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Leo Laporte posted an entry on TWiT.TV - Netcasts you love from people you trust

Windows Weekly 72: Now More Compatible

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Does anyone else get cracking on their Macs if they are using the Flash 9 Beta player? I have to always go right to the mp3. - Brandon Werner

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Dryad - Home

Wednesday at 9:17 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Dryad is an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs. A Dryad programmer can use thousands of machines, each of them with multiple processors or cores, without knowing anything about concurrent programming. - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

Paul Thurrott posted an entry on SuperSite Blog

Coming soon! Even better, even faster Windows Live Hotmail

Wednesday at 7:31 am - Link

Nicholas James, Eric, Wade Dorrell, Erhan Erdogan and Robert Scoble liked this

What's Hotmail? Is that still around? Yeah, I said it :) - Stagekid

Will it finally let me use it with Firefox 3? - Chris Stevenson

It has to be up. Or else, where would my spam go? - Eric @ CS Techcast

As long as Hotmail continues to include ads at the bottom of their email messages, a rude intrusion, I won't believe they are serious about consumer email. - Brandon Werner

Ditto on that Chris, make it work in FF3 or it's worthless. - Crutis

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Hadoop On Demand from Apache

Wednesday at 8:27 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

John, Benson Miller, Krishnan Hussein Subraman and Deepak liked this

Hadoop On Demand (HOD) is a system for provisioning virtual Hadoop clusters over a large physical cluster. It uses the Torque resource manager to do node allocation. On the allocated nodes, it can start Hadoop Map/Reduce and HDFS daemons. It automatically generates the appropriate configuration files (hadoop-site.xml) for the Hadoop daemons and client. HOD also has the capability to distribute Hadoop to the nodes in the virtual cluster that it allocates. In short, HOD makes it easy for administrators and users to quickly setup and use Hadoop. It is also a very useful tool for Hadoop developers and testers who need to share a physical cluster for testing their own Hadoop versions. - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

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Jaliya Ekanayake CGL Report: High Energy Physics Data Analysis Using Hadoop and CGL-MapReduce

Wednesday at 8:25 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"After the previous set of tests wtih parallel Kmeans clusting using CGL-MapReduce, Hadoop and MPI I shift the direction of testing to another set of tests. This time, the test is to process large number (and volume of) High Energy Physics data files and produce a histogram of interesting events. The amount of data that needs to be processed is 1 terabyte." - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

Damon posted a message

“Inviting more of my Twitter friends here because of the super-slick new UI. Please comment and let me know you're here. :)”

Tuesday at 1:55 pm - Link

I'm here. - Cal

I'm here - Brandon Werner

Leo Laporte bookmarked a page on delicious

Is something rotten at Apple? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

Tuesday at 8:46 am - Link

David Z, Jason Huebel, Bluesun 2600, Jeff Turner and 2 other people liked this

I'm about to go buy a couple of other phones and test them side by side against my iPhone for a month. - Jeff Turner via twhirl

TWiT is down - Mark

What the? Slate is still around? - Brandon Werner

Brandon Werner published a review on Yelp

Maggiano's (2)/5)

Monday at 1:22 am - Link

"Yes, it's an "upscale mall" chain like Cheese Cake Factory and P.F. Changs - which are across the street. Do yourself a favor and cross that street. Although the atmosphere is fancy and the price…" - Brandon Werner

Krishnan Hussein Subraman posted a message on Twitter

“@bbjwerner http://tinyurl.com/6owc44”

August 24 at 2:38 pm - Link

Blah. I've never felt like a young professional even when I was one. I still might be, but I'm pushing 30. :-) - Brandon Werner

Krishnan Hussein Subraman posted a message on Twitter

“Seattle is 19th and Portland is 21st in the list of best cities for young professionals. I disagree.”

