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MG Siegler
Retweet.com Looks To Be A TweetMeme Competitor With A Killer Domain Name - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Louis Gray
@ZuDfunck I have a crush on awesome technology. I have a massive crush on Google Reader and Mac OS X as well. Don't you push what you like?
Don't assume that. I just deleted a bunch of people whose tweets are full of people just complaining about things. - Anika
Zee.
mjc
mjc
Good news for Mac and Linux users - Google chrome is now available for download for both operating systems | Chrome tweaks - http://chrometweaks.org/news...
"It’s a dream come true for some of you, because Google Chrome is now available for Mac and Linux users. The release is not official, but the guys from Codeweavers managed to make Chrome work on both operating systems. Based on the open-source browser project and developed using CodeWeavers’ Wine development expertise, they named it CrossOver Chromium. Now for those who are curious to see how it works, you can download Google Chrome for Mac and Linux from the following links:" - mjc from Bookmarklet
Finally! thanks Michale for the FYI - anna sauce
not the official one, but it works :P - mjc
To be clear, this is a way to run the Windows version on Mac or Linux. Cool stuff, but not an official Chrome project, and don't let it color your expectations of what a native Mac and Linux version will look like. - DeWitt Clinton
Damn, I thought Christmas had come early - Ray Cromwell
Anyone benchmark this yet? - Piaw Na
Piaw - it is a little slower than native, but not by much, it's WINE for mac used on chrome. - mjc
Pengtoh Reports that the VMWare penalty is about 6%. Is the WINE penalty more or less than that? - Piaw Na
It's ghastly. Not even worth mentioning. Not even for free. In fact, they should be paying everybody for even *THINKING* about using this. - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
I'll wait. - Akiva
Chris - Oooh that bad huh? wow - Susan Beebe
You had me excited there for a minute. As much as I appreciate Crossover for the effort, their ported Mac Chrome fails on font rendering to the point that it's unusable for a ton of sites. I'd warn most to stay well away - Duncan Riley
Oh, nevermind...I thought it was an official release. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Allen Stern
Jason Calacanis
Thoughts on the first decline in holiday e-commerce spending... ever?
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It's the e-pocalypse. - The original Kevin
The economy is bad right now, people are poor and unemployed and spending money paycheck to paycheck just to get by - Jeff Hoard from twhirl
I'm thankful for my jobs! - Anne Haynes
Great info. So has ecommerce reached a peak? Is expansion via awareness slowing? Are we seeing levels that current infrastructure cannot generate more reach? - Vince Green
had to happen - MikeAmundsen
people become miserable and jobless in their minds prior to getting the same in their lives...life is not all goodies, smiles and high salaries... it is ups and downs...rises and falls...afterall decline in ecommerce spending does not herald the end of the world... - Hayk
Zee.
Google Layoffs in the Thousands with More to Come This Week - http://thenextweb.com/2008...
Google Layoffs in the Thousands with More to Come This Week
reshare via Zee King Dingaling Kane http://www.friendfeed.com/zee - Zee.
King of the Dingalings. - Andrew Trinh
this has got 3000+ views already mainly via the front page of news.ycombinator.com . Crazy. - Zee.
this is really too bad when a successful company like this has to make as many cuts as they have. just a sign of what's happening to a lot of other folks. sad - Cee Bee
Now you know that things are really bad when a company like Google is laying off this many people. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Kol Tregaskes
US 2008 Election: Results listed by average IQ
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No comment. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
That might be obvious but people with a lower IQ are also citizens of the democracy. This indicates to me that people with a lower IQ are simply concerned with different issues than those with higher IQs. It doesn't mean their vote is any less important. - ·[▪_▪]·
I'd argue that it's because weaker minds (read: those who don't have critical thinking skills) are more easily swayed. - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
"Stronger" minds are easily influenced too. You just don't appeal to their beliefs but to their ego. - ·[▪_▪]·
Indeed, the smart comment is no comment :) - Mike Reynolds
That's what I thought, Mike. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Leave it to the smarter people in the country who can think for themselves to vote for the right person. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Stupid! If this were median IQ one might draw a statistically significant correlation between IQ and vote cast. Makes me wonder about the IQ of those that pass this stuff along. - Ryan Petty
