http://megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 2009-11-23T11:00:00.000-08:00 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_1 924bb0c98f9cdeed2f33b2257ca4c0d4 A few weeks ago we launched Google Maps Navigation (Beta) as a free feature of Google Maps on Android 2.0 devices. Today we're expanding availability of Google Maps Navigation to devices running Android 1.6 (Donut) and higher, such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1. Google Maps Navigation is an internet-connected GPS system with voice ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:03:25 GMT http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_2 6e5bab31363893e5f91ae5618b704e4d Terry Teachout’s biography restores Louis Armstrong to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists. (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:43:26 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_3 49308a90ac971844439e6392c818e7d5 <a href="http://www.explosm.net/comics/1868/"><img src="http://www.flashasylum.com/db/files/Comics/Dave/comicsittinghere1.png" border=0></a><br />Cyanide & Happiness @ <a href="http://www.explosm.net">Explosm.net</a> (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:42:29 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_4 382c6ed51beb5c42360d5b1937f5dfd9 Please include a valid contact email with the check, and please allow 3 weeks* for account activation! (I can’t get out to my PO Box every day and personal checks take time to clear.) *IMPORTANT: Once you’ve paid, (and waited the three weeks if paying by check or money order) if you can’t access Defenders content or log in for ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:41:42 +0000 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:02:34 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_6 6c81e74082fc4a1a3d70ecd4514c4ab8 In medical news which won't be surprising to anyone, Ethnic Variation in Fat and Lean Body Mass and the Association with Insulin Resistance : Objective: Our objective was to compare total body fat to lean mass ratio (F:LM) in Aboriginal, Chinese, European, and South Asian individuals with differences in insulin resistance. ... Results: After ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:13:10 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_7 107980171e9b54d73e1f2dec70ea96b2 The USA still leads the world int he number of scientific papers published per year. Germany and Japan were essentially tied for second, for years. According to a recent report by Thomspon-Reuters ISI, there is a new player at the table: The report is available at Thomson Reuters , free registration required. Note that this says nothing about ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:59 MST http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_8 b3c567032a543587f85b9ac99886a655 Okay, so just recently in a interview with Natalie Portman, it was said that Kat Dennings will be in Marvel's Thor. Well I have a little theory on who she could possibly play. Do you guys remember this casting call from SpoilerTv a while back. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T09:32:00.000-08:00 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_9 25a7223e9fc9c67d56c12e640002073e Can you spot the difference between these two sample display ads? Of course you can. However, the most important difference is not discernible to the naked eye. The lower ad was customized and chosen from thousands of different creative elements, automatically and in real-time, by machine-learning algorithms developed by Teracent , a San Mateo, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:50:34 -0800 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_10 a84b271d02bdf66bcd5810a17449fd0e Visitor's Time : Nov 24 2009 7:30:10 am Visit Number : 500,000 Location Continent : Europe Country : Spain State/Region : Madrid City : Madrid Hello Spain! and visit number 500K. Who would have imagined. ...? Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:40:32 -0800 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_11 0b4de86bea0cb435e0b4e4e60b6f9e8c Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:20:48 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_12 9534e2f45e81c7d70422f9ae6c1500d2 Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-24T01:19:00-05:00 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_13 521090e0ad17abd87c0496f1a726644f By Sarah Ladies, is your husband tired of doing housework? Does he find cleaning the gutters/laundering his own shorts/picking up after himself to be unnecessary chores that he'd rather YOU do? Hey! He could be a candidate for public office.... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:58:32 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_14 7a7a75a666b5a7caf7470a2706fc96af like a bomb! (an INTERNET bomb!) You have only ONE MORE WEEK to submit to Open Lab! Submit yourself, submit your friends. Submit another stupid YouTube video and verily, you shall die. :) We've already got over 500 posts, and they're looking great! And yours could be one! So submit your best stuff, your friend's best stuff, and the best science ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:51:17 -0800 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_15 ed15e7ce9d306ecfd359ef6e68c5a0c7 Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:45:21 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_16 ce8e63d2dd14fcb21c2c7f7363464804 Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:39:02 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_17 611c76a2b45c3e55fe65531e9f5648de Uh-oh. This episode of Mr Deity will fire up some denunciations. Take a deep breath, and remember, he's satirizing religious attitudes. Listen through to the end, though — he has an excellent suggestion. This weekend is Thanksgiving, and instead of sitting through another football game, put a Mr Deity episode on, and get the whole extended ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:16:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_18 2c369b5da88c471bf7a846f71ea08753 On Nov. 24, 1859, a book that changed the world first appeared in print. On the Origin of Species proposed a radical new theory about how all life on Earth evolved. In many respects, the book sparks greater controversy today than when it first