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It's going to be embarrassing if this turns out just to be a failed real estate development. China has those too.

Compare this image from Google Maps. There's a nice "alignment target" in the middle of nowhere. It was supposed to be an industrial park near Dubai, but never got beyond road building. The China one looks like a project that never got beyond bulldozer stage.

Say what you like about Microsoft

was a nice touch.

BTW, this guy is right on the money.

The Physics is being shaken to the foundations by Italian researchers.
After the faster-than-light neutrinos we still have to debunk the low-energy nuclear reaction claim (Remember, Google is your friend even if you don't read Italian).

2000m below 'Lunar standard sea level', i.e. what people generally consider to be altitude 0, which is a sphere 1737.4 km in radius. Take a look at the settings if you're interested. (I think it's all up-to-date in hg.) 2000m was picked arbitrarily to give a decent balance of land and sea.

However, the moon is actually hideously lopsided, due to tidal effects caused by Earth; the near side is noticeably bigger than the far side. This makes the lunar gravitational field uneven. Therefore the surface at which water will actually settle to (which is known as a geoid) is not a sphere. Luckily, Lunar prospector mapped this shape too, so I can compensate for it. That's relatively small, a mere 100kB PNG file.

I have a slow-going project to render the moon using Povray. Except, because I'm awkward, I've terraformed it. There are some very slightly better (but still very poor) videos here and here.

I'm using a monster dataset from the Kaguya spaceprobe for the terrain data, which, at maximum resolution, ends up as a 270MB 16-bit greyscale PNG file. Even so, it's only about 4 pixels per degree and, as you can tell from the videos above, the terrain is way too smooth to be interesting. I've experimented with adding algorithmic complexity with some pretty good results, and need to render the videos, but it's cripplingly slow and is, of course, cheating. [*]

So a higher-resolution dataset is great news for me. Now I just need to figure out how to get a global DEM at the highest possible resolution, which is not easy (I can see DEMs at 64 pixels/degree, but the 256 pixels/degree data appears to be available only in tiles with odd projections).

[*] Also, procedural code in Povray is very slow. I have been looking into rewriting the whole thing in Renderman but my model is too pathologically weird for most Renderman implementations --- I'm viewing a very, very large sphere with huge displacement shaders from very, very close up, and the open source Rendermans I've tried so far just curl up and die. Any suggestions gratefully appreciated.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.474701,93.509531&spn=0.053604,0.132093&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14

Speaking of cheese, is this map data going to be available on Google Moon?

I miss the days when the Google maps folk had a sense of humour.

If a coal power plants fails, it is just a big fire, annoying and hard to put out BUT controllable.

And the huge piles of coal ash?

We know that the governments of the United States and Russia have access to smallpox in laboratories.

As for weaponized smallpox, Google "Aralsk incident."

Well, he might be an expert in something regarding Mars, but he knows nothing about camera calibration targets.

Because this (the array of lines) is what a camera calibration target looks like. The lines let you test for distortion, the spacing between the lines lets you test for resolution. Just like TV test patterns they're carefully designed to present exactly the features you want to test for. They aren't semi random fractal patterns, and they aren't allowed to degrade the way the ones in the Chines desert have.

The same goes for his "radar test target" - it looks precisely nothing like how aircraft normally appear on flight lines or adjacent to hangars.

amd/intel64 allow the x32 ABI which gains some speed and power benefits from being between 32- and 64-bit. Pure 64-bit is seldom a win.

Politicians use Google and Facebook too. Put messages there.

Or you could get together with 87,834 of your closest friends and call them.

It's good to see people mobilisation en masse to oppose this bill, but as others have said, it remains to be seen whether Congress will listen to anyone unless they dangle a cheque in front of their nose.

The big danger that I see is how dangerously regressive and backward-looking attitudes on the Hill are.

Perhaps the most shocking aspect of the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing was that Google, the sole opponent to the legislation allowed to present at the hearing, was castigated by most of the people there, impugned for purportedly profiting from piracy and cast as the villain in this whole affair.

Seeing one of the few growing and dynamic drivers of the information economy not only cast out of the fold but actively opposed, one can only conclude that the captains of the US media industry are perfectly content to cut their nose off to spite their face. They will burn the bridge represented by Google rather than cross it.

