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Streetview: Da Coffee Spot - http://maps.google.com/maps...
In downtown Palo Alto, the coffee place own by Bulos Paul Zumot, who stands accused of the murder of Jennifer Schipsi - j1m from Bookmarklet
At night this place turns into a hookah bar called "Da Hookah Spot": http://www.facebook.com/pages... - Doug
I'm pretty sure I just washed one of my phones. To whoever thought of manufacturing and purchasing in the front-loading washers that can't be opened after you start the wash (obviously a very bad idea, even without this demo): Uh, thanks.
Chance it was dead 2 minutes after I started the wash, when I discovered it was missing? Probably pretty low. Chance it will be dead after 40 minutes of this: unfortunately, maybe pretty high. - j1m
Ugh. The worst I've done is chap stick. - Ginger Makela Riker
Oh, ouch. Yes, I left in chap stick once, and a pen once. Fortunately long ago, so the angish has subsided. I think after the chap stick I pretty much threw away all the clothes in that wash, except jeans and socks. - j1m
At least it's not a porta-potty. - Jim Norris
Somehow, it's actually less painful to throw your portable electronics down the toilet. There the loss is instantaneous, so it's not so excruciating. - j1m
Sorry. :( - Ruchira S. Datta
And we're back! When it came out I disassembled it and set it in front of a fan that's on for a few hours most days. Since the battery was in it, wet, for 45 minutes before I did this, I didn't have high hopes... but I just reassembled it, and it works fine! ftw. - j1m
front loaders scare me. We were just watching one of the Pink Panther movies and there was a gag where he opened a front loader and the water spilled all over. I can't believe your phone works, wow, nice work! - Laura Norvig
j1m, you should leave it with the battery out for 48 hours to be sure everything is dry, it might short if you don't and the water settles... - mjc
Picture plz - i ♥ derrick #bellymeme from iPhone
Which phone was this? - ⓞnor
Put wet phones in a bag of rice. Good as new aside from that little warranty sticker turning the bad color. - EricaJoy
I love my front loading washer. I had one in Germany and loved how well it cleaned, and how power/water efficient it was. - Piaw Na
must prevent « Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009...
must prevent   « Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?
Detective: Palo Alto real estate agent Jennifer Schipsi apparently was strangled - San Jose Mercury News - http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_1373...
and here's the actual article - j1m from Bookmarklet
Bulos Paul Zumot, 36, owner of the downtown Palo Alto smoking lounge Da Hookah Spot - http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet...
Bulos Paul Zumot, 36, owner of the downtown Palo Alto smoking lounge Da Hookah Spot
"Bulos Paul Zumot, 36, owner of the downtown Palo Alto smoking lounge Da Hookah Spot, was arrested on suspicion of homicide and arson in the death of 29-year-old real estate agent Jennifer Schipsi. Schipsi died on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, in a house fire on the 900 block of Addison Avenue. Photo courtesy of the Palo Alto Police Department. ( Photo courtesy of the Palo Alto )" - j1m from Bookmarklet
Judging from the photos, I'm guessing he (allegedly) strangled her because she was much too good-looking for him. - j1m
That's horrible. - Louis Gray
Yeah, really shocking. Right in the middle of Paradise USA. - j1m
Pressure on Google over blocked calls - TheHill.com - http://thehill.com/homenew...
eek, what a bizarre article - j1m from Bookmarklet
I love the argument here -- "our scam is threatened by companies refusing to participate". By that logic, blocking 1-900 numbers and those to caribbean countries' pseudo-1-900 scam numbers should also be forbidden. - Joel Webber
Yeah, everything about that position is very shady. More than that, the very notion that arbitrary pieces of software could be subject to FCC telephony rules is chilling. - j1m
Fever Pitch: It’s Droid Day, Enjoy The Moment. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Fever Pitch: It’s Droid Day, Enjoy The Moment.
