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Are Rich Moms Using Disabled Tour Guides To Cut Lines At Disney World?: Gothamist - http://gothamist.com/2013...
Are Rich Moms Using Disabled Tour Guides To Cut Lines At Disney World?: Gothamist
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This is so wrong on so many levels, it's hard to know where to start.... - WarLord
ronin
Fighting eagles crash land on Minn. airport runway - Yahoo! News - http://news.yahoo.com/fightin...
Fighting eagles crash land on Minn. airport runway - Yahoo! News
"Two bald eagles locked together by their talons in a midair battle survived a crash landing onto a runway at a northeastern Minnesota airport. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Randy Hanzal says the adult eagles couldn't separate Sunday before slamming into the tarmac at the Duluth International Airport." - ronin from Bookmarklet
DJ Stevie Steve
WOW - Lnorigb
Whenever I try to capture a gorgeous sunset, the end result is inevitably a pale imitation of reality. Did you do anything special to get this shot? - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Geez. Look at that color. - SAM from iPhone
A rainstorm had passed through about 20 minutes before this, so the road was reflecting the awesome pink glow. Even this did not do it justice...the pink seemed to explode in the sky as the sun was setting. Only lasted about 5 minutes. Just an auto adjust on color, but to the naked eye it was even more colorful than this. I messaged my local friends to get outside as soon as they could to witness it, because it doesn't look like this very often. - DJ Stevie Steve
Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
The bizarre nature of this season continues. Major wet snowfall ten days ago, frequent rain in the in intervening timespace, and now there are rapidly spreading wildfires ~50 miles north of here. If only the could take water from the swollen rivers to quench the flames.
Same here: floods or high water levels up north and wildfires in the mid west of the province. - Stephan Planken from iPhone
Zamms
I could have had chocolate tonight, but I had a second beer instead. HEALTHIER CHOICE.
I should be in good shape for that RDA workshop I'm going to tomorrow. - Zamms
Why not both? - Joe Boone
I'd go over my calorie count for the day. Don't want to do that two days in a row. Besides I can have the chocolate for breakfast. - Zamms
Victor Ganata
The problem with the phrase "left behind" is that it assumes life is a linear process. If you actually believe that complex phenomena like life is a linear process, then you have far more epistemological problems than anyone who doesn't own the newest technology.
I dare say a Mongolian farmer has 99 problems but a pair of Google Glass ain't one. The "quality" of his life verse a modern day city dweller is open for debate - Johnny from iPhone
Who was it who recently told the parable of the fisherman here? Jimminy? Update: Yes, see comment #7 here: https://friendfeed.com/itblogg... - Tinfoil 2.0
I'm not left behind kids I'm standing here enjoying that sunset.... - WarLord
I assume that life is like the stock market. Compound interest is a bitch. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Heh. Well, a lot of people see the stock market as a linear process over the long term, with (sometimes quite large) fluctuations caused by error (which is why some people talk about "corrections.") - Victor Ganata
It's funny how just about everything we've talked about today has a lot to do with viewpoint. If you look at the markets over a long term, they seem linear, but if you pay attention to it on smaller intervals, daily or smaller, they are anything but. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
We *approximate* things as linear. It doesn't necessarily mean that they are in fact linear. - Victor Ganata
We also use devices like log scales to make things that aren't linear appear to be so. I guess we like to feel like the universe is a nice tidy place even though it's anything but. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
The logarithmic function is still a linear equation. One of the conceits of reductionism is the idea that everything can be reduced to a set of linear equations, which can be solved exactly to completely understand the past and to perfectly predict the future. - Victor Ganata
Yeah, but if something scales logarithmically, that is definitely not linear, at least not to my way of thinking, unless you are saying that curves are somehow linear if they are based on a simple formula. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I suppose the proper terminology is really linear system vs non-linear system. - Victor Ganata
Steven Perez
neurosciencestuff: Grammar errors? The brain detects them even when you are unaware Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University of Oregon neuroscientists have captured elusive hard evidence that people indeed detect and process grammatical errors with no awareness of doing so.... - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
neurosciencestuff:
 
Grammar errors? The brain detects them even when you are unaware
 
Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University of Oregon neuroscientists have captured elusive hard evidence that people indeed detect and process grammatical errors with no awareness of doing so.
 
Participants in the study — native-English speaking people, ages 18-30 — had their brain activity recorded using electroencephalography, from which researchers focused on a signal known as the Event-Related Potential (ERP). This non-invasive technique allows for the capture of changes in brain electrical activity during an event. In this case, events were short sentences presented visually one word at a time.
 