I see two immediate dangers if this regime is actually allowed to take the shape proposed for it:

• 1) Innovation in content re-use and sharing will move outside of the US. Some will move into the shadows (kind of like offshore pirate radio in days of yore, except the ships and radios are available for the cost of a laptop). Some will move into the less governed – or governable – areas.
• 2) US influence on innovation and invention will decline significantly. This legislative package will serve as a clear signal that Silicon Valley is no longer the influence it used to be. (Indeed, the Valley’s lack of standing in DC was evidenced by committee members’ contempt for Google throughout the hearing.)

The latter outcome is the more dangerous of the two. Losing influence in the direction the Internet’s development takes also means losing the uniquely American ethos of freedom and individualism.

There are numerous new media and technological players poised in the wings right now. But few of them (with the possible exception of Al Jazeera) have any moral stake in human rights or even individual expression. Not, at least, in the same way that many American developers do - that is, at the axiomatic level, rather than as a conscious overlay to their world view.

First, it's best to ensure you DO NOT get SMS texts, because you can't really filter those, and you'll not have a social life if you can't tell your personal texts from the alerts.

AFTER you have funneled pages to a sole-purpose gmail address, get Gmail Label notifier.
Because you filter your pages by importance anyway, and 9 in 10 auto-pages are cyclical, well known and just outright useless... might as well only wake up for subject lines that matter or senders who are really people with a different from address.

And you can just turn off the App when the on-call shift has ended and stop checking Gmail. No such luck with an always-on SMS doorway into your nightlife.

Holding contrarian views is a great way to feel superior, until someone points to evidence that you are wrong. Variola (smallpox) virus can survive years, even decades under good conditions. The correspondence about the plans to distribute blankets to indians does exist if you care to enlighten yourself.

Doesn't explain why some of the structures have heavy bomb damage.

Assuming no foreign power has been bombing China- I can't fathom why China would bomb their own calibration units.

(unless it was to test what would happen- before an enemy did it to them)

Its pretty clear this is a heavily bombed area, the whole vicinity is riddled with bomb craters. Just a few clicks away from the strange lines is a
runway mock-up, with a shadow mock-up offset from it. Exploring this area you can zoom in on this target ad see what appears to b missile booster stages laying around, generally facing east-to-west. They can't be tanker trucks, because they are narrower than the nearby dirt road tracks.

Zooming out from that link shows the two mock airfields.

I'm sure all the major intelligence agencies of the world have very much better photos than these.

Given that we have the DNA sequence for smallpox, can someone please tell me why, oh why, do we keep this deadly virus around AT ALL? I was vaccinated for smallpox, but my two younger brothers lack the tell-tale scar. Given that immunity fades after between 3 and 50 years, with 3 to 5 years being typical, any release of smallpox into the wild would have devastating worldwide consequences. So, tell me again why we keep live virus in the fridge?

Given that we have the DNA sequence for smallpox, can someone please tell me why, oh why, do we keep this deadly virus around AT ALL? I was vaccinated for smallpox, but my two younger brothers lack the tell-tale scar. Given that immunity fades after between 3 and 50 years, with 3 to 5 years being typical, any release of smallpox into the wild would have devastating worldwide consequences. So, tell me again why we keep live virus in the fridge?

Are you daft or just ignorant?

Clearly you are if you take random postings in a forum as indicative of consistent agreement.

How about you try something that has at least some formal level of approval within the movement like The 99 Percent Declaration.

I can't believe this issue still remains without a fix!

Interesting link. Thanks for posting that! I hadn't realized that music sold on Amazon had such a restrictive EULA, forbidding resale. Unfortunately Google's new service sees to have the same problem. Presumably they both have these terms because they were imposed on them by the record companies.

I'm not an Apple fan, but I really dig these.

in order to read an article about a fancy watch and NOT see an ad for a watch or watch-related service, you would need to be living in 1998.

Or be living after 2005...

https://www.google.com/search?q=adblock

Or, have the slashdot "disable ads" option available and checked...

I liked the Juggalo reference.

Did you just post that as flamebait or have you had your head in the sand for 20 years ?

