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"The researchers show that so-called "constructal theory" can explain basic characteristics of locomotion for every creature -- how fast they get from one place to another and how rapidly and forcefully they step, flap or paddle in relation to their mass. Constructal theory is a powerful analytical approach to describing movement, or flows, in nature." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

The wikipedia page though makes me wonder if this is just mumbo jumbo. - Amit Patel

Is it just me, or is every sentence in that article utter bullshit? Even the title sounds like it is from The Onion. - Alex Power

Get America Online Keyword - Philipp Lenssen

add Guest books for users to view and sign. - John Wang

Mark Noonan, after about 6 years of blogging, has finally made a blog post that is accurate? Can this be possible? For the record, I think this is evidence that Grayson isn't a Democratic Jesse Helms as I had earlier speculated, but more a Democratic Frank Cremeans (a one-term congressman from '94 I had to look up). - Alex Power

My dream scenario: Sarah Palin clinches the GOP nomination in 2012, but then drops out before the convention. Not for any political reasons, I just think it would be funny. - Alex Power

I wonder if TechCrunch will offer a separate "No mindless blather about any tiny feature of the Nexus One" RSS feed over the holidays. Is there any chance they don't average 2 posts a day for the rest of the year on this? - Alex Power

Translation: "We have no idea what price was paid, but if we throw out enough different numbers, we can look back and say we were right later." - Alex Power

Money quote: "JooJoo? “It means magic,” Chandra says. Well, yes. But then, so does prestidigitation. And legerdemain. You wouldn’t use those for a product name, would you?" - Alex Power

Henry Blodget blogging about tweets about his own company getting acquired? I think we may have reached the end of the internet. - Alex Power

A fair point not being mentioned. The question isn't whether his endorsements will dry up (they won't, having extramarital sex has to be on the approved vices list for Nike, etc.), it's whether it affects his golfing. - Alex Power

Sharing for the schadenfreude. - Alex Power

"I wonder what the biggest Web site is that’s never been suffered for more than, oh, five minutes of unplanned downtime?" - My vote: Qantas.com - Alex Power

The "Rumsfeld" theory of war that ground troops are unnecessary does seem to be widely discredited at this point. - Alex Power

The annoying thing about these articles is that nearly all of them confuse "hottest searches" in the sense of most growth with "most common searches". I assume that "facebook", "google", "yahoo", and "youtube" are in the top 10 of any major search engine. - Alex Power

An article on "how much RAM do I need" can't be considered complete without a mention of the term "page cache", but this is generally accurate. Average end-users are probably fine with 3G of RAM still. - Alex Power

I've done very well with the "open-jaw" tickets. - Alex Power

But, but, but the AP had "11 factcheckers" for the book! That proves that it must be accurate and claims otherwise are liberal bias, right? RIght? OK, fine, I can't say that with a straight face. - Alex Power

I'll give you a review. It's based solely on the previews. This movie is rotten. - Stephen Mack

New Moon? swooning teens? Is this *another* teen vampire film? - Alex Power

Alex, I want to be in your world, a world where New Moon hype doesn't exist. - Stephen Mack

Next up: 2000 words about tagging in delicious. Grr. - Matt Cutts

I think it's clear at this point that Twitter lists are probably the most important innovation of the decade. - Alex Power

"Lists will change the way computer science is taught" - http://twitter.com/ScobleS... - LogEx

If Democrats can't find a way to make political hay out of the Republican's utter stupidity and complete disdain for the Consitution, legal system, and the entire rule of law, there really is no hope. The stupidity in the GOP position here is mind-boggling. - Alex Power

Does this man not believe in a legal system at all? Providing people lawyers, trial by jury, presenting a defense, this isn't radical stuff he is objecting to. - Alex Power

I think this has a significantly higher chance of being something relevant in 5 years than Go does. - Alex Power

I think the better title here would be "How many electoral votes does the Pope have?" - Alex Power

I hope we don't end up having a total existence failure. - Victor Ganata

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational hadron collider. - Alex Power

The most shocking part of the graphic is the fact that Obama got less than 10% of the white male vote in Alabama and Mississippi. I guess it's proof the "Solid South" never went away, it just switched parties and was masked by letting non-whites vote. - Alex Power

So wait, he's hoping his party loses to prove that the party's position is unpopular? - Alex Power

3500 dollar bikes! The Google bikes are about $80 (and these are fancier than the old ones). I'm not sure I believe that cost number, but even at $350 they are probably expensive. And of course there's massive repair costs even without vandalism. I have no idea who came up with the "no more than 4% damaged/stolen" number in the contract. - Alex Power

Any right-wingers that celebrate this as "proof" they are winning are morons. The goal may be to go more conservative, but you still want people to vote for you. - Alex Power

I'm tired of how everything is an attack on developers. Every new Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, ... feature/product is ALWAYS viewed as an attack on developers that "already did it", even if it is obvious and more useful built-in to the product. A developer ecosystem is far better off if it adds value in a non-trivial manner than adding features that should have existed and crying foul when they are added. - Alex Power

Well, I'll be. I didn't think she'd have it in her to drop out. - Alex Power

Not terribly surprising, since there was no way he would beat Jerry Brown. - Alex Power