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T. Boone Pickens wants your water

Monday at 9:27 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Then he turned this parcel into a town, basically, with only two eligible voters — both of whom were his employees. Then there was an election in this district, in which both voters voted to make this 8-acre municipality a special fresh-water district. Pickens’ wholly owned government entity now can issue tax-free bonds (meaning he can borrow at a serious discount) and use the power of eminent domain to pressure landowners to sell — or to take their land if they hold out. The eminent domain power is key to building the pipeline that will run this water down to the Dallas area, where Pickens hopes to sell the water. If your land lies in the path of his proposed pipeline, you got a letter explaining that T. Boone wants to buy a stretch of your land — and explaining that he can use eminent domain if you resist." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Very clever. - Paul Buchheit

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I knew the guy was up to something. - Stephan Miller via Alert Thingy

Wow, glad you linked this article as T. Boone is advertising vehemently in Austin, I wondered why. Now i know. - Globecode

I was very disappointed to read that even The Sierra Club is getting duped. I just read John Stossel's "Give me a break" this weekend, and it included quite a few such examples, where seemingly well-meaning rules end up benefiting the rich. If instead of giving government incentives to go green, I think it would be getter to have a simple carbon tax. It would be much harder to find loopholes, and it would address consumption as well as alternative energies. - Robert Felty

I'ma Green, and am supposed to be in T. Boone's thrall -- what, with his grandiose "Pickens Plan" for windpower and all. But I don't trust him. He's an oil baron looking to corner the markets of the 21st century. Beware. - Chris Baskind

Um, I thought Pickens' plan was to switch electricity generation to wind power in order to free up natural gas for cars. It's better than coal or oil, but it hardly counts as green. - Jim Norris

Steve Rubel favorited a video on YouTube

Tiger Woods 09 - Walk on Water

August 20 at 4:49 pm - Link

Aman, Bryan Power, Jeff Beckham, Michael Bekiaris and 18 other people liked this

Chris Angel? - AJ Batac

Oh, that's brilliant :) - Veronica

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WHAT THE EF! WHAT THE EF! WHAT THE EF! - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

Blogged it here http://www.micropersuasion.com... - Steve Rubel

Well if he weighs the same as a duck, he is clearly a witch... - John Worthington

excellent - anna

fake. Tiger never hits it in the water :) - Andrew Smith

He didn't actually hit it in the water. It was on a lily pad, hit there intentionally. He's that good :P - ·[•_•]·

Emily posted a message on Twitter

“still smell like wet dog. 15k ppl, pouring rain, mud, no rain protection on person or at venue. all to see radiohead in vancouver.”

August 20 at 8:46 am - Link

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Kevin Fox posted a link

I'm not sure 'MyBO' is the best branding idea to come out of the campaign

August 19 at 3:38 pm - Link

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Yes, I WTFed when I saw it first, too. - Tudor Bosman

Hmm. Their other "My" choices are MyBHO, MyB, MyO, MyObama, MyBarack, My'bama, but what I'd go with if it were me is.... M'Obama - Stephen Mack

Stephen I think they could have done well on the internet using "My O" and that YouTube Obama Girl. - Steve Craft

Wow, how did that pass the number of people it had to pass to become live? That's like MyHO for Home Office hah. - Andy Ciordia via twhirl

Todd Jackson posted a link

Power Readers in Politics

August 18 at 12:45 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Dustin, Bryan Power, Michael Leggett and Shannon Bauman liked this

Cool new thing from Google Reader. Lets you subscribe to Obama/McCain's shared items... - Todd Jackson via Bookmarklet

Tom Stocky posted a message on Twitter

“on the east coast, did the obligatory Dunkin Donuts run. Took a sec to figure out that "medium" meant grande.”

August 15 at 7:41 am - Link

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Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“You can't really appreciate the vapidity of most people's taste in music until you live directly above a traffic signal.”

August 14 at 10:04 pm - Link

Crystal English, Serena, Atul Arora, Bryan Power and 3 other people liked this

"This should be played at high volume, preferably in a residential area." - Chris White

I'd suggest you make a recording of it, but, you know, it will suck. - j1m

I would hope that at least *one* dude gains your favor by blasting some DJ Mark Farina. - Chester

Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“It's very cool to see Google Engineering EVP @jhuber using Twitter to talk directly and candidly to Gmail users.”

