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How blind salamanders make nonsense of creationists' claims. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

2 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Hold it right there, says Ann Coulter in her ridiculous book Godless: The Church of Liberalism. "The interesting question is not: How did a primitive eye become a complex eye? The interesting question is: How did the 'light-sensitive cells' come to exist in the first place?" The salamanders of Planet Earth appear to this layman to furnish a possibly devastating answer to that question. Humans are almost programmed to think in terms of progress and of gradual yet upward curves, even when confronted with evidence that the past includes as many great dyings out of species as it does examples of the burgeoning of them. Thus even Shermer subconsciously talks of a "pathway" that implicitly stretches ahead. But what of the creatures who turned around and headed back in the opposite direction, from complex to primitive in point of eyesight, and ended up losing even the eyes they did have?" - Gautam Guliani via Bookmarklet

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Google Planning Offshore Data Barges

8 hours ago - Link

Varun Mahajan, Gautam Guliani, Mike Reynolds, Sean McGee and 16 other people liked this

This just opens themselves up to piracy... - John Worthington

what's next, outerspace? - Dave Hodson

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@Dave, that's if Dell doesn't try to patent outerspace data barges as they did cloud computing. - Louis Gray

For a moment there, I thought the link would lead to The Onion. - Morton Fox

@Louis. whoa. outerspace data barges. that's so skynet. where's @spin? I got another idea :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

In response, Rogue Wave had this to say about the new datacenters: "Mwahahahaahahha!" - Ernie Oporto

The Google Navy begins to form... - Jesse Stay

This is simply amazing!!! wow... talk about disruptive technological breakthru... wow - Susan Beebe

laughing at john worthingotn's humor - Gregory Lent

So I guess they'd run a fiber from shore along the ocean bottom, and run it alongside the anchor chains from the barge to the sea floor. - Denton Gentry

security provided by blackhawk? - Gregory Lent

if they cluster too many of these guys, the clusters could become self-aware! ;) - Gautam Guliani

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*Read It And Weep* by tristero Shorter Joe Biden: They're

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still time to wrest defeat out of the jaws of victory. LOL! - Gautam Guliani

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Op-Ed Contributor - Rich Man’s Burden - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Thursday at 10:49 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"This is a stunning moment in economic history: At one time we worked hard so that someday we (or our children) wouldn’t have to. Today, the more we earn, the more we work, since the opportunity cost of not working is all the greater (and since the higher we go, the more relatively deprived we feel). In other words, when we get a raise, instead of using that hard-won money to buy “the good life,” we feel even more pressure to work since the shadow costs of not working are all the greater." - Gautam Guliani via Bookmarklet

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Be sure to read Chrome's fine print | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

Wednesday at 9:16 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

interesting, to use Chrome you have to grant Google a license! - Gautam Guliani via Bookmarklet

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Did Twitter Lay Down for Google?

Wednesday at 2:17 pm - Link

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This sidesteps the basic issue - is a page full of twitters a web page? Aren't twitters impermanent by design? If so, they shouldn't contribute to pagerank. - Gautam Guliani

Hm.. the link in question is permanent and the purpose of a profile page is permanent - a single landing page to view the microblogging efforts of a particular person. I think it's a valid question, curious if it will get answered. - felix

Brent posted a message on Twitter

“So after these DNC and RNC speeches I don't understand something. Is it Change or Experience that is bad?”

Wednesday at 8:13 pm - Link

it's either experiencing change or changing the importance of your experience. one of them. or both. or neither. :) - Gautam Guliani

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Straight out of Compton

Wednesday at 11:07 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"And there it is, Microsoft's worst nightmare laid bare. Google has grown tired of the web browser ghetto, all its applications crowded together into a single, often unreliable container. "Real" applications don't have to put up with this. They live and die on their own terms. Their chrome is elegant, sleek. They are not mere content presented within another application. They are prime actors, first-class citizens. That's what Google wants for its products, and it's decided that the only way to get it—the only way to escape the ghetto of the browser—is to make a web browser of its own. That must have been a difficult decision to make, and the road ahead is tough. But no matter how it turns out, you have to admire the bravery. Go on, Google, tell 'em where you're from." - Gautam Guliani via Bookmarklet

the always entertaining and frequently insightful John Siracusa for ARS.Technica - Gautam Guliani

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“So does the emergence of Chrome, a brand new browser presumably from its own newly minted code lineage mean that we can expect a whole new generation of web vulnerabilities, HTML rendering bugs that allow for code execution and all the other shit we've been stomping for 15 years?”

