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We first started work on it almost 8 years ago. It has come a long way since then :) - Paul Buchheit

Sachin: he seems to be commenting on Closure the JS library, not Closure the JS compiler (that Paul's post was about). And he may be a douchebag, but I haven't seen anything I disagree with. - Gabe

Very interesting "behind the scenes" clip about one of the funniest bits from Airplane. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

I'm not sure where this is from. I have the cheapo version with Airplane! and Top Secret on one disc with NO special features at all. I should investigate a Collectors Edition of that movie since it was very influential in my formative years. - Brian Johns

I thought it had the slightest hint of leprosotic Yak with a tinge of infected Baboon's taint. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

You ever see the Simpsons episode where, on one of the hottest days in New York, an extremely thirsty Homer chooses crab juice over Mtn Dew? Yeah, I'd do the same. - Alex Scoble

I actually don't mind mountain dew, but I can totally understand why some folks can't stand it :) - Brett Kelly from iPhone

oh no - Mahmood Padura

You can tell an awful lot about an organization that does not speak highly of their former employees. None of it good. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

güzel fotolar yakalamıi:D - Ahmet Çakmak ℂ⋆

"A street entertainer waits for tourists in Havana August 25, 2009. (REUTERS/Desmond Boylan) ) - The Big Picture - Boston Globe - 11.11.09" - tomavana from Bookmarklet

Ha! That could have been taken inside my house! - Anika

Who the hell is throwing that crap at you? - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF

Children's librarians are the best. I am 100% certain that if it wasn't for the librarians at Silkeborg Public Library, I wouldn't have the same enjoyment of books that I have now. The librarians were always ready to help, to give advice or to put books aside they thought I'd enjoy. For the longest time I wanted to be a librarian because of the librarians I grew up with. Please don't let the asses get to you, you rock by helping/inspiring the young ones to read! - Rasmus Lauridsen

They avoid our house now. I have a tendency to ask too many questions. - Mark H

Volunteering can help with that as well as giving you some stuff to put on a resume. And given the economy and its effect on donations, non-profits need help now more than ever. One of the good things about volunteering is that you'll rarely meet someone who tells you you're not qualified enough to take something on. So it gives you a chance to get experience in areas an employer often wouldn't let you try. - Spidra Webster

Looks cool, but it's going to have to pull out all the stops to rival the Harryhausen version. - Michael R. Bernstein

Love the scorpion "double-tap". The industry has learned from Zombieland. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

conchords and bowie go together like chocolate and peanut butter - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Gözlüğünü çok sevdim, çıkar onu bebeğim. :') - http://sozluk.sourtimes.org/show... - Numan Arda Çebi from Bookmarklet

:):) - Fatih Bektaş

"The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves. The allegations raise serious questions about the accuracy of the organisation's latest World Energy Outlook on oil demand and supply to be published tomorrow – which is used by the British and many other governments to help guide their wider energy and climate change policies." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Scientists' Next Big Discoveries Predicted in Online Report on the 150th Anniversary of "On The Origin of Species" http://www.nsf.gov/news... - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

thankyou eivind for the link, a great read - chaz2b

"A gold mining firm is being investigated after part of one of the oldest sections of the Great Wall of China was damaged during prospecting. About 100 metres of the wall was badly damaged, and investigators from the Chinese government and regional police now plan to bring charges. The damage was originally discovered in September and work halted, but officials later found it had restarted." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Off topic, but it reminds me of something I heard on local (Inland Empire California) radio on the anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Let's just say that the words "Imma gonna let you finish" were part of what I heard. - John E. Bredehoft

It was almost one year ago to the day that I was standing on that very stretch of wall pictured (though not damaged) there. - Mark H

