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How the brain encodes memories at a cellular level - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
"The production of new proteins can only occur when the RNA that will make the required proteins is turned on. Until then, the RNA is "locked up" by a silencing molecule, which is a micro RNA. The RNA and micro RNA are part of a package that includes several other proteins...When synapses got activated, one of the proteins wrapped around that silencing complex gets degraded." When the signal comes in, the wrapping protein degrades or gets fragmented. Then the RNA is suddenly free to synthesize a new protein."
- bob
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Russian nuclear missile test fails, visible in Norway | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
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"The submarine-based Bulava (Mace) missile has been billed as Russia's newest technological breakthrough to support its nuclear deterrent, but the repeated test failures are an embarrassment for the Kremlin. The missile failed in its 13th test on Wednesday morning, Russia's leading economic dailies Vedomosti and Kommersant reported on Thursday, quoting sources in the military-industrial complex. Hours later, the Defense Ministry admitted the failure, saying the launch had been made by the Dmitry Donskoi nuclear submarine from a submerged position in the White Sea. "It has been established ... that the missile's first two stages worked as normal, but there was a technical malfunction at the next, third, stage of the trajectory," a Defense Ministry spokesman said."
- bob
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Plane overshoots Jamaica runway; more than 40 hurt - http://www.breitbart.com/article...
SUSAN J SPAULDING, Richard Chen, Jeff P. Henderson and 6 other people liked this
"KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - An American Airlines flight carrying 154 people skidded across a Jamaican runway in heavy rain, bouncing across the tarmac and injuring more than 40 people before it stopped just short of the Caribbean Sea, officials and witnesses said. Panicked passengers screamed and baggage burst from overhead bins as Flight 331 from Miami careened down the runway in the capital, Kingston, on Tuesday night, one passenger said. The impact cracked open the fuselage, crushed the left landing gear and separated both engines from the Boeing 737-800, airline spokesman Tim Smith said."
- bob
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Looks pretty bad. I wonder why it broke up?
- Paul Buchheit
It was one hell of a bumpy ride from the looks of it, Paul.
- Alex Scoble
That's one old 737. That's why.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
It has winglets, doesn't seem all that old to me. Planes just aren't designed to land like that one did.
- Alex Scoble
I heard on CNN that the passengers were clapping at the smooth landing before the accident. This runway has poor drainage, so the plane's brakes may have been ineffective. The bouncing and damage may have happened after it left the tarmac. I don't know whether the report I heard or this article (citing turbulence) is accurate. Wait for RISKS Digest.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
And the break pattern seems consistent with the nose, fuselang and tail being separate components
- Deepak Singh
Roberto: The 737-800 has only been around since 1997, so the plane couldn't be more than 12 years old.
- Gabe
So was this a Boing 737?
- Gabe
Yes. Its first flight was November 2001 http://aviation-safety.net/databas...
- Ken Sheppardson
See http://www.maxtrescott.com/max_tre... for an AFAICT purely speculative suggestion of what may have happened. Anyway the simplest explanation now is that it broke up because it ran off the runway. Why did it run off the runway? Good question.
- Daniel Dulitz
Running off the end of an 8700 foot runway takes more than one or two factors...
- Daniel Dulitz
Ok not so old then. I wonder what the crash investigation will turn up.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
On CNN a pilot said that this runway lacks grooves for drainage. Hydroplaning and the tailwind are two factors. We'll have to see what other factors were involved.
- Bruce Lewis
http://aviation-safety.net/photos... roadside bank looks brutal
- Thomas Page
I just got back from a trip to Pandora.
Joe Beda (), Roberto Bonini, Akiva Moskovitz and VAL D. Zone liked this
How was it?
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
Good. Definitely worth seeing.
- Gary Burd
The box? Or the whole thing?
- Louis Gray
The planet with tall blue people.
