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"Startup Delayer is designed to do what its name implies: It lets you set delays for the various applications you load when you boot your computer, so that they don’t attempt to load all at once, slowing you down. If you load a lot of software all the time, as I do, and if you load a fair number of applications upon bootup, Startup Delayer will deliver its maximum benefit." - Ray Metzen via Bookmarklet

On my TechNews list, for instance, it shows only people who are on that list and THEIR most favorite items. This is freaking awesome and another HUGE reason to use lists and rooms. - Robert Scoble

Thanks for info - Alex Hammer

http://changelog.friendfeed.co... is useful for seeing what is happening in the system regards to changes. Not much new info at the moment, but will be after release. - Daniel Schildt

I share this just to note that Louis Gray and Joe have already shared this item and it's only a few minutes old. Glad to know Louis is not sleeping at 2 a.m. too and that he's as fast as ever. Isn't Google Reader cool? You can see who is sharing your items if they are your friend in Google Talk. By the way, my Google Talk email address is scobleizer@gmail.com -- feel free to add me as a friend in Google Reader and share your Google Reader Shared Items feed with me. Thanks! - Robert Scoble

robert, we need to talk! this is exactly where our current products at ClearContext are focused, and the products we're working on now extend on them to address some specific problems around email companies are asking us to deal with that go beyond just helping individuals be more productive. - Deva Hazarika

Deva: we will talk soon. - Robert Scoble

"Brooks praised Palin's natural political talent, but said she is "absolutely not" ready to be president or vice president. He explained, "The more I follow politicians, the more I think experience matters, the ability to have a template of things in your mind that you can refer to on the spot, because believe me, once in office there's no time to think or make decisions."" - Russellreno via Bookmarklet

republican anti-intellectualism has been a fairly constant them for brooks for at least the last 6 months. he is far less partisan than mark shields, with whom he appears on newshour, and i find myself respecting him more and more for it - rob zand

I like this quote he makes about Obama: A couple of years ago, I was writing columns attacking the Republican congress for spending too much money. And I throw in a few sentences attacking the Democrats to make myself feel better. And one morning I get an email from Obama saying, 'David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but you're only throwing in those sentences to make yourself feel better.' And it was a perfect description of what was going through my mind. And everybody who knows Obama all have these stories to tell about his capacity for social perception. - Clay Newton

Search Analytics Conversations with your Customers Title In Progress A book in progress by Louis Rosenfeld & Marko Hurst. Publisher: Rosenfeld Media. Anticipated publication date: 2009 Any organization that has a searchable web site or intranet is sitting on top of hugely valuable and usually under-exploited data: logs that capture what users are searching for, how often each query was searched, and how many results each query retrieved. Search queries are gold: they are real data that show us exactly what users are searching for in their own words. This book shows you how to use search analytics to carry on a conversation with your customers: listen to and understand their needs, and improve your content, navigation and search performance to meet those needs. - jumpinroo

"“The clear exception to this pattern is the United States, which is a much more religious country than its degree of prosperity would suggest. Despite its wealth, the United States is in the middle of the global pack when it comes to the importance of religion. Indeed, on this question, the U.S. is closer to considerably less developed nations such as India, Brazil and Lebanon than to other western nations.”" - Christopher Sacca via Bookmarklet

WRT Indonesia vs Poland, as I mentioned you need to look at absolute average income or purchasing power, too. Indonesia is a much poorer country. I do agree that there are problems with the income inequality argument, though. I disagree that there is a major methodological problem, though. Look at the "How often do you pray" question - there's a good correlation between that and the importance of religion answers. - Nick Lothian

Ah, my mistake. Still...how do you account for the Germany outlier? And with "how often do you pray" and religiousness questions...did they even ask them in China (maybe they couldn't)? I think, for your hypothesis, what you need is time series data -- i.e. annual data Eastern Bloc countries as they become more affluent or Japan between the 80s boom and late 90s lows. Then you'll see how wealth/distribution might interact with religion. But the study in question was not really concerned with that topic... - Chester

