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2011-11-01T15:25:28Z

Whitney, we have a problem | Fredo and Pidjin. The Webcomic.

2011-10-31T20:41:32Z

Whitney, we have a problem

Одноразовые шприцы

2011-10-31T19:20:51Z

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/28/self-destructing-syringes-needles-tanzania

Some 1.3 million people die every year because of the re-use of syringes, according to the World Health Organisation. That's more than malaria kills. There are 23m transmissions of hepatitis every year. In Africa, around 20m injections contaminated with HIV are given every year. In the developing world, every syringe is used on average four times.

Twenty-seven years ago, he was kicking his heels in the Caribbean after a privileged upbringing, looking for something interesting to do with his life. It took years of studying the problem and learning about plastics, before he hit on his design, in which the plunger breaks as soon as it is pulled back for re-use. He has now sold 3bn of them and last month, he finally signed a contract with the world's biggest syringe-maker to produce his auto-disable design.

"В Африке каждый шприц используется в среднем 4 раза. Из-за распространяющихся таким образом болезней каждый год умирает 1.3 миллиона человек (больше чем от малярии). Ежегодно в Африке делается 20 миллионов уколов шприцами, загрязненными ВИЧ."

Двадцать семь лет назад мужик валялся на пляже и не знал чем заняться. Сейчас он производит и продает одноразовые шприцы собственного изобретения, которые ломаются после первого использования.

How the BBC and others fail to understand housing benefit | Liberal Conspiracy

2011-10-31T17:05:03Z

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В комментах много ада, не хуже, чем на ториграфе.

Nature's laws may vary across the Universe

2011-10-31T16:32:22Z

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the laws of nature may vary across the Universe, according to a study published today in the journal Physical Review Letters.

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2011-10-31T16:32:09Z

The Sharebros Are Building a Google Reader Replacement

2011-10-31T14:57:29Z

One code-savvy, soon-to-be-former Google Reader user would rather create a new site for the RSS-feeds than switch to Google+. Last Friday, Google announced that it was getting rid of Reader's social features — the ability to follow other people, to share content within Reader and so forth — in order to encourage more people to use Google+ for those kinds of activities within a week. The backlash online was immediate and visceral, and a small group of protesters even picketed outside the company's DC offices, calling for an Occupy Google Reader movement. We tried contacting Google a number of times over the past week about how they were responding to the complaints and when the changes would go into place but never received a reply.

Hearing radio silence from Google, self-identified Google Reader fanatic (also known as a Sharebro) Francis Cleary decided to take things into his own hands. Cleary tried using Google+ a bit but says it didn't feel right. So over the past ten days, Cleary has been devoting every minute of his free time to building his own social RSS site that will keep Reader's dying features alive. For now, he's calling it HiveMined.

The service is built to work just like Google Reader but better. On the HiveMined blog, Cleary describes the idea quite simply: "A replacement for Google Reader. Basically an RSS reader with a bit of social thrown in." Cleary explained the idea further to The Atlantic Wire. "The way to think about it is that the people on the hive are going to mine out the best content on the internet," said the 26-year-old Pennsylvania native, who settled on the name with the help of 40 other Sharebros.

So far, the Sharebro community seems pumped about the new open-source Reader alternative. "I'm definitely excited about it," Stu Watson told us in an email, "It seems like Francis is trying to preserve the elements of Google Reader that have been lost in Google+."

Cleary expects to launch a private beta test for HiveMined on Monday, and for now, most of the features will resurrect the features that Google plans to kill off. People can subscribe to RSS feeds, read the content in the same window, star or like their favorite items and follow other HiveMined users. With the help of fellow Sharebro Peter Shafer, each user can sign in using a HiveMined account or their Facebook log-in credentials and with the help of the Open Graph can quickly find out which of their friends are already using the site. The site is built using Django and Twitter Bootstrap, a framework for web design built by the developers behind the microblogging site. (The Facebook and Twitter functionality must sting the Googlers working on Plus, at least a little bit.) Every story is shareable, there are no ads and Cleary says that like the old Reader everybody loves, the focus is on "content, content, content" This is where Google+ comes up short.

"Google+ is a cool idea, but it's not about content first," Cleary told The Atlantic Wire. "It's about page views--that's not what people want. It's about the content you like. It's not about you pushing the link and being like, Everybody look at the link and look what I shared."

Other Sharebros we've talked to — all of whom seem super upset about Google axing Reader's social features — have said similar things about the difference in the two platforms. On Google+, there's an emphasis on the individual. There's a feed that sorts items based on a secret algorithm aiming to tell you what's the most important. It's personal, sure, but it's not as fast as Reader and requires too much clicking, too many open tabs. Cleary admitted that it's better for publishers to earn the unique visitor and the pageview, but the user experience isn't the same it it doesn't create the same tight knit community that is the Sharebro circle. Furthermore, with so much content flowing in from the RSS feed, it can be overwhelming so when you find someone who's a good curator, there's a unique value added that's just not the same on Google+ or even Facebook or Twitter.