- Gary Burd
it appeared to be a moon orbiting around a much larger gas giant
- bob
Philippine volcano on verge of eruption as lava spills down mountain... but villagers are refusing to leave | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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Karpuscul, imabonehead, Richard Chen and 9 other people liked this
"A rumbling volcano in the Philippines was on the verge of a major eruption today – but thousands of villagers living on its slopes are refusing to leave their homes. Already, 40,000 people have fled the no-go zone around Mount Mayon, which oozed crimson lava during eerie scenes captured last night. But around 3,000 residents, mostly farmers, remain – with some even returning after being evacuated up to three times by authorities."
- bob
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Get your lava spoon ready!
- April Buchheit
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Mordor?
- Amit Patel
Celebritology - Brittany Murphy dead at 32 - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebri...
"An ambulance was called to the home of Murphy's husband, screenwriter Simon Monjack, following a 911 call. According to the Los Angeles Times, the LAPD has opened an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding Murphy's death. "
- bob
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Apple Gestapo: How Apple Hunts Down Leaks - Apple Worldwide Loyalty Team - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5427058...
Felicia Yue, April Buchheit, Evan Parker and xiaolin liked this
"The operation, as Tom calls it, is not anything special. It is not one of a kind event. It's just a normal practice, and the process is pretty simple: The manager will instruct all employees to stay at their desks, telling them what to do and what to expect at any given time. The Apple Gestapo never handles the communication. They are there, present, supervising the supervisors, making sure everything goes as planned. All cellphones are then taken. Usually, they collect them all at the same time, which means that the process could take a long time. If you need to contact the exterior during the time your cellphone is under examination, you will have to ask for permission, and your call will be monitored. They don't ask for cameras because there are no cameras at Apple: Employees are not allowed to get into the campus with them. If the cellphone is an iPhone, it gets backed up onto a laptop. "In fact, at the beginning they used to say that the iPhones were really their property, since...
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- bob
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People on HN seem to feel that this story is nonsense: http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
- Paul Buchheit
The few times I've visited Apple, I was impressed that they don't let tailgaters in (one badge swipe per employee, guests have to be let in by the receptionist), but I didn't see any security beyond that.
- Amit Patel
...comparing apples and nazis -- er -- oranges, what is the world coming to? .LOLz!
- .LAG liked that
I dunno. Knowing how much pure drivel the tech "media" publish, I have trouble believing this is true.
- EricaJoy
Not a good day... passenger side window of car smashed, messenger bag with laptop stolen.
topo and Mike Chelen liked this
harsh :(
- bob
:(
- imabonehead
not nice
- Rutger Blom
That is horrible!! *hugs*
- Rachel Lea Fox
oh no, dan, sorry to hear that. the same thing happened last week to a girl at my dance studio - and her rent money was in the bag that was stolen. she's been looking for a part-time job to earn this month's rent back, but in the meantime ppl at the studio took up a secret santa collection for her. i think sometimes ppl do shitty things (like steal, argh) so that others can rise up and show how much they care about fighting the shitty. but it still sucks to get your stuff stolen. sorry.
- Felicia Yue
dam that sucks............
- VAL D. Zone
Sorry to hear that Dan. Is it insured?
- Michael R. Bernstein
:(. Where did it happen?
- Paul Buchheit
:(
- Private Sanjeev
:( Did you have a recovery plan/insurance of some sort?
- Itachi
Ouch. :( Where did it happen?
- Tudor Bosman
:(
- Mona Nomura
Unlike!
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
Dislike! :-(
- Emily Miller
Sorry to hear that. :(
- Anne Bouey
Blah
- Rodfather
:(
- Michelle Martinez
Why Are Europeans White? (E1) - a knol by Frank W Sweet - http://knol.google.com/k...
