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- LogEx
Among others, I chose Mooncalf.’s work for the Best Moleskine Art of 2009. These hauntingly beautiful illustrations combine elements of the natural, supernatural, and modern. Mooncalf’s gallery is a must-see. http://www.escapeintolife.com/artist-...
"They are used on banknotes, securities, and passports worldwide for added security against counterfeiting. For currency, the precise techniques used by the governments of Russia, the United States, Brazil, the European Union, Madagascar, Egypt, and all other countries are likely quite different. The figures above show the same guilloche pattern plotted in polar and Cartesian coordinates generated by a series of nested additions and multiplications of sinusoids of various periods. Guilloché machines (alternately called geometric lathes, rose machines, engine-turners, and cycloidal engines) were first used for a watch casing dated 1624"
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
from Bookmarklet
"Mmm, real time dynamic maps of the Earth. It seems nowadays that supervillainy just isn't as hard as it used to be. Back in the days of Hugo Drax, you had to be a filthy rich eccentric to ever get to spy on the whole world, whereas today all you need is Google Earth and some Georgia Institute of Technology students. Using motion capture data and the veritable litany of CCTV cameras people have surrounded themselves with, the team have succeeded in mapping and animating the real time movements of cars, people and clouds. A proper unveiling is coming up at a symposium next month, by which point they might have added weather patterns, birds and river motions to that list, but for now you can enjoy the video demo after the break."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
from Bookmarklet
"With the consumer release of Google Wave scheduled for the 30th of September, InfoQ had a Q&A with Google Software Engineer Dhanji Prasanna about some of its less known internals, details about how it’s being developed by the Google engineers and the best practices involved."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
from Bookmarklet
=))))))))))))))))))))) میلاد و روژنا خب گناه داره این مرتضی هم یه مقدار من الان دلم سوخت خب
- Farzad
Deleted from Arts & Culture group. Sorry... but it doesn't belong here ;-) Thanks for understanding! Please only post pieces that have significant commentary attached to them.
- Brad Williamson
I'm a little confused . . . there has to be commentary to something to add it to your groups?
- Lethe Bashar
=)))))))))))) میلاد حاضرم عکسامون رو شیر کنیم ببینیم کی بیشتر شبیهه./ روژنا بمییییییییییییییر
- MortezaDalil
"This could be very addictive: Google (Google) is teaming up with board game maker Hasbro to launch a Google Maps (Google Maps) version of Monopoly (Monopoly). Monopoly City Streets, which launches Wednesday, allows users to compete in a live, worldwide version of the popular game, creating the biggest Monopoly tournament ever played. It’s an ambitious venture that we’ll confess to being fairly excited about: players will literally be able to buy any street in the world, and compete with every other player on the “board”. You start with 3 million Monopoly dollars, and can build not only hotels and houses but also football stadiums, castles and skyscrapers, reports the UK’s Guardian. Downing Street in the UK will cost $231,000, while Pennsylvania Avenue will cost $2 million."
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
It sounds like online Sim City to me. Or one of the tycoon games (lemonade tycoon, coffee tycoon, railroad tycoon or something of that sort that lets you start your own business and grow it as a game, soon you will have ads for buy monopoly gold and virtual currency just as they have now for WOW gold.
- TrafficBug
I've been trying to play for 2 hours, I can get to the game screen and it sit goes down. :(
- Jimminy Fuller
Sad to say Google didn't anticipate the popularity of this. I just enveloped myself with apple news with hopes it would be up, but no luck.
- Mac64
how on earth do they rate penn. avenue in the millions yet the street in which the UK government resides is only $231,000? Bit of an insult really :P
- alphaxion
oh, for you sim city lovers, check out www.citiesxl.com :)
- alphaxion
Mac64: Just to clarify, this is in no way a Google fail. This is a Hasbro game that is built upon Google Maps. Google may have helped with a bit of the development, but are in no way liable for the FAIL that is the launch of this game. Blame Hasbro ;)
- Kyle Wegner
Lets see how long it takes before asian clickworkers overtake the Monopoly City Streets market.... ;)
- Birger Hartung
I cannot seem to get it too work. It still shows the centOS thing.
- Zachary TG
I was able to get in long enough to spend my 3M. It was painfully slow, but I was able to snag streets in my neighborhood that I wanted. We'll see if it gets fun as they increase capacity, but this is a crappy situation right now because the best streets will go to the overly patient.
- Jason Wehmhoener
You see the Terms? It says it will only be open until January 2010 :( Then what?
- Kamilah Gill
"...players will literally be able to buy any street in the world..." - literally?
- Stephan Planken
there's a street in Manchester priced at 570million..
- alphaxion
Like Stallone in Rocky III , it took a competitor to kick Firefox’s butt into gear and despite the relative disappointment of Firefox 3.0 which was better but similarly sluggish, 3.5 is an all new and remarkably improved Firefox (at least in my eyes and on OS X).
