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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

@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

Right one looks more dumb... - philsmirnov

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. - FFing Enigma

@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

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

impressive - accexine

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. - FFing Enigma

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

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.

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 Pires

+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. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

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

So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean? - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

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

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 :) - A. T.

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

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

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

This is what came up as the top Google hit for paul buchheit friendfeed. - Spidra Webster

I just read the first comment and may I ask why we should apply it automatically to all profile pictures??? Who are we gonna kid that way?! - ambidextrous

it's long gone. - Joe The Sausage

It's down :( - Burcu Dogan

cannot open this link,404 is there~ - 阿石

Mike Sego

Julie and I got engaged... Epic Win!!

July 6, 2009 from Gmail/Google Talk - Comment - Like - Share

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Congrats, Mike! - Bret Taylor

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Congratulations! - Tudor Bosman

Congrats! - FFing Enigma

Congrats! There is a saying in Turkey. "Darisi basima". It means i hope something similar will happen to me too - Onur Baykal

Congratulations! - Jim Norris

Congratulations! - Ladyepiphanybug

Congrats, Mike and Julie! - Darren

Congrats! - Private Sanjeev

Congrats! - timepilot

To each other? - SteVe C

congratulations! - Daniel B. Honigman

Congrats, Mike! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats! - Benjamin Juang

Kevin Fox

The Great Google Doodle Triforce Conspiracy - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...

July 16, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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That's amazing. I love it! - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

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How does Link feel about this? What about Ganon? - Bryan Zirkel

Google Shmoogle - Kevin J Hatton

Surely this is the work of the Triliberal Commission. The Illuminati are everywhere. - Andy Dustman

I have all google doodles (US) collected here, in case if somebody wants to check.. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Jigar Mehta

Awesome! - Tanath

So the conspiracy grows -- Google has removed the tri-forces: http://blogoscoped.com/archive... - Stephen Mack

April Buchheit

Yoga for Drunks - http://demonicious.com/2009071...

July 17, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"10 yoga poses that were practised by random drunks. They look like real yoga masters, although unintentionally!" - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Instead of feeling amused, I felt really sorry for those poor chaps. Weird, because I normally find a lot of stuff funny. - Max

Paul Buchheit

Google should offer a SecurID (or similar) option on all accounts, and as a domain policy on apps-for-your-domain. I would definitely pay to get this.

July 15, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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E-trade offers them for $25 https://us.etrade.com/e.... The way it works is that this keychain thing spits out a new number every minute, and you include that number with your password at login. Even if someone gets your password (due to a keylogger or the like), it will quickly be invalid. - Paul Buchheit

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Paypal offers them for 5$ - John Blanton

Wells Fargo sent me one for a business account (free with the package). - Michael Herf

Blizzard (Warcraft etc.) offers them for $6.50 (except they're sold out currently -- http://www.blizzard.com/store...), or free as an app on the iPhone. - Stephen Mack

Blizzard almost never has them in stock. Whenever they get a batch they sell out in a few hours. Apparently they work. lol - <3Heather<3

I do not know how reliable they are now but a few years ago, the quartz in this would get out of sync for a non trivial percentage of users, which resulted in a lot of customer support issues. - Edwin Khodabakchian

bought one for the hubby's warcraft account. he hasn't been hacked since. (nearly once every couple weeks prior to that) - Nathalie

I would pay for this option also and being that I run GApps at work, would also do it for all staff. - travispuk from iPhone

What would keep someone from writing this as an iPhone/Android app? - Matt Cutts

It would need to hook into the Google auth system Matt. (or automatically change my password every minute, which would probably trigger some abuse system inside google) - Paul Buchheit

Matt: Nothing, as demonstrated by Blizzard's implementation of it as a free iPhone app already. :) - Stephen Mack

I wish this could end phishing, but it can't, because "it will quickly be invalid" doesn't help much if it's used to generate a session token the very moment it's entered. Perhaps the key should ask you what OS/browser you're using, how recently you logged in on that machine, etc. -- facts known to Google and associated with your browser session -- and generate different numbers depending on your answers. Tricky business. - Daniel Dulitz

It doesn't solve all problems Daniel, but it does solve some. The twitter hack for example was apparently due to a guessed password or something (though I'm not up-to-date on the news, so maybe that's no longer the story). - Paul Buchheit

