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If you have tried to use bookmarlets, you may have noticed the browser automatically appends http:// in front of your bookmarklet js code... I've been able to get *some* bookmarklets working in the android browser by updating the bookmark urls manually in the database.
- Tim Hoeck
It looks like document modifiers don't tend to work, however, I was able to get a couple basic bookmarklets functioning..
- Tim Hoeck
Using adb: sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db
- Tim Hoeck
Then: update bookmarks set url="<insert bookmarklet>" where _id=<id of bookmark to update>;
- Tim Hoeck
I assume this solution is only working for development phone, not for all?
- Matt Zhou
Matt, if you have access to adb, you can do it.. I found it kind of pointless in the end though, because none of the really good bookmarklets work, only basic ones.
- Tim Hoeck
It might be possible to save bookmarklets using a small app that uses "Share link" intents ... eg, long press on the bookmarklet link, select "Share with BookmarkletSaver", which would then add it to your browser bookmarks, without the http://. Only useful if most bookmarklets actually function though ... which it seems that don't .. :<
- Andrew Perry
Mrsth, João Almeida, yagami and 3 other people liked this
yum
lilbyrdie, Jackie Ng, C.K. Johnson and 15 other people liked this
friendfeeders: can you add a 'Don't Like' link? ;-)
- Jing Lim
Eagle eating snake would, to an ancient observer, be interpreted as light eating dark, or something similar. I wonder what auguration would be proposed. Good or bad?
- Gorm
I don't care what it is as long as we can bring auguration back.
- Stefan Moluf
If you don't like mangos you are truly and seriously whack!
Just Ken, Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど, sofarsoShaw BAZINGA! and 31 other people liked this
And tomatoes!
- Anika
I've never had a mango...
- Lix
I don't mind mangoes, just don't eat them regularly.
- Bryce Roney
I like them, but sometimes they smell meaty to me.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
you said whack
- Erin @queenofspain
mango salsa = teh nummay
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony, you're gettin' out of hand now. :)
- Anika
Yellow mangoes FTW Especially the ones from the Philippines. Omg WANT. *added: mango salsa = yuck.
- Mona Nomura
Mangos suck.
- Vicarbott
Yay mangos!
- ronin
Dried mangos are addictive! Even better than dried apricots.
- Mlibrarianus
damn straight!
- BEX
Hui Lau Shan makes this mango dessert that's really amazing: mango juice (or is it mango juice slush?), diced real mangos, mango ice cream, small tapioca... mmmmmmm, HLS.
- Andrew C (✓)
In Belize there are 124 different variations of Mangos !
- bcultral
I've had this mango tree in my front yard for ten years. Every year we eat em so it should be ready to eat by june or july :-)
- Noe Ruiz
Such a profound statement has to be liked... lol
- JR
I ♥ Mangos!
- AJ Batac :)
Mangoes! FriendFeeders' choice of fruits...
- imabonehead
Yum, mangoes.
- Tyson Key
Mango chiffon cake! YEAH!!
- Russell Wagner
I just ate a mango.
- Akiva
Akiva wins the interwebz...again.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I don't want salsa ruining my mango.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Mango mango!! :D
- Susan Beebe
I'm a New Yorker in Manila and the mangoes here are the best in the world. Green mangoes especially, Perfectly sour. Shakes, cakes or sliced.
- Brooklyn Art Project
Mangos <3
- Neya
I hate mangos, I wish there were no mangos.
- deerstep
Mango Cobbler !!!
- Russell Wagner
It's just the gunk in the teeth thing afterwords that gets me, but that is overcome by their tastiness
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
I've seriously eaten myself sick on a big bag of dried mangoes from Costco - and I would do it again!!!
- BEX
Facebook is way more fun than friendfeed...seriously. Here it's all just talk talk talk, all the time. Facebook? You got pet dragons, gifts, super pokes, racing games, nutty groups, vampires who want to beat up slayers who want to beat up zombies...it's got it all, wrapped up in an all too busy
andy brudtkuhl, Jared Smith, Chris Charabaruk and 21 other people liked this
interface that even your mom can use.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What? You're super-poking my mom!? O.O
- Anika
At least it's not as bad as Myspace. Although they're trying.
