Stuff I think is interesting, funny or informative. Also:on Flickron Twitter on LinkedinTumblr (3.0; @slowfade)http://slowfade.tumblr.com/<a href="http://www.ajc.com/business/ap-investigation-monsanto-seed-240072.html">AP INVESTIGATION: Monsanto seed biz role revealed</a>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/288127155http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/288127155Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:26:14 -0800<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/16/waterworld-planet-earth-life">Waterworld planet is more Earth-like than any discovered before</a>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/287899061http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/287899061Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:06:18 -0800<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/17/comscore-iphone-overtakes-windows-mobile-use-for-the-first-time/">ComScore: iPhone overtakes Windows Mobile use for the first time in US</a>: <p><div style="text-align:center"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/comscore-chart-october-2009.jpg"/></div> There are plenty of ways to measure smartphone marketshare. IDC measures units shipped from manufacturers whereas Gartner measures units sold to consumers. Then there’s comScore, the…</p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/287245862http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/287245862Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:48:26 -0800<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/15/toyotas-plug-in-prius-hybrids-goes-into-testing-across-the-glob/">Toyota's plug-in Prius hybrids goes into testing across the globe, on sale in 2011</a>: <p><div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/14/toyota-officially-launches-plug-in-prius-program-retail-sales-i"><img border="0" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/prius-plugin-rm-eng.jpg"/></a></div> Good news, everyone! The target date for Toyota’s <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Prius/">Prius</a> plug-in hybrid (PHEV) is slightly less out of reach than <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/13/toyotas-plug-in-hybrid-prius-gets-pictured-detailed-further/">the 2012 window</a> we heard prior: according to <em>Autoblog</em>, it’s now set…</p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/285820068http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/285820068Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:05:46 -0800<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/15/boeings-787-dreamliner-takes-flight-for-the-first-time/">Boeing's 787 Dreamliner takes flight for the first time</a>: <p><div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://787firstflight.newairplane.com/ffindex.html"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/12-15-09dreamliner.jpg" alt=""/></a></div> <span style="float:right;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:4px"></span> It’s not every day a major new aircraft takes the skies for the first time, but today’s special: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is currently taking its very first test flight over the skies of…</p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/285820058http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/285820058Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:05:45 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5qsqDl8_nQQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5qsqDl8_nQQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qsqDl8_nQQ">Adrian Belew - Life In A Nutshell</a></p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/285610158http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/285610158Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:04:15 -0800<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/business/global/15toyota.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes">Toyota to Sell Plug-In Hybrid in 2012</a>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/283939692http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/283939692Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:42:07 -0800<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/12/the-unbelievable-world-of-snowflakes.php">The Unbelievable World of Snowflakes</a>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/282488872http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/282488872Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:49:09 -0800<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/opinion/13sun2.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">Twitter Tapping - US Gov. Social Surveillance</a>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/282306690http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/282306690Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:28:45 -0800<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9CM-pvf5AsU/chicken-suited-stree.html">Chicken-suited street musician plays "What is Love" on Melodica, rocks righteously (video)</a>: <embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8121722&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="never" width="640" height="360" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><p>Here is your Friday soundtrack, people. Alex Ringis of Synthtube says, </p> <blockquote>I was in Melbourne for Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) 09, and I found this busker standing outside Flinders Street…</blockquote>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281308113http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281308113Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:23:18 -0800<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/w0-uahxG5TE/elevator-mural-casts.html">Elevator mural casts you as Adam on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling</a>: <img src="http://craphound.com/images/6381_540.jpg" align="left"/> Scanned from an unknown source, a mural near the elevator in a plastic surgeon’s office that casts the rider in the role of Adam on the Sistine Chapel. <p> <a href="http://www.nullweknow.com/2009/06/advertising-be-born-again.html"> Advertising / Be Born Again </a> (<i>via <a href="http://wtbw.net">…</a></i></p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281308116http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281308116Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:23:18 -0800<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/R2TbZLf54mc/dr-peter-watts-canad.html">Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border</a>: <p><img src="http://craphound.com/images/PW_Waterside.jpg" align="left"/><br/> My friend, the wonderful sf writer Peter Watts was beaten without provocation and arrested by US border guards on Tuesday. I heard about it early Wednesday morning in London and called Cindy…</p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281308102http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281308102Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:23:17 -0800<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/12/is-this-facebooks-mi.html">Is this Facebook's "Microsoft Moment"?</a>: <p>Danny Sullivan’s observations on Facebook’s collossal privacy/public relations flustercluck: “<a href="http://daggle.com/facebooks-microsoft-moment-1556">Is this Facebook’s Microsoft Moment?</a>” In other words, the moment people see it as having gone from…</p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281166408http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281166408Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:31:59 -0800<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-ykUxc2iHLw/is-this-facebooks-mi.html">Is this Facebook's "Microsoft Moment"?</a>: <p>Danny Sullivan’s observations on Facebook’s collossal privacy/public relations flustercluck: “<a href="http://daggle.com/facebooks-microsoft-moment-1556">Is this Facebook’s Microsoft Moment?</a>” In other words, the moment people see it as having gone from…</p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281027205http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281027205Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:39:24 -0800<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/dr-peter-watts-canad.html">Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border</a>: <p><img src="http://craphound.com/images/PW_Waterside.jpg" align="left"/><br/> My friend, the wonderful sf writer Peter Watts was beaten without provocation and arrested by US border guards on Tuesday. I heard about it early Wednesday morning in London and called Cindy…</p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281027187http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281027187Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:39:23 -0800<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/chicken-suited-stree.html">Chicken-suited street musician plays "What is Love" on Melodica, rocks righteously (video)</a>: <embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8121722&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="never" width="640" height="360" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><p>Here is your Friday soundtrack, people. Alex Ringis of Synthtube says, </p> <blockquote>I was in Melbourne for Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) 09, and I found this busker standing outside Flinders Street…</blockquote>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281027195http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281027195Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:39:23 -0800<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/elevator-mural-casts.html">Elevator mural casts you as Adam on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling</a>: <img src="http://craphound.com/images/6381_540.jpg" align="left"/> Scanned from an unknown source, a mural near the elevator in a plastic surgeon’s office that casts the rider in the role of Adam on the Sistine Chapel. <p> <a href="http://www.nullweknow.com/2009/06/advertising-be-born-again.html"> Advertising / Be Born Again </a> (<i>via <a href="http://wtbw.net">…</a></i></p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281027200http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281027200Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:39:23 -0800<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8121722&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8121722&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8121722&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281002839http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/281002839Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:18:05 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ErMWX--UJZ4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ErMWX--UJZ4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErMWX--UJZ4">I’m Yours(ukulele)</a></p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/280578067http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/280578067Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:39:42 -0800<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-the-video-unveiling/">Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo: the video unveiling</a>: <p><div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.gadling.com/2009/12/10/exclusive-video-spaceshiptwo-unveiling/"><img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/spaceshiptwo-unveiling.jpg"/></a></div> You’ve already engrossed yourself in the media reports stemming from Mojave Spaceport, but if you’ve been hunting high and low for a few good frames of the <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/virgin-galactic-reveals-spaceshiptwo-plans-commercial-space-fli/">SpaceShipTwo unveiling</a>, look…</p>http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/279408696http://slowfade.tumblr.com/post/279408696Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:30:33 -0800