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Need suggestions of book gifts for kids - ages all over the place, 2 to 10. one's into fishing, one's into drawing, one doesnt know yet..
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one's too young to care (16 months) and the last one mostly into star wars....
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
(yes, that's 5!)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
and actually there's 3 more... i'll go animal themes for those
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
so far, twitter wins the helpful answer contest
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
there are a metric tonne of star wars books, tales from mos eisley cantina was a good one
- Mike Chelen
I always go with Roald Dahl. You can't go wrong. I also love the Neverending Story which I think I read around that age. If they like books already perhaps also something from the classics, I loved Jules Verne when I was young (come to think of it, that explains quite a lot)
- sofiagk
In the genre of drawing books, The ones by Ed Emberley were huge favorites of mine when I was a kid. The best was Make a World. Besides teaching how to follow step-by-step instructions, it gave me a whole new way of looking at complicated things, and taught me to break them down into the simplest parts. This is a skill that carries way past drawing, into just about any task one would ever need to complete. http://www.amazon.com/gp...
- April Russo (app103)
Theory: if you were using FriendFeed as a tool, only trying to get something out of it, it's now lame. But if you were just having a good time, it's better than ever. True/false?
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Corollary: If you're just leveraging your social whatsits rather than communing with others, you bore the shit out of me and that's why it's better without you.
- Lo
Sorry if that was too mean, I plead lady hormones!
- Lo
for me true its my lifeline to the world.........
- VAL D. Zone
I mostly use it for pleasure, but also for information at times. It can be quicker and easier to get an answer in here to some questions than posting in a forum.
- Ian May
It is still the best tool for me personally. I use Lazyfeed, Meehive and Thoora etc. etc. I still find lots of useful and interesting content both current and archived on FF.
- Eric Logan
I still use FF as a tool. It's a great tool to follow and converse with a wide variety of people and to make friendships.
- Beau Liening
from iPhone
I came here to escape the narcissism of twitter. BTW FF squashes twitter like a grape. I enjoy the camaraderie. this place rocks.
- Mike Nencetti
I use Twitter too. Always found them to be apples and oranges. I like both.
- Ian May
Beau, good point, tool was poor word choice on my part. I'm just remembering my early FF days, where people would have one thing auto-posted across 8 services that was all about using more services... it's like a tech Tim Taylor disorder, having lots of tools is good but unless you make stuff what's the point?
- Lo
Dang, Lo, if that's what lady hormones do to you, I say bring it on!
- Michael R. Bernstein
IOW, True.
- Michael R. Bernstein
It is so much better when you don't care where the early-adopter tech types do or say.
- Rob Haas
is True
- L Stephen Cleary
Very true.
- Alex Scoble
Absolutely true
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
True.
- Steven Perez
LOL: "leveraging your social whatsits" :)
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
True. But isn't having fun one way to leverage your social whatsits?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I think FF is a tool - one that ensures I get like zero work done if I don't turn it off frequently.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
anything will be lame, if you don't ever have a little fun ;)
- Mike Chelen
*loved for lady hormones* :D
- Bette Cooper
What is your Steam profile URL? Mine is: http://steamcommunity.com/id...
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Feel free to add me. :-) #whatsyoururl
- Kol Tregaskes
superiphi here :) - although I tend to buy my games on Impulse if they are there instead of steam, less region-limited and less restrictive (can start a game when offline, what innovation!!!)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle, what's the full URL? It cannot find you here: http://steamcommunity.com/id...
- Kol Tregaskes
/chrisnixon
- Chris Nixon
from BuddyFeed
I like the idea of Raptr, which I'm importing here, but I just have not had time to play steam games recently, unfortunately. Part of this is because I have to reboot my computer to go into Windows to do so. http://steamcommunity.com/id...
- Andy Bakun
I installed raptr and didnt like having to leave that client running all the time - didnt quite trust it, had weird glitches after installing
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Andy, speaking of Raptr: http://ff.im/a1jHP ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
full URL http://steamcommunity.com/id... guess I will have to create a friendfeed group there too
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
with all these gamesey services it would be nice if they could be made aware of games not bought through them... especially when they are games which are also sold by them. A lot of rereleases I cannot easily play with my friends who buy them now, as I have the original version. And I surely wont buy it again!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Thanks, Chris, Joelle.
- Kol Tregaskes
anyone on Impulse or ReadyToPlay? Just curious
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Nope, I signed up for Rupture but not really used it.