Arrington: "That’s because, in my humble opinion, the Droid is the coolest mobile phone to exist to date. It is as close as we’ve come to the Platonic ideal of a smartphone. Its very existence ensures that the next iPhone will be even better than it otherwise would have been. Competition is good." - j1m from Bookmarklet
Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World - android 2.0 - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5397215...
Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World - android 2.0 - Gizmodo
gotta love the pic - j1m from Bookmarklet
Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan | Signal Strength - CNET News - http://news.cnet.com/8301-30...
Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan | Signal Strength - CNET News
Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan | Signal Strength - CNET News
Apparently these guys welcome our new robot overlords - j1m from Bookmarklet
"NEW YORK--More than a hundred people were lined up at midnight Thursday outside a Verizon Wireless store in midtown Manhattan to be among the first people to buy the new Motorola Droid." - j1m
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The San Francisco Panorama Press Release. - http://www.mcsweeneys.net/SFPanor...
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The San Francisco Panorama Press Release.
wtf? - j1m from Bookmarklet
Smartphone Smackdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid - http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009...
Smartphone Smackdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid
"Comparing the aesthetics of the iPhone and the Droid is.. ludicrous, if not impossible. It’d be like having a heated argument over whether Angelina Jolie was more or less gorgeous than Halle Berry." - j1m from Bookmarklet
Your example is easier, j1m. Halle Berry. :) - Louis Gray
I'll dance with the girl I brought to the party. - Christopher Harley from iPhone
@Christopher, I would do the same, but I just put her through the wash, and she's not talking to me any more. - j1m
Droid wins, end of story. - Maxamad (Amazigh)
The Droid is very cool but I prefer the apps on the iPhone. Especially the games. It's all about the apps. - Parvez Halim
As long as it synchronizes over the air with my Mac, I'm happy. - Glen Campbell
I've been trying to get Halle Berry to sync with my Mac, no luck so far though. - Jim Norris
Are you running iTunes 9.0.1? - j1m
Evil plans don’t come up « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009...
Evil plans don’t come up   « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?
Networks in Motion: Google Attacking Developer Community, Android “Openness” Total BS - http://blog.laptopmag.com/network...
"Anyone can write a spiffy UI, especially if you have lots of money and talented engineers. But it’s hard to replicate all those years of testing and integration and working with the handset vendors and working with the content providers and working with the carrier support teams with their network to make sure all these things work together. Because doing real-time navigation is a very complex problem. It’s not like doing something on the Internet, where you do it once and it pretty much works. And what you’re dealing with here is a map database that is brand-new, completely unproven, and is that really something that should be used for such a mission-critical function as real car navigation? So you can’t just put a bunch of smart programmers on this and assume that you’re going to have a stable, serviceable solution quickly." - j1m from Bookmarklet
New Chief Positions Motorola for a Rebound - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
New Chief Positions Motorola for a Rebound - NYTimes.com
Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
'Hall of Shame' Calls Out Bogus Internet Censorship | Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/press...
""Free speech in the 21st century often depends on incorporating video clips and other content from various sources," explained EFF Senior Staff Attorney and Kahle Promise Fellow Corynne McSherry. "It's what The Daily Show with Jon Stewart does every night. This is 'fair use' of copyrighted or trademarked material and protected under U.S. law. But that hasn't stopped thin-skinned corporations and others from abusing the legal system to get these new works removed from the Internet. We wanted to document this censorship for all to see."" - j1m from Bookmarklet
…brains… « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009...
…brains… « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?
Twitter And Y Combinator Team Up For Startup Stream Access - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Apple Sues God, Says Fruit Too Similar to Logo - http://www.esarcasm.com/5941...
Obama & Google (a love story) - Oct. 22, 2009 - http://money.cnn.com/2009...
Obama & Google (a love story) - Oct. 22, 2009
Alfred Hitchcock Totally Looks Like Droopy « Totally Looks Like… Famous People and Celeb Look-A-Likes - http://totallylookslike.com/2009...
