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Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard - http://www.pcworld.com/printab...
I would take this keyboard anyday.
- Jaimini
Microsoft's "Pink" smartphone could rival iPhone on Verizon [feedly] - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
only if it dint have that windows logo in the right top !!
- Jaimini
ugh! just found my little kitty's mom dead near my house. poor thing hasn't outgrown his mom yet. This is gonna suck bad.
Morton Fox liked this
:( I'm so sorry. You can buy kitten milk if he needs it.
- Laura Lou Who
:_(
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Oh, that's sad, Vijay.
- Admiral Anika
O, vijay, I'm so very sorry. How sad.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Oh, vijay that is so sad
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
My Echo cat was lost from her mom at 4 weeks. Keep your kitty warm and plenty of food available, and he'll make it ok.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
:(
- Mona Nomura
:-(......... oh how sad!!!
- Susan Beebe
:'-( :'-(
- browneyes
:-(
- Lisa L. Seifert
No.
- edythe
Really sad
- Jaimini
Thanks for the love you guys. I couldn't reply sooner; was totally zoned out yesterday.
- vijay
Tesla Model S official shots unofficially unveiled [feedly] - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
dayum !!!
- Jaimini
Tesla Model S priced just under $50K, rest of car still shrouded in mystery - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Steven Bryden, Sameer, Robert Stevens and 12 other people liked this
Would you buy one?
- Peter Butler
from Bookmarklet
Depends on the range and how long it takes to charge.
- Benjamin Golub
Until the charge time is similar to a conventional fuelstop electric cars will remain a curiosity.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Actually, cities in northern Canada have the infastructure in place. There are outlets in parking lots and on parking meters for the block-heaters. Why not plug your golf cart in while you have lunch or a meeting?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Gonna be unveiled this Thursday :)
- Private Sanjeev
my brother just convincing me to dump my current car for this..i am putting up a good fight..
- Jaimini
@Jaimini without the ability to fuel up on the fly it isn''t an option.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside down (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) - http://www.techmeme.com/090324...
This is super exciting !!
- Jaimini
There are no bad design decisions… [feedly] - http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog...
sure..that makes sense !!
- Jaimini
For those not in school: if you could go back and study anything, what would it be?
timepilot, Mike Elliott, Ron and 23 other people liked this
Psychology or Archaeology
- pala
faceted search with Marti Hearst at UC SIMS
- Laura Norvig
Time travel. Why make it a hypothetical.
- DeWitt Clinton
Some more languages, specifically Arabic
- Shakeel Mahate
i often wonder and can't decide. possibly political science and international relations and/or economics. All as a second degree after my own, because I would choose physics again if it came to rewinding :). Linguistics and language processing might be another option. Oh I cant decide!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Poli Sci
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Anthropology
- Shevonne
Aviation
- Tracy Benham
Architecture
- Jake Sutton
Architecture
- Andrew Smith
Mathematics and economics
- Jaimini
Art and Design or Sociology
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Philosophy and psychology.
- Jen
Sociology. And probably econometrics. :-D
- Ladybug Heather
Philosophy, Psychology and fine arts (probably textiles).
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Languages. Maybe philosophy. Film.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Cooking
- peter
Law
- ♥patricia♥
Astronomy
- Robert Cooper
from twhirl
Economics and/or partying
- Jim Norris
just went back - to be a therapist
- William Harryman
design
- Damien Franco
Macro-economics
- Bindu Reddy
I would KILL to be able to go to art school to study design and metalwork.
- Mark Novak
Computer Science
- Gary Burd
If I had the patients I would study something in the medical field!
- Brandy Lea
Computational Neuroscience. There's just more to learn there than I will ever be able to do in my spare time.
- Joel Webber
Textual Criticism.
- Joey Gibson
Anthropology, economics or fashion design.
- Jeanine W.
Anthropology and creative writing (im stuck on my book concept)
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Linguistic anthropology as it affects modern public policy, and also bike racing.
- Michelle Lee
Heh, I used to enjoy dismantling things. I could never manage to reassemble them though, sadly.
- Tyson Key
How to be a Social Media Expert! :D
- Josh Haley
music, graphics and psychology
- Vicky
English and journalism
- R. Ferguson
I always wanted to study abroad, but could never find one who would let me. Seriously, though, psychology probably.
