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Just joined. - Hutch Carpenter

because there's a peak of accesses, I mean... - Roberto

Exactly. - EricaJoy

Agreed. - PurpleZoe

watch it - bloody clever - Zee.

fun - tomartomartini

رونوشت به سلما!!! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

cheese sandwhich and coffee. The perfect combination to compute by. - Rustic Thoughts

"IF YOUR mobile phone could talk, it could reveal a great deal. Obviously it would know many of your innermost secrets, being privy to your calls and text messages, and possibly your e-mail and diary, too. It also knows where you have been, how you get to work, where you like to go for lunch, what time you got home, and where you like to go at the weekend. Now imagine being able to aggregate this sort of information from large numbers of phones. It would be possible to determine and analyse how people move around cities, how social groups interact, how quickly traffic is moving and even how diseases might spread. The world’s 4 billion mobile phones could be turned into sensors on a global data-collection network." - LogEx from Bookmarklet

The original has richer colors at http://photo.net/photodb... "Sunbeams catching the misty sea air shining through this massive arch on Oregon's North Coast." A paler version with different dimensions (and some other cool pictures) at http://bentbay.dk/himmel... http://bentbay.dk/dear_god.htm A poorly-photoshopped version with Alizee (age 24) http://i273.photobucket.com/albums... http://profile.myspace.com/index... Lewis & Clark National Parks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Mitchell Tsai

More info about Cannon Beach http://cannon-beach.net/recreat... http://oregonstateparks.org/park_18... - Mitchell Tsai

So this looks a bit damn cool - James Whatley

"RED BEANS AND RICE The quintessential New Orleans dish, traditionally served on Mondays. A lot of this is going to be trial-and-error, and it's going to take a little practice before you get it right. Me, I got good at it by making it once a week for over two years, and putting out an open invitation to my friends that there'd be red beans 'n rice at Chuck's place every Sunday (well, it was tough to cook on Mondays back then). This dish holds a very special place in my heart. While I have many favorite dishes, and have had fabulous meals the likes of which come along very rarely ... this is tops. It's delicious, it's cheap, it's simple, and it makes me feel good. It's the number one comfort food in the world for me. You'll probably want to fiddle with it each time you make it, and arrive at the exact, instinctual combinations of seasonings that you like. Feel free to alter this recipe to your taste, but don't stray too far. You can make this dish completely vegetarian, and it's still really good; instructions are below." - Mathew A. Koeneker from Bookmarklet

Newspapers need to set up lacanica installs that then can post to Twitter. That way they could get their entire news orgs rolled up in a private label Twitter but still be part of the Twitterverse. - Christian Burns

I think you write off laconica far too soon, Scoble. The benefits of having your own microblogging site for brands/interests as big as CNN, The US Govt, Oprah, Leo's Twit Army, or http://www.todaysmama.com/connect... with one's own collection of groups & tagclouds, inter-subscribe-able by other OMB-compliant sites and free of being at the mercy of a company like Twitter's policies and Fail Whales is pretty attractive. Come to think of it, you should have one. - exador23

I might get you this for your birthday as I probably can't make it to London to buy you a beer. - David Owens

nice to get to see your real face. hai thar - Kamilah Gill

can't believe even your avatar is trying to hide behind ya ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

zeppelin rules - Paul Buchheit

LOVE this! Saw it years ago and never knew how to find it again. Awesome song AND kittens!! - BEX

Plus once you have the transcript, you can provide it alongside the video to make the content more accessible for people with hearing difficulties. - David Owens

We used http://castingwords.com/ for some video we had captioned for the Healthcare Commission in the UK. They were very good and very cheap considering the complexity of the language used. Pretty sure they use Amazon's Mechanical Turk though. If this is genuinely automated it sounds pretty impressive. - David Owens

if only it was still funny....... - Ňicķ

finally! - yaroslav

FF challenge: find these signs on Google street view. Ready, set, go. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

that was fun - j1m

How timely. I was just thinking about this before I went for a coffee. I decided a while ago I preferred Disqus as it fell back (slightly) more gracefully than IntenseDebate when JavaScript wasn't available. Tighter integration with WordPress in the future could easily turn that around though.. - David Owens

I just installed the intensedebate plugin for TBS. I have yet to use Disqus, but may have to give that a try. - Brandon Mendelson

I'd like it even more if they listed some sources I could check. The original article seems to be here. http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art... - David Owens