Congratulations April & Paul! Just two days ago you told me you currently have 1.9 children. I assumed April still had something like three more weeks to go :) All the best for your growing family! - Mustafa K. Isik
Yes, at the time it was supposed to be another couple of weeks, but our kids tend to arrive extra early (The first was born at 25.7 weeks, and this one at 34 -- full term is 40). - Paul Buchheit
"Roughly the size of a Toyota (TM) Prius, the Ox can travel between 125 and 155 miles before needing a recharge, and zips from zero to 60 miles per hour in about 8.5 seconds. Its lithium-ion batteries can be charged to 80% capacity in less than an hour, and slender solar panels integrated into the roof power the onboard electronics. Inside, the hatchback includes a bevy of high-tech gizmos such as GPS navigation, a mobile Internet connection, and a key fob that lets drivers customize the car's all-digital dashboard. Pricing has yet to be announced, but the company's current vehicles cost less than $25,000." - Karen Padham Taylor
Good luck getting a 150-mile lithium battery for anything like that price... the solar panel also seems like a gimmick (as it is on the Aptera). - ⓞnor
"The idea behind Labs is that any engineer can go to lunch, come up with a cool idea, code it up, and ship it as a Labs feature. To tens of millions of users. No design reviews, no product analysis, and to be honest, not that much testing." - Keith Coleman
Cool. But what does lunch have to do with it? :) - Chris White
This is so cool. I had seen this on the front page of NYTimes.com, but thought it was just a graphic for how men voted and didn't click on anything else. Watching the boxes move around is amazing. - Ana
“The Olympic torch just passed my office building. The crowd was shouting "jia you, zhong guo!", or "Come on, China!" The expression "jia you" literally means "add oil" (加油), as in "add oil to the fire".”
Thanks for the link, Jess... my favorite band! - Vince DeGeorge
oh man, this song is ridiculously good. Everything since Pinkerton has been meh, at best. Taken with "Pork and Beans," it looks like The Red Album is going to kick much ass. - Chieze Okoye
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer kids? - Morton Fox
I'd feel left out if I didn't join the bandwagon on this one. I've never seen so many "Likes". Man I wish I'd been able to get my phone camera to work the morning I saw the plate that unintentionally said 490BEY. Andre the Giant would approve. - Kamilah Gill
"Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country." - darren
"As president of Google, Larry Page has pushed his people to take risks that have led to hot new applications like Gmail and Google Maps. Lately he has been thinking far outside the walls of his company." This quote is funny for some reason... - Paul Buchheit
I especially like what he had to say about solar/geothermal energy. - d e f c o n
"Are you consciously hiring people who can look at these issues? //
Those people don't really exist. You can't hire them. People usually have careers where they stay in pretty fixed areas." - 9000
@silpol It makes it sound like people at Google don't want to take risks but Larry goes around forcing them to do so. - Adewale Oshineye
What's funny is the people who created Gmail and Google Maps are now far outside the walls of Google (and are at Friendfeed) - Ranjit Mathoda
They're actually not all that far outside the walls of Google. Just down the steet. :) - Chris White
Why is it that gmail can't provide quoted text more than one-level deep? Or forward HTML-formatted mail without destroying it? - Dan Keldsen
Anyone else wondering why Gmail is still in beta? - Mia
@ade sounds all the way familiar, we had similar things here @NOK only no Larry Page ;) - silpol
@mathoda pioneers always run their wagons to the edge, until mainstream comes ;) - silpol