Wednesday at 10:47 am - Link

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I thought Chrome was using WebKit, aka the engine in Safari and Konqueror. - J Wynia

OK, I did not know that. In which case, I'm much less concerned. My first guess would have been that Google would do their own thing and create their own rendering engine because, hey, GOOGLE! - Dave Slusher

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It's not entirely obvious that it's Webkit because they are using the native font rendering that Safari ditched, so a comparison between Chrome and Safari on Windows looks "different" despite the same underlying engine. - J Wynia

Yeah, it's webkit, although I read somewhere that Google did make some non-trivial modifications to it, but I can't recall where. Possible I just made it up right now, I have a vivid imagination. - felix

it would seem to have already started - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009... - Brian Sullivan

early reports of security flaws are a good thing methinks. Public beta is serving its purpose - Gautam Guliani

In the webcast yesterday, they specifically addressed the concerns of the developer community having to support "yet another browser". They feel like using WebKit alleviates a lot of this. BUT I didn't hear anything about security and V8 is a brand new JITC Javascript runtime which is interesting with all the scripting exploits going around. - Paul Reynolds

It looks from that report that these are all upstream of the actual rendering, IE giving it bad protocols and such. Which are still a huge problem, just with a slightly different surface area if we don't have to worry about unique HTML parsing security violations. - Dave Slusher

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User Experience (Chromium Developer Documentation)

Wednesday at 10:56 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"In the long term, we think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and Microsoft would avoid putting things into the standard window frames of applications on their operating systems." - Gautam Guliani via Bookmarklet

I think it's kinda ambitious of them to say that, this whole browser as os thing is a touch overblown, methinks. - felix

not browser as OS, but browser as web app container. Subtle but important difference. - Gautam Guliani

Kevin Fox posted a message on Twitter

“Dreamhost account hacked second time this year. New passwords SSH/SFTP/SCP are no defense. Advice on more secure hosting?”

Tuesday at 2:48 pm - Link

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do you have clues on how they got in? - felix

these guys are nothing but PAIN brother - Dobromir Hadzhiev

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GAE - Paul Buchheit

No. Last time they got in because there was a vulnerability in Dreamhost's user panel and passwords were kept in cleartext. After that I changed all my passwords and only use encrypted methods for access. My best guesses are that they either installed a backdoor last time that I didn't see/disable, or Dreamhost hasn't updated their openssh keys after all openssh keys were found to be vulnerable. - Kevin Fox

Kevin, have you considered a VPS? They're a little bit pricier, but you get a whole lot more control. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Tried 1and1? - Vinay | विनय

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.n... if they have everything you need and you like the payment model - Casey Muller

i wonder if it's at all linked to the wordpress hackings with links getting appended to the bottom of pages. - Dustin

This one was different than last time. They edited my .htaccess file so certain urls would redirect to other urls (sapping pagerank). VERY strangely, at the same time they cleaned up some spam files they put in before, probably thinking they were less likely to get caught if they moved to the cleaner system. - Kevin Fox

Mike Sego had reasonably good experiences with 1and1 - Sanjeev Singh

damn. that's scary. is there a way to prevent this on our own? I wonder if I set the wrong change mode (CHMOD) settings. - Dustin

consider 1) http://www.hostforweb.com/ and 2) http://www.asmallorange.com/ - Kishore Balakrishnan

Dustin, the modified files were all 644, with me being the owner. Talk about 'the call is coming from *inside* the house'... - Kevin Fox

'the call is coming from *inside* the house' - yes, these were my thoughts exactly. Someone is backdooring the whole thing which is making me finally think about closing my 4 year relationship with Dreamhost. - Dustin

i'm happy with RapidVPS - Gautam Guliani

Linode.com for all your hosting needs, if you are comfortable with vps and administering it. - DJ Weezy

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Google on Google Chrome - comic book

September 1 at 12:06 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

exciting when a new promising browser is born - Gautam Guliani via Bookmarklet

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Mark Twain’s Top 9 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life

September 1 at 9:04 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

#8 is my favorite - Gautam Guliani via Bookmarklet

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YouTube - 'Llectuals

August 30 at 6:33 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Girls gone wilde! - Gautam Guliani via Bookmarklet

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Apple's beating up Dell - it's almost ugly...

August 29 at 8:08 am - Link

Susan Beebe, Sumit Chachra, Kevin Cearns, Chuq Von Rospach and 10 other people liked this

i've yet to get a virius on the two macs that I own...PC always has something on it.... - Pokai

you mean a PC time/bandwidth tax hasn't been assessed - awesome Go Apple! - Wes Schadenfreud

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I switched from Dell to Apple 4 years ago and am not going back. - Sally Church

You sure that it's just Apple? HP Has been taking away market share from Dell as well... - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)

Scary. I've got a friend that bought a MacBook last week. Jealous as hell. Apple endears its users - Windows takes a slightly different approach. - Roberto Bonini

mmm, put Ubuntu Linux on your PC - it will be even better than McCrap - silpol

@silpol uh "mccrap"? who pays your bills? "PC"? - Scott Moskowitz

it isn't apple that's beating up Dell, it's the consumers making a choice. Don't let the media define your terms especially in terms of conflict. - Gautam Guliani

I'm typing this on a Dell Inspiron 1501. I've already had to send it to Dell a few times with problems. Now the hinge is broken and the battery isn't holding much of a charge. - Jake (aka Jawee)

Yeah, I'd never recommend buying an Inspiron. If you go Dell always buy the biz class systems. They are just a lot more sturdy...of course they still have issues *cough* overheating hard drives *cough*, then again all laptop manufacturers have their share of defects. 5% of all laptops die within the first 6 months in my opinion. And yes this is based on experience with a lot of laptop failures (albeit not in the last 2.5 years). - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)

