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Ross Miller posted a link
FAKE!: Alleged Smart Car Body Kits
FAKE!: Alleged Smart Car Body Kits
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October 7 at 1:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Cool! Too bad they're not real. - Dan Hsiao
hehe, although they do remind me of http://www.koolart.co.uk/ - Phill "Snowman" Price
I'd probably want one :) - Ross Miller
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Bret Taylor posted a link
YouTube - AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama
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October 6 at 1:21 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Totally worth watching. - David Sifry
Good message. At times, his delivery me of a professional wrestler. - Daisy
Great, great speech. - Jess Lee
Excellent speech. Makes my heart go warm. I grew up with union activist parents, who kept supporting the steel workers' union until long after they had themselves become entrepreneurs. - Mustafa K. Isik
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Benjamin Golub posted a link
In the Arms of Strangers » Blog Archive » Tracking your Cat with GPS - Alex Lee's Blog
October 6 at 1:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Somebody thought of a device that could be used to log its location at predefined intervals or by pressing a button. The original idea was to combine this information with photographs to match up your snaps with their location. Nice. But dull. A genius took this idea and thought “I’ll tie that to my cat. That’d be badass”. Mr Lee’s CatTrack was born." - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
Follow through to http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/ct... as well. I can't stop chuckling. - Benjamin Golub
That's awesome. The photo albums of the cat's trips are fascinating. - Lindsay Donaghe
TOTALLY COOL!! alright... big brother cat snooper! - Susan Beebe
I'm getting one.$50 is a bargain - Richard Crocker
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Benjamin Golub posted a link
October 6 at 6:57 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The Searcher, Of Pandas and Rainbows." - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
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Robert Konigsberg posted a link
October 5 at 9:55 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
My Santa Monica colleagues and a local piece on Picasa Web Facial Recognition - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet
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Dave Morin posted a message
“Hello from Turkish Cyprus!”
Hello from Turkish Cyprus!
October 5 at 4:52 pm - Link
I love the entire country, including the country code +357 - Danny Bo'itanni
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
Lamborghini shows 4-door 4-seater super sedan
October 5 at 1:10 pm - via Reshare - Link
noooooooooooo (i hoped maserati is the only one doing it wrong) - krz9000
I'm betting that the next 12-24 months will be bad all around for the exotic car companies and the car industry in general. - Alex "Chameleon" Scoble
Really Alex? Many of the truly exotic cars sell in the hundreds per year. Do the few thousand at the top of the economy really need credit to buy them? On the other hand, I can imagine the merely high-end manufacturers having trouble - I suspect a lot of Porsches and BMWs are bought on credit. - Robin Barooah
Ferrari sales in China rose 25 percent to 200 cars in the first nine months, Chief Executive Officer Amadero Felisa said in an interview at the Paris Motor Show. Lamborghini's Chinese orders jumped 60 percent to 45 cars and sales in the Middle East grew 52 percent. The U.S. showed a 5 percent decline. (bloomberg 10/3/08) - david A
What's next? Lamborghini crossover SUV with 18 cupholders, seating for 6, and 2 DVD players in back for the kids? - Amit Patel
They already did the SUV thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... - david koblas
Yeah LM002 FTW! - Alex "Chameleon" Scoble
Just in time for no one to be able to buy it. - Anthony Citrano
Anthony, CEOs ;) - AJ Batac ♘
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Christopher Sacca posted a link
Neatorama » Diving with the Right Whale
October 5 at 8:35 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Q: It must have been pretty nerve-racking having such a large animal swim up to you. A: It was amazing. I mean, I have to tell you there were days when I was at the bottom at 70 feet, and here comes this bus swimming down. I’m standing on the bottom, and as it comes down, I get on my knees, lean over backwards—my scuba tank is now digging into the sand. And of course their eyes are on the side of their heads, so it had to turn and look at me. It came within inches. Here’s this softball-size whale eye looking at me. But then it stops—stops on a dime. It’s just hovering there, and literally one flick of its tail, and it would have crushed me like a bug. But it doesn’t. It was just highly curious." - Christopher Sacca via Bookmarklet