August 24 at 2:08 pm - Link

I also disagree. How can they say that? Link to the article? I want to know what are 1 to 10. - Brandon Werner

Kevin Rose dugg a story on Digg

Jim Cramer Goes Off on Wall Street (VIDEO)

August 22 at 4:26 pm - Link

Nathaniel Chastain, Harold Cabezas, Eric @ CS Techcast, Anthony Citrano and 3 other people liked this

this linked crashed my iPhone - Brandon Werner

Cramer's right...just like his CNBC bit last year. "THEY HAVE NO IDEA!" - Ben Turner

Usually I find Cramer to be so shrill and full of hot air that I can't bear to listen to him. BUT, he is 100% right about this. (Although I disagree with Ben - he was wrong last year in my view - the Fed should not have been rate-cutting.) - Anthony Citrano

Bad actor, but entertaining given the bar and channel - Ryan

Brandon Werner published a review on Yelp

Bill Speidel's Underground Tour (3)/5)

August 10 at 7:59 pm - Link

"Although I think it's great for tourists, I didn't think it was worth $15 a person for the tour. If you had more time to linger and see the underground, it might be more worth it. As it is, you don't…" - Brandon Werner

Brad Feld posted an entry on Feld Thoughts

Brilliant Op-Ed Crushing McCain On The Economy

July 20 at 11:01 am - Link

David Thomas, Alejandro S., Woodrow Jarvis Hill, Dave Hodson and 5 other people liked this

The op-ed might hold water if McCain's opponent had a better understanding of the US economy than McCain does. However, since Obama is nothing short of a Socialist and might even lean toward Communism, then the op-ed is a useless piece of political fodder and presents nothing more than a straw man. - Gregory Pittman

Yep. Just yesterday, in fact, I saw a hammer and sickle tattoo on Obama's neck. He's a Communist alright, just like I'm Napoleon. - David Worrell

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@Gregory Do you realize that there is way too much commonality between free market fundamentalists and communists than saner people like Obama. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

David, one of Obama's greatest influences in politics, by his own admission, is a Communist. He writes about it at length in his book. And when you study his resource redistribution plans, they match very well what one would expect from that end of the political spectrum. I have no idealogical or moral dilemma calling Obama a Communist. Because he is. - Gregory Pittman

Krish, "sane" is not a word I would use to describe Obama. Deluded, deceiving, opportunistic, etc., maybe, but not sane. - Gregory Pittman

Gregory Roosevelt was a Socialist was his economic policy so dire? - Fred Grott

Gregory, when you start redefining words to mean whatever you want them to mean, eventually they lose all meaning. You might as well call him a ham sandwich. - David Worrell

David, I'm not redefining words. I'm using Obama's own. But, he does redefine words at will, so you may have a point. - Gregory Pittman

Fred, Oh my goodness, yes! Roosevelt's New Deal is the very reason we have such a government-dependent society today. He ushered in an era of teaching us to lean on government rather taking responsibility for our own actions. The result decades later is a country strapped with debt, not because we buy oil from other countries (as Obama likes to argue), but because we make too many people dependent on an ever-growing government welfare system. Roosevelt is responsible in many for this country's downfall. - Gregory Pittman

Good Christ -- talk radio talking points on Friendfeed. - Sean McBride

Are you reading all of that off cue cards Gregory? Way to stick to the far right party line! - Tad - just Tad

Gregory do you think for yourself at any point in a debate or conversation? Cost of Oil imports plus war cost is significantly higher than Social Security cost - Fred Grott

Tad: arguing with guys like Gregory never helps anything. But I guess he would be happy to spend hundreds of billions to kill Iraquis but wouldn't like to spend that money helping the poor at home. And people wonder why our country is so screwed up... - Robert Scoble

Gregory, how the fuck is Obama a Socialist? Cut the absurd hyperbole. - Alexander Carlill

Ah well. Another addition to the block list I guess. - Alexander Carlill

Gregory: have you thought very much about the negative social and economic impacts of corrupt oligarchies, plutocracies and monopolies, crony and vulture capitalism, welfare state institutions for the military-industrial complex, no-bid contracts, predatory nepotocracies and the like? There's a great deal of fine scholarly research out there on these subjects. I approach these issues as a progressive libertarian and fan of creative capitalism, by the way, not as a "leftist" or, God forbid, a "Marxist." - Sean McBride

