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Something else to slow it down! - orionstarr

Firefox Barbie! - abacab

I love snark. - Chris White

Do layoffs mean you maybe hired more full-timers than you should have? Perhaps the time is right for us all to become consultants. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Don't they need someone to deliver pizzas? - Mona N.

Daniel: TiVo's headcount has remained pretty steady over time. There are a lot of companies more deserving of the 'you hired too quickly and now you pay the price' snark than TiVo is. This is a sad day for TiVo and many of my friends who work there. - Kevin Fox

I ♡ TiVo. We have two, including a Series 1 and an HD. They pioneered this market and should have gotten much bigger than they have. Great product. - Louis Gray

The comments there are a treasure too! :) - Alex

It's as big as all the countries of Africa combined! - Gabe

hotbed of innovation and manufacture within 30 years - Gregory Lent

Alex: spot on. lol reading these comments. A dash of pedantry, a little bit of bigotry, some serious lack of geographical knowledge: so much fun! :) - Mathieu Ayel

beg to differ somewhat with Gregory. It might become hotbed of innovation but not any time soon. Conflicts, political instability, lack of decent governance and underlying infrastructures and institutions will not allow it to resonate in a way to become a hotbed of innovation. In small pockets though, it happens even now, especially in countries like Kenya and Ghana in everything from innovative approaches to private education to inventing incredible devices for water cleaning. - Hayk

Moreover, the size and comparison of African continent with other continents and countries is little more than a nice figure illustrative of geography. - Hayk

30 years, hyak, things will move fast, but i know what you are saying, seems nearly hopeless, impossible .. but the world "vibration" will make it happen faster than is logical (my opinion) - Gregory Lent

Gregory, i did not mean logic. Living on this continent since 1.5 years and seeing their mentality and their potential, I believe that nothing short of dramatic consciousness change, to borrow your term, will turn people on this continent into economic machines of production. I generalize, apparently. - Hayk

me too :-) ... i really have nothing to base this on .. except two things .. the creativity they have with basically nothing, even bricks are rare sometimes .. the way they are doing the cellphone thing is a hopeful sign .. and the other is from african art, every culture made masks with some sort of design feature where the third eye is .. there is an innate plugged-in-ness there, so that when it gets a bit stable, it will flow .. and the gates foundation should only do education, malaria will then take - Gregory Lent

care of itself - Gregory Lent

Also, Africa had this "misfortune" of being on top of all kinds of natural resources which became valued at one point or another. As it said in Blood Diamonds, "every time a precious resource is found on this continent,innocent people die, country is plundered." Pouring money only to sustain lives without any solid self-sustainable policies in education or infrastructure is sort of a band-aid. Tackling malaria is what appeals the most to inner sensitivities of Gates :) - Hayk

Africa is the cradle of our species.. says a lot about how out of touch we have become when we treat our birthplace with such distain. No wonder we're raping and pillaging everything we can. Makes you wonder if the attempts at keeping the African nations as undeveloped as possible is to turn the place into the next middle east when the rest of our resources have been spent. - alphaxion

+1 Gabe - Rebecca Sun

sorry matt - it's been posted before - Zee from WeDoCreative

No probs Zee - I'm just amazed how on the ball you are, Sept 17th and you knew? wow :) The link was to CN post though, so will share if that's ok http://www.centernetworks.com/... - Matt Harwood

Also include: Anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. One time, they were seriously alternative. Now, I just skip or change the station. - Louis Gray

Achey Breaky Heart. Cotton-eyed Joe by Rednex. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth (ok I was 8 when I last liked that one) - Phil Glockner

Sliding but not completely fired: Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead. (And yes, I know these are bands and not songs) - Louis Gray

Man, I love all the songs and artists you guys mentioned. Maybe I'm still stuck in the 90s? - Jesse Stay

Yeah, RHCP seem to be rubbish these days. - Richard Bradshaw

Anything by Lamb. I wore out the first two albums and just can't stand to listen any more. - Kevin D. White

I wear my sunglasses at night, most things by Peter Gabriel. Too much play, get bored with it. - dan

Being part of the party scene here, take any new club song release, give me 3 months and I'm sick of it. - Mark Martinez