Felicia Yue, Maggie, vovasty and 16 other people liked this
"Too much UV penetrating the skin (too pale-skinned under intense sunlight) increases Vitamin D but reduces folate. Lack of folate causes neural tube defects in the fetus, causing such congenital abnormalities as craniorachischisis, anencephalus, and spina bifida, leading to many miscarriages. On the other hand, too little UV penetrating the skin (too dark-skinned under dim sunlight) increases folate but reduces vitamin D. Lack of vitamin D causes skeletal neonatal abnormalities (skull, chest, and leg malformations), rickets being the best known. Again, this causes miscarriages. And so, humans adapt very quickly to solar UV. Prehistoric groups that migrated towards the equator got darker. Prehistoric groups that migrated away from the equator got lighter. But this explanation fails for Europe. Northern Europeans are lighter than everyone to the south (Mediterraneans), to the east (Mongols and east-Asians), to the west (Native Americans across the Atlantic), and to the North (Inuit,...
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- bob
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Scandinavians ate mostly meat and fish, and they are even 'whiter' than average European: not only they were white-skinned, but also blond. This fact ruins article's theory, isn't it? ;)
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
Could it be that Scandinavians supplement their diet with rice and grains and therefore receive less vitamin D than anyone else at that latitude? They are whiter than the average European primarily because of the sunlight availability which vitamin D from fish does not easily overcome.
- Bill Strathearn
It's too bad that Knol isn't more like Wikipedia where anyone can edit -- I would trust it more ironically.
- Paul Buchheit
Yes, Paul, but is ironic trust what they're really going for here?
- Cliff Gerrish
Blonde people are blonde because of the Gulf Stream. Also, notice that the graphic on the right has been changed in the live Knol. Blonde people are now represented by a light tan rather than blue.
- Kevin Fox
I thought Google shut down Knol on October 27, 2009. Wait...
- Jérôme Flipo
Yeah, I think I read that on Wikipedia...
- Cliff Gerrish
Kevin, are you referring to separate graphics? http://knol.google.com/k... and http://knol.google.com/k... ? I think one is for hair the the other for eye color.
- Bill Strathearn
Paul, I think that open and unrestricted document collaboration works best only when there is a semi-dedicated community of editors to police the content. That exists in Wikipedia, but is hard to replicate elsewhere. Full disclosure: I lead the Knol team and am the majority code contributor.
- Bill Strathearn
I found this article very interesting, and well written to boot.
- Will Higgins™
looks nice
ovigia, Itachi, Greg Grothaus and April Buchheit liked this
From the thumbnail I thought that was computer generated. Where is that?
- Ryan Moulton
no idea, found it randomly without any label - any guesses from friendfeed?
- bob
I wouldn't completely discount the computer generated option.
- Greg Grothaus
If only we could submit an image as a query to http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/ ...
- Bill Strathearn
That's actually Palau: http://images.google.com/images... Known recently for being the setting for a Survivor season.
- Mark Trapp
YouTube - Process of burning a diamond - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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in liquid oxygen
- bob
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Surf's up as biggest waves in five years come to Hawaii after North Pacific storm | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
Felicia Yue, Stephen Mack, April Buchheit and James Leard liked this
"Thousands of spectators and surfers are flocking to Hawaii's beaches to see the biggest waves in years crash ashore. Heavy traffic backed up for miles yesterday along roads leading to Oahu's North Shore. Some of the world's most daring surfers took on the powerful and dangerous waves, which forecasters say could reach heights of 50ft (15 metres) by tomorrow."