- Alan Simpson
Architecture or Graphic / Multimedia Design
- JA Castillo
History, particularly 1900-1950
- Duncan Riley
Mathematics.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Business/marketing/finance (personal finance, that is). If I could (and I will never do it), I'd get my MBA.
- Tamar Weinberg
Business.
- James Ferguson
Child development/psychology. What I should have done in the first place along with getting my credential.
- Nurse Katie
Oceanography or astronomy. But happy with what I've done.
- Daniel Cornwall
Business or Law
- CW™
Chicks and partying! Oh, wait, already did that. How bout metal shop?
- Hayes Haugen
Art and Math.
- Alan Le
Greentech wind turbine stuff
- adolfo foronda
Shenanigans
- Far
Math. I never did finish calculus. That and Computer Science.
- Helen Sventitsky
Early childhood education. I still might.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
How to install cars in cars so I can ride when I ride. Actually I like what I studied very much.
- Josh Haley
Photography.
- Kol Tregaskes
@Josh - Hah
- Tyson Key
Probably glassblowing. There's something deeply satisfying about working with hot molten glass.
- Jeremy Brooks
Results Wordle here: http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Kevin Fox
Molecular Biology
- Jenny Morman
Wow - The Wordle is fascinating.
- Charlie Anzman
Meteorology
- MLx
Photography as well.
- David Cook
Art & Photography. I still have nightmares still being in school, so if I ever go back, it'll be for fun
- Rodfather
Architecture. Or photography. Or both.
- Kevin Pedraja
I'm DOIN' IT! Studying massage therapy now. :-D Would still like to learn more photography, as well.
- Lisa L. Seifert
Cognitive Neuroscience, maybe. I did think about it, but some interesting books, Kandel's _In Search of Memory_ and Marcus's _The Birth of the Mind_, convinced me that the road I took instead (Bioinformatics) is where it's at, at this point in time. I do hope to get back to Game Theory some day, and Artificial Intelligence was always appealing.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Robotics. Or cooking. Or brain surgery.
- Felicia Yue
Anything? Computer science .... or Creative Writing .... or Drama ... I'm so ... decisive.
- Andreas Matern
Music.
- Ron
autoCAD
- Faye
History and Literature
- Mike Elliott
Screenwriting
- Rachel Garb
Steele becomes first African-American RNC chairman - CNN.com - http://edition.cnn.com/2009...
and this is news !!!
- Jaimini
from Bookmarklet
Ducklings - http://xkcd.com/537/
oh now i now know why my code keeps running into infinite loop..
- Jaimini
Android G2 Photos: Thinner and No Keyboard (Jesus Diaz/Gizmodo) - http://www.techmeme.com/090121...
still looks fugly compared to other smartphones not to be named. make good looking hardware people !!
- Jaimini
China truck driver kills 5 after deliberately running them down - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world...
frustation, be it for whatever reason, can bring out the worst in us. That is the greatest danger we face in the world.
- Jaimini
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Uranium Ore - http://www.amazon.com/review...
Jaimini, Robert Cooper and Dmitry Khrustalev liked this
kick ass! I want some.
- Jeremy Zawodny
TimeChapter - Erlang - e r l a n g : c o o k b o o k - http://schemecookbook.org/Erlang...
erlang:now
- Jaimini
Traffic cams bring in $250,000/month in a town with a $4.6 million budget - http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r...
I have personally contributed to such a fund twice. :(
- Jaimini
Anyone for a 100 billion dollars? - http://paul.kedrosky.com/archive...
Inflation rate of 12.5 million percent
- Jaimini
Visualize Units of Measurement Without Getting Technical - http://www.labnol.org/interne...
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- Jaimini
from Bookmarklet
If you watch one video today, this is the one to watch - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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hackr, Oliver Thylmann, Nenad Nikolic and 146 other people liked this
halfway through and rotflmao ...
- Dan Haley
Is this from the You Suck at Photoshop guys?
- Vince DeGeorge
donnie is back today, maybe the competition made him show up again
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
"what email?" "you just powered off the exchange server" "just the letter a" "don't use aol" "salesforce.com was on the right testicle"
- Ranjit Mathoda
That was a good use of ten minutes. I'm smiling again.
- Russellreno
Ok, after watching the new YSAP - This is much much better - flavor of the week to be sure.
