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Interesting - Shevonne Polastre
Okay…my next Halloween costume! - John Lam
Freddy's da man then. - saeba
I thought it said "scared" men, and I was thinking "oh, perfect!" - Jim Norris
*like* for Jim's comment. - Tudor Bosman
"According to the findings, perhaps unsurprisingly, men find women with or without scars attractive." - Philipp Lenssen
I'm emtionally scarred... does that count? - David Bisset
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Jim Norris posted a link
Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist
October 25 at 10:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
This is a bit scary. - Anne Bouey
Cool... Battlestar Galactica, here we come! - Jeanette Martinez
at least their anger wont get the better of them in the heat of the moment, but I hate anything that implies the use of military force against uncooperative humans. Ennemi combattants, maybe, but humans who just happen to be uncooperative? --shudder-- - Joelle Nebbe
These things kinda freak me out. - April Buchheit
The coming robo-apocalypse is kind of spooky in a twilight zone kind of way, but what really worries me is the ongoing destruction of civil liberties that will "justify" the release of the robo-hounds in the name of "protecting" us from terrorists, communists, etc. - Keith Pelczarski
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Turbaconducken (Turducken Wrapped in Bacon)
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"Turbaconducken. That’s right — a chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in a turkey, all wrapped in bacon. Otherwise known as a bacon-wrapped turducken." D: - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
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
Bacon season never ends, Kevin. ;) - Jared Smith
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The trick: "You need to give people the freedom to spend and the freedom to make mistakes," says Takeo Fukui, Honda's 61-year-old president. "If management oversight is too strong, then it's difficult to innovate." - Rob Schonberger
Gem of a post! - Rahul Deodhar
"To be a company that society wants to exist." - Bill Strathearn
Entire industries, and nations, can rise or fall based on their understanding (or lack thereof) of this phenomenon. - Sean McBride
The motto "to be a company that society wants to exist" brings to mind Kevin Kelly's recent post on the near future and whether we can create a vision of collective betterment that motivates people instead of galvanizing them with fear of others: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/... - Keith Pelczarski
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Hope you had a wonderful trip! - Anne Bouey
Did you know that Plaza de España was used as set to film Star Wars? This piece is dubbed into Spanish, but you will recognize it anyway. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Maria Jose
@ Maria -- Yeah, we heard...very cool! - Karen Padham Taylor
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“Is it polite to hang up now?”
October 29 at 5:17 pm - Link
Said by me when the recruiter who cold-called my cell phone called me back to yell at me when I hung up too abruptly the first time. I tried to explain to him that finding my cell phone number on the internet and calling me unsolicited was at least as rude as my not listening to his sales pitch, but his yelling indicated he did not agree. The conversation ended with my asking the question above :) - Bret Taylor
It would be awesome if your phone recorded the conversation and you could post it here. - Private Sanjeev
Yes! I agree w/ Pvt. Sanjeev - April Buchheit
Wow - calling you back to call you rude. That takes balls. - Costa Walcott
so this dweab would rather have you waste his time listening to his cold call and then politely say "not interested" than get on to the next trolled number on his list - he'll go far ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Hang up again. - Morton Fox
I find that sales people of all forms are getting bolder in insulting would be customers. Not the same level, but I had a salesperson realize his colleague was going to get my commission because she helped me after I had approached him and he excused himself to finish with another customer. He said sorry you were on the phone when I was available. I thought, I bet you are... - Clare Dibble
I think you are quite polite for 1) hanging up on him the first time rather than wasting his time and 2) asking him so politely if it was ok the second time :) Must be your good upbringing. - Sheila Taylor
Hey bret, have you heard ffundercats? They did a callout for someone @ FF to chat with them. josh haley , john worthington, mark wilson - anna awesomesauce
Interesting. I'm trying to learn about salesmanship, and I've never tried that technique. OK everybody, go use my web site or I'll yell at you! My caps lock key is warmed up and ready to go. - Bruce Lewis
Funny - David Cook
Djkd - Tazrover
That is seriously some bad manners. I don't think I would have been as polite as you were, Bret. And as anna so eloquently pointed out above, there is now a podcast devoted to all things FF. http://ffundercats.com - Mark Wilson
