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Video: The Asteroid That Will Almost Hit Earth | Wired Science | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/wiredsc...
"SAN FRANCISCO — Any number of undiscovered near-Earth objects could one day careen into the Earth, and there is a lot of talk here at the American Geophysical Union meeting about tracking them. So far, though, only one discovered object has seemed even mildly likely to hit our planet. That asteroid is Apophis, a 900-foot asteroid."
- Nils Sandin
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Unbelievable 2.3 Gigapixel Photo of the Burj Dubai - Burj Dubai - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5433690...
Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ liked this
"Believe it or not, this is the Burj Dubai. The very end of it, the top of its antenna tickling the sky. It's just a tiny part of this brain-imploding 2.3 gigapixel photo of the largest skyscraper in the world:"
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RT @strobist: Web video host site @vimeo appears to be committing web suicide with their whacked terms and conditions: http://boagworld.com/reviews...
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It seems Viddler or VideoPress are alternatives.
- Nils Sandin
36 Hours in Kuala Lumpur - NYTimes.com - http://travel.nytimes.com/2009...
"With its looming skyscrapers, stellar cuisine and thumping night life, the Malaysian capital has emerged as one of Southeast Asia’s most alluring metropolises, offering all the amenities of a major city but on a friendlier scale."
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Know Your Nuclear Reactors with Illustrated Wall Charts [Reactor Porn] - http://sty.im/FpFlLA
Everything you need to know about your neighborhood nuclear plant.
- Nils Sandin
Google Is Reported to Be in Talks to Buy Yelp - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"Google is in discussions to buy Yelp, the Web site that lists and reviews local businesses, according to three people who had been briefed on the negotiations. The talks show how intently the biggest Web companies are setting their sights on the smallest neighborhood businesses, where they see a large and untapped group of advertisers."
- Nils Sandin
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San Jose police test head-mounted cameras for officers - San Jose Mercury News - http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-are...
"San Jose police, under fire for interactions with the public that have turned violent, on Friday launched a pilot project equipping officers with head-mounted cameras to record contacts with civilians. Officers will activate the cameras, about the size of a Bluetooth device and attached by a headband above the ear, every time they respond or make contact with a person. At the end of the officer's shift, the recording will be downloaded to a central server."
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So police officers can now film you, but will charge you with disorderly conduct if you try to film or photograph them.
- Nils Sandin
Ready for boarding” (at Frankfurt Airport, 60549 Frankfurt)
Received an upgrade to Business on this flight. 8+ hours of relaxation, and Inglorious Basterds on the video system.
- Nils Sandin
@Scobleizer Did you read what @Jason wrote about Facebook? Required reading IMHO. /via @Admore (Agree, but don't see it online. Email only).
Can you hear me? Calif. teen racks up $21,900 cell bill - - http://content.usatoday.com/communi...
"When Ted Estarija of Hayward, Calif., added his 13-year-old son to his Verizon account, he thought it would cost him an additional $50 a month. He had the phone company restrict his son's calls and texts. Dad forgot about downloads."
- Nils Sandin
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According to the article, the $22,000 is for 1.5 GB of data, or around $14/MB. That is just ridiculous pricing by Verizon. I can get 1 GB/month package for 10 Euros (0.01€/MB), or pay-as-you-go at 0.24€ per MB (=$0.35/MB). This is plain price-gouging from Verizon.
- Nils Sandin
Can Anyone Get a Fair Trial in Italy? | Foreign Policy - http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...
"The truth is, Italians have long since recognized the unreliability and compromised nature of their courts. At the moment, the Italian public's trust in the justice system is at an all-time low. According to a November poll by Euromedia research group, only 16 percent of Italians fully trust it; just two years ago, the figure was 28 percent. And Italian civil rights groups are intense in their criticism of what they view as kangaroo courts."
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Collider Sets Record, and Europe Takes U.S.’s Lead - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"Scientists said that the new Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile loop underneath the Swiss-French border, had accelerated protons to energies of 1.2 trillion electron volts apiece and then crashed them together, eclipsing a record for collisions held by an American machine, the Tevatron, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois."
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Pereslavl Encounters « World Voyages - http://wrldvoyagr.wordpress.com/2009...