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World on the edge | World on the edge | The Economist
October 4 at 3:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Whatever happens in Congress, the crisis is now global; that means governments must work together - Dave Hussein Winer via Bookmarklet
You hope. - Bored
the Economist, that old pinko rag! - Nathan Rein
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Bret Taylor posted a link
The Economist loses its s--t? on TwitPic
October 4 at 2:59 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
different picture here in Europe, but equally depressing. - Vincent van Wylick
this can't be real, can it? i didn't see this anywhere on the economist's site. i doubt a publication like that would publish something like this - Cee Bee
Pretty sure it is a joke... - Bret Taylor
This is the imagery they're using on their site. Pretty stark, but not "Oh fuck." http://bit.ly/3ehTJ4 - Dave Hussein Winer
must be a joke, no way would they publish that - Susan Beebe
Fake! The copy I received says "Son of A...!" - Mike Lewis
fake fake fake … mine (in the UK) looks nothing like that. - dkb
Alas, mine arrived in the mail today and had a less dramatic cover ;) - Jennie Lin
fake, but really quite funny - I am curious to see how the endless cheerleaders of the free market economy will spin this meltdown - Nadine Schaeffer
Perhaps you can read the recent blog post of Prof. Gary Becker: http://www.becker-posner-blog...., it doesn't seem to me what is melting down is a free market economy, given the fact that majority of consumers in the market made their financial decision without fully understanding nor being well informed what it was. Or, in other words, fundamentally it is not free market mechanism that has caused the current problem. - Sophie Yip
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Thanks Ben ;) - Mustafa K. Isik
It's a lovely shot especially considering the camera that took it. - Benjamin Golub
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
October 2 at 12:52 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that’s $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands — losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.” People should have known better but in some way’s it’s unavoidable with markets: “People should always know better. … I mean people — people don’t get — they don’t get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is, and he’s doing these things, you know, and he’s getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren’t doing — pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three I’s: the innovators, the imitators, and the idiots. And that’s what happens. Everybody just kind of goes along. And you look kind of silly if you disagree." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Can someone please engrave this on a plaque somewhere? Maybe we could have it etched into some tablets from the mountaintop and have churches predicated on these words. - Christopher Sacca
Right on! Yep, i am very "silly" ...not a jonesy type anymore.... we gave away much of our "cool stuff" and now have a mimimalist home ...MUCH BETTER and the best part, no stinking debt, except house and 1 car. The bank was all too ready to sock us deep into debt. We decided against that and are very happy with our decision to borrow only half what was offered (more realistic with cushion to $pare) - Susan Beebe
Unsure imitators and idiots don't simply continue on their merry way under bailout. - AJ Kohn
@AJ all the bailout does is buy time. We're merely delaying the inevitable, I think. If the imitators and the idiots keep doing what they're doing, we'll just be right back here again, except probably even worse off. - Victor Ganata
@Victor: Sadly, I agree. - AJ Kohn
Warren gets it, and he's a pretty straight shooter. These are the kind of heartland values politicians should be espousing. - £ogical €xtremes
@Susan - we also just bought a house (closing on Tuesday) for half what we were pre-approved for. - Robert Felty
Warren: "And all I can say is beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas.” - carolh
Paul, I've posted the video of the full interview- http://nicefishfilms.com/blog/... Charlie Rose's site is being hammered with traffic today. - Nice Fish Films
A lot of people have criticized Paulson, here's what Buffett says: "I don’t think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson … he knows markets, he knows corporations’ work, he knows money, and he’s got the interests of the country at heart." - Sanjeev Singh
Buffett for President? - Jeff B
Here is my new motto, <geek>Live below your means, but get enough technology to have some fun.</geek> - jokrausdu
To have my blog post distributed on Friendfeed by The Paul Buchheit is pretty damn cool. Thanks :) - Ranjit Mathoda
Buffett (and Charlie Rose also) two of the smartest minds I've heard - Alex Hammer
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October 2 at 12:11 am - via Reshare - Link