Just to refresh your memory

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/2/newsid_2526000/2526937.stm

Iraq invades kuwait.

https://www.google.com/search?q=north+korea+missile+test&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

North Korea's missile tests.

and just in case

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2003/05/what_kind_of_terrorism_does_north_korea_sponsor.html

Just some examples of No Ko's terrorist activities.

Now in case you missed it there was also this large country called China, that is forcibly occupying Tibet ? Continuously making moves to threaten Taiwan and backs the nucking futs regime in North Korea.

Also in case you missed it, there is this other large county called Russia. That views the former Soviet Socialist Republics as pieces that belong back in the puzzle that is mother Russia. They aren't above poisoning leaders of these countries, reporters that point out that they are up to no good, and anyone else that happens to be nearby.

Another small DNS server is MaraDNS. It's considered a good alternative to BIND.

Being a lot smaller, it's easier to secure.

If you're just running a DNS cache on your desktop, check out dnsmasq. Click to install(Deb/Mint/Ubuntu)

Well, there's Google's own System Requirements for the Google Music player for computers (i.e. not Android or iOS devices):

• Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 7 and above
• JavaScript must be enabled in your browser (not necessary for Google Chrome). Learn how to enable JavaScript
• The latest version of Adobe Flash Player must be installed and enabled in your browser (Flash is included with Google Chrome). Install Adobe Flash Player

Simply selling off these stocks would not result in an improvement of the investors situation, in fact it makes it worse as they have even less security or growth in cash.

I don't think anybody is suggesting that investors should sell Microsoft and put the cash in their mattress. But that is not the only alternative to holding Microsoft. You can buy Ford, Walmart, RedHat, US treasures, corporate and municipal bonds, etc. etc.

The idea behind investing in blue chip stocks is to keep them for a very long time as they are not meant to grow quickly.

Plus selling stocks means you pay tax on the income in most western nations meaning that $100,000 earned from selling MSFT does not equal buying $100,000 of bonds.

Over the long term, MSFT has been stable for the last 8 or so years, there was a huge boost when Windows XP and Server 2000 were released which when back down to about what it is today, if you bought in 95, you're stocks are still worth more a lot more then when you bought them, even in 97. If you want to see a truly non-performing stock try QANTAS ASX:QAN. In the last 3 years it went from almost A$6 to A$1.70.

BTW, the big thing this coordinated event shows is the internet can either be used to promote liberation or to crack down on dissent in a big way, as I comment on here:
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/2846ca1b6bee64e1
"As I see it, there is a race going on. The race is between two trends. On the one hand, the internet can be used to profile and round up dissenters to the scarcity-based economic status quo (thus legitimate worries about privacy and something like TIA). On the other hand, the internet can be used to change the status quo in various ways (better designs, better science, stronger social networks advocating for things like a basic income, all supported by better structured arguments like with the Genoa II approach) to the point where there is abundance for all and rounding up dissenters to mainstream economics is a non-issue because material abundance is everywhere. So, as Bucky Fuller said, whether is will be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race to the very end. While I can't guarantee success at the second option of using the internet for abundance for all, I can guarantee that if we do nothing, the first option of using the internet to round up dissenters (or really, anybody who is different, like was done using IBM computers in WWII Germany) will probably prevail. So, I feel the global public really needs access to these sorts of sensemaking tools in an open source way, and the way to use them is not so much to "fight back" as to "transform and/or transcend the system". As Bucky Fuller said, you never change thing by fighting the old paradigm directly; you change things by inventing a new way that makes the old paradigm obsolete."

Citation Needed

Let me Google this for you. This is from the very first returned result:

Maximum stay is two weeks per Maryland Park Service camping policy.

There are about 3 million more results, and it appears that this requirement is not unique.

As a Perl guy, Python(x,y) has a complete scientific computing package. While Perl and Ruby can do these things, Python(x,y) does it in a slick way.

It is a Windows only package as far as I can tell.

Perl, Python and Ruby can deal with Excel and R but Python(x,y) provides a nice interface for everything.

As a Perl guy, Python(x,y) has a complete scientific computing package. While Perl and Ruby can do these things, Python(x,y) does it in a slick way.

It is a Windows only package as far as I can tell.