"After much delay (and two trips), here’s finally an update to my recent trips to Russia."
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So, in your opinion, be honest now...is Friendfeed still alive and kicking? (update: seemingly so. :) )
Mitchell McKenna, Alfredo, LonelyBob and 61 other people liked this
yes. very much so.
- John Wang
Yes, but has started to develop some health problems and needs a doctor's visit.
- Alex Scoble
It is for me
- Mo Kargas
Yep
- Johnny Worthington
It definitely is for me.
- Curtiss Grymala
I just got here. It's the best platform.
- Jeremy (quasimodo)
for me it is .................
- VAL D. Zone
It's still kicking :). A little less a guess but still :)
- alfred westerveld
Yes.
- Jim: Dead Like FF
hell ya ......!
- johnpiercy
Yup.
- Spidra Webster
Hell yes it is! All the fine dudes and finest bitches still be rocking the Casbah daily and nightly here on the station with it all! K-FFD!
- Morgan Haley
Yep, still kickin'!
- Beau Liening
from iPhone
Does a bear poop in the woods?
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Ok, so I don't live here anymore, but I still check in for conversation and positivity.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
for sure
- Josh Haley
Still alive but the momentum and will to live is gone -- and the sale and virtual abandonment was like shutting out the lights in the middle of a party -- a signal for everybody to go home.
- Brian Sullivan
wow. For you maybe, Brian.
- Jim: Dead Like FF
Yes!
- Anne Bouey
But I am still here.
- Brian Sullivan
Yep. Certainly not as crazy as it was 'back in the day' but it's definitely still kicking.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm making a concerted effort to pop in and find some great stuff to share
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
As far as I can tell, it's still alive.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
TBH, I feel like I use FF much more now that before the acquisition. So for me, yes, it's very much alive and kicking. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
I'm tellin' ya: it's the librarians' fault.
- cecily
Yep
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
The Google real-time announcement certainly didn't hurt!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
Honestly, it's not that much different -- plenty to chat about, and plenty to chat with -- and it's still storing all my web finds perfectly. There's an extremely considerate and passionate community. So... sure!
- Christopher Galtenberg
yep
- Wayne Sutton
Yes.
- pea
Yes.
- Kamilah Gill
Yes
- Bonnie Foster
Somewhat less so than the previous old days...
- TrafficBug
being bought by Facebook has definitely dampened my enthusiasm, but yeah, its still alive and kicking
- Jeffrey Canton
Still seems pretty lively to me.
- Gordon Herd
This was asked eight hours ago and has gotten 19 likes so far. Not a resounding "yes."
- Robert Scoble
Compare to @ericschmidt who was added to 700+ lists and 12,000+ followers in 24 hours over on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
But 34 comments, and nearly all "Yes".
- Nils Sandin
Nils: sorry, that's not a resounding yes either. 34 people do not a service make.
- Robert Scoble
yes, affirmative.
- bora "head" basman
The service works for me, so I don't fret about the other new or old services. Both have their place.
- Nils Sandin
werd.
- imabonehead
Haha. I must say I'm starting to see more and more threads like this. The discussion is definitely coming back.
- Roberto Bonini
Twitter for headlines, FF for discussions.
- Nils Sandin
it is to me
- barbarars
It is to me - it all depends on what you make of it
- Jesse Stay
Who is here is replying "yes". Who's not here any more just won't reply. The fact is few weeks ago you wouldn't have asked :) [ah, this means it is not kicking as in the past]
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
I would say yes. It had a slump period for me for a couple of months, but now I'm putting more in it and getting more from it in return.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Yes!
- Iván Abrego
Tricky question. Nothing else out there has this feature-set, and AFAIC that's the killer, I use FF because it's the best platform. Maybe some people drifting away since the sale, but OTOH there are new people joining. My buddies Nat and Brent from Calgary both joined around the time of the sale and have both really gotten into it. I have more discussions here than on Twitter, and I think that's true for a lot of people.
- Louis Simoneau
And @Scoble: the fact that you don't get 12 000+ followers on FF makes it less attractive to social media marketing types, which actually makes it BETTER as a platform for meeting and interacting with real people. I have 'friends' on Twitter that I've back-and-forthed with a few times but couldn't really tell you much about, whereas here, I feel like I really KNOW people like Derrick, Jandy, Monique, etc.
