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asks where you keep your printer.
At work, we coral them in one corner of the office (except the big A3 colour laser); at home, my humble Canon sits next to my monitor on my desk.
- Pete
unfortunately i don't have a very big desk.
- hobvias sudoneighm
Socialmedian Launches Open Beta: Personalize Your News Filter http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Forcing people to register every time you click on a story link is ridiculous, pointless and hugely frustrating. Pissing off potential early adopters with this sort of weak user experience is exactly how *not* to build a userbase. And, to be perfectly blunt, it's as embarrassing as it is plain stupid in this day and age. I'm not going to give a service any personal details until I'm happy I like what it has to offer in the first place.
- Pete
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Dude (pete), sorry. we had to make a choice -- go beta yesterday when we felt like the service was ready for more users to give us feedback on features, or wait 2 weeks more to get rid of all the registration requirements that we had built up during alpha. We'll be making this as light an experience as possible w no forced reg in the coming weeks. the good thing actually is it has enabled us to grow nicely past 24 hrs without being entirely killed.
- Jason Goldberg
Comment on: Socialmedian Launches Open Beta: Personalize Your News Filter - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Forcing people to register every time you click on a story link is ridiculous, pointless and hugely frustrating. Pissing off potential early adopters with this sort of weak user experience is exactly how *not* to build a userbase. And, to be perfectly blunt, it's as embarrassing as it is plain stupid in this day and age. I'm not going to give a service any personal details until I'm happy I like what it has to offer in the first place.
- Pete
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SuperGenPass - http://supergenpass.com/
Really impressed with this, especially the ability to "hash in" your master password to the bookmarklet itself.
- Pete
So how's this bookclub going to work?
You hold it at the thin end and then hit people with the fat end. Oh, wait--that's the wrong sort of club isn't it..? Shame.
- Pete
Does it mean I'm old that the first thing I thought of was Captain Caveman?
- Zoe
I'm assuming there's a link with Twitter in there somewhere. Tweet a provocative comment about a book, then all come over here to argue about it?
- Mike
I did grab the twitter account but its got nothing on it right now. Maybe have a twitter poll each week/month/year for a book to read then all argue over it after having read it. Never been in a book club before, so no preconceptions of how it should work
- Zoe
The book group at work meets about once every 6 - 8 weeks and chats about the book for about 30 minutes, then chats about other stuff for about an hour. Not the ideal model for a book group, but it's all very relaxed and you get some interesting stuff. The only problem is getting a book everyone agrees on- I find it really hard to trawl through something I'm really not interested, and I think most other people in my book group are the same.
- Mike
I think Natali's suggestion should also happen, but I wonder if there should be a certain book every once in a while that everyone tries to read.
- Mike
or a certain theme, but agreed, even if most people are reading a set book, posting about other stuff good or bad seem fine.
- Zoe
Chyrp - http://chyrp.net/
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Could be just about perfect for an unambitious personal project I have on; superb find.
- Pete
Found it via the Rissington Podcast, a mine of useful stuff. And cheese.
- Tim Beadle
Corbis Readymech Cameras - http://corbis.readymech.com/en...
"Take a break from your computer! Download, print and build your own pinhole camera. Follow the instructions and enjoy!"
- Pete
jQuery: Select what you want - http://benjaminsterling.com/jquery-...
This has saved me no end of hair pulling today - really useful, concise reference.
- Pete
DJ Pain's "The Day the Earth Stood Still" - http://www.mrtrick.net/?p=175
Mike liked this
Singularly, one of the best Break Beat / Hip-Hop mixes I've ever heard. Fantastic blend of musical expression and story telling, based on one of the most important sci-fi films of all time. Can't recommend this enough.
- Pete
Fist of Fun - The Story of The Prodigal Son - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"Cheg on reverend--you am a twot!" Brilliant.
- Pete
Early Impressions: Ghostbusters [Sierra Fall Preview 08] - http://feeds.gawker.com/~r...
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How could they get that very first sentence so completely inaccurate?
- Brooks Bishop
Can't stand Kotaku, however. And yes, it's a howler of a gaff.
- Pete
Tricia Helfer, Katee Sackhoff of 'Battlestar Galactica' rev up their motorcycles - Los Angeles Times - http://www.latimes.com/enterta...
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"Enter Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff -- stars of SciFi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica." Helfer, who plays the part of sexy cylon Number Six, and Sackhoff, a.k.a. combat pilot Starbuck, are both avid motorcyclists who will be taking their off-screen passion to guest roles on other TV shows when Season 4 of the space-age series ends."
