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Kistler 2000 Durrell Vineyard Chardonnay, pure liquid gold -- only because I'm out of the cheap stuff by the way. - Thomas Hawk

Is this the kernel of an idea for a sister service to Twitter? Sippr: What are you drinking? It could support images of the drinks, links to recipes. http://tinyurl.com/6mhqv6 is taking things up on the listening front. Listnr: What are you listening to? - Brian

The toilet thing just doesn't do it for me. Attractive young lady though... - Tad

I love these :) - Iain Baker

A gallery of portraits by Phillip Toledano of phone sex operators (via Kottke). Operator pictured above: “I never thought I would work in the phone sex industry. All those years doing customer service, my customers would comment on my sexy voice. I thought I was being professional, not sexy. This work is customer service. It’s just your customers leave with more than a smile.” - Jennie Lin

Very interesting article. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

thanks for the awesome coverage Ryan! - Benton

Great job on the coverage! - David O'Halloran

I love Sliderocket. It's very different than PowerPoint and shows yet another way that work is changing thanks to the Internet. - Robert Scoble

@Tom: Yes it can import PPT, but no export yet. So you need a working internet connection for your presentation or their offline player (adobe air). - Benedikt Koehler

Looking forward to chatting tomorrow Thomas! - Frederick Johnson

I can't wait to listen to this. Any time Thomas is on a podcast I definitely listen - Jon

Thanks for the heads up on the G9, that looks great! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Thomas, resistance is futile. ;) - Frederick Johnson

This is great -- Thomas one of my two favourite photogaphers (Bill Wadman is the other --- via Thomas Hawk --wish Bill was more a part of the online social network) - Brian Sullivan

Bills work is amazing Brian... nice site too: http://www.billwadman.com/ - Frederick Johnson

You made me sound (and look) very cool Thomas, thanks! - Frederick Johnson

Like the Dolby Digital sound research I saw in 2007, where they want to on-the-fly compute music for your speakers to produce sound which feels like it comes from the physical locations of the musicians in the original room - rather than pre-compute some 2-channel stereo and 5.1 tracks. - Mitchell Tsai

"Apple needs new "I'm a Mac..." commercials. The PC should be played by Sam Jackson, the Mac could be Cramer." - Frederick Johnson

""The rape suspect was described as a black man, 5-foot-7 to less than 6 feet tall, medium build with a dark complexion, in his mid 20s. He has a short Afro, brown eyes, a large flat nose and no facial hair. He was wearing a tan T-shirt and jeans." If this had happened in Los Angeles, with that description every black man would be a suspect... oh, wait. D'oh!" - Frederick Johnson

"It seems like it would be relatively simple to write a bit of iPhone/iPod software to allow video and audio streaming from the AppleTV directly to the iPhone/iPod. I'd love to not have to store large movie files on the device, but still be able to view them while connected to my home wi-fi network. My mind is spinning... Zune anyone?" - Frederick Johnson

"This phone is just amazing. My mind is spinning at how elegantly it will replace my *new* Samsung Blackjack and my 80GB iPod. Also, just think of the 3rd party software/hardware that will be developed for this thing... GPS, messaging, presentations, etc... Its kind of what the Newton probably would have evolved to. I predict the next generation of iPods will be exactly like the iPhone.. but without the phone of course. That will be crazy!!! Zune anyone?" - Frederick Johnson

"The reporter was an idiot, attempting to mask his lack of market knowledge by talking over his interviewees. I hate that... very Cross-Fire-ish." - Frederick Johnson

"I love my iPod(s), but hurray for Microsoft putting out something that even remotely resembles competition. I look at it like Microsoft is beta testing new features for the iPod. If people enjoy sharing songs between devices, you can bet Apple will implement it... only better. So few people will own Zunes (at least to start) that the sharing feature "its best selling point" is effectively null. Unless an enterprising 3rd party comes out with some device to allow iPod Zune connectivity (unlikely). I feel sorry for the poor dork who gets a Zune for the holidays and spends his days looking for someone to share a song with. And how bad he'll feel when the next shit-hot iPod revision hits. Zune will be sitting on the shelf right up there with the Creative Rio." - Frederick Johnson

"Mel Gibson would make a great Zune spokesman." - Frederick Johnson

"Who gives a #&^$ what they call it?! As long as it works better than all the other crappy phones we have to chose from, they could call it "iAss" and I'd still buy it." - Frederick Johnson

"The site should be named "Guess Secret", and really... I know it's exciting to know what the product announcements are before hand, but really who cares? Unless you're looking to get some inside info for stock trading purposes (Martha Stewart). I mean, it's more exciting to wait and see the goodies as Apple intended. Just like it's more fun to open your gifts on Christmas morning instead of peeking the night before. I just don't "get" all of the spy-vs-spy stuff." - Frederick Johnson

"Exclamation marks in Digg titles usually = advertisement." - Frederick Johnson