Casey Muller

Or maybe somebody comes and steals your electric while you're away from home. - Gabe

Hope it wasn't the blender! - Adrienne

"With the introduction of the XMPP service to App Engine, it's now possible to write an App Engine app that communicates with users - or even other applications - over XMPP, otherwise known as Jabber or Google Talk. In this article, we're going to walk through an example that covers all the basic functionality of the XMPP API." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

I feel like replacing Mike Logan from that era with Batman was the right move. - Jonathan Le Plastrier

Buy my friend's book! Guaranteed to amuse! - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

Appreciate it. - Vezquex: God of FF

Nice background, Casey. - Louis Gray

"Though just six years old, Taobao — which means “to search for treasure” in Chinese — already has 120 million registered users and 300 million product listings, and generated nearly $15 billion in sales last year. The company says that sales through its Web site are already larger than those of any Chinese retailer. And this year, analysts say, its online sales will double, surpassing the expected $19 billion in sales by Amazon.com." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

seriously - what did people think was going to happen? - Robin Barooah from IM

Wow, lots of nice little touches- a Cat's Paw book, Brotherhood of Steel logos, a shrine to the Vault Dweller, etc. - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

Meanwhile, if you're wondering where the expression "got your goat" comes from: http://www.zyra.org.uk/getgoat... - Ana

Too bad this isn't an actual FriendFeed prank, in the spirit of Harvard-MIT :) - Ana

From last month's magazine. It's such a great game; my respect for both men is through the roof. - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

Fun game. - Alex Scoble

Thank you very much, Casey! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

ahhhh that explains it. thanks Paul. - chrisofspades from email

"Some bacteria have become resistant to every commonly prescribed antibacterial drug. But scientists found that Manuka honey, as it is known in New Zealand, or jelly bush honey, as it is known in Australia, killed every bacteria or pathogen it was tested on." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

"Grainy footage of outrageous exploits (bench-pressing Asian women, splashing down in a space capsule, performing trick billiards shots for turbaned companions) is accompanied by a sequence of boastful one-liners: "The police often question him just because they find him interesting," "His beard alone has experienced more than a lesser man's entire body," "His blood smells like cologne."" - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

"Most Interesting Doctor in World Warns 'Staying Thirsty' Could be Sign of Diabetes, Recommends Vicodin Over Beer" - Karim

LOL - Derrick

um.... UNPLUG IT! - J. Abdul-Qahhar

"Commissioners are not powerless. They could eliminate prolonged isolation with the stroke of a pen. So, I asked, why haven’t they? He told me what happened when he tried to move just one prisoner out of isolation. Legislators called for him to be fired and threatened to withhold basic funding. Corrections officers called members of the crime victim’s family and told them that he’d gone soft on crime. Hostile stories appeared in the tabloids. It is pointless for commissioners to act unilaterally, he said, without a change in public opinion." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

"But the RAW files [do] not remove the judges' suspicion of excessive use of Photoshop. In particular three images invoke the judges' anger. ... After a short discussion [they] agree to vote the series out." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

All three examples look okay to me, but of course they can set their contest rules however they want. - Casey Muller

Awesome pictures. Love getting a different perspective on things. - Garin Kilpatrick

"Several studies have confirmed this bizarre proposition: If you're taking a test of rote memorization, like words from a list, move your eyes from side to side for about 30 seconds before you start. Really." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

Dang - I'm a strong lefty. Won't help. - Hutch Carpenter

"Having pledged ourselves, we encountered the aspect of Wal-Mart employment that impressed me most: The Telxon, ... a hand-held bar-code scanner with a wireless connection to the store's computer. When pointed at any product, the Telxon would reveal ... the quantity that should be on the shelf, the availability from the nearest warehouse, the retail price, and (most amazing of all) the markup. All of us were given access to this information, because - in theory, at least - anyone in the store could order a couple extra pallets of anything, and could discount it heavily as a Volume Producing Item (known as a VPI), competing with other departments to rack up the most profitable sales each month." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

Yeah. Kobe's been 3 times as good since he switched to 24 from 8... - Dan Hsiao

I love kobe, but Michael could probably beat him now. - Ted Roden

"The speckled beans were pretty and had character too: a meaty texture and nutty flavor. Embarrassingly easy to make, they sparked more interest among my guests than the carefully roasted grass-fed leg of lamb. Who knew beans could be so . . . exotic?" - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

...beloved uncle who proudly broke his back every day for 40 years working in the reinsurance business." - Casey Muller

"A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or..." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

Humm..let's see...Got it! The monkeys are all in a quantum half-dead/half-alive state (schrodinger-zombie monkeys), and the pirates are just ninjas in disguise. The only survivor is Chuck Norris. - Ruben

"Like you, I was asked to work for an annual salary of $1, and I agreed out of a sense of duty to the company and to the public officials who have come to its aid. Having now been let down by both, I can no longer justify spending 10, 12, 14 hours a day away from my family for the benefit of those who have let me down." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet

yes, my master http://www.heritage.org/Press... - Boverdine

Lice on the fleaway? - Ana

I'll be there with a big pot in 30 minutes, you bring the camping stove? - Jonathan Le Plastrier

Ana, that's just lacist. - Mike Yang