- Victor Ganata
Games, yeah, polls against your friends, yes, but new knowledge and news, I've got almost nothing in there (at least Mona makes that part else its dead cats all over.)
- Zu from AOD
Hmmm... My Facebook is like my FriendFeed ... w/ different people. :)
- Mona Nomura
Turducken is tasty, and therefore good. FB is a time suck
- FFing Enigma
I disabled FB apps.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I thought I hated all FB apps until I discovered the Mafia Wars one.
- Anthony Citrano
Initially, I loved all the FB apps...but now, a year or so later, I'm beginning to loathe the apps and games and whatnots.
- Carlton Hackett
you are kidding, right?
- bcultral
Oh good, I've been looking for a good reason to not make a Facebook account. This just might be it.
- i80and
Yes...this post is most definitely sarcasm.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And there are far more mangos on Facebook.
- Todd Hoff
oh, it's certainly more fun -- esp. if you're prone to being hooked by addicting games. fb is rapidly becoming the de facto aol-style platform of the current times. if you don't have a fan page/group for your product on fb, it doesn't exist. if you don't make your web app into a fb app, you're not only anti-social but can't possibly be a real web dev... ;) (that said, fb is the only way i've been able to truly keep in touch with "real life" folks and especially family that don't reply to email...)
- lilbyrdie
I knew that you were funnin'. I hate all the crap. And I don't want my so-called friends from high school all up in my stuff!
- BEX
Chris White, that comment needs to go on a tee shirt.
- Eric
hahaha!
- Anna Haro
Evernote Blog » Blog Archive » Evernote Mobile Web Gets Androidified - http://blog.evernote.com/2009...
lilbyrdie, Nock Forager, Jeffrey Canton and 8 other people liked this
Yippee!!! Two of my favorite things, together!
- Lindsay
from Bookmarklet
Appears to be a generic mobile site, is there anything specific to Android? Or is it just PR spin?
- Daniel Sims
Wow, now I can give this a try. Is it a real Android app or just a web-optimized site?
- Steve and 3 other people
Looks like I'm one step closer to becoming an Evernote convert. Hope the eventual native app is free and uncopyprotected, otherwise I'll likely miss out (*curses Google for locking out ADP-1 phones from paid apps*)
- Andrew Perry
I might just switch from Google Notebook (which is pretty much dead) to Evernote now.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
dxTop: dxTop : Android Home Alternative - http://dxtop.wikidot.com/
lilbyrdie, Mario, Ozgur Cem Sen and 2 other people liked this
dxTop is an alternative to the Android home interface. It includes the ability to use widgets, four screens, and dual trays
- Tim Hoeck
from Bookmarklet
lemuel, Riyaz Mohammed Ibrahim, David Vasileff and 16 other people liked this
Great photos!
- Paul Buchheit
Their feathers are so shiny, they look like scales on miniature dragons.
- Maggie
Great job, hummingbirds are tough
- Benjamin Golub
Download All Applications From Android Market For Free - http://www.ghacks.net/2009...
lilbyrdie liked this
This would seem to make the process "easy" but most users won't do this. "Hacks" like this (to get free apps) have been available on most download systems, especially the early versions. But how many people will jump through the hoops needed to do this? Probably not enough to worry about.
- lilbyrdie
Bay Area Homeowners Out of Luck, Few in Bay Area qualify in housing rescue plan - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
ka3drr, Mrsth, lilbyrdie and 2 other people liked this
"(02-22) 17:57 PST -- More than 90 percent of Bay Area mortgage holders cannot qualify for the low-cost refinances included in President Obama's housing rescue package, according to an analysis of loan data from real estate service Zillow.com. That is the smallest percentage of people eligible for the refinances anywhere in the country, Zillow said. "The Bay Area is being hit by the fact that it's high-priced, and therefore the loans that were made around the peak years were not conforming (meaning they were above $417,000), and secondly, that (the housing market) has gone into such sharp decline that many homes are underwater by more than 5 percent," said Stan Humphries, vice presi"
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
imagine if every time u answered a question on Yahoo Answers or made an edit on Wikipedia you made a quarter. http://www.mahalo.com/answers...