"If I share a link on Reader — let's say BuzzFeed has a hundred pugs in costumes — I would click share and people would look at it and comment on Reader," Cleary told us. "I feel like you have to earn every follower."

Although he also didn't finish college before moving out to the Bay Area, Cleary is not trying to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. He's just interested in keeping the Reader experience alive, and people around the world are offering help, money and support. The Iranian freedom fighters who depended on Reader for basic social networking features have reached out, and Cleary says he's doing his best to build HiveMined in such a way that the government won't shut it down like they did Facebook and Twitter. In fact, he told us that he'd prefer not even to be referred to as a founder of Hivemined, because he's not trying to create a startup or fire up a new business unless he has to. "I have a full time job," says Cleary, who works as a software developer in San Francisco. "I just need to find a way to pay for the servers, and I'm gonna pay out of my pocket until I can't."

We couldn't help but ask if Cleary secretly wanted to work at Google, but he didn't bite. "I do like the idea of trying a startup or at least a trying to set up a lifestyle business," he said. "Who knows maybe this or another idea will turn into something. I'm just going to keep chugging along and doing what I love."

Если бы Пушкин успел написать свои зрелые произведения, то, возможно, не было бы революции и убийства царя! // KP.RU

2011-10-31T14:36:33Z

"Комсомольская правда" выпускает новую книжную серию "Великие поэты".

Сегодня "КП" представляет колонку Анны Чапман о ее любимом поэте, которую она написала специально для нашей газеты

Life at the Bottom: The Prolific Afterlife of Whales: Scientific American

2011-10-31T13:53:45Z

On the deep seafloor, the carcasses of the largest mammals give life to unique ecosystems

Me, Olympia and Annabelle Dexter Jones

2011-10-31T13:15:00Z

Me, Olympia and Annabelle Dexter Jones

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2011-10-31T13:50:37Z

urpflanze: Неконтролируемые аллюзии

2011-10-31T11:09:10Z

При просмотре торжественного концерта по случаю открытия нового Большого театра совершенно неожиданно для себя вспомнил соответствующие кадры из "Бесславных ублюдков".
К счастью, на этот раз всё обошлось.

Demos | Publications

2011-10-31T09:29:00Z

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Available to download for free, interesting social statistics inside

The English Defence League (EDL) is the biggest populist street movement in a generation. Yet the make-up of the group and what its members believe remain a mystery because it has no formal joining procedures or membership list and much of its activity takes place online.

The biped robot which rides on a bicycle - by DrGuero2001

2011-10-28T11:53:05Z

The biped robot which rides on a bicycle - by DrGuero2001

prog21: Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

2011-10-31T09:03:14Z

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

Turbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS was released in September 1986. Being version 3, there were lesser releases prior to it and flashier ones after, but 3 was a solid representation of the Turbo Pascal experience: a full Pascal compiler, including extensions that it made it practical for commercial use, tightly integrated with an editor. And the whole thing was lightning fast, orders of magnitude faster at building projects than Microsoft's compilers.

The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and IDE--was 39,731 bytes. How does that stack up in 2011 terms? Here are some things that Turbo Pascal is smaller than, as of October 30, 2011:

The minified version of jquery 1.6 (90,518 bytes).

The yahoo.com home page (219,583 bytes).

The image of the white iPhone 4S at apple.com (190,157 bytes).

zlib.h in the Mac OS X Lion SDK (80,504 bytes).

The touch command under OS X Lion (44,016 bytes).

Various vim quick reference cards as PDFs. (This one is 47,508 bytes.)

The compiled code for the Erlang R14B02 parser (erl_parse.beam, 286,324 bytes).

The Wikipedia page for C++ (214,251 bytes).

Daylight saving time: Don't let the Scots steal this hour because they want a lie-in - Telegraph

2011-10-31T08:31:44Z

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"We can't let the Scottish tail wag the British bulldog" - is it just me or is this rhetoric a bit too harsh for the problem discussed?

Britain would be better off and lives would be saved if we had summer time all year round, writes Boris Johnson.

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2011-10-31T07:03:07Z

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2011-10-31T06:57:51Z

Guess what!? More beards from below!

2011-10-30T21:21:21Z

Yeah, we know what you’re doing here, you’re here for your fix.
You’ve had a taster and now you want more. From below….

Don’t panic, it’s OK. Prepare yourself, sit back and relax.

Behold! And feast your eyes on these beards from below.

Goooooooo beards from below!

It’s easy to get lost in this beard from below!

This beard from below demands respect. GIVE THIS BEARD FROM BELOW RESPECT!

This beard from below doesn’t know when to quit!

WOH! This beard from below is MR. COOL, man. Hi-5 Buddy!

If this beard from below was the woods and I was camping, well I just found a good place for a tent!

What colors in this beard from below!!

A nicely maintained beard from below!

I can’t even believe it!

Президент Сирии Башар Асад дал эксклюзивное интервью Первому каналу - Первый канал

2011-10-30T20:43:54Z

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Офигенная подводка к интервью, http://web.ru/bards/Sedov_V/part6.htm