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So…what is the Monday Poll? Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of five more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a good start. ? 1. Frosty pink gloss or a frosty white brow bone? (And you gotta pick one! You can’t choose “neither.”) Take me back to 1999, why don’t you? I’m gonna have to go with the...

From Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page: Five years ago, Facebook started leading an effort called the Open Compute Project to change the way data centers are designed and operated. Data centers power the internet. They’re the nervous system that allows all kinds of services to run – including Facebook. But until five years ago, the largest technology companies all designed their data centers and computing infrastructure in secret. They viewed this technology as a competitive advantage to beat others in the industry. We realized that if we opened up our designs and shared our progress with the industry, we’d all make...

GIRL, it took a tube of Icy Hot, two days and four naps for me to recover from going out dancing 💃 on Saturday night, but it was so worth it. We had a blast. Mostly, the best fun occurred between 11 – 11:30, which was shortly before we “peaced out,” because the DJ at Public Works in SF’s Mission, which is where we went, saved the ’90s hits we know and love for late in the evening. The theme of the night was hip-hop hits from 1979-1999, but the DJ was stuck in 1979 from about 9:30 to 11,...

Sure, hosting the Cat Academy Awards tonight would have been fun. Tabs would have loved seeing Viggo Mortensen and Lady Gaga again, and it’s been a while since he got a good swag bag… But if you’ve been to one awards show, you’ve been to them all, and Tabs really did want to finish crocheting the sweater he’s been making for his junior assistant. Still, it’s hard not to reminisce about the old days on a night like tonight. As the winningest cat actor in Cat Academy Awards history, Tabs has five Cat Oscars, but it would have been nice...

Speck of Interstellar Dust Obscures Glimpse of Big Bang(Via NYT)It seems many people and media are pessimist about the primordial gravitational waves detected by BICEP2 passed year… But not every one…Andrei Linde one of the fathers of inflationary universe theory, famous for the video celebrating the announcement of the BICEP2 discovery, says:"This is what all of us realized almost a year ago, and it did not change,"Max Tegmark, an M.I.T. expert on the cosmic microwaves, said: “It’s important to remember that inflation is still alive and well, and that many of the simplest models predict signals just below this new limit.”I also...