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For a second I thought that said georetarded ads - Jesse Stay

I'm not surprised by this move. I've seen LOTS of apps on the iPhone that ask me for the location when I first run them, even though the app itself is not such that it would possibly ever need my location. Soundboard apps that ask for location, for example. I always hit "no", but it is annoying to have them ask needlessly. That is all they're trying to stop from happening. Every free game out there now asks for location, for example. - Otto

Thirty-one years joined in navigating life's challenges and blessings. Happy anniversary, Jack! <3 - Anne Bouey

Thanks Dominic - hi to you and all your family there :-) - Jack Norris from email

"The latest design from the guys over at Mint Pass, is this fun looking robot which plays your favourite tunes and follows you around, the Music Tank Robot." - Müjdat Korkmaz

Hehe. We should send one to the moon in 2020 ;) Astronauts need tunes while they're out working :) - Roberto Bonini

"The Complete Guide to Google Wave is book authored by Gina Trapani (Lifehacker fame) and Adam Pash. This book is freely available for reading online. The book is divided into 8 comprehensive chapters and 2 appendices. A very good book on Google Wave indeed." - Iphigenie from Bookmarklet

Very cool! No pun intended. - Tim Raleigh

"For years it has stood unvisited and was considered an unfashionable 1960s monolith with an uncertain future. But with the flick of a switch, launching fireworks and a new 500ft-high Olympics countdown screen, central London’s BT Tower has been given a new burst of life. And now it seems the rotating restaurant – its crowning glory until it was closed 30 years ago – will reopen to the public." - Emma from Bookmarklet

I think we ate there in 1977 or so -- if I recall, it was amazingly expensive. - Stephen Mack

As much as I sometimes wish we could find a civilization-wrecking outcome from global warming, because that would force people to cut emissions very quickly, I don’t believe there is one. I think humans are amazingly adaptable and have amazing powers of isolating themselves from the environment by their technology, and those powers are not going to go away. And even human wants are very adaptable. So while I’m not claiming there won’t be bad impacts from global warming — of course there will be, I spent my whole lifetime writing on that topic — I don’t see it as a civilizational threat. - Meryn Stol

"This is a site where people can create and share interactive forms -- forms that can be used by others to assemble detailed output documents with just a few clicks of the mouse. The Tree Form Machine makes it easy to create: * Legal documents -- by mixing and matching relevant paragraphs. * Business form letters -- tailored to your customers. * Software licenses and EULAs -- with just the terms you care about." - April from Bookmarklet

Main differences between the desktop application (The Form Letter Machine http://www.donationcoder.com/Softwar... ) and web version: * Both share the same basic idea: You design a hierarchical tree-like structure of options, which are used to assemble an output document by mixing and matching sections. * The web version is much more focused on... more... - April

"GM had agreed to sell Opel and Vauxhall to Canadian car parts firm Magna. The Magna deal had the backing of the German government, which had pledged 4.5bn euros ($6.7bn; £4bn) of loans. GM added that it had also come to its decision because of the importance of Opel and Vauxhall to its global strategy. It said it would now "initiate a restructuring of its European operations in earnest" and seek aid from the German government, and other European states. However, its decision is likely to cause much anger in Europe, where the planned sale of Opel has been dragging on for months." -- do I smell lawsuit? - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet

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evet, soğuk di mi oralar.. vodka güzel gider şimdi.. :) - saditekin

nisam verovao da cu videti mesto gde je ovo prikladan komentar: http://xkcd.com/598/ :) - Marko Đorđevic

like to Ђорђевиц - Cyber Wanderlust

She is totally a dream girl of the nerds - Özkan Altuner

The first rule of tri-corner chess club is: Don't talk about tri-corner chess club. :D - Micah

"The Hubless Monster chopper by Amen Design is the world’s first fully functional motorcycle with two hubless wheels. Hubless (centerless) wheel is a type of wheel with no center hub. To be precise, however, the hub is actually almost as big as the wheel itself. Advantages include: decreased weight, lower center of gravity, increased braking leverage, and more accurate steering." - Dan Freeman from Bookmarklet

Dan, no, but that's also pretty awesome. All wheels should be hubless. 8^D - Chieze Okoye

"Accessible data visualization in HTML has always been tricky to achieve, particularly because elements such as images allow only the most basic features for providing textual information to non-visual users. A while back, we wrote an article describing a technique we came up with to use JavaScript to scrape data from an HTML table and generate charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element. The technique is particularly useful because the data for the visualization already exists in the page in structured tabular format, making it accessible to people who browse the web with a screen reader or other assistive technology." - Micah

Napoleon Dynamite was still not predicted accurately. - niniane from Bookmarklet