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"With the holiday shopping season officially under way, millions of consumers proceeded to their nearest commercial centers this week in hopes of acquiring the latest, and therefore most desirable, personal device. "The new device is an improvement over the old device, making it more attractive for purchase by all Americans," said Thomas Wakefield, a spokesperson for the large conglomerate that manufactures the new device." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"Some frequent questions about the H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine answered as clearly and as visually as I could manage. A few people asked for this so I thought I would oblige. It was hell on earth to research. There’s a jungle of science around H1N1. Very hard to hack through." - sdfx

"It all started in his Devon barn about eight years ago and over time the Alpha was groomed into a 132-key beast, followed by the recently-developed, self-explanatory Pico. The defining character of both Eigenharps lies in their "completely new sensor technology" consisting of pressure sensitive keys, that can do dual-axis vibrato (not dissimilar to string instruments), accompanied by strip controllers for applying filters or pitch bend, or anything at all depending on how you configure them on their Mac software suite" - sdfx from Bookmarklet

ooh yeah! - vijay

STOP FLIPPING YUR EGGS => LOL - Desirade

"Everyone, even people who say they don't like jazz, likes Kind of Blue. It's cool, romantic, melancholic, and gorgeously melodic. But why do critics regard it as one of the best jazz albums ever made? What is it about Kind of Blue that makes it not just pleasant but important?" - sdfx from Bookmarklet

I just dusted off my copy in the last couple weeks and been giving it a spin. Saw a half hour show that featured Miles and the players live on PBS a week or so ago. So What live? Whoa. - Derrick

Such a groundbreaking record. Reading about the history and mechanics makes me appreciate the greatness even more. - sdfx

"It’s the old joke; ‘the nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from’. The paper, entitled ‘Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture’ was sponsored by - and combines the work and ‘standards’ – of The Open Group, OASIS and OMG. In addition, it was edited by an IBM employee." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"Upon approaching the mandatory retirement age at Deloitte, Thomas Doorley decided he wasn’t ready to quit the profession. He instead set out to found a new firm, Sage Partners." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"This beautiful 35m tall steel sculpture, showing two cars racing into the sky, was commissioned by Audi for their 100th anniversary." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"Mr Jones has a new watch. Called Cyclops it dispenses with the conventional arrangement of hour, minute and second hands, instead a single hour marker passes around the dial through colors representing time..." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"This is a DIY project using current transducers, an arduino, and some custom software to monitor power consumption for an entire house. The power measurements are graphed and made public on a webserver." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"The hotter the waitresses, the weaker the economy. In flush times, there is a robust market for hotness. Selling everything from condos to premium vodka is enhanced by proximity to pretty young people (of both sexes) who get paid for providing this service." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"Many medical findings about the effect of a treatment are summarised in reports which compare just two numbers; the risk without the treatment and the risk with the treatment - or even just one number, the percentage change in risk. But there has been a lot of research into how people's perception of the magnitude of a risk can be manipulated by changing the way in which that risk is communicated." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

Worse than "sh"? - ⓞnor

Joel: The lisp of source control? - Sam Pullara

I can see a Facebook app for this coming...haha - Mike Bracco

I visualized, I even saw results over time but the true motivator that drove me and continues to drive me...was working on the beliefs about weight, beauty and acceptance that had been a part of me since childhood. Again, NOT dissing the experience of others who find tools like this motivating if it works and leads people to a healthier lifestyle, awesome. I'm just saying we cannot... more... - Cheryl

"We sent one of our most open-minded reporters, a man largely unsullied by any familiarity with our Hollywood-obsessed world, to interview this guy. We gave him a first name and an address, nothing more. We were pretty certain Cal had never heard of him. This is what happened." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"[...] earlier today Kottke posted Richard Feyman’s explanation for why trains stay on tracks (it ain’t what you think!), and I started clicking around watching all the other Feyman videos on YouTube, until I stumbled across one where the interviewer asks Feyman why magnets attract each other, sending him into a prodigious rant about why we don’t answer questions that begind with the word ‘why’!:" - sdfx