this is the same thing from 2004, they just changed the names, it's still silly. - Anika
this is due to all the in-breeding - The Real sofarsoShawn
Republicans used to be the party of the upper class, but money = intelligence so we can no longer give Republicans the upper class. Certainly the lower and middle classes belong to Democrats. So what does that leave Republicans? Oh, okay, still no comment :) - Mike Reynolds
Are they actually trying to say that the average IQ of most of the states is BELOW average? I wonder what percentage of people actually get IQ tests, anyway. My theory is it happens when people are looking for problems, like for those with learning disabilities or who are suspected of having ADHD. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted
IQ is a broken metric anyway. x: - Daniel Bruce
Do you really think this helps your cause? In all actuality, it makes you look like a complete fool. "IQ and the wealth of nations" contains no IQ information for the US States. When you do find "average IQ" numbers for US states, they aren't anything like the numbers in this chart. You are makeing a good case for a negative correlation between IQ and the electrion results when you and others push these fraudulent charts. - John Rubier from twhirl
Potentially a more honest assessment of IQ by State: http://www.vdare.com/Sailer... - AJ Kohn
Thanks for the article @msblog. I quote: "And so, politically, the G.O.P. is squeezed at both ends. The party is losing the working class by sins of omission — because it has not developed policies to address economic anxiety. It has lost the educated class by sins of commission — by telling members of that class to go away." - Mike Reynolds
this is from before the election btw - mjc
@Bjorn I can understand feeling the notion of the IQ test and score might be contentious for theoretical reasons, but why racist? And why a myth? I mean, IQ tests exist, people exist, smart people and dumb people exist, and often there is a strong correlation between smart people and high IQs, dumb people and low IQs...which part is mythical? - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
But then Obama got elected by people who had the cultural bias in IQ tests the other way. - liju
My Sunday morning comment: "still no comment" - Mike Reynolds
You people fall for this again and again. More about this silly hoax: http://www.snopes.com/politic... - Gus
Wow, New Mexico is that high? Must be that Albuquerque is pulling the state upwards. :D - Steven Perez
Hey, if Connecticut is so smart, then how do they explain Lieberman? Just wondering. - Steven Perez
Gus: So is Sailer's data bad also? - Mitchell Tsai
So what IQ were the third party voters? :P - Morton Fox
TheHenry
Procurement Leaders
Kol Tregaskes
30 FireFox Add Ons to do just about anything | TechCityInc - http://techcityinc.com/2008...
30 FireFox Add Ons to do just about anything | TechCityInc
"Firefox is one browser that offers you thousands of extensions and add-ons to get the job done without wasting any time. I’ve compiled a list of best 30 Firefox add ons that will help you do just about anything. On the top of my head and my personal favorite" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet
Erin @queenofspain
The lead at the Obama hq by my mom just called and thanked her. She's in tears on the phone with me. Turns out she did over 1000 doors
Good for her. Everyone is very thankful that people like your mom put in the hard work and happy that it paid off. - Will Higgins™
Your mom is teh awesome. - Cyndy
I just cried with her for a good long while. I'm so so so proud of her. - Erin @queenofspain
Erin, please give her my sincerest Thank You! (A hug and a smooch too please). - Carlos Ayala
Tell your mom my wife and I thank her too! She's just awesome! - dbcohen
Moms rule. My mom phone banked everyday for months. I'm in awe of her and so grateful for the work she did. I also want Florida for your mom - she deserves it :) - Maria Niles
your mom did more work than me, I just pissed off relatives and such. congrats. - David Lynch
Steve Rubel
McCain-Obama tie possible, Reuters says http://news.yahoo.com/s...
At this point there are too many swing states leaning in Obama's direction to make this a reality, but it is kinda scary to think that yet another election will wind up in this conservative court. - JCunwired
FiveThirtyEight.com predicts a tie would go to Obama/Biden - http://snipr.com/43l0z - Mike Reynolds
MG Siegler
BitRaider launches digital distribution technology for games » VentureBeat - http://venturebeat.com/2008...
BitRaider launches digital distribution technology for games » VentureBeat
"BitRaider is launching a new way to download games today at the the Austin Game Developer Conference. The Jacksonville, Fla.-based company has a smart streaming technology that allows players to start playing a game when only 10 percent of the download is complete. The player can continue to play without being concerned about whether the game play will be messed up by the download in progress." - MG Siegler from Bookmarklet
Mark Trapp
Genius is pretty neat. Like Pandora, except you know, not illegal.