- bob
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US plan to round up wild horses draws opposition - Yahoo! News - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
Shannon Jiménez liked this
"The government wants to carry out what is believed to be the biggest-ever roundup of wild horses on federal land, moving as many as 25,000 mustangs and burros to pastures in the Midwest and East out of fear their fast-multiplying numbers will lead to mass starvation... The government argues that the mustang population in 10 Western states is growing so rapidly that the horses are quickly running out of food, in part because of drought ravaging the region." - it seems like the sort of problem that works itself out (mostly shared for picture)
- bob
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Colton Harris-Moore, the barefoot boy bandit, outfoxes sheriffs - Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
Louis Gray, Лосось норвежской выделки, Jérôme Flipo and 5 other people liked this
"Police believe he fled to Canada and then, a few weeks ago, came back across the border to Idaho where he stole a Cessna 182 and flew to Seattle. He crash-landed in a forest clearing and walked away with cuts and bruises. ... Since then he has been accused of stealing other planes for hops around the islands in the Puget Sound, including another Cessna belonging to a disc jockey who vented his frustration on radio, saying: “He still doesn’t know how to land a plane in one piece.” He evaded a police pursuit by crashing a Mercedes-Benz into a roadside gas storage tank, using the explosion as a diversion to escape back into the woods where, he says, he feels like a Native American....Kohler said she was proud her son had stolen the aircraft because he had never had a flying lesson in his life. “I was going to send him to flight school, but I guess I don’t have to,” she said. “I’d tell him the next time he took a plane: wear a parachute and practise your landing. "
- bob
from Bookmarklet
Awesome. "Kohler said she was proud her son had stolen the aircraft because he had never had a flying lesson in his life"
- Paul Buchheit
I smell a Spielberg bio-pic movie in the future.
- Ray Cromwell
Gamasutra: Mark Newheiser's Blog - Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction - http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs...
Private Sanjeev, Jérôme Flipo, ta√i and 7 other people liked this
"I think Farmville is more addictive than it is fun."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
"The game is also more than happy to bribe players for participating in its viral spread: cute lonely animals will show up on your farm periodically and as a player you face a dilemma in sentencing them to virtual abandonment and death unless you post on your Facebook wall that you need one of your friends to start playing Farmville and "adopt" the adorable little self-promoter. "
- bob
That's less bribery than blackmail.
- Jim Norris
True - these things are popular and addictive, but hardly social and you don't learn anything. (And I would have said so as a comment on the blog post, but woo-wee that's a lot of information they want for a registration!)
- Ciaoenrico
I'd have not problem sentencing an IMAGINARY animal to the death chamber. It's make believe! Then again, I don't spend my time playing these silly time wasting games either....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nice review. Now I don't have to figure out what Farmville is :)
- Peng-Toh
What Facebook really needs is BRE. :)
- James Leard
from iPhone
@James: there's this group: http://www.facebook.com/group... but I don't know of anyone working on a BRE for Facebook.
- Amit Patel
<sigh> he decided not to let go...
Andrew C, adf, Aram Zucker-Scharff and April Buchheit liked this
Bender + Fry = BFF <aww>
- April Buchheit
What episode was this from?
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
godfellas
- bob
Amazon.com: Laptop Steering Wheel Desk: Electronics - http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-...
Jérôme Flipo, Christopher Galtenberg, Jannifer @wordsforliving and 16 other people liked this
The customer reviews are hilarious.
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
Do you think they'll make one for airplane pilots too?
- τorƍue
If I was a pilot, I'd want a laptop in the cabin for sure! How else would I keep up with Flight Simulator?
- Andrew C
you should check out the customer images too
- bob
ROFL. The customer images are great.
- Joshua
Just what I was looking for! Sure...
- Luis
They just outlawed texting while driving here in NC. But they didn't say nothin' 'bout full on FFing.
- cdogzilla
:D
- Orlando Pozo
YouTube - Fifth Gear Loop the Loop - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Eric Borisch, Tracy, Gabe and 14 other people liked this
"Replicating the clasic Hot Wheels set, Fifth Gear TV attempts to perform a full 360 degree loop in a full size car."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
Awesome.
- Paul Buchheit
Holy Crap!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
YouTube - Thorium Remix 2009 - LFTR in 16 Minutes - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Jérôme Flipo, Tracy, Ruchira S. Datta and Amit Patel liked this
"Thorium is readily available & can be turned into energy without generating transuranic wastes. Thorium's capacity as nuclear fuel was discovered during WW II, but ignored because it was unsuitable for making bombs. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) is the optimal approach for harvesting energy from Thorium, and has the potential to solve today's energy/climate crisis. This 16 minute video is summarizes 197 minutes worth of Google Tech Talks on the subject of Thorium & LFTR."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
pretend the world has ended
"pretend"?
