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IEEE Spectrum: Earthquake Alarm
Friday at 9:56 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Big earthquakes are sometimes preceded by aurora-like light shows in the sky. This video shows lights in the sky before the Sichuan Earthquake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet
" The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake near San Francisco sent out strong signals of magnetic disturbances fully two weeks before the 7.1-magnitude quake occurred. The idea that such signals existed was still a new one then, certainly not well enough accepted to justify a decision to issue a public warning. We happen to have excellent data from that quake. Stanford professor Anthony C. Fraser-Smith had buried a device called a single-axis search-coil magnetometer to monitor the natural background ULF magnetic-field strength at about 7 km from what turned out to be the center of that quake. He selected this spot simply because it was in a quiet area, away from the rumblings of the Bay Area Rapid Transit trains and other man-made ULF noise. He monitored a range of frequencies from 0.01 to 10 Hz, essentially, the ULF band and the lower part of the ELF band. On 3 October, two weeks before the quake, Fraser-Smith's sensors registered a huge jump in the ULF magnetic field at the 0.01-Hz frequency—about 20 times that - Sanjeev Singh
...of normal background noise at that frequency. Three hours before the quake, the 0.01-Hz signal jumped to 60 times normal. Elevated ULF signals continued for several months after the quake, a period rife with aftershocks, and then they disappeared. " - Sanjeev Singh
Wow. I mean. Just wow! - Slippy Lane
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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader
Friday at 9:43 pm - Link
Fascinating and insightful - Slippy Lane
Great share. I never considered the "leverage" MSFT's IE holds over GOOG ads. IMHO it would be interesting to see what happens next if they blocked adverts in a future version of IE. - "Czar" DJ Peterman
If that happened I think googles corperate counsel would be looking for "assasins r us" in the yellow pages. - Roberto Bonini
I didn't get the p2p bit at the end. I don't think it makes much sense. - Mario Romero
Niether did I mario. As a seperate post, it makes sense, but not as a follow on. - Roberto Bonini
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Chris Rivait posted a link
» The Face(s) of the Earth | Flabbergastedly
» The Face(s) of the Earth | Flabbergastedly
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Friday at 4:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Creepy and comforting; I thought I was the only one that noticed things like this.... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Our brains are fantastic at pattern-recognition, and are hard-wired to recognise faces and human shapes. Consequently, we see faces and people-shapes everywhere. Which is cool. :-) - Slippy Lane
awesome - Pascal
So cool - Josh Haley
There was a house near us that had the most evil door I have ever seen...I wish I had photographed it. - WorldofHiglet
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palin on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Friday at 10:03 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"iz" - Outsanity
I don't get it. - Vincent Ferrari
She tried to get some books banned from the public library when she was mayor of that small town in Alaska. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
It's about the book banning fiasco from when she was mayor, I believe. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
It will be a little harder for her to try to ban electronic books... - Jeff P. Henderson
Are you serious? She burned books? Anyone have any more info on this? I wanna read up. This is my biggest pet peeve (anything speech-related, that is). - Vincent Ferrari
stop mee bifo i stoppet u :) - silpol
Ban, not burn. Not a huge difference but still there. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Same s, different smell. - Vincent Ferrari
So she didn't actually do it, she just asked about how to do it. Still bad, but not quite as bad. Pisses me off. - Vincent Ferrari
Vincent, my sister says "Same smell, different nostril", which always cracks me up =) And it's safe for public use. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
:-D Nice one. - Vincent Ferrari
So do you think she was trying to have Fahrenheit 451 burned? Oops I mean banned! - Lorraine Ball
That would be the ultimate in irony. Right after that, 1984. - Vincent Ferrari
haha. Of course Biden's could read, i is in ur 'puter sending all your mp3s to the RIAA. - Thomas Hawk
i need to look into music industry campaign contributions to biden. that's always bugged me. - faboo mama
I did. Not as big as you'd expect them to be, that's for sure. - Vincent Ferrari
With pervasive DRM, it's even easier to ban electronic books. You could even ban them after they're purchased by deactivating the license! - Kevin Fox
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Geoff Schultz posted a message
Friday at 1:52 pm - Link
I also include stickers, gold stars if you're lucky. - Geoff Schultz
What, no glitter? - Far
I ate all the glue so glitter is out. - Geoff Schultz
I might consider including a silly putty comic strip copy. - Geoff Schultz
awwwww - Yolanda
I write mine on the dry erase board on the fridge. I try to come up with something clever daily. It's not easy, let me tell you! - David Cook via twhirl
That's actually pretty romantic David, props - Geoff Schultz
Puffy stickers? - Corie Allison
David, that's really sweet!!! - Corie Allison
Scratch and sniff - Geoff Schultz
Silly Putty comics... another reason to keep print media alive! - Michael W. May via twhirl
Thanks. I try. ;) - David Cook
Not glow in the dark gel pens? - Adam Helweh
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Toby Graham posted a link
Thanks Alejandro S.
