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PC World - A Peek inside Facebook

Wednesday at 3:05 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

We'd rather innovate and have a little mess to clean up than run something reliable but stale. - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

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How Many of Me

Tuesday at 4:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

See how many people have your name - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

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Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web

Tuesday at 3:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Ironic that Google's most polished consumer-facing piece of software is a desktop Windows app (and I'm including their sites - though I suppose search results is pretty polished) - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

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Billionaires’ Yacht Rivalry Spills Into Courtroom - NYTimes.com

Sunday at 2:43 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Poised to skate across the waves off Anacortes, Wash., is a 90-foot, three-hulled wonder-yacht designed to crush its competitors in the next America’s Cup. - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

Just saw them doing sea trials today. The sails weren't up but it was unmistakable in Rosario Strait as they tooled around in full view of Paul Allen's estate. - Hayes Haugen

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Pic of the Day!

August 27 at 6:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

The sky makes this photo... - Dashwire via Bookmarklet

Ahhhh...beautiful Las Vegas - Hayes Haugen

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Adobe Unveils Photoshop.com Mobile Beta : Boy Genius Report

August 27 at 2:27 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

allowing you to capture and automatically (or manually) upload images from your mobile phone and have them sync between your mobile, Photoshop Express (online) and Photoshop Elements 7. - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

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omnia gps test

August 25 at 12:12 pm - Link

omnia latitude tagging. wasn't that solved way back in the olden days? longitude is the hard one, come on little phone, find us on the globe! - Hayes Haugen

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“Here is an idea that will offend music lovers: When exploring new music, I want the player to jump directly into the middle of the song, not start at the beginning. It should be more like changing channels on the radio. It only takes me a second to decide if the station is worth listening to, but...”

August 21 at 11:41 pm - Link

Evangeline, Ray Metzen, Ian, Dave Dash and 16 other people liked this

most songs start slow, so it take a long time to decide if I start at the beginning. If I like it, then maybe I'll go back. The same thing goes for the "next song" button on the iPod. Speaking of, why doesn't the iPhone have a "next song" button? I have to unlock the thing every time I get tired of the current song. The radio is much closer to what I want, except the music is generally awful and there are commercials, but I like to jump fast. - Paul Buchheit

like an Amazon preview but would actually finish the song? - Nice Fish Films

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iTunes and Amazon samples do that - Chris White

Hop,skip and a jump! - Jason Brooks

love listening to the radio on road trips for that very reason....but there is so much music that takes longer than a few seconds to understand and appreciate. how to make that work? - Hayes Haugen

Yeah, I never tried Amazon, but that's closer, though obviously I want the full song there. Also, it needs to be faster song-to-song, and of course I want more randomness. This thought inspired by http://friendfeed.com/e/d13f6a... - Paul Buchheit

When will the artists learn? Music should start out on a high and then just build from there! - Raymond

Most movies also start out really slow and boring. I've found that I prefer to start in the middle and then only watch the beginning later on if I liked the rest of the movie (it's like a prequel that fills in the bits that didn't make sense). It also makes them a little less predictable. - Paul Buchheit

Paul: Whoops, you just posted a beta link :) - Eric Florenzano

double-click the iphone button while it's locked and it will popup an ipod dialog to pause, forward or go back. - David Vasileff

Thanks for the tip David. That helps, but is still doesn't really solve my problem. I want to go to the next song without using my eyes. Imagine if you're drunk and mostly asleep, or like jogging -- you don't want to have to focus on some touch screen just to skip whatever annoying song popped up on shuffle. Fixed Eric :) - Paul Buchheit

Paul, if you are using headset with control button, just double-click the headset button to advance? if you are using regular headphones then you're out of luck. may be a good app idea to have a music player where you can just shake to advance. - David Vasileff

Paul, I like your priorities: "like if you are drunk, mostly asleep, or maybe exercising..." - Clare Dibble