آخریشه دیگه..قول میدم - Sahar from Bookmarklet

همینو بگو:))) - Sahar

"Today, we use ion thrusters to correct satellite orbits and visit asteroids. In 100 years, we might be using them to propel massive generation ships that send colonists to a different part of the galaxy. Your typical space craft is propelled by chemical rockets. It is basically riding a continuous explosion to get from point A to point B. Chemical rockets are great for providing high acceleration, such as the kind of acceleration you need to escape a planet's gravity. They're not so great in terms of efficiency – it takes a lot of fuel to generate the powerful thrust of a chemical rocket. This makes them less than ideal for long-term missions, or applications that require fine adjustments, such as counteracting the weight of sunlight. That's where ion thrusters come in. The idea for such a thruster has been around since the early 20th century, and we've had working models at least since the 60s, but the technology has really come into widepsread use in the last ten years or so. Ion... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Hall Effect thrusters (pictured) hold electrons in place with a magnetic field, creating an area of negative charge. An anode draws electrons down toward the xenon atoms, ionizing the xenon. The ions are then drawn toward the magnetic field's negative charge. The field holds electrons in place, but the heavier xenon ions fly right past, out the back of the thruster. Other ion thrusters... more... - RAPatton

"Tyrannosaurus rex was an athletic, warm-blooded animal that jogged rather than lumbered around its territory, according to a new study. Researchers led by Herman Pontzer at the University of Washington, St Louis, examined the anatomical details of 14 dinosaurs of different sizes to work out how much energy the animals might have needed to move around. He found that, for dinosaurs weighing from a few kilograms to tonnes, the power their muscles needed was far too high for the animals to have been cold-blooded. "We found that the energy costs of locomotion for them, the amount of oxygen they'd have to consume to walk and run, would have far exceeded the rate of energy use that cold-blooded animals are able to sustain," said Pontzer. "This says they may well have been warm-blooded and, if so, we can't think of them as slow, lumbering reptiles any more." His results are published today in the journal PLoS ONE (http://dx.plos.org/10...)." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"If dinosaurs were warm blooded, it could explain their success in taking over large parts of the prehistoric world for hundreds of millions of years throughout the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Pontzer's analysis grew out of an approach he had already developed for understanding and predicting movement costs in living animals. His recent work had showed, for example, that... more... - RAPatton

T Rex be nimble, T Rex be quick, T Rex is very warmblooded when eyeing that chick - RAPatton from iPhone

"Colourful, swirling clouds of cosmic dust interspersed with glowing star clusters are revealed in this extraordinary image of the Milky Way. The dazzling image combining reds, yellows, blues and purples, was created by layering stunningly detailed pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory on top of each other. The Milky Way is at the centre of our own galaxy and this image shows its core. The image was created to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first demonstration of his telescope." - RAPatton

"The three space observatories peered into the central region of the Milky Way, which is 26,000 light years from Earth. One light year is nearly 6 million million miles, the distance light travels in a year. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, which is a galaxy with spiral arms and a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars. Our solar system sits half-way along the minor... more... - RAPatton

"What's causing spacecraft to mysteriously accelerate? The Rosetta comet chaser's fly-by of Earth on 13 November is a perfect opportunity to get to the bottom of it. The anomaly emerged in 1990, when NASA's Galileo spacecraft whizzed by Earth to get a boost from our planet's gravity and gained 3.9 millimetres per second more than expected. And the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft had an unexpected increase of about 1.8 millimetres per second during a previous fly-by of Earth in 2005. Scientists have ruled out various mundane explanations like atmospheric drag or the effect of deviations in Earth's shape. This has led some to propose that exotic new physics is involved, such as modifications of Einstein's general relativity, the currently accepted theory of gravity." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"All eyes are now on Rosetta, which is set to swing by Earth again at 0745 GMT on 13 November. It is en route to a comet, and will travel around 2500 kilometres above our planet's surface at over 13 kilometres per second. If it gains an extra 1.1 millimetres per second relative to Earth, it would vindicate a formula that reproduces the anomalies seen so far. The formula, published in... more... - RAPatton

"Splash Art is a truly beautiful art form requiring precise timing a specialized photography equipment. Masters of the genre often have complex studios set up with lasers, multiple flashes and controlers to achive the exact timing needed to capture these wonderfull images. With the abstract nature of splash photography you can often make out figures in the liquid forms. The artists featured below have taken this niche to new heights – perfecting their techniques and inspiring us all." - GokceGoksel

Cool Sculptures - VinonaGroupServicesUSA

Absolutely fantastic. - Bicentennial (Franc)