appeared. (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:56 GMT http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_19 102edd404b3029fb2862754a3a053371 The book by Shlomo Sand, which mixes respected scholarship with dubious theories, spent months on the best-seller list in Israel and is now available in English. (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:07:27 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/1#item_20 0563540ae73bb79db4341324c24645bf Woot , the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot . The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now has been driven by product selections from a team of Woot employees (aside from the main Woot.com site, which is often tech/geek focused, there are ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_1 12a6ce41a2a42a325d9f8bd88e394ede Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:30 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_2 c489b5355fc17be1376b0a3b2e519bdc • Jane Wilson, about whom I have written more than once in this space and elsewhere, has a show of... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-24T05:00:11Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_3 5fec4599ec2f923448085e4f1d386929 Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_4 5e419d544dbc239502c74edc22caddf3 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:58:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_5 79c32a2b417226e8e11eb7721dd5f908 Justin's blog of the Singapore anime scene comes to a close with a look at AFA itself, the big consumer show boastin 45,000 attendees. Updated 11/23 2009-11-23 (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:57:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_6 4610ebad83a2ef5ac4c76faed4a110d0 Erica Sakurazawa launched a new manga called Koi no Kaori (The Scent of Love) in the January issue of Sobisha's Office You magazine on Saturday. The story follows the love lives of two sisters; the first installment deals with the older sister, who is living an ordinary life as an housewife, when she falls in love with a man she met. Other ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:00:15 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_7 e149175a1efd651bfb2dbc035230deaf * Damp Thanksgiving week: Full Forecast | Cruising the Atlantic * A scandal erupted in the world of climate science late last week after anonymous hackers posted years worth of selected private email correspondence between a handful of prominent climate scientists. The emails were stolen from a server at the University of East Anglia's Climate ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:57:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_8 1bec2e6c4cc86a269b787f2225900934 Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:34:56 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_9 30327b39bd2d05ae2c662a1ddc693a22 Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:34:56 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_10 2bcc9408abcc7b0b5c1a237303115762 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:12:28 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_11 7346568cce97023189415f6b7b664b92 To my current husband and the presumed father of my children. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:35:06 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_12 bfc5907ab58fad88582dd732a7701318 @EricRWeinstein is at it again in twitterland, this time on the subject of the funding of science. For an intriguing read about the glut of Ph.D.s versus science funding, he links to his (circa 1998?) article titled: "How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers." An ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:13:10 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_13 875ef596ab8d742f3398aab2650b708a Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:06 MST http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_14 2da25dfe73a5ae9010ae3f63114d7787 In a recent MTV fan vote, The Lizard topped the poll as the villain most wanted for the fourth Spidey movie. With Carnage coming second, and Mysterio third(who the hell was voting!). Anyway, in an interview with MTV, Tobey Maguire talks about these choices.. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:06 MST http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_15 a068cc08685e52e0dbf80cd3827fa3b1 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:00:23 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/21#item_16 11feb45c9357ffb1e997058ea47e4090 All of my research in undergrad was on corn. All of it. For classes, for labs, every lab-- corn. We were basically watching a gene become 'irreducibly complex' in shoot apical meristems... I mean, it was definitely cool, its just that I couldnt eat corn for years (Im over it now, but I dunno how people like Anastasia do it hehe!). But now that ... 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(Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:54 MST http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_1 95a45725f0341687c5ce9e11adba2c6b Travelling back a few years ago, when the news of the Fantastic Four sequel movie was as hot as Human Torch, Fox was whipping up a planned spin-off from the Fantastic Four new co-star - The Silver Surfer! Who better to bring the spacefaring superhero on screen other than the one who has done space operas before in Babylon 5, and a comic scribe as ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:23:01 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_2 569460dbbc39b07787f2cb7bafab89e2 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:15:53 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_3 2934362f398b6b3f913869ceeb05917b Puzzle number one: In the front section of this morning’s New York Times, Gina Kolata has a follow-up piece (yes, another one) on the mammography question. The first two-thirds of the 1,400-word story detail how the panel that made the recommendations enlisted Dr. Heidi D. Nelson of the Oregon Health and Sciences University to review [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:16:52 GMT http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_4 e4bcefb755c61e1548a362090f414c4e All sorts of practically new mangas! http://emokoi.livejournal.com/1911.html#cutid1 (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:39:21 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_5 3523bdbf6d546861cb9702f65b760946 We do not publish all comments, and we do not publish comments immediately. The comments feature is a forum to discuss the ideas in our stories. Constructive debate - even pointed disagreement - is welcome, but personal attacks on other commenters are not, and will not be published. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:39:21 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_6 cb6133523002daf31db9addae8d5cc36 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:31:29 GMT http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_7 c8ca0547a075ee29979e6a26537883ab IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!! LOOKING FOR ANIME OR MANGA ITEMS FOR CHRISTMAS? I PROBABLY HAVE SOMETHING YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN! TAKE A LOOK AT THE SAMPLES BELOW, AND IF THAT MAKES YOU INTERESTED, PLEASE COME OVER TO MY JOURNAL! FOR DETAILS ON ANY OF THE ITEMS PLEASE CHECK OUT MY JOURNAL tsuzukbookshelf FOR DETAILS ON ANY OF THE ITEMS PLEASE ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:25:02 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_8 bb2a2034ca05bbdbe6f312fe57dc05c8 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:53:12 -0800 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_9 7b6ad44182b219acd3a91f190229fb44 David Rovics sings his song remembering the hundreds of Irish recruits in the US invasion of Mexico in 1846 that turned on their commanders and fought on the side of Mexico. While this event is little known in American history, what is even less known is that some of the soldiers in John O'Reilly's battalion were former slaves who escaped from ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:48:45 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_10 1df426459b26a8cdac43af4efad7f870 Steve Benen tells us about the long list of compromises by progressives and liberals to get us to where we are on healthcare: Keep in mind, when progressive Dems argue that they've already compromised, they have a very compelling case to make. They started with a desire for Medicare for all. That was negotiated down to a national public option. ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:34:15 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_11 598ce356ca74e2cb2c5c4797434c12ed It's that time of year again - the time when I begin to contemplate swimsuits, and curse under my breath. You see, the last several years, Mr. Z and I have sworn off birthday, anniversary, and Christmas gifts for each other in lieu of saving our cash for a week-long escape to a sunny, sandy locale sometime in December. It's the perfect time to go. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:28:30 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_12 e7bb6272066ad6909b950f8185275b4d Via Vaughan Bell , comes this wonderful essay by Tom Stafford on confabulation and creativity: In those patients with frontal damage who do confabulate, however, the brain injury makes them rely on their internal memories--their thoughts and wishes--rather than true memories. This is of course dysfunctional, but it is also creative in some of ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:26:26 GMT http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_13 61aea6621c07f817f664e481c9e278c2 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:25:02 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_14 79c98ab5d19ad139886f52f52922f39b Though Days is out of print, several subsequent collections are available. E.g., the Barthelmesque omnibus Tell Me: 30 Stories. Dan also mentions that Robison has recently gotten into the post-Katrina genre with One D.O.A., One on the Way: Why Did I Ever seems to me the more successful use of the fragmented form to to portray its protagonist's ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T20:36:09Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_15 c3f245aee333d0ec9633d68bd1bf0842 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T09:55:00.000-08:00 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_16 473b5cd5ceee465fd70d518ae54a62c3 Since we launched printable coupons on Google Maps a few years ago, people are increasingly using their mobile phones to find local information when they're away from a computer. With more of you going mobile to search for this information, it makes sense for coupons to go mobile too. So just in time for the holidays, we've made it easier to ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T21:51:53+01:00 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_17 8d852dacf0f75743990b6d58496c8904 tags : high key window kid candid (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:37:44 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_18 efd4a5314a1e1a95bdcb6a118f21fe32 The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. -Vladimir Nabokov Last Friday, I posed a question to you, and you kindly responded by voting as to whether, when you crossed the event horizon of a black hole, the lights would stay on or go off . The ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T20:36:09Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_19 07476b8e75e39499e41f46750114da33 So if you saw New Moon this weekend, what did you think? (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T20:36:09Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/41#item_20 8f7a940683aa39a3c54461b6891f5ae5 Go ahead and take that second helping of bacon-broasted mashed potatoes and high-fat gravy this Thursday, friends, because even if your tummy gets big and round like a steamed black bean bun, there’s an app for that. