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So has Ryan North @ Dinosaur Comics! http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=... More readable on boingboing link http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/15/time-…

like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units ?

Appropriate to do an orbital mechanics thing for a company called La Grange (=> Lagrange) :oP

Well to be cynical - if most people are blithering idiots and most people don't amount to much, it could be true that most smart people don't amount to much and most people in char…

I wonder if there's a way you could help this with software. I remember reading a long time ago about singing pitch training by realtime headphone feedback (like - if you're singin…

Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun

Or supposedly most of the cost to end world hunger http://borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/

you could have a ring of people, with their own loyalty cards, use them for a bit, rotate around, offset any loyalty points differences with a bitcoin transfer.

If you have a perfect mirror, can you store energy in lasers indefinitely? I guess you'd still lose energy to the air

well its energy has increased, so yes, but probably not measurably.

By implanting a small magnet normally in a finger, moving your finger through an electric field causes small movement of the magnet, so you can 'feel' electric fields. e.g. http://…

this would be a cool school science lab experiment

Checked because I remember hearing about the somewhat horrific forced swim test. Idea is mice are trapped in a container fall of water; depression is when they give up and let them…

That's interesting! I wonder if a charitable company decide to make say AIDS drugs and give them away without breaching patent law?

It's a bit more surreal when it's general knowledge what to do with the hammer but you have to license your placement-of-hammer IP.

Wouldn't it be pretty toxic (especially if it's a vapour?) In a sealed component in a datacentre that problem doesn't matter, but they're speculating about home use also.

Yes, there's an interesting thing on that here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/ I haven't looked at enough philosophy to be able to figure out what I'd plac…

That's essentially average-utilitarian (has the happiness of a random person in the population gone up?); I guess many people are closer to total-utilitarian (ie. the total number …

Relabelling is the marketing game; to get your businessy-idea-book in the best-sellers list you need everyone to replace "practice makes perfect" with "10000 hours".

Maybe they could follow the rhinos with UAVs to cut down on patrol-space? (or spend the money flooding the market with fake-rhino-horn?)

I really should get around to reading that. His info theory book/lectures was/were very good. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html

If you haven't seen already you might be interested in http://lightsailenergy.com/tech.html ; they're working on compressed-air-and-water-vapour storage (also DaniFong posts on HN …

and would you stay home and look after the kids if your wife earned more than you?