Morton Fox, lilbyrdie and Ontario Emperor liked this
Jason has taken "social networking as advertising" to a new level. He IS the advertisement. His product has consumed him.
- ComicList
Yes, just imagine. You'd have something kind of like Google Answers and we know how well that worked out. I'm thinking someone needs to read _The Wealth of Networks_.
- Kevin Gamble
I'd rather imagine I got the quarter each time I read an ad on a social network. ;)
- Kevin C. Tofel
@kevin I want a quarter every time I down-thumb completely misleading and truly offensive ads on facebook. Instead, I think I'm giving money to facebook because the logs just proved a read the ad.
- lilbyrdie
@charles True, but you can't fault him too much -- Jason is pretty good at it. I'd like to imagine if there was a way to do that and just get a free Tesla -- without CTS first from responding 500,000 times. ;)
- lilbyrdie
Realized just now that I don't use Delicious anymore to share links. I use Friendfeed.
Neal "thePuck" Jansons, Paul Buchheit, romanzolotarev and 66 other people liked this
Ditto @Scott
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
copy, paste, and tell the tweeple
- Pete D
Tried to log in to delicious yesterday and couldn't remember my login deets
- Christian Anderson
Same here.
- Victor Solanoy
Same.
- Melanie Reed
yeah cause its easier to go back and check your links in delicious if you want to keep it if it's not just another lolcat pic.. things move too fast to go back in here
- Terry O'Fee
uh, yeah!
- Josh Haley
I still do because I find them a bit easier to find later. Plus they get pushed here, twitter and, after a few build up, to my blog as a link post.
- Scott Kingery
It's easier following up on a link in del though.
- ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ
Veronica, that's a good thing. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bookmarklets rule and FF has nicest one so far.
- Rodfather
I wrote a delicious clone and integrated it with my blogging software.
- Wirehead
I use Delicious all the time. Like the fact I can take my bookmarks anywhere that has a internet connection. Use FriendFeed to share funny pictures.
- Hector Ramon
I think the only person I ever shared links with on delicious was myself. In the future. On another computer. The firefox plugin is great -- and I wish Chrome had something like it so the links would more easily go cross-browser in near-realtime.
- lilbyrdie
is there a bookmarklet for delicious? I used to use the plugin for Firefox, but now I'm on Camino and I never looked for a new one.
- Veronica
@Veronica - see here for the bookmarklet: http://delicious.com/help... - I tend to use Google Bookmarks for the stuff I use day-to-day and delicious for all the things I think "that might be useful in the future"
- Andy Davies
I use Delicious for myself, FF to share with others. :)
- mikepk
All of this talk of feeding on delicious friends is making me hungry!
- Paul Reynolds
I use del.icio.us more, with friendfeed. Now they route to Twitter near realtime; before, they were homebodies.
- Denise Howell
I don't share links. I keep them all to myself. Screw you guys. OK, maybe Twitter.
- Mike Nayyar
I never used Delicious to share links. It's a tool for saving links for yourself primarily IMO. Delicious has been so valuable to me personally because of that. I think ur doin' it wrong.
- Fleagle
People share links???? HAHAHA!!!!!
- Benno
Hulu dropping Boxee shows Big Content still can't take a step forward without two back. "Enjoy our content, but don't you dare watch it."
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I've been reading about the G1 since its announcement.. how did I miss this? All IM services in the Instant Messaging application, with the EXCEPTION of Gtalk (I think?!), use SMS to send IMs. This means if you are not on an unlimited SMS plan, you will be charged for IMs if you go over your SMS limit!
- Tim Hoeck
Technically not quite true; they all use TCP/IP data, but the AIM, Yahoo, and MSN IM apps connect to a carrier gateway that charges you as if the messages were SMS.
- ⓞnor
@nor, that is exactly my concern. It is at the very least deceptive.. if Tmobile planned to charge for these services (even though they use TCP/IP), why is it these were not built into a separate application from gtalk? It is extremely confusing to say that some parts of an application "charge" while others do not. Ryo, there are a number of other free IM applications.. had I known about this "trickery", I certainly would have (and will) use them.
