Mustafa K. Isik

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

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

"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

TOTALLY COOL!! alright... big brother cat snooper! - Susan Beebe

I'm getting one.$50 is a bargain - Richard Crocker

"The Searcher, Of Pandas and Rainbows." - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet

My Santa Monica colleagues and a local piece on Picasa Web Facial Recognition - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet

Hartmut Neven. FTW! ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos/m... - Mustafa K. Isik

I love the entire country, including the country code +357 - Danny Bo'itanni

noooooooooooo (i hoped maserati is the only one doing it wrong) - krz9000

Just in time for no one to be able to buy it. - Anthony Citrano

Anthony, CEOs ;) - AJ Batac ♘

"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

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

different picture here in Europe, but equally depressing. - Vincent van Wylick

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

Thanks Ben ;) - Mustafa K. Isik

It's a lovely shot especially considering the camera that took it. - Benjamin Golub

"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

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

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

"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

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

"“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

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

"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

My husband emailed this recipe to me earlier this week... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

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.

Wow. - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

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

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

l0lcatz, nice... - David Vasileff

"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

"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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Photonic

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

This is the kind of thing that I used to think was a bad idea. - Paul Buchheit via mail2ff

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

"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