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LANjackal
"It can show us a list of all the open tabs and their memory usage sans JS for now, as per the above screenshot. If you expand the tab capsules, you get to see the list of all the inner windows/iframes that live in the hierarchy of that page." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet
Joshua Byrd
7 Reasons to Switch to the Dvorak Keyboard Layout - http://www.stumbleupon.com/to...
lonfomusvelocity
DVORAK SIMPLIFIED NON-TRANSPARENT KEYBOARD STICKERS BLACK BACKGROUND FOR DESKTOP, LAPTOP AND NOTEBOOK - http://bestkeyboardmousecombos...
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Chris Latko
Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole) - http://thewirecutter.com/2011...
Victor Ganata
Why Have People Stopped Posting on Google+? http://techland.time.com/2011...
What's with all the "Is Google+ dead?" posts lately? - Victor Ganata
It's the alternative to all the "Google+ is the best thing ever!" posts from when it first launched. - Derrick
I think people finally noticed that most of their followers are bots, and other people decided they didn't want to share with everyone and their brother. And, like any service, some new adopters didn't like it, and bailed. Some of the most enthusiastic proponents got turned off by the "real" name requirement. - Jennifer Dittrich
Having a party with 300+ when you normally have a dinner party for 4 SOUNDS like a good idea, but I believe there is a hard limit to the amount of social connections a human can have - Johnny from iPhone
These posts are so stupid. How do you measure traffic/usage when you can't actually measure the traffic/usage? Everyone is pulling a major Scoble on this one. "Oh, everyone in my limited circle of friends has stopped posting. This service must be dead." GAH! - Rahsheen?
A couple of my friends on FB have just launched a second wave of "you should be on G+!". (BTW, what really makes me laugh is how one friend joined a few weeks ago, immediately changed his profile pic to tell people he was 'moving' to G+, and since then has more or less come back to FB.) - Andrew C (✓)
Incidentally, I've heard that G+ has dropped the invite requirement as of today. - Andrew C (✓)
Andrew - Yep. It's open now. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs... - Katy S
Andrew C: Yes, I remember all that. - Piaw Na
Google is clearly overreaching in trying to stick their advertising revenue-driven fingers in too many online pies. - Siddharth Deb
Billy Warhol
Robert Scheer: The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig - http://www.truthdig.com/report...
Robert Scheer: The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig
"It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. The persistent appeal of the mythology of Texas as a model for the nation defies the lessons of logic and experience, and yet here we are with Rick Perry, a George W. Bush look-alike, as a prime contender to once again run our nation into the ground." - Billy Warhol from Bookmarklet
Fred Grott
Why there will never be another Da Vinci - http://www.ft.com/cms...
Loic Le Meur
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review - http://arstechnica.com/apple...
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is no shrinking violet. Unlike its predecessor, Snow Leopard, which concentrated on internal changes, Lion aims to remake the Mac desktop experience in the image of its mobile sibling, iOS. But is this a good thing? John Siracusa gives Apple's new OS his usual thorough consideration. - Loic Le Meur
Shevonne
Oh, my! - LB: #TeamMonique
Oh my that's a hot ass. - Surprisingly Monstrous
@Steve haha - Shevonne
Makes the flame read entirely differently. - Spidra Webster
x_X - AJ Batac
x_________________x - Jenny H from Android
*waits for the fart flare* - Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
Gross!! - Jeff P. Henderson
This is funny, but at the risk of sounding like a prude, it's also a little sad. Reminds me of those nude women mudflaps on 18 wheelers. I just prefer not to be accosted by them visually while driving down the road, and I especially don't like for my daughter to have to see them. - Friar Ticket to Ride
I wonder how it looks from the other side... - Aykın Çakaloz
Kevin Fox
"Won't" is a weird word. "Can't" is a contraction of "can not" and the apostrophe makes sense. Ditto for "didn't". If "won't" is a contraction of "will not" shouldn't it be "wi'n't"? Also, "shan't" ought to be "sha'n't".
And if I thought a double-apostrophe was anathema then I wouldn't've gone there. - Kevin Fox
you should't say such things - Peter Dawson
Because "won't" and "shan't" are just as colloquial as "ain't", apparently. - Victor Ganata
Yeah, no kidding. "Because it sounded better." I just posted the question to Quora. - Kevin Fox
Looking deeper, apparently, "won't" comes from "woll not" and was originally written as "wo'n't" (and "shan't" was originally written as "sha'n't") http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2007... -- but double apostrophes never really caught on. Kind of makes me wonder if "ain't" is just a miscopy of "a'n't" - Victor Ganata
Nice. FriendFeed and Quora generate better answers in 10 minuts than Yahoo Answers generates in a year: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-... - Kevin Fox
Isn't won't short for would not? - Johnny from iPhone
That would be "wouldn't". "Will" (or "woll") is indicative, "would" is subjunctive. - Victor Ganata
A World of Motorcycles
Victor Ganata
We increasingly have access to all the same information, what we don't have is access to the same experiences. Perfectly rational people with different assumptions about reality will look at the same data and come to different conclusions.