- Louis Simoneau
Yup
- Maryam Ardakani
from FreshFeed
its going to die soon
- Farshad
FF is like a small country town. Not a big population but people stop and say "hello".
- Barak B
Yes, indeed!
- Andrew Terry
Is this a bit like a band you feel you've discovered becoming mainstream?
- plooptionary
Yes, it's very much alive and kicking!
- Michael Fidler
+Louis Simoneau (& I answered above earlier)
- Kamilah Gill
as far as I can tell, yes.
- Derek Coward
I'm here
- Jimminy Fuller
Still alive. :)
- 3Cinteractive, L.L.C.
from twhirl
You bet. Still the best interface and most interesting conversations
- Alan Morris
from iPhone
Yep. Cranking along just like Jaiku.
- Ken Sheppardson
Yep, I just saw that one of those Twitter Social Media Guru's found the place and followed 4k people in 5 minutes.
- Jimminy Fuller
...
- ★ Soner Gönül
yes. those who say otherwise can go somewhere else.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
Hey Zee, from what platform did you originally post your question? I'm seeing it via Friendfeed by way of a friend.
- Rich Reader
@Rich on friendfeed itself
- Zee.
Only to some hardcore dedicated FF'ers. Other then that its just here for Robert Scoble to come on and preach how every worthy tech person he follows is on Twitter and how this site is dead.
- Santa CW™
No. We're all dead. Go away.
- Mistletoe Glen
I'm standing under the Mistletoe O_O
- Micah Wittman
Zee, regarding your question, and I'm no Godin apologist, but his '1000 true fans' comes to mind http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
- Micah Wittman
And regarding Robert's statement, OF COURSE a founder of Google will get thousands people who click the follow button. Then what? I look forward to Eric having 12,000 individual conversations this week, so someone ping me when that happens :) I've gleaned more valuable insights into the thought process and perspective of Google/Googlers from being in and around the conversations started by DeWitt on Friendfeed than I have in any other way.
- Micah Wittman
I'm not done yet. Christopher Galtenberg http://friendfeed.com/zee... and Louis Simoneau http://friendfeed.com/zee... make great points.
- Micah Wittman
Sure is
- Herb Hernandez
I have to excuse myself for not being very active for quite a while: I was being busy organising the Dutch Bloggies. I do think FriendFeed is still alive, but I sure wished there were more Dutch people to keep up a conversation with. It's making it difficult, now I'm out of organising for a week, to start up being involved again. I'm jealous at the Egyptian & Italian people, who seem to have a whole community here.
- Ton Zijp
Friendfeed is immortal, perfect, the best. Friendfeed will never die. ... in fact, the end of behemoths like Facebook and Twitter will be tweeted on Friendfeed.!
- Petr Buben
Always..!
- ★ Soner Gönül
Just got back into using FF more heavily and find it much more enjoyable to any of the Twitter clients I've found. I can actually engage with the people that I "follow" and learn more about them and find interests instead of just trying to separate the wheat from the chaff like I feel I do on Twitter
- Ian Rudy
still here.
- Mike Nencetti
alive
- gemella
kick
- Kevin Fox
Yes. The primary thing that has changed is the content.
- Steven Perez
And it no longer buys us flowers anymore, the bitch.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I think this thread proves what is fact....
- Mathew™ one of a kind
WOW - I guess so!!! May have to come off digest...
- Robyn Hawk
O Hai There! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Am I the only one who got tired of responding to posts that ask if the site is still alive? "Charlie, you there? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you here me *now*?....I gave up on 'em after Scoble's 2nd one. Just ignore
- Itachi
Trolley Scooter Luggage Shaves Minutes Off Terminal Lap Times [Luggage] - http://gizmodo.com/5419985...
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Really cool!
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It is now legal to take pictures in public in the UK - http://carlosmiller.com/2009...
Itachi, Roberto Bonini, Heather Solos and 2 other people liked this
It's about time!. the US and UK have really been abusing these powers.
