Hmmm, I wrote this before looking since Tesla opened a new dealership in Menlo Park last night but now I don't know. That is a logo I haven't seen before. - Robert Scoble
That, my friendfeed friend, is comedy gold. Nice one, Michael. - XDpaul
Good guesses... but it's a line of 'adult' toys :) Company is Soju. They all looked very 'apple' like... If someone didn't explain it to me I would have sworn they were photos of mice, ipods etc - Ryan Junee
via twhirl
@louisgray: Yours and very well ! Thank you ! :) Now I'd be the happiest Friendfeeder If you follow its evolution, since I'm so bad at writing ;-) - directeur
via NoiseRiver
@Louis Yeah, we got lucky with really positive coverage on ReadWriteWeb/ Mashable and TechCrunch (TC was more of a recognition of our existence than anything else) among others when we went into private beta a week or so back. We have had no LG love (or scorn) :( Kimberly, Chris and I are sorry if we unconsciously offended you in some way... We look forward to someday earning a mention on your blog. Cheers mate! - Scott Lockhart
I'm at a startup, but we build a hardware box. It seems downright grungy compared to the gossamer realms of pure thought energy everybody else here works on. - Denton Gentry
surreal - since usually you see lots of other partially as high buildings around something like this - here its lots of open space - mike "glemak" dunn
I just heard that Dubai has a third of the world's cranes. - Gabe
I wonder if the tower of Babel looked like that? - Robert
I have a feeling the next September 11 won't be in New York. - John Lam
Do I sense jealousy? I think it's incredible. About time someone built something impressive. The US should follow suit with a suitably impressive WTC memorial. As for a messed up society? Pff, when your own house is in order then go after someone elses. - Mo Kargas
Robert, I was thinking exactly the same thing ;) - Graham Garland
any taller and it'll scratch our precious ozone - Pete Delucchi
Wow, that is awe-inspiring. I would be scared out of my mind to be on that thing when it is finished, let alone being the crane operator. Gives me the heeby geebies just thinking about it! - Tony
messed up society? ... compensating? ...lol i hope you two are not from that country i think you come from. - krz9000
It really makes you wonder how much of the space in that building is just elevators... - Gabe
Do they have to compensate for the rotation of the Earth? Do they have to reinforce the west side? - tim
@Robert that's exactly what it reminded me of - Shey
Dubai must be an interesting place visually. All sorts of weird buildings there. - Yolanda
2,684 ft (818m) in height! wow, that's over 1/2 a mile high! - Susan Beebe
The same architect was going to build a 2400-foot casino resort here in Vegas before the FAA intervened and got it canceled. Something about it being in the way of planes. - Chris Reed
no way in hell am I going to the top of that thing. imagine being an iron worker on the very top? well I guess it's like China, labor is replaceable - clarke thomas
There are many over-the-top examples of Dubai architecture, but the one that really knocks my socks off is the project to build an entirely new city with extreme "green" ambition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... I'm frequently amazed by the sheer quantity of projects like this happening in UAE. - Jason Wehmhoener
What's Barad-dûr doing in the middle of Dubai?? - Will DeLuca
it'll be great when it's finished. Dubai, that is... Dubai will be great when it's finished... - Andrew Terry
Reminded me of Gustav Doré's Tower Of Babel illustration: http://is.gd/UjL Amazing, truly. - Madsimian
Ha! Commented before expanding comments to see all the "Tower of Babel" exclamations. It sure is a natural point of reference... - Madsimian
Dubai: where Erector sets join together for REALLY big projects. - Kevin C. Tofel
Very impressive piece of engineering and architecture! - Jeff P. Henderson
Why? I don't understand why. It's like they are trying to prove something. But how many workers died building this vanity project? - Liz
Liz it's not the Middle Ages. I am sure the building is not resting on the bones of the poor exploited workers. - John Samuelson
this place looks like after a war! They might have the money, but haven't they heard about green? Let's see what happens when they will run out of oil. Anyway, that's a great building, but it doesn't fit the landscape. - Dan V
World's largest building = tourist attraction. - Tanath
you can't use Track in anything but IM right? (that is, you can't use it in Twhirl and other similar clients) - Chris Dahl
I'm trying out twitterspy... add twitterspy@jabber.org in your IM client and type 'help' - Ryan Junee
via Alert Thingy
I think that xmpp could be the newaggregator if only twitter & FF played nicely, we would only need 1 client - Alan Wood
via twhirl
Chris Dahl track also works with SMS or at least it did. I agree with Robert, I wish there was a place I could get track going again be it twitter or FF I don't care. - Jeremy Kunz
The article clearly states the unwavering conclusion of the science community: "Cellphones emit non-ionizing radiation, waves of energy that are too weak to break chemical bonds or to set off the DNA damage known to cause cancer. There is no known biological mechanism to explain how non-ionizing radiation might lead to cancer."
