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"We asked our editors three questions: what are your favorite pairs of earphones - not headphones? Why? And if you had to choose just one, which would it be? Our answers are below, and most interesting in that different users with different listening preferences have gravitated to many similar earphones. Of the group, only one editor noted a preference for full-sized headphones, and no one recommended clip-on earphones, lanyard earphones, convertibles, wireless, or hybrid earbud-canalphones. Feel free to add your picks to the comments section at the bottom of the page." - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet

Has anyone listened to the difference between a pair of the ER-4P and ER-6i? Similar technology must drive both, but there is a $100 price gap. I'd be willing to pay the price if the sound was really that much better. - Bill Strathearn

Would Rachel use it? - Benjamin Golub

Having just biked all the way to Best Buy, who claimed to have them in stock but did not, I hereby bid cost plus lunch at the establishment of your choice next week. :-) - Trisha

The average person on the street doesn't know what a user is. - LogEx

I would add that PROFICIENCY and UNDERSTANDING in those disciplines is the rarity. I've had plenty of developers tell me than can do visual design and they just flat out can't. - Chris Greene

who now? a friend of mine tweeted this same thing tonite. - Jenna Bilotta

Ahem, it is spelled *babby* - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

91% is good, right? - Stephen Mack

It's interesting, fun, and somewhat useful, but not indispensible like some other gadgets in my life (e.g. TiVo, CatGenie). I also wish it was a watch. - Rachel Garb

Do Baptist churches have an offering during service? If so, that's weird: that's a little too much like a transaction for me. - Mark Trapp

Do you have to stay the entire time to earn the card? - Stephen Mack

neat! - Jenna Bilotta

"Unfortunately, spider silk is extremely hard to mass produce: Unlike silk worms, which are easy to raise in captivity, spiders have a habit of chomping off each other’s heads when housed together." - Tudor Bosman

Are these speed skates? Or have skates just changed to have bigger wheels? What is it like with the larger wheels? - Michael Leggett

They are designed for speed. It's my first move into something like this. Previously, I really hadn't thought about the size of my wheels. My old skates are 84mm, and I get going pretty fast already on them. The new ones are 110mm. So far, I can't say that they've taken me faster. But I didn't have the right socks on for the first time use, and my feet started hurting, so I really didn't push myself. I'm pretty sure I'll be zooming in them. - dannysullivan

I'm so glad you're making regular videos again Ze. Insightful, informative, and hella-funny as usual. - Michael Leggett

facebook.com/google - Michael Leggett

You should follow the link, Michael. It's not the same one I sent you before. :-) - Kevin Fox

It's a pretty cool fb app. - Paul Buchheit

nice! I never want to goto facebook.com again! - Jay

o.O - Shandiz

thx for checking danny ... i didn't think it was 'real' - Chris Heath

"The Palmer method and subsequent 20th-century methods were based on an ornate style that was difficult to learn and broke down under pressure. The loops and curlicues of Palmer and other similar methods obscure legibility. For good reason, one rarely finds looped cursive in print media or computer fonts. ... But there is hope. We can stop mumbling on the page and become legible writers by turning to a style that existed long before Palmer rendered our world illegible. We can embrace letterforms born in the Italian Renaissance. We can go italic." - Paul Buchheit

The amazing thing to note in this article is how easy it is to read letters when only the top half of the line is visible (and how impossible it is to read when only the bottom half is visible). - Mike Koss

Wile E. Coyote, are you reading this? - Stephen Mack

Happy villains are all alike; every unhappy villain is unhappy in his own way. - Stephen Mack

I also don't want to have to worry about my parents health care (both my parents are unemployed and one has no coverage at all). I try not to think about how I'd feel if they got sick and went bankrupt. - Michael Leggett

If your startup has more than a few employees, you're eligible for reasonable group plans. We had good health care at FriendFeed. You just need to hire an Ana to make it all happen. - Paul Buchheit

'Brent Groovy Zombie Leggett'? - Amit Patel

I think T-rex would be a pretty awesome name... how can you possibly pick on a kid named T-rex?!? - Michael Leggett