- Robert Seidman
Knowing they were going to be filmed, I'd have hoped they'd wear proper, protective motorcycle gear. And who wouldn't love a Cylon in leather?
- Pete
"...kick-ass blondes from outer space..." is a phrase I don't hear nearly often enough
- Kevin D. White
What's with all the BSG babes on bikes? A couple of weeks back there was a photoshoot where they all draped themselves around various motorcycles while wearing leather, and now this.
- Mike
Jason, I'm not sure how much time I can put into it, but sure!
- Robert Seidman
@Mike Because it's hawt?
- Cyndy
+1 for Cyndy
- Robert Seidman
@Cyndy Good point, though some variance from the motorbike theme at some point might be nice :D Also, there was no Grace Park in the video- boo!
- Mike
Geocoding UK postal codes by combining Google's 'Maps' and 'Ajax Search' APIs - http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog...
"Google Maps API provides a geocoding feature, for finding the latitude and longitude of places or addresses; but it does not work for UK postcodes. This is thanks to Royal Mail who have a copyright on the data, and are very restrictive with their (expensive) licenses for it. There are various solutions out there for using 3rd party services and importing the data to be used with Google Maps, or for using community built databases for the info. However, I’ve had a few people ask me about doing it just though Google. It is possible — Google AJAX Search API does provide geocoding for UK postcodes. We need to use the two APIs in harmony to achieve our result."
- Pete
DJ Kira: June Promo [RK2 Podcast] - http://kor.gazaxian.com/index...
Bristol congestion charge could follow Manchester - http://www.bloglines.com/blog...
Bristol really needs something, the transport situation here brings down an otherwise great place to live. Personally I quite like the idea of congestion charging if the money goes into improving other transport. But then I don't have a car at the moment. [original post by z303]
- Mike
The problem with Bristol is that we are in the grip of First with it's exhorbitant fares and unreliable service. In London or Manchester there are tubes or trams and decent buses that aren't expensive to catch. Here I pay £725 for a year ticket so that I can wait for buses that persistently don't turn up and when they do take ages to get anywhere as the drivers dont get paid to get anywhere quicker, just do their time behind the wheel. It takes me 1 1/2 - 2 hours to get home from North to South Bristol.
- Pete Gilbert
Add to that First just cancelled my x84 and the 99 to UWE because of "lack of demand" despite students pile onto it in the morning and evening. Is that who we would get to replace cars if the CONgestion charge was introduced? I'd seriously consider moving from Bristol if it was introduced.
- Pete Gilbert
That's always been the problem with Bristol. In London the C charge money went to improvements and extensions to existing infrastructure (and however much Londoners complain, their tube system is pretty good); in Bristol we have nothing to work with, so it would be years before a decent public transport system could be created out of C charging revenues. On the other hand, we're choking the city (and the planet) as things stand- it's unsustainable in every sense of the word.
- Mike
For me taking the bus would be 2 hours each way, verses normally about half an hour each way in the car, so if I did start taking the bus it would be an extra 15 hours a week travelling to/from work. I could move closer to work ( we are by the RAC building) but that means Bradley stoke, so I could walk to work but then would have to use the car to get anywhere else.
- Zoe
Pressed return too soon. I grew up in Nottingham and if Bristols Bus matched them I would be using them already. They seem to want to have the scheme in operation before being able to offer alternative ways to get to work, which is all stick with some hope of a carrot at some point years off, that just feels like another tax
- Zoe
That's the problem- they need the congestion charge revenue before they introduce congestion charging, which is obviously impossible. One way round it would be to fine First for lateness and poor service. Thinking about it, they could probably raise a few million quid in the first fortnight by doing that.
- Mike
They already fine First for being late, them some bright spark let them off because of all the congestion. Places like Sheffield, Manchester and Nottingham started on the Tram projects in the last 70s/early 80s and they cost billions. So I think you need central government funds and power to get all the different councils in the greater Bristol area to work together
- Zoe
Oh just for the record I think long term some sort of light rail is the way to go
- Zoe
They should start by putting in a great big park and ride at the top of the M32 at the M4 roundabout. Charge people £2 a day to park in it and get the bus down to the centre. Do the same with all the other park and ride services and also put a new one at M5 J17. Then make all journeys within the city centre that are done by bus only cost 90p single or £1.40 return at all times. Bring in yellow buses for school children and make them free. Have the drivers properly checked for working with kids.