Will it stream new music to me to listen to for free? If I can't be introduced to new music and actually listen to it before I have to make a purchase, then it's not like Pandora. - Jason Carreira
the Genius is still looking through my library - seems like he is smart, but not very fast :) - Frederic
How is Pandora illegal? - Justin Korn
Jason, I don't really care all that much about new music discovery. I like the ability to build a station off of one song and listen to it. To that end, Genius is great. Genius does recommend a series of songs you can go and purchase based on a single song, and of course you can play the samples of those songs like you can in the iTunes Store. There is no such thing as a free lunch. - Mark Trapp
Frederic, once it does the initial build, it's instantaneous. - Mark Trapp
Justin, ask the RIAA. - Mark Trapp
Are they on FriendFeed? :) - Justin Korn
Pandora is paying royalties on every song played. How is that illegal? - Mike Doeff
Since everyone wants to be a pedant, let me rephrase: "it's like a non-crappy Pandora where I can use it outside the US, rewind, skip more than 6 songs, go back, and play music on-demand, except you know, not limited to federally and contractually imposed regulations." - Mark Trapp
Justin, I was thinking about that, that is, what would it take for Apple to provide web services for its products: the only way I could see it is if in the future rapid application development was a consumer demand. Maybe if creating mash-ups becomes relatively mainstream (like Mozilla thinks they will with Ubiquity). Otherwise, there'd be no reason for Apple to incorporate web services into first party applications. - Mark Trapp
Yo, Pandora's not illegal. The law was changed and it's strangling them out of business. Pandora is good for the music industry... or would be if the music business was any good for itself. - Matthew Wayne Selznick from twhirl
This is quite strategic long term. The value proposition today is "rediscover your own music". But behind the scenes, Apple is harvesting mass amounts of consumption behavior, which is significantly more valuable than purchase behavior. Not just for content purchased from iTunes store, but anything else users manage with the iTunes app. Esentially they built the iLike sidebar into iTunes. The data will be used in many significant apps. - Amir Gharaat
Paul Buchheit
Science Proves Exotic Cars Turn Women On | Autopia from Wired.com - http://blog.wired.com/cars...
Science Proves Exotic Cars Turn Women On | Autopia from Wired.com
"David Moxon subjected 40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari, then measured the amount of testosterone in their saliva. He found everyone had higher levels of the stuff -- a measure of their arousal -- after hearing the revving exotics, but the amount the women had was off the charts. The econobox, however, left everyone colder than a January day in Nome. The study was commissioned by the ultra-exclusive British insurer Hiscox (we swear we're not making this up), which was curious to know how people respond to high-end luxury cars." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet
Well, I used to have a Plymouth Horizon with rusted out muffler, and I think your theory may be incorrect. - Paul Buchheit
like WMDS is Iraq... there are some things I don't need proof about. BTW Chomsky now says Iraq did have WMDS... and I'm like Gee Really? Do you think women like sports cars? - NoahDavidSimon
you need proof of this? ask Noam Chomsky and he will change his mind about women in sports cars in 5 years. Guaranteed. The official quote from Chomsky about WMDs in Iraq now is of course there were WMDs in Iraq, because we gave it to them and now we have 50% chance of a dirty bomb going off in the United States in the next 5 years. I still disagree with him... but it makes me want to... more... - NoahDavidSimon
Chomsky: "This is even sometimes discussed. You can find it in the strategic analysis literature. Take, say, the invasion of Iraq again. We're told that they didn't find weapons of mass destruction. Well, that's not exactly correct. They did find weapons of mass destruction, namely, the ones that had been sent to Saddam by the United States, Britain, and others through the 1980s. A lot... more... - NoahDavidSimon
sounds to me like the left has a BIG problem to deal with.... now about those sports cars... Gloria Steinem does it turn you on? I don't see much consistency coming from friendfeed these days. you hate Palin and think women get turned on more by sportscars... hmmm - NoahDavidSimon
Unpredictable research:) - Igor Poltavskiy
so we listen to Chomsky, Steinem, Roy and the rest of the numbnuts and we have Saddam with a bomb because we don't trust our own pentagon? I prefer to just say that women like sportscars http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/2008... - NoahDavidSimon
not this woman. i think those cars are tacky and that the guys driving them are severely overcompensating. but i'm basing that on friends who drove/drive such cars. - Anika
like I said. you want these people making policy decisions when they can't ever say the chick digs the car? - NoahDavidSimon
watching rap videos for truths is like using wikipedia as sole source for your doctoral thesis. - mjc
-a lot is made the frak up. - mjc
oh boy I can't wait to put these Gloria Steinems into power so they can say the pretty lady doesn't dig the car and there were no WMDS in Iraq... DUH! - NoahDavidSimon
I be darned. Maybe they should repeat the experiment with, say, DSLRs? Custom built PCs with blinking LEDs? Anyone? - Yuvi
Exotic women sells cars. Would love to know how many clicked on that photo :) - Charlie Anzman
anything coo and stylish, Yuvi, preferably from our everyday abode, might turn women on :) a coolish looking lighter might as well ;) - Hayk
@Hayk - is that from personal experience? :P I'll start working on the LEDs right away! - Yuvi
hell, yeah, very long sequence for trending - 40 measurements from N billions of human population on Earth... Very scientific :-/ - A. T.