Click. - Kevin Johnson
Just post his phone number to Twitter. - Louis Gray
Robert's number is already all over Twitter. - Akiva Moskovitz
Agreeing with Morton - hang up again, and again. - flammable
I simply must know... if this is an independent douche or whether the employer rewards douchbaggery. Coffee is for closers! - Richard Walker
I love that bret's mom is giving herself props - you did well sheila :) - mike "glemak" dunn
I had one of those too, last spring. He hadnt done his homework and was lying about having worked with my predecessor (who had left 15 months earlier!). When I pointed that out he got narky so I politely said I would hang up now. He called me back and called me a cunt. Incredible that people like that have jobs like that. - Joelle Nebbe
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Jim Norris posted a link
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"Summers was deservedly castigated, but not for the right reasons. He claimed to be giving a comprehensive list of reasons why there weren't more women reaching the top jobs in the sciences. Yet Summers, an economist, left one out: Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States. This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet
These are the reasons I left: "1. age 18-22: paying high tuition fees at an undergraduate college 2. age 22-30: graduate school, possibly with a bit of work, living on a stipend of $1800 per month 3. age 30-35: working as a post-doc for $30,000 to $35,000 per year 4. age 36-43: professor at a good, but not great, university for $65,000 per year" Of course, I'm no woman. - Joel
Yeah, this line of argument is pretty important. It doesn't explain why women, as opposed to men, are especially inclined to do something other than pursue a tenure track science job. But it sure does beg the hell out of the question. - j1m
"Consider Albert Q. Mathnerd, a math undergrad at MIT ("Course 18" we call it). He works hard and beats his chest to demonstrate that he is the best math nerd at MIT. This is important to Albert because most of his friends are math majors [...] What about women? Don't they want to impress their peers? Yes, but they are more discriminating about choosing those peers." - Alex
"What was Yuan doing in the physics department? "Back in China," Yuan replied, "we heard that it was a good way to get a job on Wall Street."" - Gabe
This is by far one of my favorite articles about Science. As a society, we need to reward making things better than shoveling money around from one end of the table to the other and having some of that money spill into your lap. - Piaw Na
unless they are really passionate about science, the brightest mind are going into other careers. Men or women. Science careers arent paid very well, and, worse, the work organisation nowadays is highly inflexible and hierarchical - not something that suits the typical science mind. But the sexism in science was strong - when I was a physics student doing my masters there was not a single women professor in my institution, or its sister institution. And industry jobs were often not friendly to women either, with the excuse that men on the factory floor would not respect a woman.I noticed that and went into web development instead of doing a phd. - Joelle Nebbe
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Jess Lee posted a link
Big 3 Bailout - Average Wages for Detroit vs Japanese Transplants
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"For Detroit, [bankruptcy] means release from ruinous wage deals with their astronomical benefits (the hourly cost of a Big Three worker: $73; of an American worker for Toyota: $48), massive pension obligations, and unworkable work rules such as “job banks,” a euphemism for paying vast numbers of employees not to work." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
Like for the overall idea, not for the political name calling etc. - Erica Baker
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35 - The Size of Africa « Strange Maps
yesterday at 2:37 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"It shows how Africa (30,3 million km²) is larger than the combination of China (9,6 million km²), the US (9,4 million km²), Western Europe (4,9 million km²), India (3,2 million km²) and Argentina (2,8 million km²), three Scandinavian countries and the British Isles" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
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
Thinking economy is taking out limited resources is wrong... Economy is added value man made... Today wealth comes from service... picking was thousands years ago, agriculture hundreds and industry last 2 centuries... - jfayel
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Vintage Ads Show How Not to Raise Kids
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I thought this was particularly relevant given the whole Motrin Moms thing. "Oh, the good old days. When nursing moms were supposed to drink beer, television was good for kids, smoking wasn't bad, and cocaine was legal." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
