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Bret Taylor posted a message
“In Seville to give a speech at Evento Blog España (http://www.eventoblog.com/). Seville is beautiful...”
Saturday at 3:06 am - Link
I miss Spain. Seville's the one city we managed to miss going through Andalucía, and I've only heard good things about it. One word of caution, though -- if you decide to go to Granada and want to see the Alhambra, make sure you get tickets *well* in advance. We missed seeing the inside because we didn't know this :( - Joel Webber
And don't forget to have some jamon serrano and copas while you're there :) - Joel Webber
if you have time, check out the carboneria - it's a bar in barrio santa cruz that used to be a coal warehouse. they have good flamenco music and sometimes dancing, but it might be crowded because it's popular with both locals and tourists. - Jessie
and watch for the people standing in front of the cathedral who offer you free branches of rosemary - it's a scam. when they hand the branch to you, they grab your hand and tell you your fortune, then demand that you pay them for it. so don't reach for anything you aren't prepared to pay for. ;-) - Jessie
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Steven Bryden posted a link
A house for Derek
Friday at 2:49 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
hahaha i guess this is bc i don't like paper plates, but before i clicked on the link i thought it was a hobbit house - Derek Ward
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Kevin Fox posted a link
eBay Find of the Day: 1963 LeMans Tempest sells for $226,521 - Autoblog
Friday at 1:55 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
The owner had recently died and the seller put the car up for $500. He had no idea what it was worth. Thankfully more than one person on ebay did know its value. Wow. - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet
i know only about 6 were made, but not worth it imo. it's just the shell and a myth you're buying - Cee Bee
Genuine vintage racers are worth a ton. Another fine story is this Ferrari bought for $26K, hiding beneath another fiberglass body. Estimated value once restored: $2.8 million. http://www.sportscarmarket.com... - Richard Chen
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High speed rail coming to California
High speed rail coming to California
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Jonathan posted a message
“Best pumpkin carving EVER!”
Best pumpkin carving EVER!
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Zee from WeDoCreative posted a link
This is Kiiking, it's like swings for adults...
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November 3 at 7:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Does it immediately make anyone else bit their nails, grin but really look forward to the end of the video? (I've gotta try this one day, incredible...) - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet
ahhh hell nah! - Cee Bee
it's crazy... - Zee from WeDoCreative
Looks like fun! It's a hard pole and your feet are strapped in. I'm game. Just to note though, that takes a lot of strength and endurance to get it fully around. - xero
That reminds me, the last resort we stayed at in the Bahamas had trapeze lessons. Unfortunately it was too windy to ever be open. Bahamas suck in March :( - xero
what an anti-Semitic name! - Pete Delucchi
This looks like so much fun. I'd give it a go, even if I puke immediately after. - Jill, Superhero Librarian
@Pete ... yeah, I was about to say... another research fail. - Brandon
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Casey Muller posted a link
The next President of the United States - The Big Picture - Boston.com
The next President of the United States - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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November 5 at 12:06 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
My two takeaways from this photo collection are that Obama can go right even though he's a lefty (assuming he made that layup), and he should definitely wear sunglasses as Diplomat-in-Chief for the intimidation factor. - Casey Muller via Bookmarklet
Such wondeful photos and they make me realize that I want a president who is not only smarter but more atheltic than most people...... - Michael Muller
rumor has it that W. is actually pretty athletic. He can bench press some improbably high sum... - Ryan
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Thomas Hawk posted a link
October Surprise: TiVo to Stream Netflix « NewTeeVee