android or DSi....i think ill go with android and hope for an emu :) - krz9000
"will ship with a built-in web browser." Hopefully better than the Nintendo DS browser - Lode Nachtergaele
WPA??? - krz9000
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Benjamin Golub posted a link
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September 30 at 1:14 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001." - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
What searches did you try? I admit I tried my name and friendfeed :) - Benjamin Golub
[airport security], [ubuntu], [high price of gasoline], [y2k], [wikipedia], [coke zero], [bush], [navigator], [webvan], [click fraud], [adsense], [mccain] (check #4), [bailout], [the ring], [wordpress], [america online] - John Mueller
Wow! When I googled myself (Shannon Taylor at the time) I got my web page from college. I had totally forgotten about it: http://web.archive.org/web/200... - Shannon Jiménez
LOL, here's bwana.org from 2001. http://web.archive.org/web/200... I wrote my own blogging engine back then. Previous version: http://web.archive.org/web/200... - Bwana McCall
I googled myself. I didn't find anything about me. I found ottoman emperors name like mine. - devletsah
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Sanjeev Singh posted a link
“Because they know better....”
September 30 at 5:44 pm - via Reshare - Link
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Christopher Sacca posted a link
Why Is America So Religious? - By the Numbers Blog - NYTimes.com
September 30 at 9:40 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"“The clear exception to this pattern is the United States, which is a much more religious country than its degree of prosperity would suggest. Despite its wealth, the United States is in the middle of the global pack when it comes to the importance of religion. Indeed, on this question, the U.S. is closer to considerably less developed nations such as India, Brazil and Lebanon than to other western nations.”" - Christopher Sacca via Bookmarklet
It's interesting data. I just took a quick look, so I could be half-cocked, but I think the methodology for that one particular graph is somewhat problematic. It measures importance of religion by asking people how important they think religion is -- self-reporting. Also, in the "advanced" countries, polling was done over the phone, but was face-to-face in the "developing" countries. In the U.S. -- this should be of interest to you -- the poll excluded cell phones. Imagine how this might skew U.S. results. - Chester
@Chester I see you praying into your cell phone all of the time... - Christopher Sacca
America is religious when necessary. In a word, hypocrisy. - JodyUnwired
Not arguing with the general conclusion of the study, as it intuitively seems to make sense. But it's not as rigorous as it could be. And the general conclusions are also problematic because, while Japan -- for example -- may not be "religious", there are strong "traditional values" that may mirror some impacts of religion. Consider, for example, extremely restrictive/xenophobic Japanese citizenship policies... - Chester
Mhm... Spain ranks low in importance of religion? and that close to France? something's wrong with that data, at least from what I've experienced living and traveling around here for the past year. - Juan Pablo González
Chris: The body position of someone perpetually tapping into his iPhone is an almost comical approximation of someone clasping hands in prayer. And the study really is problematic...especially for you, given your recent highlighting of landline-only polling. And there's no detail on the time of day they called. Imagine they only polled Americans who own landlines and are home during business hours. Given the study's own findings regarding a gender gap in "belief", that's a problem. - Chester
I know it's impossible to collect the data now, but I'd love to see this as trends over time. Is the US disproportionately religious because of it's relative youth? I wonder if nation age is a factor as well as prosperity. - Michael Kowalchik
I also wonder if the states were considered independently, how would the data look. - Michael Kowalchik
Michael: 1) The US isn't particularly "young". 2) The study finds that lower age correlates with lower importance of religion. 3) In the study, there are very "young" countries that are very religious: India and Indonesia, for example. 4) Conversely, despite older populations, Germany and Japan are, supposedly, very non-religious. - Chester
Chester, I didn't mean age of the population, I meant time of existence of the country as an entity. The US being only 230 years old as compared to some of those European nations. I was wondering if history + prosperity = less religiosity. - Michael Kowalchik
I think trying to express memes like religion with a simplistic equation is quite impossible. We can find any desired correlation between any two parameters by polling appropriate audiences. - Shivanand Velmurugan
