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Sweet and Sour Science | The Scientist - http://the-scientist.com/2012...
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"Although miraculin didn’t activate the receptors at neutral pH, it was still bound and could inhibit their activation by other sweeteners. “So the miraculin has been sitting there, it’s ready to go, but it is not actually turning the key to turn on the sweet taste receptor, and therefore you’re not getting a perception of taste,” says Steven Munger, a chemosensory neurobiologist from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. “Adding the acid changes the shape of the miraculin, and that in turn changes the shape of the receptor, which turns it on.” Using their in vitro model, Abe’s team also determined the precise part of the receptor with which miraculin interacts. They now plan to determine the X-ray crystallographic structure of that interaction. They also hope to use miraculin to answer further questions about sweet taste receptor biology. As taste biologist Paul Breslin of Philadelphia’s Monell Chemical Senses Center and Rutgers University points out: “It is very hard to...
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- Todd Hoff
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Am seriously thinking about buying a niche small wine retail business. It's a bit of a crazy thing to do, but I could be quite excited about this, and I could grow it too - it's that good a fit! And if one isn't capable of being a bit naive and crazy when it matters, what's the point of life?
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maybe i just want to have an excuse to go around visiting vineyards and eating in good restaurants and calling it research?
- Iphigenie
How would this work?
- Todd Hoff
I will send u some great wines from small Spanish wineries if u do
- Jack Sagel
from iPhone
Jack, that'd be very interesting indeed
- Iphigenie
Todd, it's an online business 10 years old almost, too small to be of interest to any big players but not failing. I am a customer of theirs. Due to other reasons they are planning to close and I am considering making an offer. Since I thought of doing something like this AND I have quite a lot of interest in food and wine and contacts from when I was in B2B publishing in the field for...
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- Iphigenie
interesting that the same thing GapingVoid did with his blog.. http://gapingvoid.com/2008...
- Peter Dawson
and then you can check this out.. http://www.stormhoek.com/blog/
- Peter Dawson
it makes a lot of sense - south african wines were a revelation when I moved to the UK, we'd never seen them on the shelf in Switzerland and there are such awesome wines and grapes there! This business I am looking into is specialised in wines from Europe outside the big regions and big names. Wines from small wineries in great places with stories and people. For expats or people who are looking to try something different, old grape varieties etc.
- Iphigenie
Well, if you need to hire people...put me on your list. :) I'm actually pretty interested in how UK winemaking will go with global climate change. As things warm up, I wonder if the areas where one can grow wine in the UK will expand and if the varieties possible to grow will increase. Of course, the tricky thing is it isn't just warming...cold weather is getting more extreme in some places as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Spidra Webster
I have the advantage that I helped set up http://harpers.co.uk/ before it got sold to Reed and http://www.iwsc.net before it got spun off - from a tech and ebusiness perspective back then but I learned lots about the business, since I knew much about wine anyway, so I know people who can help me for PR and all :) Getting excited now, something's bound to go wrong and make it not happen :(
- Iphigenie
Spidra - if it happens, I'll let you know :) And you're right, the UK so far seems a winner in the Climate Change lottery, and they have the climate for Champagne already these days. Reds will take a bit longer. I'm totally clueless on UK wine though :)
- Iphigenie
Seriously, the wines in BC are delicious. You should come over here and try them for yourself! I was trying to get my brother to start a wine import business to the UK for them, they need a wider audience :)
- WoH: Minding her Botts
Does the existing biz have a good location, loyal clients, have a wholesale distribution side? If not then you might as well start from scratch in a good location. I used to come over to the UK to do wine tastings of my wines (wines I represent on the export side) so that is a possibility. Where are you in Yorks somewhere?
- Jack Sagel
Sorry just read the comment that explained it's an online biz
- Jack Sagel
Jack, taking over a physical retail location would be another level of risk altogether - and a whole different level of constraints too. This is a business run from home and via events, with the wine in a warehouse which does the fulfilment. The store does have a loyal clientele any of whom reacted rather crushed that this might close (and that includes me), but it really provides a...
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- Iphigenie
PS: do you have a website or some info on your wines, would happily pass this along to my friends who run wine clubs etc. anyways :)
- Iphigenie
Here are a few with websites: http://cellerclua.com/ in the Terra Alta south of Barcelona; http://carballal.net/ is an Albariño the best white area in Spain; http://www.vendrellrived.com/ a small winery in the Montsant next to the trendy Priorat region again south of Barcelona. Anyone interested should contact me jack.sagel@gmail.com Salud!
- Jack Sagel
2 days on the plan is still a plan. wow.
- Iphigenie
Yay!
- Spidra Webster
I'm still excited. Obviously got a lot of small things to check and yet to see the accounts but hopefully there's no surprise obstacle and I can make a win-win offer.
- Iphigenie
still going forward. oh my.
- Iphigenie
you can try to find bit more clientele from Scandinavia - local legislation turns them into "escape to wine paradise" eager tourists ;)
- A. T.
and just FYI - ZuidAfrika wines are long time in Alko in Finland, so it might be .ch local issue
- A. T.
