Larry Greenfield

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

Great tips Matt, I just asked google what the square root of 1000 was and it told me in less than a second with NO typing, now we need voice for Gmail and Google Talk! Awesome app - Kelly Johns

I just added one more bonus tip that I forgot. :) - Matt Cutts

Kelly, I do like how the voice recognition works with the calculator. :) - Matt Cutts

Yes, and it works great for conversions, I asked it how many ounces in a pound and it gave it to me fast, the accuracy is amazing -- not to mention how good the local search is with easy to click telephone numbers and everything. A "restaurant" search comes up with some great local info. - Kelly Johns

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

Blog post is here: http://googlemac.blogspot.com/... and I found the help documentation online at http://www.google.com/support/... - Matt Cutts

Just curious, what about Nokia devices version? - Majento

David Erickson, I'm guessing that Android support is high on the want-to-do list, but I'll mention it to them. - Matt Cutts

Pecans rule. I didn't know this: "Pecans were one of the most recently domesticated major crops. Although wild pecans were well-known among the colonial Americans as a delicacy, the commercial growing of pecans in the United States did not begin until the 1880s. Today, the U.S. produces between 80% and 95% of the world's pecans, with an annual crop of 150–200 thousand tons." - Ginger Makela via Bookmarklet

neat picture - Kamilah Gill

What do you think? I've been contemplating getting this game too. - Nathan Johns

So bummed this isn't available for Wii. Then again, maybe that's a good thing :) - Adam Lasnik

Ginger, that's the way it looks to me in the videos... I'll have to wait a few years for when the PS3 is getting old and outdated and seriously discounted to get the system and the game, the same way I did for the PS2. - Kamilah Gill

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

i was *just* talking about this yesterday with some co-workers, we were debating whether this actually existed or if it was just an urban legend... - Karl Rosaen

"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