There is an interesting site where beautiful models showcase cool gadgets - needless to say models sometimes have scarce dresses but always conspiciously show their gadgets http://gadgetmodels.i4u.com/ .Updated monthly :) - Hayk
what astounds me is that there is a debate here. the chick *likes* guys with cars and there *were* WMDs in Iraq. and there *are* ELITIST blue state snobs on friendfeed who block if you disagree - NoahDavidSimon
Somehow I think it arouses 40+ men more (as I said here: http://friendfeed.com/e... ) - Michael W. May
Yuvi, not really :) It is more knowing the underlying psycho-biological process of partner selection :) Females as well as males look for competitive advantages in the other gender. Research proved that females dig more into guys who dance well - the same line of htought - because not many males dance well and those who dance well convey a message of good physical state, coordination, open-mindedness,etc. - messages picked up by females. - Hayk
+1 Christopher! LOL - Nine
yeah that Bill Gates sure can dance... WTF? - NoahDavidSimon
Michael Jackson could dance and on the darwinian level he ended up ok? right? ... no wrong! next theory - NoahDavidSimon
liked for pic of cute model. - Phil Glockner
Dunno what the car is, but the model is hot! :D - Ron
Noah, dancing is not the exclusive determinator. IT is only one of many :) In politics and show business - the examples you tampered - I have to say it doesnt much work, as you said:) the reason being that it is either not visible or relevant to what they do (like in politics) or everyone is/becomes good at it (like in show business)! In both cases advantage ceases to be a relevant advantage. - Hayk
my sister is a professional ballerina. She is in the Joffrey. The general behavior of most in the ballet world is one of deciet and sexual disfunction. from wife beaters to cheats... to drug problems. It is not a positive trait for women to see in a man. you are right that there are many variables. Certainly Barishnokov does well... but he does well because he is powerful and he did not do as well with the ladies when he was younger... despite what his bravado might say - NoahDavidSimon
on the other hand men do like to see Salome dance and will cut off John's head for it. Dance is confusing. At first it might seem like Michael Jackson is "The King of POP"... but that sexual tension is not there for Bill Gates. I'll take the car over dance skills. Thanks, but no thanks. As Freud said. "Let us call a spade a spade" - NoahDavidSimon
"Drive fast, speed turns me on." - Will Smith, Parents Just Don't Understand - Hutch Carpenter
CHICKS DIG THE CAR! no science can prove that. no feminist will ever convince me otherwise. - NoahDavidSimon
Noah David Simon - what the f*ck are you going on about? Perhaps people block you because you can't even stay on your OWN offtopic topic :P - Mila (Jake Stetser)
Jake: I thank the block gods that I don't even know what the pants you are talking about. :-D - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
+1 Lisa. Cute expression "What the pants" - Yuvi
Yuvi: Thanks. I made it up. And I'm proud of it. :-D - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
I'm totally stealing "What the pants" Lisa = awesome - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
That's just great isn't it? - vimoh
Wha? Harvey's stealing my pants? Ooooh. Just the phrase. Phew. Abbreviation: WTP. Just sayin'. - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
Testosterone travels up to the saliva?! That, I did NOT know. - Santosh
That's Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster the lady is sitting in - there's no sound like an Italian exotic - when I visited the factory, they were using medical device tools to measure microscopic tolerances in the engine to make sure it would be up to par...I - Aydin Senkut
Me, I'm just going to keep on trying with small-displacement pre-smog exhaust notes: http://bringatrailer.com/2008... - Richard Chen
does my FIAT Multipla count? - Luigi Centenaro
Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
My first computer was a Commodore 64. I paid $1K for it, borrowed against my first year teacher salary. I was a computer teacher in K-8 school. - Charlene Kingston
That was my third commuter, but the one I miss the most was my amiga, so sad! - Michael Fidler from twhirl
So, apperently the Amiga might be coming back. I watched some of the other videos associated with this one , and their was a couple of commercials for it. Does anybody know anything about this? - Michael Fidler from twhirl
i bought a 2 inch thick book with code to type in. For the SID player editor. Took forever but was worth it. Loved SID music on quantum link. - Rodfather
OK, now I have to get mine out of the basement and fire it up... I think I still have my Jumpman cartridge... loved that game. Wonder if it still works? - Kevin C. Tofel