- Vince DeGeorge
I'm crying. The details in this were just great. I don't work in IT but I know this is what people must put you folks through...
- Kamilah Gill
That's hilarious!
- fbrunel
that's brilliant. and i'm about ti run out of battery power here, and I won't bookmark, adn I'll probably 4get about these guys 4eva. what a shame!!!
- john conroy
You mean he rebooted the webserver without submitting a Change Request Application with work procedure and rollback steps to the Change Advisory Board for review at their next weekly meeting? ;-)
- Stuart Woodward
Hilarious!!
- Satya
amusing.."how many times did u reboot?" ...
- Jaimini
from Alert Thingy
I love the part where he deletes all his files and the guy thanks him for putting his desktop back the way it was.
- Dave Winer
LOL you can't arrange Icons by Penis
- Chris Saad
from twhirl
He just kept shooting him in the crotch over and over and over LOL.....
- Avery Tingle
this is hilarious!
- Michael Stearne
from twhirl
Yeah, who hasn't known this IT guy? Too darn funny.
- Jim Kukral
and so absolutely true
- Jeff Evans
"This is going right onto Boing Boing." Hilarious!
- Adam
On the Fedora installation, why is the guy running as root?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
nice
- Anthony
Arggggg!
- bill giltner
yup
- Marc Canter
:)) I was getting very frustrated with FF's best of the day page, showing mostly meta-links about FF itself all the time. And then this. Once in a while, there is one single link that makes all these page loads worth it :)
- Yaniv Golan
Did this win some kind of award?
- Dave Winer
That made my day
- Greg Goodwin
that video kills! cant wait to show the rest of the techs at work
- Mark Schulz
"What's BoingBoing?" - very funny.
- Maury Estabrooks
LMAO for most of the 10 min. Will fwd to several IT peeps I know...and maybe a few peeps at Twitter. Wonder if they'll think it's funny.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Excellent....
- David W
makes me want to rearrange my desktop more creatively
- Pete Delucchi
that was hilarious. wow!
- David Adam
Rofl that's a ton of likes! guess I gotta!
- Frankie Warren
LOL, really great ! That's why my website's so slow :))
- Heimana
lol. too funny
- Alexander Marktl
Way too realistic. :-)
- Doug Kaye
you can't arrange by penis
- Tyler Gillies
excellent. thanks for the post Dave.
- Kevin Doohan
STUPID WEB DUDE. he should have asked the sales guy to check if the website is up on other computers or in a different department.
- Hanan Cohen
So funny, I truly have not laughed so much in such a long time. tyvm :)
- David Smith
wow!! So unreal!! And I now know what happens with all the network mgmt software I develop!
- Shivanand Velmurugan
"Maybe that's not what I meant."
- Kawika Holbrook
The realism of this thing is just awe-inspiring. That techie behave pretty much like any techie I've ever encountered who's been asked to do a stupid task. And the sales dude is lethally real too. This is Dilbert meets The Office on steroids. Thanks for the link.
- Roy Blumenthal
from twhirl
A Classic
- Ken
Oil giants to sign contracts with Iraq - guardian.co.uk - http://news.google.com/news...
here you dig !!
- Jaimini
Leaving Google - http://www.massless.org/...
Elliott, Alex Williams, Benedikt Koehler and 51 other people liked this
Good work at Google, Chris. Looking forward to the next round of news.
- Louis Gray
congrats...let's def. stay in touch...
- don loeb
Oh dang it! Did I make that terrible of an impression on you yesterday?
- EricaJoy
Congrats!
- Ginger Makela Riker
Good luck on whatever your next endeavor turns out to be, Chris.
- Joel Gray
Do anything you can to be involved with what CW does next. The guy is money.
- Christopher Sacca
enjoy your blank slate. :)
- Chris Hollander
Good luck and thanks for everything: http://blog.rssmeme.com/2008...
- Benjamin Golub
Happy Graduation, Chris!
- Kevin Fox
Best of luck!
- Mike Reynolds
Congratulations!
- Ruchira S. Datta
Good luck!
- Tudor Bosman
I love Google Reader, thanks for such an amazing product!
- Paul Wade
i love Google Reader too! good luck!
- Philip J Beyer
Congrats and thanks for the fantastic app!
- Phil G
am a fan of reader..thanks for all the work..
- Jaimini
from Alert Thingy
Really bummed to see you go Chris, but congrats.
