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"Physicist Axel Mellinger pieced together this image of the night sky out of 3,000 individual images. Mellinger traveled 26,000 miles, taking images in South Africa, Texas and Michigan, then added data from two space probes. Yes, it's hardcore. An earlier version of this panoramic image was an Astronomy Picture Of The Day in 2001, but the Panorama 2.0 is much, much more detailed, and Mellinger has eliminated some distortions and other problems in the original image." - RAPatton

""This panorama image shows stars 1000 times fainter than the human eye can see, as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae," Mellinger said. Its high resolution makes the panorama useful for both educational and scientific purposes, he says. Mellinger spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 miles to take digital photographs at dark sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan. After the photographs were taken, "the real work started," Mellinger said." - RAPatton

They sure didn't.. - Pavan

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Nope, zero pretty to be found here, not one pretty at all - Matthew DeVries

Thank you, everyone. Wow, didn't expect to get that many comments and likes. - Araceli

I guess they didn't come to FriendFeed! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Allen - Yes, please do! I'll take ya out for dinner / drinks :) I am Co-Founder of @SMC_Rochester as well. You could come to one of our monthly meetups - every 2nd Thursday of the month. Oct 8th is next - Susan Beebe

"New Orleans might have changed considerably over the past 50 years, but at heart, it's still a big tease. So say the 50-plus sassy, sexy ladies who will twirl their tassels and strut their stuff through the first New Orleans Burlesque Festival this weekend. The festival aims to celebrate the burlesque revival that has sparked retro and cutting-edge revues across the country over the past 15 years, as well as put New Orleans back on the map as the capital of saucy, buxom entertainment. Though the international burlesque revival has, in general, modernized the classic art of striptease, often employing contemporary music, costumes and themes, don't expect to find anything avant-garde or experimental at the New Orleans Burlesque Festival. Instead, it aims to celebrate the kind of entertainment that filled Bourbon Street clubs in the 1940s and early '50s." - RAPatton

It does look like fun, and something to keep in mind for next year, although I'd prefer October visits to NOLA over September ones; I didn't hear about it until this morning - RAPatton

I just saw this cake mold in a store today! - Andrew C from Android

Wow. - Ha3rvey (Free hugs!)

"9, who is about the size and shape of one of those posable tabletop mannequins used by art students, has a soft burlap body and a zipper up his middle. His outsize eyes blink like camera shutters, and they take in a world of monstrous terror and haunting mystery. In the 10-minute version of the animated film that bears his name, 9 and his comrades — who I suppose should be called robots, though they are softer and rounder than the contraptions usually evoked by that word — navigate their surroundings without speech. Now, at feature length, the main character’s muteness is a temporary impediment, and he finds himself surrounded by eight other numbered automatons, introduced out of order like a row of Sudoku. (The numerologically inclined will note that the film’s opening date is 9/9/09). Some of these figures speak in the polished tones of well-known actors, including John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly and Crispin Glover. Once 2 (Martin Landau) gives him a tuneup, 9 begins asking... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Going to the 11am showing :) - Kevin L

"If there ever were a time that seemed ripe for nuclear energy, it's now. For the first time in decades, popular opinion is on the industry's side. A majority of Americans thinks nuclear power, which emits virtually no carbon dioxide, is a safe and effective way to battle climate change, according to recent polls. At the same time, legislators are showing renewed interest in nuclear as they hunt for ways to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. The industry is seizing this chance to move out of the shadow of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and show that it has solved the three big problems that have long dogged it: cost, safety and waste. Researchers are working on reactors that they claim are simpler, cheaper in certain respects, and more efficient than the last generation of plants. Some designs try to reduce the chance of accidents by automating safety features and minimizing the amount of hardware needed to shut down the reactor in an emergency. Others cut costs by using standardized... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"GE-Hitachi, for example, is developing a fast reactor called Prism that would take spent fuel or weapons waste, sitting in storage today, and use nearly all of it as fuel, leaving little waste. What's left would also be less radioactive than current waste, and would need to be stored for hundreds of years instead of thousands of years, scientists say. Fast reactors are able to unlock... more... - RAPatton

In an e-mail to Pandora supporters last week, founder Tim Westergren called the current system "fundamentally unfair both to Internet radio services like Pandora, which pay higher royalties than other forms of radio, and to musical artists, who receive no compensation at all when their music is played on AM/FM radio." He went on to ask readers to call House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi's office to request her support on the Performance Rights Act that would force radio to start paying a performance royalty to rightsholders. - Leo Laporte

I found this development from Pandora a bit self-serving. Granted that Pandora is paying a bunch of money for the rights to play music that broadcast stations are currently doing for "free" (they pay royalties to composers and lyricists but not the studio/performers), but the broadcasters' justification is that they are providing an advertising benefit to the performers (and studios).... more... - JR Holmes

Yikes! - Jeff

I just delete them. - Brian Johns

I figure if they've fallen into the dustbin of history without getting any love, then I should free up some harddrive space so other one-liners might live. - Brian Johns

Scandalous! - Eric Geller

"To solve the problem of using magnetic fields to control the individual atoms while keeping stray fields at bay, the NIST team used two pairs of energy states within the same atom. Each pair is best suited to a different task: One pair is used as a "memory" qubit for storing information, while the second "working" pair comprises a qubit to be used for computation. While each pair of states is field- insensitive, transitions between the memory and working states are sensitive, and amenable to field control. When a memory qubit needs to perform a computation, a magnetic field can make it change hats. And it can do this without disturbing nearby memory qubits." - Rick Kaiser from Bookmarklet

What an interesting world. - Jorge Escobar

Nice! I can probably just look at the info on the pics, but what kind of camera? (Also...the picture of the guy sleeping at his shop... I have a picture somewhere of an Engineer from college doing the same in the TV shop. Similar pose, too!) - Adam C.

for my friends who don't understand twitter..... - Stephanie Segel

Coolness! Its almost like being there. - James Hague

the Lounges are more or less for business class and higher ticketed passengers. - James Hague

"But back to that business model. Milkmuny pays money for collected cartons to charities, schools and groups who need fundraising capital. It washes them and via a bit of clever folding and fabrication engineers a couple of designs for multi-pocketed wallets. These are sold for about $10 bucks. A portion of the sale finds its way to 1% for the planet." - Alix Whitmire from Bookmarklet

Love that the colour of Leo's helmet. Brings out the colour in his eyebrows... :-) - James Fridley

Leo, you need a gorillapod to clamp a videocamera or iPhone to the trike. - Connor P Jackson from iPhone

Did you get that AC unit for FREE? - Eric Geller

Will the A/C allow your exercise ball to retain its structural integrity from now on? - Mike Nayyar

no. - Derrick

haha ew! - Anamarie

Television programs such as “The Simpsons” and “CSI” are for the first time commanding higher advertising rates at Web sites including Hulu.com and TV.com than on prime-time TV. The premium rates in the just-ended 2008-2009 television season are mainly for shows that rank among the most-watched by Nielsen Co., said David Poltrack, chief research officer at New York-based CBS Corp., which is home to “CSI” and owns TV.com. Marketers, who are now considering commitments for the 2009-2010 TV season, are willing to pay more because TV.com and Hulu.com, owned by investors including News Corp., NBC and Walt Disney Co., provide committed viewers who actively seek out shows. There are fewer commercials, and consumers are twice as likely to recall Web ads, Poltrack said, citing Nielsen. - Leo Laporte

@leolaporte Yeah Leo, wont you put a rocket up (towards) Hulu about not allowing access to their content if you are outside US of A, thanks from down under ): - Geer