Frankly, I want an RFID-like chip in my cell phone + ubiquitous RFID readers. The cell phone would also require you to type a password or PIN, so it's something you have + something you know. And there's a fake PIN that looks like it worked but causes a lockdown behind the scenes, so if you get mugged you tell people the PIN is 5555 when your PIN is really 2343. - Matt Cutts

Paul, it's just a lot easier to make this happen if it solves the _biggest_ problem. :-) - Daniel Dulitz

I think the biggest problem is that people want absolute convenience and absolute security. I have never had any personal information stolen or accounts hacked. It might be because I'm a boring person not worth stealing from, but it could also be that I don't put information all over the place. I only use my phone to make calls, I only download from well known sites, I don't allow porn... more... - <3Heather<3

I disagree with that reasoning Daniel. The phishing problem is real, but today's Twitter problem for example does not appear to have been phishing related, and probably would have been prevented by a device such as this -- is that not sufficient evidence that this solvable problem is worth solving? It also prevents people from using bad passwords, using the same password on multiple accounts, etc, which is very useful in the apps-for-your-domain context. - Paul Buchheit

As soon as PayPal offered theirs I bought it immediately and like many others, I'm in line to get one for our two WoW accounts. I loved these as a Systems Admin where we required them to get past the firewalls if you were a remote worker. - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

+1 Paul, I've been a SecureID user many years at work, and with ETrade, so I've got two, so far, but it makes you wonder if every account you used required SecureID, you'll eventually need a REALLY BIG keychain. ;) - .LAG liked that

There is no reason why the same SecureID fob can't be used with more than one site. - jho

Matt Cutts: BlackBerry (maybe only BES) has had "password under duress" for a while. When enabled you swap the first and last characters of your handset password, it unlocks but also triggers admin side alerts. Quite cool, but I suspect the only people that use it will be the military :) - Alex Lomas

jh: yeah, RSA should probably offer this as a service; get one SecurID from them, and you can register it with any site that supports it. - Tudor Bosman

Paul, no, I don't think the fact that some hacks would be prevented by a method is sufficient reason to implement that method. Apps has supported SAML for quite a while, see http://code.google.com/apis... , so Apps admins can use auth methods of their choice including this one. If I'm going to take your $25 for a token, I'd like to make it more... more... - Daniel Dulitz

@jh, @Tudor: yeah it would be great if one SecureID could service multiple accounts for the owner, but i think each key fob is unique to the account holder and service they're issued for; some foreknowledge of the site/account the fobs will be used for is required. with the one I use at work, I signed some paperwork, sent it to Tech, and then got the fob few days later. Sounds like a potential customer-service nightmare for RSA if they when that route. - .LAG liked that

They'd probably pick up more paid accounts. Just the concept would probably convince numerous new users. - Charlie Anzman

Great idea! It's also a great way of branding the name if it's on a key chain of something else cool. Verisign offers it as a second layer of security on their OpenID accounts. They were charging before, but I just checked and it's free now. I'll have to get it for my account. Two-factor identification should be standard everywhere, especially on bank accounts. - Michael Fidler

I'm waiting for Google to handle all my Internet passwords, all encrypted behind a master Google accounts password and a security calculator/keychain type of mechanism. I wouldn't perhaps need to use that physical extra security code each time I log in. It could be set to once a day, and secure login can be reset at any time during the day (if you don't feel confortable using public web terminal at a netcafe, you can simply activate secure login for any activity done after you logout. - Charbax

Also, I believe Google should easily show me a complete log of all activities on my Google account, this way I could find out if something fishy is going on. If one is paranoid while using a public terminal, there should be a "monitor in realtime all activity" window so you can see if anything weird is going on while you are logged in and you should imediately be able to cancel/restore/logout in realtime once any of that fishy activity has been detected. - Charbax

HELL YES. - Zee.

