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Welcome to area Matt. - Ozgur Demir

Eventually, after some delay. Feels almost as cold as when I left! - Matt Mastracci from iPhone

I need a good visualization for why days are shorter (in the northern hemisphere) in winter that would convince a 3-4 year-old child. My attempts of modeling Sun and Earth with a flashlight haven't been convincing so far. Maybe a nice video designed for young children? - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

"How much is your school’s suggested donation? Part 2 Let’s continue this discussion!" - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

Maybe it's bad I/O code when reading or writing to the file system? Is Microsoft crazy enough to have implemented their own deflate instead of using zlib? - Ray Cromwell

I have *many* complaints about Vista but I've never run into your problem. Not that this note helps you :( - Michal Cierniak from iPhone

Looks like many people leaving comments do not treat this as satire. - Michal Cierniak

"Our Mission:   "To acquire, preserve and display artifacts which illustrate the roles performed by the various military and NASA commands assigned to or operating out of Moffett Field in our endeavors to educate the public on the airfield's rich heritage"." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

"Simply, write notes to yourself on your mouse pad using just the pressure from your finger or the built in plastic stylus as a “pen.” Cool thing is, just like your childhood toy the magic slate, you can erase the notes at any time simply by flipping up the semi-transparent top sheet." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

"The EOS-1D Mark IV also delivers extreme low-light performance. Standard ISO on the EOS-1D Mark IV ranges from 100-12,800, while extended ISO ranges from a low of 50 to 102,400 – the highest ISO ever offered by a Canon SLR. This extreme low-light performance makes the EOS-1D Mark IV ideal for night shots or shooting at evening events, where the lack of light would normally make shooting impossible." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

"Now Garcia and other local residents are pushing to raise funds for a new kind of playground, accessible to everyone — kids and parents, disabled and not. The universal playground, called "The Magical Bridge," would be built behind the Abilities United building in a shady, unused area of Mitchell Park, and incorporate features ranging from play structures with ramps to a playhouse large enough for a wheelchair." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

Hmm... The word "basic" is coupled with unlimited storage and bandwidth. - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

"Theorem. There exist irrational numbers A and B so that A^B is rational." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

It took me just 10 seconds to find this proof I remembered from school. First result in: http://www.google.com/search... - Michal Cierniak

It's also interesting what Google search suggests after you type just "two irra". Surprisingly Bing doesn't suggest anything. - Michal Cierniak

Friends recommended this as having good performances for children. - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

You should add your blog to friendfeed :) - Michal Cierniak from iPhone

"We are pleased to announce 3 new features in today's release of the Google Sidewiki API: "includeLessUseful=true" - A new query parameter that allows you to fetch all available Sidewiki entries, not just only the useful ones. It is applicable to all feeds. "sidewiki:usefulness" - A new element that indicates whether an entry is useful or not according to our quality algorithm and user votes. "Domain Path" Feed - A new feed that gives you the ability to fetch all entries written for a particular domain." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

""Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan" - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

Such a great quote. I like to think of it as a simple mathematical basis for the KISS principle, as it applies to software development. If you're ever looking for evidence of it in action, try making sense of a nasty compiler error from a C++ template -- it's not technically debugging, I suppose, but it's kind of the same problem. - Joel Webber

I'm thinking of using this as a comment for code reviews. - Michal Cierniak

"An Interactive Kids' Learning Area: Young people from ages 3 to 6 can 'explore' Mars and take part in Mars-related activities in an area with Mars-like surroundings and soil." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

Definitely. I hope you guys hear some good news. - Admiral Anika

I will. *Hugs* - Mathew A. Koeneker

"Did Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office use a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to Tom Ammiano" - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

This made me smile. - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

People are so inventive! :) - Susan Taing

"In addition to using Twitter, these sympathetic readers used a new tool from Google — SideWiki — to post comments alluding to the controversy on the Web sites of Trafigura and its law firm, Carter-Ruck. Furthermore, Wikipedia, with its main servers safely sitting in the United States, freely linked to Wikileaks, giving coverage that was more comprehensive than anything a British news consumer could find." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

"It's finished! I started working on Yellow Cake in November of 2006 right after I finished production on 'The Waif of Persephone'. So, after almost exactly 3 years it's all done!" - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

"I’ve been reading a lot about the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccine and the risk of serious side effects and even death. I thought I would seek out the numbers and put them in context. Especially given headlines claiming the HPV jab is “as deadly as the cancer” it seeks to prevent." - Matt Mastracci from Bookmarklet

This is pretty cool. The driving death rate is pretty high. 1 of 260 people dies in a car crash. It would be nice to see more detailed death-by-driving stats broken down by various factors (age, location, type of road, amount of driving someone does etc). - Michal Cierniak

"You go to Wave, but without the Safari wrapper which allows you to navigate to another page or search the Web. Instead, it looks more like a regular app and there is no way to navigate away from it. Everything else works the same as in the mobile browser version." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

According to Hitwise (which buys ISP traffic logs and thus resides between panel and referrer-based metrics), Google went from 70.24% to 71.08% from August to September. Bing dropped from 9.48% to 8.96%. - Matt Cutts from Bookmarklet

@Michael Dadona, we are working on a Chrome extension for Sidewiki. Once we have it, we will surely announce on http://twitter.com/googles... - Michal Cierniak

"The Kübler-Ross model, commonly known as the five stages of grief, was first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book, On Death and Dying." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

"Consider It Antique Or High Tech Mail Slot?" - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

This is an entry from my Sidewiki feed. - Michal Cierniak

An api for it would be great. - Matt Ellsworth

Matt E. - check out http://code.google.com/apis... - Michal Cierniak

The API is dirt simple too. See here for an example: http://friendfeed.com/otto42... - Otto

"Today, we're launching Google Sidewiki, which allows you to contribute helpful information next to any webpage." - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet

"Car seats have expiration dates - check the tag. If it's past the expiration date, you'll have to just get rid of it" - Michal Cierniak from Bookmarklet