I put this together from the entire transcript. It does not include the introduction and is made up of both Obama and McCain and includes Lehrer's questions. - Carlos Ayala

very cool - Jason Calacanis

Afghanistan more important than Iraq now, shows shift in policy. - imran

This spartan gap-less mp3+ogg player takes minimum resources (You'll need to work real hard to make it stutter). It runs on almost any os (even vista, if you have cygwin :p ). It doesn't give you all the stuff itunes-clones do (I find this a blessing), but once you get the hang of it, it's a killer at parties. - The Dod via Bookmarklet

so true. - genieyclo

#Apple got this wrong with 1st gen. iPhones as well, I've gone through 2 replacements due to USB port on plug being too fragile. - Derek Lerner

"Thanks to Hunter Engineering, budding hypermilers can practice their skills with an iPhone App. For less than the cost of three gallons of gas, the greenMeter app uses the iPhone's built-in accelerometer to help drivers learn just how much their leadfooted ways are costing them in carbon emissions and fuel economy." - Mike Fruchter

"Ladies know a sure thing when they see it, and there's no doubt they have their choice of these two guys to take home tonight. Mr. Plaid will probably gently cuddle you afterwards, but he'll be super awkward when you run into him again 2 months later." - Russellreno via Bookmarklet

lol - Cee Bee

The funniest part was when the guy on the left found this photo and commented on it. - Matt Musgrave

this is amazing and is going to help propel the adoption of video as it gains even more relevance as searchable content. - Morgan

I've just tried this now, but it seems the word "health" for example shows up a little after the yellow point so it's not quite accurate. Or maybe the yellow point is showing the phrase where "health" is found. Next thing is image indexing in video. - Alvin

Rob- another step towards your Genre database ? - pazzer1

Faux pas Apple. You suck. - Chris Messina via Mento

AHHH I just want over the air podcast! Is this too much to ask?! - James Tenniswood

this is why closed systems suck! - Rahul Das

i always read "Gillmor Gang" as "Gilmore Girls" at first, and think "Loreli? Rory? You've come back?!?" - Trent Olson via twhirl

"MG Siegler over at VentureBeat saw our post yesterday about Twitter activity surrounding Governor Palin's acceptance speech and asked if we could share more along those lines." - MG Siegler via Bookmarklet

Shameless self promotional share :) - MG Siegler

Shameless like - Dan Kaplan

"Brian Rakowski walks to the whiteboard in a small conference room in Building 41 on Google's Mountain View campus. A lanky, gregarious man in his twenties, Rakowski is the product manager of a top-secret project that's been under way for more than two years." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

Nice to see Wired putting out a great article in a timely manner for a change - rather than spend page upon page talking about minor internet celebs and how they gatecrashed gawker media parties to build their fame. - Jonathan Beckett

Jim, tracemonkey should still be faster. Paul friendfeeded an article comparing them. I should say that tracemonkey will still be faster eventually, unless V8 adds hotspot-like tracing as well, in which case, my money would ride on V8, since Google probably has half of the hotspot team :) - Sanjeev Singh

hahaha! - Anna Haro

Vote McCain/Tina Fey in 08 - hunter walk via Bookmarklet

@Kevin nice one! - Peter "that one" Ghosh

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. - peter

And what an awesome gift it is. - Mo Kargas

Yes It's Enso. Mozilla Fondation hire the Enso team earlier this year to embed their products into FF - Francois "Shoob" Lamotte

It woukd be awesome for them to integrate the Powershell engine with this kind of thing. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

"Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel." - Dave Hussein Winer via Bookmarklet

Falsely accusing someone of trespassing on taxpayer property, endangering the life of a citizen he's likely sworn to protect (then blaming the blocked traffic on his punching bag), then threatening someone with bodily harm. The cueball and his cronies should be "busted" to mall security guard jobs. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger

I hope the cops are that vigilant tomorrow. - jeneane hussein sessum

via: http://gothamist.com/2008/08/2... - Mona N. via Bookmarklet

so much awesome! - Geoff K

the mudflap tammy (top,right) is at 44th and broadway. (it's my pic - wild to come across it in the stream) i love these. the car, (top, left) is at 9th and 39th on the west side of the street. there was a nytimes article - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08... - and here's the cityracks link: http://nycityracks.wordpress.c... - rob zand