Maybe I wouldn't go so far to say that reality is completely subjective, but there's certainly more than one way to look at it. Even in physics, scenarios can be analyzed by multiple perfectly rational and experimentally confirmed methods, each with a different set of assumptions. Sometimes the results will even agree. - Victor Ganata from iPhone
It's the real challenge of empirical science, filtering out potentially subjective results. - Absentee
The data need to be reproducible, but you still have to interpret what the data mean, which is where the subjectivity comes in. - Victor Ganata from iPhone
Exactly. Reproducible and falsifiable results are what you need. And if you are dealing with something where it's possible: mathematical/statistical proof. But even with all that it's always good to remember that interpretations of hard data can (and do) change, and sometimes those changes lead to whole new avenues of exploration previously unconsidered. - Absentee
OP is true. Wise comment, Victor :) - LANjackal
Louis Gray
Dear Donald Trump...
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I'm wondering how long it will be before Donald takes the credit for this, too. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA
be successful in the elections ;) - عِمرانــ
I hope Donald keeps his mouth shot now. - سيما كيا Sima kia
quo?! ! Qui est-ce que Mr. Orange est orange & peigne plus? Tu veux dire Donald Trump :) - sofarsoShawn ~presque...
Just watched the roast he gave Donald at the correspondents dinner. Absolutely fantastic! - Phil Ashman
He is great. - سيما كيا Sima kia
Carlos Granier-Phelps
A Tiny Apartment Transforms Into 24 Rooms http://www.flixxy.com/apartme...
Kol Tregaskes
Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented - TNW Facebook - http://thenextweb.com/faceboo...
Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented - TNW Facebook
"Despite awaiting extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still the subject of much media interest. Russia Today (RT) interviewed Assange, getting his viewpoint on political unrest in Egypt and Libya, particularly probing what the Wikileaks founder makes of social media’s roles in the recent revolutions in both countries. In his interview, Assange focuses particularly on Facebook calling it the “most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented”." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet
imabonehead
New Solar-Thermal Flat Panels Generate Electricity and Hot Water All at Once | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World - http://inhabitat.com/new-sol...
New Solar-Thermal Flat Panels Generate Electricity and Hot Water All at Once | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
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"A team of researchers from Boston College and MIT have developed a hybrid flat panel that is capable of producing electricity from the sun’s rays as well as hot water for thermal energy. The team’s new flat panel is eight times more efficient than previously developed solar thermoelectric generators and could make solar thermoelectric technology more cost effective on a wider scale. Solar Thermal energy is expensive and generally employed in large installations — like the one above — with this new flat panel, solar thermal energy could become a much more valuable investment. The team has increased the energy output without adding much to the dollar sign side of the equation." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet
Vinod
RT @cruisemaniac: OSX is fucking awesomely intelligent! - http://yfrog.com/h7fknfp
RT @cruisemaniac: OSX is fucking awesomely intelligent! - http://t.co/TuNppfW
Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Facebook Users Can Now Edit Their Comments Within a Few Seconds of Posting - http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011...
Victor Ganata
Remember when teachers, public service employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and then paid nothing in taxes? Yeah, me neither. - http://x0.tumblr.com/post...
yeah ..and was there not a President that come from Texas ? and who elect him ?? - Peter Dawson
MoTO #TeamMonique
Has anyone actually *read* any Lovecraft? Should I bother?
