Evan Parker

Interesting - Shevonne Polastre

"According to the findings, perhaps unsurprisingly, men find women with or without scars attractive." - Philipp Lenssen

I'm emtionally scarred... does that count? - David Bisset

"There is one post a day with a photo of this dad's drawings on his kids' lunch bags. The kids, Dylan and Dana, get to enjoy the cafeteria coolness that comes with lunch bags bearing comic-style renderings of anything from Hello Kitty to Batman to Josie and the Pussycats." - Dan Hsiao via Bookmarklet

I wonder how much time the dad spends drawing on the lunch bags every day/week. - Dan Hsiao

"Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model. Below we present 50 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography. All examples are linked to their sources." - j1m via Bookmarklet

Ah, there's the official announcement. - Evan Parker via Bookmarklet

Looks like the app is now available, though it still hasn't been officially announced yet. - Evan Parker via Bookmarklet

"6. Technology (and Google): beyond the obvious, beyond MyBarackObama.com, it was the advances in technology that increased the efficiency of Democratic turnout efforts. For example: the campaign's VoteBuilder software had a turf-cutting tool. Look at a map. Draw a polygon around a neighborhood. And, boom: you could instantly print a "walk list" of voters. This year's version was based on Google Maps which made it infinitely easier to use than the previous versions..." - ƃuɐʞ via Bookmarklet

Not sure I have the patience to wait for this to come out on android...I might have to go buy an ipod touch just for this app. - Evan Parker via Bookmarklet

And what's up with it being announced yesterday but still not up on the app store? - Evan Parker

It wasn't announced yesterday. There is no official word from the company about it yet just an article in the New York Times. If this had been launched there would be a post here: http://googlemobile.blogspot.c... - Adewale Oshineye

@Adewale - good point. Apple's app approval (app*3? :) process is slow, so who knows when it will be out. - Evan Parker

This feed doesn't seem to be available as an (audio) podcast - j1m

@nor, nice find. - Chris White

Agreed, good find. Here's the transcript of obama's address: http://change.gov/newsroom/ent.... Not as long or substantive as FDRs, but then again obama isn't president yet. I hope he can live up his promises once in office. - Evan Parker

Roosevelt's fireside chats, brought to youtube. I have a good feeling about this... - Evan Parker via Bookmarklet

Are you on the Maps team now, Kushal? :D - Jess Lee

@tobi: when is your infowindow change launching?! - Jess Lee

LOL, uhmm.. probably 2012..... - Tobias Boonstoppel

interesting - weeklyworldnews

"initial traffic spike following launch coverage in the New York Times and TechCrunch which evaporated in mere days. He said it took four months to return to the initial activity level, in between which the team went through varying stages of excitement, strategizing, realism and depression, while they openly questioned what they might have been doing wrong - having a history of successful product launches at Google. However, not too long later, traffic began to balloon in the beginning of 2008, reaching a hockey stick spike from March to June, during which the team's excitement turned to sheer panic, as they looked to scale their product and maintain speed and reliability amidst unprecedented demand." - Evan Parker via Bookmarklet

George R.R. Martin's awesome fantasy series is being made into a pilot for HBO!! I love this series. - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

best fantasy series ever. wonder how good it will be in video? - Evan Parker

Wow. Nice. I might have to watch just to see how they pull it off. - Mandi

Will he extend the momentum of the campaign to the world? If he can, he will become the greatest political leader in history. And the amazing thing is that its conceivable, because of our new distributed communication tools, it's possible. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

This article makes it all so clear and simple. Let's do this. =) - Mandi

Congrats on the launch, Jonathan & Thai! - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

Congrats guys! - Evan Parker

hope obama keeps doing this sort of thing - Evan Parker

I've started having a lot of quick 30 second - 2 minute video conversations b/c of this feature. Saves so much typing and waiting. It's actually changed the way I work. Nice job, Sweden & Seattle. - Keith Coleman via Bookmarklet

