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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

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

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

and here's the actual article - j1m from Bookmarklet

"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

Yeah, really shocking. Right in the middle of Paradise USA. - j1m

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

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

gotta love the pic - j1m from Bookmarklet

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

wtf? - j1m from Bookmarklet

"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

Are you running iTunes 9.0.1? - j1m

"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

""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

"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

Shame on Apple and MumboJumbo - j1m from Bookmarklet

"There are 20 pages listing 1000 standards. Pages 1 and 2 contain the top 100." - j1m from Bookmarklet

Yes! - j1m

"You can barely renovate a bathroom for the cost of starting a startup." - j1m from Bookmarklet

"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

"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

[from last weekend] Sanctuary, (unrecognizable), Over Shadow Hill Way. Encore: Golden Mean. As expected Wayne Shorter continues to kick ass. - j1m from Bookmarklet

Man! So bummed I couldn't make it. I had a good reason, but I'm still bummed :) - Aaron D'Souza