- Paul Buchheit
Oh geez, not 'the robots' again.
- Cliff Gerrish
from iPhone
she wants revenge - its a good song
- bob
Tanco Mine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"The pollucite ((Cs,Na)2Al2Si4O12·2H2O) deposit associated with the pegmatite is the largest known deposit of this mineral and with 350,000 tons,[3] it accounts for two thirds of the known resources.[4] With an estimated average global use of 30,000 kg/year the reserves of the mine would last for 2,000 to 3,000 years.[4] The mined pollucite contains approximately 24% Cs2O.[5] The ore body is 1400 m long, 600 m wide and 100 m deep.[6][3] For several decades the pegmatites at Bernic Lake have supplied the world with the needed caesium."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough - The Globe and Mail - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...
Michael R. Bernstein, Tudor Bosman, Bill Strathearn and 17 other people liked this
"Using ultrasound to examine the vessels leading in and out of the brain, Dr. Zamboni made a startling find: In more than 90 per cent of people with multiple sclerosis, including his spouse, the veins draining blood from the brain were malformed or blocked. In people without MS, they were not. He hypothesized that iron was damaging the blood vessels and allowing the heavy metal, along with other unwelcome cells, to cross the crucial brain-blood barrier. (The barrier keeps blood and cerebrospinal fluid separate. In MS, immune cells cross the blood-brain barrier, where they destroy myelin, a crucial sheathing on nerves.) More striking still was that, when Dr. Zamboni performed a simple operation to unclog veins and get blood flowing normally again, many of the symptoms of MS disappeared. The procedure is similar to angioplasty, in which a catheter is threaded into the groin and up into the arteries, where a balloon is inflated to clear the blockages. His wife, who had the surgery three years ago, has not had an attack since."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
Amazing.
- Paul Buchheit
Cool
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Quantum camera snaps objects it cannot 'see' - tech - 02 May 2008 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
Private Sanjeev and Tracy liked this
"The new technique also uses a light source to illuminate an object. However, the image is not formed from light that hits the object and bounces back. Instead, the camera collects photons that do not hit the object, but are paired through a quantum effect with others that did."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
"Not everyone agrees that quantum effects are at work in ghost imaging, though. Baris Erkmen and Jeffrey Shapiro of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US, point out in a recent paper that classical physics says light sources produce numbers of uncoordinated photons that are not correlated as Shih suggests. They suspect ghost images might be produced without a quantum link between photon pairs, purely because some photons are just similar."
- bob
"It was soon realized that the correlations between the light beam that hits the camera and the beam that hits the object can be purely classical. If quantum correlations are present, the signal to noise ratio of the reconstructed image can be improved." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- bob
Union troubled by Eagle Scout project in Allentown -- themorningcall.com - http://www.mcall.com/news...
Balzano said Saturday he isn't targeting Boy Scouts. But given the city's decision in July to lay off 39 SEIU members, Balzano said "there's to be no volunteers." No one except union members may pick up a hoe or shovel, plant a flower or clear a walking path...Balzano said Saturday the union is still looking into the matter and might cut the city a break. "We are probably going to let this one go," Balzano said .
- bob
Underwater River in Mexico | Fortuna - http://thefortuno.com/underwa...
Citronella, Kol Tregaskes, Maggie and 15 other people liked this
"These amazing pictures were taken by Anatoly Beloshchin in the cave Cenote Angelita, Mexico. Here’s his description: “We are 30 meters deep, fresh water, then 60 meters deep – salty water and under me I see a river, island and fallen leaves… Actually, the river, which you can see, is a layer of hydrogen sulphide.”"
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
too bad no video, would like to see it flowing
- bob
They must have emerged pretty smelly.