- Tim Hoeck
Hmm, I'll have to check my bill and watch for charges. I'm pretty sure my flexpay plan only has unlimited data and not unlimited messaging... it is the G1 specific plan, though.
- lilbyrdie
luckily the SMS charges do not apply to third party AIM clients like http://www.cyrket.com/package..., it's only on the built in client
- Karl Rosaen
does skype? or is that different?
- Fred Grott
Karl.. exactly :) Fred.. The official Skype client AFAIK does not use SMS, however, it DOES use your phone minutes for calls, it does not use VOIP.
- Tim Hoeck
Confirmed. The IM app try to use SMS when I startup it. ough :S http://flickr.com/photos...
- Nock Forager
understandable from perspective of MO's desire to make lots of money, but insane that this is not called out super prominently in the marketing material. can't believe there hasn't been more outrage on this.
- Jon Price
rubbish!
- Özkan Altuner
Mac Chrome: It's Alive! (well, not really but now has a UI) - http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkert...
Lode Nachtergaele, denise, TheHenry and 15 other people liked this
“Now mind you, clicking doesn't work, and the renderers crash like nobody's business, but the other great thing is that the user interface stays running even if they do. Just open a new tab and keep going! It's important to point out that's part of what's taken us so long to get to this point. The WebKit that ships as part of Mac OS X can't run this way -- it took a lot of work to marshall it to do so. In addition, the UI clearly needs much love, but it's an indicator of the clean and simple direction we're heading.”
- Andre
from Bookmarklet
This is something I have been waiting for a long time. Can't wait.
- Sloan Bowman
NEW PENNIES - http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos...
Chris Frost, lilbyrdie, bcultral and 10 other people liked this
This is what our tax dollars are paying for!!!!!
- Tamar Weinberg
from Bookmarklet
Hmmm... I guess that makes cents.
- Louis Gray
+1 Louis
- Victor Ryden 美久太阿
Louis++
- akihito
+.01 Louis
- Jesse Stay
Jesse wins. I'm out.
- Louis Gray
Aren't we supposed to be getting around to _removing_ pennies from circulation instead of making new money? It may make cents, but it makes no sense...
- lilbyrdie
Pretty (worthless)
- Seth Gottlieb
Source: Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in Android, and Google complied - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
lilbyrdie, Lin Yong, Anne Bouey and 8 other people liked this
Apple, which of course makes the signature multi-touch mobile device, the iPhone, apparently asked Google not to implement it, and Google agreed, an Android team member tells us.
- MG Siegler
from Bookmarklet
a lack of lawsuits
- MG Siegler
"Don't ask, don't tell" would have worked out better for Google at least
- MG Siegler
ha ha, this will be very hard to trace, but keep trying :)
- MG Siegler
What the fuck!?
- LarchOye
Yikes! ... Then again, maybe it was a "wink wink, we have a patent coming up in a few years..." back a while, too...
- lilbyrdie
Keep Your Identity Small - http://www.paulgraham.com/identit...
Garry Tan, Vlad Rafeev, ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ and 31 other people liked this
this reminded me of "make things for other people" vs "make things for yourself" - if you make things for other people it isn't part of your identity and you can't defend choices to yourself emotionally
- paulm
PG: "More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants." -- Thus if everyone became 'selfless' (in the Buddhist sense ;-) we can all discuss everything with detachment. :-} Thanks, Paul, your essay also has ramifications for peaceful negotiations.
- Adriano
I agree that in principle, "being a scientist...doesn't commit you to believing anything in particular". However, in practice a great many scientists act as if it commits them to fundamentalist materialism. Thus they still manage to get the psychic comfort that comes with every kind of fundamentalism, of thinking that the worldview they subscribe to is the only reasonable one.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I like that term, "fundamentalist materialism" :)
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul, I'm not sure who coined it--it may have been Robert Anton Wilson.
- Ruchira S. Datta
The problem with the three major monotheistic religions is that they demand exclusion of other belief systems, and basically damn non-believers. You cannot have real co-existence and mutual respect on this basis.
