This, together with the "classic" comments system is really interesting. Of course local cache is mandatory, as Michael puts it and I think the 10 chars limit will be a plus to most people who will never go to the trouble of writing up a proper comment/reply on a blog but think nothing of sending a tweet or two about anything they read. The issue then becomes: do we really care enough about those kinds of comments?
- Nuno Nunes
It should be easy, right? Except if you don’t pay attention, you’ll end up with board shorts drooping past your knees or elastic-waist dad trunks cinching your love handles. We headed to Miami Beach to help real guys—of all shapes and sizes—find the suits that suit them best.
- Derrick
I did not know this was difficult. maybe i'm doing it wrong. WNTW hasn't done dudes swim trunks yet
- SteVe C
"All shapes and sizes", hm? Not a single man there built like my husband, and the ONE swimsuit that talks about bigger/heavier men is "buy a black suit so people don't notice your weight OMG avoid colors and patterns!!!". Pffft.
- FFing Enigma
Right, Tina? *yanks suit off, and proudly puts hands on hips, triumphant*
- Derrick
i'm just happy if it doesn't come off my ass when i jump into the pool.
- Joe The Sausage
And that right there is why I haven't worn a two piece since I was 8...
- FFing Enigma
Derrick, I like the second to last one... blue with red and yellow flowers. You can rock those at Hermosa (or whatever beach you usually go to).
- Trish Haley
"Looks like Chris' hatred wasn't totally unfounded. We just got our hands on a Google Ion -- which as you can tell is a spitting image of the HTC Magic -- complete with 30 days' worth of T-Mobile service on an included SIM card. It's not a public release model, but seems fully capable. Yes, it's got Cupcake, and while the portrait keyboard seems more cramped than the iPhone's, we found it very comfortable to type in landscape mode. Form factor wise, this thing is as sexy as hardware gets -- light, sleek, and thin. The only thing that exceeds our love for it right now is its own love for fingerprints -- seriously, the entire body and screen attract them like flies to honey. Colorful similes aside, hit up the gallery below for all the pics you could ask for."
- TobiasVerhoog.com
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goddamn..!!! it is not avaible for international...what the heck is wrong with apple?
- Ümit Orhan
Sweet deal. To bad I already have an iPod Touch
- TheHenry
It's a great deal, especially if your university bookstore does not charge sales tax. The mail-in rebate maxes out at US$229 - the same price as an 8GB iPod Touch.
- Bill Sodeman
You actually get a rebate (up to $229). As a French student, I'll get a rebate of 185€ for a 8 Go, which means I'll still have to pay 45€ (don't know what to do with it, since I already have an iPhone). That's not free, but it's great. Similarly, I'll get a HP printer (Photosmart C4480) with my 15' Pro, for only 9€ (an additional rebate for student).
- Jérôme
@TheHenry @Jerome You can always sell the iPod Touch on eBay or Amazon.com's Marketplace. This way you now get cash to go towards you Mac Purchase.
- Gerard Lagana
You have to cut and send in the UPC and bar codes for the iPod rebate.
- Bill Sodeman
And the lack of a headphone jack is just dumb.
- Kevin Fox
I'm surprised nobody's even faked it by making a video within the Android emulator and uploading it to their iPhone.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: when you touch the screen, the video player interface shows up, spoiling the ruse. But seeing how much traction the grainy photo of an iPhone with a screenshot of the skype interface got as the "iPhone Video iChat," I'm surprised nobody just took a picture of an Android interface and done the same.
- Mark Trapp
Protip: Dip your finger in hot wax a few times and you can touch without any actual effect. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Yeah, I couldn't believe that the G1 didn't have a headphone jack. I loaded music onto it, and then spent several minutes trying to find the headphone jack (thinking that it was probably hidden like the power jack is). It's sad that they did the same thing to the G2.
- Paul Buchheit
Christopher, that looks really nice. I'm looking forward to seeing the predicted 28 Android handsets available by the end of the year.
- Kevin Fox
Thanks Google for totally ignoring us Tiger OSX users! If i can operate it on windows XP then why not Mac OSX Tiger? Not happy. And people complain about Apple!
- Kevin J Hatton
One thing I have noticed is that in any ovie, v show, etc where anything odd happens, the English are always portrayed as standing in place saying something like "This can't be happening" or some stupid thing like that, when it clearly IS happening. Is this some sort of national trait? I like to think that if, say, the dead rise and turn on the living, I would fight back + run to safety FIRST and worry about the ontological implications after.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :)
- Richard Walker
well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars
- Richard Akerman
My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't.
- Hookuh Tinypants
To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise.
- Hookuh Tinypants
I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants.
- Stephen Mack
got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness
- Lane Rapp
"Contrast the experience of being a middle manager. This is a stock figure of ridicule, but the sociologist Robert Jackall spent years inhabiting the world of corporate managers, conducting interviews, and he poignantly describes the “moral maze” they feel trapped in. Like the mechanic, the manager faces the possibility of disaster at any time. But in his case these disasters feel arbitrary; they are typically a result of corporate restructurings, not of physics. A manager has to make many decisions for which he is accountable. Unlike an entrepreneur with his own business, however, his decisions can be reversed at any time by someone higher up the food chain (and there is always someone higher up the food chain). It’s important for your career that these reversals not look like defeats, and more generally you have to spend a lot of time managing what others think of you. Survival depends on a crucial insight: you can’t back down from an argument that you initially made in...
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In other words, managers become politicians. :)
- Ray Cromwell
Not every decision really needs moral conviction behind it, even in an ideal, no-office-politics world.
- Andrew C (✓)
Someone needs to wrap a PR person around him
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, but then he'd get all greasy :)
- Brett Kelly
Funny thing is that Twitter is all about people talking, not numbers I thought. If the people are louder than the numbers that says something's wrong.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: You should know it's not important what you say, what's important is how many other people say exactly the same thing.
- Ken Sheppardson
Jesse: these guys are all dopes. Numbers? Twitter isn't run by numbers. I can prove this. Alex should talk...
- Robert Scoble
New way to see @replies. Twitter Screenshots in Friendfeed :) See lots of them tonite.
- Atul Arora
Heh, good point about the spam accounts. The % of accounts that are inactive or spam is likely mind-boggling, which would make the % of wide-open reply lovers MUCH higher.
- Lee Adkins
So does that suggest all the Twitter users are liars?
- Louis Gray