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Officially out on TechNet and MSDN now. - Eric @ CS Techcast

the first beta I've ever really looked forward to and I can't get my hands on it yet - Steven Hodson

Where is it on MSDN? - Chacha

I have it set to auto-save the draft every 3 minutes now. - Phil Glockner For Hire

That's terrible :( I write all my posts in Google Docs just for this reason. - Mike Fruchter

:( - Mona N.

"OAKLAND, Calif. -- A march protesting the slaying of young Oakland father at the Fruitvale BART station early New Year's Day became violent Wednesday evening as a group of marchers attacked a police and lit a dumpster on fire. An estimated 500 people gathered at the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit station Wednesday afternoon to protest the shooting death of Oscar Grant III at the hands of a transit agency police officer at the station early Jan. 1. For safety reasons, BART trains are bypassing the Fruitvale station while the protest continues. Organizers said the rally was planned to last until 8 p.m., but by 5:30 a substantial portion of the rally spontaneously started marching through the streets of Oakland towards downtown. While the majority of the marchers were well behaved, just after 6:30 p.m. a splinter group of protestors started causing trouble at the intersection of 8th Street and Madison not far from the Lake Merritt BART station. A fire was lit in a Dumpster on wheels that was rolled int" - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

Quick, shutdown the bay bridge... - Chris White

When I read this headline and saw Thomas had shared it, I automatically thought there was some sort of photography protest. - Matt

Is anyone watching? I don't have Silverlight... :( - Mona N. via Bookmarklet

Discuss. - Shey

Johnny, it may not make it right, but it does make it the 'least worst' solution. Western civilization has used 'least worst' solutions that were *far* more horrifying when necessary, such as Britain firebombing Dresden. You do realize that by military standards, the civilian casualties so far in Gaza still qualify as extremely targeted surgical strikes, right? - Michael R. Bernstein

Michael: Easy... Get Palestine's young men jobs... Allow infrastructure and trade to florish so those who have something to do and pride in something will not be easy fodder for men offering nationalism and adventure. When the young men have pride, it will flow onto the community. Israel will have to be partners in this. Killing the leaders of Hamas does nothing, you don't choke a man by popping a pimple on his head. Bombing the crap out of Gaza just fuels the fire. Take the fuel away and the flame will extingush. - Johnny Worthington

df - equrick

""Jack Terricloth was practicing his Peter Lorre impression. Sitting at a darkened video booth one recent afternoon at the Paley Center for Media (the former Museum of Television and Radio) in Midtown, he watched a series of obscure television appearances by Lorre from the 1950s and ’60s, carefully observing every whine and snivel. “Oh, yesss,” he muttered in a mousy Germanic accent, hunching over and twiddling his fingers anxiously. “I am hee-dee-ous!” Lorre’s craven characters in films like “M” and “Casablanca” have been fodder for comedians for decades, but Jack Terricloth’s aims are more ambitious."" - RAPatton

""“I find Peter Lorre a strangely charismatic, extremely creepy person, which I think most punk rockers can identify with,” said Jack Terricloth, 38, who was born Peter Ventantonio and grew up in Bridgewater, N.J. “It’s the lure of the other. He’s the underdog, the outsider.” Emphasizing that outsider status, the show portrays Lorre as a misunderstood antihero whose life reflected broad political and social tumult. Born in 1904 in what is now Slovakia, Lorre, who was Jewish, had a promising early career in Germany working with Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang, but fled Nazi Germany for London and eventually Hollywood, where he was unable to escape typecasting as a sinister, usually foreign, villain. By the time of those 1950s television gigs he often seemed a caricature of himself. He died in 1964. “Lorre is an excellent way to examine the 20th century historically,” Jack Terricloth said, “and the concerns and problems of every artist who works in the culture wars.”" " - RAPatton

