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"...a phenomenon in quantum game theory resulting in anomalously high success rates in coordination games between separated players. These high success rates would seem to require communication between the players; however, the game is set up such that during the game, this is physically impossible." - Anthony Citrano from Bookmarklet

10/6 </MadHatter> - Neal Krummell

"Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility in Moscow, Russia, to investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration space mission. ESA is looking for European volunteers to take part." - Anthony Citrano from Bookmarklet

Actually, I don't like this, but I agree with it. At least, it seems to hold for my life, as of late. - Craig Brownell

I wholly concur, Craig. It's an unquantifiable, unverifiable, subjective observation that can nevertheless evoke an emotional resonance similar to a common reaction upon first learning of the very real and measurable phenomenon known as entropy. Heh-heh ... perhaps we could coin this one the theory of Existential Entropy. We don't like it, but sure as hell see far too much of it. Hang in there! ;-) - michael silverton

There is a critical JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox 3.5 Web browser, Mozilla has warned. The zero-day flaw lies in Firefox 3.5's Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Proof-of-concept code to exploit the vulnerability has been posted online by a security research group, Mozilla said in a post on its security blog on Wednesday. Security company Secunia rated the vulnerability as "highly critical" on Wednesday. The hole could allow a hacker to launch a "drive-by" attack, according to Mozilla. That means an attacker may be able to execute malicious code on a target machine, if the victim visits a Web site containing an exploit. - Leo Laporte

I hardly notice it..it only pops up when it thinks there's a click-jacking link. They fixed the annoying warnings. - Dale

"The new source HLX-1, the light blue object to the top left of the galactic bulge, is the ambassador for a new class of black holes, more than 500 times the mass of the Sun. It lies on the periphery of the edge-on spiral galaxy ESO 243-49, about 290 million light years from Earth." - Michael McKean from Bookmarklet

What's an example? :) - Diego Barros 

Sounds like cheap entertainment, don't stop the candid lifestreams. - Will Higgins™

Hit the "Q" button on your keyboard to pause the real time feed, it'll be like the old FF - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I wonder how many FF users they've confused today by making the beta go live. - Morton Fox

"It wasn't long ago that some physicists said that optical invisibility cloaks would be impossible to build. This week, two teams are claiming to have built cloaks that work over a wide range of optical wavelengths and the extraordinary thing is that both designs are almost identical (see pics)" - Jeffrey Marsh from Bookmarklet

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"It was only a matter of time. Naked Pizza, a uniquely healthy pizza joint in New Orleans, has replaced its “call for delivery” billboard in favor of something a bit more unorthodox: its Twitter handle. The restaurant now features a large Twitter bird above its storefront, inviting passersby to follow ‘NAKEDpizza‘ for special deals. Aside from being among the first brick and mortar businesses to so prominently feature its Twitter handle, Naked Pizza is notable for a few other reasons. Its menu was created to offer the “world’s healthiest pizza”, with each slice only weighing in at a fraction of the calories and fat of standard pizza, while still tasting delicious, according to Yelp reviewers . Oh, and Mark Cuban just partnered with the company to turn it into a national franchise." - Neal Jansons from Bookmarklet

The Poseidon Resort, which is nestled in a 500 acre Fijian lagoon, is the world's first one-atmosphere sea floor resort. It's cantilevered over the sea floor in 40 feet of water. The resort has twenty-four 550 square foot luxury suites. The Poseidon features a 100 seat bar and restaurant (350 m2) and another 350 m2 unit with an undersea library, a Presidential Suite, two spa treatment rooms and a wedding chapel/conference room combination. - Cee Bee

The world’s first undersea residence has 3600 square feet of uncompromising elegance situated in 40 feet of crystal clear water surrounded by a magnificent coral reef, where the ever changing view is fascinating and absolutely unique. Your H2OME is in Belize, in a protected private lagoon connected to land by your private pier. Floating above and accessed by elevator is a cluster of... more... - Cee Bee