Subjects were given 280 experimental sentences, including some that were syntactically (grammatically) correct and others containing grammatical errors, such as “We drank Lisa’s brandy by the fire in the lobby,” or “We drank Lisa’s by brandy the fire in the lobby.” A 50 millisecond audio tone was also played at some point in each sentence. A tone appeared before or after a grammatical faux pas was presented. The auditory distraction also appeared in grammatically correct sentences.
 
This approach, said lead author Laura Batterink, a postdoctoral researcher, provided a signature of whether awareness was at work during processing of the errors. “Participants had to respond to the tone as quickly as they could, indicating if its pitch was low, medium or high,” she said. “The grammatical violations were fully visible to participants, but because they had to complete this extra task, they were often not consciously aware of the violations. They would read the sentence and have to indicate if it was correct or incorrect. If the tone was played immediately before the grammatical violation, they were more likely to say the sentence was correct even it wasn’t.”
 
When tones appeared after grammatical errors, subjects detected 89 percent of the errors. In cases where subjects correctly declared errors in sentences, the researchers found a P600 effect, an ERP response in which the error is recognized and corrected on the fly to make sense of the sentence.
 
When the tones appear before the grammatical errors, subjects detected only 51 percent of them. The tone before the event, said co-author Helen J. Neville, who holds the UO’s Robert and Beverly Lewis Endowed Chair in psychology, created a blink in their attention. The key to conscious awareness, she said, is based on whether or not a person can declare an error, and the tones disrupted participants’ ability to declare the errors. But, even when the participants did not notice these errors, their brains responded to them, generating an early negative ERP response. These undetected errors also delayed participants’ reaction times to the tones.
 
“Even when you don’t pick up on a syntactic error your brain is still picking up on it,” Batterink said. “There is a brain mechanism recognizing it and reacting to it, processing it unconsciously so you understand it properly.”
 
The study was published in the May 8 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
 
The brain processes syntactic information implicitly, in the absence of awareness, the authors concluded. “While other aspects of language, such as semantics and phonology, can also be processed implicitly, the present data represent the first direct evidence that implicit mechanisms also play a role in the processing of syntax, the core computational component of language.”
 
It may be time to reconsider some teaching strategies, especially how adults are taught a second language, said Neville, a member of the UO’s Institute of Neuroscience and director of the UO’s Brain Development Lab.
 
Children, she noted, often pick up grammar rules implicitly through routine daily interactions with parents or peers, simply hearing and processing new words and their usage before any formal instruction. She likened such learning to “Jabberwocky,” the nonsense poem introduced by writer Lewis Carroll in 1871 in “Through the Looking Glass,” where Alice discovers a book in an unrecognizable language that turns out to be written inversely and readable in a mirror.
 
For a second language, she said, “Teach grammatical rules implicitly, without any semantics at all, like with jabberwocky. Get them to listen to jabberwocky, like a child does.”
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Jason Toney
Really? // No Benefit in Sharply Restricting Salt, Panel Finds http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
Really? // No Benefit in Sharply Restricting Salt, Panel Finds http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/health/panel-finds-no-benefit-in-sharply-restricting-sodium.html
"The committee was not asked to specify an optimal amount of sodium and did not make any recommendations about how much people should consume. Dr. Strom said people should not eat too much salt, but he also said that the data on the health effects of sodium were too inconsistent for the committee to say what the upper limit of sodium consumption should be." - MoTO #TeamMonique
*reads while eating chips* - Eric - seven eleven
Damn you Eric! You know how open to the power of suggestion I am! - MoTO #TeamMonique
*pretends to eat a half dozen soft pretzels, the kind with giant salt crystals on them* - Hieronymous Boosh
I wouldn't say "no benefit". They also found eating more than 7,000 mg of sodium a day will probably kill you. It's just that the 1,500 mg/day limit is kind of an ass-pull, and there's evidence that not eating enough salt will kill you too. - Victor Ganata
Steven Perez
Hope you're having a good Tuesday. :) - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet
Steven :) - Eivind from Android
Good morning, Eivind. :) - Steven Perez
Good morning. - John (bird whisperer)
Good morning, John. :) - Steven Perez
Bunneh! - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!
Janet! :) - Steven Perez
Hey Mr. Bunneh doing ok and still fighting off a chest cold... - VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
Hey, Val. Hope you feel better soon. *bunneh hugs* :) - Steven Perez
Steven Perez
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Harold
CNN Anchors Hold SplitScreen Satellite Interview In Same Parking Lot - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
CNN Anchors Hold SplitScreen Satellite Interview In Same Parking Lot - YouTube
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"That CNN's news coverage has been nothing but comedy-(and cringe-)worthy for the past several years, should not be news to anyone by now: perhaps there is no better testament to a society in which a network that breaks news based on fake twitter rumors is still held in high regard. However, in the spirit of reverse psychology memes, does the fact that Jon Stewart is now constantly poking fun at CNN's "news-slaughter", mean that it may be, paradoxically, time to start taking CNN - "the most busted name in news" seriously again? (... that's obviously rhetorical). When CNN reports via satellite uplink from the same parking lot, funny things happen." - Harold from Bookmarklet
ugh, Face Palm - Harold
This is too ridiculous. It's like an Onion headline. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
That's hilarious. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Imabug
Calvin and Hobbes - Verbing - http://www.gocomics.com/calvina...
Calvin and Hobbes - Verbing
Steven Perez
socialismartnature: Minutes ago, hundreds of minimum wage fast food and retail workers all over Chicago walked off their jobs. Share this and join the Fight For 15: http://bit.ly/142eDr9 - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
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Minutes ago, hundreds of minimum wage fast food and retail workers all over Chicago walked off their jobs. 
 
