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Hey everyone, MidnightWiki is a website based on wiki same technology and allows any sort of contribution. You can post scientific ideas that are your own that you would like to share with the world. It's basically wikipedia without restrictions. All contributions are licensed under a creative commons license. The site just started, so there is hardly any content on it right now. Please help make it better! Thanks, freefall P.S. sorry for spamming Feel free to send hatemail to krygenzero@yahoo.com edit_again: no! I did NOT notice that just below my post, another wiki is being spoken about. Well... contribute to both!

I'm working on a new wiki software along with dave (maybe aeternus as well), mainly to use for SFN's OpenScience wiki (if we can do it fast enough). Anyways, I'd like to ask if there are any experienced PHP and MySQL developers here. I mean experienced as in able to do coding without referring to a dozen tutorials on the way. Also you ought to know how to deal with security issues if necessary. If you would like to join us, and you know you have enough time and will to work on the project, register at SourceForge and tell me your account name. I will add you. If you turn out to be a crappy coder, I'll just boot you out. Don't join unless you know you can do it. …

I have my 2 year college (the cheep stuff) courseload pretty much set. Gen ed, with focus on Math and Science (which is what my major will end up being in). My plan is to transfer and major in Physics, or possibly Chemistry. I want to keep my options open for a possible major in Mathematics (and/or double major/minor in such things), but it requires either overloading my schedual for a term or taking a class in the summer in order to take all the classes I need to get the neseccary classes that a junior at my college I'm transfering to (UNI) would need to have in order to get the string of classes in (with pre-req and co-req and whatnot) within two years (I don't …

The links to the Godman comics have been posted several times, but its not weilding any results when I try and search for them. Anybody know it? Thanks

Polly Nomial Not sure if this is old or not. But I do have a question, why was it too late to differentiate? I thought it was never too late to differentiate...

Well, I figured, since we now have a Folding@home team, why not have a UD team too? So, I made one http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=399A2A49-BA89-4767-B7AA-60DA11FCC51F And if anyone does not have UD, then you can easily download here http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm Join up, make a difference!

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hi everyone, I'm doing a project for school and I need to know what the largest cell in an animal is (how big it is) and what animal it is in. Anyone got any ideas??

She's just spinning of FL right now, but historically, hurricanes that are where she is now in the fall, often head north over the Carolinas and then hit SE Virginia. The OBX (outer banks) usually takes the punch out of them - I think this will be one to watch. Thought I'd post here so we can keep track of what it does. Maybe we can also keep up with the preparedness. I am on the peninsula that is bounded on the north by the York River and on the south by the James River, the only suitable evacutation route is I64 through Richmond and it clogs up in a hurry. Anyway - there's no urgency right now - but anyone who is in the potential strike zone might stay i…

My friend wrote this. He is deeply religious. How do you think I should debate him? I've already answered back, this: He has yet to respond.

This is the thread for self-loathing, self-demasculation, and self-denial. With happy face of course Tell why you - as lovable as you find yourself - are still single every Friday night. I'll go first: My worst habit is that I'm just not an interesting person to talk to, I have not been blessed with the gift of small-talk. And I rarely start a conversation with people for fun - there are people who I've known for years but never called them, emailed them, or said more than "hello". People like a talker, but I'm not one, so I'm single. Pity me

I just felt the nead to share a funny story: so im sitting in my so called advanced biology (10th grade) and being the first week of school the teachers talking about how to state a hypothisis and the like when someone raises there hand and asks "why dont we try to harness the energy from distant stars on earth" i just thought it was so funny that it was worth sharing...

it's Spetember 11th. there is a show on the discovery channel(?) today called "The Flight That Fought Back"......looks kinda interesting.

Hi, i recently finished my forum (http://www.forum4debate.tk) and i am hoping to spread the word about it (this isnt a spam this will be my only post on the topic on this site) i have been a long time member of sfn and i am hoping to atract people from this site to my site becouse the community on this site is great... so check it out and tell me what you think

It's time for me to change my avatar, but I cannot choose between these three pictures I have. Please voice your opinion! Note: There is no multiple choice. 1 2 3

i may buy some of these.

2 seconds ago I got this PM from a "mrs dainey". Unfortunate, if it is true, but nonetheless it sounded like a chain E-mail. Did anyone else get this? (If you want I can post the whole message.)

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There have been alot of missing posts and threads lately. For instance my thread linking to that onlinr comic, or the post about switzerland in the one world govt. thread.

hi, when i take a photo of my self i look totally diffrent than i do in the mirror any reason for this and what one is more like my real self

Hi My situation at present is that I use a large MD player to record my lectures. It's really too large to carry in my pocket to listen to music as it has inbuilt speakers etc. I have 2 real choices I can either get a digital media player, playing hopefully mp3 and ogg vorbis files, which would not support my powered mic so I'd have to carry my md player in my rucksake for recording lecuters. OR I could get a hi-md player that would allow me to record my lectures and fit in my pocket so I could use it for listening to music. But this would mean converting all my music into atrac, but would allow me to easily to swap out my music collection with other …

Catchy titles aside, nobody's actually suggesting that Microsoft or PowerPoint killed the shuttle. The idea here is that poor information management, perhaps spurred on by misplaced/inappropriate use of tools like PowerPoint, contributed to the loss of Columbia. This has come up before, but this particular op/ed piece (see link below) takes an interesting look at it. I know a bit about this problem from first-hand experience (as I'm sure many of us do). I teach MCSE and other types of computer training courses, and I've "done the PowerPoint thing". Nothing puts students to sleep faster, quite frankly. Today I won't have anything to do with them. I walk the roo…

Another tragic story regarding bizarre weather... 4 dead as typhoon slams Japan TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A typhoon pummeled southwestern Japan on Tuesday, causing floods and landslides that left at least four dead and 14 missing, and paralyzing transport. Officials ordered more than 100,000 people to flee their homes. Four people were killed, 14 were missing and 51 were injured, NHK television reported. A 75-year-old man died when a landslide crushed his house in Miyazaki on the southwestern island of Kyushu, NHK said. At about 2 p.m. (0500 GMT), the eye of Typhoon Nabi made landfall at Isahaya near Nagasaki on mountainous Kyushu, Japan's third-biggest m…

A friend of mine showed me this...genius. http://catsinsinks.com/

wtf, $3.00/gallon and still rising, something needs to be done