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T20:36:09Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_1 a57eb88d01401312cae6d0d0bae6ffeb Remember that hubbub a few weeks back about Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy advertising Windows 7? But the show was apparently deemed to raunchy so Microsoft replaced Family Guy with Warner Bros. Well, did you catch last night’s episode? There was a Family Guy segment that certainly looked like an advertisement and was then followed ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T20:36:09Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_2 69272b037994341ceb483be0d9db43bb "Yokaiden (Del Rey) has a lot of things working in its favor, but the one that really sells it for me is its wry authorial voice. The peppering of sly, smart humor elevates what might otherwise be a fairly generic folklore tour." (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T20:36:09Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_3 a37e5480b2fce4cdfdeaba0e9ab25fff Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T20:36:09Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_4 8e776ef859087963044fce8d42182250 Last week it was revealed that 54 oil tankers are anchored off the coast of Britain, refusing to unload their fuel until prices have risen. But that is not the only scandal in the shipping world. Today award-winning science writer Fred Pearce – environmental consultant to New Scientist and author of Confessions Of An Eco Sinner – ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:28:01 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_5 82c3a91dd6b97a2134086521fad12342 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:27:32 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_6 7f06d68625f8467859ced079ab06c644 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:27:32 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_7 79a01148028df45d88a4cad28db596d9 Over the Summer I was asked to contribute to a symposium on Gabriel Josipovici's novel Everything Passes and its relation to contemporary English-language literary fiction (a relation of distance). For various reasons the symposium never happened, so I'm posting my short essay below. It should be read with this context in mind. For another view, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:12:26 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_8 f3ecd9f0f706a80ec84118c59d40513b I am grateful to occasional reader and commenter Klem for putting me on the track of an older story. Klem was trying to argue that the authorities in Canada have long been issuing warning about non-MDMA content of "Ecstasy" and about the methamphetamine in particular. This is not news to me , of course. I am not unaware of the problem of non- ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:12:26 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_9 f28ad582563d2e5dc465bda0e4fb6923 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:12:26 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_10 764c05c176b638b54fa56e7c0b6cff30 Imagine Science Film Festival’s Nature Scientific Merit Award went to Magnetic Movie, a 4-minute, 47-second short by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor Films. Theirs was one of 50 films representing 9 countries and selected from over 250 submissions. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T13:53:00.003-05:00 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_11 4240b2d42d58c297495331dffdbf990c Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:52:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_12 2c5bdf80ff9d3d03a556e9177e2d2b7f Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:45:59 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_13 2d0c17670568631ad2f5431bc0e5173e I’d happily set aside further discussion of cancer screening, if I could. But the story won’t die. In recent days, experts have suggested that doctors should do fewer pap smears and mammograms. I’ve posted on coverage of the pap-smear story and mammography. Laura Newman now calls my attention to an item she posted on her Urology ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:13 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_14 a77c2e5937504cf61f93061529d56f02 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:15:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_15 2125752c6b124b32a9dee0cd24e666fc Book reviewer Alan Cheuse selects the highlights of this holiday season: futuristic dystopias; things that go bump in the night; portraits from Norman Rockwell's America; gay New York; a celebration of our immigrant adventures; one writer's journey to manhood; and, of course, Long John Silver. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T18:14:09Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_16 cbbe3622c9a305df7b33c9f08c671bab Olafur's studio has started to make stuff that are something like products that people can buy. The first one, a skateboard for Mekanism , starts out as a good idea, with its ripply reflective awesomeness, but with its limited run of 90, each costing 3,000 Euros, and Mekanism not returning our inquiries into purchasing them, it's hard to believe ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:07:56 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_17 d33d3695d77585a402a55210210c1865 If you look at an incandescent light in a spectroscope, you'll see a broad and continuous range of light emitted over a large portion of the visible spectrum. This combination of colors looks white to us. At the other extreme, laser light generally consists of just a tiny slice of the frequency spectrum, and so it appears highly monochromatic. ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:07:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_18 6c331baabe787fe68cce150ddff3562e Roger Phaedo had not spoken to anyone for ten years. He confined himself to his Brooklyn apartment, obsessively translating and retranslating the same short passage from Rousseau’s “Confessions.” A decade earlier, a mobster named Charlie Dark had attacked Phaedo and his wife. Phaedo was beaten to within an inch of his life; Mary ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T18:02:39Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_19 4c8c83c2c7e7c982d914a93302b12395 Running on the Cracks by Julia Donaldson Leo just can’t stay at her aunt and uncle’s house any more.  Her parents are both dead, so she heads to Glasgow to search for her grandparents using only a few clues that her father had given her over the years.  