- Ruchira S. Datta
YouTube - Fried Fish Eaten Alive! - http://www.youtube.com/verify_...
Paul Buchheit liked this
"Chinese chefs have come up with a way to keep a fish alive while deep frying it! It even keeps trying to breathe while waiting to be eaten and people pick at it!" "In order to keep the carp alive chefs cook its body but wrap its head in a wet cloth to keep it breathing, before covering it in sauce and serving in on a plate."- im not an expert on fish anatomy but it seems like having the bottom 2/3 of your body fried would probably be fatal for the top 1/3 - think its real?
- bob
from Bookmarklet
:( if it's real
- Benjamin Golub
yuck. i hope this is not real.
- Alex Gawley
Cruel :(
- Space Cowboy
Imagine that you are about to be reincarnated (as a baby human) and can pass along 140 characters of advice. What would you say?
TobiasVerhoog.com, barbarars, Ray Marr aka Knatchwa and 59 other people liked this
Assume that the baby will be born into circumstances similar to your own, if necessary...
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that's a stumper of a question! :)
- Susan Beebe
Learn all that you can, be noble, true, humble, love much. Seek wisdom from your family and friends
- Susan Beebe
I wouldn't need 140 characters: "in whatever you do, strive to do it as well as you possibly can." 64.
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
Floss. :)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
"It's mostly an illusion"
- Paul Buchheit
Never stop learning, enjoy the little things, cherish friends & family, try your best, keep an open mind, and indulge yourself occasionally.
- Nathan Chase
chase your passions, the rest follows. observe everything. work, love and play hard. change happens. live full and balanced. 3
- Charles Ying
What goes around comes around.
- imabonehead
I think Nathan has it! At least he said exactly what I would have written. :-)
- Victoria Plautia
Don't panic.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
from fftogo
Risk is not an option. And eat your vegetables.
- Micah Wittman
Study Thomas, he has more answers than anyone else you will read.
- Alex Scrivener
Number to a Swiss bank safe containing cash, guns and numerous passports. Yes, it is from a movie.
- Peng-Toh
.....so are we trying to guess the meaning of life here? essentially I think that's what this question boils down to. I only need two characters:
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
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- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Fear the fail whale.
- Jim Norris
"If you think you already know the answer, you will never know the answer"
- Paul Buchheit
Alex, which Thomas?
- Paul Buchheit
Plastics, my boy.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
You're a towel!
- Raphael, Raphael
Don't fear the fail whale.
- Paul Buchheit
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, if you were in their position.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Everything is transitory.
- John E. Bredehoft
Don't tell them I told you this. They'll think you're nuts!
- Larry Hosken
"There's always an easier way"
- Paul Buchheit
I'm surprised no one's quoted Kurt Vonnegut yet. :)
- April Buchheit
April, is that your advice or an observation?
- Clare Dibble
Observation.
- April Buchheit
Stay away from the mohel.
- Leo Laporte
Crush the enemy. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of the women.
- Chrimmus Tad
"Think big. Code small."
- Paul Buchheit
For April: "There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Paul Buchheit
Phase 1: Collect Handerpants; Phase 2: ?; and Phase 3: Profit
- imabonehead
Just wing it. It'll be cool.
- April Buchheit
Let's git rid of 140 chars nonsense limid.
- Petr Buben
"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, try telling April that next time she is frustrated with you; I'm sure it will help ;)
- Clare Dibble
Just told my son this tonight -- Leave the earth better than the way you found it.
- Joe
Don't be such an asshole, asshole.
- Rodfather
@Paul, Aquinas
- Alex Scrivener
"Don't believe it when people say you can't do something. Prove them wrong."
- Cristo
Assuming my reincarnated self has wifi and a smartphone, I might point him to Des'ree's 1990s pop hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Doug Beeferman
Treat others with respect. Feed your intellectual curiosity. Don't accept limits others place upon you and often, patience is required.
- Louis Gray
"Nobody else knows what's really going on either."