Interesting to think how much of these ads were influential for our parents parents and their parents(not mine as from England, but I'm sure we had similar ones here). A barometer of the late 19th and early to mid 20th century. Mad Ave men you ate your hearts out! - Jason Brooks
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Photos from Angelic Pretty Yumemiru Musical Paradise Day 1
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Cute or creepy? From a Lolita Cosplay event in Los Angeles (more at http://blogs.laweekly.com/lada...) - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
If I say cute, that makes me sound creepy. This seems pretty tame and harmless compared to some dress-up fandom types I've seen, though. - Robert Haas
@Robert: Doh, you saw through my trick question! Actually I don't think it looks that bad either. - Jess Lee
Umm... some of them are dudes, right? - Jonathan Wong via twhirl
What a question? What should be creepy here? This is way cool visual kei / cosplay. CUUUTE! - Ryo
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Jess Lee posted a link
More ridiculous Japanese beauty products: Masks that make your face smaller
yesterday at 2:28 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
It's like foot-binding.... for your face. Ouch! - Philip Tomlinson
Hah. If you google for "kogao" images you'll see some (alleged!) before and after pics: http://images.google.com/image... - Philipp Lenssen
wow, it works! - Jess Lee
How long have you been using yours, Jess? - Jim Norris
I think I just found my "lucha libre / hockey / scary movie villan" halloween costume seed for 2009. - Bill Strathearn
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“New feature from Casey: It's now possible to hide just a single blog. (in the past, I would have had to hide all of Dan's blogs)”
New feature from Casey: It's now possible to hide just a single blog. (in the past, I would have had to hide all of Dan's blogs)
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By popular request :) (hiding a single blog, not hiding Dan's blog) - Paul Buchheit
Paul, nice, is bulk removing from Home feed in the works ? - Kyle Weller
Nice, I was waiting for this. - Philipp Lenssen
Super-like! - Rob Diana
Great feature - Mike Doeff
ta-dam!)) - Il'ya Ash
Hip-hip-HOORAY! - Anika Malone
SAHWEEEEEET!! - Josh Haley
Yay!!!! - Shannon Jiménez
OK, so Hide each of Dan Hsiao's blogs, got it. - Josh Haley
Good work guys. - Louis Gray
Freaking awesome! - ♫ Rahsheen™
Fan-bloody -tastic - Zee from WeDoCreative
OH YES! - Shey
OMG You guys RULE. - Mona N.
*searches for random "blogs" to hide* - ♫ Rahsheen™
OMG. I'm in love with Casey. - Cyndy
Kyle, you can already remove say everyone's Twitter feed from your home feed. - Anika Malone
awesome!! - Justin Korn
i. love. this. feature. (said in ballmer voice) - MG Siegler
I LOVE YOU FF!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Thank you. - tehKenny
Many, many thanks, you guys! Is there a place I can go to edit the blogs I'm hiding currently? - flammable
Wooo hooo!! finally the custom blog hide feature arrives!! - Susan Beebe
Smurf-tastic!!!! - AJ Kohn
YAY! - Rochelle
excellent - Duncan Riley
Great new FriendFeed feature! - Mike Reynolds
YES. FINALLY!! - Tim Hoeck
hell. yes. - tiffany
Smart FF!:) - Igor Poltavskiy
I should go back to feeding my last.fm recently played *chuckle* - Michael W. May
Finally! how cool. - Juan Pablo González
I think I'm in love. Thanks, Friendfeed team, you are so responsive! - LauraBrarian
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Malcolm Gladwell's Method - WSJ.com
yesterday at 2:41 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Do you worry that you extrapolate too much from too little? No. It's better to err on the side of over-extrapolation. These books are playful in the sense that they regard ideas as things to experiment with. I'm happy if somebody reads my books and reaches a conclusion that is different from mine, as long as the ideas in the book cause them to think. You have to be willing to put pressure on theories, to push the envelope. That's the fun part, the exciting part. If you are writing an intellectual adventure story, why play it safe? I'm not out to convert people. I want to inspire and provoke them." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
I often feel the same way. Ideas are so fun that it's annoying to feel limited to well supported and justified ideas (as long as we remember that they are just ideas, not facts). - Paul Buchheit
and demanding "proof" where ideas are concerned is nearly immoral .. the idea IS the proof ... "scientific" reality is a much narrower realm - Gregory Lent
Has anyone compared this book with "Talent is Overrated?" - Piaw Na
Agree with Paul and Gregory! - Hayk
I liked that line about how "opportunity is basically a chance to practice" - Adam Kazwell
i won't bother to read anymore of this guy ... bought a couple of pirate copies of the earlier stuff on the streets of bangalore, thank god i didn't pay full price, banality in a suit or a lab coat is still banality .. he appeals to people who want to feel they are on to something ... ask them what it was a week later, they won't remember ... - Gregory Lent
Ideas indeed - Christopher Galtenberg
Completely agree with you Gregory Lent! Not a fan of Gladwell. - Clay B.