 Share this and join the Fight For 15: http://bit.ly/142eDr9
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Johnn Luevanos
Sci-Fi Short Explores the First Intersteller Space Travel - http://mashable.com/2013...
What if we could send functioning human brains directly into space, using them as intelligent storage devices capable of beaming images and data — in dream form — back to Earth? That's the premise of this unusual sci-fi short, which fakes being a documentary about humanity's first steps into interstellar travel The short, directed by special effects artist Hasraf "HaZ" Dulull, alternates documentary-style interviews with scientists with space footage. The result is a 14-minute space film that feels a lot like the Robert Zemeckis 1997 classic Contact. In other words, don't expect explosions and alien wars. But with a budget of just $4,000, the visuals of the film are definitely impressive Read more... More about Science Fiction, Sci Fi, Entertainment, and Film - Johnn Luevanos
Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Me right now. Well, actually, what's left of my downed tree right now. #sittinbythefire
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For those of you who thought that I finally got my just reward and am burning in the flames of Hades... not yet. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I like sitting in front of our fireplace but I am happy to say that it is too warm here for a fire. - Stephan Planken from iPhone
i sometimes wish we could have a fire circle in our back yard. we'd probly only use it Nov-Feb at most. burn bans, tho. - Hieronymous Boosh
Well, truth be told, Joe, I'm probably pushing the limit as far as what's legal without a permit. The fire dish isn't much wider than most grills, so I rationalize it that way, but when you're throwing branches, etc. on top of the flames, the height of the flames can get pretty high pretty fast if you're not careful, so I only burn the sawed up trunk sections. The branches full of pine... more... - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Steven Perez
todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history, May 12, 1902: Nearly 150,000 anthracite coal miners go on strike in Eastern Pennsylvania for higher wages, better working conditions, and recognition of their union: the United Mine Workers of America. After months of an extreme coal shortage, President Teddy Roosevelt intervened, a commission was set... - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
todayinlaborhistory:
 
