Dion Almaer

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

Funny http://www.google.com/search?s... - LPH

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

It is so much more effective with the clips... Wouldn't it be great if they allowed multimedia in the debates? - Clare Dibble

This is how every debatable issue should be remixed. Without memory, and thankfully we have written media and "now" internet to help us out in this domain, humans would be reduced to ad swallowing, nay-saying consumers with an attention span of an earthworm. - Nenad Nikolic via twhirl

This shows how McCain was wrong, but doesn't show how Obama is right. The same thing could be done that shows how Obama was wrong about the surge and the connections between Iraq and Afghanistan. This is just as useless as any other debate fallacy, because it's completely one sided. Except it does it with multimedia. To that end, stop patting yourselves on the back. You look stupid. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark: Everyone makes mistakes, but McCain refuses to acknowledge his mistakes. He has bought so much of his own "maverick" PR that he lives in his own fantasy world, where everything can be referenced to war and where its OK for an air-head like Sarah Palin to be one step away from leading our nation. McCain is dangerous and he simply should not be allowed to assume the leadership of this country by repeating one lie or half-truth after another. - Rob McNair-Huff

Republicans always do that. When you say their guy fucked up, they accuse your guy of doing the same thing. It's totally predictable. They must teach it in the first day of Republican Orientation. - Dave "Maverick" Winer

As does Obama. Has he yet said he was wrong about the surge? The same things can all be said about Obama, and a simple YouTube video could prove that, too, but my guess it'd be called "swiftboating," which is apparently the defense you use when you're a Democrat and a video shows your candidate in a bad light. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

See what I mean? :-) - Dave "Maverick" Winer

lol - Cee Bee

@Mark: Because the surge was a bandaid that didn't get us much closer to getting out. Obama has said the surge has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. It doesn't mean the surge was the right thing to do. The bailout might be successful in many ways, but it still doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. - AJ Kohn

@Mark - okay...why don't you make a video then instead of huffing and puffing? If you only 'talk the talk' but can't 'walk the walk', well, then, I'm afraid you are the one who looks stupid. - Steve

mark...of course obama said he was wrong. he said, 'the surge exceeded beyond my expectations.' remember mccain said that like 4 times during the debate and obama said, 'yep, i said it.' - Faboo Mama

dave, the thing is that most of us have been raised knowing that two wrongs don't a make a right. many hardcore GOP partisans clearly weren't. - Faboo Mama

Note that the surge, as successful as it's been, has still not won us the war. - Victor Ganata

Believe it or not, I'd be willing to vote Republican if they just ran better candidates. In this case the ticket is not only not strong (McCain), it is extremely weak (Palin), and they are running against a competent and smart ticket in Obama/Biden. But what frustrates me is Republicans who keep defending a weak ticket simply because of party affiliation. Republicans *should* be pissed as hell right now; but rather than lashing out at their opponents, they should fix the problem with their own candidates. - DeWitt Clinton

I agree DeWitt. Ironically, I would have considered McCain in 2000, but this isn't the same guy. I thought Kerry was weak too. Leagues better than Bush, but still weak. But Obama? The first time I have been excited... maybe ever. :) - Dion Almaer

DeWitt, totally agree. I have voted Republican, but always in lesser-of-two-evils mode. Obama is the first Presidential vote that I make in my life without such a reservation. - Dave "Maverick" Winer

@Steve: re-read my original comment and try that accusation again. I said "his is just as useless as any other debate fallacy, because it's completely one sided." Look, it's not like I ask you folks to read an entire Federalist paper or something long and complicated. Just a couple sentences to read before you try to argue with me. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@faboo: Saying it succeeded beyond his wildest expectations and admitting he was wrong are not the same thing. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@AJ: If you don't understand why the surge was the right thing to do (and should have been done from the beginning, as McCain wanted), then your understanding of foreign policy and conflict strategy is far too limited to participate in this debate. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Mark: *chuckle* So are you going to explain why the surge was the right thing to do or simply insult me? I mean ... really, this is your debate tactic? Also, that's not even the argument! You've missed it entirely. The argument was about not admitting error as a proxy to one-sided political dialog - of which I provided a cogent answer and analogy. You chose to argue the point of the actual surge instead. That's another topic. - AJ Kohn

Defenders of the Iraq War are unable to explain why it has made sense for Americans to dump several trillions of dollars down the drain in Iraq with the effect of installing a Muslim fundamentalist regime in that nation that is closely allied with Iran. This is the stupidest foreign policy blunder in American history. The "surge" is neither here nor there in making this disaster go away. We've already lost this war and cannot possibly turn it into a "victory." That money is gone, and Iran's power has greatly expanded. McCain doesn't even get close to discussing these STRATEGIC issues revolving around long-range American interests. - Sean McBride

The surge is a tactic, not a strategy, no matter what McCain says. And while it has decreased violence, that doesn't mean we've succeeded. We're still no closer to winning the war. If we can't withdraw those troops without the whole place caving in, then ultimately we've failed. - Victor Ganata

Victor -- McCain has made it clear that he doesn't understand the distinctions between tactics and strategy. - Sean McBride