- Kol Tregaskes
I like the idea of readytoplay, set your gaming styles and find people with similar styles to play with in games you both own - clearly more important for collaborative games than competitive ones
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hmmm, I'll check that out. Thanks, Joelle.
- Kol Tregaskes
http://steamcommunity.com/id... I need to buy more games =(
- rei yano
http://steamcommunity.com/id... always down for CS1.6 or TFC :)
- Mike Chelen
Any more? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
sofarsoshawn ~ duh shouldn't you know by now Kol
- sofarsoShawn
http://steamcommunity.com/id... Feel free to add me too :O)
- Jeannette Høvring
Thank you all!
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks.
- Kol Tregaskes
I play L4D2 http://steamcommunity.com/id...
- RuthNH
Mainly playing L4D2 and 1 atm http://steamcommunity.com/id...
- Tyson
Can anybody make GM-script for quick add ff-username in reply? In format @username. For now I should move username to reply field and change http://friendfeed.com to @. I think it's not very hard work, but very useful.
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how about #username then it is hotlinked
- Mike Chelen
nicknames and lot of more, feel free to write your own, its simple and need no more 15-30 minutes http://my.opera.com/Vital...
- Vital
hmm, linked to #what?
- Vezquex: God of FF
FriendFeed Force Word Wrap | userstyles.org - http://userstyles.org/styles...
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"forces wrap on friendfeed posts and comments"
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
:D
- Benjamin Tseng
Solved the problem.
- Itachi
A+++, would wrap again.
- Vezquex: God of FF
InnoCentive - Challenge Overview - http://gw.innocentive.com/ar...
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"This Challenge requests that Solvers implement a particular database meant for managing the ordering of DNA sequences. The database schema, table create scripts and some strongly recommended interface designs are all laid out in exquisite detail. The Seeker who creates the most complete solution will be awarded the full award if all of the stated requirements are met."
- Deepak Singh
from Bookmarklet
Is 45K sufficient for a project like this? Or do you do it while doing others?
- Deepak Singh
it's difficult to determine without seeing the full details, it seems odd to require registration when finding interested participants from a wide audience is part of the goal
- Mike Chelen
I've always felt that Innocentive is a great idea but the implementation is a little dated and flawed
- Deepak Singh
from IM
Looks like what they want is a PHP application (running on Zend/Apache/Linux) that uses an existing Oracle database schema and authenticates through an Active Directory server. The first third of the request appears to describe basic user management functions. The rest is a simple workflow / order fulfillment system.
- Eric Jain
@Deepak: 45K seems quite generous for what looks like at most a month of work. But I'd be concerned that they end up amending the original specs repeatedly after seeing your submission (a typical problem with up-front specs). I wonder how strict InnoCentive is about that? And who judges whether your submission meets the specs?
- Eric Jain
@Mike: The specs include a database schema and some (not so useful) UI mockups, so I can see that they don't want to make that available to anyone who hasn't agreed to some kind of non-disclosure statement (though you can get access from an unverified dummy account). But I agree that they should at least have included the technical requirements (PHP etc) in their summary.
- Eric Jain
Eric If it's a month, definitely not a bad deal. One of the better ones I've seen there anyway. I wonder if anyone on this list has actually used Innocentive. I know lots of folks who hack on stuff for mech turk, but that's an entirely different ballgame
- Deepak Singh
from IM
Is there anything on mech turk that can earn you more than 45 cents? :-)
- Eric Jain
Not sure but I know some guys who do a lot of Wikipedia-related stuff which I think goes for > $1 :)
- Deepak Singh
from IM
Another similar challenge here: http://ff.im/d4eY1
- François Dongier
Dave Winer's "WHERE EVERYBODY GO" thread made me LOL. For all the wrong reasons. Thanks for firming up my suspicions, social media peoples.
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Lesson learned: if their insular little circle didn't shit out the golden turd, then it's not worth knowing, is it?
- Steven Perez
How long have I been making fun of people who take social media seriously?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Honestly, between Robert Scoble's stupid "only the English-speaking people count on FF's stats" comment and the myopia of the afore-mentioned thread, I wonder why I didn't block these fools earlier.
- Steven Perez
I found it interesting that all the naysayers in that thread had gray bubbles next to them. But the people who actually use FF where all blue. Hmmmmm.... ;-)
- Jason Huebel
from Android
Amber said it best: if you think this service is shit, then GTFO. Stop poking your head in every other week and bleating about how FriendFeed is dead. Just *go*.
