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"Quite right, but now they have a really good first step both on the client and server ends, so this acquisition brings such a goal into the realm of feasibility, I think." - Christopher Granade

"If you have to have a Google login to get to DocVerse, and if they make DocVerse-hosted Office documents available through Google Docs, then they've made the barrier to entry into Docs a hell of a lot lower. Moreover, this could work well with their other big project: Wave. There's currently no good way to get things in and out of Wave, making it much less than ideal for applications like what Pulse and SharePoint are targeting. Maybe DocVerse can somehow help with that?" - Christopher Granade

A very nice solution to the problem of serving HTML 5 <video> to older and non-conforming clients. - Christopher Granade from Bookmarklet

That's incredible... maybe even a bit too incredible. - Christopher Granade

There seem to be no official news so I've posted this as I've just found it on Facebook. Is this a good or bad thing? If I didn't want this but still wanted FB to import my FF posts what would I do? Basically I'm after a filter of what is imported from FriendFeed to FB. I'd like to filter out @replies and certain services. I don't want GReader posts being imported from FF to FB, can I filter these without affecting FF or GReader? - Kol Tregaskes

i dont see that option.. it updates the facebook stream not your status... i have friendfeed posts in my stream but my status still says twitter... - Jay M

I got a shipping notice from Amazon today, so my copy will arrive by Christmas. - Christopher Granade

No eggs! Easy to substitute the milk... awesome! - Christopher Granade

Well, one. But that's also easy to replace. I've made them with almond milk before, and the little extra kick of sugar makes it even better. - Malia

Scott, in full ironic mode, proposes a crowdsourcing project that could really take off: "Yes. I concede! D-Wave wins, and I hereby retire as skeptic. So the next time they announce something, there’s no need to ask me for my reaction. I’ll be too busy tending to my own project, codenamed ARGHH@home, which consists of banging my head against a brick wall." - Michael Nielsen

I'm tempted to set up an ARGHH@home site just for the laughs of it... - Christopher Granade

I love the bit about 1 Earthmass. - Christopher Granade

I love the phrase "president of physics." - Christopher Granade

"I mean, what's more likely -- that I have uncovered fundamental flaws in this field that no one in it has ever thought about, or that I need to read a little more? Hint: it's the one that involves less work." - John Dupuis

trying to figure things out is the right instinct - Mike Chelen

I think that @orzelc's book should be entertaining. - Christopher Granade

For the past couple of days hitting "comment" or "like" has resulted in... nothing. FriendFeed just sits there, not responding. Everything else on FF works. Tried logging out, restarting my machine, and so on. Couldn't bring myself to use IE, but nothing else worked. Finally, I added a new FriendFeed post by hand, and that seemed to reset the system - I can comment again. Strange. - Michael Nielsen

Sometimes the bookmarklet fails on me and I have to fully close the browser and re-open to get it working again(I think, don't know what actually causes it, but it'll work in Chrome when it fails in FF, and vice versa). Closing the browser for me is like re-booting my computer. - Mr. Gunn

I like that list for the most part, but recommending people use Google Notebook is quite irresponsible. Google has been warning users for two years that Notebook will be going away in favor of Docs, Gmail and (very recently) Wave, so if you start using it now, you could lose work. - Christopher Granade

Emmy is just unbelievably cute. - Christopher Granade

Thanks. She feels such compliments are only her due, of course... - Chad Orzel

FF doesn't meet all your requirements but it does seem to work well compared to the specialized services - at least in some fields - Jean-Claude Bradley

Deepak, I think I was just using terminology incorrectly. I was assuming Facebook = social networking. - Steve Koch

I'd actually be gleeful at curve fitting and hypothesis testing of such curves. Why are you saying we readers should be glad you don't have the numerics? - Christopher Granade

The answer is obvious, isn't it? There's just no good science books! </sarcasm> - Christopher Granade

I guess basically printing lots of money every Yule isn't good enough for them. - Christopher Granade

"Here are a few ideas on how to write math equations on your computer and how to distribute them to your students." - Dan Hagon from Bookmarklet

My main interest for that blog post was the use of Wacom's Bamboo. I'm curious to know if anyone has any experience of using this specifically for mathematics and if so which third-party software tools they have found to work well with it. - Dan Hagon

"I don't think we should have much experience with being treated like criminals. The legal doctrine of innocent until proven guilty works astoundingly well when actually adhered to, but this doctrine simply doesn't seem to apply in many aspects of American life these days." - Christopher Granade

"I have never understood the legal doctrine by which inalienable rights suddenly become quite, well, alienable at the border. If a right is truly universal, then it should hold at the border just as well as it does anywhere else. This is one of many places where I disagree with the US Supreme Court on principle, and where I suspect that they let politics cloud their expertise." - Christopher Granade

"If following procedure means beating someone senseless and trying to get them to waive their legal rights, then procedure is fucked. Yes, I am taking Watts' story at face value, and I could be wrong in that, but given my experiences, it seems much more likely that border crossing guards acted out of line than the alternative." - Christopher Granade

"FYI: Updates from Watts' blog are online at http://www.rifters.com/crawl...." - Christopher Granade

"Sadly, I think we won't get too much more info for a while, since Watts is not in a place to say much right now, and I don't think that the border guards will have much to say..." - Christopher Granade

Updates from Peter Watts. - Christopher Granade from Bookmarklet

A different perspective on the same story... now with less educated and insightful comments! - Christopher Granade from Bookmarklet

OK... a little too hasty there. Now that upvoting and downvoting are having a real effect, the comments look a bit better. I am consistently amazed at the blame-the-victim mentality that goes on in these kinds of stories, though. - Christopher Granade

"It's not just Cory Doctrow vouching for him, but also Charlie Stross and Neil Gaiman. Is it possible that there is more to the story that exonerates the guards? Of course it's possible, but given the US border crossing guards, it's not bloody likely. Even if he did something tremendously ill-advised, which doesn't sound like the case here, that does not justify a brutal beating and an assault charge, nor does it justify attempting to get Watts to waive his Miranda rights. Hell, we can even take the extreme case that Watts did somehow commit a felony (no evidence of this); the guards still should have respected his rights and his human dignity." - Christopher Granade

Via @orzelc. This is the kind of moment that one is ashamed to hail from the US. - Christopher Granade from Bookmarklet

I love that book... well, in theory, anyway, as I've never read it. - Christopher Granade

First big snow in Waterloo today... well, big is relative. It's like 1.5", which would be nothing back in Anchorage... - Christopher Granade