Should be end of story. However, the theater of modern sensationalist journalism demands that baseless superstition be granted airtime sufficient to provoke fear and needless confusion.
The story continues, "But researchers who have raised concerns say that just because science can’t explain the mechanism doesn’t mean one doesn’t exist."
Try swapping out "the mechanism" and replacing it with "Santa Claus" to see the wondrous immaturity of this logic. I feel like I am on an elementary school bus. - Erica Baker
So the NYT article seems to be the best endorsement of alchemy since 1500. - Chris Reed
I agree with your main point about the ridiculous fear mongering and sensationalism exhibited by the mainstream media. However I don't think this logic furthers your argument:
"But researchers who have raised concerns say that just because science can’t explain the mechanism doesn’t mean one doesn’t exist."
Try swapping out "the mechanism" and replacing it with "Santa Claus" to see the wondrous immaturity of this logic.
Science is good at falsifying claims - proving something is incorrect. Science can in fact 'explain' Santa Clause by showing that he does not exist (among other things we can show it is impossible for one man to travel to every household in the world in a 24 hour period). On the other hand, science cannot falsify a hypothesis that hasn't been made yet - thus we can't really say anything about a biological mechanism we may not know about. - Ryan Junee
@Ryan, I agree that science can't prove the nonexistence of something (in my example, the author uses "explain" arguably interchangeably with "prove"). However, my beef is twofold. First, the presumptuous nature of their use of the word "mechanism" as if its existence is established and just remaining to be rationalized. Second, and more to your point, that even if you accept the futility of proving non-existence, such yet-to-be-discovered biological process, which would contravene almost all research... - Christopher Sacca
...attempting to establish causation, is hardly a principle for which it would be worthwhile to meaningfully change your behavior. - Christopher Sacca
"There are obviously dangers in these technologies. But I think Joy’s approach would actually lead to the future he fears. If the virtuous people relinquish these things, it means that they will be developed by the evil people, and that seems to me to be a recipe for these technologies going wrong. ... what we need to be doing is to be pushing the accelerator further and harder. What I fear is that people working in free countries, where I think these technologies are likely to be developed in a more benign way, are being blocked by bureaucratic regulation and by cultural ideas that we shouldn’t be doing this. We are on this technological arc. We don’t know where it’s going to go, but I think the best trajectory is for us to just hit the accelerator really hard." - Paul Buchheit
Liked his approach to philanthropy: "There is a category of things that would benefit all of humanity but where the benefits are very diffuse and the costs are concentrated. Maybe it’s very long-term. So I focused my philanthropy on things with a 20-, 30-, 40-year horizon. The horizons are too long for a for-profit company to take advantage of, and the government and universities are not pushing things because maybe it’s too unconventional or it doesn’t easily fit into a particular political agenda or vision of the future." - Ryan Junee
via Alert Thingy
What I thought was most interesting: "I don’t think that death and life are inextricably interconnected in some sort of Eastern mystical sense in which for everything white there’s something black and there’s always a yin/yang type of thing. Every myth on this planet tells us the purpose of life is death, and I don’t think that’s true. I think the purpose of life is life." - Ranjit Mathoda
