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If you feel strongly about it you can always use: http://www.blackle.com/
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/01/12/business/124746651...
As for the information contained in Expelled. It was hard to interpret because it was filled with so much opinion. Nothing was hard fact enough for me to consider that the professors were fired for an invalid reason.
I haven't tried Chrome yet, but if you are looking for stability I would trust it over Chromium.
Another idea I have is to require a reason for the downvote. Reasons could include: disagreement, uncivil, or offtopic. The score could be affected according to the reason. This could make downvoting more thoughtful and scores could be impacted less for disagreement.
Last idea: Instead of hiding all scores. Only hide the score for items with a score less than or equal to 1. These scores have less relevance and I think people will be less critical of comments if they don't see a negative score attached.
There are other hypothesizes besides Nemesis to explain the supposed periodicity of impacts. Essentially, we need something to cause a gravitational change to the Oort cloud. Other possibilities include Brown dwarfs and black holes or precession in the rotation of the milky way.
Better article that is more critical of Chatterjee's theory: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091018-dinosaur-crater...
More photos: http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/afar/websitepages/photogallery1.h...
I found some information on the spreading rates. Seems the plates are spreading at rates of 15 mm/yr in the north and 6 mm/yr in the south.
Here are some other references: http://www.ees.rochester.edu/ebinger/Site/Publications_files... http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/afar/index.htm
Typically, spreading rates are measured in millimeters a year. I don't know what the spreading rate is for this rift.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18114-giant-crack-in-a...
Food: I eat mostly vegetables, rarely red meat. Typical meals are: Breakfast (2 egg scramble with pepperjack and salsa; with some juice), Lunch (sliced turkey, pepperjack and a tomato on whole grain bread, with some fruit), Dinner (usually some sort of vegetable stir fry, pasta vegetable combination, or rice and beans with vegetables). Between meals I either eat some fruit or some cereal or granola with soy milk or yogurt. Throughout the day I drink lots of water and usually some juice.
Caffeine: I am in love with tea my default being loose leaf jasmine green. Coffee is a rarity. Red bull is never an option.
Techcrunch has discussed this with Twitter. They have also decided not to release private information. From this I can say that they are being fair about this.
This does suck for Twitter. Though, it does bring to light the potential dangers of using a web service to host your confidential documents.
"the original security hole seems to be Google, via Google Apps for your Domain. Some passwords were guessed and things started to fall apart from there. Most (or all) of these documents were downloaded from Google’s servers."
Great idea and great implementation. I have seen so much LaTeX frustration. This will definitely ease a lot of pain.
Some suggestions:
1. Improve the interface and make it clear how to use the app. The language isn't clear to me, such as the difference between a 'tracker' and an 'area'.
2. Make it so I can enter a days worth of data very easily. One single form for all my trackers.
3. Make it so I can compete/compare myself with other users. Maybe just friends that I select or maybe any other users. You could add user ranking charts, graphs, etc.
I am connected to a co-housing community in my city. There is a street of houses with their backs joined. They removed the fences separating their backyards; creating an enormous community space with communal gardens, common areas, and a common house for parties, gatherings and community dinners. It is very easy to knock on their door and stop in. It is also very easy to meet everyone in the community because of the interconnectedness. Everyone in the community chooses to be part of the community and are therefore glad to help out, chat, or hangout.
Essentially, the advantages are that you don't have to make as much of an effort to meet your neighbors. You are already interconnected and the infrastructure is there to support everyones needs. There are also aspects of sustainability that add to the benefits.
Also, I think you should be marketing the search functionality and not the button. Make it easy to find a politician's information and then make it easy to contact them and you will find more people will use your button.
Though, maybe you can do some neat things with this idea.
First thing that is apparent to me is that there is too much noise. This needs to be reduced in order for me to read this feed. Maybe an up vote system (HN, reddit, etc) to stress important tweets. You could also stress the important tweets with some other metric (number of replies, number of followers, etc).
Second thing that is apparent is that I don't know who half of these cyclists are. I need to know why I am reading x person's tweets. You could expand the bio pages to include more information on the each cyclist (full name, team, rankings, wikipedia link, etc). Also, I want a list of the cyclists that are being tracked.