October 30 at 8:39 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Netflix on TiVo will be available to TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL owners. The two companies will start testing the new service today in “several thousand” U.S. households, and they anticipate it will be widely available in early December (read: “Hey! Please ignore your cable DVR and buy a TiVo this holiday.”)." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet
I think my Comcast bill is about to shrink. - Michael Markman
Interesting. As a Mac/Tivo household, I'd been avoiding Netflix because of their lame Mac support. If Netflix/Tivo will do HD downloads, they may take some of the business that I've been giving to iTunes via the AppleTV. - Kevin Pedraja
Kevin, I assume you heard that Netflix started supporting macs for instant viewing earlier this week? - Kevin Fox
Well, I'm glad it is coming to my Xbox since Tivo seems to have dropped all support for Series2 - aka Taylor
Kevin: Y, I did. Seems like they are working hard to win me as a customer. ;) - Kevin Pedraja
TiVo's a great platform but it's still too expensive. $12.99 per month or $399 additional for lifetime on top of the box is steep. If you buy an XBox 360 you get just as good of a box without the monthly fee or steep additional upfront charge. Buy a cheap TV tuner and put it in your PC and you basically have the same thing. Plus the new XBox 360s will stream HD Netflix which the TiVo hasn't announced that it will offer yet. - Thomas Hawk
Agreed with Thomas, Tivo is too expensive. Netflix, on the other hand, is a fantastic value for a great service - Eric P
The only reason I pay for FiOS TV is the 2 or 3 times a year that Notre Dame football is on ESPN instead of network TV. So I'm basically paying almost $800 a year to watch 2 or 3 games that I could just go to a bar for. That's insane. - Matt
I think TiVo is worth it. I've used Time Warner's DVR and it is absolutely terrible. I've also used MythTV (3 years ago) and had bad experiences with buggy software (maybe it's gotten better, I don't know.) - Benjamin Golub
Tivo is definately worth it for me...but i'm not sure if I'll upgrade. I got my series 2 for free some time back and just had to concern myself with the monthly fee which actually came out cheaper than my cable DvR but I'm not sure if I'll pay for a new box when this one dies. - aka Taylor
I just built a PC a couple weeks ago that I have set up in my home theater via HDMI to my TV. I've been using XBMC Atlantis on Vista x64. It's absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended over Windows Media Center. Plays everything! - Matt
@kevinfox, I just tried and it still says I need a Windows PC to 'Watch it Now" and lets not forget their news release states watch it now will only support Intel Macs. - aka Taylor
Just tried it myself. Says Mac support will launch before the end of 2008. I guess it was just an announcement, not a release. - Kevin Fox
guess since I still run 3 G4's I'm happy I have an xbox - aka Taylor
Apparently if you read the fine-print on the Xbox360/Netflix service, it requires that you are an Xbox Live "Gold" subscriber - so there IS an additional fee involved, it's not "free". - George Saj
@George, that's right. You have to be a live gold member which is chump that MSFT requires this in my opinion. That tacks $50 a year onto the price of the XBox service, but discounted gold service is available out there if you look for it. - Thomas Hawk
wow...I have to have xbox gold membership. A service I'm already paying for... That's like saying, "you've got to buy Tivos service to get netflix! OMB!". Sorry, the 3$ and change I pay for xbox gold is cheaper than my 12.99 a month to tivo. I think this is a no brainer. Of course you have To pay for the service - aka Taylor
I still think it's short sighted for MSFT to require the gold membership. They should be doing everything that they can to get people hooked up on this for now and then if need be require the membership later. They won't make enough more money by requiring the membership now and it will hurt adoption. A poor decision to require this on MSFT's part. - Thomas Hawk
oh believe you me...if MS made it NOT require the Gold Membership and then later required it THAT would cause a huge stink. - aka Taylor
Thomas: XBox still isn't a DVR. I hate the Comcast DVR. HATE. IT. With a passion that burns hotter than a thousand suns. Plus, the XBox is noisy as hell. Sounds like a freight train most of the time, which is OK when I'm playing a game, but sux for movies. I love my TivoHD. Warts and all (it has a few). - Kevin Pedraja