Me! I love it, but I love melodrama. Some of his work is significantly better than other parts. What are you thinking about reading? (also, from that era, I like Arthur Machen much better) - Katy S
i've read lovecraft; you' - chaz2b
Do you need suggestions for places to start? This anthology has some good ones in it http://www.amazon.com/Tales-L... - Katy S
I also love Lovecraft. - Jason P
Seconding the love. It's _definitely_ an acquired taste, stylistically, but I loves it. If you're ok reading words like "squamous" and "slithering" and "eldritch" 23482347 times a story, you'll love it. - Jason Griffey
don't forget "Cyclopean" - Katy S
I read a bunch of stories in the past year. They aren't as purple as I thought they might be. - Steele Lawman
Yes. Yes. - Alex Scrivener
Thanks everyone. Just wondering where to start. There are references everywhere. And over the top prose doesn't bother me if the story is well written. - MoTO #TeamMonique from Android
"At The Mountains Of Madness" is a goodie. there's another i really love, but i cannot recall the name right now. gotta go look it up. you'd have a hard time going wrong by just diving in randomly, tho. - Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
"The Colour Out Of Space" is very good, as is "The Dunwich Horror." I think the most popularly anthologized one is "The Rats In The Walls" - Katy S
I have a collection of his short stories. i can only take him in small doses, but I love his work. - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
I like At The Mountains Of Madness, too - it's one of my favorites - but it is also one of the longer texts. - Katy S
The Music of Erich Zann is good and, in tone, it's very different from stories like the ones I mentioned above. - Katy S
The only one I can remember off the top of my head is the one with the green tea. Which I read during a green tea drinking phase. That was...not wise. - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
warmaiden - Isn't Green Tea by Le Fanu? - Katy S
i also rate "The Colour Out of Space" highly. - Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
oh crap. almost forgot "The Shunned House"! - Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
Doh. Yes. I'm mushing together my creepy authors again... - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
That's an excellent one! I forgot about it, too, and it's in the anthology I have next to me. - Katy S
Le Fanu side comment for Warmaiden - Have you read Carmilla? Sapphic vampire story FTW! - Katy S
True story: after reading "The Call of Cthulhu" when I was 13, for a few nights, I would wake up screaming in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep without the lights on for days, because I thought that my dresser had inhuman eyes. I also couldn't sit on the toilet for days because I was worried that Cthulhu would send a dead tentacle through the plumbing to come and steal and my soul. Yeah, I tend to be highly suggestible. - Victor Ganata
at least you weren't being chased through ancient ice caves by blobs and blind albino penguins. - Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
I read him when I was too young. Gotta go back and see if it still creeps me out. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Big Lovecraft fan here. He had a huge effect on me creatively. - Akiva
Lovecraft was one of my favorite writers in my teens and early 20s. I would also suggest--in a "I want to corrupt your mind" sort of way--Le Chants de Maldoror, by Isidore Ducasse, which is one of the most evil books you'll ever read. It was published around 1870, and was a major influence on the surrealists. - Absentee from FFHound!
At the Mountains of Madness is one of his more "science fiction-y" stories. Also try "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" for something more etherial and "high fantasy" like, but less grotesque horror. - DJF
Longer stories > Shorter ones, in the main. Some are truly great :) So, yes, give it a go. Gotta be easier than Dostoevsky :D - Pete #TeamMonique
I love the Dream-Quest, DJF. Has anyone mentioned the Case of Charles Dexter Ward yet? Another of my favorites. You guys are making me want to go back and reread these; it's been years since I read any Lovecraft. - Jason P
I have the complete works ebook that John linked to in Colleen's thread on my reader and have started at the beginning, it's "filler" reading when I don't have other stuff on the go. - DJF
TheNextWeb Forum
7 tips to be productive when working from home - http://thenextweb.com/lifehac...
Louis Gray
Are You Following a Bot? - Magazine - The Atlantic (The Return of AOLiza) - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...
Are You Following a Bot? - Magazine - The Atlantic (The Return of AOLiza)
"ONE DAY LAST February, a Twitter user in California named Billy received a tweet from @JamesMTitus, identified in his profile as a “24 year old dude” from Christchurch, New Zealand, who had the avatar of a tabby cat. “If you could bring one character to life from your favorite book, who would it be?,” @JamesMTitus asked. Billy tweeted back, “Jesus,” to which @JamesMTitus replied: “honestly? no fracking way. ahahahhaa.” Their exchange continued, and Billy began following @JamesMTitus. It probably never occurred to him that the Kiwi dude with an apparent love of cats was, in fact, a robot." - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet
Need to up your Turing test mojo. - Morton Fox
Louis Gray
Another Facebook co-founder shows new evidence of alleged Zuckerberg fraud - http://venturebeat.com/2011...
Cristo, I think most bloggers are lazy and want the AP to report it first. Secondly, the guy sounds like a fraud, so he's not believable. Yes, I assume some old tape drives might be coming out for this one. - Louis Gray
I'm wondering how long they've kept them - if they don't have some sort of order for data retention, that stuff might be long gone. - Jennifer Dittrich
Why does he sound like a fraud? He "waited seven years to file his lawsuit and he was a convicted felon who had been charged with fraud on an unrelated company. " - Louis Gray
The alleged email exchanges do sound somewhat believable. http://www.businessinsider.com/faceboo... - Rodfather
The obvious question: how much should $1000 get you? I'm sure they'll settle on some number, but I hope this guy goes all the way. - Christopher Galtenberg
Shouldn't $1000 get you whatever the deal was for? - Todd Hoff
That's a lot of patience. But a good payday. - Christopher Galtenberg
That's just further proof of his claim to be a Facebook co-founder. - Christopher Galtenberg
Its mind-blowing Louis, not that bloggers are not on the story but thatthere may be some truth in it, an interesting story to watch. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. - Mick Say
Little blogger interest? Maybe most fall into one of two camps: 1) FB is the anti-web, pay/give no more attention to it. 2) FB is/will be the source of a lot of human interest stories that will bring in ad revenue; let someone else throw the hardballs. But yeah, what Louis said: laziness. - Micah
Mark H
Retrospace: What Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In? - http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2011...