Very exciting to hear things might work out!
- WoH: Minding her Botts
from iPhone
talked to my bank, talked to my accountants, talking to a lawyer tomorrow. Can't help thinking I don't really know enough to be doing this, but then I *always* would think that. I will be committed to this by Saturday.
- Iphigenie
at the moment, it looks likely to complete by the 15th... no worries i won't spam wine ads all the time in here after that :)
- Iphigenie
Fingers crossed and congratulations! That is incredibly exciting!!
- WoH: Minding her Botts
Wow! Way to go!
- Anne Bouey
This is happening. Money is in lawyer's account. Strange how these things happen - for the past few years I've heard of people doing this, instead of starting from scratch, and since I didnt have the all-overriding passion or energy to tackle starting from scratch then I thought "it'd be nice to buy a business or product that is alreade there, that i can have some interest in, but how...
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- Iphigenie
Great to hear you have things in place and that you have support in taking on this exciting new project. Keep us up to date with what's going on! My brother is in the UK and Certainly enjoys finding new wines, so I'd be happy to direct him to your site :)
- WoH: Minding her Botts
There is justice in the world, it's just not evenly distributed.
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There is enough food/money and (the ability to manufacture enough) medicine in the world, just not evenly distributed, if it was, there'd be no hunger/poverty or suffering any more...
- Halil
“So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.” [King Lear, Act 4, Scene 1] – William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
- Halil
The World Is Not Enough -- James Bond :-)
- Todd Hoff
I use this argument every time a sucker says: FEMINISM HASN'T WON ITS BATTLE. Oh, yes it did, it's just not evenly distributed. :D http://internetjockey.tumblr.com/post...
- Cyber Wanderlust
Entropy wins in the end.
- Victor Ganata
Is Spotify the best music discovery tool for listeners, free promo for artists or is it legalized piracy?https://t.co/HnIpg5o4
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I'm interested in hearing from musicians who have music up on the service, musician who've taken their music down from the service as well as end-users of the service.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
As a user, I've been underwhelmed. Particularly after months of hearing people rave about it. As an artist, I've had some of my music streamed there. I receive $0.0009 each time someone streams a tune. Thus it takes many many times streaming to make even one penny. Judging by sales in other areas, it hasn't translated to people buying my work from me or iTunes/Amazon/CDBaby, etc. OTOH,...
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- Spidra Webster
The content is pretty damn good, but not really great. The sound quality can be rather flat, however. Still the best thing going (other than YouTube, of course, which is the best thing since sliced bread, despite the spotty sound quality).
- Adrian
As an artist with music on the service, I am quite conflicted. On one hand, I want to make my music freely available to anyone interested in hearing it which I do via my Global Streaming Store (http://store.atmosmusic.com/) On the other hand, I do not wish to fund the source of the problems facing the artist's economics: The major record label. The majors partially own Spotify and by my allowing my music to enrich the service, I am assisting a very real nemesis.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Rob, can you elaborate on how major labels are your nemesis?
- Spidra Webster
"Hi you have reached Rob. I'm not here right now, but you can find me over at Google+ teaching virtual guitar lessons via the Hangout feature. Please leave a message after the click."
- Adrian
Spidra, I am an artist and major labels are anti-artist organizations. I believe it is not only in my best interest but my responsibility to do anything that I can to hasten their demise.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Adrain--LOL!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
No. Spotify sucks for finding new music. Slacker is a much better service for that. Spotify seems to be good only if you want to listen to specific music. Their "radio" capabilities suck, to be honest.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
i stopped using Spotify shortly after i started using it. what i've discovered about them since then has only firmed up my decision to never return.
- Joe The Sausage
Have to agree with Alex. I find it very difficult to discover music on Spotify. I see what's really popular on their front page, but that's about it.
- Todd Hoff
I was hoping for a more specific take on how major labels specifically mess with your career, Rob. Besides getting first pick of the press and reviews due to their distribution/muscle, I don't feel the effect of major labels that directly as an artist. I can pretty much ignore them.
- Spidra Webster
Spidra, they don't mess with my career directly (outside of their constant attempts at halting tech innovations and internet censorship: that's enough to fight for), but I'm all for working towards solutions, not perpetuating problems.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Alex, thanks I'll look into slacker. Joe, my limited Spotify experience as been similar to yours.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Johnny, if the group you represent distribute their music via CDBaby, Tunecore, or similar, they may be providing the catalog to Spotify. The music can be left there or it can be taken down: same as mine.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Silicon Valley won’t dominate the tech world forever - http://thenextweb.com/insider...
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Certainly not. The sun will super nova one day and that may just end SV's reign. Assuming we haven't figured out a way to translate the earth to another galaxy, in which case this prediction could be wrong.
- Todd Hoff
Jeremy Lin went crazy against the Lakers last night... got the Knicks rolling -- http://j.mp/wUbnzk
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Yet another player the Warriors failed on...sigh...
