Anthony Citrano

“The best part? He irrevocably changed culture and technology, indeed the world, without knowing anything about computers. He wrote Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes portable typewriter.” - Anthony Citrano

#weak - Anthony Citrano

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#FirstWorldPerks - Alex Scrivener

front row @gypsy05. is that even first world, alex? ;) - Anthony Citrano

It does look kind of rural http://www.gypsy05.com/HoverSl... - Alex Scrivener

good show though - Anthony Citrano

"The Cascadia Subduction Zone ... is the only offshore earthquake zone [on the West Coast] capable of producing megathrust events, i.e., very large 'top 10' type earthquakes,’ said Synolakis, adding that Seattle is in far more danger than any spot south of the California-Oregon line for that kind of quake plus tsunami.” - Anthony Citrano

"... "The impact to Seattle could be devastating," he said...." - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

And there was an article on the SJ Mercury news site yesterday saying that a significant event on the Alaska-Aleutian fault could produce a tsunami that can potentially take out the Port of Oakland AND much of Alameda (where I live). - vicster.

"If you have a quake of, let's say, 6.2 or larger, every sand grain on the planet is moving to the music of that event." - Anthony Citrano

"The USGS has updated the magnitude of the March 11, 2011, Tohoku earthquake in northern Honshu, Japan, to 9.0 from the previous estimate of 8.9. Independently, Japanese seismologists have also updated their estimate of the earthquake’s magnitude to 9.0. This magnitude places the earthquake as the fourth largest in the world since 1900 and the largest in Japan since modern instrumental recordings began 130 years ago." - Anthony Citrano

“..authorities seized marijuana plants, computers and cell phones .. bank accounts were frozen .. [yet] no criminal charges have been filed.” - Anthony Citrano

The best part about this non-article is a look at what passes for "crooked teeth" in Hollywood. I mean.. she's right, she's almost impossible to look at. - Anthony Citrano

Those are crooked teeth? LOL - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Maybe she means the bottom row? - Kisha

“An orthodox Jewish prayer observance by three passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines flight alarmed flight attendants unfamiliar with the ritual, prompting them to lock down the cockpit and issue a security alert..” - Anthony Citrano

"California is closely watching the crisis at a Japanese nuclear plant, but officials downplayed the threat that a radioactive cloud blown across the Pacific could pose for the US West Coast." - Anthony Citrano

@Cristo: I am not terribly worried about either, but I admit I think of that a lot more than radiation. - Anthony Citrano

“I have one purpose in writing this piece today: to unashamedly ask each of you to help the Clouse family rebuild their home and their lives in the face of pain and loss that most of us cannot fathom.” - Anthony Citrano

I probably wouldn't have noticed this story if you hadn't shared it, Anthony. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

The original post is here: http://bit.ly/ereWyj along with Westboro Church's plan to protest today's memorial (http://bit.ly/fy9PAq). At the moment, I am working on an article about how to help. It should go live later today. Meantime, PayPal donations to the family may be sent to: [email protected]. Please do. - Anthony Citrano

Here's the new article: http://bit.ly/fbMh5E - Anthony Citrano

"The exercise of power in today’s challenging times and relentless media environment must be prudent and consistent with our laws and values." - Anthony Citrano

“Theoretical models of the Sun's development suggest that 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago, during the Archean period, the Sun was only about 70% as bright as it is today. Such a weak star would not have been able to sustain liquid water on the Earth's surface, and thus life should not have been able to develop. However, the geological record demonstrates that the Earth has remained at a fairly constant temperature throughout its history, and that the young Earth was somewhat warmer than it is today.” - Anthony Citrano

Imagine what a comma could do: faint, young sun! - Anthony Citrano

"The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities." - Anthony Citrano

dew drop inn, ya hear? - Anthony Citrano

No. - Akiva

Some prologue: as some of you know, I had a family tragedy strike very close to home this week. I asked no one to pray. Several people did suggest the affected seek comfort in Jesus/God. I find it offensive. To me, it too obviously raises the question of where the fuck this awesome Jesus/God was five minutes before it happened. And most rational people know the answer: nowhere. I announced that tragedy with sentiments similar to what Jeff and Sean have expressed here: fate is indifferent; be grateful. - Anthony Citrano

"Westboro Baptist Church, the controversial group that just won a free speech Supreme Court case related to picketing soldiers' funerals, says it is planning to protest at the funeral for seven Perry County children who died in a fire Tuesday night." - Anthony Citrano

Andrew: They are...regularly. And, because many of the flock are attorneys, they are quite skilled and adept at what they do. (I'm Denise, by the way, lol...Rene's away from his computer - I need to update my name again...) - Prosey BUTTONS!

“NASA's prolific Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter turns five Earth years old today. Since settling into orbit around the red planet on March 10, 2006, MRO has transmitted more data to Earth -- 131 trillion bits and more than 70,000 images so far -- than all other interplanetary missions combined.” - Anthony Citrano

“This column by Venkatachalam Shunmugam, Chief Economist, Multi Commodity Exchange of India, and first published on VoxE.org argues that the rising opacity and barriers to entry in these markets have been sorely overlooked leading to dark pools, flash trading, and front-running. These unfair practices can–at any time–cripple markets. They undermine the premise of free markets and should be stopped.” - Anthony Citrano

“A swath of the Deep South and Appalachia has emerged as the U.S. ‘diabetes belt,’ researchers find. County-by-county mapping shows that the highest rates of diabetes cut two paths -- one strung through Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia, and another running eastward from Louisiana through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.” - Anthony Citrano

"To be soaked in materialism, to directly and indirectly champion it, has also brought guilt. I don’t know if I have a right to the vast quantities of materials and energy I consume in my daily life. Even if I thought I did, I know the planet cannot bear my lifestyle multiplied by 7 billion individuals. I believe this understanding is shared, if only subconsciously, by almost everyone in the Western world." - Anthony Citrano

“..in fact, the suicide rate at Foxconn remains below national averages for both rural and urban China, a bleak but unassailable fact that does much to exonerate the conditions at Foxconn and absolutely nothing to bring those 17 people back. But the work itself isn’t inhumane—unless you consider a repetitive, exhausting, and alienating workplace over which you have no influence or authority to be inhumane. And that would pretty much describe every single manufacturing or burger-flipping job ever.” - Anthony Citrano

"This might just be the most beautiful piece of collaboration between nature and industrial agriculture that I have ever seen." [h/t: http://www.facebook.com/chrisdo...] - Anthony Citrano

“A fire at a farmhouse in Pennsylvania killed seven children while their mother was in a barn milking cows and their dad was taking a nap in a delivery truck, state police said Wednesday. Six girls, aged 11, 9, 6, 4, 2 and 7 months, and a 7-year-old boy died. One child, aged three, survived.” [update: PLEASE contribute to the family recovery fund here: http://bit.ly/fbMh5E] - Anthony Citrano

It really is, AJ. Even though I'm a degree removed, it is still impossible to wrap my head around. - Anthony Citrano

“There's probably less debate about why humans reap benefits from having larger brains.” - Anthony Citrano

“‘It was an unrecognizable mass of flesh,’ [the paramedic] said. ‘It wasn't a clean cut. You couldn't even recognize it as a foot....If I had thought it was somehow reattachable and usable, I would have gone to my commander.’” - Anthony Citrano