"Directed by Jay Scheib, “Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century” is based on the band’s 2007 album of the same title, on Chunksaah Records. The music veers from piano- and guitar-driven rock to tense chamber arrangements, and the lyrics draw from Lorre’s films and Stephen D. Youngkin’s 2005 biography, “The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre.” (“I don’t act, I just make faces,” goes one song.) But Mr. Scheib, a theater professor at M.I.T. whose multimedia work “This Place Is a Desert” was in Under the Radar two years ago, said the show was not strictly biographical. “It ended up being more about how the band’s live show is influenced by Lorre’s life and times than any kind of a biopic,” he said. World/Inferno Friendship Society exists almost completely outside the mainstream but has a following that many bands would envy, with devoted fans (they call themselves Infernites) communicating through an active forum on the band’s Web site (worldinferno.com)." - RAPatton

"DAVID SHACK’S Type 1 diabetes had been so out of control for so many years that he had had more than 100 seizures. The highway patrol once stopped him at a roadblock because he was weaving.“My eyes were acting up, and my blood sugar levels were so low, they thought I was a drunk driver,” said Mr. Shack, 31, a science teacher and father of three in Boone, N.C. So, of course, he decided to participate in an Ironman race." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

"But for some, the realization that they can’t outrun an illness can be devastating. Richard Brodsky, 56, found out he had terminal brain cancer in 2002. Increasing his running distances each day, Mr. Brodsky, an architect and philanthropist, set out to run the 2003 New York City Marathon. “It felt so right to me to be pushing myself,” said Mr. Brodsky of Atlantic Beach, N.Y. “Then a radiologist told me that fitness had nothing to do with my life expectancy, nothing at all. It was such a blow. I guess on some level I knew it, but when I heard it I got very upset.” Still, one year and one day after learning of his diagnosis, he crossed the finish line with his neurologist at his side. For medical professionals, patients like these present a challenge. Just because it is exercise doesn’t mean it’s good." - RAPatton

"Ms. Klein’s metaphorical runs from cancer don’t delude her. She knows the cancer could recur. But the endorphins from running keep her mind clear and make her spirits soar, she said. And this isn’t good just for her, it’s also good for her studies and her family. Every four months Mr. Brodsky has a brain M.R.I., but he keeps training. “People think that in a situation like this, you’re going to choose what you’ll think or feel,” he said. “But it’s not that simple. To me, running feels like I’m doing something.”" - RAPatton

Yay for Daniel Pritchett and his wife! - Anika Malone

:)) - Anna Haro

I love Alex Scoble. That is all. - Derrick

xero, I absolutely agree that there has been progress. I also say it doesn't matter at all. Listening to Iron Butterfly on my dad's system at the age of seven left an indelible impression on my young mind. It's one of those things, you had to be there. - Jason Wehmhoener

Is now a good time to admit that my TV speakers cost $2? ($20 with $20 rebate, and then tax and postage) - Amit Patel

my nephew and brother - The Amber

show of hands, who believes her? - Rahul Das

LOL...two all of these... :) Especially Simon's... - Zee.

Maybe she didn't know what shagged meant. - Andrew Leyden

"The Amish, the religious sect that has determinedly kept the modern world at bay, have been leaving a quiet life of farming for jobs in small businesses — all the while trying to balance their own values with the culture of the marketplace. Their whole intent is to not be caught up in the hustle and bustle of the modern world,” said John Swaffer, advertising manager at the Keim Lumber Company, a lumber mill in Charm, Ohio. The Amish move into the world of commerce has been more out of necessity than desire. Over the last 16 years, the Amish population in the United States — mostly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana — has nearly doubled, to 230,000, and the decreasing availability and increasing cost of farmland has forced many of these agrarian families, especially the younger generation, to gravitate to small business as their main source of income." - RAPatton

I think some of their wood work is absolutely beautiful - Mo Kargas

Mo, there work is top notch. If you have money in these parts, you bring in Amish carpenters to do your wood work - RAPatton

Have you checked out the FriendFeed widgets? http://friendfeed.com/embed - Dan Hsiao

When is the issue with comments not wrapping in the widgets going to be fixed? - Charles LePage

I need some of that :) - Jason Kaneshiro

That's right, screw you, FriendFeed late night peeps. I can't play with you anymore, you're totally screwing up my daytime mojo. Though, I will try to squeeze in an hour or two if I can before bed again tonight. - Pete D