- Todd Hoff
+1 Todd... Warriors organization have an uncanny ability to give away talented players for almost nothing
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And draft crappy players. And play crappy players. And...
- Todd Hoff
We're the boot camp for future NBA stars :(
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
I think Kobe knows who he is now.
- Julian
I guess the Warriors are kind of like the pre-CP3 Clippers that way :D
- Victor Ganata
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Unconscious!
- DJ Stevie Steve
I'm just glad a smart kid, with a good head on his shoulders, and respect for the game is doing well. Sucks that carmelo will come back and put an end to that.
- SteVe C
I <3 this: "I think Kobe knows who he is now" ...well-done Julian
- .LAG liked that
I thought the Warriors would have been demoted to the D-League by now? :-)
- DB Botts - Just DB Botts
...the Warriors would get schooled in the D-League too
- .LAG liked that
The team in Maine is decent.
- Julian
The Warriors are still better than the Bobcats.
- Victor Ganata
+1 Victor
- .LAG liked that
Made a couple batches of that honey liqueur for my local valentines. Just tasted it. Hate it. Haha, oh well.
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Obama riled up Republicans on contraception, and then delivers a knock-out punch. http://j.mp/Ai6TSq
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Love it!
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
I wish I didn't live in a place where this is such a big deal. Such a minor issue taking up major time. We don't even want people to have the option to do stuff that has nothing to do with us. I mean wow.
- Rah-PM 2012
+1 Rah
- Todd Hoff
Remember: contraception can prevent abortions. I bet if altar boys could get pregnant the catholic church would be all for contraception. The male hipocrisy in this is staggering. Also, in real catholic countries like Belgium, Spain, Italy, France and even Ireland, contraception is not an issue at all.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
I'm not a religious expert or anything, but does the bible or anything really even mention contraception? I'm probably opening an entirely vague, volatile, and gray can of worms with that question, huh? LOL
- Rah-PM 2012
Pretty sure if God wants you preggers, a thin bit of latex isnt going to stop him.
- ωαřмaiden BrokerPokerface
my youngest was conceived despite latex and birth control.
- Rah-PM 2012
from Android
Of course, nothing prevents reproduction like having no sex at all. Ever.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Quote from Larry Lessig:
“When you feel the impossibility of really thinking about the ten thousand year horizon, you’ve got to access that part in each of us which knows that the rational calculation is not the only reason we do things. We celebrate doing things that are plainly irrational—loving our children, loving our country, loving our planet—even though we’ll never see any of those things come to the perfection we imagine.”
- Todd Hoff
A little context might help. This was a response made by Lawrence Lessig to a question asked in a Q&A session after his "How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It” presentation at a Long Now event (http://longnow.org/seminar...). The talk was deeply depressing as our political system is so totally corrupt and geared toward...
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- Todd Hoff
Money saving tip: "I pay $3.25 hanging (or about $3.80 a pound) for my beef. The only thing I could find in the grocery store that cheap was the 92% lean ground beef and that weird beef “stuff” that comes in the tube. You know, the kind with the ammonia washed pink slime mixed in (YUM!!)" - http://www.saveourskills.com/episode...
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Well, we don't have an extra freezer or enough room for it, so that's my excuse...
- Todd Hoff
Beef stuff that comes in a tube? O_o I've never seen anything like that.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
"Episode 31: My experiences buying local grass fed pasture raised beef. Verdict: It’s awesome!"
- Todd Hoff
I've only had local long-horn, a bit too lean for burgers, and buffalo, it's been a while since that farm was around here.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
A butcher shop that sells local raised beef and pork is a small treasure. We also have place not far from us that raises and sells buffalo
- WarLord
"Dear #startups @Pinterest was founded in 2008. This is not an overnight success. It took hard work, perseverance, and execution. Just FYI."
http://twitter.com/jeanett...
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Who was executed? I want names!
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I bet they have pictures :-)
- Todd Hoff
Also, jQuery Masonry has been around for a while too but suddenly it's THE WEB LAYOUT OF THE MOMENT.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
LOL. I had the same reaction Micah did as I was reading this.
- Spidra Webster
Zulema, there's that Simpsons song about the Masons. Now it's stuck in my head.
- Micah
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Hijack - Wiki - http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki...
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"HiJack is a hardware/software platform for creating cubic-inch sensor peripherals for the mobile phone. HiJack devices harvest power and use bandwidth from the mobile phone's headset interface. The HiJack platform enables a new class of small and cheap phone-centric sensor peripherals that support plug-and-play operation. HiJack has been tested with the iPhone 3G/3GS/4G, iPod Touch, and iPad devices. A Hijack app LIB is also available to help you design your own particular "ixxxx" app with this kit. It would be great if you can share your innovations with the community."
- Todd Hoff
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NASA | Temperature Data: 1880-2011 - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880.The finding sustains a trend that has seen the 21st century experience nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York released an analysis of how temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience higher temperatures than several decades ago. The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) higher than the mid-20th century baseline."