Thursday at 2:02 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Sorry had to, amazing. - Toby Graham via Bookmarklet
haha!!!! - Corie Allison
The world's youngest curmudgeon! HAaaaaahahahahhahaa! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Yay, he's back! - Josh Haley
Awesome picture - Kyle Lacy
that's actually a photo of mark trapp when he was 4 - Cee Bee
Mark Trapp's attitude has not changed since. - Akiva Moskovitz
This is hysterical...I can't stop laughing!! - Far
Far? That's when you hit 'like' ;) - Mona N. via fftogo
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John Worthington posted a message
I Think I Hit The Wrong Button...
Thursday at 6:01 am - Link
And with that... I bid you good night folks! - John Worthington
John as an emo teen girl? It kinda works for you ;) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I'm about as Emo as a a bowl of sunshine with rainbow sprinkles :P - John Worthington
haha good one - Alan Le
LOL!!! I almost spit all over my laptop, thanks - Rahsheen
That is AWESOME - Corie Allison
ha ha ha . . . awesome - Lindsey Smith
I only read it for the articles - Josh Haley
I spilled my tea, thank you very much. ;) - Alejandro S.
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Zee at WeDoCreative posted a message
Wednesday at 4:40 pm - Link
+1 and I would like my "likes" and "comments" be searchable too. and oh, archives by date. is that too demanding of me? ;) - ~C4Chaos
you mean like searching specifically for only likes & for only comments? - Zee at WeDoCreative
What is all this +1 business btw? - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl
just a quick way to see - "yeah, i agree with" - Zee at WeDoCreative
Yes, this is a hack, I know it's a hack, and FF can offer this themselves. But that doesn't help you now. Grab the feeds for you comments and likes, plop 'em into GReader where you can tag as you wish, search, and display choronologically. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I'm desperate for the tags and bookmarks, and I really wish the search feature for the rooms - Niki Costantini
Yes. I would also like some motherf******* ice cream. - Josh Lowensohn
Search by date of post would be great yes, date/time stamps on comments would be good too. Search facilities could be a little better methinks. Can you explain a bit more what you mean by bookmarking tool? - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl
@Kol - i just mean almost delicious like - Zee at WeDoCreative
@Kol Tregaskes (koltregaskes): I've noticed and speculated about the +1, too... but would appreciate the "official" answer - Herb via NoiseRiver
Josh L, icecream is not that hard, motherf****** or not ;) - Niki Costantini
i'm considering setting up a private 2nd account on friendfeed just for this purpose you know... - Zee at WeDoCreative
Just remember - only your last 900 items are visible! - Yuvi
@Yuvi - is that definintely still the case? i mean - are they all just deleted? - Zee at WeDoCreative
@Zee what about setting up a private room .. I did that and it has worked out well for the times I have used it - Steven Hodson
oh, that's not a bad option actually - Zee at WeDoCreative
@Zee - I am pretty sure they are NOT deleted - something that's still within the last 900 items for me might have gone past 900 for some of the machine guns (Louis Gray, edythe, etc). They're just falling into a personal black hole. - Yuvi
shoot...i didn't realise you can't search within comments at all. bollocks. - Zee at WeDoCreative
@Zee - I think you can - My FF ego search does a search for Yuvi, and it finds references in the comments too... - Yuvi
I pull the feed for my likes into Google Reader so that I can keep track of them and do other things with it - although it's not ideal you could the same for comments - Andy Davies
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mashable posted an entry on Mashable!