Pittman... that's not an argument. And it's without foundation. - Michael Markman

Robert, I think the war in Iraq has been mishandled in as many ways as you do, most likely. I'm terribly sorry I ever voted for GWB in 2000; so much so that I didn't vote for him in 04. Alexander, Obama's wealth redistribution (taking from the rich and buying the votes of the poor) is straight out of the Socialist manual. And, again, Obama himself has said one of his most significant political influences was a Communist. I'm not making that up; the great Obama said it. - Gregory Pittman

Tad, I might have listened to a total of three or four hours of talk radio in the last decade. No exaggeration there. But why is it that I have to hold the same opinions you do in order to have a discussion? If I don't, I'm the problem with America. I'm not so sure I'm the one reading the cue cards. - Gregory Pittman

Gregory: during the last two terms, under the most fiscally irresponsible and anti-conservative administration in my memory, we have witnessed a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to a small oligarchy which in many cases hasn't earned the pelf by creative and productive labor. Trends like this invariably lead to social breakdowns and disasters, sometimes even revolutions. One doesn't have to be a "socialist" to notice. - Sean McBride

Sean, I absolutely agree with you. Bush has been completely fiscally irresponsible and anti-conservative. And therein lies the problem. But, you must be pretty young because Carter was the worst President on both counts in US history (really trying to avoid hyperbole there, but I think it's true); thankfully the country was relieved of his damage after just one term. Obama could easily strip Carter of that title, however. In fact, I'm almost certain he will. - Gregory Pittman

You have to wonder about economic ability of anyone who thinks you increase govt. Revenue by raising taxes. A study of history shows the opposite to be true. - Robert Hafer

Gregory: I'd be more comfortable voting for Obama if he were a Socialist, but he's not. I grew up under Thatcher, was born at the end of Callaghan's tenure and was witness to the end of British manufacturing under the iron lady. NOTHING was accomplished and whole communities in northern England were stripped of their livelihood. If you are in favour of this and think this is a great idea, you need to tell the coal miners that; see what their lives have become. - Prolific Programmer

Gregory: perhaps we can find a bit of common ground. I don't know what Obama is really about, and I am certainly not an Obama true believer. What I do know for certain, however, is that the neoconservative policies of military aggression in the Mideast which McCain clearly intends to pursue will bankrupt and destroy the United States as an economic superpower. He's drunk the neocon Kool-Aid to the dregs. We're running out of trillions of dollars to fund these wars against "Islamofascism." - Sean McBride

this thread shows the difficulty of even talking about economy, let alone having a plan ... let's see, which one of these guys here above should i pick for my advisor? .... - gregory lent

and finally, an article about an issue, instead of a poll or a gaffe, wonder if there will be more? - gregory lent

Sean, again, very little argument from my end. Provided we can secure our own borders properly so that we stop potential attacks on our soil, I'm all for putting an end to a proactive use of our military. I wonder if we truly can secure our borders, but that's another issue. I am, however, all for a military response in the case of attack. And I doubt you'll ever find me arguing on behalf of a McCain presidency. - Gregory Pittman

Gregory: I share your views about a strong military. So does the American military establishment -- that is why it strongly opposes expanding the Iraq War to Iran, a policy which would severely damage the United States in every possible dimension. A policy which McCain's advisers are pushing hard, and which, I see, you reject. I think, however, you need to refine your rhetorical attacks on Obama. You're over the top, imo. - Sean McBride

Good gracious, Gregory. Someone "connected" enough to use FriendFeed should know that "closing our borders" isn't at the top of the list of priorities to fix. Cyber-terrorism is certainly number 1 and port security and the joke that is the TSA are much bigger priorities. And what's more socialist than using my tax dollars to bail out Fannie and Freddie? - JonathanJoseph

I would like to point out that "neo-con" has long been a left-wing code word, first meaning conservative Jew sand evoling into a general derogative for non-liberals - Robert Hafer

