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European markets opened sharply lower for a second day, while major Asian stocks tumbled. - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet

Gregory, depending from which perspective! Seeing that Goldman Sachs will take over the MarketMakers unit of Lehman for whatever amount of time, one can claim it is beneficial for the GS. Also, the fact that all those WS-used people will go looking for other jobs (think "Leave Wall Street Join A Startup"), it is good as well fro startups!! Matter of perspective. - Hayk Hakobyan

the other good thing, a lot of the near-criminal tricks are being exposed .. they will have to invent new ones! - Gregory Lent

"At the time, her daughter was 14 years old. Moreover, Alaska's rape rate was an abysmal 2.2 times above the national average and 25 percent of all rapes resulted in unwanted pregnancies. But Palin's position was palatable within the state's largely Republican political circles." - newsjunk.com

From wikipedia: "Bernard Shaw, the moderator of the debate, asked Dukakis, "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis [his wife] were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" Dukakis replied coolly, "No, I don't, and I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life," and explained his stance. After the debate, Dukakis told Estrich he was sorry and didn't realize it was that question[7]. Many observers felt Dukakis' answer lacked the passion one would expect of a person discussing a loved one's rape and death. Many — including the candidate himself — believe that this, in part, cost Dukakis the election, as his poll numbers dropped from 49% to 42% nationally that night. Other commentators thought the question itself was unfair, in that it injected an irrelevant emotional element into the discussion of a policy issue and forced the candidate to make a difficult choice. - Steve Garfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... - Steve Garfield

hahaha! - Anna Haro

The Common Craft things are ads and are paid for. I hear they get $20,000 or more to do these things. But I love them anyway, especially if they help get more people into our world. - Robert Scoble

Actually, Common Craft *did* get paid to make *some* of their videos (and as Scott says, always with full disclosure when that was the case), but a lot of them were made for nothing but the love of it (the Twitter one for instance, and of course RSS, Wikis etc.) Lee & Sachi have stopped doing client work now to focus on their Common Craft store - selling licensed versions of the videos for commercial use and making them freely available for bloggers. What's the issue with getting paid here? The videos rock, period. - Michael Pick via twhirl

I just found it interesting that below this video was a link for "How to Survive a Zombie Attack, in Plain English" - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl

wow! - felix

I only use Twitter and FriendFeed... goes to show how smart I am ;) - Michael Forian

Yap, but Twitter also shows how crazy people can be driven ;) - Martin Gommel

I'm starting to get this. Thanks for the coaching. - Pete Steege

haha - Lindsay Donaghe

That is 100% awesome. No. 137%. - Jandy Stone

:))) - hashem

awesome! - ※Fu※

fun, but is it really a good idea to put optical illusions in a parking garage? - Robin Barooah

This is the same tower that has an observation cube that slides out the side of the building and then turns the switchable windows off - http://www.skydeck.com.au/ - Bryce

Caption: :The Simses of Old Greenwich, Conn., gather to read after dinner. Their means of text delivery is divided by generation." - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet

Informative article, thanks for posting this. Would love to see some studies comparing neuronal activity of book reading to reading on the web. I was glad to see some mention of different forms of literacy - much needed in this sphere of discourse. Based on my own behavior I know most of my time spent on the internet is reading and writing, and since I work remotely that's usually 6-8 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. I can't say if it's affected my offline reading habits, though. - Adam Bohannon

adam, nice, about the neuronal activity ... don't know if you can feel your own brainwaves, a lot of meditators can, you would probably agree that the neuronal activity is quite different, and i will offer that it is "better" ... it is a higher order of brain functioning that happens reading on the net ... the "what" is important though ... following ideas in friendfeed is nearly an astral experience, and is transformative, without a doubt .. dlisted.com, not so much - Gregory Lent

ROFLMAO - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Some people have too much money. I would've loved that iPhone more than the blender. - Bryce

holy crap! Not the iPhone! - Rahul Das

Is that what I think it is? :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

the real question is - was it still there when you left? - Frederic

Marshall? *crickets chirping* Marshall?? Oh, he's in the kitchen snarfing down a bag of Doritos... ;-) - Lisa L. Seifert

classic episode!!! must watch now.... - Jason Calacanis via Bookmarklet

I saw nudity in the title and just had to like this post. - Jeff P. Henderson

Jason, I enjoy the TWIYT segments. Kind of a mini YouTube 'Talk Soup'. - Jeff P. Henderson

Scoble, I love your posts but its so freaking wrong to have to watch your shaky cellie-cam on Qik. Zero production value, bro. - Aaron deMello

I have to agree.. I love the interviews and new info you provide, but I just can't watch the qik videos.. I just can't. - Tim Hoeck

Phenomenal interview and demonstration. Best 'real world' demo of Surface I have seen. Less than stellar video quality is most certainly better than nothing at all--keep up the great work! - JimmyJet

"Given the difficulty even I'm feeling lately covering Iraq, and the fact that the pharmaceutical industry has largely had its way with the FCC and direct-to-consumer advertising, I'm wondering if this elephant-sized pill doesn't actually boost the drug ads inside" - joneilortiz