The suggestion seems to make sense for certain contexts. As for movies, I noticed that pretty much all movies that are boring in the first 5 minutes also will be boring for the rest of the movie -- and vice versa, a good movie will also have a good, interesting start. - Philipp Lenssen

As a song writer I deem this ridiculous, you need the whole experience, its the juxtaposition of the sections that is the song. A trailer taste is fine (chorus maybe) but I wouldn't want to judge a book by reading a page in the middle. - HollowMarkeD

Suggestion: extend ID3 to include "preview in" and "preview out" values (offsets from 0:00). The artist/label can decide which snippet is most representative, and embed the tags at production. Players can then fade in/out, enforce max length, string previews together for one-click album previews, etc. Maybe even allow multiple in/out pairs per track (player blends smoothly) to give artist/label more creative control. Pardon if something like this is already implemented somewhere. - Amir Gharaat

same with buying a cd, let me play track 6, if it is good, maybe i'll buy it ... same with a novel, have a look at page 145, if it hooks you, buy it ... this paul bucheit guy is pretty smart - Gregory Lent

in iTunes when I want to find new stuff, i go through my downloaded collection hitting the right arrow (with shuffle on), and use the mouse to keep jumping in the middle of each song I land on. I think this should be easier... and is probably a good candidate for a specialized button, jump to "middle" of next song. - nadim

@HollowMarkeD Is it better to judge a book by reading just the first page? Reading an entire book before forming an opinion is for reviewers, not channel surfers. Also, there's a wide range of how people experience music. For example, I usually don't notice song structure, story, or lyrics, and my 5-second judgement of a song is a good predictor of how I'd feel about the whole thing. - seth

I'm with Amir: think "movie trailer" for music (minus the deep voice introduction) with the most significant snippets selected by the artist (or the record company, ok) - dario

I wish Amoeba had this feature on their winamp listening stations - that's exactly how I start evaluating a new CD. - John Harding

for dance/electronica - yep. Tiesto's sales would double. - Bill de hÓra

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Sucker for a puppy - Pic of the Day

August 21 at 8:47 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

A face only a mother could love - Hayes Haugen

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the annual global production of steel is now around 800 million tons per year - roughly enough to make a cube 452 meters on a side.

August 20 at 4:57 pm - Link

Amit Patel, mattpovey, Goran Zec, j1m and Michael J Cohen liked this

Turns out big cubes of metal are heavy and expensive. - ⓞnor

I like the phrase "steel consumption of 300 kg per man per year". Yum. - Larry Greenfield

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When construction of the Golden Gate and Bay bridges was at their peak in 1933 their combined steel needs equaled 6% of the national annual production. - Kevin Fox

i find the large solid cubes to be a useful way for getting a feeling of scale for certain things - bob

The annual global production of concrete is around 5 billion cubic yards - roughly enough to make a cube a mile on a side, or in standard metric units, "a holy ginormous fuckton" of concrete. - ⓞnor

Or, enough to make a solid concrete coffin for every person on earth. - Larry Greenfield

Hell, given that we take 60 years to die, a big ol' concrete sarcophagus. - ⓞnor

haha, but how much of the grand canyon could you fill in? - bob

10 miles average width * 1 mile average depth / 2 (assume triangular shape) = 5 square miles of cross sectional area, so a cubic mile of concrete would occupy 1/5 mile, or ~ 1000 ft, of the Grand Canyon. - ⓞnor

We better get started soon because it sounds like it may take a while to fill in. - Paul Buchheit

What size cube of steel do you need to reinforce the concrete used to fill in the Grand Canyon? - Gabe Schaffer

i assume that since it will be solid and resting on the local rock that minimal reinforcing will be needed - maybe just a little bit between the 1000ft sections :P - bob