"These photographs show extreme makeovers of actual fast food items purchased at popular fast food restaurants. No additional ingredients have been added except for an occasional simple garnish." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

The last pic on the small plates was made from two white castle snack pack meals. - Jason Toney

and it's called "Tapas de Castillo Blanco". The meals on the second page are great too: Chicken sushi and Tacobellinis. Visually stunning results that probably taste the same as before. - sdfx

"All the time people say to me, “Oh you don’t need to worry about what you eat,” and generally snicker at my biking to work and 6 day-a-week workout program as wasted energy by a perpetually lean person. The general idea I think is that I’m a skinny guy and therefore I don’t need to think about any of these things." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

Technique from Good Eats: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes... (and I apologize for my "language" :). The steak ended up a little under-done. I'm going to try it again next week with NY Strip and 2-3 min per side. - Paul Buchheit

uv, it's awesome!; ) may be next time u'll try a put solid lava rocks between meat and embers ; ) (viking style) - Sets Turan

The hat girl brings back the memories. - Hayes Haugen

Wow, this is great. The new bounty-mechanism on stackoverflow seems to be perfect for this kind of competition. - sdfx

Except they let them use unicode which means almost twice as many bits than are available in an SMS message. Know it's a twitter contest but SMS is what it's all about. - Hayes Haugen

"Weight sets, flags, partition walls, sofas, basketball hoops, and even posters of bikini'd women have been imported to fill Saddam's spatial residuum. The effect is oddly decorative, as if someone has simply moved in for a long weekend, unpacking an assortment of mundane possessions. The effect is like an ironic form of camouflage, making the perilously foreign seem all the more familiar and habitable—a kind of military twist on postmodern interior design." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"This is a stool with a moving seating surface from a project where we had to create a 3-dimensional movement with a 2-dimensional material. I wanted to work with the qualities of the material and see what function I could get from it. There is a holding construction in the middle with an axis on the top which creates the movement on the surface. All the parts of the construction is put together without any screws or glue, it’s all held together by the elastic band around it and by the weight of the person using it." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"We love cool gadgets as much as anybody else. We just want to be thoughtful about the stuff we've bought. Even the most cutting-edge, tech-savvy geeks in the world are choosing to hang on to their phones or their iPods that still work just fine." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

i'm not just saying this because i wrote the post, but this is he best naming product i've come across - Zee.

Similar to dotomator. - TrafficBug

"half the fun of hybrid cutlery° is the peculiar names." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"After his wife left him, Tony Alleyne set out to create the ultimate bachelor pad, painstakingly turning his flat in Hinckley, Leicestershire into a Star Trek set. Mr Alleyne hand-crafted all the furnishings himself, cutting timber and plexigas to create the futuristic look. He started the project in 1999 and completed it in 2004, but then decided to give the flat a Star Trek: Voyager make-over. "I have always considered that of all the Starfleet ships, Voyager is, in terms of interior, the luxury liner of the galaxy," he says." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"Death Star: Too Big to Fail T-shirt" - sdfx from Bookmarklet

DUH. Of course, it's fine! When you plug the cord in, make sure you're standing in a tub of water too! - Mark Wilson

yeah, that counters each other out. Like multiplying two negative numbers. - sdfx

that...that water thing didn't work at all...I'd better get a cute nurse out of this. - Joe Pierce

The referee was accused of waving away four penalty appeals during the game against Barcelona and was the victim of a barrage of abuse at the final whistle from Chelsea players, including Didier Drogba, Michael Ballack and England captain John Terry. - Joe Dawson from Bookmarklet

Agreed, Drogba can be amazing but the amount of time he spends on the floor is frustrating! - Joe Dawson

Does anyone actually hate Twitter per se? You either use it or you don't Can't quite see it ending the world :) - David Eedle

It's a useful service, and I'm sure it will continue to be. However, it doesn't mean I have to like the direction it's taking lately. - Michael Fidler