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Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - The Big Picture -...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:56:25 +0000

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - The Big Picture - Boston.com

"[The book] is stalled out, in terms of technology, at 1500 AD, and sociologically at around 1930."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:56:41 +0000

“[The book] is stalled out, in terms of technology, at 1500 AD, and sociologically at around 1930.”

- Books have stalled

"Gestures should be treated as a language, like sign language for touch devices. We need a common set..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:56:00 +0000

“Gestures should be treated as a language, like sign language for touch devices. We need a common set of gestures to interact with all touch enabled devices.”

- Gestures as a language not a technology : JeffreySambells.com

"The key to farming is soil, transforming waste into soil. This means buying moldy hay from farmers..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:51:25 +0000

“The key to farming is soil, transforming waste into soil. This means buying moldy hay from farmers and spoiled fruit from grocery stores, add brewery waste and wood chips and compost the results into rich soil.”

- …My heart’s in Accra » Will Allen and the urban farming revolution

"# By the end of 2002 there were 1,000 bloggers in China. # By 2003 there were 100,000. # By 2004..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:16:44 +0000

“# By the end of 2002 there were 1,000 bloggers in China.
# By 2003 there were 100,000.
# By 2004 there were 500,000
# Today, there are 40 million bloggers in China”

- Isaac Mao, China, 40 million blogs and counting | The Evolving Newsroom

Dilbert comic strip for 11/20/2009 from the official Dilbert...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:21:05 +0000

Dilbert comic strip for 11/20/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

The 100 best quotes from The Wire

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:14:22 +0000

The 100 best quotes from The Wire

"Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:13:31 +0000

“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”

- Cormac McCarthy on The Road - WSJ.com

Olympus BioScapes Competition Winners (9 Images) | PDN Photo of...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:01:46 +0000

Olympus BioScapes Competition Winners (9 Images) | PDN Photo of the Day

Olympus BioScapes Competition Winners (9 Images) | PDN Photo of...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:01:26 +0000

Olympus BioScapes Competition Winners (9 Images) | PDN Photo of the Day

"He says that the best thing Princeton students can do to help with conflict resolution in Africa is..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:59 +0000

“He says that the best thing Princeton students can do to help with conflict resolution in Africa is to go in rural villages and bring along a cheap laptop, with a solar panel and a satellite dish. Then set up a skype connection for the villagers, keep in touch with them and listen to their concerns regularly. That is how you prevent conflict from happening, he says, by being more attune with the daily struggles of your fellow human beings. Poverty, he asserts, is in 80% of cases the main reason for conflict.”

- The Malagasy dwarf Hippo: ” When Humans Don’t Seem to Count” Dallaire on Rwanda and Darfur

LEGO Architecture Series - Playgrounder

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:22:38 +0000

LEGO Architecture Series - Playgrounder

"Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle’s upcoming album I Dreamed a Dream has become the largest..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:27:53 +0000

“Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle’s upcoming album I Dreamed a Dream has become the largest global CD pre-order in the history of Amazon.com”

- SiliconRepublic.com: Susan Boyle no longer les Miserable one as album rocks Amazon.com - New Media

"I’d rather he was foul-mouthed and accurate than see him like this"

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:53:19 +0000

“I’d rather he was foul-mouthed and accurate than see him like this”

- Jon Ronson on telling his son the worst swearword in the world | Life and style | The Guardian