For $25 -- that's worth the peace of mind. - CarolAnnB

Matt, regarding RFID: I've seen applications using bluetooth for a similar purpose. If a specific phone comes within range, the computer unlocks/wakes up/launches the missiles/etc. I'm not sure that RFID adds much, though I'm unfamiliar with how easy it is to spoof the identity of either bluetooth or RFID. - DGentry

in case you weren't aware, there are other options for SecurID other than the fob - like the mobile app http://www.rsa.com/node... or software token (RSA is an EMC company, my employer) - Stuart Miniman

I have my paypal key, I feel secure because of it. And it only cost me $5. - Luis

See Arcot's integration with Google Apps: http://arcot.com/product... - Scott Loftesness

跟我们公司的只是圆形图案不一样………… - 疯狂的糯米

Mark - RSA is doing this now, see http://www.rsa.com/node... - Stuart Miniman

@Charbax: Gmail (and possibly other apps?) does show you when someone else is logged in at the same time as you are, as well as their IP. Not precisely what you're suggesting, but is still quite helpful. - Joel Webber

surprised these things are still popular. Years ago we used them at GE and perhaps they still do... But wouldn't it be more convenient to add a dynamic part to a password with a question like your wife's age + XX, or day first child was born + XX or year this picture was taken + XX. The variation of lets say 5 questions plus a random addition or subtraction would add enough variation and security no ? curious to see this your comments. - Bart LePoole

I have the Paypal one, and one for my BofA account. I would definitely get one for Google and for my Amazon account. *HINT* - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

Why would I want one for every account? Why can't I use the same one for all my accounts? - Gabe

paul, that's a great idea for a start-up (btw user should have *one* item for all accounts) - Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini

Kevin Fox

Happy 12:34:56 7/8/9 everyone!!!

July 8, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Also, happy 7/8/9 10:11:12 :-) - Daniel Dulitz

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Also, happy 04:05:06 07/08/09 in about 2 hours - AJ Batac :)

A happy, happy, happy day - Joe Dawson

Yay for magic numbers day! :-D - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™

That doesn't work in the UK, it would have been 12:34:56 8/7/9. - Kol Tregaskes

happy days to all & a rather preemptive happy 2009-08-07 06:54:32.1 ? ;-) - immaterial

Actually, to be any "relevant," it'd have to be this forgettable moment in history: 09-08-07 06:05:04.030201 almost a whole hour earlier than your proposed one! - ianf ⌘

Well, we in India will celebrate it a month later. But I never understood, why US date has MM as starting field! - Varun Mahajan

Yep, 7th August for us. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Scott very intentionally and deliberately spent this second saying "I love you" to me. :-D He's too sweet and good for me! - Ladyepiphanybug

Only reason I can guess is that when spoken in American English, the month usually comes before the day, so that carried into the numeric form. Is my guess, anyway. - S of 2C

Yeah, we tend to say "March 20th" instead of "the 20th of March," so the expression in numbers follows suit. - Ladyepiphanybug

Christopher Sacca

Corrupted-Files.com | Don’t hand in a Garbage Paper, send a Corrupted File Instead! - http://www.corrupted-files.com/Home...

June 17, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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This is amazing. "Step 1: After purchasing a file, rename the file e.g. Mike_Final-Paper. Step 2: Email the file to your professor along with your "here's my assignment" email. Step 3: It will take your professor several hours if not days to notice your file is "unfortunately" corrupted. Use the time this website just bought you wisely and finish that paper!!!" - Christopher Sacca from Bookmarklet

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*horrified admiration* - Andrew C (✓)

That's genius. - EricaJoy

What the hell, dude? Didn't you see it says "Keep this site a Secret!" in big letters at the top of the page? You're ruining it for everyone! - Gabe

damn good. - Thomas Hawk

SMART. Would have been useful to me about a year ago. :) A lot of my professors actually wanted paper copies, though, so maybe not. - Shawn Farner

I want to have been born in the 80's or 90's. You kids get great excuses like this, match.com instead of going to bars and begging friends to introduce you to people... God, I sound like an old man now :) - Joel Webber

I actually did this once when I was on my high school paper. I took a 3.5" floppy (yeah, this was 1990) opened the protective metal sleeve and put fingerprints on the disk surface. That didn't work, so I smudged it harder and repeatedly. No dice. I ended up having to score it rather deeply with a ballpoint pen before the disk wouldn't mount. It would have been easier to just finish the story. - Kevin Fox

@kevin That's awesome. I have always underestimated you, clearly. Hahahaha. - Christopher Sacca

I used to pull this trick all the time, same as Kevin with "corrupted" discs. Mine were the 5" floppies though. - Anika

Wow, back in the days of floppies, my hs teachers always and only wanted paper copies. - Andrew C (✓)

No, Andrew, we had to turn in the paper, but the point for me of bringing in the floppy was to "show" them where the paper was. I'd get excused to go to the library to try to print it out. In that time, I'd usually just write the paper. - Anika

Ah. I'm not nearly a fast enough writer for a plan like that. - Andrew C (✓)

Of course, professors will learn this trick pretty quickly. - John (bird whisperer)

April Buchheit

The Buchheit Boys

June 17, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Which one's which? - Gabe

Nice shot! :) - Ovidiu Predescu

April Buchheit

Don't try this at home. http://img2.pict.com/01...