Perl, Python and Ruby can deal with Excel and R but Python(x,y) provides a nice interface for everything.

As a Perl guy, Python(x,y) has a complete scientific computing package. While Perl and Ruby can do these things, Python(x,y) does it in a slick way.

It is a Windows only package as far as I can tell.

Perl, Python and Ruby can deal with Excel and R but Python(x,y) provides a nice interface for everything.

I second the suggestion of R. I have only dabbled with it, but it is quite powerful and has a great community. You might also want to consider something a little more general purpose though. Python with the NumPy and SciPy packages can handle just about any statistical problem you want to consider and it has the versatility to do a whole lot more, such as handle any intermediate steps. It is completely free and you can download an excellent complete package at http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/wiki/Welcome

http://www.google.com/search?q=define+huh%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I think the use of a ? pretty clearly moves it from mere interjection to inquiry / expression of confusion. If he had titled his post Huh. instead of Huh? I'd agree with you.

Really? It seems to be pretty standard.

Or are you one of the people who insists on using the term "magazine" nonstop instead? Because in normal speak (unless you're in the presence of gun nuts who have a chip on their shoulder), the term "clip" is common parlance for "detachable magazine."

Of course, computer nerds often get upset when someone who doesn't know any better (and really, if you've never taken one apart, why would you know the difference?) refers to their PC's tower case as "the hard drive", so maybe you're just like one of the two types - gun nerds or computer nerds - being overly precise.

I also had a teacher who got onto me about referring to a windows folder as a "directory". He said "you don't go to Mexico and ask for water. Yes, it's the same thing, but they call it something different".

OK, this is a horribly shameless self-plug, but hey, it's directly relevant. I started two projects aimed at tracking reference statistics: Libstats, which is PHP-based and open-source. I'm also one of the founders of Gimlet, which is hosted and closed-source, but provides a similar workfow.

If you're looking to spend some time delving in code, Libstats is looking for maintainers -- I'm no longer working in libraries, so it's largely orphaned.

Anyone with decent recommendations, aside from R's own website, where to do a quickstart when you're a SAS geek?

This blog explains some of the stuff you do in R and as he does it, he compares it to SAS.

Example:

Unlike SAS, which has DATA and PROC steps, R has data structures (vectors, matrices, arrays, dataframes) that you can operate on through functions that perform statistical analyses and create graphs. In this way, R is similar to PROC IML.

And here's an entire book on the topic (although may be difficult to find)!

Really? It seems to be pretty standard.

Or are you one of the people who insists on using the term "magazine" nonstop instead? Because in normal speak (unless you're in the presence of gun nuts who have a chip on their shoulder), the term "clip" is common parlance for "detachable magazine."

Of course, computer nerds often get upset when someone who doesn't know any better (and really, if you've never taken one apart, why would you know the difference?) refers to their PC's tower case as "the hard drive", so maybe you're just like one of the two types - gun nerds or computer nerds - being overly precise.

Most stocks are not down over the last decade. For Nov 2001 - Nov 2011 Microsoft is down 19% while the Dow is up 28%: (chart). Even if you cherry pick a start date in January 2003 at the bottom of Microsoft's drop in the dot-com bust, MSFT is only up 7% while the Dow is up 40%.

You asked for a citation of "The majority are still using Windows XP.

Admittedly, the linked article is 8 months old, but here's your citation.

Interestingly enough, the google query I used to find that returned a ton of links on how to get "XP Mode" running in Windows 7. I would dare to say that usage of Windows XP might be even more prevalent than the statistics suggest.

they even copied the power brick

I'm sorry, are you saying that the shape of an AC-to-DC adaptor is patentable? Seriously? It's a block on a cord. Ok, let's do a Google search for your Apple power brick... huh, looks like the majority of responses seem to be about a class-action lawsuit against Apple for selling a power brick that sparks and catches fire. Hmm. Aha! Here we are - Apple sued Media Solutions Holdings for duplicating the look of their power brick - but Media Solutions Holdings isn't Samsung, and that lawsuit was in 2009. Sorry, I'm not understanding where your fanboi-ish complaint about a power brick is coming from.

