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So that they don't fall into the hole. They cannot go through by turning them 90 degrees along their diameter - Anant

I first heard this question in the interview for my most recent job. Threw me for a loop. I babbled something about minimizing materials cost. Got the job anyway. My wife (a physics major) told me the "right" answer when I got home. - Mark Traphagen

The one everyone has been giving above: so they won't fall in the hole. - Mark Traphagen

It makes them easier to move: you roll them. Better answer for interviews since the "won't fall into a hole" is pretty commonly known - David Ziembicki

Anybody have any idea what your answer to a question like this is supposed to prove in an interview? I asked my boss after I was hired why he asked it, and he said he didn't know, just read somewhere that it was a good interview question. - Mark Traphagen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... :-) note there are square ones! - Loic Le Meur

It's an old Microsoft interview question. Ask something strange to see how the interviewee either thinks or works through uncertainty. In most cases there's no single right answer, usually many. Your answer would be acceptable as its logical and show's how you thought through the question: What propertiies/advatages does something round have? Name one or two and you're good. At MS the questions get a lot harder from there. I had to diagram how Kerberos works end to end and the services/DLLs involved.. - David Ziembicki

David: wew! - Loic Le Meur

Oh, and do you see how you can use friendfeed's search engine as a bookmark service? - Robert Scoble

Robert: What I've been doing is importing Twitter search xml's into groups on friendfeed. It's great if you want to keep track of a meme or a hashtag - Blake

FF search is amazing. I've been able to find tweets that Search.Tw couldn't - phil baumann

hahhaa, I called that months ago and have been using hashing or other meta shizz to Bmark important stuff, also I do on the www as Google's crawling has become so GD effecient - sofarsoShawn

DBlack: sorry, what did I not do? - Robert Scoble

100 Twitter Feeds for Nurses (now if we can get nurses on FF) - http://www.ultrasoundtechnicia... - phil baumann

here's some dude #twitterfollowerdisplay http://ff.im/2X9Bj - sofarsoShawn

Zappos has a simple display as well: http://twitter.zappos.com/ - Lyn Graft

http://wefollow.com is a useful self generated directory site...? #twitterfollowerdisplay - Jo Booth

Journalists on Twitter:http://muckrack.com/ #twitterfollowerdisplay - Karma Martell

PR pros on twitter: http://aerocles.wordpress.com/iampr-p... #twitterfollowerdisplay - Karma Martell

Nothing, just being dramatic, stirring things up a bit. So how is the #twitterfollowerdisplay to be used to meet Dave Winer's? approval ? - RetiredTeacherD

#Women2Follow Love http://ff.im/22rhb With reasons to follow #twitterfollowerdisplay - HelloHealthy

#Men2Follow Love http://ff.im/22mlr With reasons to follow #twitterfollowerdisplay - HelloHealthy

http://www.only2clicks.com/pages... - #Women2Follow twit-women - HelloHealthy

http://socialnewswatch.com/top-twi... - Top tweeple in twitter likely to follow you - HelloHealthy

Poets on Twitter http://collinkelley.blogspot.com/2009 - Chris Loft

http://twitter.mailana.com/ - Top Twitter Friends - Graph - HelloHealthy

http://wefollow.com/ - A user powered twitter directory - HelloHealthy

http://www.highspotinc.com/blog... - HelloHealthy

http://tweetcongress.org/officia... - Tweet the Congress of the United States - HelloHealthy

http://mrtweet.com/ - analyze your Twitter network, help you discover great people, and recommend you to others. You can recommend anyone on twitter, not just those you follow or who may follow you. - HelloHealthy

http://www.twibes.com/ - Like WeFollow with MrTweet Recommends for those you follow - HelloHealthy

I didn't get it at first, but that's quite clever. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Heh.. The link gives me a Friendfeed fail! - Anant

friendfeed search is down right now. - Robert Scoble