Robert -- "neoconservative" is a term that neoconservatives coined themselves to describe themselves. It originates in the Commentary culture developed by Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz since the 1970s. Not only is it a perfectly legitimate term, but it is the most appropriate term to describe the political bloc which has dominated the Bush 43 administration. Do an Amazon search on the term and you will be inundated by respectable, high-quality books on the subject. You might start by reading Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons http://tinyurl.com/5newez - Sean McBride

Robert: further note: most Jews are anti-neoconservative and many neoconservatives are not Jewish. "Neoconservative" is a shifty, dishonest term: neoconservatives are anti-conservative (and anti-liberal). Arguably they are also anti-American: witness their assault on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Most of them are closely associated with Israel's Likud Party. They have a distinctly messianic and totalitarian bent, and are driven by raw ethnic and religious xenophobia. - Sean McBride

Another fine book on the neocons: Fred Kaplan: Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power http://tinyurl.com/6rzz9s There are dozens of fine books to choose from to get a handle on the neocons. - Sean McBride

It is interesting, at least to me, how change and evolve. Sean, thanks for references - Robert Hafer

wow I thought the last 8 years made people like Gregory extinct. You know, Freedom Fries Jack Bower freaks. That you can see your desire realized, see it fail, and still show up to the party with the same talking points sounds itself like something out of Communist history. Your time is over; these ideas have failed. - Brandon Werner

Brandon, I agree that Bush's ideas have failed. They haven't failed as miserably as you would like to think they have. But they have failed. But true conservative principles always work. Bush isn't a conservative. Neither is McCain. And "people like Gregory" aren't nearly extinct. Not by a long shot. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl

Gregory: Bush doesn't traffic in "ideas"; he wouldn't know what an "idea" was if it bit him. Bush's script, which he could barely read, was written by neoconservatives at think tanks like the AEI (American Enterprise Institute). This same political bloc goes by the name "neoliberals" in the Democratic Party, on the left, and is making every effort to take control of Barack Obama as we speak. America is no longer controlled by either conservatives or liberals -- that's an antique and false dichotomy. - Sean McBride

@gregory You can be a socialist or communist than being a dumb free market fundamentalist. In my opinion, free market fundamentalists are dumber compared to even religious fundamentalist. So Obama is much better than folks on the side of free market fundamentalists. Unlike the free market fundamentalist group, Obama has real brain not a stupid belief system. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

Free market fundamentalism is invariably exploited by criminal oligopolies, monopolies, oligarchies, plutocracies and the like to build fascist dictatorships that are as oppressive as communist dictatorships. That is why I am a *progressive* libertarian. Too much wealth and power in too few public OR private hands is unhealthy. - Sean McBride

Anyone who thinks markets as the only solution (free market fundamentalists) or government as the only solution (communists) are no different than religious fundamentalists (who believe that god is the only solution). Essentially, they have difficulty in putting their brain to work. A saner person will use market solution for problems that need market solutions and govt. solution for problems that need govt. solutions. Obama falls in this category and definitely saner, in spite of what you want to 'believe' - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

Fundamentalists inhabit every field of human activity, religious and secular, on the right and left. Their common trait: they hate to THINK. They are attracted to simple-minded ideologies that supposedly solve everything. They are allergic to nuance and uncertainty. They drive on automatic pilot -- that's how they roll. - Sean McBride

Words of Wisdom from a typical free market fundamentalist - "Bush failed us, Republican Senate failed us, Republican Congress failed us, Economy failed us, Markets failed us, Enron failed us, Freedie Mac and Fannie Mae failed us. So what? We have the American DREAM. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

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Big Contrarian → Grok.

July 16 at 10:54 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

This guy is amazing. Subscribe to his blog. - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

Matt Wood posted a message on Twitter

“I think the MobileMe calendar actually looks better than iCal.”

