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Good news for Google! - Evan Parker

Looks like the wildflower hike near the lighthouse? - j1m

Yup :) Was a clear day, but quite windy. - Evan Parker

This is pretty cool. 4G is almost here! - Evan Parker

Reminds me of Paul Farmers work on treating TB and AIDS in Haiti. - Evan Parker

Reminds me of Paul Farmers work on treating TB and AIDS in Haiti. - Evan Parker

Best tip: Turn on keyboard shortcuts from Settings, and use "j" or "n" to scroll down the buzz tab, "k" or "p" to go back up, "r" to comment (same shortcut as reply in Gmail), and "shift + l" to like. Hit "m" to mute a post so it won't keep showing up in your inbox. - Evan Parker

Best tip: Turn on keyboard shortcuts from Settings, and use "j" or "n" to scroll down the buzz tab, "k" or "p" to go back up, "r" to comment (same shortcut as reply in Gmail), and "shift + l" to like. Hit "m" to mute a post so it won't keep showing up in your inbox. - Evan Parker

I really like the way this works - no need to even take a picture of the item in interest. - Evan Parker

I really like the way this works - no need to even take a picture of the item in interest. - Evan Parker

This looks pretty cool, esp. having turn-by-turn directions without needing an internet connection, but I think I'll stick with my nexus 1. - Evan Parker

This is a good thing. How do you have access to an iPad? - Louis Gray

Well, i thought that the main purpose of the device is not to design exclusive versions of web sites dedicated to iPad.. Am i wrong? Because it would be ridiculous otherwise.. Ain't it a computer based device anyway? - umur_cy from iPhone

The iPhone StreetView UI is the most unituitive UI that Google created? Perhaps the Android UI is the UI that Google would have created? Better question is, why is StreetView so hard to find on the iPhone? - Daniel Dulitz

Maybe Apple is using it as an easter egg: when one person sees the white earbuds on another person, they can swap stories about how to use their devices. It's the true Social Web. - Daniel Dulitz

"In its last several releases, everyone's favorite Open Source browser has become an unstable mess of add-ons, plugins, and other hacks that chew up memory like a fat kid with a chocolate-dipped corn dog. In fact, just last week, SecurityFocus released news of a devastating exploit in Firefox 3.5.5 that they blame squarely on its unstable architecture...Against the Hayes Law, Firefox appears to have jumped the shark sometime after the Firefox 2.0 in 2006. The next major release, Firefox 3.0 in 2008, introduced many issues users today complain about: bloat, sloth, instability, and insatiable hunger for memory. Firefox user complaints increased in tandem, all syncing up with the jump in developers. Ergo Firefox's problem: too many cocks in the kitchen....The core of this problem looms: the number of developers, as seen in the chart above, will only continue to skyrocket for Firefox 3.6 and beyond. By the time Firefox 4.0 is released, sometime in December 2010, the number of developers... more... - bob from Bookmarklet

okay, I use firefox. what is better? - amelia arapoff

Eric for president! - Evan Parker

"In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different. First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Helicopter controlled from an iphone with a live video feed. Sweet! Now we need an android client for this thing. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

I wonder how much it costs. The autopilot is more interesting to me than the R/C... - ⓞnor

or how about getting rid of the safety fetish that is crippling this society? - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Yes please. We're living in a culture of fear more and more these days, and it just feeds on itself. The more we fear other cultures and impose restrictions on them the more they are going to hate us. - Evan Parker

Ok, I'm with the 'TSA sucks' part. However, why would I trust a Gizmodo blogger (Joel Johnson) to have any idea of the actual risk of terrorism, airborne or otherwise? He seems to confuse attempts with actual incidents. Should we assume the US govt proudly trumpets every attempt they stop? Possible, but we don't really know, do we? (An Israeli solider noted dryly that when no suicide... more... - Rekha Murthy

And Linux, and extensions. All in beta, but I use the linux and mac versions of chrome on a daily basis and they are quite stable. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"Use pictures to search the web." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

This is one thing that Android definitely got right from the beginning. This navigation model (for that matter, the fact that there even *is* a model, as compared to the iPhone) all stems from the Activity/Intention architecture baked into Android. There's not so much an app as a collection of activities, and intentions to link them together. This architecture causes a good navigation... more... - Joel Webber

It took a while before I internalized that back isn't meant to navigate within an app, it's meant to be a global back button. I still make that mistake pretty often where I want to go to a higher level screen within an app, but press back instead of the internal navigation controls. It doesn't help that the internal navigation is usually inconsistent from app to app, and that the back button _usually_ gets me to the right place (just mentally reinforcing the error.) - Ryan Moulton

For better or worse, apps can also override the default behavior of the back button. - Evan Parker

he gave a class to a few groups of us doing a triathlon with Team In Training (The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society) years ago. pretty interesting stuff. - metalerik from iPhone

