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"Wood, a veteran of advanced weapons development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California, and one of the scientists behind the Strategic Defense Initiative (otherwise known as ”Star Wars”), had suggested trying a similarly high-tech approach against malarial mosquitoes—to take advantage of inexpensive, low-power sensors and computers to somehow track individual mosquitoes and shoot them out of the air. If it could be done cheaply enough, this might offer the first really new way in many years to combat malaria, as well as other diseases transmitted by flying insects, such as West Nile virus and dengue fever." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"Last week a group of cyclists dumped 13 gallons of paint on the road at Berlin’s busy Rosenthaler Platz, creating a series of colourful lines as cars drove through." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"The Sous-Vide Supreme, introduced last winter, and of which I am a big fan, is certainly a big step in the right direction. But at $450, for most people, it still remains prohibitively costly. In an effort to help those who'd like to experiment with sous-vide cookery without having to put in the capital, a couple weeks ago I devised a novel solution to the problem: Cook your food in a beer cooler." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"In discussing employee-driven innovation, having a technology platform to deliver on objectives is a key part of a company’s strategy. Hard to get everyone tuned in when you rely only on email and conversations with your cubicle mates. But that’s just one factor. There are many other considerations for companies seeking to vault to the top of their industries through greater innovation." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"This image is based on an excellent post at The Cynical Musician called The Paradise That Should Have Been about pitiful digital royalties. (Thanks to Neilon for pointing that out). I’ve taken his calculations and added a few more." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

In 1952, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis married. In 1972, prior to their 20th anniversary, Reagan - then Governor of California - wrote the following letter to his wife. - sdfx from Bookmarklet

""I don't know how I wound up at that point, but thank God I escaped when I did," Gibson, 41, said Friday. "There I was, a grown man, planning a trip to the Mustard Museum in Wisconsin, when suddenly I heard a voice deep within me say, 'This is not what you want your life to be about.'" "It was like waking up from a bad dream," Gibson added. "A bad yellow and brown dream."" - sdfx from Bookmarklet

We are feverishly working on our Sous-vide and Low-temperature Cooking Primer. Here’s a little taste of what’s coming, in the form of some fancy charts: - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"Forget about not being seen, that only solves their first problem. Focus on confusing them so they don’t know where you’re going. Then their torpedoes will be shot in vain because they thought you zigged when you really zagged. British Artist and naval officer Norman Wilkinson had this very insight and pioneered the Dazzle Camouflage movement (known as Razzle Dazzle in the United States). Norman used bright, loud colours and contrasting diagonal stripes to make it incredibly difficult to gauge a ship’s size and direction. It was cheap, effective, and widely-adopted during the War." - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"On Monday, IMA director Max Anderson initially proposed wagering an IMA loan of an Ingrid Calame painting. That was a nice choice... but apparently Anderson wasn't too worried about having to pay off the bet: "We're already spackling the wall where the NOMA loan will hang," he tweeted. On Tuesday morning Bullard emailed MAN HQ: "Max Anderson must not really believe the Colts can beat the Saints in the Super Bowl. Otherwise why would he bet such an insignificant work as the Ingrid Calame painting? Let's up the ante. The New Orleans Museum of Art will bet the three-month loan of its Renoir painting, Seamstress at Window, circa 1908, which is currently in the big Renoir exhibition in Paris. What will Max wager of equal importance? Go Saints!"" - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"Truly amazing satellite picture taken today at 11.50 UTC - sdfx from Bookmarklet

I looked around at commercial smokers and custom hacks and talked to a few connoisseurs, and decided the Weber Smoky Mountain was a good design to start from. It’s simple and effective, and in the end it mostly convinced me that the design need not be complex. Something appealed to me about using the iconic 55-gallon drum as a building block, so I went out and bought a couple from the local scrap yard. One of them even got immediate use as a beer barrel at Crushtoberfest! - sdfx from Bookmarklet

"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

"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