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"Immigrant entrepreneurs will require investment commitments from a venture capital fund or an angel investor group in order to apply for permanent resident status through the Start-Up Visa Program. An applicant must secure a minimum investment of $200,000 if the investment comes from a designated Canadian venture capital fund or a minimum investment of $75,000 if the investment comes from a designated Canadian angel investor group. Applicants will also need to meet general program requirements, such as language proficiency and academic experience." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

It occurs to me that you probably want to use one replicator to make your food and another replicator to make your weapons. - Victor Ganata

Any idea what the carb count would be? - Todd Hoff

Austerity kills. - Victor Ganata

Thus the smiley. - Todd Hoff

“Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good languages have been those that were designed for their own creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp.” — Paul Graham - Sean McBride

My Ragdoll builds careful geometric patterns of toy mice around her food bowl and drags us to the humidifer when the water runs out (she loves the mist). That shows a certain degree of will, intelligence, imagination and planning. She's an artist and a herder of people. - Sean McBride

"“The law is clear: 501(c)(4) groups are to be operated for the sole purpose of furthering the public good, not as vehicles to funnel millions of dollars from anonymous donors into misleading vicious campaign ads,” said CREW executive director Melanie Sloan in a statement. “For over 50 years this problem has been raised and ignored.  We hope our lawsuit will finally force the IRS to fix the regulation.”" - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

** spoilers ** - Todd Hoff

The main theme of the movie is the power of blood lust to overpower reason for passion and the inevitable destruction that arises. We see this ancient idea in the Anger of Achilles in the Iliad. We see even spock, our symbol of reason, overcome by passion. Socrates argues for reason to combat passion and Jesus says the way is forgiveness. Both are needed, both are good lessons, and both make for a satisfying ending to the movie. - Todd Hoff

Dear Little One: Mommy is not a 7-11. If you don't start tapering off, your parents will put a bell around your neck and make you graze outside. Believe me, I speak from experience on this. Regards, Me. - Steven Perez

Good luck! :) - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

You should try a PowerPoint presentation.it works with other children. - Todd Hoff from Android

Negative tide time of year for people in the SF Bay Area. This weekend, May 26th is a good day for seeing exposed ocean areas — anemones, crabs, starfish, octopuses — and birds feasting on all of this. Unfortunately the summer negative tides are early in the morning. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Nice pics! - Todd Hoff

"The transparent brains of zebrafish, in combination with a fluorescent protein expressed in the brain in response to neural activity, have allowed researchers to catch a glimpse of memory in action. The research, published today (May 16) in Neuron, pinpointed areas of the brain that play a role in storing long-term memories and provide a new tool to study the processes underlying memory formation, storage, and retrieval." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

"As Margalit Fox says at the outset of The Riddle of the Labyrinth, the story of Linear B is well known. This 3,000-year-old language was discovered on clay tablets excavated in 1900 on the island of Crete. It thereafter puzzled scholars for half a century before it was decoded by Michael Ventris, an English architect with no formal training in archeology or linguistics. Linear B’s history is an absorbing tale, full of mysteries both intellectual and historical, and it’s been told and retold since Ventris made his breakthrough. The problem, as Fox sees it, is that what’s been published so far is by no means the whole story. Previous versions, she argues, neglect a major player, so much so that the story as we know it amounts to if not a lie then certainly a libel. The Riddle of the Labyrinth is her attempt to set the record straight, to apportion credit correctly, and by doing so to explicate the solution of Linear B in a way that at last makes sense." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

"The critics have focused much of their ire on what Nagel calls "natural teleology," the hypothesis that the universe has an internal logic that inevitably drives matter from nonliving to living, from simple to complex, from chemistry to consciousness, from instinctual to intellectual. This internal logic isn't God, Nagel is careful to say. It is not to be found in religion. Still, the critics haven't been mollified. According to orthodox Darwinism, nature has no goals, no direction, no inevitable outcomes. Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, is among those who took umbrage. When I asked him to comment for this article, he wrote, "Nagel is a teleologist, and although not an explicit creationist, his views are pretty much anti-science and not worth highlighting. However, that's The Chronicle's decision: If they want an article on astrology (which is the equivalent of what Nagel is saying), well, fine and good."" - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

"In a paper appearing this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, SFI’s Sam Bowles and Kyungpook National University's Jung-Kyoo Choi show that farming, by itself, could not have driven property rights. Nor did property rights alone drive farming. Instead, it looks like farming and private property rights evolved shoulder-to-shoulder: each dependent on the other." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

"Conclusions: 8 things we learnt about how stuff spreads in social media Based on what we’ve seen from studying the spread of the Gangnam Style and Harlem Shakes memes on Twitter, we see 8 common things to watch out to make things go viral: Bursts and Rises: 2 models of virality. The Burst model is bottom-up: the variations are more powerful then the original seed and there’s no clear leadership or narrative. The meme relies on community relevance to spread. The Rise model is top-down: the original seed is always stronger than its variations and has a clear leader dictating the narrative. Bursts spread widely more quickly but don’t endure. Rises spread more slowly and less widely but they tend to endure because the meme has a focal point. Chose your model of virality and plan accordingly. Triggers. Whatever the model, virality is triggered by surprise, cultural relevance to a community, and endorsement by a leader or the media. Waves. Whatever the trigger, virality is not a steady... more... - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