the amiga is in eternal "return" mode, only that it cant find any hardware to run on... - turn.self.off from twhirl
I skipped the 64 and went straight from Vic 20 to Amiga. (via an Amstrad all-in-one) - Steve 'Chippy' Paine
I got an Amiga 3000 collecting dust in the closet right behind me, I thin warek I still have all my software. I could of sold it, but it has sentimental value. I'm serious. - Michael Fidler from twhirl
ah our first computer in '83. - Anika
I started on a DEC PDP-10 at my High School, but my first "PC" was a TRS-80 Color Computer. I went from there to the Amiga 1000 (I still have one of those) and the off to various PC compatibles. - Soulhuntre from twhirl
I had both a Commodore 64 and an IBM PC. I could do more with the PC. In all honesty I think the Apple IIs were the best machines. I used them in school and they were great - NoahDavidSimon
Heh -- another PDP-10 user ( I am older -- I was a user in my first job) - have you seen this site http://www.pdpplanet.com/ ? -- over the web access to PDP-10 courtesy Paul Allen - Brian Sullivan
My love for the C-64 is almost outshadowed by how lame this commercial was... heh - Michael W. May
Coleco ADAM, baby! Although the first computer I ever USED was a TI99-4A - Nine
oh I wanted an ADAM so bad. how was it? I had a Colegovision - NoahDavidSimon
I used that computer for years and years, man. I loved it. It was really easy to rebuild, too. Swapped the printer-based power supply for a different sort of external power source, added tape drives and disk drives and a 80-column card... loved it. - Nine
awesome. I wanted it badly. it did look good - NoahDavidSimon
I got the C64 a few years after getting a Vic-20. Ah, memories! - Mike Reynolds
Sourcing Excellence
Mike Arenth of Ariba talks green sourcing success - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Steve Rubel
WORKPLACE TREND OF THE FUTURE VI: Four-Day Work Weeks Become New Corporate Standard! - http://challengeratworkblog.blogspot.com/2008...
Steve Rubel
What I've been doing while I've not been posting - http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008...
Gerd Leonhard
From Dec 2007 but still very valid: "if humanity has a future, it will rest significantly on these companies and entrepreneurs' ability to create and globally distribute civilization-saving innovations." - Gerd Leonhard from Bookmarklet
Greed is never good. It is at the core of all of our problems in this country and most that we have caused around the world. To think that somehow greed will cause US corporations to heal the world's wounds is silly and naive. Greed did not solve our health care crises here, but rather created it. Greed has been available as a reason to clean up the planet yet no one has taken it on. - Brad Nickel
Axel
JO : TOUT LE SPORT - Les handballeurs français sont champions olympiques - http://www.lemonde.fr/jeux-ol...
JO : TOUT LE SPORT - Les handballeurs français sont champions olympiques
Ouriel Ohayon
notifying facebook of a huge wave of spam. they did not think it could happen and did not include a "spam" button in the message system
Axel
Le président du CIO tacle le double champion olympique Usain Bolt - http://www.lemonde.fr/jeux-ol...
Le président du CIO tacle le double champion olympique Usain Bolt
Louis Gray
KyleLacy.com » Blog Archive » Why have I been neglecting Friendfeed!? - http://kylelacy.com/why-hav...
Scott Beale
Apple releases new iPhone 2.1 beta as crackers break 2.0.1 - http://www.appleinsider.com/article...
Jemm
Nature's Conception - The Gates of Hell - http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/gates...
Nature's Conception - The Gates of Hell
Nature's Conception - The Gates of Hell
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WOOOOW! - Mona Nomura
Yeah....I second that "WOOOOOW"- thats amazing - David Adam
It would suck if you witnessed something like that live and didn't have a camera... - Jemm
Great Photos :D - JCB
Nice! - Mitchell Tsai
Wonderful photos - Svein Håvard Djupvik
Looks great. - Daniel Schildt
Reason to bring camera everywhere where you go. - Daniel Schildt
Scary but beautiful. - LouCypher
Simply awesome. - Andrew Trinh
Amazing! - Dylan McIntosh
FTW! - dave mcclure
WIcked!! - Mike Fruchter
Those pictrures looks fantastic! - Neya
I'd rather experience these phenomena from a distance. - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Crazy pics yet amazing! - ChaCha Fance
Amazing photos. The wall clouds look right out of Independence Day. Where's Will Smith when you need him? - Jared Smith
The omnious storm clouds...with mother nature relentlessly releasing her mighty powers. :) - imabonehead
Wow! - kamla bhatt
Andrew Hawks
New images point at Atom-based ASUS Eee PC 900A - http://www.andyhawks.com/engadge...
Ouriel Ohayon
Loic Le Meur
Reading about the Toyota "Segway killer" but I still want a segway http://is.gd/1dab
segway looks cooler - Timo Heuer
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