Was this article just an exercise in how many analogies, metaphors and similes the author could get into one post? I think the interesting thing here is the notion that Twitter is a phone switch for routing information flow. I also agree that decentralizing Twitter is a red herring. - felix

Seriously, iPhone2 can't come soon enough for me! I wonder if it'll have 32GB, that'd be something. - felix

This guy shows you optical illusions and explains what's happening and with helpful little flash apps to let you play around with them. That is some seriously cool stuff. - felix

Sad. Just... sad. - felix

Sad. Just... sad. - felix

$3.654/gallon?? I remember when I could get for less than a buck. I guess this is a benefit of living carless in NYC. - felix

Wow, how come nobody invented this sooner?? - felix

This is awesome - usually I just command scroll my mousewheel, but that boosts all fonts. using "=" boosts only the size of the selected post on the page. Yay google! - felix

What is wrong with Apple? First off my iPhone never remembers to pull my email only fetching it when I open the app. And second of all, just support IMAP IDLE. It's there, my treo did it for years. What's the problem?? - felix

Now this is what I'm talking about. All they need to do is add in a little bit of vim sugar like visual select and my life would be complete. - felix

This is just nasty! - Gautam Guliani

Friend of a Friend - Benjamin Golub

Whoa. That's a really odd UI. It doesn't mean that that commenter is a FoaF, but that the post he is commenting is from a FoaF, apparently? Oh, I see, it means that commenter is *the* friend of mine that the original poster was also a friend of. Huh. Thanks for the 411! - felix

It's an area for improvement. In its current form it means "This person is your friend" when the original item wasn't shared by a friend of yours. It's basically saying 'this person is why we think this is relevant to you'. - Kevin Fox

Man, not a call you'd normally want to get. Except for well after the fact when it becomes a funny story! - felix

Uh. Insane? It turns out some people just have more money than they know what to do with. I would like to have the problem. I would know what to do with that money. - felix