Shouldn't that be "a holy ginormous fucktonne"? - Jim Norris

According to wikipedia, rebar is 1-5% by volume of reinforced concrete, usually on the low end. If all the world's steel was combined with all the world's concrete, it would be a 2% mixture. What I want to know is how you would build the form. - ⓞnor

urbandictionary agrees with you, Jim: "Metric Fuckton: More properly, "Metric Fucktonne." The Fuckton is the Imperial standard for the measurement of fuckweight, while the Fucktonne, in contrast, constitutes the Metric measure of fuckmass... Generally used to imply superlative quantity with the Metric standard included to emphasize this point. The inclusion of the term is, however, fundamentally a misuse of the standard, as the Imperial Fuckton (2000 Imperial Fuckpounds) denotes a slightly greater measure of fuckweight within Earth's gravitational pull than does the Metric Fuckton (1000 Metric Fuckilograms)." - ⓞnor

Onor, presumably you would fill the Grand Canyon with concrete the same way you would build a large concrete dam -- that is, in sections. If you just poured the whole Canyon at once, it would never finish curing, so you have to do it in chunks just a few yards at a time. - Gabe Schaffer

Wow, about 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000th the size of the puny Earth....keep trying hu-man! - Hayes Haugen

Hayes Haugen posted a message on Twitter

“Ordered a Dell XPS One (all in one style). Need to improve the working conditions in my home office. Schlepping around the laptop wasn ...”

August 17 at 11:04 am - Link

I canceled it! Dell order processing and customer service was AWFUL and a waste of time. - Hayes Haugen

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Auto Facial Attractiveness Enhancement Engine

August 17 at 5:13 pm - via Reshare - Link

Laurent Dieterich, Paul Winch, Tai, Nikhil Dandekar and 122 other people liked this

This is amazing. I think we should automatically apply it to all profile photos ;) - Paul Buchheit

Facial discrimination? - Jason Brooks

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Impressive. - j1m

Can I get one for the body as well as the face? - Dion Almaer

Very interesting. Hope they post the download link soon so that we can all play with it. - Brady Brim-DeForest

It seems as if the main problem with most people in the examples shown is their forehead is too short or too narrow. Wonder if there's a subtle clue that big brains are beautiful there! :) - Lindsay Donaghe

@Jason - that's an interesting concept. Would you be more likely to trust the girl on the left or right? Would you be more likely to talk to either one of them at a party (or more intimidated by either one?). - Lindsay Donaghe

Right one looks more dumb... - Phil Smirnov

Notice that for all the women they soften the jaw, while squaring it for men. Everyone also gets a slightly thinner face and upturned almost smiling lips. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

@SB yeah and the forehead adjustment... almost like there is a triangle with the forehead at the point and they flip it so the chin is the bottom of the triangle... weird. - Lindsay Donaghe

They are different women! Blame Paul! : ) - Erhan Erdogan

impressive - accesine

Lindsay: whenever sketching generic faces, the face starts as an inverted triangle and the eyes appear a third of the way down from the top of the forehead; lips and nose appear below and above (respectively) a line 1/3 up from the chin. Looks like these pictures are rearranged to meet that particular school of drawing. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

That is interesting yet odd. Seems that the faces are slendered with the software. - Jim Goldstein via twhirl

I wonder what would come out of applying their algorithms to face of black or asian person? Different countries have different concepts of beauty. - artemy tregubenko

This technology should be made available in eye glasses, just imagine how much better your work day can be! - Claude Betancourt

Paul - Think you should definitely add the option. "Click here to be beautiful without the expense of plastic surgery! .... and you may even get more 'Likey's" :)" - Charlie Anzman

Some of the stuff coming out of Siggraph this year is really freaky. How about combining this with the automatic video editing stuff? ;) - Joe Beda

without a doubt amazing. It's incredible how subtle the changes are yet massive difference. - Zee at WeDoCreative

Huh, that's pretty crazy. Creepy, but cool. :) - felix

I haven't read the paper, but I wonder if it adapts to different notions of "attractive" (that changes from culture to culture ...) - Rui

+1 @Claude I was thinking the same thing! Incorporate this software in wearable monitor glasses, and the whole world would be beautiful! I'll bet we can look for these on the shelves in the U.S. just before November. Social media and reality enhancement software have put Winston Smith out of a job. - Chris Kim A