Could everyone please make an effort to stay respectful and kind? When that doesn't happen people start calling for an end to all political discussion, which would be bad. When that happens the mainstream media get to frame every issue. - Bruce Lewis

@Victor: I've gone ahead and set your comments to hidden from here on out, since you can't be bothered to look up the difference between strategy and tactic. @AJ: My prior statement stands. Again, I'm tired of folks who don't understand their world speaking as if they were experts on everything. Maybe i'll see you both in November when I unblock everyone. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Mark: (If you see this) I'm sorry you don't wish to have a real debate. Done appropriately, it is the way we gain better understanding of topics and of each other. I'll take up the strategy v tactic though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... Now, in my mind the surge (adding more troops on the ground) was a means to an end (pacifying insurgents/security) to achieve the objective (Iraqi autonomy). Perhaps you see it differently? - AJ Kohn

I've been involved in several discussions and "debates" with Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins now in which he has made statements which are factually false, and then quickly retreated when the factual errors were pointed out to him. He is aligned with a group of neoconservatives and religious fundamentalists in the room Conservative Oasis in which this kind of behavior is the norm -- they can't defend their ideas in fair, open and democratic debate. They always retreat after two or three exchanges. - Sean McBride

You can never get promoters of the "surge" to talk about the costs and benefits of the Iraq War policy as a whole -- their minds go into lockdown mode the instant the issue is raised. They are unable to think strategically. Bush 43 and the neocons are spending trillions of dollars to secure Iran's control over Iraq. Massive fail. They have essentially wasted American resources and lives to promote Muslim fundamentalism in the Middle East. - Sean McBride

Mark - I'm with just about everyone else here. I need facts, or at least some modicum of explanation as to your logic, rather than repeated sound bites. In that regard, please hide all of my comments as well. No need to unblock in November, but I will leave that up to you. - Shout out 2Jody

If you can't effectively defend your beliefs in fair and open debate, and subject them to fact checking, reality checking and rigorous logical analysis, there is a good possibility that your beliefs are wrong. Fair and open debate is the heart and soul of any healthy and functioning democracy. True believers who can't handle debates usually are strongly attracted to authoritarian and totalitarian political systems. - Sean McBride

"Debate" by blocking: Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins, Jay Tannenbaum, Akiva Moskovitz, Soulhuntre, Mark Tefft -- sorry if I left anyone out. One issue seems to unite them: an emotional commitment to neoconservative military aggression in the Mideast. They stand to the right of even the Bush 43 administration. Neoconservatism is more a religious cult than a rational political philosophy. - Sean McBride

I try not to box people into labels. I can only say that, in this instance, Mark chose to insult and then not engage in debate. I'm sure it's difficult for many conservatives on FF who get called names by other 'left' leaning folks. I make an effort not to do that. I would think it would be a nice change to find true debate instead. So, running away from it seems odd. - AJ Kohn

I've seen Hopkins do this three or four times now, and his political allies in Conservative Oasis do the same thing many times as well, so I have drawn the logical and reasonable conclusion -- they hold emotional beliefs that they can't defend against exercises in reality-checking. This is the same political group that promised us that the Iraq War would be a cakewalk and cost Americans next to nothing. Americans have a moral obligation to challenge this destructive nonsense. It's a matter of self-preservation at this point. - Sean McBride

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins is a *self-admitted* shit-stirrer (see http://rizzn.com/blog/2008/07/...) with a pathological habit of saying stupid things he can't defend. Take a block from him as a high compliment. - Karim

IEM is in the low 60s. - j1m

Great, but I fear an October surprise. Repubs have got to have something brewing. - Tim O'Brien

538 is a great site - Mike Reynolds

wow--and how many times in history have we seen such expect predictions turn out to be absurdly false? It's not over 'till....you know the rest. - Dave Saunders via twhirl

Yep...It's the 3rd quarter...bit of game left to play. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

538 rules b/c they go into detail for each state. The overall popular vote doesn't really matter. You can clearly see which states Obama needs to win, basically one of Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, Colorado or Virginia. McCain's scenarios are quite slim. - Mike Reynolds

wait for the october suprise...wait for it...hint, it involved helicopters - Gautam Guliani

See http://friendfeed.com/e/da03d7... for background. - DeWitt Clinton

Made a little tweak to accept short bits of content in the get request itself, which would work well with the jsonp style callbacks. - DeWitt Clinton

Is this a bug? Should be escaped right... http://html-whitelist.appspot....<script>This+should+be+escaped</script> - nadim

I think it is being escaped. Try viewing source of the html response, or make the &json=1 request. When it is displayed directly to the browser the escaped < characters cause the tag to be shown to the user, but not interpreted by the browser. - DeWitt Clinton

You're right, my mistake. - nadim

Added better support for POST handling and a demonstration on the homepage. - DeWitt Clinton

First time I've seen via Reshare. - Russellreno

Hey this is intersting... Reshare feature...ok got it now! thx! - Susan Beebe

Right after I just got over the passing of Maude, this brings it all back. *sniff* - Matt Musgrave