Wednesday at 11:45 pm - Link
<grammar_nazi>"effect"</grammar_nazi> - Mark Jaquith via twhirl
And to answer the question: limited. Blogging is huge, FriendFeed, not so much. - Mark Jaquith via twhirl
what is friendfeed and blogging's effect on spelling? - Trent Olson
It's affect is we be gettin teh worst grammar n speling evar - Nicola D'Agostino
i think friendfeed has the capacity to dumb-down the meaning of a complete sentence.. - Terence Washington
Friendfeed's effect? huh? Stoopid is as stoopid does, people. - Jim Jannotti via twhirl
Damnit Mashable, we have to get our grammar right! - Ben Parr
lol! you guys are too much - Shey
Any comments about the actual post? - Shey
I don't make nearly as many small entries in my blog,,, between twitter and friendfeed my blog is now reserved for longer items - Soulhuntre
I agree with Soulhuntre. My Blog is now only for larger posts. - Mithandir
The article itself seems like a fair and accurate assessment of the trend towards smaller posts being shifted off blogs and onto services such as friendfeed, whilst leaving the "deep thought" intact. Now, as to the discussion in this here comment stream: Friendfeeds are a for me the good of internets yes? Bloggings are a not so many of much and more, since of the friendfeeds in my browser am. - Slippy Lane
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Thursday at 5:47 am - Link
Laptops run so hot these days. Why must every laptop manufacturer insist on desktop specs on their portable machines? It's such a power drain, and so pointless, IMO. With laptops running so hot, even the slightest manufacturing or design fault is gonna cause exactly what's happened with the Vaio in question. - Slippy Lane
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JMS posted a link
Emo-broidery: This Ain’t Your Granny’s Cross-stitching!
Emo-broidery: This Ain’t Your Granny’s Cross-stitching!
Emo-broidery: This Ain’t Your Granny’s Cross-stitching!
September 1 at 2:05 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Claire of Miso Funky doesn’t make typical cross-stitched samplers. Her samplers, which she dubs Emo-broidery, will catch you off guard and make you laugh… unless you’re easily offended. We happen to love them." - JMS via Bookmarklet
"Make Cake. Not War." +1 needlepoint! - Abby Martin
It's all about the cake, just lately. - Slippy Lane
+1 Slippy (and for me, alas, it's always about the cake. ;) ) - Abby Martin
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Corie Allison posted a link
Landmark experiment to unlock secrets of Big Bang could cause end of the world, say scientists in court bid to halt it
Landmark experiment to unlock secrets of Big Bang could cause end of the world, say scientists in court bid to halt it
September 1 at 8:53 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
But then again, so could any one of those dirty great rocks floating around in space! ;-) - Slippy Lane
Black holes suck! - Timothy Griffin
wow - Josh Haley
not gonna happen. - Mladen Srdić
I considered placing money on it happening but how would I collect ... ? - Timothy Griffin
Timothy: Perhaps with some kind of parallel universe trickery? - Slippy Lane
if it happens you won't know it, and if it doesn't happen, you won't care. no loss possible. - Gregory Lent
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Akiva Moskovitz posted a message
August 31 at 4:06 pm - Link
If I did that, sorry ;) - Abby Martin
Hah, wasn't directed at anyone in particular. it's just a few times over the past few days, I've been landed at Digg or some other site rather than the article itself. - Akiva Moskovitz
I think I did the other day, sorry Akiva... - Simian DA (Amber)
How do you expect me to make advertising revenue? - Nathan Howell
You live on Aurora; you'll figure something out. - Akiva Moskovitz