Isn't this something these Japanese photo booth do since years? - minus3

do i sense another manga-style meme starting? - anna

So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean? - l0ckergn0me

You know, if these guys had gotten together with the realtime video+photo enhancement folks and approached the Beijing Olympic Comittee then that singing girl in the opening ceremonies might not have had to been replaced with a body double. (Yeah, I just brought three of this week's biggest memes together. I'll be here all week.) - Kevin Fox

The artist proportions were laid out by the Greeks as the perfect human, that's not being used here. This beautification engine, I think, builds on top of a previous study where some students tried to mathematically identify attractiveness. They had participants rate the attractiveness of head shots from yearbooks. What they found was there was a high correlation b/w the geometrically "average" face and high attraction. That "average" is based on the proportions of the di - xero

stances between the individual elements of the face and their relative sizes. IIRC the software adjusts elements so they statistically/geometrically complement each other. It's not actually working toward a golden set of proportions, but a set of proportions appropriate for the individual as defined by the masses. I wouldn't think of it as "facial discrimination" so much as "deviation from ones potential". - xero

imagine if this were available in real-time installed into special glasses. sober beer goggles. - Jess Lee

I'm not fussy. I'd take either out for a romantic dinner. - Andy C

Or maybe both. - Andy C

I'm waiting for the first Facebook application that automatically enhances your profile picture like this. Every social network should run this on the avatars. Beautiful people! - Benedikt Koehler

Can you imagine the controversy if dating sites got a hold of this? - xero

@paul automatically apply it to all profile photos, huh? are you sure you ready for results? check my picture - try to see wonderful cossacks writing infamous letter to Turkish Sultan :) - silpol

I wonder if they'll turn Mickey Mouse into Mighty Mouse - Dave Q

@Lindsay; A)Maybe/? 1=Left 2=Right 3=N/A - Jason Brooks

this will have a lot of practical applications to create a (virtual) world of beautiful (or more acceptable facially) people. - Apostolos Tsompanopoulos

Just a complicated high tech implementation of beer goggles. - Hayes Haugen

Chris' comment is sooo tempting - Charlie Anzman

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NDBC - Station SISW1

August 19 at 10:53 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

32 knots sustained. Typical fall/winter storm. - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

James Prudente posted a link

The Poor Man Institute

August 19 at 8:36 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Which will you choose?!?! - James Prudente

I didn't know they were mutually exclusive - Hayes Haugen

Well, now you know better - James Prudente

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Op-Ed Contributor - Russia Never Wanted a War - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

August 19 at 10:48 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"For some time now, Russians have been wondering: If our opinion counts for nothing in those institutions, do we really need them? Just to sit at the nicely set dinner table and listen to lectures?" - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

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History's Back: Ambitious autocracies, hesitant democracies. by Robert Kagan

August 19 at 10:13 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Of course there is strength in the liberal democratic idea and in the free market. But progress toward these ideals has never been inevitable. It is contingent on events and the actions of nations and peoples--battles won or lost, social movements successful or crushed, economic practices implemented or discarded." - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

Alan Cheslow posted a message on brightkite.com

“first speeding ticket :-(” (at Tillamook, OR, USA)

August 14 at 8:30 pm - Link

Slow down there fella...you are on vacation, not a mission! - Hayes Haugen

I assume you're taking 6 up to HWY 26 into Portland - be careful when you reach 26... lots of cops out there near North Plains. - Brandon LeBlanc via twhirl

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lookup3ycs : a standard high performance string hash « Solr ‘n Stuff

August 11 at 7:45 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"...surprised to discovered that there isn’t a good cross-platform hash function defined for strings. MD5, SHA, FVN, etc, all define hash functions over bytes, meaning that it’s under-specified for strings." - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

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srsly!?! how many hours are willing to wait for the second coming of the jesus phone?

August 9 at 12:00 pm - Link

with faith you can believe anything - Hayes Haugen

Alan Cheslow posted a message

“How many years until camera phones or some other converged device causes the extinction of consumer-grade standalone digital still cameras?”