Alfred Hitchcock Totally Looks Like Droopy « Totally Looks Like… Famous People and Celeb Look-A-Likes
Anthony Trollope (the novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Anthony Trollope (the novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"By the mid-1860s, Trollope had reached a fairly senior position within the Post Office hierarchy. Postal history credits him with introducing the pillar box (the ubiquitous bright red mail-box) in the United Kingdom. He had by this time also started to earn a substantial income from his novels." - j1m from Bookmarklet
"In particular, critics generally acknowledge the sweeping satire The Way We Live Now (1875) as his masterpiece." - j1m
StoneLoops! Of Jurassica Pulled From The App Store At MumboJumbo’s Request : App Advice - http://appadvice.com/appnn...
Shame on Apple and MumboJumbo - j1m from Bookmarklet
If Iz cant decidz « Loldogs, Dogs ‘n’ Puppy Dog Pictures – I Has A Hotdog! - http://ihasahotdog.com/2009...
If Iz cant decidz « Loldogs, Dogs ‘n’ Puppy Dog Pictures – I Has A Hotdog!
the dog launcher « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009...
the dog launcher « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?
Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals Contents - http://www.jazzstandards.com/composi...
"There are 20 pages listing 1000 standards. Pages 1 and 2 contain the top 100." - j1m from Bookmarklet
Big bonus: I learned from this page that The Real Book is now actually published and available from Hal Leonard (and Amazon), as opposed to the old state of affairs where it was some rare not-actually-copyright-cleared thing that wasn't available. - j1m
That's amazing - Josh Haley
Yes! - j1m
What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley - http://www.paulgraham.com/kate...
"You can barely renovate a bathroom for the cost of starting a startup." - j1m from Bookmarklet
Post-Medium Publishing - http://www.paulgraham.com/publish...
"A copy of Time costs $5 for 58 pages, or 8.6 cents a page. The Economist costs $7 for 86 pages, or 8.1 cents a page. Better journalism is actually slightly cheaper. Almost every form of publishing has been organized as if the medium was what they were selling, and the content was irrelevant. Book publishers, for example, set prices based on the cost of producing and distributing books. They treat the words printed in the book the same way a textile manufacturer treats the patterns printed on its fabrics. Economically, the print media are in the business of marking up paper. We can all imagine an old-style editor getting a scoop and saying "this will sell a lot of papers!" Cross out that final S and you're describing their business model. The reason they make less money now is that people don't need as much paper." - j1m from Bookmarklet
"Now that the medium is evaporating, publishers have nothing left to sell. Some seem to think they're going to sell content—that they were always in the content business, really. But they weren't, and it's unclear whether anyone could be." - j1m
"I'm not claiming that potential will be realized by the existing players. The optimal ways to make money from the written word probably require different words written by different people. " - j1m
The new rules of news | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...
"7. We would replace PR-speak and certain Orwellian words and expressions with more neutral, precise language. If someone we interview misused language, we would paraphrase instead of using direct quotations. (Examples, among many others: The activity that takes place in casinos is gambling, not gaming. There is no death tax, there can be inheritance or estate tax. Piracy does not describe what people do when they post digital music on file-sharing networks.)" - j1m from Bookmarklet
Cal Performances | Jazz | Wayne Shorter Quartet, Featuring Brian Blade, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez - http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/present...
Cal Performances | Jazz | Wayne Shorter Quartet, Featuring Brian Blade, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez
[from last weekend] Sanctuary, (unrecognizable), Over Shadow Hill Way. Encore: Golden Mean. As expected Wayne Shorter continues to kick ass. - j1m from Bookmarklet
They played in Easton a couple of years ago, sounds like the same line up as here. It was amazing! - Jeremy Hylton
Yeah, they vary from great to stunning. I think the thing that really makes it for me is the incredible structure of the songs. Most jazz bands that aren't hard to follow (i.e. that aren't avante garde) play in a certain way: everyone, especially the pianist, bassist, and drummer, play in a sort of box, and those boxes are pretty similar from band to band. The pianist emphasizes the... more... - j1m
Man! So bummed I couldn't make it. I had a good reason, but I'm still bummed :) - Aaron D'Souza
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