- Daniel Durrans
@zoe I grew up in Portishead and the light railway into Bristol was being talked about back then. 2 decades on it's still not happened, but there are probably more than 100% more cars coming out of the town and into Bristol every morning. It ridiculous that this hasn't happened.
- Mike
For me, often travelling an hour or more one way to work in Bristol, the cost is already high enough. Were they to introduce a very cheap P&R scheme from out of town, then I wouldn't be too badly off. Were it otherwise, it'd be financially devastating for me. The train from W-s-M is already obscenely overpriced at peak time--running a car all year, with tax and servicing, is still cheaper by some margin even with fuel prices in free assent.
- Pete
@Mike Yeah took Nottingham over 20 years to get the first line up, they had been talking about it for a few years when I arrived in 1981 and did not start carrying passengers until 2004. Nottingham makes a good example as the government already compare the two cities.
- Zoe
Video: Riken and BSI-Toyota robot goes on a neural bender - Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2008...
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Faizar, Pete and Mitchell Tsai liked this
Wonder if "bender" has the same meaning for the Engadget editors as it does for the UK..? :-)
- Pete
I'm curious what the UK meaning is, if someone could enlighten us. As an American geek, I can say that they were attempting to form a double entendre between the fact the robot looks similar to Bender from Futurama, and the way the robot walks similarly to a wobbling drunken individual, i.e., someone who has "been on a bender" and consumed a great deal of alcohol.
- Brooks Bishop
Yeah, "bender" means getting absolutely hammered on alcohol in the UK too.
- Pete
How to get your Xbox Live activity into FriendFeed - http://internetducttape.com/2008...
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Something I thought others might find useful.
- Pete
Entertainment industry accuses campus laser-printers of downloading Indiana Jones - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
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I love the media's Old Guard - they're such bumbling, blustering fools.
- Pete
Republican Space Rangers - http://www.gametrailers.com/player...
This is one of the best little gems stashed away on one of the TV channels in Grand Theft Auto IV. It's been taken down from YouTube at least once already, so watch it quick if you've not seen it already.
- Pete
Data Gourmet - http://informationarchitects.jp/data-go...
Has the web given us freedom to consume what we like, or turned us all into fickle gluttons? iA Japan, one of my favourite blogs, presents a compelling argument that both are in fact true.
- Pete
I do like the fact that we're reading loads more nowadays simply because we're spending time online that a few years ago would have been spent staring at the TV.
- Mike
The Game of War - http://www.thegameofwar.net/
Going to see this being played at Pervasive Studio, near Bristol's Watershed, next Tuesday night - looks really good.
- Pete
Xobni reviewed by PC World, given *Superior* ranking - http://www.xobni.com/blog...
I've been using Xobni since beta and can't recommend it enough for how much better it makes lookOut.
- Pete
Mozilla Labs' Weave - https://services.mozilla.com/
Excellent new bookmark, history and password synchronisation service for Firefox 3.
- Pete
Theory: Caprica-Six really isn't pregnant.
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The only knowledge that we have of her pregnancy is an off-screen meeting between Doc Cottle and Adama. If the Doc was the fifth Cylon, he might be faking the test results to drive a wedge between Adama and Tigh. Still having a problem believing that two skin jobs can make a pregnancy.
- Mark Dykeman
Mark- I'm starting to like the Doc Cottle theory. The pregnancy thing was a bit odd.
- Mike
Doesn't have the impact needed to my mind. My money's going on a 50/50 split between Lee Adama (handed the presidency, plus his tenuous relationship with his father), or Rosalyn - especially now that Adama has given up command of Galactica and therefore protection of the fleet; wouldn't it be juicy if he'd done all that for a sworn enemy he's deeply in love with?
- Pete
Pete- I think all the big names are too obvious. The audience would hate the show's creators if it was Laura/ Starbuck/ an Adama etc (unless it was done really cleverly). I've lost the link now but there's some betting company offering odds on who the final Cylon is and Dee is their favourite.
- Mike
I hope it is not Dee. Dee is boring. Admiral Cain would have been an awesome choice. I think the cylons match up to the greek pantheon. 6 is Aphrodite, 8 is Athena etc... Chief is Hephaestus, Tigh is Ares. We would need to figure who is missing from the Pantheon, I think we are a female short under that logic.