I guess I look at this a bit differently though too. I don't see it as an added benefit to Xbox 360 but to Xbox Live Gold. Simply another benefit. I could almost say the same thing for Tivo outside of the fact you have to have certain hardware to even utilize many of their new services...I'm starting to be prejudiced against all these companies trying to force my hand to "upgrade" to new hardware to get their full services. Tivo with Netflix, Netflix with Intel Macs...my old hardware is running great... - aka Taylor
@Kevin, the new XBox 360s are *far* quieter than the original boxes. I agree that the first gen XBox 360s were noisy -- not any more though. An XBox 360 is not a DVR, but it can easily be one when connected to a Media Center PC. The DVR interface is just as good as TiVos without having to pay TiVo $12.99 per month or $399 up front. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas: That's a good solution for somebody who uses PCs, I suppose. But I'm a Mac guy. And I won't be switching any time soon (read: til death). ;) - Kevin Pedraja
good point Kevin, I use a MacBook Pro as my primary computer and there is definitely a lot to like about Macs (although I may switch back to a PC when I ugrade my notebook eventually) still though, most of the mainstream world is on PCs which leads me to believe that MSFT is still best positioned to dominate the living room in the next 24 months. - Thomas Hawk
Apple has the chops to make a best-of-breed convergence box, but it's completely against their business goals to make a PVR and so, lacking that piece to the puzzle, they can't make a grand slam in this space. Who here thinks they'd be willing to make such a short-term short-circuit of the iTunes TV profit model in exchange for long-term set-top dominance? - Kevin Fox
You're right Kevin, Apple *could*, but likely won't. Still, Apple should understand what dominance in the hardware market means. They've made a heck of a lot more money selling iPods/iPhones than they have on iTunes. I still think it's short sighted on their part. People bought iPods because they could play mp3s, the most popular format of the day. Today's most popular TV formats are not buying Apple's content but Netflix, pirated video files, self recorded free HDTV with a DVR, etc. - Thomas Hawk
Yep Apple is going for paid digital content downloads, not streaming. Agree with Thomas in the long term analysis. I have an Apple TV and a Netflix box and let's just say the latter has essentially torpedoed the movie rentals on the Apple TV. I personally find the Apple TV still useful as a media extender since we have all Macs - playing ripped content from - Netflix DVDs. So as the content improves on Netflix I think they have a really good shot at "winning" this one - Jason Kaneshiro
Kevin, Thomas: The key here, as with everything Apple, is hardware sales. I could actually see Apple introducing a streaming service to iTunes and upgrading the AppleTV to support it. As for a PVR/DVR, it wouldn't be a huge step technically to include a tuner and a bigger HD on an AppleTV to create one, but I don't think they'll do that anytime soon. Or at least not until the cable companies truly adopt the next gen, set-top agnostic CableCard platform. I just don't see Apple wanting to negotiate with .. - Kevin Pedraja
... the Comcasts and Cablevisions of the world to certify their device. - Kevin Pedraja
I am sort of happy about this. I still cling to Tivo, there is nothing like it for DVR, and I think it makes it worth the fee (just barely). The problem I have is that they put "ads" on the screen when I pay a monthly fee. Not being a netflix user (yet), I don't see this as a huge deal, as I already have the ability to download from Amazon. HD would be a plus, but I think the charges would be too steep for me to justify it. I have also been considering dropping Tivo and going to XBMC exclusively. - Tim Hoeck
The temptation is there to "Shift Refresh" the TiVo and see if I get this enabled... but so far, nothing. - Louis Gray
@Kevin P, if you get Connect360 you can connect your mac to your xbox 360 as well. - aka Taylor
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Ross Miller posted a link
Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Couric / Palin Open
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Soccer Comedy
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Wassup 2008
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Ross Miller posted a link
electro^plankton: Ecofriendly Lotus, wait what?
electro^plankton: Ecofriendly Lotus, wait what?