As for the claims of trademark infringement... Are you complaining about the size and shape of a smartphone? Literally every smartphone on the market can be described generically as "a brick about 1 cm thick, 7 cm wide, and around 12 cm long". Similarly, nearly all of them are either black, white, or silver. Most of the decent ones that don't break after 6 months of normal use have no moving parts, so they can all be described as having a screen and practically nothing else as the front face, as well.

Or did you want to complain about a generic set of icons?

One of the icons pictured as "infringing" is a picture of a white-ish telephone handset, on a green field. You know, like every cellphone in the world has on its face, to indicate the button to push to get the dialer? Yeah, that sounds like a big trademark infringement there. Better sue Nokia, Motorola, HTC, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile while you're at it - they all use green pictures of telephone handsets to indicate which button to push to make a voice call, too. Come to think of it, so does Microsoft.

Another icon is a speech balloon, indicating (surprise) texting and/or chat. Again, this is on damn near every text-capable phone in the world.

The third icon in that series is a picture of a... what is that, a sunflower? So now a picture of a flower is an infringement? It's not the same flower, it's not the same picture angle, it's not the same amount of flower shown, and one of them has boxes superimposed over it. What, exactly, is infringing here? More to the point, what part of "picture of sunflower" is supposed to make me think "Apple iPhone"?

Moving right along to the fourth pair of pictures showing the "similarities" of these two devices, we have a settings icon. A representation of a gear, or gears. Show me an OS that doesn't use a gear like that. No, really. Win95 uses a gear picture very similar to that for MS-DOS applications. Quick, call Microsoft so they can get a piece of this sideshow!

The notepads pictured in the next pair of icons are similar, yes... but how many different icons can you think of that might indicate some sort of note-jotting application? The only other thing I can think of is a Post-It, and those are trademarked, too.

A bust of a person, in silhouette, to indicate a contact list. MySpace and FaceBook should be able to cut ahead in line for that one, and maybe they can sue Apple too, just for fun.

Gasp! The HORROR! They stole the idea of an using image of a compact disc with a musical note superimposed to indicate a music player application! ... or maybe they just figured that it made sense, since a CD is the only way to purchase a physical copy of music any more.

Let's move on to the patent infringement, shall we?

"Patent #7,863,533 is an old-school hardware patent. Titled 'Cantilevered push button having multiple contacts and fulcrums', it covers the volume rocker on the iPhone 3G and 3GS" ... and every other device for the past 10 years that has an audio output.

Ok, I'm done with this, it's starting to feel like I'm shooting children's candy in a barrel, or something.

Try google's stock screener: https://www.google.com/finance#stockscreener

Look at this chart showing how IBM, a blue-chip stock, is able to return value to its shareholders while MSFT cannot.

No, you're a vacuous idiot. I didn't understand whatever point you were trying to make because you didn't write anything. You just wrote some bullets about revenues and profits. What is the point? English isn't your first language, is it?

Now, of course the problem is with MSFT. The stock price is not going up because shareholders do not see any upside in growth. That is the fundamental problem. On the other hand, look at IBM, another megacorporation. They've reinvented themselves over the last five years, going from a hardware company to a services company. Shareholders see the upside in IBM, and their stock reflects that. See: MSFT vs IBM over last 5 years.

So if MSFT does not have growth upside, then their stock will stagnate. And since that is indeed the case, then MSFT has choices to increase shareholder value: (1) buy back shares to increase EPS, or (2) pay (more) dividends.

If you guys are *serious* about staying there and doing something then get a GOAL.

You mean like a declaration of grievances that require redress? Because they've got that...

If we've come this far in 40 years, where will we be in 40 more?

I'll be dead. At least I hope I'll be dead, I have no wish to live to be a hundred. Like my grandmother said at age 95, "I don't know why everybody wants to live to be a hundred. It ain't no fun bein' old."

But man, look at how far things have progressed. Forty years ago the pot was only 1/4th as potent (and 1/20th the price); there were no flat screen TVs, no microwave ovens, no VCRs, self-opening doors were brand new, there were no cell phones (not even pagers), no ABS or air bags in cars. The fastest computer in the world then was less powerful than an iPhone.