- Todd Hoff
from Bookmarklet
Wow.
- AJ Batac :)
We're having such an incredibly mild winter here in southern Nevada. We're all worried that this summer is going to be brutally hot. :(
- Kelli H.
Isn't it so fun to be part of a grand global weather experiment? :-)
- Todd Hoff
Ask me again in August. :P
- Kelli H.
Great idea. We'll come up with a survey that gauges how satisfied people are with global warming. [ ] Satisfied - we are weather lottery winners, love it [ ] Unsatisfied - this sucks
- Todd Hoff
Can my answer change from season to season? Right now, I'd like to vote "satisfied," but that is guaranteed to change in the summer. ;)
- Kelli H.
Ok, guys, I need your advice. Some guys at work love doing pranks, and they've hit me a couple times. I've expressed that I don't really like it, I don't retaliate, and yet they keep doing it. What aggravates me is their continuing to do it because I don't like it. It's now grown to text and Facebook bombing me outside of work. What do I do?
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Can you sit down with them and remind them again how much you don't like it and want it to stop and then explain you'll have to go to their supervisor if it continues?
- Kelli H.
I'd report it to HR. This is bullying.
- Katy S
If they keep doing it after you tell them to stop, I'd talk to a supervisor.
- Bird-botts
I think I'm going to try talking to them one more time. The very first prank was done by a guy who recently left for school and everyone (including my supervisor) knew about it, and that pissed me off a bit. I don't know how much I can complain about the texting and Facebook bombing, but I can unfriend them. I hate being seen as a "sore loser" but I'm so tired of this.
- Kelly
Last chance e-mail: "Guys, this is too much. I don't like the pranks, like I've already told you. Stop now, please. If it continues, I will have no choice but to talk to HR. OK? I don't want this to interfere with our work relationship, but enough is enough. Thank you."
- Stephen Mack
They are feeding off your reaction, so an option might be to have no reaction. Act like it never happened, that you didn't even notice. Then they'll move on to other targets. If that fails then complaining to the supervisor seems best.
- Todd Hoff
I really tried the no reaction thing, and they kept egging me on. Bringing it up and laughing about it continuously and I'm so, so tired of it.
- Kelly
I'd just go to HR at this point. Sounds like you've given them plenty of notice and plenty of chances.
- Spidra Webster
Then f*ck them, nuke 'em :-)
- Todd Hoff
It's harassment, and letting them "move on to other targets" just lets them harass more people. If they don't stop, it needs to be reported. They are creating a hostile work environment.
- Katy S
Go to HR. This is harassment. Full stop.
- Jyl BlueBott
I'm going to talk to them and my supervisor so it's "on the record" that I tried to work it out myself first, and went through the appropriate steps. If it continues still, I'll go to HR. Because they've been there for 3 years I've felt like I'm in the wrong for screwing up the environment they know and are comfortable with, but it's just not working anymore. Thanks for everyone's input, I really, really appreciate it.
- Kelly
Sounds like a great plan! *hugs*
- Rachel Lea Fox
Inner peace:
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If you can start the day without caffeine, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it, If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time, If you can take criticism and blame without resentment, If you can conquer tension without medical help, If you can relax without alcohol, If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, ...Then You Are Probably ......... The Family Dog!
- Todd Hoff
Why The Global System is Killing Trust - Global Guerrillas - http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalg...
"He made a convincing case that security is scaling slower than data, bandwidth, node, and user growth. It is falling behind and will continue to fall behind as the global system grows. Upshot: it's already nearly impossible to secure big organizations. Every Fortune 500 company has and will continue to compromised. The government's systems are already a sieve. There's almost nothing that can be done about it and it will get increasingly worse. Forget about securing a single person trying to connect to the global system. They are just sheep ready for slaughter."
- Todd Hoff
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It's a cold Saturday morning! How is it where you are?
In Balto we had a very light dusting of snow - just on some car roofs, really.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
cold in Austin.
- Que Sarah Sarah
68 and cloudy.
- Michelle M
from Android
Cold! It's 10°F right now.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
It can't decide if it wants to rain or not. The yellow orb is definitely not in the plans, but I wish it would make up its mind on the rest...
- Todd Hoff
15 and snowing.
- Eric
-5 windchill. Brrrrrrr!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
drizzling but not that cold :)
- Anna Lynn M.
46F and sunny
- Mike Nencetti
Gray & overcast at a quarter to 8. Everything's wet outside but it's not raining now. Watching the news to see if it'll be raining again.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
-30c windchill. But the rest of next week is looking good!
- AJ Batac :)
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Magic Mushrooms Expand the Mind By Dampening Brain Activity, May Help Depression - http://healthland.time.com/2012...
