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Interesting article. - Robert W. Anderson

Interesting article. - Robert W. Anderson

Robert's hire was announced on March 14, 2009. The closing price for RAX on March 13th was $5.98. Today, the stock is at $23.09, an increase of 286%. - Louis Gray

Given the market's overall rise this year, I wondered if Rackspace's rise was a case of "a rising tide lifts all boats". Nope! RAX has heavily outperformed the market: http://finance.yahoo.com/q... - Hutch Carpenter

I believe mating substituted for a different word. - Louis Gray

I think they meant "fornicating"... - Gabe

"You'll find dozens of weather reporting services online, but all of them give you the weather in the traditional old sunny/cloudy/raining kind of way. None of them, however, will tell you if today will be as pleasant as Naboo." - Victor Ryden from Bookmarklet

lol - winckel

For LA today: Oh 19C, Fair? It's like Naboo out there. Temperate, dry and fairly pleasant. - Victor Ryden

"All in all, despite the questionable legality, it really is a great-looking copycat; almost pixel-perfect. I wonder if Ubuntu developers are happy, or despairing." - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

Wow. Just wow. - ha3rvey (big appetite)

"Tracy's had his problems in the last few years." http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Ciaoenrico

:)) - Anne Bouey

"A photo turns up of you nakedly doing something that would shame you and your family for generations. Bestiality, perhaps. How many people in your life you would trust with that photo? If you're like the rest of us, you probably have at most two. Even more depressing, studies show that about one out of four people have no one they can confide in. The average number of close friends we say we have is dropping fast, down dramatically in just the last 20 years. Why?" (According to them: Segmented society.) - ⓞnor

Thanks RSD- too bad the key comes at the end:You want to break out of that black tar pit of self-hatred? Brush the black hair out of your eyes, step away from the computer and buy a nice gift for someone you loathe. Send a card to your worst enemy. Make dinner for your mom and dad. Or just do something simple, with an tangible result. Go clean the leaves out of the gutter. Grow a damn plant. - Mark A Jensen

"Are you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience? Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google." - mjc from Bookmarklet

the reason why you'd even need a tool like this is that each ISP and even each region in which that ISP is located, routes differently. Comcast's DNS is faster than google's when for example comcast's is sitting in the same building as the place your cable connects to. Funnily enough, I'm on comcast in fort lauderdale, and it suggest's AT&T's DNS in naples. Note that a lot of this is mitigated by having a router (eg. wifi) that caches DNS requests. - mjc

of course the stormtrooper plays bass lol - T. Brent, technopeasant

HELLOOOOOO MOS EISLEY!! - Josh Haley from iPhone

I <3 Al Franken - Alex Scoble

With the Comcast takeover of NBC net neutrality is going to be even more critical. - Kenton

"Today, I decided for Christmas I will be getting my boyfriend a body wash with sparkles so when he goes out in the sun he will shimmer like Edward. MLIT." <---seriously? WTF. - Mona Nomura from Posterous

"The way a person becomes smart is to store in their brain only the information that they have to know, dismissing the rest. If it’s written down, I don’t need to know it. That’s what Albert Einstein would have you believe. But not Damjan Stanković. In an ideal Damjan Stanković world, you’d know how long you were at that stoplight because it would tell you what it’s up to. Tell me what you’re up to, stoplight! Don’t hold back your secrets, you stoplight you! I would love to know how much time I have before I am able to race to the next copy of you. I want to know how much time I have so I can hurry up and stop again!" - AJ Batac from Bookmarklet

there's a gap between lights on the different directions (depending on the intersection's programming) so knowing when one light will turn green does not mean that the other light just turned red... it could have turned red 2 seconds ago... people who will jump the gun and run a light are going to do it with our without this cool countdown red light timer - Chris Heath

ev that article is based on the answers I've gotten on stage in public. See Paul Bucheit's comment here: http://friendfeed.com/stevegi... - Steve Gillmor

What's confused, Kol? - Ken Sheppardson

aside from the actual content, I love the photo. - Karoli

Almost, Bruce, but while I've been talked back off the d-word ledge, I think Facebook cares much more about FriendFeed *technology* than the site as a destination. I'll believe they care about it as a stand-alone UX when I hear somebody at Facebook who wasn't a FF employee mention it by name in public. I won't go so far as to ask that they suggest people sign up for the service... just acknowledge that it continues to exist. - Ken Sheppardson

I agree with his reasons 100% - I've gotten incredibly nervous in interviews and it always screws up my thought process. I used to have the same problem playing trumpet - I was first-chair trumpet all through High School but when it came to competition I'd always tense up and screw up my audition. - Jesse Stay

I've gone through some pretty rigorous interviews and even gotten the job, but there are some I've gone through that when I get home I realize how badly I messed up because I was nervous. - Jesse Stay

so jesse... let me ask - does the future have a logout button? - Allen Stern

Allen, hmmm...if there's no log in button can there be a log out button? :-) - Jesse Stay

How are we going to tell what FriendFeeders who have us blocked are saying about us behind our back if we can't log out? - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

"Go to the goddamn grocery and get steak. Yes, the grocery. A little ammonia is not going to kill you, you pussy. You want to be all fancy and grass-fed and environmentally conscious, go ahead, I don't give a shit, just get a fucking steak. Ribeye is good. And, yes, bone-in. Schmuck. Take the steak home. Get a bigass frying pan and put the shit on the stove, cranking the heat up as far as that fucker will go. Take a shitload of salt—rocksalt, you dumb motherfucker, none of that fine-grained crap here—and toss it around the bottom of the pan. When the pan is hot as all fuck—it should scorch the shit out of your finger if you're stupid enough to touch it—put the fucking steak on there. You can crack some pepper on the top of the steak as the bottom is searing, but don't even talk to me about garlic or onion powder or COMPOUND FUCKING BUTTER, asshole. This is steak, all you fucking need is salt and pepper. After a bit (3 minutes for pink, 5 for cooked good), flip that shit over and do... more... - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Shit like this is why I fucking love FriendFeed. - Denise Howell

Eco uses lists to get people thinking about a particular kind of relational linking, I wouldn't get too stuck on the 'list' metaphor. Re: learning about tigers, neither lists nor pictures are the point to the game (see Wittgenstein on Language Games), they're just entry points into the game. - Cliff Gerrish

Cliff, I did try to indicate that I'm taking him too seriously on this. I understand that listing defining characteristics has the benefit of shaking us out of our essentialist thinking. OTOH, he conflates two types of lists, so I thought I should point that out. Best, - david weinberger from email

"PageRank assigns a reputation score to the URL where content is published. This makes it a great fit for content that stays put in one location. However, evolving content distribution via blogs, RSS, guest columns, and syndication are a challenge for PageRank. Tweets, retweets, micropublishing, ratings, and comments - even bigger problems. The solution lies in associating reputation with the identity of the author - a PageRank for People." - Leo Laporte from Bookmarklet

But isnt the problem then that all you see and hear is from the "big guys" who are already established, as defined by "in" players who by nature will want to be in the "big guys" good books? We're right back in the landscape of television, where the barrier of entry for new players is high, opinion and value is centrally defined... and we get lower quality and service as none of them tries very hard... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)