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• Commented on American eugenics movement archives
  Kwisatz Haderach!...
• Commented on Carl Sagan on Flatland
  @13 I thought that too!...
• Commented on Brit photographer who shot demolition of flyover arrested for terrorism
  Not to excuse this case, which I feel is very wrong, but anecdotally, I have been living in the UK in London for the past 3 years, and have taken photos whenever and of whatever I have felt like, and...
• Commented on Mathematically modelling phantom traffic jams
  This site http://trafficwaves.org/ has some interesting ideas on unjamming traffic jams. My anecodatal evidence seems to confirm the idea that it is better to keep moving and avoid sudden braking, as it is the ripple of braking which escalates into...
• Commented on Slate on favorite orphaned tweets -- "picking lint from Judy's naval while she is napping!"
  My uses for twitter: - following interesting people - twitter acting in editorial/filter capacity for links, opinions (Mindcasting vs. lifecasting http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/post/110043432/mindcasting-defining-the-form-spreading-the-meme) - The search function to see what is trending, who is mentioning search terms real-time - quite voyeuristic but...
• Commented on What plagiarism looks like
  priapism!...
• Commented on Gesturing helps you think
  I think the thing that will bring about a Singularity (if ever) will be us learning about learning and how to learn betterfasterstronger. I think we are just beginning to notice the acceleration....
• Commented on Bruce Sterling explains swine flu
  Couple of NewScientist links which illustrate why epidemics are a bit different today than years ago. "less than 10% of the world's land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city." http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/small-world http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227041.500-wheres-the-remotest-place-on-earth.html...
• Commented on Untitled 2
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• Commented on Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED
  Is the verdict and its accompanying sentence justified? 8.2% Yes, it's a reassuring victory for the protection of copyright 91.8% No, it only protects the wallets of big entertainment corporations...
• Commented on Excursion to the Center of the Earth
  The current New Scientist has in interesting article on USArray, a long running project to map the earth under the US using seismographs. "Having started off in California in 2004, it is now just east of the Rockies, covering a...
• Favorited David Pogue's TED2009 roundup on Boing Boing
• Favorited Meetup's Dead Simple User Testing on Boing Boing
• Favorited Meetup's Dead Simple User Testing on Boing Boing
• Favorited Meetup's Dead Simple User Testing on Boing Boing
• Commented on Videos of "stick figure aliens"
  As humans further encroach on the natural world we will see more elves, like foxes rummaging through dustbins at night....
• Commented on MGMT tune played by iPhone orchestra
  I like it - great demo of the start of a simple accessible everyday electronica, (most) everyone carries a phone. MGMT good. Some of the Mentalists stuff is quite catchy too http://www.myspace.com/thementalists...
• Commented on Which Side Are You On? Explaining what happened to labor in America
  "You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." The Matrix (1999)...
• Commented on Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?
  Cory's been taking the Jon Stewart Diploma in schooling....
• Commented on Chinese gold farming
  Analogy? those ' uber hard-core' professional cricket players and the people who mow the grass on the pitch. sure the team could do all the hard work to set everything up so they can enjoy their games (whittle wickets by...
• Commented on On the demise of books, newspapers, music and movies
  The movie industry and the high prices around it are/were fuelled by the scarcity around obtaining movies. Limited supply. By striclty controling the distribution, they created a scarcity and could thus charge high prices for their products (the cost will...
• Commented on Londoners: rally today at Scotland Yard 11AM to preserve the right to photograph!
  @19 Uhmmm... China eh?...
• Commented on Japanese V-Sign
  or rabbit ears if behind people?...
• Commented on Free Lodgings at McDonald's
  Thickdot@10 Working yourself to exhaustion and then taking small respites and catnaps is how many geniuses found their epiphanies. I am reminded of reports of San shamans dancing till they bleed from the nose to achieve altered states....
• Commented on Flashmob of ATM crooks scores $9 million in 49 cities
  Reading the comments I was reminded of the idea of the division of the working class through the creation of criminal and non-criminal. A ongoing pervasive inequality exists in the world such that ,at some level, we delight at the...
• Commented on Aerial shots of London by night -- magic
  @20 he took these pics tethered to his MacBook Pro? i didn't realize that Apple made a dirigible version of Mac. hee hee. Apple full of hot air...never... ;) I loved the photos - they actually look/feel somewhat like how...
• Commented on The case against Candy Land
  Boardgames! Sheesh. Better get your kids onto WoW soon or they won't get into any of the good guilds and it will be PUGs for life. ;)...
• Commented on Proposal: buy a London Tube ticket, consent to being searched
  @TharkLord #3 My (limited) experience of them in London has been they seem to work as black people detectors....
• Commented on Mysterious "roar" from outer space
  Universe is flat, we are near the edge of the universe, as we drift towards the approaching fall. There's no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going / There's no knowing where we're rowing / Or which...
• Commented on Article about quasi-perpetual motion technology
  Geez! hydrino = dark matter rubbing to bits of dark matter together gives you dark energy You store the dark energy in tubes Release said dark energy at raves...as blacklight! zomg (ps look at my teeth dude!)...