It might be "B". I bet we can try to help if we push you in better lists. Also, there doesn't seem to be too much frequency to the posts, making expectations irregular. I see the last note from Friday, and prior to that, Sept. 1. - Louis Gray

Actually I think FF is more than fair, especially when we're all just disembodied voices in the wind. But human nature being what it is, my actual thought (before editing) was that the bar is higher not so much for 'not a Googler' - we're pretty good about that - but for 'fat broad from Missouri' which I censored because fat broad is actually not something I've really broadcast loud and clear before, here. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

best way to get your LCD screen scratched? - topo

My cat does exactly the same thing. :-) And the funny thing is when I move the cursor out of the screen she looks behind the monitor to see where did it go... - Olivia Lovag

First noticed it last night. - Kevin Fox

C'mon, it was a good pun, right? I should have put a smiley or signified it was a pun by phrasing it as "I guess you could say" - Stephen Mack

Lots of other good panels by other Googlers at http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas... - Michael Leggett

Thanks! :) - Jenna Bilotta

"To our absolute shock, we found that in any of the categories of activities that we thought their brain would be better at, that would enable them to manage multiple streams of information at one time, they're actually worse at all of them. So it's a great mystery what's going on. All we can say now is that multitaskers are lousy at multitasking." -- Prof. Clifford Nass (in the story's embedded video) - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet

Even people with ADD might get bogged down with too many tasks at the same time. Yes they might not have the same attention span as others, but there's still an upper limit on their brain's ability to multitask. - Pandu ● IT Optimizer from email

Snow Leopard will start counting megs and gigs in 1000x instead of 1024x across the board which, while confusing in many ways, will make peoples hard drives appear to have as much room as they paid for. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

No, I don't have any Apple products at home, other than iTunes, QuickTime, and Safari. The SSDs probably but I'm thinking specfically of the ones built by Intel and the memory manufacturers since they think in bits already. - Kacey Green

The Lineup: 1. Peanut butter, Bacon 2. Peanut Butter, Jet-Puffed Marshmallow 3. Peanut Butter, Jelly 4. Peanut butter, banana, honey - Ross Miller

You should include PB and Nutella. You need a big glass of milk for that one :) - Shannon Jiménez

I love the iPhone bit at the end :) - Bret Taylor

Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg's joke about how hard it was to have a fight in a tent b/c you couldn't slam the tent flap at the end. - Michael Leggett

boooo - drew olanoff

Fixed - http://vimeo.com/6266944 - Michael Leggett

From the comments on the panel: Darren and I both use prototypes to sell our teams and the org on anything from small interactions to large shifts in product direction. We will talk about the different ways we make prototypes (including some scrappy techniques involving little coding) and how to use them to influence change. - Michael Leggett

Where's Microsoft? - Jesse Stay

@Andrew: Wow. In that case, we have some seriously grumpy-looking sales folks. :) - Aaron D'Souza

I think this is something they are working towards, but it's not possible yet. That would really seal the deal for google. - Jim Rubenstein

TC link was already mentioned upthread. The important point for Paul to note is that it's not available *to the public* but that Arrington was able to get it just by asking. Paul presumably has similar access unless his recent business ventures have put him on a secret Google hit list. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I've looked and looked, but I can't find your panel. Help!! http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas... - Michael Leggett

Can I be a panelist? I think I can argue convincingly for the Mexican Martini. - Jon Wiley

Dear mr. President, You know what happened recent months to Iranian nation! They get tortured, raped, killed in cold blood brutally the world has ever seen. You pretend nothing has happened, you say US won't interfere with Iran's internal affairs! This is not internal affair!!!!! This is human rights issue you say US won't put itself in jeopardy that CIA will be blamed again!!!!!!! CIA... more... - dear_iran

I wonder if anyone in the whitehouse reads these comments. It would be kind of exciting if they did... - Michael Leggett

Well Michael, they do, because i've put my same question on idesk of cnn, you know what happened? ..... they blocked my account!.... the funny thing is that most Americans believe they still live in democracy - dear_iran