"He noted that these spiders will wrap their trapped prey in what seems to be an excessive amount of silk. Earlier studies showed that two species of uloborids spent over an hour enveloping their prey, more than a hundred times what other orb-weavers will devote to the task. In doing so, they used up a spectacular 80 metres of silk." - Ross Miller via Bookmarklet
Hum... NoiseRiver was supporting this two days before :p - directeur via NoiseRiver
Very cool. If you go back a couple days, it has the proper timestamp format e.g. Tuesday at 12:15pm etc. I guess the question is what time zone are these based on. I'd guess Pacific time due to FF being in the Valley/Bay Area. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
About time too! :-) I think they should either allow me to pick my timezone or detect my regional settings so that the historical date/time always displays correctly for my timezone. - Tony Ruscoe
The great thing about the timezone issue is that it doesn't matter much. Small time deltas are done relatively "6 hours ago" so time zone doesn't come into play. Long time deltas are done absolutely and since FF doesn't ask what time zone you live in are likely off but it doesn't matter too much because it is a long time delta and thus it's ok to be off by a few hours because is 2 weeks ago really different from 2 weeks and 1 hour ago? Brilliant. - Benjamin Golub
I like it. The only problem I see though is it also displays over people's names when you hover over their name. It gets in the way. - Nick Munson
Translation to local time is pretty easy isn't it? FF (server side) doesn't know the time zone you are in -- but the browser can - Brian Sullivan
@Benjamin, that's completely true. So I'd argue why bother displaying the time at all for comments older than 24-48 hours. (Philipp's been doing that in the Google Blogoscoped forum for years: http://blogoscoped.com/forum/) @Brian, absolutely. - Tony Ruscoe
They definitely paid a visit to my neighbors. Go Texas! - Carla Thompson
Wow, Colorado is significantly lower than all the others. Any ideas why? - Jim Norris
This was posted separately and there was quite a bit of discussion about it. The Coloradans basically said that outdoor physical activity is a major part of the culture there. - ⓞnor
I say the thin air squeezes the fat out of them. - Steve Craft
Mean elevation: CO 6800ft, UT 6100ft, NM 5692ft, MT 3396ft, MS 300ft... - ⓞnor
way to go guys, onwards and upwards! good luck! you haven't worked at a real startup unless there is a foozball table or a pool table. looks like you are legit :) - Ivan Stegic
a malmo chair from ikea! the very same colour as mine! - Giovanni De Stefano
I like that office, I wish mine was that nice!! - Paul
It seems you bought more tables and chairs to hire more hackers. I like how open your office is. - seman
We actually didn't buy any tables or chairs - they were left here by the last company. We have a table/chair graveyard in the back as a consequence :) - Bret Taylor
It looks exactly the same as the old office... - Jini
The red chair is still my favorite, but it looks like I have more seats to try out. - Amit Patel
On first thought - great Place! I like the open air about it... but on second thought I don't think I can work in such an open space. I just need my personal space. - Parth Awasthi
sweet, but I'd put those pool cues in a cue holder or they will bend stored leaning against a wall...causing bad shots. also sunlight on pool table will cause fading, but you probably will just get a new table eventually w/ all the success! :) - Pokai
sacrilege to say I think it looks pretty ugly? - Adam
many of them are so similar. If it weren't for the text, I'd really confuse them. That does not sound good for the logo designers - Dragos Ilinca via twhirl
My fav here would have to be the Kiwi one [as much as that pains me to say ;-) ] - maybe because it is so different. - Patricia Hanrahan
I was struck by that one too, but with the thought that it needs to reflect the natural colour of New Zealand. It stands out, but only because it surrounded by colour, methinks. *edit* oh, and I like Italia best of those. - Michael W. May via twhirl
Wow, these really ... um ... suck. Most are so similar you'd think it was a logo-by-numbers kit. I'm guessing it has more to do with the decision making process the logo goes through which yields a bland group-think decision. - AJ Kohn
I'm being picky, but: Dubai is not a country - Kirk Kittell
"Visit the UAE - don't let it pass Dubai!" Or how about: "Oh Phuket! Just go." (sorry, they were rather tragic) - Patricia Hanrahan
My favorite is the Bahamas logo. It's clean and classy while also evoking a sense of fun and whimsy. Well done. - Erica Baker
Erica, i like the bahamas one too. at first, it looked like a microsoft product logo. The Bahamas brought to you by Microsoft. - Ginger Makela
The Espana sun logo must have been around for at least 20 years. My least favorite is Colombia - it has the classic disease awareness group look, e.g. the British Heart Foundation: http://www.bhf.org.uk/ - Thomas Brox Røst
This data, visualized in this way and especially trended over time, is stunning. Obesity has spread like a disease and its prevalence is hard to swallow. If I move to Colorado I won't get skinny, Colorado will get fat. - Oliver Deighton via Bookmarklet
Your social life in Colorado is based a lot on what sport or outdoor activity you do. You're expected to climb or ride or do something outdoors. More often than getting asked "What do you do?" I get asked "What do you like to do?" - Ginger Makela
That's funny, Ginger: when I was looking at UC Boulder back in high school, I was surprised how many people were asking me about what activities I was into rather than what I wanted to study. "You like to ski?" "Oh, are you a snowboarder?" - Mark Trapp
As long as you only notify me via social networking sites... and please include the lat-long of the pool so I can map it first to see if it's cool enough... - Ross Miller
I'm holding out until Google Earth can tell us the water temperature. - Peter Butler
"Why is crime rising in so many American cities? The answer implicates one of the most celebrated antipoverty programs of recent decades." - Jim Norris
Reminds me of "Freakonomics" controversies. - Steve Craft
I hate morning radio talk shows, I listen mostly to music, but when I listen to talk it's either comedy or news(npr, bbc, cnbc) - clarke
monsters in the morning (http://monsters.fm) is good for when I don't feel like listening to the news on the way to work - acedanger via twhirl
I HATE talk shows. Especially when random people call in to comment on something stupid. - Sheila Taylor
I haven't listed to music on the radio for years. I love talk radio and news - WFPL in Louisville is my favorite, most of the time in the morning is spent listening to: http://friendfeed.com/toddmund... - Vince DeGeorge
A 15-minute power nap is all I need to be reset for the rest of the day. Too bad employers frown on such things. Also too bad I work in a brightly-lit room with two other people. - Akiva Moskovitz
we have rooms with locks on the inside and la-z-boys, and people would use those for napping, but then they turned all but one into Mothers' Rooms. - edythe
Whenever I'm in charge of a meeting, I either schedule it in the morning, or afternoons after 3:00pm. Either way, I avoid the severe case of the sleepies that besets me like clockwork around 2:00pm. - Cecily Walker
Power naps are a good thing. As with Akiva, such things tend to be frowned upon at my office. - JA Castillo
"Pasteurization doesn’t kill all bacteria in the milk, just enough so that you don't get a disease with your milk mustache. UHT, on the other hand, kills everything." - Ross Miller
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