create a final design. For the latter, you really do want it to be pixel perfect. For the former, you want a "wireframe" or whatever the cool kids call it these days. - ⓞnor
What ⓞnor said. For "wireframes" a whiteboard is fine, but eventually you want pixel-perfect designs. - Paul Buchheit
Paul have you tried Fireworks, that's what our designers use. - Michael
http://www.balsamiq.com I got this link from Cooper U boards a while back, and a lot of my co-workers have found it very useful. While it's not pixel perfect, it allows for really quick mock ups with the idea that the design of the end product will be done by actual designers. - Sam Ee
I've been looking for something like this for years. Balsamiq is definitely a good start, but I feel like there's not quite enough depth yet. Has anyone had luck with stencils like the ones found at http://graffletopia.com/ (for Omni Graffle)? - Sutee Dee
pixel perfect? The web isn't print. Complete control over the rendering environment is an illusion. Don't submit to it! - Andy Bakun
"... the organisms were assembled in fractal patterns from frond-like building blocks. They were unable to move and had no reproductive organs, perhaps reproducing by dropping off new fronds. The creatures, which were neither animals or plants, are called rangeomorphs." - Sanjeev Singh
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"They accounted for over 80% of fossils early in the Ediacara period, when there were no mobile animals or traces of burrows. But they declined as more mobile animals evolved, apparently unable to compete, or perhaps being eaten themselves." - Sanjeev Singh
I'm getting married in 16 days and I can't relate to this at all. I value Reader and FriendFeed now more than ever! Anxiety shared is NOT anxiety squared! - Kevin Fox
I relate. Got married July 5th of this year and my Reader usage dropped sharply because of wedding prep and post marriage fun. I do spend a TON of time on Friendfeed though :) - Mo J.
I don't know why this never occurred to me, as there are blogs about every possible subject but... there are wedding blogs? And people subscribe to them?? I can't imagine the content changes much from site to site. "Today my maid of honor pissed me off" or "I gained a pound and my dress no longer fits." And these blogs certainly don't have staying power. Sorry to momentarily hijack your thread; just surprised at this little trendlet. - Carla Thompson
I knew Reader caused stress! I just needed proof. - Dustin
It sounds like she's just unsubscribing from some blogs, not ditching Reader entirely. - Laurence Gonsalves
A good wedding blog would give tidbits on advice learned, like "when looking for a wedding photographer, make sure you find one that includes giving you ALL of the RAW pictures that they took on CD or DVD" - Alex IHateMondays Scoble
Serious question - do boys get all freaked out and crazy about weddings like some girls do? - Kaia is a party pooper.
Kaia, you know women amplify and project their crazy to make their men crazy, right? - Jason Carreira
I guess I could see that. Like if you're not as freaked out as me about this then you don't care. - Kaia is a party pooper.
Now you're getting into the (crazy) spirit... - Jason Carreira
Kevin - The true anxiety hits the night before and during the wedding (and you have to fake smile for the in-laws). Happiness on the honeymoon! Then, return to reality' and .. "Wow, I'm married .. Well, this should be interesting". In Jason's case, it's probably even more interesting. - Charlie Anzman
I've been really happy with feedly. It keeps getting better and better. - Jason Shultz
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Awesome presentation, but there's a big flaw in his rhetorical argument. He says that if there's no evidence that one of our chromosomes is the union of two gorilla chromosomes then evolution is wrong, but that ignores the scenario where there was a common ancestor that had 46 chromosomes, we branched off, and a 'great ape' branch developed another chromosome pair, and that branch then split into gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutan. - Kevin Fox
Yeah, that statement jumped out at me as well. It's a bit weird, because the logical error he makes is counter to his argument. I got the impression that it was meant to be an odd sort of hyperbole, essentially saying that even when given the benefit of the doubt, creationism still comes out wrong, but I would've been happier if he'd been a bit more "scientific" in his explanation. - Laurence Gonsalves