May 11, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Pretty cool! - April Buchheit

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Woah! - Andrew

Nice. - David Cook

HOLY CRAP! - Felicia Yue

Love the "heeeeey" move at the end, just like Isaac on The Love Boat. - Jordan Brock

Dan Hsiao

Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

April 12, 2009 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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I've already liked this today, but I'm liking it again because its so AWESOME!! - Rachel Lea Fox

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DOUBLE LIKE - Christopher Chung

Amazing. - Anne Bouey

Reminds me of that Car Phone Warehouse employee who blew them away with the opera singing. Great stuff! - Ryan Kaisoglus

TV lied to me. I thought ugly people couldn't sing. - stretta from twhirl

Really inspiring - Melody Lan

I wish I could watch the rest of the competition! - Rachel Lea Fox

This was great. I saw it a few days ago. I'm glad it's getting a lot of attention on YouTube - Michael Fidler

April Buchheit

Father-Daughter Moment

April 11, 2009 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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She has gotten so much older! - Becca

We've all gotten that much older, it just isn't polite to point it out to adults. ;) You are correct that Camilla does look like a young lady in her pictures, though. - Clare Dibble

I haven't seen you guys in way too long. She'll be going to the prom soon. :-) - Daniel Dulitz

Paul Buchheit

Flickr Photo Download: WTF? - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

March 25, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Ana, please order some of these for the office :) - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

If I ever teach High School I'm so getting one of these. - Jesse Stay

WANT! - Adrienne Van Houten

Simon

From Google to Gone: EMI Boots Digital Boss Douglas Merrill - http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/2009032...

March 23, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Douglas Merrill has today stepped down from his roles as President of Digital and COO of EMI New Music and will be leaving the company." - Simon from Bookmarklet

Kevin Fox

Five of the last seven presidents have been left-handed: Ford, Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama. Carter and GWB were righties. Hrmm...

January 20, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Lefties Represent! - Kevin Fox

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* Raises left hand * - Hutch Carpenter

Sorry, right. - Roberto Bonini

Guarantee you that Malcolm Gladwell would have something pertinent and interesting to say about this... - Jeff Eddings

people didn't believe me when I told them left-handed people run tings! - Shey

Karen Padham Taylor

Corporate Logos for 2009 - Vox - http://rogstad.vox.com/library...

January 5, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Rachel Lea Fox

Camera Birthday Cake - Neatorama - http://www.neatorama.com/2008...

December 12, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"It is from a bakery in emmaus, pennsylvania called granny schmidt’s. The outside was made of fondant and the inside is red velvet cake." - Rachel Lea Fox from Bookmarklet

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I love it when I see something I want to share with Rachel and then see that she's the one who shared it! - Kevin Fox

Cutting a nice new camera in half kinda makes me cringe. - John Lam

Red velvet cake is one of my favorites - Benjamin Golub

Fondant and red velvet. Want. - EricaJoy

After seeing the 'Steve^H^H^H^H^HLightning McQueen car interior biology' post, this one made me think of the 'guts' inside a Nikon. - Kevin Fox

Kevin, I think the McQueen you're looking for is "Lightning." Ka-chow! And now that you mention the Nikon guts, it kinda reminds me of a steak in there. - Keith Pelczarski

Keith: I thought that sounded strange when I wrote it. Fixed (kinda). - Kevin Fox

Oh I know what to get my Mom for her birthday next year. She's a photographer. - Mol, FF Music Lover

Christopher Sacca

Justice Department or not, I am a buyer of GOOG at $420. (Remember, I am not an insider, make your own decisions, etc., etc.)

September 8, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Dan Hsiao

Fallen sign i came across in Chinatown, NYC

September 7, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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found art FTW - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

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lead by example :P - bob

this should make it to the failblog - imabonehead

Ha... Awesome! - Ross Miller

The sign hasn't fallen -- it's simply gotten much more specific. :-) - Jeff Eddings

Paul Buchheit

Saturday morning

September 6, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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awww..... - Patri Friedman

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adorable! :) - Anna Haro

awe! - Kyle Weller

happy family photo op! nice! - Susan Beebe

Cute! - Charlie Anzman

hey fantastic, congrats Tsega! - Zee.

