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On Saturday night I was asked, "Who are Bob Scoble and Lou Gray?" - John E. Bredehoft

"A Nigerian who has been detained in Detroit after trying to ignite an explosive device on a U.S. passenger plane is the son of a prominent former banker, a family member told Reuters on Saturday." - John (a.k.a. dendroica) from Bookmarklet

Seriously, isn't Osama bin Laden the black sheep of the bin Laden family? Interesting how these "troublesome" brothers turned out in the end. - John E. Bredehoft

"Anne Slowey, who has spent decades climbing the editorial ladder to a senior position at Elle, dismissed the teenager’s column as “a bit gimmicky” in an interview with New York magazine. And in an instant, the subtext in her complaint was read by dozens of Ms. Gevinson’s fans as an example of the tension between old media and new, when one leapfrogs ahead of the other." - John E. Bredehoft

" It was unclear how the suspect managed to get the explosive on the plane, an Airbus A330 wide-body jet carrying 278 passengers that departed from Amsterdam with passengers who had originated in Nigeria. A senior administration official said that the government did not yet know whether the man had had the capacity to take down the plane. The device, described by officials as a mixture of powder and liquid, failed to fully detonate. Passengers on the plane described a series of pops that sounded like firecrackers." - John E. Bredehoft

Your kids are so adorable. :) - EricaJoy

Derrick, do you want a rocking horse also? - John E. Bredehoft

Another Christmas present. If you've seen "Il Volo" in my stream, this is the same song. - John E. Bredehoft

Christmas present. - John E. Bredehoft

changing with the times! good for him/her! :) - edythe

heh heh - Kamilah Gill

"Well, Rupert Murdoch is going to love this. More people around the world get their news online from Google News than from CNN or the news properties of the New York Times. In November, 2009, according to comScore, Google News attracted 100 million unique visitors worldwide, making it a larger news site than CNN (66 million) or the combined properties of the New York Times (92 million). But do you know who is even larger? Yahoo News, with 138 million unique visitors worldwide. Funny how you never hear Murdoch complaining about Yahoo News." - John E. Bredehoft

"Here’s what we’re buying some of our favorite targets this year. Steve Jobs: A bionic heart, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, and other entrails* to go with his new iLiver...." - John E. Bredehoft

"It was obvious from Kanawha County Commission President, Kent Carper’s, introductory remarks at the public hearing that the fix was in and that the commission was going to grant the hunters’ demand to exempt their dogs from the protections afforded other dogs and that the Kanawha Humane Society’s board, many of whom were in the room, had already agreed to the exemption." - John E. Bredehoft

"Between doing a great deal of soul searching, CBT and just getting to a point in my life where I’m not feeling like I need someone to complete me, I have started to occupy the control position in relationships. (not controlling, but ‘I make my own decisions and I will survive if the other party doesn’t reciprocate’ control position) Therefore, I have power in many situations. And when another party approaches someone with that power, the human reaction to that often comes from a place of defensiveness. A rejection manifests in hurt, anger, sadness, drama, neediness, etc." - John E. Bredehoft

"It's sad because I was involved in the MyBlogLog acquisition at Yahoo! and believed in what they were doing. I worked to help get the team on board, nag the right people to make sure they got reasonable hardware on which they could grow, interviewed their first post-Yahoo engineer, and made the trek up to the Berkeley office a few times a week to help them transition into Yahoo and work on plans." - John E. Bredehoft

"the smaller chips are expected to lead to slimmer netbooks and smaller nettops from computer makers. Intel claims the netbook platform is 60% smaller than the previous generation, while the desktop platform has a nearly 70% smaller footprint. In addition, the new platforms are more power efficient, reducing average power usage by 20% in netbooks and 50% in desktops, according to Intel." - John E. Bredehoft

"ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Yahoo is planning to kill MyBlogLog next month. There is one short paragraph that explains a lot about the MyBlogLog story:" - John E. Bredehoft

"A number of years ago we started a tradition. Just before Christmas we all go to the 99-cent store to buy each other stocking stuffers. We all wander around the store by ourselves, trying to avoid each other as we choose silly gifts for each other." - John E. Bredehoft

"It was picked up by a flipper for $330k 4 weeks ago. They cleaned it up, fixed the broken stuff, filled the pool and now feel they are entitled to a $300k profit (less costs). They have it listed for $639k!" - John E. Bredehoft

It did. This tweet showed up on my FriendFeed within a few seconds. Welcome back, Twitter. - John E. Bredehoft

"Dan, I just hope that Jim Cramer isn't eSarcasm's financial advisor for this transaction. And if your financial advisor says that he's "Billy Mays," check him out a little more carefully." - John E. Bredehoft

"The Internet company is mandating that most of its employees worldwide, except for those responsible for “essential functions” such as customer service, take off work from Dec. 25 through Jan. 1. In the U.S., employees can either use vacation time for nonholiday dates or take unpaid leave." - John E. Bredehoft

"NBC’s viewers didn’t move to other broadcasters when they didn’t like what they saw at 10 pm. They went to the cable guys:" - John E. Bredehoft

"Camp location is at Lucky 7 Stables, 2225 S. Cypress Ave, Ontario" - My niece went to summer camp there and enjoyed it. - John E. Bredehoft

"If you saw someone buy 120 pounds of ham and roast meet this week, you probably bumped into Francella Favela. Favela and her husband are providing free meals on Christmas Day to veterans, seniors and the homeless at the VFW." - John E. Bredehoft

I guess the basic question is - is there someone who can manage Microsoft better than Ballmer? I don't think there is. - John E. Bredehoft

Did 'manage' mean running into the ground? :-). If so, yes to Larry E - kartik vaithyanathan

I don't make a habit of commenting on other pundits' prediction lists. But I am going to make an exception and call out Newsweek's claim that Microsoft will oust CEO Steve Ballmer in 2010, the year of his tenth anniversary as Microsoft CEO. Do you agree? - Scott Klauminzer

I don't see the rationale behind such a move. Ballmer has done well, and I don't see a viable replacement who would do better. - John E. Bredehoft

For the record, I've never been to Limewire or Mininova either. - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

"Courtney Love has lost legal control of her daughter with late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has awarded temporary guardianship of 17-year-old Frances Bean Cobain to Wendy O'Connor, her paternal grandmother, and Kimberly Dawn Cobain, her aunt. No reason was given for the decision. The judge's decision comes ahead of the release of Love's latest album, Nobody's Daughter, which is expected early next year. The ruling was filed on Friday but the court papers in the case only gained attention on Monday. A representative for Love, 45, declined immediate comment." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Echostreamer - from what I can recall, there have been custody battles with the grandparents for many years. - Lis Miller

Multi-part harmonies work very well in this song. - John E. Bredehoft

"Lie down, Chicago Bears, snatch defeat from the jaws of victory; Lie down, Chicago Bears, let them score and you've lost your dignity." - John E. Bredehoft

"As a FriendFeed Ffanatic, I haven't really moved to using Twitter for communication, but even I have found that the lists offer a helpful "slice" of my Twitter activity - and I only follow a little over 1,000 people and bots." - John E. Bredehoft