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There are some legitimately badass moves in there. - Seth

Aren't there?! Some of these girls are just amazing! - Rachel Lea Fox

It's especially fun to see with the notifier installed (http://friendfeed.com/setting...) -- I pressed "update" on twitter.com, and within about a second it went through all kinds of internet plumbing to appear in a bubble on my desktop! - Paul Buchheit

Documentation here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streami... - John Kalucki

Love the explosion of yellow when day breaks. - Benjamin Golub

If you click on the link (instead of playing inline), you can select the high quality version of this video. - Sanjeev Singh

I've wanted this for a while now, but I think the bigger problem may be on the cab side of the equation. Half the time, the cab companies aren't even answering there phones. In SF at least, it seems like there simply aren't enough cabs. (most cities limit the number of cabs) - Paul Buchheit

And it should be easy to use for intoxicated person (that's what cabs are for in Seattle anyway) - andrei_c

How StumbleUpon makes recommendations, and some numbers about its usage. - Amit Patel

Hee. See also: http://www.youtube.com/results... - ⓞnor

<3 Love - Kevin Fox

awesome!! - Tobias Boonstoppel

People often say "I wonder who clicks on search ads, because I sure don't". Turns out search history records this stuff (if you have it turned on). I've clicked on 9 ads this year, and bought products from two of them: a junk hauling company, and a balsa wood supply house. You? - ⓞnor

I don't have search history enabled. I just enabled it, installed the toolbar, thought about the privacy implications, shuddered, and uninstalled it. When Viacom wants to know what I read, they'll have to sue my ISP and t-mobile. :-) As for ads, I honestly don't click on them. :-) - Joanmarie

To be fair, there is more and more evidence every day that it's turtles all the way down. - j1m

it's one of the tips on Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/396312... - Trent Olson

You can also "search" using multiple terms too. You don't have to keep typing out a URL or title that has too many near matches. - Tanath

The New Hire Orientation video from 2000. I still remember watching this... - Kevin Fox

Oh man, that brings back memories. Hilarious / good find. - Jason Silverstein

"Twenty-six percent of all outdoor injuries reported by hospitals were snowboarders." - Tessa MacDuff

"Anybody who has never broken a bone can sit down." After a short pause, I added, "Anybody who does not have a severe scar can sit down, too." Of the 200-plus people in the room, split fairly evenly between men and women, about 80 percent of the women sat down and yet 90 percent of the men were still standing. - Piaw Na

Surprisingly, mountain biking is safer than hiking. - Piaw Na

Make way for the new Strawberry Shortcake - Kevin Fox

Reminds me of Penny Arcade's rendition of Strawberry Shortcake. They got a C&D about the image, but you can find it (and commentary about the issue) here: http://www.scalzi.com/whateve... - Mark Trapp

architect secretly installs complex puzzle hunt in an apartment - Seth

The parking garage at the new Heathrow terminal 5 has lights above every parking space to show which ones are empty (easier to see from a distance), and also has a computer that can tell you where your car is parked, in case you forgot. - Amit Patel

"WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish... SquirrelFish is fast—much faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. Check out the numbers. On the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter." - Bret Taylor

I thought the Java folks picked a stack-based bytecode for compactness, not speed, since the original target was embedded/mobile devices. - Jim Norris

I'm so glad that these screenshots have survived and (sort of) been released. I wish the content weren't blurred though -- I'm pretty sure it wasn't super-personal or anything -- I was usually careful to avoid that. It would also be nice to have the actual screenshots instead of photos of screenshots. - Paul Buchheit

I'm being honest when I say "inspiring"... I've built some homemade Intranet stuff at work and I love to see the evolution of the design. I want to go back and redesign everything now! Fantastic stuff. - Vince DeGeorge

Wow, some of these are hilarious! - Amber

Ouch on the treadmill! - Sheila Taylor

Lots of numbers about Google's machines, architecture, storage, etc. - Amit Patel

The numbers are pretty arbitrary though. It's like saying how many processes are running on my server (182) -- too little info to reveal much. - Paul Buchheit

Not eating for 12+ hours can help you reset your sleep schedule. - Amit Patel

Works too. I just tried this. - Tanath

Whoa. Skimming this, I read "Stop eating parenting squad" and I thought to myself, hmm, I didn't even know the parenting squad was tasty, much less unhealthy. Note to self: forgo cannibalistic tendencies prior to jetsetting. - Adam Lasnik

There is an important underlying issue here with respect to America's private universities... Let me put it this way: in 1960, the University of California--then overwhelmingly UCB and UCSF and UCLA--was about four times the size of Harvard, 5000 vs. 1200 undergraduates a year, with graduate students and faculty roughly in proportion. Clark Kerr, as president of the University of California in the 1960s, took a look at space constraints in Berkeley and Westwood, took a look at the rising population of California, took a look at increasing wealth, took a look at increasing educational attainment, took a look at the increasing attractiveness of American universities to people abroad, and conclude that the number of undergraduate students who could and would want to take full advantage of a UC education was going to grow eightfold over the next fifty years. So he decided to go all-out to clone UCB and UCLA. And he did it. - Piaw Na

Harvard, over the same fifty-year time span... Harvard has gone from 1200 undergraduates a year to 1600, and has done so in spite of starting with a substantial endowment and receiving $15B of private charitable gifts. Harvard does a great many things well--and I am impressed by the fact that Larry Summers's presidency seems to have had the effect of creating a large brand-new science... more... - Piaw Na