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October 20 at 9:28 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
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Karen Padham Taylor posted a link
KickingTires: 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show: Mini E Electric Car
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October 21 at 9:02 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
I want one!!! - Karen Padham Taylor via Bookmarklet
How much? - Paul Buchheit
What's with the gear-shift lever in the middle of the console? - Gabe
@Paul - The lease is $850/month. http://money.cnn.com/galleries... - Karen Padham Taylor
"With a special charging adapter installed at an owner’s home, the Mini E can fully recharge in two-and-half hours. It also can plug into a standard wall socket, but it’ll take longer to recharge." - cool - Doug Bloebaum
Awesome! But, alas, I cannot afford that payment right now... - Danielle Closs
"A full recharge draws a maximum of 28 kilowatt hours of electricity from the grid. Based on the car's range, a kilowatt hour translates into 5.4 miles." (http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-...) ok, so 1 kWh = 11 cents. 6 kWh = *66 cents* to go 32 miles. compare that to whatever you are paying for one gallon of gas. - Karim
Karim, you may be right, but it looks like the electricity is included in the $850/mo (via reimbursement). - Gabe
Looks like Mini's website is restricting the 500-unit field test to not California, but Southern California. Wonder why. - Zal
I have always loved the Mini. This makes it even better. - Sarah Leary
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Shannon Jiménez posted a message
“Where I live meme”
Where I live meme
October 21 at 4:02 pm - Link
We live on the edge of town. The fields are where I walk the dogs. - Shannon Jiménez
it's nice to have some space. is that a farm or something? - Cee Bee
Davis is surrounded by agriculture. The field in the photo had corn until the recent harvest. We also have lots of tomatoes and sunflowers. - Shannon Jiménez
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Best Man Fail
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October 21 at 3:04 pm - Link
omg!!! i didn't expect that - Karen Padham Taylor
If I were the groom I wouldn't hesitate. I'd jump right in and say "Okay, let's finish it in here. (Now just give me a second while I dive for the rings.)" - Kevin Fox
who would get married in khaki pants? - Chris Pounds
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Shannon Jiménez posted a link
October 14 at 4:12 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Enciclopedia del español en los EE UU, editada por Santillana, nace ante esa nueva identidad cultural de nacionalidad hispano-estadounidense. Se presenta como una recopilación exhaustiva y pormenorizada impulsada por el IC, que analiza la situación actual del español a fin de comprender mejor su proyección futura. A lo largo de 80 artículos especializados, repartidos en un total de 1.000 páginas, el lector puede consultar las múltiples realidades del mosaico hispano en EE UU." - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet
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Ross Miller posted a link
Thank God you're a man
October 16 at 7:20 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
they know Mike..... - amelia arapoff
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Kevin Fox posted a link
Cat-friendly House Design from Japan
Cat-friendly House Design from Japan
October 10 at 11:03 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I want to live there! - ♥Brandy Lea Photography♥
nice site, thanks - Aaman Lamba
I would like to have cats just because they're all over the place, but nobody around me likes cats :) - ♫ Rahsheen™
I can haz arkitekshural digest? - matt shobe
i really like this because it makes shooting cats much easier - Rob Reed
Cat lovers !!! - Enigma
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Shannon Jiménez posted a link
My kitteh is famous! I uploaded this picture of my Alan (RIP-- was hit by a car last year, poor guy) a while back b/c it's so darn cute, and today he has reached lolcat fame!
September 22 at 11:52 am - Link
...lolcat fame! - Shannon Jiménez
The best kind of fame - Casey Muller
Congrats, Shannon! Cute pic. - Anne Bouey
Shannon, that's awesome. I hope it made you smile =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Just to clarify, I didn't do the caption, just uploaded the pic for others to caption (I'm caption-impaired) - Shannon Jiménez
I can haz immortality? - AJ Kohn
A great way to remember the little guy. - Paul W. Swansen
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Escape de Sofía
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amelia arapoff posted a message
“Dragon outside yreka on I-5”
Dragon outside yreka on I-5
September 6 at 3:50 pm - via mail2ff - Link
Sent from my iPhone. Amelia - amelia arapoff via mail2ff
I love driving by the dragon! Nice picture posting too :-) - Ross Miller
I love this dragon; I've just never stopped to take a photo :( - Amit Patel
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Rachel Lea Fox posted a link
19 Best Ads I Have Ever Seen - UADDit
19 Best Ads I Have Ever Seen - UADDit
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September 5 at 10:13 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Some brilliant and creative visual tricks here - Martin Taylor
Very cool! - Ross Miller
Good work these are wicked!! - Joe Dawson (beta)
It's surprising how many seemingly foreign ads were in English. - Gabe
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Ross Miller posted a link
YouTube - 'Pushers' pushing people on a crowded Japanese train
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August 28 at 9:10 am - via Reshare - Link
someone I know tried this in London when they came over here. Needless to say it didn't go done very well! - Phill Price
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Ross Miller posted a message
“Segway time in Ashland!”
Segway time in Ashland!
August 31 at 10:27 am - via mail2ff - Link
Cool!! - Skye Miller
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Mona N. posted a link
“Simpsons” Scenes and their Reference Movies
“Simpsons” Scenes and their Reference Movies
“Simpsons” Scenes and their Reference Movies
August 31 at 10:41 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
That's just awesome. - Andrew Trinh
ALL of those posts = all kinds of awesome - Mona N.
