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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:17:38 GMT

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

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:55:25 GMT

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 fe..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:10:35 GMT

"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

Thermopower Waves:MIT Scientists Discover New Way to Produce Electricity

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:13:03 GMT

Inhabitat

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...

Obama requests Tufte transparency

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:44:00 GMT

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 ...

Outing "it turns out"

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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...

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Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:34:00 GMT

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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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:02:42 GMT

via 永遠夢想家 - "I win."

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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT

"Betsy Hunter - As a non-techie, Windows person, these smartbooks are in my op..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:19:53 GMT

"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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Strobeshnik, an HDD clock

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:37:05 GMT

Hack a Day

Strobeshnik is a somewhat different twist on the hard drive clocks we’ve seen in the past. Though still technically using a POV effect, the Strobeshnik displays the numerals instead of a line. By altering strobe timing of an LED behind a platter with the numbers cut into it, he can display whichever number he wants. We think this is pretty slick.

Popular Science Frees Its 137-Year Archives

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:49:00 GMT

Slashdot

DesScorp writes "Popular Science magazine has scanned every issue they've ever produced, and posted the archives at their website, at no charge. 'We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ...

"Allerdings werde sich die EU-Kommission in den kommenden Monaten genau anscha..."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:35:02 GMT

"Allerdings werde sich die EU-Kommission in den kommenden Monaten genau anschauen, wie "gleiche Arbeit" in den Mitgliedstaaten definiert sei, kündigte Reding an. Die Kommission hat schon in den vergangenen Jahren darauf hingewiesen, dass sie zum Beispiel die Arbeit einer Kassiererin und eines Lagerarbeiters in einem Supermarkt für gleichwertig hält, obwohl die beiden Tätigkeiten meist unterschiedlich entlohnt werden."

–Zettels Raum: Zettels Meckerecke: "Es ist nichts so absurd, daß es Beamte nicht täten". In Brüssel wird eine neue Attacke auf unsere Freiheit vorbereitet

Palm Introduces WebOS Plugin Development Kit

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:39:10 GMT

Daring Fireball

They call it a “plugin development kit”, but what it really means is that developers can write compiled C/C++ apps for WebOS now. And according to John Paczkowski:

Perhaps more important, the PDK will allow developers to rewrite mobile apps created for other platforms to run on webOS with minimal modification. Apps that currently run on Apple’s iPhone, for example, can be ported over in a...

Guidelines for meeting the Dalai Lama

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:28:02 GMT

Bobulate

Guidelines for meeting the Dalai Lama:

A photograph of a February meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama sparked some interest:

The subtext of the single photograph of the meeting, released by the White House, was clear to anyone familiar with Buddhist, Asian or Chinese iconography, literate or not: it showed the President speaking to the Dalai Lama with his right hand raised, much as in the t...

Dr. NakaMats Is the World's Most Prolific Inventor

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:04:00 GMT

Slashdot

MMBK writes to share an interesting look at Dr. "NakaMats" Nakamatsu, mastermind behind a world-record 3,000 patents. The 81-year-old scientist has inventions like the "PyonPyon" spring shoes, the karaoke machine, and others. He also at least partly to blame for things like the digital watch, the floppy disk, and CDs. "Dr. Nakamatsu harbors other ambitions too: in 2007, he took his penchant...

New Heat-Reduced Magnetic Solder Could Revolutionize Chip Design

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:19:00 GMT

Slashdot

A new heat-reduced soldering technique using magnets may lead to some revolutionary changes in the way chips are manufactured. Details are scant since the inventor seems to be playing it close to the vest for now in hopes of attracting chipmaker interest. "The result is a tin-silver alloy that contains a dispersion of iron particles tens of micrometers in diameter. When a magnetic field is...

Photoshop.com Mobile Android App for Developers

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:40:06 GMT

Daring Fireball

This is interesting: when the Photoshop.com Mobile 1.1 app for Android is installed, Android developers can, in their own apps, use Photoshop for Android’s image editor as an embedded view. Android calls this an “activity”; it’s sort of analogous to a service on Mac OS X. (There’s nothing like it in iPhone OS 3.x.)

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Sony Files Patent for "Eroding" Game Demo Technology

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:54:00 GMT

The Escapist : Latest News

Sony has filed a patent application for "feature eroding videogame demonstration software," a new type of game demo that starts players with the complete package but then gradually takes features away over time.

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First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:44:00 GMT

Slashdot

runagate writes "Brookhaven National Laboratory has created a heretofore unknown form of matter. The matter we normally encounter, and are composed of, has nuclei of protons and neutrons that contain no strange quarks. It was known that anti-strange matter could exist, and using the Solenoidal Tracker at Brookhaven's RHIC, scientists detected a couple of dozen instances of antihypernuclei. The ...

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:48:46 GMT

Just realized I'll be in Paris on iPad launch weekend. Louvre Apple store, here I come.

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Cities designed for happiness

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT

Bobulate

Cities designed for happiness:

Enrique Peñalosa, who served as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, believes:

“Economics, urban planning, ecology are only the means. Happiness is the goal,” Peñalosa says, summing up his work. “We have a word in Spanish, ganas, which means a burning desire. I have ganas about public life.”

Because really:

“The least a democratic society should do,” he says, “is to offer...

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