Which of these countries have a state church and state-owned economies? I'd expect that a state church would be less efficient, less competitive, etc. than privately owned churches, and thus less effective at keeping people religious. If the church is run by the state but businesses are private, then businesses will outcompete the church. But if the church and businesses are both state-run, or if the church and businesses are both privately run, then the church doesn't have the same disadvantage. - Amit Patel
Michael: Ah, I see now. Well...if history + prosperity = less religiosity, then Australia would be closer to the USA than to the UK. I agree with Shivanand -- that the very idea of "religion", as well as what it means for religion to be "important" to oneself, is far too complicated to be sufficiently and accurately gauged through a single variable, self-reported question. - Chester
One possible explanation: "Americans have the highest income inequality in the rich world..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.... If there are a large number of poor people, and lack of prosperity increases religion then there would appear to be a link there. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... - Nick Lothian
Nick: Data doesn't bear that out, either. Great Britain and Australia have significantly higher Gini coefficients than, say, Germany, which rates much higher in the study's religiosity data. Again: before trying to base conclusions off the data in this study, try examining the methodology of the study itself. The one in question was devised in a way that undermines its validity. - Chester
@Chester - I think that the data does bear that out. I hesitated in including the Gini coefficients link because it isn't obvious how significant a 10% difference is. Australia is around 35, the UK around 36, and the US around 47. That really is a significant different. Gini has to be looked at along side average income or purchasing power, too. - Nick Lothian
@Chester - what problem do you see in the methodology? - Nick Lothian
Nick: Comparing AUS/UK vs. the US, inequality correlates with religiousness. But with AUS/UK vs. Germany, there's negative correlation. And how is one to square Indonesia and Poland being between AUS/UK and France in Gini coeff. but being super-crazy-religious? As for methodological problems, I list a bunch in previous comments. Beyond issues of methodology, what does it mean to for "religion" to be "important in one's life" in these different countries, respectively? Does that mean the same, globally? - Chester
WRT Indonesia vs Poland, as I mentioned you need to look at absolute average income or purchasing power, too. Indonesia is a much poorer country. I do agree that there are problems with the income inequality argument, though. I disagree that there is a major methodological problem, though. Look at the "How often do you pray" question - there's a good correlation between that and the importance of religion answers. - Nick Lothian
Ah, my mistake. Still...how do you account for the Germany outlier? And with "how often do you pray" and religiousness questions...did they even ask them in China (maybe they couldn't)? I think, for your hypothesis, what you need is time series data -- i.e. annual data Eastern Bloc countries as they become more affluent or Japan between the 80s boom and late 90s lows. Then you'll see how wealth/distribution might interact with religion. But the study in question was not really concerned with that topic... - Chester
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
SpaceX Falcon 1 Makes History This Evening: Earth Orbit Achieved On Fourth Attempt
September 29 at 1:15 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"SpaceX’s Falcon 1 spacecraft made history tonight as the first privately developed launch vehicle to reach earth orbit from the ground. “About nine and a half minutes after launch, the second stage engine shuts down, and the Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to orbit the Earth,” the company said. ... Falcon 1 is a 70- foot tall two-stage, liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene powered launch vehicle." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
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JMakesAwesomeSauce posted a link
Chocolate Cake In 5 Minutes! | Dizzy Dee
Chocolate Cake In 5 Minutes! | Dizzy Dee
September 25 at 8:19 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
My husband emailed this recipe to me earlier this week... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Takes too long. I want it NOW - Josh Haley
Here are some variations, including peanut butter chocolate, spice cake, and Jello cake: http://www.metafilter.com/7347... - Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle! The thing I like about it is it's single serving. Living alone during the week means I don't want a great big cake sitting around. :-) - JMakesAwesomeSauce
Three people I know tried this and said it was actually good haha! - Mona N.