It's not that McCain's too old, but he IS old, and if he were to pass, would you trust Palin as president? No one is questioning Biden's ability to take over should Obama die, which I am kind of curious about. - keif via twhirl

very appropriate, I say. - Joe Buhler

Biden looks more like Grandpa Simpson. McCain could be Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock in the ATeam - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

How dare you soil the name of Maude Flanders. - martinmedia

More like this. - Josh

On the other hand, the fact that the video cuts off right as he's about to get into the substantive portion of his speech is problematic. - Josh

I feel so much better about this. Good for him. I really hope it works. Josh does have a fair point about the cut off, but I guess this is the best we can hope for :) - Patrick Lightbody

It's pathetic that this is a differentiator between the two parties... one cares about the civil liberties explicitly spelled out in the Constitution, while the other mocks them. - Jason Carreira

I agree Duncan. I'm glad Obama is talking some sense speaking truth to all the fluff and patriotic distraction of the GOP. The debates will be worth watching. - Larry Kless via twhirl

Jason, for once I agree with you. What he has said should be the given for both parties, that it's a selling point in 2008 is scary indeed - Duncan Riley

Congrats on the great article, Brian. - Bret Taylor

this aint gonna happen and here is why http://www.alleyinsider.com/20... - John Kotsaftis via feedalizr

awesome... I just wonder how much microsoft is going to fight back against the onslaught - James Campbell

Choice FTW! - Slippy Lane

@john: alleyinsider is the last source i will trust as to whether it is going or not going to happen. But, really, as @slippy says, choice FTW! The rest will just pan out. - Ashwin Bharambe

That picture is great. It looks like a band photo. - Andrew Burd

Internets are the new rock'n'roll, Andrew, didn't you hear? - Slippy Lane

The photographer, Joe Pugliese, has a great website: http://www.joepug.com/ In fact it's so great I haven't got round to reading the Wired article yet - Adewale Oshineye

Enjoyable read except for this completely bizarre paragraph -- "Not long after that, Brin and Page came by to check in on the furtive beginnings of their browser. "I remember sitting at my desk, which at the time had a stuffed snake running along the back of it," says Pam Greene, an engineer on the team. "Sergey was bouncing on one of those exercise balls, watching Darin give a demo, and petting the snake." - Osi

"The snake, called Mr. Bigglesworth, seemed to purr softly in Sergey's lap, providing a calming influence during the demo. However, when one of the tabs crashed, taking the browser with it, Sergey's voice took a more strident turn. "I have gathered here before me the world's best developers," Sergey began, "and yet each of you has failed to kill Internet Explorer. That makes me angry. And when Sergey gets angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people die!" - Karim

Sergey then pressed a nearby console button that retracted Darin's chair into the floor below. A flash of flame could be seen as the screaming developer vanished from the conference room. - Karim

/likes Karim's comment - Philipp Lenssen

Somebody help me!" Darin pleads. "I'm alive, only very badly burned!" This proves to be very distracting, and after being interrupted several times, Sergey picks up his phone, and reports the situation to a henchman. "I'll go deal with it," he assures Sergey. "If someone opens the retrieval hatch, I can get out," Darin explains. At this point, the hatch opens. Darin is at first grateful, but then a gunshot is heard. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

After a pause, Sergey is satisfied Darin is dead and attempts to continue explaining his plan, only be interrupted by Darin again, who says indignantly "you shot me! You shot me right in the arm! Why did you-". Darin sentence is cut short by a second gunshot, which proves to be the end for him, as the hatch is heard to close. (http://www.moviedeaths.com/aus...) - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠

Guys, if you want Google-related pulp fiction, check out this choose-your-own-adventure game :) http://blogoscoped.com/googlea... - Philipp Lenssen

awesome! - April Buchheit

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lol, plug plug. - Slippy Lane

Google’s Chrome is aimed at Windows, not IE This is no longer about browser but about the an entire marketplace spread between desktop, mobile and web. With Chrome, Google’s taking a shot at Windows, not paltry Internet Explorer I’ve covered this in more detail on my blog http://sachendra.wordpress.com... - Sachendra

I review chrome...need alot of work. see details on my blog http://trustseo.com/blog/2008/... - CeoSeo

The point of Chrome is the same point one would make about the iPhone. Will iPhone outsell Nokia worlwide in total number of phones sold? Not a chance in hell! Has it changed the face of mobile phones forever...absolutely. This is where I think Chrome is a fantastic concept. By open sourcing D8 Google has literally empowered every other browser including Safari and Firefox to be Windows beaters. In actual fact IE may even implemented their own canibalised V8 to canibalise their Microsofts existing fat client business. If you ask me, Google is the master of judo in this case. google 2 MSFT 0 - John Kotsaftis via feedalizr

I haven't been able to find many details about the V8 design, but it's apparently a straight JIT (no interpreter) with inline caching of property accessors. I didn't see anything about HotSpot/TraceMonkey-style optimizing compilation, and it doesn't seem to use any intermediate language. (http://code.google.com/apis/v8...) Is this the future of dynamic language runtimes? Am I a nerd? - Jim Norris