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“Things that scare me: 1. The coming robo-pocalypse. 2. Fear that we won't live to see the robo-pocalypse because of the coming zombie-pocalypse. 3. Our users.”
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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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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
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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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“The Google Mobile App with voice recognition is live. Go to the App Store and search for Google Mobile App to install it.”
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Blog post is here: http://googlemac.blogspot.com/... and I found the help documentation online at http://www.google.com/support/... - Matt Cutts
woah Matt Cutts on friendfeed - nice to see you on here! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
I just saw the voice search is turned off by default for non-U.S. users. To turn it on, click "Settings" and slide "Voice Search" to the ON position. - Matt Cutts
this app is really great. g did an amazing job. - felix
felix, glad it works well for you! I'll pass the feedback on to the team, but they probably read here anyway. :) - Matt Cutts
I've been trying various addresses and it works pretty well with them too though sometimes if I pause too long while saying the address the search starts too soon. - Loren Heiny
Loren, after some practice you start to get a feel for what timing works best. - Matt Cutts
got a video here giving a run through, works great! http://www.seanpercival.com/bl... - sean percival
this app just made 5 or more apps I was using obsolete! - Kelly Johns
the local search aspect of this is amazing, it knows your location so you just speak the listing you are looking for and it appears on your iphone, brilliant! - Kelly Johns
agree with Kelly. I wouldn't use it for regular search queries but for local search its great. Saves opening up Maps, hitting the locate me button and then typing your query. - Jamie
Android is the elephant in the room here. Will the G1 be getting a voice search app soon? - David Erickson
This looks amazingly cool - andy brudtkuhl
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
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Pecan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
November 8 at 8:17 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
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
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“Ginger just got back from Game Stop with Little Big Planet.”
November 8 at 4:38 pm - Link
What do you think? I've been contemplating getting this game too. - Nathan Johns
Nathan, it's a blast. It's like playing a Pixar movie. - Ginger Makela
Good description Ginger! I also love the game. - Rachel Lea Fox
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
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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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"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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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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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
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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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