Today in labor history, May 12, 1902: Nearly 150,000 anthracite coal miners go on strike in Eastern Pennsylvania for higher wages, better working conditions, and recognition of their union: the United Mine Workers of America. After months of an extreme coal shortage, President Teddy Roosevelt intervened, a commission was set up, and the strike was called off after 163 days.
Victor Ganata
Random thought after watching a Law & Order episode: the "stop snitching" movement is cut from the same cloth as states' rights and opposition to government regulation and is the way day-to-day microoppression is maintained.
The line between the need for privacy rights and the need for transparency is very fine indeed. - Victor Ganata
I see it this way: Stop snitching is a way to subvert government oppression of people of color, namely black people. States' rights is a way to subvert government suppression of white supremacy. - Anika
Well, yeah, of course a police procedural is going to spin it a certain way. And, yeah, "stop snitching" arose as a form of resistance, and there's the fact that police tend not to treat suspects and witnesses who happen to be people of color that differently and they can't guarantee the safety of witnesses who step up anyway. But it's also a way to keep things like domestic violence, rape, and child abuse under wraps in minority communities. - Victor Ganata
As far as that's concerned, I think that minority communities have a different way of viewing those things. White people, in general, think everyone is a special snowflake to be treated with kid gloves. What I view as "normal" (to a certain extent), they think is jail-worthy. Whereas many of my Asian or Latino friends would think it's getting off easy. So, to that point, I understand... more... - Anika
I dunno. It's pretty terrible to watch someone who wants to say something, or who at least wants thing to stop, struggle because the code forces them to stay silent. And it's compounded because authorities can't or even won't do anything. - Victor Ganata
Or to put it in bleaker terms: If you were beating me on the street, I'm pretty sure no one would bat an eye. However, if I were beating you, chances are a white person would call the police. I don't think many black people would call, but maybe some Asian people would. That's how I see Stop Snitching vs. States' Rights. - Anika
Well, yeah, I get that the existence of structural racism and sexism is the underlying rationale for the whole stop snitching idea. But the parallel I'm making is that a state claiming states rights is basically telling its people not to snitch to the feds even as the state is abusing its people. Yeah, there are a lot of good reasons to distrust authority, but, well, it seems like a really double-edged sword, is all. - Victor Ganata
Marie
I'm a stereotype today. I used a power tool earlier and now I'm sitting out front drinking beer and grilling. Yes, I'm wearing flip flops.
The music is blaring and a damn I do not give. :D - Marie
Headless Gnad Kicker
RT @smileforme_xx: The spoon theory is a good way to explain to people how we have to pace our life and the difficulties involved. http://t.co/ZRdORYZObm
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Johnn Luevanos
In what could be the largest strike of its kind, hundreds of fast food workers in Detroit walked off their jobs on Friday, echoing the rallying cry heard (or not?) across the country that the currently underpaid workers deserve $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation. Friday's strike in Detroit comes on the heels of similar actions in other cities—Wednesday and Thursday inSt. Louis, and in Chicago and New York City last month. - Johnn Luevanos
Steven Perez
Good morning, FriendFeed. - http://bunnzies.tumblr.com/post...
Good morning, FriendFeed.
A nice, lazy Sunday morning. :) - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet
Mornin' Bunneh! - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ from Android
Good morning, Jkram. :) - Steven Perez
Good morning! :) - Anne Bouey
Good morning, Anne. :-) - Steven Perez from Android
Good morning, Bunneh. - Tamara J. from FFHound(roid)!
Good morning, pretty Tam Tam. :-) - Steven Perez from Android
Good morning. - John (bird whisperer)
Good morning, John. :-) - Steven Perez from Android
hey Mr. B. are you seeing spots before your eyes? - VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
Hey, Val. Surprisingly, yes. :-) - Steven Perez from Android
Sarah G.
I totally just Rob Petrie'd my ottoman.
In a parallel universe you side-stepped it at the last minute. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Oh, Rob! </mtm> - Steele Lawman
Todd Hoff
Adding an electric car cut the payback point of our solar panel investment in half — Tech News and Analysis - http://gigaom.com/2013...
Adding an electric car cut the payback point of our solar panel investment in half — Tech News and Analysis
"Three-quarters of our driving is powered by electricity. Even with the addition of the Volt, which we charge every night, we still don’t have an electric bill. We’re at the point where we’re much closer to using all of the electricity our panels produce, but we’re not there yet. And we’ve cut down on our gasoline expenditures as a direct result of both the car and the solar panel system, saving around $200 per month that we used to spend. That works out to $2,400 a year in gasoline savings and when added to the $2,500 in electricity bills we’re no longer paying each year, you get $4,900 in net cash flow savings. Divide that figure in to the net cost of the solar panel project and it works out to 5.96 years before break-even. Best of all, the payment for the Volt is slightly less than the Acura payment was, but I don’t consider that as part of the solar panel payback. There was a recent intangible benefit gained by the solar investment, as well. Just before we bought the Volt, we... more... - Todd Hoff from Bookmarklet
Man I wished I lived in a place where an EV made sense. Local energy production + EV = win - Todd Hoff
Johnn Luevanos
3D printing is like having a small-scale manufacturing device right in your home or office. 3D printers are devices that can create three-dimensional objects.  Most 3D printers create objects in plastic. Some use ceramic, metal or other materials. There’s even a 3D printer that forms items out of chocolate or cheese. How does 3D printing work? In a way, the term “3D printing” is misleading. It sounds like a 3D printer somehow folds ordinary paper into objects – like origami.Read More The post What is 3D Printing? appeared first on Small Business Trends. - Johnn Luevanos
Meg V. Meg
Strange craving for a grilled peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwich. How does that happen? The only ingredient I even have for it is butter, for the frying.
Or are you supposed to fry it in the bacon fat? In which case, I have none of the ingredients. - Meg V. Meg
oh man. now I want one. - holly #ravingfangirl
Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Happy Mother's Day to all the selfless sacrificing super moms out there! May every day be your day. :)
Happy Mother's Day! - Stephan Planken from iPhone
Happy Mothers Day - WarLord
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