- Mike Yang
Good luck and thanks for your work in making GReader so awesome.
- Dana Franks
from twhirl
Thanks for your work on GReader. It's an essential part of my daily workflow. Good luck!
- Chris Baskind
Without Google Reader, I would be so much more productive. And also more boring and less knowledgeable since I'd read fewer feeds. Thanks for all the hard work and good luck for the future!
- Tony Ruscoe
Wow, thanks a lot for your great work on Reader. It's really changed a lot of peoples' lives (including mine).
- jakebf
Definitely thanks for your work. It changed my life so much that I decided to build one.
- Elias Torres
I wonder what Googlers realy mean when they congratulate other Googlers when they announce their plans to leave....
- Bindu Reddy
Bye Chris...THANK YOU... gReader is my friend and you made that possible :-)
- Susan Beebe
@Bindu I suspect its "Take me with you!" ;) j/k
- EricaJoy
Google Reader -- one of my top 5 favorite programs of all time.
- Sean McBride
gReader gRocks
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Good luck with your future plans Chris. Your talents will be missed.
- Dylan Parker
Chris, congrats on all the excellent work and good luck in your next adventure.
- Jeremy Zawodny
Thackeray wants suicide squads to fight terror - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India...
thakaray off his meds again !!
- Jaimini
client
- Jaimini
client
- Jaimini
Al Gore officially endorses Obama & will be making formal announcement tonight in Detroit at 8:30pm EDT http://my.barackobama.com/page...
Travis Parsons, Scott Jarkoff, Fred Grott and 4 other people liked this
I have to say - I'm underwhelmed. What took him so long?
- Mike Doeff
Fence sitter
- Susan Beebe
I think he's planning on running in the future... I wouldn't doubt it.
- Bwana ☠
I think he kind of missed the boat. He'll have to deal with Hillary in the future.
- Brandon
Isn't he the guy that did that movie.....?
- Mike Lewis
from twhirl
I heard that Al is going ot announce his endorsement using a slide show.
- Scott Beale
hmmm Detroit, auto industry, gore, global warming...
- BCK
dude he is super duper serial about this ..:-)
- Jaimini
from Alert Thingy
finally some intelligence out of Al..
- Fred Grott
At this time, I also would like to endorse Bill Clinton's candidacy for president of the United States in the 1992 election.
- Louis Gray
Al Gore's middle name is Armand, Obama's middle name is Hussein and my middle name is who are they kidding?
- Noah David Simon
FF POLL - How many computers are in your home?
Zulu, Kevin Shannon, Ivan Stegic and edythe liked this
Total of 3 for me. 1 desktop, 2 laptops
- Mike Fruchter
6 if you just count windows and mac.
- Robert Scoble
2 that are in use, 3 currently out of service
- Bill Scherer
2. One desktop, one notebook. I also have one Nokia 770 tablet if you consider that a computer.
- Morton Fox
4 - 2 windows desktops, 1 linux desktop, 1 mac laptop
- J. McConnell
6 (incl 2 old but working laptops) plus 2 from work (wife and me)
- Steve Lowe
from twhirl
4
- Aura Mae
8, not all running currently.
- Stephen Pierzchala
What are we counting as a computer? If you wanna get technical I'm sure I have dozens. If you mean boxes that can run a popular OS, then I have 5 that are all actively being used.
- Chrimmus Tad
3 here also - one old dog desktop, one Mac laptop, one Windows laptop
- Patrick Jordan
I guess two based on the traditional notion of a computer. Although I'd argue that there's at least 2 dozen devices in my home more powerful than my Quadra 640AV was 15 years ago.
- Mark Trapp
5 total - all laptops
- Benton
Tad a traditional laptop or desktop running any os flavor of choice.