Bret Taylor

Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web - http://www.wired.com/techbiz...

September 2, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Brian Rakowski walks to the whiteboard in a small conference room in Building 41 on Google's Mountain View campus. A lanky, gregarious man in his twenties, Rakowski is the product manager of a top-secret project that's been under way for more than two years." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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Congrats on the great article, Brian. - Bret Taylor

this aint gonna happen and here is why http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008... - John Kotsaftis from feedalizr

awesome... I just wonder how much microsoft is going to fight back against the onslaught - James Campbell

@john: alleyinsider is the last source i will trust as to whether it is going or not going to happen. But, really, as @slippy says, choice FTW! The rest will just pan out. - Ashwin Bharambe

That picture is great. It looks like a band photo. - Andrew

The photographer, Joe Pugliese, has a great website: http://www.joepug.com/ In fact it's so great I haven't got round to reading the Wired article yet - Adewale Oshineye

Enjoyable read except for this completely bizarre paragraph -- "Not long after that, Brin and Page came by to check in on the furtive beginnings of their browser. "I remember sitting at my desk, which at the time had a stuffed snake running along the back of it," says Pam Greene, an engineer on the team. "Sergey was bouncing on one of those exercise balls, watching Darin give a demo, and petting the snake." - Osi

"The snake, called Mr. Bigglesworth, seemed to purr softly in Sergey's lap, providing a calming influence during the demo. However, when one of the tabs crashed, taking the browser with it, Sergey's voice took a more strident turn. "I have gathered here before me the world's best developers," Sergey began, "and yet each of you has failed to kill Internet Explorer. That makes me angry. And when Sergey gets angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people die!" - Karim

Sergey then pressed a nearby console button that retracted Darin's chair into the floor below. A flash of flame could be seen as the screaming developer vanished from the conference room. - Karim

/likes Karim's comment - Philipp Lenssen

Somebody help me!" Darin pleads. "I'm alive, only very badly burned!" This proves to be very distracting, and after being interrupted several times, Sergey picks up his phone, and reports the situation to a henchman. "I'll go deal with it," he assures Sergey. "If someone opens the retrieval hatch, I can get out," Darin explains. At this point, the hatch opens. Darin is at first grateful, but then a gunshot is heard. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

After a pause, Sergey is satisfied Darin is dead and attempts to continue explaining his plan, only be interrupted by Darin again, who says indignantly "you shot me! You shot me right in the arm! Why did you-". Darin sentence is cut short by a second gunshot, which proves to be the end for him, as the hatch is heard to close. (http://www.moviedeaths.com/austin_...) - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Guys, if you want Google-related pulp fiction, check out this choose-your-own-adventure game :) http://blogoscoped.com/googlea... - Philipp Lenssen

awesome! - April Buchheit

this entry is the most liked of FriendFeed in last 24 hours (based on ffholic.com data) Congrats! - FFholic.com

This entry is in the most liked list of ffholic.com! Congrats! :) - FFholic.com

Google’s Chrome is aimed at Windows, not IE This is no longer about browser but about the an entire marketplace spread between desktop, mobile and web. With Chrome, Google’s taking a shot at Windows, not paltry Internet Explorer I’ve covered this in more detail on my blog http://sachendra.wordpress.com/2008... - Sachendra

I review chrome...need alot of work. see details on my blog http://trustseo.com/blog... - CeoSeo

The point of Chrome is the same point one would make about the iPhone. Will iPhone outsell Nokia worlwide in total number of phones sold? Not a chance in hell! Has it changed the face of mobile phones forever...absolutely. This is where I think Chrome is a fantastic concept. By open sourcing D8 Google has literally empowered every other browser including Safari and Firefox to be Windows... more... - John Kotsaftis from feedalizr

I haven't been able to find many details about the V8 design, but it's apparently a straight JIT (no interpreter) with inline caching of property accessors. I didn't see anything about HotSpot/TraceMonkey-style optimizing compilation, and it doesn't seem to use any intermediate language. (http://code.google.com/apis...) Is this the future of dynamic language runtimes? Am I a nerd? - Jim Norris

Jim, tracemonkey should still be faster. Paul friendfeeded an article comparing them. I should say that tracemonkey will still be faster eventually, unless V8 adds hotspot-like tracing as well, in which case, my money would ride on V8, since Google probably has half of the hotspot team :) - Sanjeev Singh

Kevin Fox

I'm not sure 'MyBO' is the best branding idea to come out of the campaign - http://origin.barackobama.com/live...

