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Man, I'm so going to win this game now. - Mark Trapp from Bookmarklet

:) - edythe

Any chance of putting it up on Google Code or some other place to make it easier to download and keep up to date? Great job! - Benjamin Golub

Please send message to my facebook account for questions: http://www.facebook.com/kordull... - Nikolai Kordulla

"[A] way to compete with Apple: be a better platform for it." Is Google missing out a potentially big chance by not combining a device-app market with a web-app market -- i.e. what they could have by merging Android/ Market Place and Chrome OS/ Web Store on a single tablet? ... Or will they? - Philipp Lenssen

I missed this essay somehow... "Many if not most of the special-purpose objects around us are going to be replaced by apps running on tablets." Pretty much so. - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

"But now some of the cables provided by WikiLeaks to Spanish newspaper El Pais confirm that the US government has pushed other countries to adopt measures that go beyond US law, unleashing the fury of Spanish Internet users. A set of cables reported on by El Pais make clear that the US government played a key role in Spain’s controversial website blocking law – the 2009 Sustainable Economy Bill, which the Spanish government is now trying to sneak it through a Committee in a pre-holiday session on 21st December. (Spanish readers, please see Action you can take below). El Pais reports that in February 2008 the US government threatened to put Spain on the annual Special 301 Watch List issued by the Office of the US Trade Representative unless the new Spanish government announced new measures to address Internet piracy, including a law that requires ISPs to terminate the Internet access of subscribers accused three times of file sharing - like the French “HADOPI” Three Strikes law." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Fortunately, it looks like Spain rejected the website blocking law. - Gabe

long, brilliant - Andy Baio

(removed minor issue) - DGentry

You may be right Philipp. It could serve its purpose even if it never finds commercial success on its own. - Paul Buchheit

I turned on the Instant feature in the options but it doesn't seem to work for me... when I type a fresh search term in the address bar and wait, nothing happens (even when using an US proxy). - Philipp Lenssen

The button lights on my Samsung Galaxy Tab go off after some seconds, making it hard to find in darker environments, and the wrong guess to a button position might mean you close the app. Added to that, the power button is right next to the volume button -- try to adjust the volume and miss it by a centimeter and your app closes unexpectedly. The iPad doesn't have any of these problems... more... - Philipp Lenssen

The only two Android buttons I end up using frequently are Back and Home. (Sidenote: The Home button can be confused with an up arrow on my Samsung.) The Menu and Search buttons are useful but could probably be done by the software on a need basis (Search doesn't always work in every app, for instance, and you also never quite know what Menu will bring up -- the Shake input on the iOS... more... - Philipp Lenssen

I left a comment there, but there's one thing that's worth noting: I have an EVO, my husband has an Epic 4G. I didn't even realize the button layouts were different on the phones. We use each others phones with no confusion. The only time there is confusion is when we start reassigning buttons to do different things. - Anika

"HARRISON Ford is ready to reprise his role as the adventuring anthropologist for a fifth Indiana Jones movie, The Sun has Wednesday. The actor revealed creator George Lucas is already working on ideas, and if director Steven Spielberg and Ford like it, the movie will be made. Ford said, "I'd love to do it. I'd love to see a development of the relationship between him and his son and him and his new wife. I think it'd be fun."" - Johnny from Bookmarklet

agreed!! - Terry O'Fee

I hope Roscoe is a dog. - Kevin Fox from iPhone

Isn't that from Anchor Man? - Georgia

think outside the box [via] - Andy Baio

This sounds kinda like the movie, My Sassy Girl. - imabonehead

That woman in "My Sassy Girl" was terrible! She treated the guy horribly. Xiaxue (author of this blog) was decent to her boyfriend. - niniane

Sorta OT, but as long as we're talking about improbable romances set in Asia, have y'all ever seen anything from the "Densha Otoko" franchise? - Andrew C (✓)

I prefer Gnome Chomsky: http://www.popbitch.com/home... - Gabe

Seems like Chomsky's living in the past tho, there's very few factories to take over. They're in China now. Now it would be "take over retail distribution!" (e.g. Wal-mart) but that's being eroded by e-commerce as well and it's also not a solution to driving up real wages either. Most people are employed by small business now, so traditional unionized socialist organizing isn't very... more... - Ray Cromwell

"It's not elegant and it's not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell's Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait. Signalling the end, says Blackwell, to the frustration of being told by a bookseller that a title is out of print, or not in stock, the Espresso offers access to almost half a million books, from a facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland to Mrs Beeton's Book of Needlework. [...]" - ianf ⌘ from Bookmarklet

I had a night off. - zeroinfluencer

"We're at a critical juncture in the evolution of software. The web is still here and it is still strong. Anyone can still put any information or applications on a web server without asking for permission, and anyone in the world can still access it just by typing a URL. I don't think I appreciated how important that is until recently. Nobody designs new systems like that anymore, or at least few of them succeed. What an incredible stroke of luck the web was, and what a shame it would be to let that freedom slip away. I do not wish to fight any mobile device makers who want to create a software ecosystem and act as the gatekeepers for that ecosystem. What I do want to fight for is the viability of the mobile web. Developers are rushing to create native apps, meanwhile letting their mobile web apps atrophy (I have certainly been guilty of that myself). Web technology is still relatively weak, and improving slowly. At this pace, what will the mobile web look like in 10 years? Will we... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Sorry, Kevin, wasn't being clear -- I was just responding to the assertion that console approval processes weren't as arbitrary as Apple's. I agree.-- Aplle's is even worse, and that's saying something! - Joel Webber

Named return parameters are awesome, but it still doesn't eliminate the need for reference parameters. - Gabe

Also, Python's with statement (new for 2.6) is actually more like C#'s using. Actually, C# has a few different ways of using "using". One way is to import a package into your namespace, like Ada's with statement. Another way is to declare a variable to be initialized at the beginning of a block and make sure it is destroyed at the end of the block, like Python's with statement. - Gabe

opened after Aaron downloaded 19M court documents for Resource.org - Andy Baio

I sure hope they would look into someone hitting a government computer for that many requests with an out-of-context password - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Google Reader is #1 for me. But you knew that. - Louis Gray

Manuel, I think the dev version of Chrome had a crashing bug with --enable-sync . I uninstalled and reinstalled and that fixed it. - Matt Cutts from iPhone

very clever barcode design uses out-of-focus photos shot from a distance [via] - Andy Baio

so true; the only thing holding newbies back is the fear of making it worse - Andy Baio

like a real-life PC demo - Andy Baio