After a few days of homelessness, Leo is rescued by Mary, a recent psychiatric patient, ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-23T18:02:39Z http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/61#item_20 b2154c9ae06032e82cd71e0ed2e71b7e Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:49:57 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_1 0c2632b0eee02ce8374d5293ac71889c Good science takes time, but good science fiction hinges on impatience. Why wait for the invention of real technological marvels when you can imagine them yourself or see them on TV? On The Quantum Pontiff, Dave Bacon ponders the formative links between fantasy and reality, spurred by an Intel talk on the possibilities of "fictional prototyping." (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:49:57 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_2 50b51b45ff94bb61fa31e0980a7ec8da Here it comes: Best Buy ran a national Black Friday ad inviting the world to celebrate Thanksgiving and Eid Al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice. Fair enough, right? Happy Eid! Well, take a gander at the ad up there and brace yourself. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:45:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_3 7ced2e60b2249e8bab571b928096d928 The latest installment of Edmund White's biography remembers gay life in 1960s and '70s New York. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:37:00 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_4 3e1bc8acc9f72266093496c36be1b8cc Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:30:00 MST http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_5 b9d760da7bc89d4e1fd1e025670933fe Camera Bits has released the latest update to its pro photo browsing and transmitting application for Mac and Windows. Version 4.6.2.1 improves support for the upcoming Canon EOS-1D Mark IV and fixes several bugs. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0800 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_6 1303c10a8cd96e0c4b67b49e3c4190d4 Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0800 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_7 b894c7d8d0f951c2d9fff379af4b3fd3 Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0800 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_8 75b8dc48a322f4a1e82daec9ca850864 AnArchitecture is an Austrian based but internationally focused blog related to architecture and architectural thinking: a resource for people in the orbit of architecture. anArchitecture aims to broaden the horizon of architectural design - pushing the boundaries what architecture can be. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:09:39 GMT http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_9 7c1d4a480f69997e5b2028341a359d33 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:06:21 GMT http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_10 dbdfd9720cbda696d06e119315d901db Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:06:32 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_11 8cb188c7638238bc52ddae5a311eabd7 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:51:38 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_12 6f45f84c5ccd8de945761de453fa122a I recently attended the TEDxVancouver event, which was wonderfully done and also useful for being able to network with a lot of interesting people. There was, however, one thing that irked me - nothing to do with the conference logistics but rather a statement or two issued by one of the speakers, Patrick Moore . Just a little background on ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:29:50 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_13 e58d8234370f3af45a18d40748c4bfcf While I'm putting up odd chemical structures today, I thought I'd add this one, Alasmontamine A, from the latest Organic Letters preprint stream. Natural products scare me: Anyone who wants to take a crack at this one synthetically, you just go right ahead without me. It is pretty much a dimer, though, so it's only about half as awful as it looks. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:27:57 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_14 5d8a42128b7a4f909c0e4b0c95662d19 There's a new humor presence on Twitter and Facebook : rejectedcards. The author says, "I'm a copywriter for a major greeting card company. I get bored and create cards I know we'll never print. These are those cards." Cards like. . . "Another Year, Same Birthday Question: (inside) Are you sure you don't want us to pull the plug?" or "So sorry ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:15:00 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_15 406465b443dfa8eb83ac59980c42f8c8 Authored by: Mark Beckford Over the last five years, the public and private sectors have introduced a number of initiatives aimed at bridging the digital divide and bringing computers to under-served markets. Intel launched the World Ahead program in 2006, a broad sweeping initiative to encompass all activities Intel was driving to bridge the ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:15:00 MST http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_16 519829007e54f2790c0cf963420e1f72 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:04:00 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_17 ceba0f6d3c82628b41279ca948b2362a as czech republic commemorates 20th anniversary of the velvet revolution, we note that - if nothing else -, the new generation of czech artists kicks ass big time :-)! click here , here and here (if you can ;-)) for some high-class guerrilla art. way to go roman! (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:12 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_18 fc02b1f19274a540ba3a91045953f3bc Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:12 +0000 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_19 b0e25c9411aeb9e64846d98051a82780 November 23, 2009 Give Thanks for great friends and colleagues as we share our favorite nonfiction titles with Nonfiction Monday here in practically paradise. Nonfiction Monday is a celebration of nonfiction children’s books. Kidlitosphere Bloggers with nonfiction posts will be featured here today as we host. Keep checking back & ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:35:28 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/81#item_20 47e99ba0188fad3da4d1727776410a44 As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference , but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what. Victoria Stodden is a Postdoctoral Associate in Law and Kauffman Fellow in Law and Innovation at Yale Law School , a ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:35:28 -0500 http://megite.com/arts/1259055098/101#item_1 628acc1010b1c569a01c7ff4322c180a Read on Source) ]]>