- Paul Denlinger
@Paul Denlinger, demanding exclusion of other belief systems is a characteristic of every kind of fundamentalism, e.g., free-market fundamentalism. It's true that the concept of damnation is limited to the religions you're referring to. (Actually, does Judaism damn non-believers?) But belief in damnation is not even a necessary characteristic of religion, per se, let alone of fundamentalism. I think it's fundamentalism that Paul Graham is warning against here.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Ruchira, I don't buy the attempt to redefine fundamentalism to somehow explain something (or anything) about science. Fundamentalism is the belief that sacred texts are literally true in their entirety. This term doesn't mean anything outside of the domain of religion, e.g. in science, where there no sacred texts, nor even any 'texts' at all; if you're lucky maybe some text files. Stepping back a bit, religion is about faith; science is about questioning.
- j1m
@j1m, from the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: "fundamentalism. 3. strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles: *the fundamentalism of the extreme conservatives* [1920-25, Amer.; FUNDAMENTAL + ISM]."
- Ruchira S. Datta
Wait a second... you're arguing that online discussions of JavaScript don't degenerate into religious arguments? Ok, I see that you address that question later on. But "keep your identity small" feels a little like begging the question to me, in as much as one's identity is defined by all of one's thoughts and beliefs. Should you keep your thoughts and beliefs small?
- Jim Norris
@j1m, my comments referred to some scientists, not to science. The fact that a group of people practices science doesn't mean that everything they believe is science. Moreover, questioning is a very important part of some religions.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Jim, I interpreted Paul as saying one should view one's own beliefs with a degree of detachment, i.e., keep an open mind. Not identifying with one's thoughts and beliefs is very tricky in practice, but it can be quite freeing.
- Ruchira S. Datta
And how is one supposed to discuss important controversial issues without one's beliefs becoming part of one's identity? People choose sides on questions about economic recovery plans or anthropogenic global warming because they feel like those issues matter and Bronze Age battles don't, but I'd bet that archaeologists are just as religiously divided and sectarian about Bronze Age battles as the rest of us are about politics.
- Jim Norris
@Jim, one should sharpen one's own viewpoint as far as possible, but once one closes one's mind there's no room to let new knowledge in. Philip Tetlock in _Expert Political Judgment_ found that "foxes" who were flexible in their thinking made better predictions than "hedgehogs" who were stuck to an ideology.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I think this has a kernel of truth to it, but why are religion and politics, rather than baking preferences and JavaScript interpreters, core parts of identity? Religion and politics are both areas in which the questions are critically important and yet people have very little individual power to influence the situation. An online discussion is more likely to lead to a more concise script or a tastier cake than a more effective plan for either economic stimulus or salvation.
- Jim Norris
@Ruchira there's a reason why that dictionary spends 11 lines giving the real definition and 3 lines giving the definition you use. The other dictionaries I own don't even list the meaning you refer to. Calling any old person who passionately holds some belief a fundamentalist means about as much as calling any old riot cop a fascist. More to the point, the distinction really matters:...
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- j1m
@Ruchira: +1 for mentioning that book, I stumbled on it in the "Google Library" years ago. I think I agree with you; still, aren't most new and innovative ideas generally first advanced by ideologues? (Or is it time to do more reading?)
- Jim Norris
@Jim, wait, innovative ideas, idealogues, wtf? example?
- j1m
Scratch that, I don't know what I was thinking.
- Jim Norris
I mean, there was that gmail thing created by idealogical ajaxian Paul Buchheit
- j1m
This is actually a really bizarre essay. Isn't the idea that you should actively shrink your identity really weird? Would that ever work? And while I personally really enjoy discussing politics, and indeed, with the right people, arguing about it, if you read a lot of, say, javascript discussion groups that keep degenerating into off-topic political arguments, shouldn't you stop reading them? This doesn't seem like something you want to make your problem.
- j1m
If we were serious about Religious and Political discourse we'd require our children to learn it in school. If you're taught by Jesuits you have a shot, if you go to a public school, you're screwed
- john schneider
from twhirl
Also, isn't the key thing religious and political debates have in common that they're debates about what's moral? It hardly seems like you need to drag 'identity' into the picture to explain why people have strong opinions about morality.
