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Sonic hedgehog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SHH ("sonic hedgehog") gene.[1] Both the gene and the protein may also be found notated alternatively as "Shh".

Sonic hedgehog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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At least one of my friends reported that he had wireless synching of his phone disabled; Apple overrode his express preferences in order to add the album to his music collection.

Metafoundry 6: Accident Blackspot

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Georgina Voss talks about how we experience technology.

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Right now about 4% of container traffic to the US is inspected. There is a post Sept 11 fear of the Poor Man's ICBM law mandating that 100% of it will be scanned. The shipping industry has responded by serenely ignoring the law and continuing more or less as before. The US keeps extending the deadline but it's a farce. Inspections have been holding steady at about 4% for a decade.

Ello | doingitwrong

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Right now about 4% of container traffic to the US is inspected.

Ello | doingitwrong

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The markers must be developed to communicate with people whose culture may not be directly descended from our own. This possible cultural change is in addition to the changes in language that normally occur over time, even when societies are in continuous contact. Secondly, the period of regulatory concern (10,000 years) requires that the marker materials, construction techniques, and placement be able to withstand the forces of nature and the tendency of human beings to vandalize structures or to remove pieces. Thirdly, the markers must be able to convey complex information, not just about wastes hidden from view, but also about the hazards of radioactivity as a function of time.

Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

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We learn most about powr when we lose it and are left eating cereal on the front stoop.

Nancy gibbs, 2003, quoted in "from safe to livley streets", linnaea Tillet, sense of the city, ed M. zardini, 2005

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everything that casts a light sees

blanchard, g, quoted in nightfall fear in the street, wolfgang schivelbusch, in sense of the city, ed M. zardini, 2005

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They[lanterns] were attached to cables strung across the street so that they hung exactly in the middle of the steet, like small suns, representing the Sun King, on whos orders they had been put up... The lanterns showed who lit the streets and who ruled them.

nightfall fear in the street, wolfgang schivelbusch, in sense of the city, ed M. zardini, 2005

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"during the months of november, december, and january, a lantern is to be hungout under the level of the of the first floor windowsils before six o'clock every night. It is to be placed in such a prominent position that the street recives sufficient light." ... this decree aimed less to illuminate the street than to make individual houses recognisable by forcing them to display "navigation" lights, thus imposing structure and order on the city by night.

sixteenth centuary paris regulation, translation and commentery from nightfall fear in the street, wolfgang schivelbusch, in sense of the city, ed M. zardini, 2005

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(via #ThrowbackThursday: Organized Chaos in the Form of One Massive (and Surprisingly Untangled) Telephone Wire Hub - Core77)

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(via This ship is a delivery drone for the open sea | The Verge) Not only a drone ship, but a modular, 100% solid state, drone ship.

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(via Democratic invisibility: drones & war - Virgin.com) "“I pray America and Israel to be destroyed,” commented an Instagram user called @shuaayb the other day, his avatar the flag of the Islamic State. “Don't wish for us to be destroyed, wish that our leaders become less stupid,” responded @mvpallazzolla. “The majority of America doesn't support it, yet we are powerless to do anything about it.” “Sorry I meant the government,” responded the chastened Jihadi."

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The smarts are on the network, where they should be.

Berg Blog Except, you're not really talking about the network here, are you. You're talking about a specific, central place on the network that you thought was going to make you money. That central place that is legible and controllable to/by the state and the market. That's why you like devices with no processing power, devices which have not processing power, no agency of their own. Because they can turn a profit.

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We have no demography for machines- For three hundred years [demography] has gone on with people, nothing is on the books for demography of machines.

Ursula Franklin, "the real world of technology"

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Tools are a fundamental feature of human culture, but capitalism converts tools into gear.

the insurgent artist fails to escape capitalism | THE STATE

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real world on the ground.

ISIS Tweets Call for Assassination of Twitter Employees