"How's this for crazy?: A company files a patent to destroy hurricanes as they form by beaming them with energy from a space-based solar plant. Maybe it is crazy, but that same company, Solaren, took a first step in that direction this week when it inked a deal with the northern California utility, PG&E, to provide 200 megawatts of power capacity transmitted from orbit in 2016. Apparently, sending up billions of dollars worth of solar collectors and using microwaves to send the energy onto two square miles of receivers in the desert is a little ho-hum to Solaren's wild minds. "The present invention relates to space-based power systems and, more particularly, to altering weather elements, such as hurricanes or forming hurricanes, using energy generated by a space-based power system," Jim Rogers and Gary Spirnak write in their 2006 patent application." - Cee Bee from Bookmarklet

@llYa remember that crazy JamesBond flic where they had a satellite with diamonds feeding a lens, you could of course use it to be a weapon or disrupt dangerous weather patterns (nice excuse). You could also just toast people or eradicate anything on the surface. If it were a real approach to generate energy you could just use the constant stream of EM energy coming from the sun, or tap the photon belt like Tesla did, or do something more green like earth batteries, even the egyptians had 'em. But waever :) - Roland

You can see all of Edison's patents here. "Edison executed the first of his 1,093 successful U.S. patent applications on 13 October 1868, at the age of 21. He filed an estimated 500–600 unsuccessful or abandoned applications as well. Unfortunately, the names given Edison's patents are too irregular to make simple word searches an accurate means of finding patents for particular technologies. His issued patents are presented here in three lists—by execution date, patent date, and subject. The execution and patent date lists are each presented in six parts to make the files less cumbersome." - Bill Romanos from Bookmarklet

"America's colleges and universities, says Wiley, have been acting as if what they offer — access to educational materials, a venue for socializing, the awarding of a credential — can't be obtained anywhere else. By and large, campus-based universities haven't been innovative, he says, because they've been a monopoly." - Meryn Stol from Bookmarklet

Meryn, game and simulations are great. How about a large scale reenactment along the same lines as ontology recapitulates phylogeny? How about physically setting up towns and houses etc and let people reenact? Like those BBC reenactments? Creating a series of these over 18 years could be quite powerful. - Todd Hoff

"In an operating room at the hospital, the technology can keep a pair of human lungs slowly breathing inside a glass dome attached to a ventilator, pump, and filters. The lungs are maintained at normal body temperature of 37 °C and perfused with a bloodless solution that contains nutrients, proteins, and oxygen. The organs are kept alive in the machine, developed with Vitrolife, for up to 12 hours while surgeons assess function and repair them." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

amazing - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

"Astronomers have announced the discovery of the lightest planet ever detected outside our Solar System." - Bill Romanos from Bookmarklet

(1) The placebo effect (2) The horizon problem (3) Ultra-energetic cosmic rays (4) Belfast homeopathy results (5) Dark matter..... - Jeffrey Marsh from Bookmarklet

How do we create the environment to promote your idea? - Damond Nollan

Without naming names, seems to me that a lot of the current crop of top-tier tech blogs have become vehicles for self-promotion. First it's a blog, then it's a conference, then it's a line of branded bathroom products. I'd take a tech blog a lot more seriously if they committed to reporting and nothing else. Once they cross the line into becoming a "media property," they usually start to have problems IMHO. - Kevin Pedraja

If it is possible for the activities of a human brain to be emulated by some other computing device, then it is possible for a human mind to be copied to a computer - "uploaded", in current sci-fi parlance. The computer can then run the human-mind program indefinitely. If it runs the human-program much faster than a normal brain can do, then from the point of view of the emulated brain, thousands of years could go by per real-world minute.

We did it for today's show (1,600 comments): http://beta.friendfeed.com/ffunder... - Johnny Worthington

Tx for this Meryn. I am more impressed with FF. I enjoy the way a discussion is kept together like this. Will be using this much more in future. - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

"We are living in a period of punctuated equilibrium". 13:34 - We've had information overload ever since there were more books than one person could consume...what we have now is a failure of the existing failure model to keep up.

Interesting to see who is using each network. It's not the same people, by the way. - Robert Scoble

I used to have my Twitter tweets piped into Facebook back in February and early march, during the Aussie bushfires...but it was a real pain, afterward, clearing out most of the tweets. Even had one of my Facebook regulars ask about something in the twitter stuff, because she could only see one-half of the discussion. Now, with Tweetdeck, I can pipe over a specific update once-off and make sure it doesn't drown everything else out over in FB. It does get a bit hectic in FF when I have stuff duplicated. - George Hall (Australia)