Amit Patel

A new Modbook! - Amit Patel

"The recently delivered bulk carrier, MV Harvest Frost, is the first vessel of its size to use MHI’s proprietary Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System (MALS), which reduces the drag between the vessel hull and seawater by blowing air bubbles produced at the vessel bottom. MHI says that use of the system has been proven to help Harvest Frost achieve a 27% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to conventional bulk carriers, exceeding the target figure of 25%." - Amit Patel

"Technology can be pretty wonderful sometimes. Case in point: Warblr, an app that uses sound recognition tech and your phone's GPS signal to identify birdsongs. The application first pinpoints where you are (it'll debut in the United Kingdom), and narrows the results by what types of fowl are common to the area, according to its Kickstarter page. Then, after making the ID, it presents the most likely suspects." - Amit Patel

"If an IP pigeon lands nearby, please fully comply with the following instructions:" - Amit Patel

Most likely. - Mark H

"A mechanical wristwatch and a full-color digital display in a single device" - Amit Patel

"The Kairos MSW and SSW models combine actual self-winding watch movements (Japanese on one model, Swiss on the other) with a transparent color OLED display to give you a "real" watch when you just want a fashion statement with full-on smartwatch capability — notifications, fitness tracking, and so on — when you need it." - Amit Patel

"Ever wondered how marble is quarried? The process, documented in this stunning short by Italian artist and filmmaker Yuri Ancarani, is utterly transfixing." - Amit Patel

"After many months of analysis, and about a decade in development, Caltrans has said the city can move ahead with plans for proposed double-roundabouts in the problematic I-80 and Gilman Street interchange in West Berkeley." - Amit Patel

I was figuring that'd probably be the best solution. I wonder how long they'll be about it. Gilman has been even worse for peds/bikes than cars. But those intersections don't work for anybody. - Spidra Webster

Let's turn Boston into Venice! - Amit Patel

Every city on the east coast needs to think about these issues. - John (bird whisperer)

"The Hemingwrite is-a single purpose, distraction-free writing composition device. It combines the simplicity of a 90s era word processor with the modern tech we all require like cloud backups and integration into our favorite document editors like Google docs and Evernote." - Amit Patel

This could be a good concept -- but the proof of the pudding is in the eating -- one needs to give it an actual workout. - Sean McBride

Some days I want to switch to S3 or some other static hosting system so that I don't have to worry that my webserver is secure against shellshock and everything else. - Amit Patel

It's such a waste - Todd Hoff

PigeonRank? Really??? - Amit Patel

But the Google Reader interface now looks ancient, clunky and dusty. - Sean McBride

"After all the excitement that bubbled up on the web surrounding the Back to the Future hoverboard reveal a couple months ago, it was a tough blow for all the believers, when Tony Hawk and Doc himself (Christopher Lloyd) revealed that it was all a trick. While the boards did look fake and the hovering Tony Hawk, super unstable in the promo video, it was hard not to ignore better judgment and cling on to the believe that ‘Back to the Future 2′ was right and hoverboards were to be in existence by 2015. Well, we had to let that go but earlier this month it emerged that a company called Aerofex are planning to start selling hoverbikes. Yep, you heard right, that’s bikes that actually hover! Check out the video of the Aero X Hoverbike in action below." - Amit Patel

Neat! - Stephen Mack

The reviews … the reviews … ahhhhhh - Amit Patel

"A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick and died after eating them, but the truth of the matter was that wealthy Europeans used pewter plates, which were high in lead content. Because tomatoes are so high in acidity, when placed on this particular tableware, the fruit would leach lead from the plate, resulting in many deaths from lead poisoning. No one made this connection between plate and poison at the time; the tomato was picked as the culprit. " - Amit Patel

Aha. I always wondered why they thought tomatoes were poisonous. Thanks. - bentley

Fascinating! - Brian Fitzpatrick

"The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion." - Amit Patel

"The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Frau Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers. Some of these people eventually died from heart attacks, strokes, or exhaustion." - Amit Patel

