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Create custom players in Youtube (Howto Talk Post)

Crake says...

go into your profile, go to the playlist, and there's a "edit settings for playlist" or something similar (mine is in danish), a minimized options tab. in there is a text bar with the embed code for the playlist.

Welcome to Lagos - BBC Documentary (Part 2)

Announcing live streaming of Water channel (Water Talk Post)

EDD (Member Profile)

What new channel would you like to see? (User Poll by Throbbin)

Steve Irwin Was A Clumsy Fucker!

Werner Herzog Loves the Amazon Jungle.

Floating Inner-tube Prevents the Next Katrina

Crake says...

^so if we never get more knowledge, tens of thousands of people will die, again and again, forever. But at least you'll have the warm glow of untouched, mystical, unknowable nature. Good for you.

Floating Inner-tube Prevents the Next Katrina

Floating Inner-tube Prevents the Next Katrina

Crake says...

>> ^Hybrid:

Sure it's a great way to prevent hurricanes. But let's not forget hurricanes are natural and I'm not sure it's a good idea to mess with oceans on such a large scale like this. These temperature changes in the ocean have wider implications than just occasionally creating hurricanes.


sure, it's large scale geo-engineering, but it can only lead to greater knowledge of how such systems work, and maybe greater control of them. presumably the hundreds of salter sinks will have temperature monitors as well, and could be used to actually test hypotheses, instead of just waiting for events.

Floating Inner-tube Prevents the Next Katrina

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The Problem is that Communism Lost (Blog Entry by dag)

Crake says...

^i can tell you that what we're told in Denmark about the success of our own system, it's credited to the "flexicurity" model, where jobs are "flexible", i.e. you can fire people at short notice without much trouble, but getting fired is safe because there's a security net of welfare during your transition to a new workplace (hopefully).

safe for the employer because hiring people doesn't put you at risk of being stuck for years with an incompetent idiot on your payroll, and safe for the employee because you don't lose (all of) your income if you get fired.

8 mo old deaf baby's reaction to cochlear implant

Crake says...

>> ^rgroom1:

It's still kind of sad. A cochlear implant still sounds like satan speaking to you. They can only pick certain spots on the cochlea to stimulate, so the implant only allows you to hear certain frequencies. Better than nothing, but far from normal hearing. Either way, HOORAY SCIENCE!


it can be helped a lot by upgrading the firmware to have "virtual" stimulation points.

nice article about it in Wired a while back.

The Problem is that Communism Lost (Blog Entry by dag)

Crake says...

Seems to me that you view things as a bit too interchangeable - nation states annoy you? let's assume a citizenry tied to some arbitrary other thing, like ideology, instead of geographical place.

Corporatism annoys you? let's assume that communism could just have kept going, and was structurally sustainable in the long run.

details, details.



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