Lars Rasmussen

Interesting - Shevonne Polastre

"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

This is a bit scary. - Anne Bouey

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

"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

Is it Bacon season again already? - Kevin Fox

Bacon season never ends, Kevin. ;) - Jared Smith

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

+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

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

Cute or creepy? From a Lolita Cosplay event in Los Angeles (more at http://blogs.laweekly.com/lada...) - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

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

It's like foot-binding.... for your face. Ouch! - Philip Tomlinson

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

By popular request :) (hiding a single blog, not hiding Dan's blog) - Paul Buchheit

Finally! how cool. - Juan Pablo González

I think I'm in love. Thanks, Friendfeed team, you are so responsive! - LauraBrarian

"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'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

"“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

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

"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

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

ƃuɐʞ ɯoɹɟ - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Soooo true. - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

5% alcohol ginger beer! - Jess Lee

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