- Steven Perez
Agreed.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
And while we're on the subject, here's a helpful tip for the social media set: if you see that no one is talking about the subject that you want to talk about, THEN START THE CONVERSATION YOURSELF. And get over the fact that "no one" is engaging your threads, you narcissist. Believe it or not, there will always be people who want to talk about your stuff, just as there will also be people who think your stuff is more boring that watching grass grow. Grow up and get over yourself.
- Steven Perez
*chestbumps Steven*
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
What happened? I seemed to miss this post. Guess they are just not that important in my feed. :)
- CW™
Ah thanks Steven. Looks like a typical whine-fest even with a R.Scoble comment or two.
- CW™
What I don't understand is how all these so called experts don't understand you only get what you put in to a site. If you only cause grief and posts about negative things your going to get crap out of it. Want to have a site with a certain subject then add to it with that subject. Maybe you will attract others to it. Other then that.. I'm glad I'm not subbed to them and they are not in my feed.
- CW™
I wish to register a complaint. No, not really. I like Friendfeed. It's diverse, informative, and entertaining, sometimes all at the same time.
- Ian May
I wish to register a complaint: there are too many complaints.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
that thread was puke-a-licious.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I fondly remember the tweet from a person who was considered one of the top 50 Social Media Experts that described her absolute disbelief that a certain Kevin Rose enterprise was shuttering the servers and ending her employment. Now, I ask you, as an Expert (as recognized by her peers), wouldn't you think she would have had some inkling? It's all a sham and I really don't like the emporers new clothes.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Whenever I see the words "social media" my brain glazes over.
- Lis Miller
Mmm, honey-baked BRAINZ! GNARR!!
- Joe Silence is not Santa
most imaginative use of "golden turd" this week :D
- Mike Chelen
To Dave Winer: so where are the interesting conversations happening? Any specific pointers? Definitely not on Twitter, and I subscribe to the smartest Twitter feeds -- I know what's going on there. The Twitter interface is intensely conversation hostile. The best conversations are occurring mostly in the comments sections of a few of the best blogs on the planet, as best I can tell, and there are some useful conversations on Friendfeed, if you look around.
- Sean McBride
Most of these people are not interested in conversations, they're interested in promoting their agendas. Twitter's perfect for them.
- Bill Kinney
Dave Winer started a group here on Friendfeed called newsjunk, which really didn't gain much traction in terms of provoking in-depth conversation and discussion. I imagine that his Twitter feed is producing even less in the way of meaningful discussion -- one can't really conduct substantive discussions on Twitter. Dave should check out Glenn Greenwald's blog on Salon.com (I know he's...
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- Sean McBride
Bill, to be fair, technologically-mediated conversations *are* the agenda for Dave.
- Michael R. Bernstein
What format do you use to store your digital music files? Do you rip your own CDs? Where do you play your music files?
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mp3
- Mike Nencetti
I've been using mp3 since I started ripping, but I'm thinking of converting to Apple lossless.
- Cristo
I rip to FLAC.
- Christopher A Carr
Does iTunes support FLAC?
- Cristo
all mp3. Anyone who says they can tell the different between a 320kb mp3 and flac is full of crap. I rip my cds.
- Daniel Morgan
I don't think it does, but I steer well clear of iTunes, so I couldn't tell you for sure.
- Christopher A Carr
Daniel, what do you listen to your mp3s on?
- Cristo
I don't rip to FLAC because I think I can hear a difference between FLAC and a good mp3, I just like to have an archival format from which to make mp3s...the CDs can then go in a box.
- Christopher A Carr
For music I care about, I rip my own CDs to 192kbps (CBR) mp3. For music I'm just interested in checking out, I'll download at 160 or 192kbps mp3. I listen to about 40% of my music on my Zune 80 device using the FM transmitter to play over my car stereo. The rest of the time, I listen to my music either through my computer at home (three speaker system) or through my bluetooth stereo headset on my computer at work.
- Curtiss Grymala
mp3 and flac, all downloaded (made my own rips long ago, it takes more time & effort)
- Mike Chelen
Almost everything I have is in M4A with a few MP3s scattered around. I ripped my entire CD collection and have been buying things from iTunes (and occasionally Amazon). I play everything through iTunes either on one of my computers or through our A/V system.
