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Joss Whedon, Doogie Hauser, Firefly, Buffy, etc. If *Any* of these words mean anything to you, then this should too. If you have 24 minutes free, watch it! If you have 48 minutes: Watch it twice. Acts I and II are out and Act III comes out on Saturday, but on Sunday they all come down and you have to pay to see it. - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet

NPH is the man! - Raymond

They make good use of counterpoint, for those that are into it... :P - Dan Hsiao

OMG! Mona STOP IT!!! My cheeks hurt from laughing so hard! :D !!! :( - Anna Haro

It's kind of like those missing child ads, with the picture on the left and the age-progressed version on the right. - Karim

@Karim--good call! - Anna Haro

Thanks for bringing this up ... we shouldn't overlook some of the other sites that have been doing similar things for far longer ... - David Weiner

Always learn so much from you Robert. Thanks for this perspective. - James

mainstream news in cool clothes, but i am not interested in mainstream news. even www.instablogs.com suffers from this - Gregory Lent

"Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages – Java, C++, or Python." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Of all the things to go open source since I've been at Google, this ranks near or at the very top of my list of favorites. A huge congrats to Kenton and everybody involved for pulling it off. May your data serialize efficiently and extensibly forevermore! - DeWitt Clinton

Thrift includes a whole RPC framework (including thread managers and so on). Protocol buffers are just a serialization mechanism. Otherwise, the differences are mostly in the details of the way things like versioning are handled. - ⓞnor

Magic moments -:) - Mark Forman

Double Like! Such precious little faces. - April Buchheit

Awwwww! :) - Bill Sodeman

It is working now. Need Hide icon. Comments started working too. - Russellreno via NoiseRiver

Russellreno: NoiseRiver uses a different algorithm to compute the "importance" of an entry depending on your interests, the title, and the comments - directeur via NoiseRiver

Russellreno: Sorry forgot to answer one of your questions. Are you sure you typed correctly your friend's nicks? :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

YES! works great...I like conversation here 'cuz they work and don't get eaten by the twitter bird or pooped by the fail whale! - Susan Beebe

It simply doesn't work as a Twitter replacement - it's far too heavy and new comments re-surface the item to the top - which is really annoying - Chris Saad via twhirl

Yes, many conversations are coming over here. My Twitter acct. has not been working for the past 24 hrs. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Is it a direct replacement? No. No more so than IM replaces email or SMS replaces IM. Can you refactor your online activity and get a whole lot of value out of it? Sure. - Ken Sheppardson

""The goal is to pay attention to sensory experience, rather than to your thoughts about the sensory experience," Lazar explains. "For example, if you suddenly hear a noise, you just listen to it rather than thinking about it. If your leg falls asleep, you just notice the physical sensations. If nothing is there, you pay attention to your breathing." Successful meditators get used to not thinking or elaborating things in their mind. Study participants meditated an average of about 40 minutes a day. Some had been doing it for only a year, others for decades. Depth of the meditation was measured by the slowing of breathing rates. Those most deeply involved in the meditation showed the greatest changes in brain structure. "This strongly suggests," Lazar concludes, "that the differences in brain structure were caused by the meditation, rather than that differences in brain thickness got them into meditation in the first place."" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

it scares me, being totally still. then those thoughts i don't want to come around come around... eeee! ;) - edythe

Jason: yes, practice helps. It's not so much "turning thoughts off" as it is not hanging on to them, not chasing them down to the next thought, letting it go. edythe: I wish I understood fear and knew the secret to letting go of it. Fear can have a tight grip sometimes. Perhaps you can learn to observe your fear without elaborating on it? - Jason Wehmhoener

Ruby, baby, ruby! - Tad - the Meme Maker

I don't work for FriendFeed; but yes FriendFeed does use Python. I've been using Python for all of my project (RSSmeme, fftogo, etc). - Benjamin Golub

Take that, brackets! - Slippy Lane

tac /var/friendfeed/mysql/shard0/slow.log | perl -ne 'if (/^#/) { $last = 0; } else { if ($last == 0) { print reverse(@q); @q = (); print "\n"; } $last = 1; }; push @q, $_; '| perl -ne 'if (/^# Time/) { print; print @l; @l = (); next; }; push @l, $_; '| perl -ne 'if (/^# Time/) { $t = $_; next; }; print; print $t if (/^$/); '| perl -ne ' $time = $1 if /^# Time: (.*)/; $qtime = $1 if /^#.* Query_time: (\d*)/; $rows = $1 if /^#.* Rows_examined: (\d*)/; next if /^#/; chop; push @l, $_ if $_; next if $_; print "$time\t$qtime\t$rows\t@l\n"; @l = ();' - Bret Taylor

Bret says hello - Joseph Ferrara.Sellsius

Holy mackerel. An old post...but so cute. - Mitchell Tsai

"Visualizing the commit history of the Python scripting language project." Gorgeous. - DeWitt Clinton

So the penguin really did mean something. Interesting. - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

@Voyager paul graham of YCombinator has a good essay on why Python is great here http://paulgraham.com/gh.html - Dragos Ilinca via twhirl

I really, really like this news. It's about time we get more high-profile open source web projects, other than content management systems. I really hope there will be many more web projects opening up their algorithms and other stuff! We saw with Firefox, how good that can work out! - sebmos

I don't think its possible for you to do something too clever. However if you exceed your cleverness bounds, I do hope you share whatever it is you were being clever about. - Erica Baker

This cleverness is intended to see the light of day. But any clever is probably too clever. Need to find not-clever. - DeWitt Clinton