August 2 at 11:33 pm - Link

5 years, tops, and I would expect meaningful sales impacts within 24 months. The state of the art camera phones with autofocus are great but their performance is still circa 2003 in lots of respects. They will definitely improve at a faster rate than p&s digicams have. - Hayes Haugen

I'm using the Samsung Omnia i900 and if the average consumer had a phone with a camera this good (even without zoom) they probably wouldn't feel the need to purchase a p&s digicam. - Hayes Haugen

Hayes Haugen posted a message on Twitter

“Sonia i love you”

August 8 at 6:56 pm - Link

That's what happens when you let someone check out your phone! - Hayes Haugen

Alan Cheslow posted a link

The Future of Blogging Revealed - ReadWriteWeb

August 8 at 11:34 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Huh, just realized my website was profiled here :-) - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet

it was how I started following you and used the idea for my own lifestreem (actually had to write my own script because blogger didn't have one like wordpress) .. so thanks ! - Pascal

Nice, would be interested to hear how it affects your traffic. - Hayes Haugen

I normally don't get much traffic -- about 150 visits/day -- but it's gone to about 500/day since that article. - Alan Cheslow

@Pascal, awesome, looks good! - Alan Cheslow

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Lynn's Industrial Protocols over IP: Cellular Costs - bytes you pay for each month

August 8 at 11:08 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

An example: Modbus/RTU via TCP/IP, one poll per 10 minutes - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

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Lynn's Industrial Protocols over IP: Evolution of Data Plan Billing

August 8 at 11:04 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

So if I send a single 50 byte UDP/IP packet, is that a full session and billed as 1024 bytes? Could be under this language since UDP is 'sessionless'. - Hayes Haugen via Bookmarklet

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Lynn's Industrial Protocols over IP

August 7 at 6:29 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

socket talk - Hayes Haugen

Alan Cheslow posted a message on Twitter

“Setting up a travelstream (lifestream travel journal) for our family road trip next week - http://bkite.com/01aRr”

August 6 at 11:18 pm - Link

I'm biased but a blackjack ii + att + dashwire and you'll have the easiest no hassle travel logging experience ever. - Hayes Haugen

that's exactly what i'm using -- plus brightkite and flickr all mashed up with yahoo pipes into a wordpress site - Alan Cheslow

here's a preview using pre-trip data -- http://roadtrip08.cheslow.com/ - Alan Cheslow

cool setup! - Hayes Haugen

don't forget you can also shoot using a regular digital camera with a microsd card in an adapter. then pop that into your blackjack and dashwire will upload the pix. in full res with no mods. - Hayes Haugen

you read my mind, i was thinking about that too :-) - Alan Cheslow

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I'm coining the term "Travelstream" - A lifestream for travel journals. What should I add/change to mine before my family takes our road trip next week?

August 7 at 2:53 pm - Link

Someplace to store rocks, shells, pine cones and other ephemera. - Hayes Haugen

Alan Cheslow posted a link

Our $100 Trillion National Debt by Bill Walker

August 7 at 11:58 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"The "official" debt of the United States is only around $10 trillion dollars as of August 6, 2008. This is a manageable number; we could pay it off in a few decades if we quit buying luxuries like food and clothing, and take a few other minor economy measures. Unfortunately, the "$10 trillion" number was produced by government accounting, which among other things allows one to ignore Social Security, Medicare, and the new prescription drug benefit. This is like ignoring rent, food, and utilities in your household budget… it will lead to a few bounced checks. Our real debt is about ten times higher." - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet

and the only ones who can complain about this are people without credit card debt - Gregory Lent

I can complain all I want, this is the Internet ;) On the upside this is a psuedo-equivalent to a 40 year mortgage. - Hayes Haugen

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google.com Estimated Worth $1.2 Billion USD by websiteoutlook

August 6 at 9:31 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

This will rock the markets in the AM. - Hayes Haugen