- j1m
Well, not all political debates explicitly involve morality... maybe the lesson to take from this is that discussion has limited utility, particularly in the absence of empirical evidence, and that being attached to certain ideas as a part of your identity doesn't help.
- Jim Norris
@j1m, the idea that a dictionary definition doesn't count because it's short is new to me. Is "Islamic fundamentalism" a contradiction in terms? I'm using "fundamentalism" to describe rigidity on the part of believers, not any particular belief. The key thing about religious and political debates is there's no way to settle them. The question of the best method for reconstructing evolutionary history also can't be settled, so phylogenetics is just as contentious.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Jim, yes, I got the Tetlock book when he came to Google. Most innovative ideas come from unexpected associations. See, e.g., _The Creative Brain_ and _The Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity_.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I'll buy the religion argument, but some of the most creative people I know are passionate about politics.
- Phil Boiarski
@Phil, I know creative people who are passionate about religion too. Firstly, I didn't mean to imply all creative people are open-minded about everything. The creativity comment was a bit of a tangent prompted by Jim Norris's retracted thought. Secondly, passion and open-mindedness are not mutually exclusive.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I see the idea that it's even possible to be detached from one's own thoughts and beliefs is not uncontroversial. Adriano's comment above is apropos: there are books with step-by-step instructions on how to do so, through meditation. _The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation_ is one. _Emotional Alchemy_ is another. This explains specifically how not to identify with one's thoughts and beliefs, focusing on those that fall into maladaptive patterns called schemas.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Great post. Thanks, Ruchira for the time and the comments. On reading the post I felt precisely what Ruchira felt - that most of us are too rigid in our thoughts and beliefs, esp. when it comes to religion. If one's religion tells him that the non-believers are not as good as him, then if you are a true believer, you have no choice but to believe that. One is pushed into this corner (if one can see it as a corner) because of what PG says: "The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you"!
- Suresh R Iyer
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I've found http://www.handango.com, http://slideme.org, and http://andappstore.com - any others I'm missing?
- Tim Hoeck
Good point, Tim. From what I'm hearing there are many more coming.
- Matthäus Krzykowski
Fieldrunners - http://www.subatomicstudios.com/
Daniel Rowley, lilbyrdie, fbrunel and Atul Arora liked this
One of the best game on the iPhone.
- fbrunel
Always practice safe typing. Wear protection.
batuhan icoz, Johnny, Penguin and 55 other people liked this
How do I type all morning, type all day and type all night, for years, and never get carpal tunnel (so far)? Velcro wrist straps. I may look like a dork at work, and people ask "what happened?", but they're preventative, so the answer so far, is nothing... highly recommended.
- Louis Gray
This is the brand I have used since 1996. Best practices say to buy a new set each Christmas as a gift to yourself: http://www.coreproducts.com/asp_cat...
- Louis Gray
Yes! Now, where would one procure such fine looking protection....?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Ahh...FF mismatch on the comments again :)
- WoH: Minding her Steves
never thought about using protection with the computer...hmm
- Justin Korn
* shines up his pocket protector * -- on a serious note and all bowling references aside I have heard very good things about these.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
You say tomato... ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
That's the other comment I tend to get. Going bowling? And, honestly, I HAVE worn these bowling. It works.
- Louis Gray
Wonder Woman stands by the bracelets too :P
- Andrew Smith
How fast do you type Louis? Just curious:-)
- Michael Fidler
The need for braces is the typification of the human race's minds evolving far more quickly than our bodies. In 200 years, man will probably have wrist tunnels that are much more resistant to repetitive stress, but until then, the need to use performance-enhancing equipment is a must.
- no name
Didn't know you were a cage fighter on the side, Louis.
- Shawn Farner
I need my stress-resistant wrists now. :)
- Morton Fox
Michael, just checked on http://www.typeracer.com, and got about 83 WPM. Never really kept track.
- Louis Gray
Also consider a vertical mouse. This is what I use: http://bit.ly/Q9a5
- Matt Cutts
Wow, you use those purely as a preventative measure, having never had problems? Wacky. At least some people say that braces are *bad*, especially for long term use, because they lock the wrists into a fixed position (preventing normal variation in movement) and cause muscles to atrophy.
