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"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends... - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

fatma küfür istiyor - Joan Miro

:) - Winckel

Jim Henson is amused. - Xabaras (G.O.)

It would be a place where people (students, junior faculty, etc) could learn the ropes of academia and science without the pain and misery that traditionally is required. The differences I can see from existing services is the focus on journal club-style discussions and maybe a low barrier to entry - Shirley Wu from twhirl

bumping for http://ff.im/LIliG - Daniel Mietchen

"Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) was the first woman to discover a comet and the first to have her work published by the Royal Society. * Mary Anning (1799-1847) began a long career as a fossil hunter. She found hundreds, possibly thousands, of fossils that helped scientists to draw a picture of the marine world 200 million to 140 million years ago during the Jurassic. (...) * Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was awarded a Lasker Prize in 1981 and Nobel Prize in 1983. She discovered that genes could move within and between chromosomes. (...).... - Amira

Grace Murray Hopper - (1906-1992) "American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Amira

Had to comment... this title is even worse than some of the PR crap you see around. ("There is someone wrong on the internet...") - Egon Willighagen

"A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy." - Amira from Bookmarklet

Hum. Mutat. (2011), pp. n/a-n/a. Richard Cotton - Daniel Swan

I will use this for a new cheminformatics file format standard, only really useful for a particular CDK version. - Egon Willighagen

Always a good problem to have :) - Rajarshi Guha

well, it's blocking making a deadline right now :( - Egon Willighagen

it usually happens the day before the holidays :-) - Pierre Lindenbaum

"A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen says he was only doing it as a hobby. (...) Richard Handl said that he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in southern Sweden when police showed up and arrested him on charges of unauthorised possession of nuclear material. The 31-year-old Handl said he had tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove. Only later did he realise it might not be legal and sent a question to Sweden's Radiation Authority, which answered by sending the police. "I have always been interested in physics and chemistry," Handl said, adding he just wanted to "see if it's possible to split atoms at home." - Amira from Bookmarklet

"No, it not so dangerous. But I tried to cook Americium, Radium and Beryllium in 96% sulphuric-acid, to easier get them blended. But the whole thing exploded upp in the air..." :-) This reminds me of my childhood when my brother got a set of "The Little Chemist".. On the next day there was a fire in his room... :-) - Amira

AKA: Tools for Nanopublishing. Nanopublications = assertion (including provenance). - Scott Edmunds

See: http://www.nanopub.org/ - Scott Edmunds

Potentially 10 ^14 assertations, but for ones with more provenance thinking about Datacite DOIs. Also looking to link with ORCID IDs. - Scott Edmunds

Just looked at many screens of content piped into friendfeed from elsewhere, no real connection going on here any more. I hope to see you on Google Plus (for all its faults). - AJCann

I agree with Deepak -- G+ still needs some work to truly be a FF replacement (the lack of "Groups" and inability to automatically pipe updates to/from the service are obvious gaps identified), but its the best one that has emerged and given the relative triviality of the two features to implement (I think they didn't turn on the piping mainly to encourage people to share original content on G+), I'm pretty sure they will bridge that gap soon. - Benjamin Tseng

"Mapping of the human connectome offers a unique opportunity to understand the complete details of neural connectivity. The Human Connectome Project (HCP) is a project to construct a map of the complete structural and functional neural connections in vivo within and across individuals. The HCP represents the first large-scale attempt to collect and share data of a scope and detail sufficient to begin the process of addressing deeply fundamental questions about human connectional anatomy and variation. A collaboration between MGH and UCLA, the HCP is being developed to employ advanced neuroimaging methods, and to construct an extensive informatics infrastructure to link these data and connectivity models to detailed phenomic and genomic data, building upon existing multidisciplinary and collaborative efforts currently underway. Working closely with other HCP partners based at Washington University in St. Louis we will provide rich data, essential imaging protocols, and sophisticated connectivity analysis tools for the neuroscience community." - Amira from Bookmarklet

I think Google+ is going to pretty much kill Friendfeed. All the features (plus some) but also with a future ahead of it. Plus absolutely everybody I know from here is already on there. - Mr. Gunn

I stand with Heather and agree with Victor: I *want* Google+ to be an adequate replacement for FF, but it is missing vital functions. - Bill Hooker