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I've found my 'Dream Boat'

Nims

This boat appeared in the movie Nim's Island, after quick 'lazy web' search I've stumbled across wiki answers post talking about Australian designer Walter Weeks and boat called 'Shona' built 1920's. Yet to be confirmed!

"I don't know the specific design, but it was wood, about 32', and the designer who developed that general type of boat was Colin Archer. His boats are double-enders (i.e., pointy stern), have transom-hung rudders, and are generally of medium to heavy displacement. The type was orginally developed for use as rescue boats and are famous for their performance in heavy weather"...  wikianswers

Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters

Michael Jackson’s death created an emotional outpouring of unprecedented magnitude on Twitter. In this report  http://bit.ly/WSE2o, 1,860,427 tweets were examined  about Jackson’s death in order to test various methods of sentiment analysis and gain insights into how people express emotion on Twitter. It would be even more interesting if turned into a tool we could play with the data (Ross)