It depends on the item for me. If a site I like has linked to the item . . . I give them credit for finding it for me by linking to it - Lindsey Smith
Keepin' it tidy, amigo. - Jay Tannenbaum
I feel kind of obligated to link to where I found it, even if the original is ten clicks away. - joneilortiz
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Akiva Moskovitz posted a message
August 31 at 10:14 am - Link
>:(((( - Rochelle
Awwwww... come on Akiva! Fabric stores are loads of fun! And I'm sure Rochelle has to put up with a lot of your "man errands" too. :P - Lindsay Donaghe
You're in trouble now, Mister! - Yolanda
Lindsay, actually she doesn't; if I need to go to Fry's or something like that, I go alone (unless I can rope another friend into going or, better yet, driving me there!). - Akiva Moskovitz
Yolanda, I am this: perpetually in trouble. - Akiva Moskovitz
I'm only making him come because he needs to help pick out some fabrics for baby-related stuff. Otherwise, I'd go on my own! - Rochelle
Lies!@$~ - Akiva Moskovitz
You need some man help here, I see, +1 for Akiva - Jeff McNeill
Oh! Baby stuff! My great aunt makes the cutest quilts for baby showers. - Yolanda
hehe! Tad says the first words any married man needs to learn and say on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis are "I'm sorry." Best way to stay out of trouble. ;) - Lindsay Donaghe
It's not going to get any easier when the kid comes, Akiva. Just saying. - Pete Delucchi
Thanks, Jeff. I'm drowning over here. Lindsay, I'm no stranger to that phrase myself. In fact: http://friendfeed.com/e/c59b7a... - Akiva Moskovitz
Ooooooooooo.. fabric store! My husband drives me, but either sits in the car listening to sports radio or brings his Gameboy in and find somewhere to sit. He absolutely will not go to a yarn shop, however. - Alix Whitmire
I didn't know there were actually separate stores just for yarn. - Corie Allison
Pete, that store has a bit of everything -- fabric, thread, assorted sewing supplies, arts & crafts stuff, holiday crap, etc. - Corie Allison
Yarn stores?? - Nathan Howell
Pete, that's the fabric store we're going to. - Rochelle
CRYING LIKE A REAL MAN - Akiva Moskovitz
Fabric Stores=Love. - Kaia ♥
We all go as a family. I actually like fabric stores. Just another building material for creative and practical stuff. Just the other day i got some dark gray felt-ish material to staple to a rack-mount cabinet I am building. Makes it more "rock and roll" - Josh Haley
LOL! I hate taking my husband with me because then he gets "ideas" that involve tacky fabrics and something for me to build yet he won't help because I'm the builder/sewer in the family. - faboo mama
I actually get ideas there, too, but they never have anything to do with what Rochelle's on about. I find plastic, multi-compartment bins and begin thinking about how they can best house the counters from my collection of tabletop war games. But when it comes to fabrics, my mind just goes blank. - Akiva Moskovitz
War games != baby sewing. - Rochelle
War games > baby sewing. Besides, wouldn't sewing the baby hurt it? - Akiva Moskovitz
Find your local yarn shop: http://www.knitmap.com/ :D - Alix Whitmire
My advice, buy a DS Lite and roll wit' it. - Harvey Simmons
*laughing* "Besides, wouldn't sewing the baby hurt it?" :-) Rochelle, I have to ask: Is Akiva like this in person as well? - Joanmarie
@Joan - For a person whom I assumed was a woman when I first met him on FriendFeed, he is remarkably snarky. - Yuvi
He's like that in person :P - Nathan Howell
[innocent] - Akiva Moskovitz
Joanmarie, yeah. Like Nathan (who knows us in real life) said, Akiva is. Sometimes even more so! :P - Rochelle
[innocent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] - Akiva Moskovitz
Hellllloooo Michael's! LOL - Mona N.