August 11 at 7:04 pm - Link

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David favorited a video on YouTube

Nike Basketball Commercial

August 11 at 10:02 am - Link

Sacca and Bryan Power liked this

marvin Gaye singing national anthem in 1982 all star game right before he was assassinated. Best rendition ever. Great commercial - David

Christian posted a link

'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution - MIT News Office

August 4 at 8:44 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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romerotron3000 posted a message on Twitter

“I vote to reduce oil consumption by significantly upping the bar to get a license”

July 31 at 7:23 pm - Link

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Jim Norris posted a link

Frustration - xkcd

August 1 at 10:49 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Lora Lufark, Daniel Dulitz, Eric Berlin, Karen Padham Taylor and 26 other people liked this

So, FF should pull the TITLE attribute when sharing an image. - Tudor Bosman

Where can i buy one of these? - Erica Baker

Frustration is after u done with the cube, u find the buckle is actually in front side. - Baron Mok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Jason Brooks

Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“I start to feel really old when seemingly half of my friends' Facebook profile photos are actually of their kids.”

July 26 at 8:38 am - Link

Crystal English, Bryan Power and Stupid Blogger (aka Tina) liked this

My roommate from high school is about to have her fourth. Gah! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“This cab driver has driven six nights a week for 17 years. I will remember that next time I think my work is tough sometimes.”

July 23 at 6:59 pm - Link

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Charles Hudson shared an item on Google Reader

GE sold out of wind turbines till 2010

July 22 at 1:30 pm - Link

Bryan Power, Mo Kargas, David Lynch, Jeff Woelker and 7 other people liked this

That's okay, PacWind has some cool turbines you can get. http://www.pacwind.net/product... - Jim McCusker

Bradley Horowitz posted a message on Twitter

“Radiohead, CC, Google: http://bit.ly/1s6vBW Congrats to Aaron Koblin. Your work does justice to the song.”

July 14 at 11:31 am - Link

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Christian posted a message on Twitter

“First Bear Stearns now Freddie & Fannie. Anyone who thinks we live in a free market is deluded. At least Scandinavians are honest about it.”

July 13 at 10:46 pm - Link

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Planned Guns N’ Roses Deal Underscores Power of Video Games to Sell Songs Online - NYTimes.com

July 14 at 4:50 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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A decade and a half after releasing its previous album, Guns N’ Roses plans to put out a new song in September — on the video game Rock Band 2. - hunter walk via Bookmarklet

I'm torn... I look forward to playing it, but there's an excellent chance I won't be able to sing a note of it. - Roger Benningfield

Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

This looks AWESOME. The new miniseries about the Iraq war from the creators of The Wire. Starts this weekend.

July 11 at 1:28 pm - Link

Evan Brown, Bernhard Bauer, James Holloway, Josh Staiger and 17 other people liked this

Damnit. This is why I need my Comcast DVR to support remote programming. I'm not home till Weds, yet I would like to record this on my DVR. FAIL. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Might be worth signing back to HBO for as long as this isn't another Hollywoodized ridiculous progressive cryfest. - Akiva Moskovitz

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will this be better then "over there"? - krz9000

Off-topic: Anyone else notice McNulty was the bad guy in '300?' - Brian White

finally something to fix my wire fix now that it's over - Charles Hudson

@Brian: This should be available On Demand on your Comcast. They usually put up the new episodes fairly quickly. - Niranjan Tulpule

Brian, Slingbox works well for this. - Chris White

Bret Taylor posted a link

An Imminent Victory for Net Neutrality Advocates - New York Times Blog

July 11 at 9:09 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

siavash, Mark Stahl, Michael Carter, Abby Martin and 9 other people liked this

"The Associated Press reported late Thursday that the F.C.C.’s chairman, Kevin J. Martin, has concluded that Comcast improperly blocked some file transfers. Mr. Martin told the A.P. he would recommend that the commission punish Comcast, and order it to stop the blocking, tell the commission how and how often it blocked file transfers and disclose to consumers its future plans for managing its network. Such an action would be the first time that regulators have slapped an Internet provider for violating F.C.C. open-access rules. Those rules are designed to prevent providers from favoring some services over others — for example, by accelerating the transfer of video from their own movie service or slowing down transfers from competitors." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

Charles Hudson posted a link

Private Equity HUB - Are Prestigious Educations Killing Venture Capital?