- Akiva Moskovitz
mp3 usually. have a lot of aac and wma too though. 99% downloaded. rip cds only for kids cds. listen on cds in the car, ipod, computers all around the house
- Itachi
I play all my music from iTunes, Sonos, or iPods. Sonos supports Apple lossless, which is why I'm considering it. About 90% of my music is ripped from my own CDs, 9% bought from iTunes, and 1% misc from the web.
- Cristo
Something that makes me sad is that the Sonos amplifiers aren't as high quality as what you can get standalone, but there is no alternative UI as good as Sonos for multi-zone audio. Unless maybe you use some super high-end Crestron system, which I'm allergic to both because it's so closed and overpriced.
- Cristo
iTunes .m4p mostly, but now, streaming via Spotify.
- Louis Gray
The library I listen from is MP3 and WMA. I rip to MP3 using EAC. I play most of my music from my PC
- LANjackal
High quality mp3 mostly, and iTunes purchased format. I generally listen to music in the car from my iPhone, my Linux box, or my iMac with iTunes.
- Beau Liening
from iPhone
I rip to FLAC for archiving, and convert to 192kbps mp3 for my listening devices.
- jcunwired
FLAC has been interesting me recently. Before that it was all MP3.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
We just had carolers. Carolers. I was charmed but I also had no idea what to do so we kind of hid. They left food.
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I'm sorta like that around mimes
- WarLord
You have mimes that go door-to-door in your neighborhood? That's weird.
- Akiva Moskovitz
ROFL
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Its the cold weather, nobody on street corners, door to door is the only way
- WarLord
FAIL, and WIN
- Josh Haley
I miss door-to-door caroling. I haven't lived in a neighborhood safe enough to do it for many years.
- Spidra Webster
A friend of mine and I used to go caroling every Halloween.
- Glen Mistletoe
I wish I still had the issue of Dynamite magazine that had Halloween carols in it. "Deck the halls with balls of cotton, 'tis the season to be rotten"
- Spidra Webster
Remember how you were telling Rochelle she needed a digital mezuzah? Do you have an analog one?
- Spidra Webster
I think we had carolers once. It was quaint.
- Lis Miller
usually performers appreciate applause, though hiding in the shadows is considered a compliment at the milford academy
- Mike Chelen
I'm Catholic and have no idea what you're supposed to do. I'd imagine, go out and greet them? Introduce? Get to know neighbors and all that? But that's just speculation. I'm not sure if that would piss off Carolers, by delaying them from the next house and making them stop singing.....
- Matthew DeVries
I figured it was a church group and thought they probably left church literature on the porch so when they were gone, I went out to check. No literature, just a package of what I'm guessing is brownies. Who wants to eat them and see what happens?
- Rochelle
Around here, people open their door and stand outside and listen, then clap or thank them when they're done.
- Trish R
Tell them you're Jewish and that Jesus wasn't a real Messiah. ;-) They won't come back.
- Jason Huebel
lol you peeps make me laugh
- VAL D. Zone
Actually, I don't think we've ever had carolers. Maybe at the mall they had some people caroling over by the big clock. But that's not the same. They're supposed to come to you. Isn't that what they're paid for? *someone whispers in my ear* What? They don't get paid? Then what are they doing out in the cold? Silly people.
- Jason Huebel
cauldron of hot oil - don't stay home without it.
- Morgan Haley
"The smallest minds ... selfishest souls ... and cowardliest hearts that God makes" - http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts...
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sanctions damage international relations, while the burdern is shouldered by the population
- Mike Chelen
The sanctions won't even work -- which makes them exceptionally stupid.
- Sean McBride
Potential FriendFeed Hole Allows Users to Embed Web Bugs - http://staynalive.com/article...
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April Russo (app103), Mike Chelen, Oğuz Serdar and 15 other people liked this
Ironic that the Tweetmeme button's showing up here :-)
- Jesse Stay
Note that MediaRSS images don't show up in the iPhone version of FriendFeed (http://www.friendfeed.com/iphone...), so this hole doesn't apply to that version, just the regular version.
- Stephen Mack
Good catch, Jesse.
- Micah Wittman
Feature. Tweetmeme's image is no more out of place here than it is on your blog.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Bruce, that's fine, but I'd love for FriendFeed to say that. Otherwise I'd love to see them allow us to ignore the tweetmeme button.
