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March 08 2010

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21:17

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QDB: Latest Approved Quotes

PartyGirl1450981: I set VLC to always look for subtitle files and use them for the corresponding videos
PartyGirl1450981: and I set it to always use the english subs for Damnatus
PartyGirl1450981: so the bob ross video I'm watching is slightly grim dark
PartyGirl1450981: hes talking about a beautiful blue color to start off with
PartyGirl1450981: and the subs are talking about how the universe has ...
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Valve Announces That Its Games and Steam Service Are Coming to the Mac

Daring Fireball

Big news for the Mac as a game platform:

If players already own the PC versions of Valve games, they’ll get Mac versions at no extra charge through a feature called Steam Play. […] By using the Steam Cloud feature that the company introduced in 2008, players can save in-progress games online, then call up those saved games no matter which version they’re playing. If you’re playing...

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23andMe is one of a small crop of personal genomics companies. For a cash fee (ranging from $400 to $1000, but dropping with regularity) you get a kit to send in a DNA sample. They can’t sequence your genome for that amount today, but they can read around 600,000 “single-nucleotide polymorphisms” (SNPs) which are single-letter locations in the genome that are known to vary among different people, and the subject of various research about disease. 23andMe began hoping to let their customers know about how their own DNA predicted their risk for a variety of different diseases and traits. The result is a collection of information — some of which will just make you worry (or breathe more easily) and some of which is actually useful. However, the company’s second-order goal is the real money-maker. They hope to get the sequenced people to fill out surveys and participate in studies. For example, the more people fill out their weight in surveys, the more likely they might notice, “Hey, all the fat people have this SNP, and the thin people have that SNP, maybe we’ve found something.”
The odds of knowing your cousins: 23andme Part 1 | Brad Ideas
queitsch
16:13

Thermopower Waves:MIT Scientists Discover New Way to Produce Electricity

Inhabitat

carbon nanotubes, mit, green electricity, clean electricity, thermopower waves, green design, eco design, sustainable design, energy, clean energy

We’ve written about the possibilities that carbon nanotubes can unlock before, and now, an intrepid team of MIT scientists have discovered a never before known phenomenon using the tubes, which are essentially rolled up sheets of graphene. The occurence, which researchers are calling “thermopower waves” causes powerful waves of energy to speed down the tubes. Michael Strano, MIT’s Charles and H...

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13:44

Obama requests Tufte transparency

Bobulate

Obama requests Tufte transparency:

Obama appoints Edward Tufte as part of a panel to track stimulus transparency. Tufte on the appointment:

I will be serving on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. This Panel advises The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, whose job is to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds … I’m doing this because I like accountability and ...
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00:00

Outing "it turns out"

Bobulate

Outing "it turns out":

There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over Paul Graham’s use of the phrase “it turns out.” James Somers’ take:

It’s not that pg is a particularly heavy user of the phrase — I counted just 46 unique instances in a simple search of his site — but that he knows how to use it. He works it, gets mileage out of it, in a way that other writers don’t.
[I]t turns out that “it turns...

March 07 2010

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18:34

Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down

The Escapist : Latest News

Ubisoft's new DRM scheme is already causing problems, as the servers required to authenticate games went down today.

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Betsy Hunter - As a non-techie, Windows person, these smartbooks are in my opinion the missing piece.

So much is done on my phone that screams for a bigger screen and faster internet -- news and emails/Buzz every morning (from bed with coffee from hubby) or on the fly in dentist office or airport. But I don't need Windows (hence my little Acer netbook is already obsolete). I need always on like my Blackberry, except I don't need the phone. And since I carry a purse, unlike you guys, the iPad, or HP AirLife, or Dell Mini 5 or Lenovo Skyligh is potentially the solution. Then I can get rid of the Blackberry and go back to a tiny little cell phone that only calls and texts! Yahoo.
Buzz by Mike Elgan from Buzz
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