Ryan Dadey

I am really excited for this. Once this supports spreadsheets, I can imagine it replacing Excel for me and totally changing my work flow. - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

very nice looking short video - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

this is insanely cool - Ryan Dadey

It's all around you. - Derrick

"We can conclude that 93% of the mass in our body is stardust. Just think, long ago someone may have wished upon a star that you are made of." And the rest is big bang dust. - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

Amazing stuff - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"The most powerful weapon in any army's arsenal isn't a nuke--not even one of those big nukes that shoots smaller nukes. No, no weapon or technology can stand up to the classic military mindfuck." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

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This is funny. I showed up in the Long Now blog. - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"Adam Riess and his team observed quite a few galaxies in this way, and figured just how fast the Universe is growing to unprecedented accuracy. His result: 74.2 ±3.6 kilometers/second/megaparsec. That means for every megaparsec (about 3 million light years) you go out, the Universe is expanding 74.2 km/sec faster." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"Mr Wyn, a retired engineer from Bangor-on-Dee, picked up a deck-chair and flung it down at the gang before raising the alarm." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"The 70-megawatt plants, each of which would consist of two reactors on board giant steel platforms, would provide power to Gazprom, the oil firm which is also Russia’s biggest company. It would allow Gazprom to power drills needed to exploit some of the remotest oil and gas fields in the world in the Barents and Kara seas." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"if the project goes to full implementation—which could happen in five years’ time—each tube would be about 650 feet long. Each device is anchored to the ocean floor but moves with the waves, generating enough energy to power 1,000 homes." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"The Senate was contemplating the future of news, particularly newspapers, and will consider what (if any) action Congress needs to take to save the industry." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"Huffington says in her testimony that traditional media has been afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder, saying “they are far too quick to drop a story-even a good one, in their eagerness to move on to the Next Big Thing.” Online journalists, she says, have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder because “they chomp down on a story and stay with it, refusing to move off it until they’ve gotten down to the marrow.” She goes on to say that the two afflictions should be merged to produce optimal journalism." - Ryan Dadey

"Unconventional is the theme of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s latest round of endorsements. The foundation on Monday awarded 81 five-year research grants of $100,000 to scientists pursuing bold ideas that could lead to breakthroughs, focusing on ways to prevent and treat infectious diseases, such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia and diarrheal diseases [AP]." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"Another grant will support a scientist working on a fungus that can infect malaria-carrying mosquitoes and suppress their sense of smell—and thus prevent them from finding, and infecting, people." ????? - Ryan Dadey

"It turns out that just about everyone is making huge margins in Internet access, revenue is surging even as costs drop, and companies like Time Warner Cable have actually reduced (significantly) their capital outlays on infrastructure." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

via CrunchGear - "Paolo Angeli, an Italian musician (and clearly roboticist as well), has modified his guitar to have extra strings, a little strummer-bot, and a set of pedal-controlled string hammers." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"Buyers defy expectations with an increase in sales contracts signed during March." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"Pending home sales rose in March for the second consecutive month and are up year over year. The Pending Home Sales Index from the National Association of Realtors showed a 3.2% gain to 84.6 from February, when it was 82. The index stands 1.6% higher than a year ago." - Ryan Dadey

"NASA hopes to send a “nano-satellite” the size of a bread loaf into orbit tomorrow, where it will conduct experiments on yeast to determine how the microorganisms behave in space." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"The satellite’s lab will autonomously conduct drug testing in orbit, treating the yeast with anti-fungal drugs to see if the yeast responds differently to treatment when it’s free of the Earth’s gravity." - Ryan Dadey

"...consciousness is the matrix upon which the cosmos is apprehended. Color, sound, temperature, and the like exist only as perceptions in our head, not as absolute essences. In the broadest sense, we cannot be sure of an outside universe at all." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

Well put Robin. - Ryan Dadey

"It'd work like this: A city or neighborhood would all have fiber run to it at once, and then you'd purchase a share of the fiber and connect to whatever ISP you want. There'd be a connection point where any company could pay to set up equipment and offer service, which is sort of how it works in Amsterdam, Slater explains." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"The idea is that by placing site-specific structures at the bases of the turbines you can shape the flow of air in the vicinity of the turbine so that the highest velocities get targeted at the blades." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"The enormous meteor that smashed into Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago didn’t deal a death blow to the dinosaurs, a new study declares." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet

"Keisuke Goda's team at UCLA have built the fastest camera ever, which takes an upwards of a whopping 6.1 million pictures per second, at a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second." - Ryan Dadey from Bookmarklet