Confession: I do not own a microwave. - Kaia is a party pooper.
Kaia, no cake for you. - Rochelle
Cake? *rolls eyes* - Tad - the Meme Maker
Kaia, I don't own a microwave either. Don't miss it either. - Heidi Hansen via twhirl
Oh, Tad. - Rochelle
My boyfriend made it weeks ago... easy and fast, but not the king of chocolate cake I would like to eat. And the only cake he ever "baked". - Bibi
Not much on presentation, but I bet it tastes good! - Walt Ruppar
when i look at this all i can think of is 2 girls 1 cup. yes, i'm scarred for life - cjmart
ick - nate pagel
The idea of microwave cake is brilliant, but the references to 2 Gs and a cup killed it for me. - Sprague D
how important do you think the egg is to the ingredients? - Stewart Rogers
Stewart, essential, so don't leave it out. However, you can substitute 1/2 a mashed banana or 1/4 c. of applesauce for 1 egg in a baking recipe and it works pretty well. I use the banana substitute when I make banana bread not because I hate eggs but because it makes it even more banana-y. - Rochelle
Hrm...this could be quite useful in helping me maintain my diet (serious) - Rah™
dang, rochelle, I didn't know that! Thanks! - Kaia is a party pooper.
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Jim Norris posted a link
YouTube - CBS Sarah Palin interview
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September 24 at 8:58 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Wow....if she IS elected will the GOP PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give her diction and poise lessons? If I'm going to have to listen to her crap I'd like to at least not be distracted by a million and nine ums. Also big <3 to the reporter's expression - even she can't believe this shit. - Soup
1000009? ;-) - j1m
Memorised her lines? - Vijayendra Mohanty
omg - i can't stand listening to her. - Tad - the Meme Maker
hello bird. pretty bird. poor ole bird. - Tad - the Meme Maker
Ouch, this is not a smart person, or a prepared speaker. - j1m
wait, you expect the vice president to walk, talk and think at the same time? what kind of country is this!!? - Nailed Jello
did i see Palin looking down at notes in her lap? - MikeAmundsen
what's great about this is that as an observer, you just... you just.. don't need to say a thing. it's all right there in the video. god save us. - Anthony Citrano
huh, CBS web site has another version of this interview [http://www.cbsnews.com/video/w...] check out @ 2:15. sure looks to me she is checking out notes on her lap. am i nuts? - MikeAmundsen
ok, i can't resist. Palin: ".. go back and look at track records and see who's more apt to just be talkin' about solutions and .. who's actually done it?" Couric: "can you give us any examples of him leading the charge for more oversight?" Palin: "...he's known as the maverick though.. takin' shots from his own party..." [uh, is he running for American Idol or President?] Couric persists. Palin: "I'll try ta find some and I'll bring 'em to ya." [Well alright, then...] - Anthony Citrano
Uhm...dude..seriously. This *IS* like a f*ckin Disney movie. Matt Damon was right - Rah™
btw, Lawrence Lessig just compared Sarah Palin to every vice president in U.S. history http://scienceblogs.com/clock/... - ~C4Chaos
@C4: yep, Agnew - ha! also interesting to note VPs Nixon, Quayle, and Gore (among others) were younger than Palin. very diff backgrounds than hers. [sigh]. - MikeAmundsen
that...was painful to watch - cjmart
PLEASE circulate this video to as many people as you can. wow. hopefully the 50% approval rate she's getting will dip. wow (again) - Jeremy Toeman
Ever since people managed to vote for George W. Bush and then even re-elect him for a second term, I don't believe in the deterring effects of such documents of lacking capability. By now I have come to the conclusion that voters just won't care to understand & go with their gut feeling. The U.S. has to improve the quality and reach of its public education system and hope that in the ten to twenty years that it takes for the fruits of such work to trickle through society, nobody takes advantage of its lack. - Mustafa K. Isik
My god, she's brainless. And brazenly so. Our forefathers were right: the masses cannot be trusted to govern themselves if we're seriously considering candidates this outlandishly uninformed and uneducated. Le sigh. - Jake Stetser
I think most word-based videos will have a much smaller effect to a mainstream audience than stories told in pictures. Words can be endlessly debated by media which makes it look as if non-subtle points are subtle, but it would be harder to argue with, say, a politician strangling a kitten on live TV. TV does not target our ratio most of the time, and on the surface, that Palin video shows a woman with an energetic walk who talks about important issues in front of lots of flags, but she's also looking down to earth so that you can imagine her to be your friendly neighbor etc. - Philipp Lenssen
