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Google Maps: Tightening down on Locksmiths » Understanding Google Maps & Local Search - http://blumenthals.com/blog...
Daniel Dulitz, Howard Trickey and ta√i liked this
"Recently Google has been slamming locksmith spam so hard it appears to me that the situation is going to the other extreme." good work guys :)
- к2פ
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Daily Routines: Franz Kafka - http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_r...
Rob Schonberger liked this
"Had Kafka been able to use his time efficiently, the work schedule at the Institute would have left him with enough free time for writing. As he recognized, the truth was that he wasted time." whoa
- к2פ
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We use the obscure "just get it done" methodology. Unfortunately, I don't think that there are any books written about it :) - Paul Buchheit
John Mueller, Benjamin Golub, Paul Buchheit and 9 other people liked this
Yeah. A variation on Make Shit Happen.
- Ⓙⓘⓜ
I look forward to Paul's book on the subject. :)
- Diego Barros
I expect it will be very short. :)
- Ruchira S. Datta
Welcome to Big Dogs - YouTube tshirt - http://www.bigdogs.com/shoppin...
SkepticReport * Indigo: The Color of Money - http://www.skepticreport.com/newage...
"At Twyman's psychic fairs for children, kids are persuaded to believe that sticking a lightweight spoon to their forehead is a result of psychokinetic power. The fact is that everyone can stick a lightweight spoon to their forehead if they first rub the spoon on their skin, especially the forehead and chin, coating the spoon with slightly sticky sebum."
- к2פ
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that Indigo stuff is starting to get creepy
- isaac
Indigo children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"According to research psychologist Russell Barkley, the New Age movement has yet to produce empirical evidence of the existence of indigo children and the 17 traits most commonly attributed to them were akin to the Barnum effect; so vague they could describe nearly anyone."
- к2פ
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Amazon.com: Esp for Kids: How to Develop Your Child's Psychic Ability: Tag Powell, Carol Howell Mills: Books - http://www.amazon.com/Esp-Kid...
Metagifted Education Resource Organization: Indigo Children - http://www.metagifted.org/topics...
"Please let me drown while I can still feel it / She said I am going to fry like the cold fish // Her eyes had frozen to a crisp"
- к2פ
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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Bklyn Larder: Great Artisanal Market and Deli from the Franny's Pizzeria Owners | Serious Eats : New York - http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009...
Geer, ta√i, Shayan and Bret Taylor liked this
@tavi: strawberry gelato
- к2פ
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ha, that was not a hint... just a lamentation that I rarely get to Brooklyn.
- ta√i
Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
YouTube - My First Crush - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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officially on vacation, feeling cheerful
Daniel Dulitz and Jim Norris liked this
I'm so conflicted...
- ta√i
YouTube - Greatest freak out ever (ORIGINAL VIDEO) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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TunisianGuy, Tony Ruscoe, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) and 4 other people liked this
wow
- Amber Spence
Hate to see this guy when he's older and gets a parking ticket or something.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
clearly staged but very amusing
- к2פ
He's not particularly handy with the remote control.
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How to give FriendFeed my twitter credentials so it can read my Twitter friends timeline?
http://friendfeed.com/friends... Click on the Twitter icon.
- Benjamin Golub
But what about the ones who don't join friendfeed and have private feeds?... I just want to subscribe to my friends timeline feed. Surely there must be a generic subscribe-to-feeds-that-require-401-HTTP-authentication feature?
- к2פ
Oh wait, I could write my own gateway
- к2פ
FriendFeedFederation!
- Ⓙⓘⓜ
Health and Traits - List of Conditions - 23andMe - https://www.23andme.com/health...
isaac, Tracy and Ruchira S. Datta liked this
wow, i really want to try this...
- к2פ
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So do I. But there are no legal protections for the data once they have it. They can be subpoenaed for almost any reason, and they don't even have to tell you they've received a subpoena. So I'm sitting this one out for now.
- Daniel Dulitz
I'd be much more interested if there was anything you could do about most of the genetic conditions. Gene hacking anyone?
- Piaw Na
Can it be done anonymously or with a fake name?
- Paul Buchheit
I believe it can be done with a fake name. In fact, if say, FriendFeed bought kits for the whole office, each kit would have a claim code. The claim code is entered https://www.23andme.com/user... and though I haven't been past that page (yet), I'm fairly certain they don't do identity checking there.
- EricaJoy
https://www.23andme.com/user... Yeah, looks like no identity verification at the username creation stage so be whomever you want.
- EricaJoy
Privacy solved then.
- Paul Buchheit
via email
I remember enjoying reading this: http://buzzyeah.com/tag... (he asked for donations to do the test and then shared lots of info)
- ta√i
The first prompt: "Please enter the full name of each person for whom you are ordering below. The saliva collection kits will arrive individually labeled with the names you enter." I put in Jane Doe. Then I put New York and apparently they're not allowed to operate in the state of New York. So I selected a different state but then the billing info. I tried to figure out how to buy a...
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- к2פ
Piaw, I personally would like to understand better what the genes do before hacking them. That's what I'm working on. Not everyone is of the same opinion though--some people boldly just go in and start hacking (though usually on microbes, not themselves!). That's synthetic biology, more or less.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Oh yeah, I wouldn't want to go hacking on my own genes. The issue I see with these genetic tests is that there's not much you can do about most of those traits.
- Piaw Na
A Journey Round My Skull: Poets Ranked by Beard Weight (for @mubay) - http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009...
some guy's rules for childrearing - http://steveblank.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/paul...)
Evan Parker liked this
"To [my wife's] credit she also understood that meant that child raising wasn’t going to be a 50/50 split; I simply wasn’t going to be home at 5 pm every night."