August 19, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Yes, I WTFed when I saw it first, too. - Tudor Bosman

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Hmm. Their other "My" choices are MyBHO, MyB, MyO, MyObama, MyBarack, My'bama, but what I'd go with if it were me is.... M'Obama - Stephen Mack

Stephen I think they could have done well on the internet using "My O" and that YouTube Obama Girl. - SteVe C

Wow, how did that pass the number of people it had to pass to become live? That's like MyHO for Home Office hah. - Andy Ciordia from twhirl

Rich Bragg

Man Almost Loses Penis Humping Steel Bench | Weird Asia News - http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008...

August 12, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Xing, a 41 year-old man, was calling from LanTian park in the middle of the night. The lonely and disturbed man had apparently thought it would be fun to have sex with one of the steel sit-up benches around the park. The bench has numerous small holes in it, which Xing used to attempt to satisfy himself. However, once he became aroused he found that he was stuck and could not get his penis out of the small hole." - Rich Bragg from Bookmarklet

Wow, the article actually has pics. (He's tastefully draped, you don't see the penis.) - ⓞnor

Video: http://tv.on.cc/news... (he's tastefully draped and sounds like he's not very comfortable). - gburd

Dan Hsiao

Ana and Maddie

July 16, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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Just to be clear, this is Kevin's kitten, and not mine. I am not a crazy cat lady. - Ana

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And by 'Kevin's kitten' she means kitten that Rachel and I are fostering. Maddie (and Rocky) will be up for adoption at the Palo Alto Animal Services in a week or two. They're both amazingly cute and well behaved. - Kevin Fox

You might want to double check Ana - you just may have caught crazy-cat-ladyitis when Janine and I crashed the FriendFeed sanctuary on Monday - the wifey is definetly a crazy cat lady virus carrier!! - SteVe C

so cute. is the cat going to be at the next happy hour? - Charles Hudson

Sadly no Charles. I thought about bringing them to the last one, but Maddie doesn't do so well with big crowds. She was loving Ana though... and Ana, one cat does not a crazy cat lady make. Just think about it. ;) Both kittens were so tired after their FriendFeed outing they both feel asleep when we got home. Rock is currently asleep on my foot, its too cute! - Rachel Lea Fox

You're only a semi-crazy cat lady? - Adam Lasnik

Or a crazy non-cat lady. - Paul Buchheit

Kute kittenz haz wurld in awwww - Clarence Chiang

Not yet a crazy cat lady. - Jim Norris

Chieze Okoye

Google SMS (Part IV of "The Googling") - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

July 16, 2008 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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Kevin Fischer

Also see this comment which is the most interesting anonymous comment on Slashdo... - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...

July 15, 2008 from News.YC (ycfeeds.com) - Comment - Like - Share

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Kevin Fox

Now this is a mobile home. - http://www.unicat.net/en...

July 13, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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For those who want to travel anywhere but still have the comforts of home, this looks awesome. I shudder to think of the mileage. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

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Couldn't you just fit a small nuclear reactor in the back? - Jim Norris

http://www.mahalodaily.com/2008... - Michael W. May from twhirl

Yep, I thought of Burning Man immediately. It even says Man on the front. But you need your own oil-producing country to fuel this thing. - j1m

My buddy brings these in from Germany. - Paul Salzman from twhirl

Carl Sjogreen

Lily Sutton Sjogreen was born at 5:05pm on July 4th. She is 9 pounds 8 ounces and 21.5 inches long. She is of course the cutest little girl in the world. Pics to come!

July 4, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Wow, on the 4th, too. Congrats. - Hao Chen

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Congrats Carl! - Alex Haar

Congrattulations from Indonesia, Carl ! - Fajar Jasmin

Congratulations to you and Tracy! - Adrian Graham

Congrats! - Bret Taylor

congrats carl ......kiss her instead of me - saee:Dsharif

congratulations! - David Molnar from twhirl

From one 4th of July kid to another, happy Birth Day!!! - Kevin Fox

Congrats! - Rob Schonberger