It's an old story, but a fascinating one, nonetheless. I fully expect there to be a movie loosely based on Larson's life -- somewhat like Punch Drunk Love.
Innovation happens at big companies, so I don't question Whittaker's credibility -- he wanted to work on innovative projects with the plentiful resources of a fortune500 firm, and Google+ seemed to be funneling projects into a more narrow direction than Microsoft (according to Whittaker, at least).
Google is still funding "X projects" like autonomous vehicles and its fiber project in Kansas City, so it's not all G+ at the Googleplex....
One of our consistent themes around here is that "content is advertising, and advertising is content" -- so it shouldn't be that strange that we like how StumbleUpon provides both. However, I'm not sure where you get the idea that SU doesn't clearly disclose what is sponsored and what isn't sponsored. If you look at SU's top bar, it will say "sponsored" when SU is showing an ad: http://i.imgur.com/fapol.png
To be transparent, we have no formal agreement with StumbleUpon -- but SU users seem to like to stumble us, so we feel it's nice for us to recommend SU back to our audience to build up our traffic a little. These posts can be considered an ad depending on how you define advertising... but we're just trying to provide entertaining content and links.
It's a stupid gimmick, but you almost have to respect that the guy would actually use a real glacier -- instead of just freezing tap water and just telling people it came from a glacier.
Grumpy, it seems doubtful that an advertiser would use a *billboard* to advertise to a single individual. So while one of these fancy face recognition billboards could tell that you're standing in front of it, the ad inventory would only be able to display ads targeted at your demographic (not you personally).
It would be somewhat surprising if that were really true... marketing/advertising is a part of nearly every company's budget, but it shouldn't add up to be more than the overall budgets across all industries. It wouldn't be surprising, though, if ad companies were more profitable than the companies they work for -- which could lead to the impression that the ad business is bigger/better....
I'll just say that I never stated that the repeatable experiments are the ONLY requirements in the scientific method... and that it'd be somewhat difficult to achieve a "scientific consensus" if observations weren't able to be independently verified...
One last clarification: science doesn't prove anything. Science can only disprove.
You're totally right about how the scientific process played out. The CERN team did a superb job of handling a mysterious measurement that, if accurate, would have been a significant discovery. (Completely unlike the NASA press event on arsenic-based life...)
I've updated the post to reflect your edit. Thanks!
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Re: Longest flown/thrown...
see Guinness World Records
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/pentagon-researchers-create-spider-man-gadgetry- for-real-life-wall-crawlers/
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Grasshopper cookies just support fictional elves...
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Thanks to whoever Flattr'd this post!
Should we post more crowdfunding-related DailyDirts...?
Thanks to our anonymous benefactor!
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How big will their streaming viewership be?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0320/NCAA-March-Madness-On-Demand-sets-streaming-video-reco rd
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Re: Google vs Microsoft Corporate Culture
Google is still funding "X projects" like autonomous vehicles and its fiber project in Kansas City, so it's not all G+ at the Googleplex....
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http://i.imgur.com/fapol.png
To be transparent, we have no formal agreement with StumbleUpon -- but SU users seem to like to stumble us, so we feel it's nice for us to recommend SU back to our audience to build up our traffic a little. These posts can be considered an ad depending on how you define advertising... but we're just trying to provide entertaining content and links.
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Re: Data protection?
just my two cents on that question.
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Re: scientific method
One last clarification: science doesn't prove anything. Science can only disprove.
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[citation needed!]
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Re: Give the CERN team credit
I've updated the post to reflect your edit. Thanks!
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It would even still be cool if there were just single-celled life existing on a nomad planet....
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120069573721101481.html
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