- к2פ
“I’m thirteen, I’m a girl, and I like fantasy and some science fiction. What should I be reading?” - http://www.tor.com/index... (via http://friendfeed.com/piaw...)
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Are you a lemming? If so {Twilight} else {Initiate Brother}
- Kevin Fox
Dream: some disaster had happened and people were liveblogging it on friendfeed. Passing around post-its with data. I joined in late and was made to read Bret and Jim's rules for how to liveblog things. Post-it with rules #18 and #19 was missing and I had to walk back to the city to read it but then I woke up. No joke!
Paul Buchheit, yalnızlık paylaşılmaz.., Bret Taylor and 4 other people liked this
Do you remember any of Jim's/Bret's liveblogging rules?
- ana
"Was made to read" makes the whole dream for me. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
But к2פ was made to write.
- Ⓙⓘⓜ
YouTube - Get the kid ready - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Chiu-Ki Chan liked this
Haha.. cute. Was that an apple? How did she get the juice out?
- ta√i
She said if you thaw a frozen apple you can just squeeze the juice out. Now I want to try!
- Chiu-Ki Chan
snagged facebook.com/myfirstname.mylastname ... now, how do i hide it...
EricaJoy and Jim Norris liked this
what's facebook?
- ta√i
Wait, you're name is Michael Gilks? http://www.facebook.com/myfirst...
- Bill Strathearn
Mi... G...
- к2פ
Münchausen by Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Münchausen by Internet Proxy -- Whereby someone claims to be victimized by their inability to access certain content or bandwidth due to ISP restrictions, parental guidance filters, insensitive IT departments, and the like in order to gain attention or sympathy.
- Ⓙⓘⓜ
I think Isaac is a perfect example of this.
- Ⓙⓘⓜ
Hee hee...
- к2פ
Gawker - Barack Obama: Fly-Killing Badass - Barack Obama - http://gawker.com/5293031...
i would buy a macbook, but the three i've ever had from work have all crapped out in various ways
Jeff P. Henderson, LPH™ and his dog P™ and Piaw Na liked this
My MacMini bought in 2006 died within the first week. The replacement took a month to arrive. That soured me on Apple products from then on.
- Piaw Na
Me too, but I still buy them. Design > build for me. :-(
- Daniel Dulitz
Dan, you can afford them. I can't. :-)
- Piaw Na
piaw, you can't afford a macbook? what happened? :|
- к2פ
Nothing in particular. They're just too expensive, period. My MacMini was too expensive for that matter, hence when I had to replace it, I replaced it with a cheap PC. My machines are tools, not fashion or design statements.
- Piaw Na
ohh, whew, i misunderstood. whew. and: how very practical of you... my machines are not tools, i spend more time with my laptop than with any person excepting perhaps my husband and my cubemates.
- к2פ
Haha ok. I don't spend much time with my laptop, compared to my big screen PC at work or my dual-screened PC at home. I do get annoyed by machine failures (and have had many, not just Macs --- the Mac was just spectacularly bad in terms of having an early failure). With PCs, so far, I've been able to replace parts as they break, the Mac model of design seems to be designed specifically...
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- Piaw Na
I've never had a macbook crap out per se (I still have a perfectly good Ti-Book one sitting in the closet), though my battery is presently useless, and I did have problems with one of the fans in my current one (which a so-styled genius swapped out while I waited).
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All my Thinkpads have died unnatural deaths.
- Jeremy Hylton
@jim - clearly apple likes you. jeremy - my husband's thinkpads too... i think what i really want is a PC that runs OS X pre-installed in a stable, legal, manufacturer-supported configuration (no hackintosh for me). failing that, these new 13" macbook pros are looking really tempting :S
- к2פ
Why not get a Hackintosh?
- Piaw Na
I'm not really really sold on OSX, but being able to swipe two fingers on the trackpad to scroll is super sweet. I wish hackintosh guides were more specific about how much multitouch support various laptops have.
- Andrew C
My EEE PC had a track pad with a right edge that could be used to scroll. It works pretty well. As for Thinkpads, I've gone through a dead hard drive in 5 years at Google (but this was on a machine I stuck in my saddlebag and rode to and forth from work with!), and had to get a chassis replacement when I spilled a drink on it. They've been rock solid reliable and I love the keyboard....
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- Piaw Na
I've had one PowerBook hard drive die on me, but both my MacBook Pros have been fine. My family's also had no problems with iBooks/PowerBooks/MacBooks except for a five-year-old iBook whose screen died.
- Jim Norris
I've had both PCs and Macs, as well as servicing my whole extended family's computer needs. There have been far more problems in the Windows world than on Macs. In this decade, I've only had to send one Mac to service, and it was a power supply issue.
- Cristo
i was all "wow, everyone has better luck with computers than me" and then remembered i do seem to drop mine every couple months. maybe apple is not to blame. i wish they made a toughmacbook, tho.
- к2פ
I dropped my macbook a few days after i bought it but it survived.
- Jim Norris
Do not let the work macbooks sour you on Macs. They have their own special issues. :-L
- EricaJoy
And do not let the Apple Store macbooks sour you on Macs. They have their own special issues. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
STAFF SOFTWARE PROCOPINEER!!!!1!
Jim Norris, ana, Benjamin Golub and 3 other people liked this
Congrats!
- Piaw Na
yes! tavi++ got an extremely well deserved promotion, and now we're peers in the eyes of the system as well as in reality
- к2פ
I blame k2g for this. She broke the system -- in reality I couldn't possibly catch up to her... Um, I mean, thanks!
- ta√i
you better hush or i'll bombard you with IMs containing excerpts from my peer review of you.
- к2פ
Congrats!
- Jim Norris
Spiders On Drugs - http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn...
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