I got one of the first Dell desktops that had Ubuntu preloaded and I love it. Solid case, decent components, and unlike apple I can upgrade cheaply. Best of all, it was about $550 after discounts. I like macs, but I don't envision having an extra $1-2k laying around anytime soon. If I was in the market for a laptop I might consider a mac, tho. - Karin Dalziel

Dell has been off its game on systems for quite some time now. I'll likely get a Macbook Pro in the spring, not because I care about those terrible Mac vs PC ad and their message, but because beneath it all is a cremy layer of sweet UNIX. - Ernie Oporto

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New Words and Tools for Covering the Conventions - NYTimes.com

August 29 at 9:10 am - Link

Isn't that true of the entire primary process and of the convention itself? - Gautam Guliani

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Landmark Case Upholds Open Source Licenses

August 28 at 8:37 pm - Link

And after noting that “lack of money changing hands” does not equate to lack of economic value, it wholeheartedly endorsed enforcement of the Artistic 1.0 license. Sweet! - Gautam Guliani

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The Google Alphabet, 2008 edition

August 28 at 8:37 pm - Link

Craigslist beats CNN for c and youtube beats yahoo for y.Not obvious. - Gautam Guliani

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APIs for Finding Location

August 27 at 9:28 pm - Link

geo location with metro level granularity for free. yummy. - Gautam Guliani

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Ubiquity Prototype Offers a Natural Language Web Command Line

August 27 at 7:28 am - Link

going to try it out - Gautam Guliani

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Fake following

August 26 at 10:09 pm - Link

attention is the new currency. Preserve it. - Gautam Guliani

I like the idea of a "pause" feature. Sometimes your contacts go to specific events that will flood you with updates. This was more a problem for me in twitter but with the auto aggregation feature in friendfeed its not as much a problem. - Cale Teeter

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If Amazon Really Wants To Get Serious About The Kindle…

August 26 at 5:47 am - Link

Oh! Apple should do that too, just license their OS to a bunch of competing hardware vendors. Wait a second... Maybe Amazon could just lower the prices and move to the same model as the console vendors - look at the hardware as less of a profit center (or possibly a loss leader until hardware prices decrease enough) - and sell a lot more units making it up in content sales. - felix

Dream on, Apple didn't surpass Google on sales of me.com, Leopard, or iPhone App Store, and Amazon isn't going to be deriving a good deal of revenue on electronic content licensing either. Until the GPL hardware crowd gains more steam, we'll be seeing much more of this. - Tim O'Brien

not enough incentive for hardware manufacturers me thinks, especially since ebooks market is unproven for the mainstream - Gautam Guliani

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David Fiderer: Energy for Dummies: The GOP's Secret Weapon Is A Clueless Media

August 25 at 5:57 pm - Link

perhaps a nuclear powered car is the answer :) - Gautam Guliani

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I made myself a cup of tea.

August 23 at 9:48 am - Link

clever - Gautam Guliani

felix posted an entry on #comments

Moving Day!

August 22 at 4:09 am - Link

good luck moving! - Gautam Guliani

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Scaling Out

August 21 at 1:26 pm - Link

single write master, ho hum - Gautam Guliani

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97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

August 20 at 6:06 pm - Link

Oreilly's "bottoms-up" book on architecture best practices as part of their new "97 Things" series - Gautam Guliani

felix posted a message on Twitter

“chase bank fails customer service by forcing you to dl a *pdf* with a map of their voicemail system before they tell you their cs number.”

August 20 at 9:04 am - Link

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I just heard about a service this week that will actually crawl phone trees and tell you how to shortcut them. That doesn't solve the problem of not having the actual number to call! Some Google-Fu should reveal more. - Paul Reynolds

hah. I sometimes use gethuman.com which tells you for many numbers the shortest way to speak to an actual person. I just couldn't believe that Chase a) had a chart of their voicemail in the first place and b) put the number in the pdf not on their site. Sigh. - felix

their cust svc number is on the back of ATM card, no? - Gautam Guliani

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Olympics Didn't Cause The Exaflood - Limelight Networks, NBC tackle online video demand...

August 18 at 6:52 am - Link

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This architecture is really interesting. - felix

localized caching... mmmm - Gautam Guliani

felix posted a message on Twitter

“I'm embarrassed everytime I order a grande decaf iced vanilla soy latte. I just am.”

August 15 at 10:59 am - Link

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*bucks has you trained - Gautam Guliani

if it's over 3 words, we have permission to point and laugh - Bwana McCall

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I order at Starbucks exactly once a year. Unfortunately, it sounds much like that since any Starbucks coffee requires tons of other stuff in it to make it even remotely palatable. I do not, however, EVER use Fretalian. - Cyndy

what can I do? sometimes I am weak. :) - felix

hmm...Does the store give you back your testicles when you leave? ;-) - Anna Haro

I think the minute you make your first order they take them away - Outsanity

+1 Anna - Cyndy

well, at least it's not pumpkin spice, i guess. - Anthony Citrano

+2 Anna - Hutch Carpenter

I don't go to Starbucks. - Morton Fox