- Jesse Stay
How would your blog communicate that certain images should be ignored other than omitting them from the Media RSS feed?
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Bruce, FriendFeed can ignore any image they like. It's their service.
- Jesse Stay
I don't want FriendFeed to decide which images to include. I want to decide what images to include. It's my feed. (I'm not joking or being contrary. It works the way I think it should work.)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Yes, but you could decide which images FriendFeed blocks on FriendFeed. Personally, I don't want web bugs in my stream - I think they should kill them. It opens up for some interesting uses of the site, but I think it's dangerous.
- Jesse Stay
That would work until you clicked through to the blog post. The problem has to be solved at the browser end.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I don't mind the Tweetmeme button on my blog. I mind it on FriendFeed. That's beside the point though - the point is web bugs can be embedded by anyone in a post to FriendFeed, posting cookies, tracking IPs, and possibly more. If that's what FriendFeed wants I'm fine with it - it seems like an issue though.
- Jesse Stay
I'm sure it was a conscious decision. They know how to make their own thumbnails.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Jesse: I don't think there is any security hole here. Certainly any external pieces of media can track you but it can't do anything serious like, for example, access FriendFeed cookies. Disabling third-party cookies solves your problem of being tracked across the web.
- Benjamin Golub
The Tweetmeme plugin for wordpress allows you to put the image at the bottom of your RSS posts. I keep it at the top on the actual blog and at the bottom for RSS so I can avoid this problem.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Isn't this problem on you, the content publisher's side? You told FriendFeed to read a mediaRSS-enabled feed that pointed to images that you don't control. You introduced the ostensible third-party tracking on your own site, embedded that tracking into your feed, and had FriendFeed import the feed. I'd rather have FriendFeed import the feed as accurately as possible and have you remove...
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- Mark Trapp
In your RSS feed, you have two lines in every item block that need to be removed to fix this for you: <media:thumbnail url="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebu..." /> <media:content url="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebu..." medium="image" />
- Mark Trapp
Mark, no, that problem is FriendFeed's. If they don't want 3rd-party images that can dynamically produce content, set cookies, etc. on their users' computers they need to stop that practice. It doesn't sound like they want that though, so it sounds like it's no one's problem in that case. I was just raising what I thought was an issue. If they don't think it's an issue then I guess it's fair game.
- Jesse Stay
Embedding offsite images from RSS feeds is not unusual -- for example, Google Reader does the same. As others have mentioned, if this is a concern for you, there are browser config options that will address it across all sites.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, thanks - that's fine. I just wanted to be sure the FriendFeed team was okay with it. Now to come up with some cool technologies that utilize that. :-)
- Jesse Stay
it is important for publishers and users to be aware of these technical implications. this is a good feature for some purposes, and hadn't been apparent to me before, thanks for pointing it out
- Mike Chelen
iit's a moot point since there aren't any friendfeed users any more
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Suezanne, um, yeah
- Jesse Stay
About that whole idea of disallowing 3rd party images in friendfeed posts: That might make it impossible for some people to have any images displaying with their posts if their images are not hosted on the same domain as their blog, which would be the case with Blogger's *.blogspot.com blogs. Plus, even if you whitelist the domains Google uses for Blogger image hosting, it still creates...
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- April Russo (app103)
Fwd: dear lazyweb, which (preferably biomed-heavy) pop science magazine would you recommend for an 18 year old? (via http://friendfeed.com/psique...)
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scientific american, popular science, nature, science, and new scientist are interesting and rigorous
- Mike Chelen
+ GEO and parts of Resonance (mostly physical and chemistry related articles) http://www.ias.ac.in/resonan...
- Khader Shameer
If it's just for light reading and raising interest, http://seedmagazine.com/ is not a bad choice either
- Oliver Hofmann
Embedding 3D models of biological specimens in PDF publications - http://www.citeulike.org/user...
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Microscopy Research and Technique, Vol. 71, No. 11. (2008), pp. 778-786. By providing two examples, the option for embedding 3D models in electronic versions of life science publications is presented. These examples, presumably representing the first such models published, are developmental stages of an evertebrate (Patella caerulea, Mollusca) and a vertebrate species (Psetta maxima, Teleostei) obtained from histological section series reconstruction processed with the software package Amira. These surface rendering models are particularly suitable for a PDF file because they can easily be transformed to a file format required and components may be conveniently combined and hierarchically arranged. All methodological steps starting from specimen preparation until embedding of resulting models in PDF files with emphasis on conversion of Amira data to the appropriate 3D file format are explained. Usability of 3D models in PDF documents is exemplified and advantages over 2D illustrations...