The difference in medical tech is really astounding. Medicine was PRIMITIVE back then -- I mean REALLY primitive. No CrystaLens implants, no soft contact lenses, no Viagra, no Naproxin, they used ether to put you under for surgery, no digital readouts of body functions.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I didn't have that I'd sorely miss if I didn't have them now that I haven't thought of. The wonders you guys will see in the next 40 years are as unimaginable as the internet was before it existed Here's a short science fiction story written in 1946 that AFAIK came closest to the internet, Murray Leinster's A Logic Named Joe. It's actually humorous seeing it from the 21st century.

I live in a sci-fi world with wonders nobody dreamed of when I was young.

I'll copy it here:

By the way, here are some key useful health related links, and these are some of the issues I'd like to use such a system to discuss, refine, rebut, or promote.

On healthy diet:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx
http://drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Revolution-Your-Diet-World/dp/1573244872
http://www.amazon.com/Diet-New-America-John-Robbins/dp/0915811812

Knife and blender skills for eating better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RhfAE6McrM
http://greensmoothierevolution.com/

On medically supervised fasting (both water and juice) and health:
http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/healthy-food-dr-fuhrman-on-fasting....
http://www.healthpromoting.com/why-water-fasting
http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/

And on getting enough vitamin D (in decreasing levels of recommended supplements):
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-to-get-your-vitamin-d...
http://www.grassrootshealth.net/recommendation
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/vitamin_D_recommendations.aspx

On vitamin D and pregnancy:
http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20100504/high-doses-of-vitamin-d-may-cut-...
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/neurological-conditions...

On autism and health care in general:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_...

Understanding about good and bad fats:
http://peakperformance.runnersworld.com/2011/05/may-9-the-great-fat-deba...
http://nutsci.org/2011/05/04/the-great-fat-debate/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21515108

Mental health:
http://books.google.com/books?id=bCuC2H-6k_8C
http://books.google.com/books?id=RKZreNYKNHQC
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-us-happy/...
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/dobbs-orchid-gene

Treadmill workstations for computer users (but be sure to get vitamin D being indoors so much):
http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/08/the-treadmill-workstation/
http://www.squidoo.com/wal

I'll copy it here:

By the way, here are some key useful health related links, and these are some of the issues I'd like to use such a system to discuss, refine, rebut, or promote.

On healthy diet:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx
http://drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Revolution-Your-Diet-World/dp/1573244872
http://www.amazon.com/Diet-New-America-John-Robbins/dp/0915811812

Knife and blender skills for eating better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RhfAE6McrM
http://greensmoothierevolution.com/

On medically supervised fasting (both water and juice) and health:
http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/healthy-food-dr-fuhrman-on-fasting....
http://www.healthpromoting.com/why-water-fasting
http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/

And on getting enough vitamin D (in decreasing levels of recommended supplements):
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-to-get-your-vitamin-d...
http://www.grassrootshealth.net/recommendation
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/vitamin_D_recommendations.aspx

On vitamin D and pregnancy:
http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20100504/high-doses-of-vitamin-d-may-cut-...
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/neurological-conditions...

On autism and health care in general:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_...

Understanding about good and bad fats:
http://peakperformance.runnersworld.com/2011/05/may-9-the-great-fat-deba...
http://nutsci.org/2011/05/04/the-great-fat-debate/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21515108

Mental health:
http://books.google.com/books?id=bCuC2H-6k_8C
http://books.google.com/books?id=RKZreNYKNHQC
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-us-happy/...
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/dobbs-orchid-gene

Treadmill workstations for computer users (but be sure to get vitamin D being indoors so much):
http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/08/the-treadmill-workstation/
http://www.squidoo.com/wal

oh, and just to shut you up further:
did you read https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-building/T4XZJCZnqF8 ? I was hoping I wouldn't have to mention it, but here goes: It's called "they are releasing honeycomb source as well".

Open source means you don't use the term as a hammer and make stupid statements. At least optimally.

"I fear that high production values and the inevitable sexualisation of the lead characters that a Hollywood treatment brings will destroy the show."

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Leela!

(Ha, you thought I was going to go with Amy Pond, didn't you? Too easy. Old school, it's how I roll.)

That is so far behind the state of the Art, right now we are able to run a combine-harvester to 2 cm accuracy; your talking about incoherent scribbles and the framers are doing inkjet quality crop-pictures.