- Mike Fruchter
I could of been broader including smart phones etc, that's another poll :)
- Mike Fruchter
5
- Michael VanDervort
from Alert Thingy
1 Mac desktop, 1 Mac laptop and occasionally my Windows laptop from work
- Bob
6 (2 media centres, ubuntu box, win98 game box, old powerbook for music in one room, MBP) + wm6 phone + shed with 8086, SE30 and others
- Nick Cowie
from twhirl
1 windows desktop, 3 windows laptops, 1 macbook and an xbox (i'd consider that a computer)
- John Duff
3 laptops (2 running ubuntu and 1 mac), and ps3 :-)
- Jaimini
from Alert Thingy
3 windows, 1 linux, 2 os/2, 2 8086, 1 kaypro
- clarke thomas
10 -- Three Windows Desktops, One Windows laptop, Three Mac desktops, two Mac laptops, Unix box
- Mitch Ratcliffe
from twhirl
6 that we actively use, probably another 6 sitting idle (legacy systems) - also every game platform (xbox/ps3/wii)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
6 - 2 Windows laptops, 1 Windows desktop, a Mac desktop, a Linux server, & a Nokia N810. I'm getting ready to install Ubuntu on another box.
- Steve
4 - I Mac desktop, I Mac laptop, 2 old Windoze laptops
- Sally Church
Three: one mac, two pcs. four if you count my [ex-]husband's ancient texas instruments laptop
- edythe
1 Desktop (XP), 2 laptops (one XP one Ubuntu)
- cmiper
3 that are up and running. I have no idea how many unplugged ones, but many.
- RAPatton
4, my main laptop MacBook Pro, a dell notebook PC in the kitchen, a Dell Media Center PC in the attic feeding 3 Xbox 360s as Media Center extenders. An old Dell in the basement.
- Thomas Hawk
2 Macs
- Jared Radosevich
5 with 3 in use
- Andrew Smith
5 - MBP, MBA, 20" iMac and 2 Minis. Also 5 old PCs in garage in various stages of disrepair.
- Jack Baty
4. imac as primary. pc as fileserver. dell laptop for work. girlfriends imac. oh, wait, there's a not too usable blueberry imac too. that's 5
- rob zand
2: 1 iMac, 1 MacBookPro.
- AJ Kohn
3: 1 Dell Dimension Desktop, 1 Toshiba Satellite L25-S119 (laptop), and 1 Macbook.
- Jonathan Sterling
1 MacPro, 1 PowerBook
- Michael C. Harris
3: 1 MediaCenter (home made) 2 Laptop (Toshiba Satellite) and 1 Music Station (Home Made)
- Max Zaglio
from twhirl
Two, one running Media Center, one running Ubuntu. Plus a Nokia N770
- Michael Tefft
4: 2 win desktops, 1 win laptop, 1 ubuntu laptop. Plus 2 pocket pc's and usually 1 or 2 computers from work or church
- Kevin L
1 imac, 1 mbp, 1 mb, 1 ibm laptop, 4 dells, 1 homemade pc
- Josiah Lau
from twhirl
2 that I use regularly (MacBookPro & Ubuntu tower) - plus, a media center PC, WinXP laptop, and a couple of towers that aren't running at the moment.
- Michael Zitek
3: 2 winXP desktops, 1 winVista laptop I'm looking to downgrade
- Pierce Presley
6: 1 mac, 5 XP
- Johan
my primary machine is a vista laptop. my work machine is a convertible tablet that boots between vista and xp. There's a third vista laptop that my wife uses when i'm using the main machine. Theres a media center machine that everyone on my team got as an award a few months ago- its not fully setup yet. most of the time, though... i just use my smartphone.
- Chris Hollander
9 = 2 Notebooks (Vista & XP), 1 Game PC (Vista), 1 Kids PC (Edubuntu), 1 Subnotebook (Ubuntu), 3 Media Centers (1xXP 2xVista) and 1 Server (Ubuntu, holds 4x VM machines) - And an understanding Wife (mostly)
- Rob Inskeep
from twhirl
7: 5 desktops (sadly 3 are emachines) and 2 laptops
- BCK
at least 10: 2 ubuntu desktops, 8 macs from a g3 ibook through a g4 mdd, g4 cube and a mac pro. xp in a virtual machine, that's about as close as i can stomach it.
- Ivan Stegic
6: PowerBook G4, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, HP laptop, and an old HP Kyak.
- Tom Harrison
3 - 2 laptops & 1 server
- Kevin D. White
4 all laptops (2 mbp, 2 dell laptops)
- maryn
3 sometimes 4: Compaq Presario 2200, Dell Desktop, 12" Powerbook G4, and sometimes a MacBook Pro
- Lynne d Johnson
4
- Mike Reynolds
4 Laptops (Mom, Dad, Son, Daughter, 3 Desktops (2 for dad, one for Grandpa)
- Kevin Shannon
2 laptops & 3 desktops (only 1 in use)
- Nick Lewis
I'm poor just 1 commodore 64
- Zulu
One.