July 14 at 12:28 am - Link

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I agree. I am in love with MobileMe. I don't even have the sync cradle attached to my laptop anymore - the cloud is my sync cradle now. - Brandon Werner

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Sell me yer 2G iPhone or I'm waiting for Android

July 13 at 8:25 pm - Link

Sorry, I'm not upgrading for a month or so. Firmware update keeps me happy - Brandon Werner

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8 Things We Hate About IT - Susan Cramm

July 13 at 12:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Awesome description of the challenges IT and Business face working together. - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

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Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

July 12 at 1:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Wowzers - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

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That’s how they roll, in OHIO

July 7 at 10:10 pm - Link

damn right! don't you forget it. - Brandon Werner

Ward Spangenberg posted a message on Twitter

“sadness reigns @dacort spreads his wings *weeps*”

July 7 at 5:38 pm - Link

You knew you and @dacort wouldn't be together forever. Better to have loved and lost... - Brandon Werner

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I'm Not Here to Make Friends!

July 7 at 4:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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genius - Jason Calacanis

Wow, I feel like I will never, ever use this phrase, ever. One more time is too much for the world. - Shawn Farner

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now we know the same writers do ALL reality shows :-) - Stephen McCormack

but I've been using twitter and friendfeed to make friends, I guess thats why I'm not on reality TV - Joseph Skerbec via twhirl

I, on the other hand, *am* here to make friends - Dylan Tweney via twhirl

Funny how I am watching that on FriendFeed. Ironical. - Dave

I too am here to make friends. - Little Guy

Friends are cool. Realty shows, in gernal, are not. Although some can be, of course. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

i am here to feed friends... BBQ anyone? - Eugene Huo

I am actually here to MAKE friends. - ....

Ahh.. all this time on earth I've been here to make friends and not to win the competition. Now I see why I suck. - Brandon Werner

I had to stop watching after 40 seconds...But I liked it! - dbush

I'm here for Brett, Tila, Flav, and to win the next big american top apprentice model chef amazing race for elle woods rock of flav shot.. Oh wait, this is not the place for that? OK. I am heading back to myspace. - Andrea Baker

Crosspost: I am going to set this up to project on my ceiling every morning when I wake up. - Rob Sterling

This is what's wrong with people. Most are selfish and don't care what others think. Not good. - Shayna

That is what is wrong with today's society, nobody wants to be friends - Richard Lee

Cant we all just get along and be friends? - Britney Mason

I'm not your friend, buddy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Hao Chen

I'm not your buddy pal - Joseph Skerbec via twhirl

I aint' here to make friends. I'm here to take Flava flavs clock. - Bjorn Tipling

Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrigton, Robert Scoble, Kevin Rose, We do not need Friends We Came to Win! Just follow us for Business! - Igor The Troll

I like Pizza - Noah David Simon

I like Sushi! lol - Igor The Troll

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“omg awesome. http://www.writeinbush.com/”

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This reminds me of 2003 for some reason - the height of insanity for America. - Brandon Werner

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How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction - The Boston Globe

July 6 at 8:34 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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I knew it! I have battled anxiety off and on in my life - and I knew that the panic attacks, irritable bowel syndrome as a child and other small things had to be related. - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

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The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More — More Is Different

July 6 at 12:52 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

1 Petabyte - data processed by Google's servers every 72 minutes. - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

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Buy n Large

July 6 at 9:37 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

One of the things that bugged me about Wall-E was they kinda danced around the mess humanity made of things, their wit and social criticism seemed muted. Their BnL website though (Pixar has made BnL their ACME) still delivers the biting cynicism though. - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

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A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution

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The problems of our system has been a big topic this weekend it seems - Brandon Werner

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Harvard Business IdeaCast 100: Innovation at Procter & Gamble

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"Harvard Business IdeaCast 100: Innovation at Procter & Gamble" - Brandon Werner via Bookmarklet

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Funny.

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"You have to admire the strength he's showing in the face of all the adversity he's created" - Brandon Werner

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Funny.

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"You have to admire the strength he's showing in the face of all the adversity he's created" <-- that is my new motto. - Brandon Werner

Krishnan Hussein Subraman posted a message on Twitter

“Twitter is freakin' buggy. I just followed back a few people who were following me and it just shows only their tweets. What a shame!!”

July 4 at 7:24 am - Link

Agreed. Twitter is just obnoxious now. - Brandon Werner

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