July 10 at 12:53 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

JonathanJoseph and Bryan Power liked this

The "ouch" quote comes early on:"Students who get into elite schools are precisely the ones who have best learned to work within the system, so it’s almost impossible for them to see outside it, to see that it’s even there. Long before they got to college, they turned themselves into world-class hoop-jumpers and teacher-pleasers, getting A’s in every class no matter how boring they found the teacher or how pointless the subject, racking up eight or 10 extracurricular activities no matter what else they wanted to do with their time." - Charles Hudson via Bookmarklet

Interesting article: "I also never learned that there are smart people who aren’t “smart.” The existence of multiple forms of intelligence has become a commonplace, but however much elite universities like to sprinkle their incoming classes with a few actors or violinists, they select for and develop one form of intelligence: the analytic. While this is broadly true of all universities, elite schools, precisely because their students (and faculty, and administrators) possess this one form of intelligence to such a high degree, are more apt to ignore the value of others. One naturally prizes what one most possesses and what most makes for one’s advantages. But social intelligence and emotional intelligence and creative ability, to name just three other forms, are not distributed preferentially among the educational elite. The “best” are the brightest only in one narrow sense. One needs to wander away from the educational elite to begin to discover this. - Bryan Power

Bret Taylor posted a message

“Bob: "Why does the singularity scare you so much?" Ana: "Because I had never heard of it before lunch, and now it seems imminent."”

July 7 at 1:54 pm - Link

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We have fun lunchtime conversations here at the FriendFeed headquarters :) (for those of you who haven't heard the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...) - Bret Taylor

Haha nice. It seems pretty inevitable, which is both exciting and scary :/ - Dion Almaer

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There's a lot of misinformation about what "singulatarians" actually believe. Not everyone agrees with Ray Kurzweil's notions that he'll live long enough to upload his consciousness. The best resource I've found is Michael Annissmov's Accelerating Future blog: http://www.acceleratingfuture.... - Dan Kaplan

I'm all for it, only I say let Kurzweil go first when comes to the first downloading of brain contents. That way if something is missing, we'll know pretty quick ;-) - Dean Terry

Interesting, we were just talking about this last night: http://friendfeed.com/e/b3ce29... Doing a quick search, looks like singularity is on the brain of Friendfeed lately. Ooooooeeeeeoooo. - Mark Trapp

As long as more and more people spend all their time on FriendFeed, there won't be too much AI technology being developed. :) - Chris White

i think its at least a few years off, so you can relax, plenty of time for you to get used to it before it happens :P - bob

It's just amazing that I haven't seen any of the movies where this happens (Terminator, iRobot, etc.). What else are people working on from within the FriendFeed headquarters that can kill me? :) - Ana

I'm not convinced. still disconcerting as hell though. - Marco

ana, i think someone is working on doomsday devices over in the furniture graveyard :P - bob

Here's the essay that introduced the singularity concept - http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vin.... Fantastic read. - Michael Nielsen

I took Computer Ethics at SDSU (where Vinge taught) and one of our assignments was to compare Vinge's singularity essay to Ted Kaczynski's "Unabomber Manifesto." The similarities are rather striking. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but it is extremely fascinating the differing approach people take to similar topics. - Brooks Bishop

to counterbalance computers that are super smart, we need humans who are freakishly strong. - eviltom

I always thought the first sign of the singularity was twitter. sigh - Elad

@Brooks Bishop see also Bill Joy's wired essay: http://www.wired.com/wired/arc... - Nick Lothian

Thanks for posting that link to Vinge's essay, Michael. You're right - a mind-boggling read on a fascinating subject that hadn't really crossed my radar until reading this terrific thread. Makes me appreciate FF all the more for putting it in front of me. Could its increasing popularity be another of the early signs indicating the onset of the Singularity? I think we should be told. - Bob Kingsley

movies are pretty bad at showing the future; they tend to show things that *look* cool - Amit Patel

@nick: Thanks for that wired link. Thanks to all for discussing this topic - very interesting. - nadim

Since there seems to be interest, most of the best reading on this is SciFi. Vinge's "Rainbow End" and Stross's "Accelerando" are probably the best "What happens when (if) the Singularity happens" books. (Interesting to note that Vinge is an ex CompSci professor and Stross is an ex-perl hacker). If you want to get scared by the singularity read "A Fire Upon the Deep", though. - Nick Lothian

