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  1. Wrong Solution on Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Instead of helping users close their eyes and ears, Twitter needs to help users kick people out of their cocktail parties.

  2. 2 565 2795 on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    To stay under a 2 degree celsius global warming increase, we can pour about 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies are already planning on releasing 2795 gigatons from their proven reserves. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

  3. 20-year's worth of underestimation on Draft of IPCC 2013 Report Already Circulating · · Score: 0

    Hopefully the new models are not just continuing a 20-year trend of underestimating the impacts of global warming. Like melting arctic ice.

  4. International Business Times... on Curiosity Transmits First 360-Degree Panorama From Mars · · Score: 1

    ...is where I go to get the latest space news. Just kidding. I go to the Bad Astronomer, who posted a color 360 panorama two days ago: http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/09/first-color-360-degree-panorama-from-curiosity/ C'mon Slashot, you can do better than this.

  5. Re:Socialism on Where To View the Mars Curiosity Landing · · Score: 1

    Here's the event link to Fraser's hangout: http://goo.gl/a5t4O

  6. In other news... on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 4, Informative

    'James Hensen has been making predictions about climate change since the 1980s. When people are comparing what is happening now to those predictions, they can see they fail to match up.'

    In other news, Hansen's 30-year-old global temperature predictions close to spot-on

  7. Re:ManyEyes by IBM on A Taxonomy of Visualization Techniques · · Score: 0

    Article types
    Data & View Specification: Visualize data by choosing visual encodings. Filter out data to focus on relevant Items. Sort Items to expose patterns. Derive values or models from source data.
    View Manipulation: Select items to highlight, filter, or manipulate them. Navigate to examine high-level patterns and low-level detail. Coordinate views for linked, multi-dimensional exploration. Organize multiple windows and workspaces.
    Process & Provenance: Record analysis histories for revisitation,, review and sharing. Annotate patterns to document findings. Share views and annotations to enable collaboration. Guide users through analysis tasks or stories.


    Many Eyes types
    See relationships among data points: Scatterplot. Matrix Chart. Network Diagram.
    Compare a set of values: Bar Chart. Block Histogram. Bubble Chart. Track rises and falls over time: Line Graph. Stack Graph. Stack Graph for Categories.
    See the parts of a whole: Pie Chart. Treemap. Treemap for Comparisons.
    Analyze a text: Word Tree. Tag Cloud. Phrase Net. Word Cloud Generator.
    See the world: Ottawa Neighbourhood Map. US County Map. World Map. Massachusetts Map. New Jersey Map.

  8. Re:ManyEyes by IBM on A Taxonomy of Visualization Techniques · · Score: 0

    Article types: Many Eyes types: See relationships among data points Scatterplot Matrix Chart Network Diagram Compare a set of values Bar Chart Block Histogram Bubble Chart Track rises and falls over time Line Graph Stack Graph Stack Graph for Categories See the parts of a whole Pie Chart Treemap Treemap for Comparisons Analyze a text Word Tree Tag Cloud Phrase Net Word Cloud Generator See the world Ottawa Neighbourhood Map US County Map World Map Massachusetts Map New Jersey Map

  9. Re:Define golden age on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 1

    The logical pattern is easier to see in this search table. The most frequent English letters are higher in the table.

  10. Re:How do I view the Wall Street Protests? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1
  11. Original Paper on Localizing Language In the Brain · · Score: 1

    The summary links to a reply of a critique of a 2009 paper. The original paper (with brain imaging goodness) can be found here.

  12. Pittsburgh! on Airline Pilots Allowed To Dodge Security Screening · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pittsburgh is one of the few American cities to be spelled with an h at the end of a burg suffix. While briefly named "Pittsburg" from 1890 to 1911 following a declaration by the United States Board on Geographic Names, the "Pittsburgh" spelling was officially restored after a public campaign by the citizens of the city.

  13. Re:Change the movie experience! on What Happens After the Super-Hero Movie Bubble? · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Return to Space? on Atlantis Lands, Ending the Shuttle Era · · Score: 1

    How many active space exploration missions are there? One or two? Over a dozen. Studying Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Vesta, and on the way to Pluto.
    Here's a map of them all.

  15. Re:Yes now it takes two clicks to log out of Gmail on Google's New Design · · Score: 1

    It also o takes an extra click to switch accounts now.

  16. Re:Reasoned Debate? on Tim Berners-Lee: Stop Foaming At the Mouth, Twitter · · Score: 1

    How about structuring comments by topic instead of by time? Some MIT folks have used argument mapping to structure debates on climate change at Climate CoLab

  17. Goatse alert on Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites? · · Score: 2

    Don't click on the blog link above unless you've got eye bleach...

  18. Re:Still carbon-based on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Couple Questions... on NASA's Stunning Close-Up Photos of Comet Hartley 2 · · Score: 1

    JPL's new Eyes on the Solar System has a 3D+time simulation of most current spacecraft including the approach of Deep Impact (EPOXI) to Hartley 2.

  20. Re:Woot for me on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 4, Interesting

    first models predicted peak oil between 1965 and 1970 http://www.hubbertpeak.com/hubbert/1956/1956.pdf

    ...in the US. And that's when it peaked.

  21. Re:It all depends on detection... on How To Deflect an Asteroid With Today's Technology · · Score: 1

    I've been looking for a way to get into cheap astrophotograpy and found some people using webcams to detect stars down to magnitude 9.6 and even magnitude 14.5. Has anyone else found links to more recent work?

  22. Re:10/10/10 is a climate day on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    From the linked site: "The goal of the day is not to solve the climate crisis one project at a time, but to send a pointed political message: if we can get to work, you can get to work too--on the legislation and the treaties that will make all our work easier in the long run."

  23. Transition Movement on German Military Braces For Peak Oil · · Score: 1, Informative

    The Transition Movement is a bottom-up approach for communities to prepare for peak oil. You can find a group near you here.

  24. No confirmation from Cassini on The Strange Case of Solar Flares and Radioactive Decay Rates · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One way to double-check the seasonal variation effect is to look at the output level on radioisotope power sources in spacecraft. Cooper (2008) found no relationship between radioactive decay and distance to the sun.

  25. Video on The REX Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    A video of REX in action.