Evan, We listened to Dreyer once and our running club had a trainer who trained with Dreyer. No one actually says anything on the method. They both said, "Well have you'll have to take the ($$$$) class or buy the DVD. I guess it's more visual than anything. - Anika

Did you go diving? - Evan Parker

Yup, went to Cozumel for a week. - Chiu-Ki Chan

"Today we're expanding availability of Google Maps Navigation to devices running Android 1.6 (Donut) and higher, such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

That's pretty awesome! - Chieze Okoye

"By mimicking how a butterfly's wings shimmer, or how a peacock's tail is so iridescent, engineers at Qualcomm came up with mirasol technology. As Qualcomm notes, "Qualcomm's mirasol display technology is based on a reflective technology called IMOD (Interferometric MODulation), with MEMS structures at its core. This MEMS-based innovation is both bistable, meaning it is both extremely low power, and highly reflective, meaning the display itself can be seen even in direct sunlight." Here's a video explaining more and giving a rundown of how it is used in the e-reader. The battery sipping capabilities of the device (the form factor details of which haven't been divulged yet..what you see in the photo above is only a mock up of one design being considered) will exceed that of even the Kindle, which touts a long battery life, thanks to the mirasol technology. Slashdot notes, "As the mirasol team explained... once you start pushing traditional e-ink panel refresh rates, up to the point you... more... - Evan Parker

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... for more background on the tech: "Interferometric modulator display (IMOD)[1] is an electrically switched display composed of miniature Fabry-Perot interferometers (etalons) that are switched on and off with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). An etalon reflects light at a specific wavelength and gives pure, bright... more... - Evan Parker

"These statutes also deprive the Lovings of liberty without due process of law in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival. Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U. S. 535, 541 (1942). See also Maynard v. Hill, 125 U. S. 190 (1888). To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of... more... - Doug Beeferman

I see many parallels to today's fight over gay marriage. - Evan Parker

"Even in comparison to those male sprinters with the most extreme adaptations for speed in recorded human history, Oscar Pistorius has limb repositioning times that are literally off the charts." - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Bionic humans will increasingly outperform the rest of us. - Evan Parker from Android

"Oprah Winfrey, one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry, will announce Friday that her iconic daytime talk show will wrap at the end of its 25th season. But don't panic -- her final appearance as host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is nearly two years away. And it's possible she'll move the whole shebang to the cable network she's setting up, called, naturally, the Oprah Winfrey Network. "The sun will set on the 'Oprah' show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011," Winfrey's Harpo Productions said in an e-mail to TV station executives Thursday evening. "As we all know, Oprah's personal comments about this on tomorrow's live show will mark a historic television moment that we will all be talking about for years to come." Indeed, the advance notice could turn Friday's show into her most watched ever. Not coincidentally, the TV industry is amid the important November ratings derby, which will be used to set ad rates for shows over the next several months." - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

Jim, :P - Anne Bouey

"The buildings in these five California cities now have detailed facades, meaning that you can see storefronts and architectural details like you would if you were walking down the street. We've constructed these models by using imagery from Street View, similar to the way that users can make photo-textured models in SketchUp 7.1." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"It is projected that raising the minimum year-around serum 25(OH)D level to 40 to 60 ng/mL (100–150 nmol/L) would prevent approximately 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer each year, and three fourths of deaths from these diseases in the United States and Canada, based on observational studies combined with a randomized trial. Such intakes also are expected to reduce case-fatality rates of patients who have breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer by half. There are no unreasonable risks from intake of 2000 IU per day of vitamin D3, or from a population serum 25(OH)D level of 40 to 60 ng/mL. The time has arrived for nationally coordinated action to substantially increase intake of vitamin D and calcium." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

Huge congrats to Keith Ito for leading this on the eng side and Michael Silisky for leading it on the pm side! - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

That's a chart of Garmin and TomTom's stock, overlayed on a picture of the new Google Maps for Android with turn-by-turn voice guided directions, which was announced this morning. - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"If you weren’t sure about switching to an Android phone in the near future, this might put you over the edge. Google Maps Navigation is an absolutely killer app. And it is only available for Android 2.0 phones." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet

"“Precious,” the harrowing story of a 350-pound illiterate teenage girl who is pregnant for the second time by her father and horribly abused by her mother, is shot in an almost-documentary style interspersed with fantasy sequences. (It opens Nov. 6.) Like most independent films, it is character-driven, and at its heart is a spirit of understanding. When Precious’s plight lands her in a special school, she blossoms: the audience’s initial rejection of Precious, even repulsion at the sight of her, slowly gives way to a kind of identification. At Cannes, the film received a 15-minute standing ovation." - Evan Parker from Bookmarklet