- Amber, Random Time Lord
LCD is better than plasma
- Alex Scoble
"Its not that bad, stop sh*tting yourself, ;)"
- chaz2b
++Leo, that sounds like very useful advice. :)
- Ruchira S. Datta
In the end it really doesn't matter, enjoy it while it lasts, do what makes you happy, try not to sabotage the happiness of others.
- April Russo (app103)
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff.
- Laura Norvig
"Dear Reincarnated Self: my head is frozen with the Life Extension Foundation. To get cool advice pls unfreeze me at ur earliest convenience."
- Philipp Lenssen
"Dont be afraid to take chances or march to a different beat. In the end only the soul counts, don't sweat the small stuff. Listen, learn."
- Grant Bierman
Dr. Cable. Watch it. ;-)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
I dare you to do better.
- Charles Ying
"Please ask the next generation to increase maximum message length."
- Ray Cromwell
BTW, Commander Data was able to get away with sending only 2 *bits* of information into the future/past to break out of a 'groundhog day' scenario. The message: 3
- Ray Cromwell
There once was a site called Twitter. It was worth a billion dollars...
- Sean Kelly
Exercise every day, learn to program asap. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof that these are the right things to do which this twee
- j1m
"I've finally discovered the secret to a contented and effective life, which for you, begins now. This joy can be yours. Just claim it by t" <snipped by character limit>
- Kurtiss Hare
Search for the will of the creator. Prefer the heaven of love to the hell of power.Every moment is unique.Train empathy. Give. [ yeah, I kept in the character limit! Twitter is like life sometimes, only, hu, more limitted :-]
- Willi Schroll
L^2>∞ love of life is greater then time and space. Compassion destroys the destroyer peace above me below me around me down me radiate peace
- Robert Higgins
That's easy: Join friendfeed as soon as possible.
- Jim Addz No Value
don't sweat it kid, you just got a do over...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
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- Edward Coffey
"Propose multiple solutions to every problem. Or choose your own life."
- Ivo Danihelka
Learn Math.
- Alternating Reality Books
"Context is everything."
- Bruce Johnson
from BuddyFeed
@RayCromwell - see my first comment ;)
- Charles Ying
"Listen." The other 133 characters are superfluous.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Ray Cromwell has said it best *rofl* please increase message length!! It doesn't get any better than that! Words of wisdom!! :)
- John Tastad
Seek truth
- Shakeel Mahate
Love always wins. Don't sweat happiness: find joy. (ponders how to translate the "becoming a man" speech from Secondhand Lions into 140 characters...)
- Ladybug Heather
Remember to save often...data and money. Live life like you have a reset button.
- Brian Merriman
Ignore advice. You'll figure it out.
- Todd Hoff
I won't develop the ability to type until years later, so I guess my only advice is "Ga Ga" and "Ball."
- Fleagle
Frankie says RELAX
- VAL D. Zone
It's not just you, they're all crazy. Make as many friends outside the family as you can. You'll want to leave home. Do it. Don't look back. (this is a seriously awesome topic!)
- Lo
Follow your heart. Don't worry about failure because apparently reincarnation is real. Snooches!
- Kevin Fox
Dont let others decide for you what is good and right for you. Not even this message.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Learn your math. Especially Geometry. It will make your coding SO much more compelling!
- Joe Nickence
"Don't tweet"?
- Marcos
Actually, I prefer FF..
- ★ Soner Gönül
Well I won't list all 140 but 1 I will is: Do not live your life to live..Live it to die. In other words, prepare for death because all life is about is another chance to get it right so you can end Samsara.
- Merlyn Seeley
"In your past life, you never understood why people liked Twitter."
- Ryan Kaisoglus
the world is made of atoms
- bob
Crawl back in?
- dannysullivan
Use the force. Search your feelings. Live long and prosper.
- Charles Ying
When the time comes, cut the blue wire.
- David Gaw
There's always something bigger than you.