- Björn Brembs
Awesome 3D models, rotatable, zoomable, everything within a PDF with no extra plug-ins! Amazing!
- Björn Brembs
I think they should have mentioned some Open Source alternatives to Amira/Adobe, my favourites being http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/ and http://www.ctan.org/tex-arc... . For the fossil part, see also http://www.virtualpalaeo.org/ (summary in http://newsletter.palass-pubs.org/pdf... ).
- Daniel Mietchen
+1 Björn - this is a most impressive piece of work !! @Daniel, I'll check those links out tomorrow.
- Graham Steel
Now I need to find out how to get the 3D model of our experimental setup into our PDFs!
- Björn Brembs
Daniel: how is imagej used to embed 3d models?
- Mike Chelen
imagej produces the 3D models, animate the embedding.
- Daniel Mietchen
That is a great link Bjorn. My student has been producing similar models of brain/brain regions that are extremely useful since one can rotate the brain, remove regions, or "slice" it at different angles (great when trying to interpret histology and also to calculate stereotaxic approaches for electrophysiology). But it never occured to me he could publish the dynamic pdf.
- Kubke
Does anyone know if Osirix can do the pdf trick? http://www.osirix-viewer.com/index...
- Kubke
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MathJax - Math display for all browsers - http://www.mathjax.com/
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"MathJax is an open source, Ajax-based math display solution designed with a goal of consolidating advances in many web technologies in a single definitive math-on-the-web platform supporting all major browsers."
- Itachi
from Bookmarklet
Want! when will it be available? fall 2009 is almost over
- Christina Pikas
Almost? I'd say December qualifies as winter.
- Matt Leifer
It needs a way to copy and paste, like Wolfram Alpha has.
- Vezquex: God of FF
Hmm, I wonder if W|A takes LaTeX? It'd be REALLY nice if W|A outputted into LaTeX, since so many scientists, mathematicians, and students use it
- Itachi
nope, uses Mathematica
- Vezquex: God of FF
Matt: might have been referring to release of the preview: http://www.mathjax.org/...
- Mike Chelen
Mike: No, on http://www.mathjax.org/?p=88 they stated that the "first major release" would be available in the fall. Since it is open source, I am not sure why they are not providing a public facing repository as a developer preview prior to the official release. It looks useful already and it would benefit them to enlist people in bug hunting.
- Matt Leifer
Matt: they are providing a public facing repository: http://sourceforge.net/project...
- Dan Hagon
Aha, thanks for that. I didn't see the link on the mathjax site.
- Matt Leifer
CTAN animate - Create PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics - http://www.ctan.org/tex-arc...
"This package provides an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven PDF animations from sets of (vector) graphics or rasterized image files or from inline (vector) graphics, such as LaTeX-picture, PSTricks or pgf/TikZ generated pictures, or just from typeset text. The resulting PDF can be viewed in current Adobe Readers on all supported platforms."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
Science: The looming crisis in human genetics | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/display...
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"Human geneticists have reached a private crisis of conscience, and it will become public knowledge in 2010. The crisis has depressing health implications and alarming political ones. In a nutshell: the new genetics will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more than feared about human evolution and inequality, including genetic differences between classes, ethnicities and races."
- Itachi
from Bookmarklet
we'll know more than before - surely a good thing.......
- winckel
For a different perspective, see the Nature article "Let's celebrate human genetic diversity" http://ff.im/9PbOx
- Ruchira S. Datta
Uh-Oh...
- Christopher Harley
See rebuttal by Luke Jostins at The Sanger Institute "The Economist has a rather distressingly bad article by the evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, about the supposed general failure in human disease genetics over the last 5 years...." http://www.genetic-inference.co.uk/blog...
- Duncan Hull
Thanks Duncan.
- Itachi
my opinion sides heavily towards nurture (upbringing, environment) versus nature (heritable traits) in human behavior
- Mike Chelen
Certainly, one could never use knowledge of how drugs work differently in different genetic backgrounds to help cure disease, right?
- Mr. Gunn
Scary RT @mashable: Big news tonight! - "FarmVille Maker Zynga Raises an Astounding $180 Million" - http://mashable.com/2009... Gah!