Louis, I hate you. I now have that as an earworm... la-da-dee-da-da-da, la-da-dee-da-da. ARG! - Cyndy

Most stuff by Sting - Tad, Fool

i used to love Rhianna's Umbrella song - now its turned off as soon as it starts - Stephanie Pickett

any thing by or with Kanye West... Yes he's talented but every time he issues a statement or does an interview I want to slap the taste out of is mouth. Along that line of thinking you can throw "The Puff Daddy" (or what ever the kids are calling him now) to my needs to be slapped up list... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

The eighties. All of it. - Slippy Lane

100. :-) But I'm only 156 on the ranking list. I guess I don't Tweet enough. - Robert Scoble

Are you saving up your milliscobles for a big event? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Grades; this IS what makes me hate the word "social". You'll tell me that it's how real life is too. and again I won't agree... this is, in fact, how real life WAS. kings, slaves, blacks, women... - directeur

I personally like the list of Sunnyvale users: http://twitter.grader.com/inde... - Louis Gray

ha! I got a grade of 74 and a rank of 67,727 out of 367,076... I think I'm happy with that? - Simon T Small

got 90 and I barely use twitter... so, that's simply silly - directeur

94. Not sure what it means, but okay. - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

I got a c-. - felix

99.5 Where's my cookie - Bwana

I like the Mountain View list: http://twitter.grader.com/inde... - Kevin Fox

89 - Kevin Tunis

mmmm....bacon - Paul

The amazing part is that the chicken *and* the duck *and* the turkey are wrapped in separate layers of bacon. Also amazing is that an entire site is dedicated to "Daily Updates on the World of Sweet, Sweet Bacon" - Bill Strathearn

I have to say that is some seriously unattractive food, regardless of how good it might taste. I'd love to see a professional chef try to dress that thing up... - Kamilah Gill

That's just wrong. - Mo Kargas

10 bird roast from posh british chef hugh fearnley-whittingstall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Alex Gawley

@Alex: Wow. I didn't think the turbaconducken could be topped, but 9 birds stuffed into a turkey definitely wins. - Jess Lee

I also read it as bad German transliteration, something “turboconductive”, or maybe Italian, “turba con ducken”. - John Lam

wow, that's all kinds of bad. i bet it tastes fantastic though - Cee Bee

تقدیم به بانو گیلاسی :) - mhmazidi

Is it Bacon season again already? - Kevin Fox

people have always been afraid of technology that was new at the time - radio, nuclear power, cars, you name it. - Joelle Nebbe

whenever people have to burn energy that comes not from a wish within them...they try to avoid it. age does not matter at all. if my 2year old daughter dont see it as benefitial to change diaper she would not want to do so. - Chris Hofmann

Get off my lawn! - Bwana

wait, wait, who really "invents" in technology? The old stinky monkeys or the young stupid folks with acne vulgaris? :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Seems there's a point where the effort made to "catch up" becomes too overwhelming. I know nothing about cars and I'm at the point in my life where I'd rather pay someone else to deal with it than climb up the learning curve to do basic things. That may tie into age, and I might not look on this as "old fogeys" being scared of change, but just not having the time. - Jason Kaneshiro

Hey Robert broke twitter ... no wait, it's just twitter's way of saying, "Welcome Home"~!! - Susan Beebe

What's Alex done to Twitter? Alex? Robert is saying you broke twitter..... - WorldofHiglet

I really don't think it's your fault..... this time. :) - JCLeftie

http://friendfeed.com/e/4df2dc... - Tanju Yıldız (mavisland)

Awesome blog title -> "Twitter went down as soon as Robert Scoble landed in SF" - AJ Batac

Yeah. Nice work Scoble ;) I bet you brought some Chinese twitter virus back home - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl

And, being that you're Scoble, you're still able to Tweet about it. - DocileWalnut

Another Blame Scoble meme? - Roberto Bonini

It went down right as I ran my auto-follow script for SocialToo - it's probably my fault ;-) - Jesse Stay

Googel reader having problems as well... you must not have read all your feeds and now they have an out of memory error - Ian D. Nock via twhirl