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SUV
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
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Evolutionary origin of a complex signaling system
via Journals.ars by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer) on June 17, 2008
How do you evolve a three-component signaling system if you need all three components to get it to work? A multigenome comparison suggests an answer.Read More...
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Public Marching Band in San Francisco This Sunday
via Laughing Squid by Scott Beale on June 16, 2008
The Cacophony Society and Transtagonist present Public Marching Band this Sunday, June 22nd in San Francisco. Meet at 2:02pm in front of the Ferry Building, bring an instrument and wear a hat.via Urban Pranksterposter by StarRelated PostsPublic Marching Band in San FranciscoExtra Action Marching Band & GolemExtra Action Marching Band’s Scary Halloween BashSRL 25th Anniversary CelebrationRU...
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Social Media Consumption: You Want Signal or Discovery?
via I'm Not Actually a Geek by Hutch Carpenter on June 06, 2008
In yesterday’s post A Definition of Noise, I talked about two types of social media consumers. Those who have a strong desire to receive only signal (signalists) and those who are looking for stuff outside their own interests (discoverers).I thought it would be interesting to explore this a little further. Shall we break it down a little more?Where are you on this table?*****See this item on...
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Adventures in Twitterville by Hugh MacLeod
via Laughing Squid by Scott Beale on June 06, 2008
“Adventures in Twitterville” by Hugh MacLeodRelated PostsSouth Park Lunch With A Hugh MacLeod Cartoon ExplosiongapingvoidHugh D’Andrade Talks About The Paradise Lost PosterFlickr Celebrates 4th BirthdayLaughing Squid Illustration by Hugh D’AndradeShareThis
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Box Office Showdown: Panda vs Wall*E
via SERVE with CHIPS by Chip Chief on June 06, 2008
Behold the box office earnings (in millions) for Pixar and Dreamworks (CG films only). You may need to click it to get a good view. Of course Dreamworks is green for Shrek and Pixar is blue because I like blue.Thus far, both companies have released 8 films and they will be duking it out with their 9th releases this month. I think most people would have to give Pixar the edge in quality as their...
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A Definition of Noise
via I'm Not Actually a Geek by Hutch Carpenter on June 04, 2008
FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor has a nice interview with CNET’s Dan Farber today. In the interview, Bret mentions that FriendFeed will be introducing ranking algorithms soon. These will create your own personalized FeedMeme. Which is going to be interesting. Dan Farber then asks whether user controls over content will be rolled soon. Bret answers ‘no’.In the discussion around this link...
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It's Not Rocket Science, But It's Our Work
via Twitter Blog by (author unknown) on May 31, 2008
Shared by charlie anzman Twitter begins to open up. This is goodThe general public is fascinated with every bug that pops up on board the Mars Phoenix Lander because no matter how small, they always seem mission critical. It's exciting stuff and we hang on every bit of news. Will NASA scientists find a workaround for the short circuited mass spectrometer? Will the important science get...
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Danziger Projects - Paul Fusco
via www.danzigerprojects.com by (author unknown) on June 06, 2008
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Virgin Launches "SugarMama": Watch Videos, Call People Free
via Gizmodo by (author unknown) on June 03, 2008
Shared by adrian It's old news... but somehow I missed it.You've got to hand it to Virgin. They've brought pay-as-you-go cellular billing to a country where no one thought it would take off. Kudos. Now they want to give you free airtime for watching web commercials. Seems fair. There are a number of services that have been trying to pull something like this off, nothing that is still...
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