You play a janitor on a spaceship being attacked by a giant space demon. Gotta clean up the dead bodies. Be sure to fill out the paperwork to get cleaning supplies. - Amit Patel

finally, a dystopian grim meathook future space game for compulsive cleaners and organisers! - Big Joe Silenced

"Retro-Pixel Castles has you managing a village that has both survival and tactical gameplay. You can mine for resources, place new buildings, unlock more content as you play, like additional buildings, items and units all on a massive 512x512 map with loads of possibilities. The task in all this? Just keep playing, watch your little villages fall in love and try to survive as long as possible against the nasties waiting to eat you all up!" - Amit Patel

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Grr - Amit Patel

"Gold mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, is a major industry, and one of the largest sources of gold in the world. Nevada currently mines 79% of all the gold in the United States, which is equivalent to 5,640,000 troy ounces (175 t) in 2009" - Amit Patel

FUD needs no reason. - Todd Hoff

The world was created last Thursday. - Amit Patel

And it will end on Thursday. It's beautifully non-falsifiable. - Stephen Mack

It was awfully clever of Me to test myself with making left-handedness a sin. - Stephen Mack

Now that I've written several tutorials with interactive diagrams, I'm going to start writing up notes about how I made the diagrams, both high level pages like this, and detail pages like http://www.redblobgames.com/article... - Amit Patel

It has worked on FF; I should've known it would work on Twitter :) - Amit Patel

The bottom div is display: block; width: 10em; margin-left: 450px; border: 1px solid #000; border-top-width: 0; border-bottom-left-radius: 100%; border-bottom-right-radius: 100%; text-align: center; box-shadow: 0 2px 3px -2px #000; position: relative; top: -1px; - Amit Patel

The border radius made a MUCH wider curve than I expected, which was the nice surprise. The black line flows around this shape by using position:relative and shoving the div up to hide the black border under the first div. - Amit Patel

Also, I wanted to show him how I could take 1/4 sec shots handheld because my image stabilizer is so nice ;) - Amit Patel

They have a museum too but it was closed so I will have to come back sometime! My favorite restaurant near here is El Caminito so it'll be an excuse to eat there too. - Amit Patel

"Birds Near Me is a bird guide for everybody anywhere in the world. Find what birds are near you anywhere in the world or find pictures, songs, locations and information about any bird in the world." - Amit Patel

"View a custom list of recent bird sightings near your location" - Amit Patel

I've already discovered a new park with this app. No birds there but it may be nicer in winter. - Amit Patel

Too lazy to use a tripod. I'm happy that my camera lets me take 1/4 sec shots handheld. - Amit Patel

I try to sleep double to make up for Louis - Amit Patel

"I spoke to the researcher who came up with the name for drunk tank pink, the original color, and he told me that in one of his original demonstrations, he was up on stage with Mr. California, who was a weightlifter, and he was lifting the weight quite comfortably. It was a big weight; the audience was very impressed." - Amit Patel

"And as soon as they held up this pink cardboard in front of him, he said I can't lift it anymore. And to snap him out of it, they had to show him a blue piece of cardboard, which undid the effect." - Amit Patel

WHAT - Amit Patel

I would "like" it but, as is typical with Google Trends, the total lack of a vertical scale means that we don't know whether "interest" dropped from "so little as to be not worth mentioning" to "even less" or something more interesting. - walt crawford

LOL. Ello: even less popular than Ebola. #justkidding - Victor Ganata

Wait a second. You're down near freezing at night and near 100 during the day? I'm going to state the obvious but dang that really sucks! - That's So CAJ!

Shorts during the day and sweaters at night. - Me

Putting 3-d printing and robotics into libraries? hm - Amit Patel

"These beautiful structures, most likely now devoid of the table-top Pac Man machines, dot the American landscape. Some provide ethnic food, some, used cars, and a rare few are now municipal buildings. Whatever their current purpose, we can always be reminded of the mediocre pizza that was once served in these establishments. That, and those red plastic cups. " - Amit Patel

Mentioned on the 99 Percent Invisible podcast: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode... - Amit Patel