I guess it's nice that he's having fun. I tried reading The Tipping Point, but I thought it relied too much on unwarranted conclusions. I hope his fans understand that it's just playful exploration, but the strong recommendations I heard for his books made them sound more solid than that. - seth
I've read Blink and the Tipping Point, and enjoyed both of them very much. I think he has a very nice writing style, and covers interesting topics. In my opinion, he does a pretty nice job of mixing personal stories with actual research. In this interview WSJ calls his books "business books", but I don't seem them as business books at all. - Robert Felty
reader's digest writer for the 00's - Gregory Lent
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"“Social liberals in the country’s ‘blue states’ tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teenagers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age daughter’s pregnancy as devastating news.” As for conservatives, the view is quite different. “Social conservatives in ‘red states’ generally advocate abstinence-only education and denounce sex before marriage, but are relatively unruffled if a teenager becomes pregnant, as long as she doesn’t choose to have an abortion.”" - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet
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“Tom: "i think i may head out to get your bday gift today. if i end up liking it, i can just keep it and you'll never know the difference"”
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well, trip was unsuccessful. i will check online. - eviltom
Online, it'll be much easier for you to get 2 of the same thing, so you can keep one for yourself, and give the other one to me. Unless it's a terrier, in which case, I don't want one anyway. - Ana
i hadnt thought of the terrier, but that's a great idea!!! - eviltom
I think Ana secretly wants a (lol)kitten. - Tudor Bosman
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Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has to, Yes He Can - NYTimes.com
Sunday at 7:05 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"But before he arrives at the White House, he will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful... For all the perquisites and power afforded the president, the chief executive of the United States is essentially deprived by law and by culture of some of the very tools that other chief executives depend on to survive and to thrive. Mr. Obama, however, seems intent on pulling the office at least partly into the 21st century on that score; aides said he hopes to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval Office, making him the first American president to do so." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
"From my cold, dead hands, Mr. Emanuel . . . from my cold, dead hands!" - Barack Obama - John Craft
re:Obama/ no more Blackberry NYTimes - I would think he could legitimately use a short burst public messaging service like Twitter (likely not Twitter itself) to send public messages like the "Sox!" message they discuss without issue. As long as everything said in that channel was public and treated as so I don't see the issue... humanizes the position I say. - Ben Hedrington
French president Sarkozy emails his wife all the time! - Tammy
change the rules .. this is not a king's court, and courtiers and their rules should get out - Gregory Lent
I can see him changing the rules. He's done it for everything else. - flammable
Change the Presidential Records Act? Can you imagine the outrage if Bush tried to do that? - Brian Newman
Why does he need to change the Presidential Records Act? Communicate simply, probably not on complex issues, in the open in public seems to jive with the act to me... "Enjoying a nice dinner with friends" type messages... humanizes the role... - Ben Hedrington
Two commenters suggested a change to the rules. I'm with you. He is not prohibited from using a Blackberry. He can use one if he chooses. He just needs to be aware that every email he sends can wind up in public. Which I'm sure has his advisors shitting their pants. - Brian Newman
Doesn't the maxim already advise us so anyway: treat all mail you send as if it might be divulged eventually. - John Lam
For most of us, any e-mail we send is exactly as secure as a message sent via a postcard. - Stephen Mack
Will it be a new MacBook Pro on his desk? - elroy
This could be the CHANGE Obama was talking about. Out with the BlackBerry, in with the iPhone. - Kevin Singarayar
well, as long as they set up his device with encrypted security and host the incoming and outgoing email servers, i don't see a problem. - Dustin
@zeigen postcards are _more_ secure due harder costs on sniffing. - silpol
I don't know if I was just more apathetic before, but I'm fascinated at all this behind-the-scenes transition stuff I'm just reading about now. Agree that being allowed to use e-mail or at least Twitter would continue to humanize our beloved Pres. Barack, but I also see how it could be a risk, because nothing's 100% hackerproof. It's a cat and mouse game and there will always be someone out there with a ton of determination and even more time on his or her hands. - Rebecca Sun
The first president to have a laptop on his desk? WTF did all the rest do, have everything hand-delivered to them in print form? Did they have someone read it to them, also? Mr. Singarayar - lol, no. He's an executive - no time for toys! - Mr. Gunn
On day one, he's gonna set up a FF account and put his legs up and hang out with US! - Josh Haley
Nixon was *all over* magnetic tape audio recording technology. With a top security clearance personal secretary as IT support, what could go wrong. - Micah Wittman
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5% alcohol ginger beer! - Jess Lee
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xkcd - A Bunch of Rocks
yesterday at 2:46 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Reminds me of an old sci-fi short I once read about a guy who didn't see, and who was sitting in an empty hall for all eternity... and who then went about to basically recreate a working universe in his head. Won't spoil the ending to that one :) Anyone knows the title/ author of it, though? [cross-posted to reddit] - Philipp Lenssen
darn good comic approximation to David Deutsch's book _The Fabric of Reality_ ;) - Adriano
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