I'd always wondered exactly how lightning "found" the tallest conductive object to strike. This slow-motion video shows how a lot of paths extend from the cloud (too quickly to be seen with the naked eye) before it settles on one path for the main strike.
- Ben Darnell
Paul - "polling doesn't scale" is definitely a generalization. But, at least in the case of FriendFeed's API, it does present opportunities for incomplete/non-contiguous data streams, which may be problematic for some API consumers. We've been discussing this on the API google group :)
- Patrick Lightbody
I'd rather pay directly for the media I consume instead of paying indirectly through advertising (which costs attention now and money later as a sort of tax whenever I buy an advertised product). Overcoming the difference between free and non-free is difficult, though (on both technical and psychological levels).
- Ben Darnell
The foldable displays video is really neat, even if it is totally impractical as demonstrated with the fixed projector. I wonder if it would be feasible to make a wearable projector for something like this?
- Ben Darnell