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ctice··on Spielberg finally makes the grade (2002)
To pass the advanced filmmaking class exam Spielberg submitted his epic, Schindler's List.
ctice··on UBeam Declassifies Secrets to Try to Prove Wireless Power Is Possible
From uBeam's website:

"Through process of logical deduction, acoustic energy is the only type of energy that can be used for over-distance wireless power transmission. Since uBeam owns the entire ultrasonic wireless power space from an IP perspective, the world will have to leverage uBeam’s technology."

ctice··on Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year
“Assange won our poll by a great margin — but of course, Lady Gaga was No. 2. We take all that into account.”
ctice··on Facebook Overhauls Groups, A Social Solution To Create “A Pristine Graph”
You're right that yearbooks are not terribly useful on a day-to-day basis since it's static. However, I think Facebook's value comes from the organic nature of the site. You can update and craft your social graph to how you see yourself interacting with different groups of people at a given point in time. Of course your social graph will morph over time -- Facebook will hopefully make that as frictionless as possible. Facebook is a history of yearbooks.
ctice··on One Million People (from the guy who made the Million Dollar Homepage)
ah, a book of faces ... a face book, if you will
ctice··on Ask HN: Where do you live?
Menlo Park, CA
ctice··on Ask HN: Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next?
"Shucks, the transmogrifier doesn't know what PHP's count is in PHP."

hehe

ctice··on How not to log a Bugzilla Ticket (or ask for help on an open source project)
I feel much better now knowing that I wasn't the only one.