- ⓞnor
@ⓞnor, while a junior in college, I noticed fatigue and popping, so I thought I would get ahead of the curve. I believe having used them has prevented problems I've seen with others. If I don't use them, I do more stretching and can have soreness, but nothing serious.
- Louis Gray
LG has hairy arms! (Sorry, that was juvenile)
- Mona Nomura
Bring it Mona. :-)
- Louis Gray
Not a bad idea. I found a rollerball mouse and mac's aluminum keyboard really help as well.
- Mike Elliott
That's pretty fast! Someone has 153 wpm on there.Now that's fast! Thanks for the link, I need somewhere to practice:-)
- Michael Fidler
from twhirl
Now you got me thinking. Though I never thought that I had a pb, it's one I'd rather avoid. And the wrist bands look pretty rad.
- Brad Kligerman
Excellent idea, forwarded it to a friend who has wrist problems!
- Roland Hesz
Being a geek has it's occupational hazards. I wear wrist protection as well.
- Alan Le
Amazon sometimes has a problem with product category skew. For instance when you search for blank CD-Rs, you'll find them in Electronics, Office Supplies, Home and Garden, etc. This makes it kind of frustrating to find items.
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This is a hindrance, particularly when you are trying to research customer reviews for a particular type of product.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Amazon taxonomy is a bear and it shifts more frequently than you'd think as well.
- AJ Kohn
It's particularly difficult to find the cheapest item when the same type of items are categorized so broadly. Thing is, all of those make sense... but there is a different selection of items in each instead of items being in multiple categories...
- lilbyrdie
Amazon needs an overhaul. It has many wonderful features but it is very poorly organized, in my opinion. I bet many thousands of people are stuck on it staying the way it is, though...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Oh man, Battlestar Galactica is tonight. If being a nerd who stays at home on Friday to watch Sci-Fi is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Chris Loft, edythe, lilbyrdie and 12 other people liked this
I hate that I can't watch tonight's episode yet. F'ing Season 3 holding me up. Oh and the whole beginning of Season 4...and Razor. Fuck.
- James Ferguson
This tweet sounds strikingly familiar to a particular Wendy's add that's on TV about a hundred times each hour...
- Mitch
I'm preparing to be disappointed. Setting expectations lower than low :/
- Bwana ☠
Bwana, if you so dare, I shared a story in the Battlestar Galactica room that gives spoilers for tonight's episode, if you want to set your expectations aptly beforehand.
- Mark Trapp
I'm scared and excited. I'm afraid to be hurt. LOL
- Bwana ☠
James, you must catch up soon!
- RAPatton
How long does your battery last? I got 4:30 screen on time and I have to recharge every day. I'm on a GSM900 network, I use lowest brightness and manually turn on WiFi, Bluetooth. I even disabled 'auto sync' - which is the 'killer feature' for a Gmail junkie like me.
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It all really depends on how much you use your device, their will be some battery life fixes in the future
- Kyle Weller
@Kyle: I use the phone the same way I used my first gen iPhone and I'm not sure if I can live with a 1 day long battery life. OMG! I paid a fortune for this phone :-(
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
Suggestion: let your phone run down to zero to calibrate the battery status. I was getting a "very low" indication after a few hours, yet the phone would stay on for 12 more hours. Getting much more realistic battery indications now.
- John Craft
I seem to get very little battery life. I feel like I'm charging twice a day -- and that's while keeping it connected to USB while debugging all day and on the charger all night. I'm suspecting background processes, but don't have any evidence of that yet.
- lilbyrdie
Thank you Obama, for getting it. - http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/post...
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Steve Young and wife come out against Prop 8. - http://www.mercurynews.com/breakin...
Jeff P. Henderson, Jesse Stay, Ontario Emperor and 12 other people liked this
Yard signs AND a $50,000 donation from one of the highest-profile LDS members. V. cool. Jason, shut up.
- Cyndy
He's good friends with Jeff Garcia.
- Jason Carreira
Did I not SAY Jason shut up?