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"A new study by British researchers supports this theory. It shows for the first time how psilocybin — the drug contained in magic mushrooms — affects the connectivity of the brain. Researchers found that the psychedelic chemical, which is known to trigger feelings of oneness with the universe and a trippy hyperconsciousness, does not work by ramping up the brain’s activity as they’d expected. Instead, it reduces it. Under the influence of mushrooms, overall brain activity drops, particularly in certain regions that are densely connected to sensory areas of the brain. When functioning normally, these connective “hubs” appear to help constrain the way we see, hear and experience the world, grounding us in reality. They are also the key nodes of a brain network linked to self-consciousness and depression. Psilocybin cuts activity in these nodes and severs their connection to other brain areas, allowing the senses to run free."
- Todd Hoff
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"“The results seem to imply that a lot of brain activity is actually dedicated to keeping the world very stable and ordinary and familiar and unsurprising,” says Robin Carhart-Harris, a postdoctoral student at Imperial College London and lead author of the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
- Todd Hoff
"Indeed, if we always paid attention to every perceptible sensation or impulse like this, we’d be incapable of focusing at all. This is why it’s difficult to sit still and try to tune in all the feelings and perceptions we normally tune out, but why also, like psychedelic drugs, meditation can make the world seem strange and new. "
- Todd Hoff
"The mPFC is an area that, when dysfunctional, is linked with rumination and obsessive thinking. “Probably the most reliable finding in depression is that the mPFC is overactive,” says Carhart-Harris. All antidepressant treatments studied so far — from Prozac, ketamine, electroconvulsive therapy and talk therapy to placebo — reduce activity in the mPFC when they are effective. "
- Todd Hoff
"This is one of the best, most level headed, open minded and genuinely honest scientific studies I have ever had the joy to read on this sacred mushroom. Great, great article. Another fascinating aspect of psilocybin mushrooms is their physical growth habitat itself. The separate bodies above ground are actually the fruit heads of one subterranean mycelium mother organism. They show to...
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- Todd Hoff
Absolutely fascinating how it works. The effects on depression and obsession are also fascinating. We are quite highly strung, built for a world where every sound could mean death, that attention was survival. In a world where the dangers have lessened that hyper attention turns inward and causes so much pain.
- Todd Hoff
Where's a good place to go to set up a photoblog?
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The Internet is popular, but a very cliche place.
- Micah
Drat on you, Micah! I meant what's a good site to use that is specifically tailored to making photoblogs?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Posterous is all about that these days. Or I can set you up a WordPress install with a choice of themes on one of my BlueHost servers.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Good to know, Mary, and thanks for the offer, but this isn't for me.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Then Posterous or Tumblr.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Tumblr seems popular
- Todd Hoff
Smugmug a possibility?
- Eric
Or, really, the dead-easiest thing to do is ourdoings, which does it for you. You upload a bunch of pix to a special DropBox folder and it organizes the shots based on the metadata. Then, go back in and add whatever text you want to tell the story. http://ourdoings.com
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
And it's our own Bruce Lewis - so it stays in the family. We ought to promote that more.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
THANKS!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
FF trounced your G+ response.
- Todd Hoff
Word, Todd...big time.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
For public consumption I use Posterous (not actively, lately) http://wittman.posterous.com and Smugmug's API + a PHP app I wrote for private family photos.
- Micah
flickr
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I still like Flickr for photosharing
- WarLord
I've tried Posterous, Tumblr, Wordpress, Smugmug/Flickr/Picasa hackery, Instagram, Zenfolio and 500px for various mutations of photo posting/blogging, and for something public, I'd just just go with Tumblr these days. I think the community trumps any sort of technical whizbangery. Particularly since other tools (e.g. Instagram) will post to it natively.
- Ken Sheppardson
...or just use FriendFeed. :-)
- Bruce Lewis
Friendfeed remains a choice, if not a popular choice.
- Andy Bakun
ourdoings seems nice for telling a story, needs nicer skins though (considering calling a favor from a friend to get one done). And it links to FF like nothing else does (and g+ and more). Blipfoto is nice if you want to try to be more consistent and encouraged in taking photos. I have found blip to be easy, friendly, clean. Also, it's a scottish startup. There's also european ipernity, which feels like a clone of flickr except with better support for telling a story/blog around a set of pictures
- Iphigenie
Hi iphigenie. If you talk to that friend, ask if they'd be more likely to want to design a skin for it if it were bootstrap-based -- http://twitter.github.com/bootstr...
- Bruce Lewis
I recently ran across a nice photoblog theme built on Thesis theme for Wordpress. http://exhibit.wpblogger.com/
- NotdaBOTTurlokin4
I like Wordpress, but I'm a big dummy
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
Bruce, Bootstrap looks cool. If you're thinking of doing skins, Bootstrap doesn't look any harder than messing with WP themes*, and that LESS business just about made me swoon. If people want custom skins, I'd be happy to design them! *I can't say I build whole themes from scratch - don't have the php chops for that. It's more like I restyle existing themes - Genesis child themes, or I also have a developer license for Elegant Themes - with client trade dress (type, colors and imagery).
