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"Audi may not be positioning itself as a "green brand," but it's still putting a rather big toe into the environmentally-friendly waters of electric sportscars with its R8-based e-tron, which is reportedly headed for production in 2012. As a refresher – as if you needed one – the e-tron debuted as a concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September with some truly impressive statistics: four separate electric motors with 230 kW (313 horsepower) and 4,500 Nm (3,319.03 pound-feet) of torque (sort of), which is enough to push it to 62 mph in a mere 4.8 seconds." - Jason Wehmhoener from Bookmarklet

We sent the final pdfs of the new edition of this book off to the publisher. The market reacted by gaining 2% on the day. - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

That is a bargain; I end up paying about 25 $/hour in tuition to sit in lectures. Thank you, for writing such wonderful books! - Brandon Smietana

Sigh. :) - Matt Cutts

Tony: Microsoft websites are excluded from my challenge. :) - Matt Cutts

I wish Google would put some "this entry is worthless" logic into its real-time search instead of showing everything, including irrelevant and information-less entries. - Mark Trapp

I think reputation may be a good filter, but honesty, there's not a lot of information in most realtime messages outside of links. Resurrect USENET + real time search would be far more valuable. To this day, I still find valuable information in USENET. USENET was a global archive of what the public was talking about, the only difference (besides spam) was a) people wrote longer, more... more... - Ray Cromwell

I can only imagine in another few years, Google Streets/Google Aerial flying/driving camera over the world creating one big 3D model of the earth. Can you imagine augmented reality first person shooters anywhere on the planet via mobile devices? :) - Ray Cromwell

I wonder if they can do a similar analysis when the camera moves, not the object, though that seems a lot harder. And toward the end of the video I thought it was cool that the system asked the user to rotate the object into new positions to resolve ambiguities. Also, I thought the superimposed feedback system displayed in realtime on the monitor was brilliant. - DeWitt Clinton

lookups are permanently logged but not shared inside Google; 8.8.8.8 is a great IP - Andy Baio

Have any of you actually tried this out yet and noticed any difference in speed or quality? I'm going to switch our work DNS this morning and see how we go. - Michael Howarth

Okay, we use BT Broadband (I know!) and I've switched this morning and noticed pages resolve so much quicker... my browser opens with six different tabs - I usually notice a significant pause until they all load, but after switching, all the tabs resolved and loaded much quicker, like... and that. - Michael Howarth

Semi-interesting for the rendering of the rings from the perspective of various cities. Neat idea that could be developed further. Related: why was a Ringworld movie never made? - DeWitt Clinton

A friendly FYI to radio commentators, particular those on NPR for some reason. Not sure why people make that mistake -- it's not like saying backslash is any more intuitive. But this problem has been around forever. Strange... - DeWitt Clinton

Thank you MS-DOS\Windows. - Jim Norris

That mistake just screams N00b. - Louis Gray

+1 - DeWitt Clinton

Via @kellan: http://twitter.com/kellan... - DeWitt Clinton

Updated slightly while setting up the MBP to account for the new .jar names. - DeWitt Clinton

Writing these steps up is a bit of a right of passage that everyone learning Clojure goes through. There are literally dozens of nearly identical pages out there. But this is the process that has worked reliably for me on several OSX and Linux boxes, so I figured it was still worth sharing. - DeWitt Clinton

Bummer that Alpha was (incorrectly, as many said at the time) described as a search engine when it launched. It's a platform for exploring knowable systems, and it is only getting better over time. - DeWitt Clinton

PLEASE RETWEET - Jim Norris

I do, but it needs a feed ;) - Amit Patel

What's interesting is that Facebook doesn't make you wait until you confirm your email address before you can start using the account. So I'm seeing her add friends, get messages, etc. The "if you are receiving this in error" link in the email takes you to a "Report Abuse" page, which has a button that does nothing but return you to the Report Abuse page. - DeWitt Clinton

Rock on. Thanks, David! - DeWitt Clinton

M-x why-cant-emacs-start-a-fire - mikepk

Mark wins. - Fulaan, inna Hebel

Yay! - DeWitt Clinton

@Glenc +1 - Serkan Unsal

"There are two goddesses in your heart: the Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks that they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

<3 - Chris Hofmann

I can spend my life chasing wisdom and never regret a moment, great share. - Mark Essel

Also, last year DirecTV said that they'd have a HD TiVo this year. Nope. All these companies could get some money if they'd offer what I wanted. - Matt Cutts

The whole microcell thing doesn't make sense to me anyway. If I'm going to pay to operate my own phone tower over my own internet access, then why not go with a VoIP solution like Vonage or something instead of paying extra fees to my already-too-expensive cell phone company? With Google Voice, an extra phone number doesn't matter. (BTW, this is why Google Voice needs to support voice-over-ip solutions better, just Gizmo alone doesn't cut the mustard...) - Otto

I grew up in a city, and didn't think much of it until I started living in the suburbs. Now that I've lived in Silicon Valley for 17 years, I find that I dislike cities. This article explains why. - Piaw Na

Doug: Other than getting your bike stolen while you take a phone call, there's nothing overwhelming about San Francisco. (Yes, true story, no, it wasn't me) - Piaw Na

Paranormal Activity was the fastest-rising U.S. query this quarter!? - Andy Baio

It did well at that: worker threads, file access, offline manifests all made it into HTML5 (mostly) from Gears. - Matt Mastracci