Palin's responses in this interview are really pathetic. She is sooo not qualified to run as VP of this country - Susan Beebe
Did it seem like she boned up on the word 'multifaceted' or is it just me? - AJ Kohn
Does she have any understanding of major current events at all?? - felix
@Jim Norris Wow is right. - Aaron Krug
I feel like I just heard some soccer mom who still loves her massive SUV tell me how she thinks McCain is the right choice based on what the media and the GOP has told her she should think and what the other soccer moms have convinced her of. - Brett Cannon
I'd never, ever vote for her, but watching it after reading the comments I was expecting worse. She wasn't that well prepared, but to me it looked like her real problem was that she was really, really nervous. - Nick Lothian
If they win the election I think I might leave the country, this scares me. US is going down the drain. - Anamarie
I think my feelings about the upcoming election just went from excitement to fear. - Clare Dibble
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Ross Miller posted a link
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the bus…
September 24 at 9:23 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Think of the poor kids having to ride this bus. MOM!!! It's a GIANT SHARK!!! - Tad - the Meme Maker
I love creative advertising... - Ross Miller
Awesome. - Peter Butler
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Jim Norris posted a message
“Upload a screenshot of your desktop, as is, now.”
Upload a screenshot of your desktop, as is, now.
September 23 at 8:36 pm - Link
l0lcatz, nice... - David Vasileff
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Robert Konigsberg posted a link
September 22 at 2:34 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Saturday ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president. The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is a setback for the Bush administration in its effort to promote a narrow definition of materials that must be safeguarded under by the Presidential Records Act." - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
RedState: The Root Causes of the Financial Crisis
September 20 at 7:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Let’s say that you’re a hedge fund with a billion dollars in capital. Let’s say you levered up 30-to-1 (which is not unrealistic). Conceivably you could construct a $30 billion portfolio of MBS off the $1 billion in capital. Your raw annual investment return (without counting a handful of external costs like insurance) would theoretically be 30 times 75 basis points. WOW! That’s far, far, far above the “normal” risk-adjusted investment yield of 8 to 10 percent that institutional investors have targeted as a benchmark for decades. Now do you see where the whole problem came from? Ok, what happened next?" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
houses of cards - £ogical €xtremes
It works great as long as everything keeps going up. Unfortunately the whole system became highly leveraged on house prices. I predict massive inflation -- it seems like the easiest way out of the mess. - Paul Buchheit
Starting to sound like that other Paul... - torque
Where are hedge funds getting the money to buy these MBS? Investment banks? Were normal commerical banks buying MBS on borrowed funds as well? - Michael
Pretty much explains the 'big problem'. The lending institutions had no idea now much bad paper they were holding. ... That just blew me away totally (and I guess, ultimately blew a lot of them away too). - Charlie Anzman
I dunno. If this is correct, then shouldn't somebody, somewhere, be buying up MBS at cheap rates, knowing that they probably won't actually default all that much? Are people afraid that default rates will continue to rise, or is this some sort of feedback-based financial meltdown independent of the actual underlying risk? - ⓞnor
This sounds like the start of the Great Depression. Everybody was leveraged to the hilt, and then the margin call came and nobody had the money to pay up. - Gabe
It's nice to try and simplify things down but this explanation seems overly simplistic to me. No mention of the sources of the housing bubble, CDOs and CMOs, credit default swaps, and mark to model versus mark to market. Perceived risk is a huge part of this story, and while it is mentioned in the article, the tone of the article makes it seem as if margin by itself is the evil (witness the foreign currency market.) - Dave Bacon
So far it does sound like a Great Depression 2.0. Can't read the article though, I'm getting 500 - Internal Server Error -- - Eugene
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Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free...
