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Nathan Myhrvold

Also fascinating are the secret tricks Potter intersperses throughout the book. For example, meat can be tenderized by putting it in a papaya, which "contains an enzyme, papain, that acts as a meat tenderizer by hydrolyzing collagen." (Side note: "Pound-for-pound collagen is stronger than steel.") And you should always whisk your egg whites in a copper bowl rather than in a stainless-steel bowl (and never in a plastic a bowl) because the goal of whisking egg whites is to trap air bubbles in a mesh of denature proteins. So when you whisk in a copper bowl, the "copper ions interact with the proteins in the egg whites and make it a more stable foam," giving you those perfect meringue peaks.

"When I came to Google, they really hadn't fully understood the ramifications of moving into a rural community," he said. "If you build a data center in downtown Atlanta or New York City, nobody cares."

The company is planning to deploy major power-saving technologies in the new data center, including new UPS technology, an evaporative cooling system, and airside economizers, to name a few. The UPS system has a patent pending and is a block redundant N+1 topology. It promises a reduction of up to 12% in power usage. Facebook is also planning to recycle the heat generated by servers and to use that heat to warm office space when required. The airside economizer will bring in cold air from outside for more than 60% of the year. Traditional chiller systems have been replaced by an evaporative cooling system, which minimizes water usage.Read more about square by Rakesh Dogra

Which brings us back to manifest destinies, physical and digital. As Patricia Limerick has argued in her reconsideration of frontier ideology, the moonstruck rhetoric of Manifest Destiny in the 1800s, though it may have been sincere, neatly papered over a host of less enlightened agendas. The surge west was a critical driver of economic growth, allowing the growing republic to harness vast amounts of natural resources and create new markets. The high-flown ideology of Manifest Destiny was, in short, a cover for a massive land grab (not to mention the slaughter of the Indians). The same is happening online. Now, instead of farmers versus ranchers, we have Apple versus Google. In retrospect, for all the talk of an unencumbered sphere, of a unified planetary soul, the colonization and exploitation of the Web was a foregone conclusion. The only question now is who will own it.

With dynamic-feed proximity-based geofencing and geofencing APIs, it's possible to deliver these dynamic data sources just-in-time as mobile users move within geographic proximity of continuously shifting, moving-target data streams.

Geospatial calculations can be complex, as is rapid computation of massive amounts of location data.

Så det får bli ambitionen för nästa decennium - att hitta hybridformerna, där bloggens (eller kanske twittrandets) händelsepuls kombineras med bokens förmåga att foga samman till begripliga berättelser.

So what we're trying to say is that maybe in the globalised world, vernacular doesn't mean local materials so much. It's more about the organising of your buildings and cities in such a way that they provide all the qualities, like natural ventilation and temperature, as a product of the architecture rather than machines

1. Check in where the user actually is
2. Don't encourage checking in where the user isn't
3. Never check in without permission from the user
4. Encourage social behavior, discourage bot-like behavior
5. Rapid, repeated checkins are not tolerated
6. Use the API responsibly

Derived data is data about you that is derived from all the other data. For example, if 80 percent of your friends self-identify as gay, you're likely gay yourself.

It almost makes me question the value of bothering to report what I'm standing near at all. It really does.

I'm sorry. I didn't really mean that; that would be anti-social. And, I know that.

But, whether receiving kudos via event-based scripts and slightly-altered phone graphics or otherwise, I owe it to the people I've never met who sometimes stand near places where I've stood near to know that I have also stood near there sometimes too. Sometimes more or less often, and on serendipitous occasions, the same number of times that they stood near there. But, yes: I did sometimes stand near where they stood near. And, yes, they and computers should know that.