You don't have to say okay... say "okay, I'll see you when you get back" - Jason Carreira
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Azeem shared an item on Google Reader
August 13 at 6:35 am - Link
I like how, being faced with an "xkcd ripoff" tag, the creator embraced it and made it his own. POPsickleSTRIP is a great comic strip. With stick figures ;-) - Slippy Lane
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AlexScoble(Robert'sBro) posted a message
August 29 at 2:01 pm - Link
I like that. - Candace Holly
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Kyle Lacy posted an entry on KyleLacy.com
August 30 at 10:03 pm - Link
Interesting article. Commented at site. :-) - Slippy Lane
Thanks Slippy. +1 - Kyle Lacy
Yeah...me too - Rahsheen
Thanks Rah. :) - Kyle Lacy
:) - Mona N.
and Mona. :) - Kyle Lacy
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August 30 at 5:08 am - Link
lol, weren't we all? Had my Blue Box working overtime for about 2 years. - Slippy Lane
Hah. Blue boxing. Those were the days. - Akiva Moskovitz
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Clare Dibble posted a message
August 29 at 7:15 pm - Link
Can you imagine how useful "Hide" might be too? - Kim Mahan
like! - Susan Beebe
Who would be president? Louis Gray or Mona? - Jesse Stay
I find that I am constantly searching for the Like button on Facebook etc. :) - Baard Overgaard Hansen
I am the same Baard, even going as typing [Like] whichg is extreme ha! - Joe Dawson
My better half has recently taken to saying "Like" when she approves of something in the real world. - Slippy Lane
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Mahdi Ebrahimi posted a link
7 Big-Ass Holes in the Earth
7 Big-Ass Holes in the Earth
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August 30 at 4:49 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
These holes are not only amazing, but some of them are really terrifying! The sheer magnitude of these gaping holes reminds us of how men will scar the earth to pursue their quest for power and wealth. - Mahdi Ebrahimi via Bookmarklet
Wow... really terrifying! - Neda
i can not imagine even close to one of them. they are so dreadful. ☺☻▲▼ - Mahdi Ebrahimi
I know another dreadful and very interesting hole called the door of the hell.search it on the web.you'll find interesting facts about it. - shamim
visit my feeds for that. - shamim
Shamim- i have seen your post about door of the hell this is incredible. - Mahdi Ebrahimi
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See "The Door to Hell" - image detail - Softpedia
See "The Door to Hell" - image detail - Softpedia
See "The Door to Hell" - image detail - Softpedia
August 30 at 7:48 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
It looks like a crater with a volcanic lava lake, but it is not. It is said that the hell is located underground. In this case, "The Door to Hell" is this site in Uzbekistan, located close to the small town of Darvaz. - shamim via Bookmarklet
I read about this in the newspaper a little while ago. Apparently it was a gas mine or somesuch. It's been burning for years. - Slippy Lane
so huge and dreadful. - Mahdi Ebrahimi
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Uber-like - Steve Isaacs
Oh yes, so none of this rubbish generic RSS favicon everywhere - Kol Tregaskes
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August 25 at 6:56 pm - Link
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August 26 at 5:29 am - Link
Filtering by service would be awesome. - John Duff
seems like you can filter by service, there just isn't a easy way to do it from the ui, http://beta.friendfeed.com/?se... - John Duff
Can't you do that already via advanced search? (Watch out for the RSS feed at the end of the page ...) - Alexander Ebel
Actually, on each users page you can filter by services, would be nice to be able to do this for everyone from the ui - John Duff
Try http://friendfeed.com/search/a... (You may leave the first entry free!) - Alexander Ebel
Search + Rss works awesome, thanks guys (and FriendFeed)! Now, I still need the option to "hide all Topic X (i.e. a keyword like Olympics or politics)" and I'm a happy camper. - Vincent van Wylick
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