- RAPatton
RAP - interesting theory, but why would the Cylons structure their models based on a Colonial pantheon that they don't believe in; for some reason, these machines are monotheistic
- Mark Dykeman
The cylons were built by man; I did not say the cylons knew this.
- RAPatton
I am guessing that they are sort of the "lords of cobol;" the problem is the greek pantheon is 6 and 6
- RAPatton
I wouldn't put too much weight in Doc Cottle being the final cylon. Each cylon is a specific archetype and personality: they were designed that way. There's already a doctor archetype; he's one of the original 6.
- Mark Trapp
And regarding cylon-on-cylon mating: remember, no one, not even the original 6, knows what the final 5 are capable of. Maybe the final 5 can mate with cylons.
- Mark Trapp
Yep, Simon was a doc, which makes him Apollo.
- RAPatton
I'd say Leoben is Hades. One thing I thought of; we know models 1-6, 8, and then 4 others. 8 is Sharon, and if you assume the last 4 are the 4 we found out at the end of season 3, it splits the model list between "mostly associated with cylon culture" and "mostly associated with galatica culture." If that's the case, we're looking for model 7, which bridges the gap between the two? Baltar!
- Mark Trapp
Hades technically isn't in the pantheon. I would say D'Anna is demeter because Demeter lives half her life in the underworld which ties into her dying over and over again and with her being boxed. Otherwise I would guess she was Hera.
- RAPatton
What do you think about number 5 being a good analogue for Hermes? PR Guy <--> God of Orators, thieves, and liars
- Mark Trapp
See, it all fits, because the Pantheon are archetypes too. I am sure they thought of this at some point, my only question is did they follow through with this idea or just pick the 5 most interesting people in the fleet.
- RAPatton
The problem is, it breaks down in two places: 1) like you said, the pantheon is 6 male, 6 female, but the cylon models are already 7 males, 4 females, and one unknown, and 2) Anders. He's really out of place. I really don't get how he fits into anything, and they really haven't used him other than as a rock for Kara. What would be his analogue?
- Mark Trapp
You know what, I just thought of this: Anders is Hestia. Very much about keeping the marriage/family together with Kara.
- Mark Trapp
If it is just the original 12 and not the pantheon it would be include Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Hera, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, Artemis and Hephaestus. That is back to 7-5 male female.
- RAPatton
Anders could be hermes, the "god of athletes and is given credit for inventing boxing and racing."
- RAPatton
I was thinking he might even be Athena, "goddess of heroes and heroic endeavors" for his work in the resistance on Caprica. There's also the alternate pantheon of replacing Hestia with Dionysus, which would fit in with Baltar nicely.
- Mark Trapp
Since Athena is her call sign, I am going with 8 as Athena
- RAPatton
My head hurts ...
- Timothy Griffin
Yeah I'm trying to follow this but I feel that Mark and RAPatton know far more than most of us on this subject- can one of you guys break it all down for the rest of us dunces? ;-)
- Mike
My list so far is: Model 1 (??), Model 2/Leoben (??), Model 3/DAnna (Demeter), Model 4/Simon (Apollo), Model 5 (Hermes), Model 6 (Aphrodite), Model 7/Final Cylon (??), Model 8/Sharon (Athena), Model 9/Tyrol? (Hephaestus), Model 10/Anders? (Hestia), Model 11/Tigh? (Ares), Model 12/Foster? (Hera). Which leaves Zeus, Poseidon, and Artemis being the final three gods, which would make the final cylon probably Artemis.
- Mark Trapp
But I'd want to change up a few of these and not rely on male-to-male/female-to-female analogues. In addition, there are a few ways, depending on how you want to do it, to define the Greek pantheon: Dionysus can replace Hestia, and Hades might replace Hestia
- Mark Trapp
For reference on what gods are what: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Mark Trapp
Since the miniseries, I believed Baltar to be a cylon, so it would be vindication for me if Baltar was a cylon (via the Dionysus, god of wine, orgies, parties, good times, connection). If it's going to be an Adama, my money is on the dead brother/son. No way is it President Roslin.
- Mark Trapp
Another thought is that this really is a retelling of the Christianity vs. Roman Empire struggle, alluding to the cylons being the 12 apostles. That'd take a bit more work to come up with analogues for them.
- Mark Trapp
Or, she is, but Tigh isn't the father.
- Patrick Beard
Submitted the pantheon questions here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtra...
- RAPatton
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