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Major Nelson (Larry) posted a message on Twitter

“Just saw the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates commercial. If you've seen it, what do you think?”

9 hours ago - Link

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ummm not very impressed - Fuad Arshad

I'm confused about the whole video. - Badam

thought is was not what people were expecting....looking forward to more - Cale Teeter

I thought Microsoft's problem was the public's perception of Vista. This ad doesn't even mention Vista. Or is the ad just attempting to make MS look cool, if so, I don't think it succeeded. - Paul Grav

Confused - Shawn aka ringking

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

6 hours ago - 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

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First-Gen iPhones rise steadily in price

Wednesday at 6:03 pm - Link

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Google Chrome's Full List of Special about: Pages [Google Chrome]

Wednesday at 6:27 pm - Link

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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

Dave Slusher posted a message

“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

Monday 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

Monday 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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*The New Nixon* by dday There's quite a lot to say about

August 29 at 9:16 pm - Link

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Nat Torkington posted a message on Twitter

“William asked me, as we're listening to Dire Straits, "what's an MTV?"”

August 29 at 6:11 pm - Link

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So what did you say? It's the reality show TV channel? - Mr. Gunn

I think outside the US, MTV still plays music - Deepak

Not in this bit of it - Garret McMahon

Cale Teeter posted a message on Twitter

“its 4:30 AM....how could twitter be over capacity...all the west coasters?”

August 30 at 1:30 am - Link

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How to avoid having to reactivate Windows XP after fresh install

August 30 at 7:10 am - Link

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that's interesting - Jeremy Zawodny

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English Russia » Your Personal Moon :)

August 29 at 12:09 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Lu Tao, Steve Spalding, zoblue (Zulema), chantelle and 44 other people liked this

WANT!!! - Anna Haro

There is no way I could sleep next to a giant light like that, but for some reason I want it anyway. Where would I put it? - Aaron Krug

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exactly with you on that, Aaron - Michael W. May via twhirl

That is *great*. I'd like to put one on my balcony. :) - felix

It'd be much more fun for parties than sleeping. I like to sleep in the *dark*. - Ayşe E.

I wonder if it's huggable :) - Mona N.

it is for tanning.. - vepa

The third pic of the guy sleeping beside it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. ♥ - Bec

It made me think how many times he humped it by "accident" - Outsanity

5 times - Outsanity

I would totally wake up spooning with that moon. - Kaia ♥

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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

felix posted a message on Twitter

“It is not possible to determine, in advance, if a cat will like any particular cat bedding.”

August 29 at 11:13 am - Link

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Oh sure it is. Put a laptop or box you intend to use or any papers you intend to read on it. Guaranteed they will love it! - Paul Reynolds

If it's a cardboard box, cat will like it guaranteed. - Jason Kaneshiro

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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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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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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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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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Prototype: Turning Point for Touch Screens

August 23 at 3:36 pm - Link

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