Top 10 most nutrient dense vegetables Rank Vegetable Score Nutrients with significant content 1 Pumpkin leaves 24.0 Potassium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Leucine, Tyrosine, Threroline, Isoleucine, Phenylalanie 2 Spinach 23.4 Calcium, Potassium, Phosphorus, Zinc, Folate, Magnesium, Beta carotene, Tyrosine, Threroline, Isoleucine 3 Mustard Greens 23.0 Calcium, Potassium, Phosphorus, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Folate, Beta carotene, Tyrosine, Arginine 4 Broccoli 23.0 Calcium, Phosphorus, Zinc, Pantothenic acid, Folate, Aspartic acid, Glutamic acid, Valine 5 Asparagus 22.6 Phosphorus, Potassium, Zinc, Copper, Selenium, Niacin, Folate, Aspartic acid, Glutamic acid 6 Turnip Greens 22.6 Calcium, Potassium, Beta carotene, Tyrosine, Threroline, Isoleucine, Phenylalanie, Leucine, Valine 7 Pak-Choi 22.3 Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Vitamin C, Folate, Beta carotene, Glutamic acid, Isoleucine, Alanine 8 Swiss Chard 21.5 Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Copper, Beta carotene, Isoleucine, Phenylalanie 9... more... - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

Why the hell would pumpkin leaves be so nutritious? - Todd Hoff

But it takes so much work... - Todd Hoff

...work is hard for millionaire athletes, I suppose - .LAG liked that

I bet you say that to all your drinks. - Todd Hoff

So Python or C, which means C. ;) - Jimminy IS Everybody

Those lists would be interesting to look at. - Sean McBride

"Executives approached the regulatory system as an obstacle to be gamed. They bragged about who had most artfully deceived regulators. Until 2005 the company didn't even have a functioning patient-safety department, and patient complaints piled up in boxes, ignored, uncategorized, and unreported to the FDA as required." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

"The news: A paper is now in the accepted-for-publication queue at Geophysical Research Letters describing geodetic measurements of Earth's axis. It drifts around, but the authors -from Univ. Texas-Austin and the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory - report that data from NASA's Gravity Recovory and Climate Experiment satellite (GRACE) reveal a surprises. In 2005 the geographic north pole's longtime slow drift toward northern Labrador made a course change more toward Greenland.  That's not such a big shift, one thinks. Greenland is not so far northeast of Labrador. But to geodesists I guess that's a sharp turn. It not only bent its track but sped up several times over, reaching around 20 cm per year." - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

http://onstartups.com/tabid... - Todd Hoff

We usually don't know what we don't want to know. - Todd Hoff

Comment: "If climate scientists seem to agree on global warming, why doesn’t everybody else? Well, duh, because well-funded global-warmers have bullied the media into pretending that there is a controversy, not a consensus. The NYT and many other "respectable" outlets have perpetuated the illusion that there is any kind of scientific disagreement about humans...." - Sean McBride

NASA - Disruption Tolerant Networking for Space Operations http://www.nasa.gov/mission... - I wonder how this fits in the OSI model? - Victor Ganata

And I bet you will still need a friend to hook you up. - Todd Hoff

"OK, so did you reboot your tricorder?" - Victor Ganata

No need. Just ask Alex, they automated everything with Puppet! (Hi Alex!) - Eric - seven eleven

Sam crap calls. Duncan gets every call - Todd Hoff

"We can't count the number of times we've wanted to enact vengeance on some inconsiderate audience member whose cell phone goes off during a performance. But, like most people, we just bottle that fury up deep down inside and take it out on the break room vending machine later. Not Kevin Williamson. Last night the National Review writer was in attendance at the marvelous new musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 when one theatergoer's incessant cell phone use finally drove him over the edge... into vigilantism." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

My hero! - Todd Hoff

Some observers have long suspected that Barack Obama holds civil liberties in contempt and harbors tyrannical and despotic impulses. Perhaps they have been right all along. - Sean McBride

Don't get me wrong -- I still much prefer Obama to any current leading Republican out there. - Sean McBride

"Vaillant’s key takeaway, in his own words: “The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points … to a straightforward five-word conclusion: ‘Happiness is love. Full stop.’ ”" - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet

i'll buy that. - Joe Silence

Okay, I realize I'm risking my neck here but, did Uhura figure that prominently in the original series? Understandably she was a black woman featured prominently in a regular series in the 60's. And yes there was "the kiss" (I can distinctly remember my father saying, "They ain't showing this in Alabama."). But by today's standards, was Nichol's role all that noteworthy? Now if your... more... - MoTO #TeamMonique

OK, now I can say I've seen the scene from Star Trek III. https://www.youtube.com/watch... - John E. Bredehoft

"How do you feed 9 and half billion people without destroying the planet? According to the Food and Agricultural Organization, part of the answer lies with crickets, maggots, bees, and grasshoppers: edible animals that have been overlooked by much of the world, but could become increasingly important as alternatives to meat and animal feed. Insects may have a high yuck factor, but many species have terrific credentials as food producers. They’re high in protein, low in harmful fat, and full of minerals like omega-3. They’re efficient: a cricket produces a pound of food for every two pounds of feed (compared to a cow that needs eight pounds of feed). And, they feed on human and animal waste, produce minimal greenhouse gas, and need far less water and land than other livestock." - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

skip the bees, they're in trouble. - Joe Silence

Between bugs and fake extruded meat I can hardly make up my mind. - Todd Hoff

1% have 40% of the wealth. - Todd Hoff

Stock market is irrelevant. Bottom 50% of americans own only .5% of investments. - Todd Hoff