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Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

"Freshers week footage of new students testing out the rare and exciting Paternoster. This one is found in the Attenborough Tower of the University of Leicester, UK. But what happens if you forget to get off at the top!?" - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

Life tips. Take notes, this stuff is golden. - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

Best sitcom on TV. Hands down. - Kevin Mohr

"Today, November 27th, marks the beginning of 2009's Eid al-Adha, the Muslim "Festival of Sacrifice", commemorating the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to God. Muslims around the world will celebrate by slaughtering animals to commemorate God's gift of a ram to substitute for Abraham's son, distributing the meat amongst family, friends and the poor. Eid al-Adha also takes place immediately after the Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca that is a pillar of Islamic Faith. Some 2.5 million Muslim faithful from all over the world descended on Mecca this year, many encountering an unusual occurance: heavy flooding due to recent torrential rains. Collected below are photographs from this year's Hajj and observance of Eid al-Adha. (38 photos total)" - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

This is really happening and the results are thousands of working printers going to landfills. It's a situation brought on by the lousy business models of the OEMs. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

This is why I've pretty much abandoned printing at home. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

I love everything about this. Everything. Every frame. Every sound. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny from Bookmarklet

Heh: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questio... - Schadenfreude

"In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minute lobbying from top Fed officials and the surprise opposition of Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who had previously been a supporter." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

""I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language," Speers told the Minnesota Daily. "He was definitely starting to learn it."" - Schadenfreude

"And get this, Speers says he isn't really a huge Star Trek fan. " - Schadenfreude

"I fell head over heals for a girl. I thought about her way too often, missed her way more than a normal person ought to, and was pretty much in a constant state of love-induced sugar shock. I didn't want to seem overzealous or desperate, so I tried to play it cool -- and yet, the impulse to post embarrassing, saccharine love quotes to Facebook was overwhelming (I am but only a dork, after all)." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

....tl;dr -- fell in love with a chick, wanted to do something special for her, suck at everything else, so I built her a webapp. - Schadenfreude

"The belief that Twitter is more than just another communications platform continues to spread, kind of like swine flu for media geeks. And like the flu, it’s plunging victims into feverish hallucinations: “Twitter saved the Iranian protestors!” they cry, neglecting the fact that it, uh, didn’t. “Twitter made the Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck a sensation!” Yay, a fast-food truck makes money. “Twitter kept us updated about Balloon Boy in real time!”" - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

Maxamad: what is the basis for those claims? what is the overall yearly uptime for twitter website or api, and how does this truly compare to other messaging platforms? what is wrong with its security? there is an HTTPS login https://twitter.com/ and OAuth is pretty reliable if implemented properly - Mike Chelen

DENVER – The Colorado ski town of Breckenridge has voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana. - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

road trip? - .LAG liked that

"I pulled up my sample ballot for Minneapolis elections today, and found something absolutely fabulous. Take a look at the second-from-last candidate. Specifically, his party affiliation. God, I love this town. The ballot just gets better when you know what an Edgertonite is." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

We've got strange folk in Minneapolis. - Schadenfreude

Very cool! - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

I spent some time looking around the net to find a font that mimics DEC VT220 terminal glyph appearance. There is none. There are some old bitmapped fonts from X11 and probably early MacOS distributions that claim to be DEC fonts, they are functional but their visual quality is lacking and nostalgic value is absent. What I wanted was a font that fills my virtual terminal window with the magic hacking glow. - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

"Xerox researchers have invented a kind of ink that can conduct electricity and be used to put electronic circuits on top of plastics, film, and textiles. That means in the coming years we’ll be able to wear or bend our electronics. You could even print out your electronic gadget on plastic sheets, as if you were printing a document." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

Has anyone seen this technology in action? Is there a video somewhere? - Kamilah Gill

"This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

incredible - Vezquex: God of FF

"A Japanese blogger Ku-ma-me made an interesting program code. It is a variation of Quine program. The Ruby code generates Python code, which generates Perl code, which generates Lua code, which generates OCaml code, which generates Haskell code, which generates C code, which generates Java code, which generates Brainfuck code, which generates Whitespace code, which generates Unlambda code, which generates the original Ruby code again." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

Brainfuck isn't actually all that hard to learn. - Schadenfreude

I have trouble understanding this graph though! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

?= the more you are the sick of graphs, the more you not care until you were told to shut up? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

You're trying too hard See-ming. Just sick of 'em. - Schadenfreude

On display was Stanford’s latest autonomous vehicle, a robotic Audi TTS named Shelley. Shelley currently holds the unofficial world speed record for an autonomous car at over 130 mph, and will be racing up Pikes Peak all by herself next year. Stanford also demonstrated an autonomous valet parking system, where an almost stock Volkswagen Passat entered a parking lot, located an empty space, and parked itself: - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

"We're about to close for the day when our boss Maxwell emails over these "hold the presses" snapshots of a working model of Sir James Dyson's newest creation: the Dyson Air Multiplier is best described as one of their vacuum designs engineered in reverse, able to push out 118 gallons of air every minute for some serious air circulation. Mention of Stargate and a striking resemblance to an oversized magnifying glass are sure to be heard/thought upon first sight, but this device has a revolutionary design which allows for air flow without need for fan blades which is quite amazing (and very quiet)..." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

"# Writes at any angle, even in Zero Gravity. Simply the most versatile pen ever made. # Writes in extreme temperatures from -30F to 250F # Each Fisher Space Pen is precision assembled, hand tested, and carries an unconditional lifetime guarantee. # All Brass and steel construction" - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet

Pen's still great though ;) - Schadenfreude

No one likes Bokeh Type on FF yet?! But it's beautiful and fun :D - Airam F.

Hyper-cool :D - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Talking of which, I once made this collection of robots on comic book covers: http://www.coverbrowser.com/my... - Philipp Lenssen

Hey Philipp, great link :) Thanks for sharing! - Airam F.