- Steve Rubel
2
- Martin Gommel
mediabistro.com: TVNewser"NBC's Tim Russert Dies After Suffering Heart Attack" - http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewse...
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imabonehead, Greg, S Adler and 4 other people liked this
:(
- Chrimmus Tad
His voice and commentary will certainly be missed in the upcoming Presidential Election. A big loss in journalism.
- Fred Neil
Oh wow. I couldn't believe it when I read this. Tim you were excellent at what you did and I thoughly enjoyed your commentary.
- Keith - @tsudo
from twhirl
: ( indeed. i'm still shocked. He was only 58.
- Robert Seidman
so incredibly sad. sunday mornings will never be the same.
- Sam Harrelson
from twhirl
:(
- Cyndy
:(
- Aprille
:-(....
- Susan Beebe
Robert - Should have know you'd have this before I posted it. 58 .. whew. (Think I'll go work-out). Various voices on Gabe Rivera's 'other' Meme here http://www.memeorandum.com/080613...
- Charlie Anzman
That is just aweful. He was one of the best newsmen on television
- Chris Patterson
The one political talk show host I'd want to spend time with. Untimely in a lot of ways.
- Tom Landini
TR was one of the best, and authentic to the core--a real loss
- mark ivey
He'll be missed. I went to Boston College and he was on campus all the time due to his son attending. I hope the BC community pulls together for his family.
- Frankie Warren
I'm just wondering if "Liked" is a good word for stories like this, maybe "Noted" would be better?
- Chris Nuttall
For anyone that's interested in politics, this is a great loss. I'm so sad.
- Eric Thompson
just so sad. Russert was a guy who, when you watched him, you always knew he was going to hold someone accountable for their answers and he wasn't gonna throw softballs. He will truly be missed in my living room on Sunday morning
- Greg
very sad news indeed
- Jaimini
Amazon.com down?
Adewale Oshineye, edythe, Bryan Landers and 8 other people liked this
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
- Louis Gray
Yep, Washington DC here - getting the same thing.
- Joel Ross Housman
from twhirl
Wow, neat. Down from Birmingham, AL
- Dimitri Glazkov
yap, samething from Argentina...Amazon Store down, amazon store down....Bezos keynote about to begin??
- Jorge
yep...damn..this is going to be some real news...
- Jaimini
from Alert Thingy
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable -- Northern Nevada
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Came up http/1.1 first try, site loaded once on a refresh (maybe cache?), then back to http/1.1
- Jeremy Felt
Indeed they are - http://tinyurl.com/5urk6c
- Stephen Pierzchala
Wow. That's not something you see every day.
- Joey Gibson
hmmm... wonder if Amazon's web services are also affected?
- Ron Emrick
from Alert Thingy
from .fi - .com service unavailable, .co.uk works ok
- A.T.
S3 (at least mine) is working fine.
- Benjamin Golub
whoa. I mean... whoa...
- felix
Looks like it from Connecticut
- Charles Barthold
I think they recently let Twitter power their back-end...
- Jeremy Toeman
Wow. Amazon is down.
- Leon Ho
Site down in the UK as well along with amazon.com/aws, although aws.amazon.com apears to be OK
- Arthur Guy
Nothing on the main site is working at any URL I have. But their S3 service is still serving me up data like a champ.
- Dion Hinchcliffe
from twhirl
It is down from here in phoenix arizona
- Kyle Weller
How long before a cloud computing detractor uses that in a PPT slide?
- Dave Pelland
"unlike" Down in Palo Alto, CA
- Mitchell Tsai
Missed this post, yeah down for me too.
- Alex Haar
no need to panic. Chinese Amazon is still up: http://www.amazon.cn/
- Derek van Vliet
News.com developing story: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
- Rafe Needleman
Up in the Uk and DE
- Voyage
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable for me
- richrecruiter
.ca works fine
- Kevin Cearns
Brief calculation based on last years sales data = ~$400 lost every second it's down. Ouch.
- Jeremy Felt
.co.uk, .ca, and .co.jp work just fine...wonder if there will be some new resumes on Monster today...
- Stephen Pierzchala
Is it too late to register http://www.isamazondown.com ??
- richrecruiter
Down here too in Seattle.