Dude..you could look at those pics all day - ♫ Rahsheen™
Did you see all of them? SO ultra cool. - Mona N.
Awesome idea. Love it. - Lon Harris via twhirl
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Dan Hsiao posted a link
Japan's new professional seducers - Times Online
September 1 at 7:46 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Kyoko, of course, is not the girl’s real name. She did not meet Mr A by chance and does not work for a design company, as he thinks. She is an agent paid to seduce him. She regularly texts the team from her mobile and has a couple of GPS devices in case they lose her. Shimizu is her bodyguard and will move in if there are problems. And the whole operation is paid for by Mr A’s wife, who gets an amply illustrated report every time an encounter takes place. The aim is to have Mr A fall so completely for Kyoko that he wants to marry her and asks for a divorce. Failing that, his wife will have a sizable dossier with evidence of infidelity to confront him with." - Dan Hsiao via Bookmarklet
dayum! - JA Castillo
that ain't right - Cee Bee
harsh world. - Yolanda ♥s Nuttycakes
*jaw drops* - Abby Martin
I guess it's got benefits over just being served divorce papers, though.. - Jason Carreira
I guess a threesome with the wife would be out of the question then? ;) - Earl E Morningwood
She's smart for doing that, cuz now she has the proof to sue his dumb ass for adultry!! - Sheryl
Geeze, how screwed up is this? Can you not just serve divorce papers in Japan? The process must be a lot more complicated to justify all that... - Lindsay Donaghe
One word: entrapment. - Timothy Griffin
I don't know which way to go on this... I just don't know. - Michael W. May
They used to have these in America, too, before the days of no-fault divorce. They were called "co-respondents." The goal wasn't love, but sex, or at least the appearance of sex. The co-respondent would seduce a husband, take him off somewhere to have sex, a private investigator working for the wife would take pictures, and the co-respondent would testify in court. A key witness against Fatty Arbuckle was a professional co-respondent. - Mitch Wagner
the end of marriages in japan for sure. - Chris Hofmann
In Japan to get a divorce both partners just need to their seal on the papers. If one party disagrees it's a lengthy legal trudge through the system. There was a TV series like this once (starring London Boots) where they arranged a sting where a girl would try and pick up a guy and take him to a series of places with hidden cameras. When she finally got him home to "her apartment" the camera team and his girlfriend and the stars of the show would be waiting there. It was pretty amusing.. - Stuart Woodward
There's a bit more to the first case: "Mr A, who has been married for 20 years and has a son of 19 at university, is prone to violence and beats his wife. She confided in a male friend, whom she then fell for, but when she suggested divorce to Mr A, he simply hit her." - Alex Power
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Corie "Viper" Jones posted a link
Coin Furniture by Johnny Swing
Coin Furniture by Johnny Swing
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September 1 at 12:45 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Vermont based Johnny Swing is a master of repurposed material, and here we see his collection of seating that uses a variety of coins (quarters, nickels, half-dollars) to produce a couch and some chairs. The Nickel Couch alone uses approximately 7000 nickels (that's $350 worth of nickels for those of you too lazy to do the math), and required a painstaking 35000 welds to the stainless steel substructure." - Corie "Viper" Jones via Bookmarklet
Cool. But how long did it take to disinfect? That's a lot of people's previously touched coins. - Josh Haley
اسمايلي شانديز :) - mhmazidi
@ Josh, about 5 minutes. Just throw all those coins in a vat of Coca-Cola, they'll come out brand new :) - Iain Baker
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Mona N. posted a link
A Nail's Life
A Nail's Life
A Nail's Life
September 2 at 12:46 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
so cool. Mona is my hero. - सत्याग्रह [Bren]
I like the third one! great composition. - Ron
These are extremely clever! @Bren: <333 - Mona N.
<ultra-mega-super grin> <333 - सत्याग्रह [Bren]
tosses in the obligatory “ Getting Nailed” comment - Earl E Morningwood
Oh wow, these are completely awesome! - m.0
Sugoi desu yo :D - Randy
Niether creativity has any limits, nor Mona's ability to discover such websites :) - Hayk
Randy: sugoi ne :) EEM: hahahha @Hayk: I love the Internet and love to share with you guys! :) - Mona N.
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