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why scary? it is thrilling to see more activity in this promising area
- Mike Chelen
Real money or facebook credits? :-/
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
what's the exchange rate?
- Mike Chelen
What's the economic of millions of clueless people who will do simple repetitive tasks for anyone for free? $180 Million sounds like a bargain.
- Mr. Gunn
it is an exchange of attention for the game service. a notable change from subscriber model mmorpg like wow
- Mike Chelen
Curse you, Friendfeed plain iPhone web interface and your lack of "Share" and multiple recipients. Just sayin.
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is the opera browser available for iphone?
- Mike Chelen
Other than browser-like behavior in apps that pull web page data, I don't believe there's such a thing as a free-standing web browser for iPhone other than Safari. I could be wrong.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from email
maybe try fftogo, or an app like buddyfeed
- Mike Chelen
Small victory having convinced sales and mktg folks to use GDocs summarily thwarted by Berlin Film Festival form. There's still GCalendar.
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docs spreadsheet has forms?
- Mike Chelen
Yes! Kinda clunky, tho. IMO
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from email
it's extremely powerful though, because it hooks through all the excel-type spreadsheet functions online. maybe find another form service like surveymonkey to get them started, and start learning google spreadsheet w/ forms for more analytics in time
- Mike Chelen
Just discovered 2x podcast playback on iPhone. Awesome time saver!
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what, you don't have the latest 4x playback?
- Mike Chelen
RT @judell @cameronneylon "The minimal publishable unit of science -- the paper -- is too big, too monolithic. The useful unit: a blog post"
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or microb- *ahem* µblog
- Mike Chelen
Caveat tveetor : For Viral Crooks, Social Networks Are Prime Targets - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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humans, the oldest security hole :D
- Mike Chelen
xkcd on overturning scientific dogma - http://xkcd.com/675/
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I love the phrase "president of physics."
- Christopher Granade
"I mean, what's more likely -- that I have uncovered fundamental flaws in this field that no one in it has ever thought about, or that I need to read a little more? Hint: it's the one that involves less work."
- John Dupuis
trying to figure things out is the right instinct
- Mike Chelen
Biotech in the basement :: Nature Biotechnology - http://www.nature.com/nbt...
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Another perspective on DIYbio and the 'biohacker movement'. Quote: "a few one-off projects, largely inactive websites and some press coverage in places such as Wired, Le Monde and even the staid Economist does not a movement make."
- Andrew Perry
from Bookmarklet
at least they are covering it ;)
- Mike Chelen
I still argue the numbers aren't quite high enough yet to rule out "fad" though - its numbers are much more convincing now however.
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I suggest taking 72 hours off from numbers.
- Louis Gray
I haven't been incorrect on numbers yet. (this Tweet was referring to Twitter, btw)
- Jesse Stay
I think if Jesse reduced his number talk by 20%, that would actually indicate there's long term upward trend in overall number conversations, Louis.
- Ken Sheppardson
@Jesse I know what it was in reference to.
- Louis Gray
Louis, so you disagree with me?
- Jesse Stay
...
- Louis Gray
where are numbers for different user types? how can visits be compared with attention time? having more measurements would improve the accuracy of conclusions
- Mike Chelen
"The numbers are bad!" </Hurley> :)
- Micah Wittman
Tempted to download Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" to my MyTouch. #fb
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DO IT NOW
- Mo Kargas
YOU MUST!
- Joe Silence is not Santa
"Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day"
- Christopher Harley
"You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way."
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I have a weird quirk with this album. I can never get just one song stuck in my head: It's the whole album that plays in my head, start to finish, every time. #NotThatImComplaining
- vicster needs a nap
i have that happen with both DSOTM and WYWH.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Great. Now that someone has mentioned Wish You were Here, I'll have to get that one too. :D
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
either do it now, or take a week building a time machine, then go back two weeks and do it last thursday
- Mike Chelen
Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming – Telegraph Blogs - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news...
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researchers are accuseed of intentionally limiting their sample size
- Mike Chelen
Bryan Singer just leaked that he's directing the next X-men Origins film on the AVATAR "blue carpet". What do you think about that?
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the technology is a tool, which can be used for both good & evil ;)
- Mike Chelen
Are You Addicted to the Internet? - http://chris.pirillo.com/are-you...
yes, also food and water, but i can stop any time i want
- Mike Chelen
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