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
I've played with Posterous (http://mobilephoto.co) and Tumblr (http://twiddle.me) but mainly for iPhone photos.
- I like big Botts
Bruce, I will ask. Strangely enough Bootstrap was exactly what I was using messing with my skin for my old tired site (wish I'd enjoy that kind of design more, but i dont). I don't know if bootstrap would make a huge difference but I think having a well structured and documented (or self explanatory) template would help, and bootstrap or some other framework would help you in creating...
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- Iphigenie
Watch Starry Night come to life in this mind-blowing interactive animation - http://thenextweb.com/dd...
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That's gorgeous.
- Todd Hoff
Gillmor Gang Enterprise, recording live today 1pm PT participate at http://www.building43.com/realtim...
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Who's the gang this week?
- Aron Michalski
I'm in the gang
- Kevin Marks
Hi Kevin, good deal.
- Aron Michalski
GG G+ Hangout testing soon...
- cliveb
I'm here.
- Robert Scoble
calling u now Robert
- Tina Chase Gillmor
next Kevin
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Ready to rumble?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
ipad ustreaming to appletv - anyone else try watching GG live like this?
- Ankush Narula
How is your tooth Kevin
- Francine Hardaway
I just put up a 3D video of 3D manfacturing at the World Economic Forum: https://plus.google.com/1110910...
- Robert Scoble
500hats~! 500FiretrUCKs
- cliveb
And will I get dizzy watching it?
- Francine Hardaway
try calling me back, looks like skypes dumped me down to 3 fps
- Kevin Marks
isn't the 3d backwards compatible (ie it uses fields on final cut)
- Kevin Marks
Francine: you can watch it in 3D.
- Robert Scoble
how does it look Ankush?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Kevin: no. Doesn't work.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin: my new camera records separate 1080i videos. Has two separate cameras.
- Robert Scoble
ah, I see
- Kevin Marks
Gray, our studio cat, is in love with mimi. They did not get thrown outside today, therefore they are running around and making noise. Thanks cats!
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I don't get the big deal about apps, survey after survey shows that most people ignore them(on mobile) Consumers ignore most apps on their smartphones – USATODAY.com http://usat.ly/y20Sr1
- Stephen M
Collections of polyglot web apps make lock down inevitable (Heroku)
- cliveb
Stephen: absolutely false. That data is simply not right and is provably so.
- Robert Scoble
thats a pew survey.. reputable
- Stephen M
if this doesn't wrok, I'll go get an ethernet cable
- Kevin Marks
Change just comes much more slowly than anyone expects. People don't whip into apps on the desktop if they already have what they think is a satisfactory solution,
- Francine Hardaway
looks somewhat better Kevin
- Tina Chase Gillmor
didn't someone make that app last year? http://isscobleinthisroom.com/
- Kevin Marks
Davie Morin's Tumblr http://bit.ly/wNJHDA
- cliveb
...aand now the jet noise starts...
- Tina Chase Gillmor
can you mute me round i or shoudl I? I think it's a prop plane
- Kevin Marks
Tina: it looks great - we need to get to HD so I can see Steve's individual whiskers
- Ankush Narula
Kevin: yeah, but that was a hack using Twitter's location. It rarely worked right. Highlight works very accurately.
- Robert Scoble
Polyglot enterprise web apps make sandboxing a good thing, w/o no x-collection privacy security.
- cliveb
Ankush, you do not want that!
- Tina Chase Gillmor
'Capability based security' is what you want rather than sandboxing
- Kevin Marks
was PATH available in Europe yet?
- Stephen M
Tina: I've fashioned my own white beard to pay tribute to him
- Ankush Narula
Stephen: I believe it was.
- Robert Scoble
the way Europe is about privacy i wonder if they will get in trouble over there for this address book problem
- Stephen M
ankush ;-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Andy Baio was warning about OAuth in Wired, which is blaming the wrong piece of the stack
- Kevin Marks
Lazy Fare FTW...
- Aron Michalski
tina - check your @mentions
- Ankush Narula
I don't think what Path did was all that bad.. I mean, you are using a mobile device, and the cell phone provider has to know where you are, who you are calling... you care about privacy, use a can and some string
- Stephen M
Ankush - looks nice indeed!
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Thanks for the peak
- Tina Chase Gillmor
maybe you should publish your setup featuring your favorite show, of course! ;-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
will do
- Ankush Narula
Cool side note stat: 360,500 texts are sent every second from Nokia phones
- Stephen M
i think by installing social apps like fourSquare, Path, Highlight - you're implicitly opting in
- Ankush Narula
exactly
- Stephen M
there should certainly be disclosures about how your data is used up front - and there should be an option to delete your data - facebook sync for iphone was doing this - and then on their website they let you delete the synced data
- Ankush Narula
Stephen - is that a lot?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
sounds like it...just for one brand... of course the service providers only see $$$
- Stephen M
Android intents, web intents are better than iOS model
- Kevin Marks
Windows 8 allows apps to talk to each other
- Stephen M
stephen: very true
- Ankush Narula
I watched online!