Tony: Updating Google Talk leaves all the Mac users out. Now if I could just get a free VNC client or something that punched through firewalls well on Macs I could install this for my parents now instead of next time I see them. - Brett Cannon

Brett: If you use the listening VNC viewer, you can have your parents make their VNC server connect to you. - Gabe

"BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change! The chicken needed change! CHANGE! JOE BIDEN: This is the first mainstream chicken that is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking pullet. JOHN McCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road. SARAH PALIN: Because, praise Jesus, I was gonna shoot his sorry liberal ass off for blocking my view of Russia! HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me. GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either again" - Peter Butler via Bookmarklet

Clippy: "I see you are trying to bend a spoon with your mind. Can I help you with that?" - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

Hahahah That was awesome: Mr. Anderson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Anderson - Gordon Swaby

Very nice. - j1m

"The assertion and expansion of presidential power is arguably the defining feature of the Bush years. Come January, the current administration will pass on to its successor a vast infrastructure for electronic surveillance, secret sites for detention and interrogation and a sheaf of legal opinions empowering the executive to do whatever he feels necessary to protect the country. The new administration will also be the beneficiary of Congress’s recent history of complacency, which amounts to a tacit acceptance of the Bush administration’s expansive views of executive authority. For that matter, thanks to the recent economic bailout, Bush’s successor will inherit control over much of the banking industry. “The next president will enter office as the most powerful president who has ever sat in the White House,” Jack Balkin, a constitutional law professor at Yale and an influential legal blogger, told me a few weeks ago." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

Scary. No matter how much i love a candidate, that's a power in a government hands, not a single man's hands. Not a fan to hear this. - Patricia

My number 1 reason for casting my vote for Obama was/is the hope that he will quickly work to counter some of the vast power grab perpetrated against this country by its current president. Flip/flop McCain had forfeited any credibility he had, as the article points out. Obama's statements indicated that he might (might being the operative word) do what I am hoping. If he does not, I will be gravely disappointed as well as ashamed of my support of him. - Jim Jannotti

If you read this you'll likely go vegan, at least for a little while. - Evan Parker

One particularly convincing small controlled study by one Dr. Esselstyn took 18 people with severe heart disease and put them on a mostly vegan diet. "Within the 8 years leading up to the study, these eighteen people had suffered through 49 coronary events...In the following 11 years [after starting the diet], there was exactly 1 coronary event among the 18 patients who followed the diet. That one event was from a patient who strayed from the diet for 2 years." - Evan Parker

Quite frankly, I would take anything coming out of China with a grain of salt. The lifestyle, levels of pollution, and healthcare, etc. is quite different from most developed nations, and drawing conclusions based on a foreign study is not a good idea. I think that examination of food alone is incomplete without an examination of the entire lifestyle. - Piaw Na

"Good programmers are up to 30 times better than mediocre programmers, according to "individual differences" research. Given that their pay is never commensurate, they are the biggest bargains in the software field" - Patrick Lightbody

I see this quote about 30 times difference, copied from book to book, for long time. I'm skeptical. To me it sounds like "Good writers are 30 times better than mediocre ones". How was it measured? - Igor Krivokon

zefrank's new project. Explanation here: http://www.zefrank.com/zesblog... - Evan Parker via Bookmarklet

"At the end of August, as Hurricane Gustav threatened the coast of Texas, the Obama campaign called the Red Cross to say it would be routing donations to it via the Red Cross home page. Get your servers ready—our guys can be pretty nuts, Team Obama said. Sure, sure, whatever, the Red Cross responded. We've been through 9/11, Katrina, we can handle it. The surge of Obama dollars crashed the Red Cross Web site in less than 15 minutes." - I love these tidbits. - Evan Parker via Bookmarklet

so adorable! especially after he got stuck. :D - vijay

very very cool, best thing since Nabster first came out - Leo via Bookmarklet

i've heard it's a cool site - Evan Parker

you sure have been updating your status message a lot recently :) - Evan Parker

Awesome chart of exit polls since 1980 - j1m via Bookmarklet

Obama made gains over Kerry in every group except small towns. - Evan Parker