@Nick: thanks for the link to the Bill Joy essay. Another fascinating, absorbing read. - Bob Kingsley

Ana, you should keep your eyes out for human sized bugs, among other things. - Clare Dibble

I'm a singularity skeptic - increasing compute power doesn't solve basic problems like global warming. - Piaw Na

Will the Singularity happen? Never say never, although I am a skeptic. I do think most Singularitarians completely underestimate the complexity of human biology and by orders of magnitude - Deepak

That's actually a pretty common response. Interesting side: I knew my wife was a keeper when she instantly took to the idea, not frightened or put off at all. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Deepak agreed, and there's also the matter of assuming that they've figured out and are right about basic metaphysical issues argued for centuries. As we've learned in recent years, certainty can be dangerous. Like I said above: Kurzweil goes first! - Dean Terry

I've said this before, I really like and agree with Kurzwiel but I have issues with the diet of 100s of pills a day (to make it to the singularity) and the very odd alter ego his future self becomes. I'm also troubled by the poor graphics on his site :) They really need some of that exponential love. - Doug Brooks

Kurtzweils accelerated returns theory is probably true and implies an upcoming singularity event. But the singularity is crucially dependent on the computing-biology interface and I agree with @Deepak and @Dean terry that biology is the limiting factor and that biomedicine is not in the steep part of the S-curve, - yet.......The singularity must come at some point however, and unlike @Amit Patel, I believe it will look extremely cool.... - SciPhu

This item quoting Kurzweil turned up on BBC News in February 2008: http://snipurl.com/2vfva - "Machines to match man by 2029". - Bob Kingsley

@Deepak etc I'm also a skeptic. There was a good podcast from ITConversations about some of the barriers to the singularity - I can't remember who it was by or even what conference it was from, though. - Nick Lothian

I'm not sure about an ITConversations podcast, but there's a 2004 Long Now talk from Bruce Sterling where he explains why he's skeptical: http://www.longnow.org/project... - Jen Dodd

@Piaw, it does if the Singularity decimates or destroys humans and our demand for housing, transportation, food, and other global warming activity. - John Lam

btw you should read the gentle seduction by seigler - arjun

Jess Lee posted a link

Deep V-Necks: Destroying America?

June 26 at 1:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Thomas Brox Røst, Nikpay, Min Liu, John Lam and 67 other people liked this

lol - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

haha. Douchebag neck.... - minus3

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I'm not really amused, but I am impressed that the writer was able to put nearly 1,500 words against this subject. - AJ Kohn

"As with many dubious fashion choices (see: leggings as pants), much of the blame can be placed on American Apparel." True. - Erica Baker

"At Urban Outfitters, there are eight different options for guys, including the "Super V," which boasts a 27-inch neckline from shoulder to hem. A 27-inch neckline." - David Vasileff

funny - Chad

I just forwarded this link to all my friends who own the douchbag neck shirts. - Patrick Li

I started only buttoning the last button on my shirts and calling them Super V's is that acceptable? - Marco

Okay, what happened to v-neck undershirts in boys' sizes? They're getting scarce. - Harvey Simmons

hehe - Joel Alenchery

I want a "Like" button for all these hilarious comments : ) - Jess Lee

that story is classic - I must admit I find the shirts repulsive and strangely hard not to look at the same time.. are you gay? - ben rogers via twhirl

Ugh, I physically shuddered the first time I saw one of those American Apparel ads. Was hoping that this trend was going to stay firmly ensconced in the fern bars of Three's Company on TVLand reruns. Some trends should *never* be resurrected. And to the men reading this: ixnay on any thought of the gold medallions. - Casey

Slow news day, although I agree "Women demand men look a certain way". Or else we cannot enter the fern bars of our choice. - Russellreno

"It's, like, another three inches and that's a vest, motherfucker." LOL - Jeanette Martinez

http://www.affiliatejunktion.c... - john

I have a douchebag shirt. I'm ashamed - Rob Schonberger

Hilarious... oops i own a couple of these too - Shaw

Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“Dear MSN Video, You really going to show me two pre-roll ads before letting me know the vid I want is unavailable? You deserve last place.”

June 26 at 10:34 am - Link

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niniane posted a link

kanYe West : Blog

June 25 at 11:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link