- Stephen M
the online experience was very nice
- Stephen M
Superbowl is tiny compared to the World cup final
- Kevin Marks
or even cricket
- Kevin Marks
Why don't they use the chat room that is attached to Ustream?
- Stephen M
FF is not dead yet, it was only a flesh wound
- Todd Hoff
Stephen: because.
- Robert Scoble
NBC Press Release about Superbowl viewer stats: http://www.nbcumv.com/mediavi...
- Ankush Narula
Stephen M: iOS apps can talk to each other through the cloud. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Steve has a cold and it makes his voise deeper and louder.... hard to control
- Tina Chase Gillmor
wow 4.5 million streamed the super bowl online
- Stephen M
I need to admit that my former guilty pleasure "all My Children" is still missed by me. And I bare a crudge against ABC still
- Tina Chase Gillmor
it was powered by Silverlight
- Stephen M
NCIS has a great social media presence... a lot of the actors are on twitter, and tweet during the episode, or provide behind the scenes pics of episodes they are shooting
- Stephen M
crugde = grudge
- Tina Chase Gillmor
3D is so bogus
- Kevin Marks
fishtank video
- Kevin Marks
extreme close up, nerd version...
- Aron Michalski
no one would watch it on CNN anyway
- Stephen M
Robert has found the loudest, most boomy room to broadcast from
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Kevin: it's very clear you weren't at CES and didn't look at the new OLED screens. They were AMAZING in 3D.
- Robert Scoble
my boys have been through arrested development that way
- Kevin Marks
The Hour really was excellent.
- Hilary Talbot
CBS and American Idol are making me want to watch their shows "Live"... the behind the scenes tweeting is really nice for their shows
- Stephen M
Kevin: I listed to an interview with Chris Columbus, the movie producer behind Harry Potter and he totally disagrees with you about 3D. Interesting that this argument is happening in lots of places.
- Robert Scoble
goodness, dump the dvd drive,
- cliveb
Chris Columbus, ohhh i didn't know u were that old ;)
- Stephen M
Stephen: different Columbus: http://www.imdb.com/name... is who I'm talking about. :-)
- Robert Scoble
ah the election... Republican primaries have been very interesting
- Tina Chase Gillmor
he, i know.
- Stephen M
3D works when you have a very big screen that fills your visual field. without that it is a fishtank that reduces suspension fo disbelief as you can see the edges
- Kevin Marks
GetGlue does that
- Kevin Marks
Kevin: hold your computer closer to your face! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Android at Home?
- Stephen M
One good thing about the DNC coming to town, all the cell providers are improving their networks, or upgrading it!
- Stephen M
I prefer GetGlue.. you get real Stickers!
- Stephen M
motorola already ships loads of home entertainment boxes, and Google just bought them
- Kevin Marks
do you really care what other people are watching? particularly in the age of DVR?
- Ankush Narula
Highlight sounds a little like the flappers in Gulliver's Travels.
- Hilary Talbot
yes, because I can see them reating to it on twitter
- Kevin Marks
I do... some shows I have to watch when they air
- Stephen M
Steve + JP consumer web observations turns up in Chatter Timeline
- cliveb
I only watch sports live - maybe Daily Show or Colbert if I'm awake and home - otherwise it's pretty much all on demand
- Ankush Narula
Stephen - which ones? award shows, yes?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
was the superbowl in 3d?
- Kevin Marks
only in Indianapolis ;-)
- Ankush Narula
No.. most of the shows on CBS.. each has a member of the cast or crew tweeting little behind the scenes information... especially NCIS..
- Stephen M
i like that stuff.
- Stephen M
and I'm in the advertiser friendly Demo, so i guess its working lol
- Stephen M
stephen - it's true - that's a fun activity
- Ankush Narula
Can't wait for the Grammy's either
- Stephen M
oooh BTW "The Good Wife" is an excellent show to watch anyway
- Stephen M
yay G+
- cliveb
deadmau5!
- Stephen M
wow: Updated: More Adults 18-49 Watched Last Friday’s ‘Fringe’ Time-Shifted Than Live - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers http://bit.ly/wr4reR
- Stephen M
thanks to all!
- Tina Chase Gillmor
The one silver lining about being sick: I am reading a lot. Finished 2 books yesterday.
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Yep, I finished the hunger games lickity split. It helps when there's nothing else you can do :-)
- Todd Hoff
I tend to read and sleep a lot if I'm sick. Feel better soon!
- Rollin' in the LB
I tend to watch more TV when I'm sick. I'm a bad librarian.
- Alan
hope you feel better soon!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Feel better quick, Luv.
- Starmama
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Battlestar Galactica actors in Portlandia - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Birds were picking on the kale so I used a plastic jar as a clochure and it seems to be working. Perking right up.
Halil, Kelli H., Ken Morley and 12 other people liked this
Irony is I have a ton of kale and I don't even like it.
