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Not totally show and tell related but just so useful i thought i'd share. Glenn showed this to me and it looks terrific for those of us that like to travel in the US and still have a phone for blowing up twitter.

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We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2isSJKntbg"

Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION SATURDAY Night Live alumnus Chris Kattan is bringing his standup-comedy act to Winnipeg for a three-night stand, March 6 to 8 at Rumor's Comedy Club. Kattan, a graduate of L.A.'s famed The Groundlings improv/sketch troupe, was a SNL regular from 1996 to 2003, contributing such memorable characters as Mr. Peepers, Mango and one-half of the nightclub-hopping, head-bobbing Butabi Brothers (along with Will Ferrell).

Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-raised, British-born contemporary artist and cyborg activist based in New York. He is best known for being the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull and for being officially recognized as a cyborg by a government.

Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game. You're a wizard, and your spells are JavaScript. Free HTML5 game!

Google hasn't announced it yet, but the company earlier this year started offering free beta access to Cloud Source Repositories, a new service for storing and editing code on the ever-expanding Google Cloud Platform. It won't be easy for Google to quickly steal business from source code repository hosting companies like GitHub and Atlassian (with Bitbucket).

At −55 °C, the average temperature of Mars is roughly equal to last night's wind chill.

The challenge of being a futurist pioneer is being Patient Zero for the future's headaches. In 2009, Raul Rojas, a computer science professor at the Free University of Berlin (and a robot soccer team coach), built one of Germany's first "smart homes."

pifs - πfs - the data-free filesystem!