- Zee.
My favourite thing about firefox and my experience with it on ubuntu is the fact that I don't have to maintain anything. Once it's set up with my preferences and a handful of addons, that's it. I just point it where I want to go, and it takes me there. Just like a browser should.
- Slappy Line
just for speed have to use chrome, except speed FIREFOX
- ramin babaei
@Chris Yes sir, at is awesome...but definitely not ready yet
- Zee.
i would switch over to safari if google gears works fine on it and the occasional crashes are fixed. İ dont get anything extra from firefox. Any plugins i install bogs it down and takes away stability.
- Alpay Erturkmen
from iPhone
alpay, i have a g4 ibook - i run ffx 3.5.1 and have about 10 add-on's (chatzilla, allinonesidebar, flashblock, adblock plus and some others) i don't feel like it's bogged down at all, and in fact 3.5 has been the best version on the mac (in my experience)
- Chris Heath
Yes Chris, I believe the firefox 3.5 is the best ever. But I prefer to use it stripped down. So why not switch to safari :)
- Alpay Erturkmen
Alpay, point taken & @zee, chrome for mac is getting there... there's nightly builds coming out and very soon they'll have all the pieces of the puzzle... i was surprised that kevin rose said he was using it as a secondary browser on his mac on twit 204 last night
- Chris Heath
Agreed and that's true as well on Windows IMO. No doubt that Chrome has its benefits in the performance dept but a second saved here or there is hardly worth the trade off over the functionality FF offers.
- Adi
Adi, i don't know... i've been using chrome only at work for a while, and at home i rarely open up firefox anymore... sure i'd like adblock, flashblock, context search, etc but the speed at which it opens is a big deal to me - remember how you got by without firefox extensions before there was a firefox/phoenix/firebird?
- Chris Heath
I must be missing something. I used to use Firefox all the time on Windows, but when I switched to OSX I started to use Safari, and haven't looked back. I've installed Firefox 3.5; maybe I need to spend more time with it, but I really don't feel like Safari 4 is missing anything for me.
- Jalada
Chris, as soon as Chrome gets a proper bookmarks manager and the ability to use bookmarklets like the Friendfeed boommarklet...I'll seriously consider it
- Zee.
from iPhone
I use Chrome mostly. I didn't use that many extensions anyway. I like the speed of Chrome. And, all my bookmarklets works just fine: FriendFeed, Twine, Reddit, Google Bookmarks, Evernote etc.
- Patrik Johansson
I dunno what extensions you guys are using, firefox opens instantly for me, provided I'm not restoring one of my 200 tab saved sessions. If I wanted it to be fast, I'd use less tabs. that said, I run friendfeed and youtube in a different browser so I can close them by themselves.
- Richard Lawler
Wow, really? Even Firefox 3.5 still seems to be the slowest browser on OS X. I'd rather use Safari 4 or Camino 2.0 beta. But lately, I've been using Chromium.app as my primary browser. It's still pretty buggy, it's missing a bunch of features, but doesn't crash all the time anymore, and it's extremely fast. To be fair, Fx 3.5 is way better than Fx 3.0.
- Victor Ganata
Me prefer Safari on Mac and Chrome on PC over it
- Ozkan Altuner
victor and zee: can you two compare version numbers for chromium.app? i've heard reports of two different versions out there... basically there's a 'dev preview' version or something that by now is way behind the nightlies (that i linked to above) -- i wonder if victor can use bookmarklets with his version.
- Chris Heath
Chris, I'm running 3.0.194 built from source about a week ago. I haven't tried bookmarklets yet. I guess it's time to resync and rebuild.
- Victor Ganata
still mostly using safari v4 for three reasons: i) CMD-number calls my favorite bookmarklets (facebook/reddit/readability/del.icio.us). ii) CMD-left/right for tab-switching (vs. CMD-PgUp/PdDown) iii) quicksilver integration of safari
- jh
Are you crazy? It sucks! On OSX! These last months mark the most times I've gone to IE and Opera because Firefox is spinning out of control. And no, I don't have any fancy plugins. I had to take them all off.
- anna sauce
I love chrome; it's as practical and simple as nature.
- میر «عرفان» موسوی
"YouTube claiming that “myths” about its business – which the company also defines as poor video quality and a lack of long-form content – are “officially busted” seems like a stretch considering that Google is still not providing any actual figures regarding the site’s performance."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Josh Cohen, senior business product manager for Google, has a message for newspapers: If you don't want your content to show up in search results and on Google News, it doesn't have to. In fact, newspaper developers can block Google's robots from crawling across their Web sites and gobbling up their content if they just insert a couple lines of code into their sites."
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
Hilarious. The newspaper industry continues to display the same behavioral patterns that have contributed to its demise. Many Old Media people simply don't get it.
- Sean McBride