- Cyndy
OMG you two are a riot!! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Steve Young can #suckit
- Erin @queenofspain
but now he can only kinda #suckit. Did I mention the Lions are 0-8?
- Erin @queenofspain
Awesomesauce...I always liked Steve and this just reinforces that.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Jason is a Falcons fan from way back. It is physically impossible for him to say a single good thing about Steve Young.
- Cyndy
I don't know how many of you saw the followup, but Steve's wife subsequently clarified that her husband was not making a public endorsement one way or the other. (I'd bet he'll vote no, however.)
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
I'm with Jason. I can't bring myself to say anything nice about him. lol. It's football related, though.
- Erin @queenofspain
I grew up with Montana, Rice (pre Raiders), Lott, and Young!! Insulting them (and the '9ers) is like insulting me!!!
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Steve's a great guy. Of note, a follow-on article in the Chronicle had him saying he was neutral and never endorses politics. It was his wife who made the move.
- Louis Gray
I'd love to see some stats of Mormons who have donated against the prop, or just those against it. I feel like the focus has only been on Mormons who have voted for the prop.
- Jesse Stay
Louis, I'd argue that any time you donate $50,000, your husband probably had some say in it. :D Shoot... my first $25 to Obama during the primaries had agreement from Jason even though he wasn't entirely sure he was on the Obama train.
- Cyndy
Steve Young corrects involvement in Prop. 8 http://www.ksl.com/...
- Darren Labrum
FiveThirtyEight.com: Colorado going to the Democrats - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008...
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", Colorado is going blue. What was supposed to be a nailbiter simply hasn't materialized into a very tough fight from the McCain campaign, and the Obama ground game in Colorado is an elite, overwhelming force. When all is said and done, stunningly beautiful Colorado will have two Democratic Senators, a Democratic governor, four or five out of seven House seats held by Dems, and will have given its nine electoral votes to the lanky Senator from Illinois."
- Mike Reynolds
from Bookmarklet
Don't forget to vote!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
You know what kills me... the Democratic Party has become the party of rich snooty elitists. The guy who works in a factory, smokes Marlboros, drinks budweiser, hunts on the weekends, and bowls three nights a week is a pariah. A character the old workin' man's party now mocks. Makes me sad.
- Steve Olson
I'm not rich, I'm not (usually) snooty, but I do think that we should have the best and brightest pointing the way as opposed to anti-intellectuals who don't bother to listen to the experts and thusly get us into wars that we can't afford and economic crisis that bankrupt the country.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I don't disagree you (esp about the war) and I know you are not rich and snooty (I am generalizing and in general my description is accurate) but many of the Dem leaders are. But so are the Repubs. The working class in the country is completely unrepresented. That's why they are going to elect Dean Barkley in Minnesota and elected Jesse Ventura in 1998. Most of them don't even vote, but when they do, they change everything. Maybe someday we can sit down over a beer and discuss this in depth.
- Steve Olson
Man, Obama just made a Green Lantern reference.
lilbyrdie, Mike Reynolds, James Ferguson and 9 other people liked this
Now THAT'S a neglected voter segment.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Seriously. He even got it correct: he was making some reference to McCain being a sidekick, and went "he's Cato to Bush's Green Lantern! You.. you might need to be a little older to know the Green Lantern"
- Mark Trapp
Wait...isn't that Green Hornet (Cato)?
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
from twhirl
Yeah - Green Hornet. Comic reference fail.
- iTad
Did he say Green Lantern or Hornet?
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
from twhirl
Ah, I made the same mistake. He said the Green Lantern, so he got it wrong, too.
- Mark Trapp
I don't think this will cause ComicCon dads to defect to McCain...
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Well, he said he was sent from the planet Krypton by his father Jor-El, so I think he's Superman, not the Green Lantern. I'm starting to think either Obama or one of his top aides is a DC Comics fan.
- Mark Trapp
McCain can sleep well tonight knowing he was compared to Bruce Lee.
- Rodfather
Green Lantern has no sidekick. They work together to protect the universe. Now if you'll excuse me, my nerdiness is showing.
- James Ferguson
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