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Submit 10 images to the group for a chance to be accepted into the Flickr Collection. - J. McConnell

Great post on the history of Arial and Helvetica and why Arial sucks. - J. McConnell

"More than just unnecessary, the update actually puts him and millions of other iPhone owners/Windows PC users at increased risk by installing 'not just a configuration program, but the Apache Web server as well" - J. McConnell

Apple installed Apache on users PC's? Forget whether they asked for consent or not (they didn't), there is zero reason for this, ever. - J. McConnell

This isn't actually a bass, it's a Chapman Stick. - J. McConnell

A wonderfully comprehensive yet succinct look at the current state of the music industry and possible future directions. - J. McConnell

I like the idea of layering the original image over the mosaic and blending in color mode so the original image provides the color info. Great effect. - J. McConnell

“We think that getting to know smart people doing interesting things will, in the long term, be good for Red Gate. In the future, we might end up licensing your technology, investing in your company or maybe even buying it. Or maybe we won’t. Ultimately, all deals come down to relationships. So we want to build them.” - S.D.Allen from Bookmarklet

Very interesting idea. Good for them for taking the risk. I hope it proves itself. - J. McConnell

Great play, though - J. McConnell

16,000 down, 984,000 to go. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery. - Thomas Hawk

"It’s taking something everyone knows on the web (your email address) and making it immensely more valuable as a way to identify yourself and information about you. Exactly what kind of information? Here are some of the ideas from the WebFinger Google Code page: * public profile data * pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server) * a public key * other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each) * a URL to an avatar * profile data (nickname, full name, etc) * whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it’s NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com * or even a public declaration that the email address doesn’t have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

I have no problem with the idea, but it seems to me that it won't help the current state of affairs much. The kind of information I'd be interested in sharing via Webfinger (my OpenID, a URL to a FOAF file, etc.) will have no better adoption, so the Webfinger configuration doesn't buy me much. I'll hold out hopes that after a couple tight integrations between Webfinger and OpenID providers (say if Google, Microsoft and/or Yahoo provided and consumed both) things will improve ... here's to hoping :( - J. McConnell

Apple is not approving the app because it replaces visual voicemail? It does no such thing for calls to your AT&T number. This is bull. - J. McConnell

What I find amusing is that there are apps in the store that do replace some of the core functionality like that. YouMail, for example, requires you to disable the AT&T voicemail completely in order for it to work. - Otto from iPhone

At $1600, I don't think I'll be picking this up any time soon, but man is this an awesome clock. - J. McConnell from Bookmarklet

funny Google search recommendations - Brian Auer

"Why do white people smell like wet dogs when they come out of the rain" ... that's too much, haha. - J. McConnell

Want. - Derrick

Would love this to replace my 'ancient' A95 and be a nice companion to my 40D. Hope the reviews are as good as we hope. - JA Castillo

Includes the 64-bit Cocoa build for OS X and nightly builds. - J. McConnell

Digital picture frame that with WiFi that can pull from Flickr. - J. McConnell

A Ruby utility for managing/tracking remote Git branches - J. McConnell

Cheap, cheap cables - J. McConnell

Includes cute ideas for stamps - J. McConnell

Good speech. I like this: “'When you’re explaining something to somebody and they don’t get it, that’s not their problem, it’s your problem.' Anything that’s important, that’s deep enough to matter, is probably not self-evident; it’s going to require a lot of explanation, and that’s an essential part of your job." - J. McConnell

The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing. - J. McConnell

Summertime in 5/4 ... very nice. - J. McConnell

I Don't get it? - Joe from BuddyFeed

Thanks for the suggestion Boris. Looks like a great book - I'm ordering a copy right now. - Leo Laporte

Extension to Task Manager. This compact program allows you to save the priority you specify for any process. - J. McConnell

Wow, this is scary. - J. McConnell

These two musicians are remarkably well-suited for one another. - J. McConnell

Documentation for Dopplr's API - J. McConnell

A thin Java wrapper for Facebook's API - J. McConnell

But then where are your "friends" defined? Facebook? Google? We need a federated system and I don't see one on the horizon :( - J. McConnell

I started to design a federated social graph once ... maybe if FOAF gains more traction something can happen around it. - J. McConnell

Thanks! :) - J. McConnell