- Daisy
Dear new self: whatever you do, don't make all the same mistakes with your life that I did with mine. For example, you should never ever try [MAXIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH REACHED]
- s t e v e
Don't put twinkies on your Pizza.
- Will Higgins™
You, are fine. To hell w' 'em if they think you're not pretty/funny/smart/rich enough.
- Summer
Find Stuart Diamond and take his negotiation course when you're 16. Love yourself so you can love others. Also, reincarnation exists, and you were a geek in your previous life.
- Daniel Dulitz
Don't wish for what you aren't. Life will be far more interesting than you could ever expect. Play with the cards you're dealt, and have fun
- Bette Cooper
don't play safe gamble every day
- WarLord
Call me Stewie, bow now and pay later. Put another coal in the power plant so you can continue watching this homage and choke on the fumes. [140 and referenced Family Guy, ideology, commerce, ecology, choice, and lost will.]
- William 'Bill' McPhe
"Tom Cruise must be stopped. By any means necessary."
- Otto
Otto, you have room to add "--your mission, if you choose to accept it."
- Micah Wittman
Life is all about ass. You're either covering it, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, laughing it off, or trying to get a piece of it.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, you forgot the part about being one.
- April Russo (app103)
live!
- barbarars
Be kind to animals, nature, others & yourself. Do what you love. Love what you do. Never stop learning about the world around you.
- Bronson Harrington
Try to find the 140 characters you would pass along to your reincarnation.
- Eszter Susánszky
Nap.
- A Mitchell
Sodium layer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"Sodium layer refers to a layer within the Earth's mesosphere of unbound, non-ionized atoms of sodium. The altitude of this layer is usually located between 80–105 km (50–65 miles) and has a depth of about 5 km (3 miles). Atmospheric sodium below this layer is normally chemically-bound in compounds such as sodium oxide, while above the layer the atoms tend to be ionized. Atoms of sodium in this layer are typically in an excited state, and radiate weakly at a wavelengths around 589 nm, which is in the yellow portion of the spectrum. These radiation bands are known as the sodium D lines. The resulting radiation has been termed night glow."
- bob
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"The sodium originates from the ablation of meteors. " http://www.albany.edu/faculty...
- bob
Unlucky buck: Deer loses fight with concrete elk lawn ornament - http://www.winonadailynews.com/news...
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A love-struck buck ran out of luck a week ago. The seven-point buck was killed when it rammed a 640-pound concrete statue of an elk in the backyard of Mark and Carol Brye's home in rural Viroqua....Brye said he knew exactly what happened when he saw the statue tipped over. Although they were about the same height, the statue weighed at least three times more than the 180-pound deer. He didn't realize the buck lay dead a short distance away. "I could tell the buck poked the statue a couple of times by the chipped paint on it," Brye said, adding that the buck eventually rammed it like a mountain goat. The buck apparently staggered about 20 feet and fell. Brye claimed the buck with a tag from the Vernon County conservation warden. He laughed at the warden's tag note: "lawn ornament fight - lost."
- bob
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- bob
"You looking at me? Yeah you! you looking at me punk? I'll teach you to look at me that way!" Famous last words.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Inside Livermore Lab's Race to Invent Clean Energy | Newsweek Innovation and Technology | Newsweek.com - http://www.newsweek.com/id...
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"It doesn't look like much from the outside—just a drab, 10-story building on the campus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, about an hour's drive east of San Francisco....But the reason the building we're in is so huge—it covers the area of three football fields—is that it contains an enormous laser, or actually a system that combines 192 identical lasers and zaps them into a round chamber, about 30 feet in diameter, where the tiny pellet of fuel awaits the blast. NIF's laser, which took a decade to build and was completed earlier this year, can produce 60 times more energy than any other laser ever built. Right now it's still being tested. But next year Moses and his scientists will fire it up with a full load of deuterium-tritium fuel, and Moses feels confident it will achieve "ignition," meaning a controlled burn in which you get out more energy than you put in."
- bob
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