- Steve Rubel
Amazon.com down here in Austria, Amazon.de not. Amazon AWS is working, too.
- sebmos
Amazon.com down in UK.. .and for everyone I guess. Amazon.co.uk ok.
- David Sim
down in oakland
- sam b-r
This really is getting creepy ?!
- Charlie Anzman
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
- Ivan Pope
Yowza
- Deepak Singh
http://www.flickr.com/photos... Still not working. Wonder what is wrong. Is AWS down too?
- randy stewart
Back up for me. Interesting - first Alexa is stagnant, now this ... what's up with Amazon?
- AJ Kohn
How is that possible? Did they reboot every server in the cloud? They have a giant infrastructure, right?
- Bryan Landers
amazon, and now twitter down! hmmm amazon is losing $500 per second of downtime, you do the math
- Bryan Thatcher
from twhirl
this is kind of incredible. 11:30 am pt - still down for me
- edythe
Yep, Amazon is down all right: http://finance.google.com/finance...
- Kevin Fox
Down in Buffalo too. I was having problems last night with Amazon too. Couldn't add anything to cart (got error messages) for a couple hours last night. Tough couple days!
- Jason Dettbarn
Wow, 2.5 million in theoretical sales gone already. That would wipe out so many companies. Won't even register on their books when it's all said and done.
- Jeremy Felt
Actually, even now (at 4:11 pm in the afternoon) the site seems to be back up but if you try to navigate the site via links to various titles, the infamous 1.1 Service Unavailable sign comes back.
- Jill O'Neill
If you could drop just one thing down to a tribe that has never been touched by civilization, what would you send?
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My answer: A solar-powered Chumby with satellite uplink.
- Kevin Fox
absolutely nothing
- Bwana ☠
Textiles they've never seen
- Todd Jordan
A solar powered DVD player with one DVD: http://www.amazon.com/The-God...
- Ranjit Mathoda
myself
- Jaimini
toothpaste. ever seen some of those national geographic specials? wow.
- Jeremy Toeman
I think the fact of a giant metal bird flying over would have traumatised them enough already. Civilisation has a pretty good abiility to destroy native cultures, even when it's not trying to. The whole area should, in my opinion be turned into a no-fly zone.
- Slappy Line
Robert Scoble
- Mike Doeff
The best answer is "Nothing", but I still might drop chocolate.
- Cyrus Lendvay
Satellite Radio
- Jigar Mehta
No wait, I got a better answer than chocolate. A wireless microphone... with a hell of a range... and somehow solar powered.
- Cyrus Lendvay
@Mike FTW.
- Kevin Fox
a huge monolith
- Alexander Falk
Not a bottle. I saw the movie.
- Seth Gottlieb
Hugo?
- Rick Powell
A time machine.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I would let them be.
- Chris Rossini
Coca Cola!
- Mack D. Male
Picture of New York City
- Hutch Carpenter
Jeff Probst?
- Kevin Fox
A warning.
- Akiva Moskovitz
toilet paper...
- Pokai
A yacht.
- Mohamed J
A blanket with small pox. (Wait... Has that been done?)
- Louis Gray
Ryan Seacrest .... or Chaptstick.
- Erin "Wifey" Johns
porn
- Tyler Gillies
Nothing, anything that might have any meaning to us, would be meaningless to them at best, and damaging/deadly at worse.
- Grant Bierman
brian boitano
- Kingsley Joseph
from twhirl
New Mexico Pinon Coffee
- Chuck Boyce
from twhirl
or rather, what would brian boitano do? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Kingsley Joseph
from twhirl
I would give them a mirror, that orange paint seriously! How can they think that helps them when they are out hunting. It would be like Barney the dinosaur hiding in snow!
- Joe Dawson
A nuclear bomb?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dean Kamen's water purification device
- Ranjit Mathoda
a white flag.
- Greg Vassallo
A note: "The cake is a lie."
- Ryan Kaisoglus
an OLPC 2.0
- arsalan arif
from twhirl
hillary.
- Greg Vassallo
20 yr archive of Penthouse
- peter
Rick Astley.
- Jeremy Toeman
handcuffed Chuck Norris
- Arif Siddiquee
a musicbox
- Christian Sonntag
Oh come on, Arif. Everyone knows you can't handcuff Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris eats handcuffs! ;-)
- Slappy Line
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