- Nils Sandin
Yay!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
when I bought the TT it never occurred to me that EVERYTHING would be pricier: reg, ins, oil, gas (91 only), tires (ack!), & all parts :(
But it's still a nice car :-)
- Nils Sandin
Nikon D300s: Advanced shooting techniques – Iris control « MN VIDEO PRO - http://mnvideopro.wordpress.com/2009...
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"One of the most annoying problems I was initially having with the D300s was the auto exposure in movie mode. I kept seeing flickers throughout my footage as the auto exposure shifted every few seconds. No thanks to the user manual, I figured out that I could control exposure, even setting it to over expose or under expose with a few simple adjustments in my users menu."
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Saab’s Uncertain Hour - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com - http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
"The scramble around Saab is set to accelerate this week. Joran Hagglund, senior official at Sweden’s industry ministry, flew to Detroit for discussions Monday with the board of General Motors about the fate of his country’s troubled carmaker. The G.M. board is to meet Tuesday to discuss what to do now that the deal to sell its unprofitable subsidiary has collapsed."
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LED Bulbs Save Substantial Energy, Study by Osram Finds - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"Does the latest generation of energy-saving light bulbs save energy? A comprehensive study conducted by Osram, the German lighting company, provides evidence that they do."
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The Kindle is available for delivery to Europe, and free 3G downloads included.
- Nils Sandin
I know, but it's not sold in Europe. you still have to shop in the US store an pay of international delivery and customs!
- Mirco
Yeah. A new company rebate coupon just arrived... for Barnes & Noble :( - We don't have that here!
I'll gladly take the coupon ;-)
- Nils Sandin
Technology Review: Deriving the Arrow of Time - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...
"Humanity has long struggled over the nature of time. In the last century, physicists were shocked to discover that the arrow of time cannot be derived from the laws of physics which appear perfectly symmetric. For every solution for t, there seems to be an equally valid solution for -t (except in a few cases involving the weak force in which case the symmetry is more complex, involving charge, parity and time)"
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An interesting book that covers this subject is "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene.
- Nils Sandin
Technology Review: The Surprising Contents of Titan's Lakes - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...
"One of the exotic attractions of Saturn's moon Titan is the possibility that it has oceans and lakes, with waves and breakers not unlike those on Earth. In the 1990s, astronomers ruled out the possibility of a global ocean using radar measurements taken from Earth but the possibility of lakes remained. And sure enough, in 2005, the Cassini spacecraft spotted a large lake-like feature called Ontario Lacus near the south pole and has since spotted numerous smaller ones."
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A 25-Year Battery - http://www.technologyreview.com/energy...
"Batteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes can produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be replaced. A new version of the batteries, called betavoltaics, is being developed by an Ithaca, NY-based company and tested by Lockheed Martin."
- Nils Sandin
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: The Coming Nuclear Crisis - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...
"The world is about to enter a period of unprecedented investment in nuclear power. The combined threats of climate change, energy security and fears over the high prices and dwindling reserves of oil are forcing governments towards the nuclear option. The perception is that nuclear power is a carbon-free technology, that it breaks our reliance on oil and that it gives governments control over their own energy supply."
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Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering - http://hackr.de/2009...
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But still blocked/filtered.
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Nikon D300S Review - http://www.dpreview.com/reviews...
Excellent Nikon D300s review at Digital Photography Review
- Nils Sandin
It's kind a Catch-22 - if the machine uses Wi-Fi how can it get online before you configure the OS? What's the offline login?
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Same here. Boot USB works, but can't get past login on WiFi-only netbook.
- Nils Sandin
A Bird in the Hand is Worth $50,000: Pennsylvania Man Receives $50,000 After Being Given Ticket for Flipping the Bird at Officer « JONATHAN TURLEY - http://jonathanturley.org/2009...
"David Hackbart, 35, will be awarded $50,000 after being ticketed in Pittsburgh for flipping the bird in traffic. Pittsburgh City Council approved the settlement of a free speech lawsuit filed by Hackbart. Hackbart flipped the bird at another driver in 2006 and then did it again to a second driver who turned out to be a police officer."
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Don't try this in Germany, or you will be prosecuted and fined up to 4000 Euros for insulting the other person!
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