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August 26 at 9:59 am - Link
1.2B reads / sec from a hash map in a single JVM on a machine with several hundred CPUs. That aggregate throughput is probably a record for any hash table running anywhere on any hardware. - Sanjeev Singh
In case you want the slides, you can find them here http://developers.sun.com/lear... - Shakeel Mahate
I watched this talk when it was first released and by fall last year wondered why Cliff Click's data structure hadn't seen inclusion to the jdk or at least wider adoption. I asked jjb during one of our weekly concurrency meetings and learned that some unexpected problems had crept up in the meantime. - Mustafa K. Isik
I watched this talk twice by video and once live at JavaOne. I still didn't understand one component until speaking with Cliff at the conclusion of his live talk. I'm not surprised it's not yet part of the JDK; I suspect it requires a significant acceptance prior to its inclusion, given that it's so new. Of course, I don't claim to understand JCP, nor have I followed updates to this hash map since J1 '07. - Robert Konigsberg
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Paul Buchheit posted a message
“Breakfast with the Teletubbies”
Breakfast with the Teletubbies
September 20 at 12:29 pm - via mail2ff - Link
This is the kind of thing that I used to think was a bad idea. - Paul Buchheit via mail2ff
And then you had children :) - Bradley McSpinn
eh-oh! - WorldofHiglet
Now that you're not allowed to smack your kids to keep them in line in public, what else can you do? - Gabe
Now what kind of idea do you think it is? Brilliant? :) - Dan Hsiao
my kid loves these signing videos. During a rare meltdown they are a godsend to calm him down. The iPhone rocks for that. - Dylan Parker
I prefer breakfast with FriendFeed myself. - Roberto Bonini
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
Canon EOS 5D Mark II: 21MP and HD movies: Digital Photography Review
September 17 at 10:10 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The EOS 5D Mark II boasts a new 21MP CMOS sensor, an expanded ISO range of 50-25,600 and a wealth of improvements and new features including full 1080p HD movie recording, live view, 3.0" 920k dot LCD, DIGIC IV processor, increased battery capacity and sensor dust reduction. UPDATE: Body-only prices: US: $ 2,699, EU: € 2,499, UK: £ 2,299." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Is this not the coolest digital camera yet?! - Susan Beebe
Holy cow, this is the first time I am thinking about migrating to Canon. Price is very competitive. - andrei_c
Looks like the competition is working -- Canon one ups Nikon - Brian Sullivan
I'd like to see some, you know, side by side image comparisons before I crown winners based on feature lists... That said I very much hope Nikon releases a firmware update to support live video in the D700. - Kevin Fox
Not likely, Kevin; video recording isn't a simple software feature. To do it right you have to put dedicated hardware onboard. - Gabe
Anyone have details on what format/codec will be used for the video? I have a Sony HD video camera that records to AVCHD and it is a *royal pain* to deal with editing that format. - Jeremy Hall
Quicktime 1080p H.264; 38.6 Mbits/sec - Paul Buchheit
It's AVC and it's HD; I'm not sure how to tell if it's AVCHD. - Gabe
Gabe, the Digic image processors are dedicated hardware. I so appreciate bug fixes, but hate how Canon, and other makers too, provide no feature updates in their firmware upgrades. Like computers, digital cameras would be awesome with software-upgraded features. - John Lam
So that likely means most NLEs won't support editing the file unless you transcode it to another format. Even Final Cut Pro only supports AVCHD right now by transcoding it during an import process. -