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  1. RT @dsivakumar: Amazing Scientific Images of 2009: http://www.popsci.com/node/36702?cmpid=enews121009 (via @mailanand, sorta)
  2. maybe this was facebook's plan after all: roll out a whole bunch of privacy infringing changes, wait for the outcry, roll back a few.
  3. whenever someone tries open scientific collaboration it works better than expected. this should have happened 20 yrs ago! http://is.gd/5o3fO
  4. @goodside actually, that's the point i was trying to make -- they only have that message because the FDA mandated it.
  5. @goodside on the other hand, the so called "V8" is just tomato juice, since it is apparently unregulated. that's not fun either, is it?
  6. you will pry my slideout keyboard from my cold, dead hands. the ubiquity of onscreen keyboards in new phones disturbs me. http://is.gd/5lrs2
  7. "Constitutionally, the ROC (Taiwan) has not relinquished its claim as the legitimate government of all China" http://is.gd/5kB8A LOL
  8. @flipzagging heh. i think the problem with that is no one ever wrote the specifications, so who's to tell what's a bug and what's a feature?
  9. RT @EFF: Doubleplusgood Joy of Tech comic on Facebook privacy changes: http://eff.org/r.4dS
  10. as assembly line robotics gets cheaper, what will happen to the 150 million factory workers in china, and to china's economy?
  11. i just thought of a good heuristic to measure my productivity: number of unwatched items in my hulu queue.
  12. fantastic paper on scam victims i found a few days ago via Schneier http://is.gd/5aL1D (it's about confidence tricks & security lessons)
  13. google spends a ton on infrastructure projects. http://is.gd/5bku7 i wonder if this ever happens in other domains/markets.
  14. hilarious, condescending, opinionated, brilliant and absolutely spot-on article about the disaster that is Wolfram Alpha http://is.gd/5amWh
  15. there are a few million bits of entropy in your DNA. forensic science currently uses... 54. http://is.gd/5aiwo
  16. facebook inserts a huge "buy gifts" box when you're looking at someone's wall if their birthday is coming up. brilliant.
  17. Is it possible to build starships using the Hawking radiation of an artificial black hole as a power source? (!!!) http://is.gd/59Bxd
  18. i mean it's obvious why that happens, but still funny.
  19. Go to your Settings, make a trivial edit to your Bio, hit Enter. Twitter asks "Are you sure you want to delete all of your location data?"
  20. i've been saying for a long time that craiglist is an anti-competitive anti-innovative monopolist. yet more proof: http://bit.ly/85tSbU