Retrospace: What Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?
Retrospace: What Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?
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"Yes, I know, it’s kind of a geeky question.... okay, it's a very geeky question. But I can’t help but ask it – where would you rather live, the Star Trek universe or the Star Wars universe? How about the Logan’s Run universe or the Buck Rogers universe of the 25th century? Inquiring minds want to know. Don’t answer too quickly. Let’s take a minute to look at each of these and more, and then come to an informed decision." - Mark H from Bookmarklet
Well, the bad guys in Buck Rogers' universe were spectacularly dumb. :) - Steven Perez
Firefly-verse. - Jandy
Star Trek (the Next Generation one) ;) EDIT: or Blade Runner. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Bladerunner - Kevin J Hatton
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - in the family tunnel owned by my line marriage - Thangorodrim
Sci Fi geeks :) Ring World for me I think - comix aka martha
This may come as a surprise to all of those tired of my feed lately...but Dune. - joey
Sci-Fi: Firefly or the world in the Sprawl Trilogy. Fantasy: Krynn in the time of the Dragonlance Chronicles - Arlan K.
Star Trek...I want me a vulcan! - April Russo
Aboard the Nostromo - Guy
I'm going with the Jetsons .... - CarlC, spelling expert
Whovian - maʀtha
Wall-E's resort/ship. - Rodfather
Hitchhiker's Guide universe. It's important to me to have access to a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. - Marty
Iain Banks' Culture. - Jennifer Dittrich
Star Wars - Todd Hoff
Yeah the Firefly worlds would be good too <3 Firefly. - comix aka martha
++ @Jill S. - CarlC, spelling expert
I'll go for Lexx so long as I get Xev for company. - Mark H
Blake 7 and Red Dwarf also come to mind. - Todd Hoff
The Lensmen Series - Thangorodrim
The one where black people don't die in the first five minutes. - Derrick
LOL Derrick - comix aka martha
Yeah Red Dwarf! - comix aka martha
Derrick reminded me of the sci-fi movie: "Brother from another planet". It's been ages since I've seen it. - CarlC, spelling expert
I *love* that movie, Carl. I had it on VHS. - Derrick
to live, as a normal person? trek, no contest... the federation rocks. - Michael W. May
@Derrick, I'm gonna check it out again. - CarlC, spelling expert
LANjackal
"The hacker collective Anonymous has attacked Sony websites all week, taking them down intermittently in retaliation for Sony's federal lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz ("GeoHot"). But in recent days, "Operation Sony" morphed from a standard website attack into something a bit more personal, as some Anons formed a separate "Sony Recon" mission and began tracking down corporate executives, their wives, the schools their children attend, and the shops at which they buy their flowers. And the way they obtain that information can be ingenious—and disquieting." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet
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Nicķ
New engine shakes up auto industry - Technology & science - Innovation - msnbc.com - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
New engine shakes up auto industry - Technology & science - Innovation - msnbc.com
"The Wave Disk Generator uses 60 percent of its fuel for propulsion; standard car engines use just 15 percent. As a result, the generator is 3.5 times more fuel efficient than typical combustion engines." - Nicķ from Bookmarklet
It will soon be crushed by oil industry - Surprisingly Monstrous
naw, it still uses oil. way better for them than all-electric cars, and we already have those. - Nicķ
Steven Perez
The Biggest Threat Facing the Country Today Is Fast Creeping Ignorance - http://www.alternet.org/story...
LANjackal
"Dissident members of the internet hacktivist group Anonymous, tired of what they call the mob's "unpatriotic" ways, have provided law enforcement with chat logs of the group's leadership planning crimes, as well as what they say are key members' identities. They also gave them to us. The chat logs, which cover several days in February immediately after the group hacked into internet security firm HBGary's e-mail accounts, offer a fascinating look inside the hivemind's organization and culture." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet
Derek van Vliet
Frenzy is a Private, Dropbox-Based Social Network for You and Your Friends - http://lifehacker.com/#!57829...
Frenzy is a Private, Dropbox-Based Social Network for You and Your Friends
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