- Todd Hoff
I don't love kale but I like kale chips so I'm going to attempt growing some this year. You're making me wish I'd bought the bell jar (cloche) I saw in a thrift store in Oakland...
- Spidra Webster
Those things aren't cheap, so I went with the Costco provided container for my beans :-) How do you make Kale chips? Are they any good?
- Todd Hoff
I know! It's the first time I ever saw one in a thrift store and at a semi-affordable price. Kale chips are tasty if you season them, in my opinion. A good way to fool myself into eating more vegetables. There are loads of recipes - just Google. This is the one I use: http://smittenkitchen.com/2010...
- Spidra Webster
Cool, thanks, I'll give it a try.
- Todd Hoff
I'm making some right now (using pre-cut kale they sell at Trader Joe's). I'll try to post a pic when I'm done.
- Spidra Webster
You have a private feed Spidra, so their wonderfulness is hidden behind the vail...
- Todd Hoff
Unfortunately, I can't invite anyone. They have to attempt to subscribe before I can approve it.
- Spidra Webster
How do they taste?
- Todd Hoff
They've still got a bit of the bitterness of kale but it's far more palatable when dehydrated (either by baking or dehydration) and salted/spiced.
- Spidra Webster
Sounds like it's worth a shot then, thanks for the experiment!
- Todd Hoff
Hydroponic & SoilLess Growing at Swank Farm and What can be Gleened from their Success - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Interesting, in florida they grow in grow bags because they have sandy soil and a lot of pests. The grow bags contain locally mined florida peet moss, perlite, micorriza, and nutrients.
- Todd Hoff
Diversity as a means of surviving attacks on one or more of your different veg and so you get a lot of different nutrients.
- Todd Hoff
Pepper plants are protected by a mechanical control, which is just a cloth over the plants so the bugs can't get in yet the sun can get in.
- Todd Hoff
He juices beet tops and cabbage leafs so they don't go to waste.
- Todd Hoff
Add trace minerals through rock dust, clay, ocean solutions so your greens are more nutritious.
- Todd Hoff
A huge operation, a good model for a lot of areas to produce local food.
- Todd Hoff
Grow flowers to attract beneficial insects and food.
- Todd Hoff
Grow vertically so you can grow and eat more.
- Todd Hoff
Contrary Brin: Are Taxes Historically High or Low? Chilling Secrecy, Clint Eastwood and the Rise of Common Sense - http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2012...
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"That’s it. Today’s top rates are currently lower than at any time since 1930... and ironically that includes half of the HOOVER Administration preceding FDR. In other words, the hiking upward was first done by the same 1930 Republican Congress that brought us the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs! Just to make this clear, so you rub it in your crazy-as-Fox uncle, income tax rates are lower than at any time in 80 years. The other big fact is the fraction of U.S. national GDP taken by the federal government. Fox’s uncles swear that this is at an all-time high. In fact, the federal share of GDP is at its lowest since 1950."
- Todd Hoff
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But if this is true, how can the government have revenue shortfalls? #laffercurve
- Andrew C (✓)
Austrian economists don't believe in empirical economic data anyway
- Victor Ganata
2 winter chicken coop / shelters - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"First, Tereza Fox, of foxbelly farm in Hillsboro, Oregon tells us about a ground level chicken shelter. It's sorta an earth-berm thing. The idea is that the chickens can stay warmer and, thus, require less winter feed."
- Todd Hoff
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No wonder people got lost in Oz - http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2012...
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"All told, Baum drew forty individual maps of Oz to accompany his novel. This is the major one, though, showing the entirety of the land and its surrounding areas. The Emerald City, in the center, is surrounded by four distinct countries. The countries are bordered by deserts... One thing to note, though: the compass is reversed, East and West are switched. This is an L. Frank Baum original error! The first copy of this map was on a glass slide, when Baum went to make a paper copy he traced it backwards."
- Andy Bakun
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- Starmama
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I had no idea.
- Todd Hoff
dy/dan » Blog Archive » What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Math Education Again And Again - http://blog.mrmeyer.com/...
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"Do you want to know where this post became useless to Silicon Valley's entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and big thinkers? Right where I said, "Computers are not a natural working medium for mathematics." They understand computers and they understand how to turn computers into money so they are understandably interested in problems whose solutions require computers. Sometimes a problem comes along that doesn't naturally require computers. Like mathematics. They may then define, change, and distort the definition of the problem until it does require computers."
- Todd Hoff
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I agree, what I need most in instruction is insight gained from a deep understanding. The perform like a dog interfaces are the opposite of that.
- Todd Hoff
Cancer’s First Step | The Scientist - http://the-scientist.com/2012...
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"The finding, published this week in Nature, confirms past studies that show cancer is not simply a product of the buildup of DNA mutations in a cell, but rather is dependent on the architecture of a cell’s local environment."
- Todd Hoff
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So how do I find a better neighborhood for my cells? I'll move...
- Todd Hoff
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