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Aydin Senkut posted a link

Office 2.0: VCs say the future looks good » VentureBeat

yesterday at 2:48 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Atul Arora liked this

Well, it's rarely in their interest to say it looks bad :) - Sacca

Sacca posted a link

Sarah Palin and Republican Hypocrisy

yesterday at 7:53 am - via Reshare - Link

Richard Chen, Nisha Pillai, Mike Boudreaux, brendan and 7 other people liked this

This clip is just. Too. Good. - Sacca

Which one is it? Can't see youtube at work... Is it the one where she calls Hillary a whiner for calling her critics sexist? - Jason Carreira

Jason - yes, as well as the Karl Rove duplicity, O'Reilly ripping on the Lohan's, etc. - Patrick Lightbody

Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“While we are on the subject of T-shirts, the brand new ones from Someecards are absurdly funny: http://www.bustedtees.com/some...”

Thursday at 4:56 pm - Link

Josh, James Todd, Ryan Kuder, MG Siegler and Bret Taylor liked this

I particularly like the color selections this time around. - Sacca

"I'm outdoorsy in that I like getting drunk on patios." - Clare Dibble

Chester posted a link

McCain and Fey 2004

Thursday at 4:45 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Josh, Erica Baker, Chris Wetherell, Crystal English and 5 other people liked this

Not a Photochop, but an actual _LIFE_ cover from September 2004. I think it's pretty obvious that Lorne Michaels has been running the country from the shadows all these years... (Via Waxy.org) - Chester via Bookmarklet

Wow. Really amazed I haven't seen this pop up anywhere before now. - Sacca

that is awesome. - MG Siegler

Sacca posted a link

5 Guys in a Limo (better audio)

Thursday at 9:58 am - via Reshare - Link

Laurence Gonsalves liked this

Anytime I have ever met a voiceover guy in person, my head has almost exploded. - Sacca

I really want to hang out and party with these guys. - Amir Gharaat

Matt Cutts posted an entry on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

Preventing paranoia: when does Google Chrome talk to Google.com?

Tuesday at 1:18 pm - Link

Casey, Fu_, Charlie Anzman, Svetlana Gladkova and 22 other people liked this

Matt, I think your commitment to being out front and transparent with users is awesome. You are a busy guy, but we on the outside appreciate you taking the time to address stuff in a clear way that doesn't reek of PR disinfectants. - Sacca

I think when Gmail was first introduced there was a simlar disclaimer-like line in terms mentioning that Google reserved itself a right to screen all emails to and fro the user registered with it. There were even an article or two crying foul on Gmail censorship. See how we all got used to it now and never even remember :) - Hayk Hakobyan

Thanks, Sacca. It's weird because I consciously don't want to be a Google fanboy, but Chrome just rocks so hard that it's difficult to stay neutral. It's just really exciting to share one of Google's greatest long-time secrets with the world today. - Matt Cutts

adblock or i dump it - Gregory Lent

j1m posted a link

Federal government involved in raids on protesters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Monday at 10:17 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

K Welch and Anna Haro liked this

"There seems to be little doubt that it was this domestic spying by the Federal Government that led to the excessive and truly despicable home assaults by the police yesterday." - j1m via Bookmarklet

Vehemently unlike. :-( - Ruchira S. Datta

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grrr - Jason Wehmhoener

Didn't the same stuff go on in Denver? I know on Bill Maher's show they showed the "free speech" zone in Denver that was out of sight and totally removed from the convention. - Tad - just Tad

it feels like our country is being taken away from us - Alan Cheslow

A reminder of the preparations for this: http://www.boingboing.net/2008... "FBI looking for vegan potluck terrorists". From May 21st. "[The informant] would be compensated for his efforts, but only if his involvement yielded an arrest." - Ruchira S. Datta

@Tad There is a huge difference between a designated area for protests to occur and preemptive raids on potential protesters in their homes. This is completely f'd up. I am outraged. - Sacca

Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“Hired a pirate town car at JFK. If the driver harvests my organs, I authorize AT&T to use location-based services to recover any remains.”

Monday at 8:13 pm - Link

Kaia ♥, Ruth Ferguson, Victor Ryden, John Worthington and Stupid Blogger (aka Tina) liked this

Arrrggghhh... and a fine rental she be too... - John Worthington

I seem to still have both my kidneys. Phew. - Sacca

RAPatton posted a link

Penélope Cruz: 'I don't fall in love when I'm working' - Telegraph

August 31 at 5:06 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Просто ai no kaze, Bren, Mahdi Ebrahimi, David Cook and 9 other people liked this

"Spanish-born star Penélope Cruz talks to John Hiscock about working with directors Woody Allen and Pedro Almodóvar - and her habit of becoming romantically involved with her leading men" - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

She actually say that? lol - Michael W. May

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Love that picture - Anna Haro

Loved this movie. - Sacca

@Anna, yeah - she looks beautiful in that photo - Zee at WeDoCreative

Except for the cancer stick dangling from her mouth. Nothing sexy about ash tray breath. - Brian Norwood

Photoshopped from this one? http://friendfeed.com/e/8c8073... - Josh Haley

she's smoking - Morgan

lol... Hiscock - Outsanity

:O...Outsanity!!!!! - Anna Haro

It's 1:22am. Blame the Affy Tapple - Outsanity

Sacca posted a link

Daily Kos: State of the Nation - Sarah Palin is not the Mother

August 31 at 9:11 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Chris White, Sean McBride, Nikhil Dandekar, Duncan Riley and 2 other people liked this

"Well, Sarah, I'm calling you a liar. And not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better." (Wow. I am curious to see how this plays out.) - Sacca via Bookmarklet

The most bizarre propaganda I've seen in a while. Seems like McCain really hit a nerve. - Sprague D

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I agree Sprague D, McCain definitely hit a nerve, - Rodzilla

Is this total bullshit? I realize Kos is liberal. But, I am curious whether he would risk his credibility on something this accusatory. Nevertheless, I am very open minded on this. Feel free to post articles refuting all this into this thread. - Sacca

The flight to Alaska from anywhere is not a pleasant one for someone who is not pregnant. Flying there while in labor? Nutty. If she did this, I seriously question her mental state. - Erica Baker

This reminds me of the speculation of the veracity of Britney Spears boobs back when she was 17-18. All based on photo evidence and anecdotal reports. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Some curious circumstantial evidence, but spreading this rumor as it stands today is as evil as the right wing's "Obama is a Muslim" smear campaign. - Ken Norton

@Erica, yes, this is definitely evidence of really stupid medical decisions. - Ken Norton

I'd give odds against it being true -- if this were a movie, that storyline would get booed as far too contrived -- but I can already imagine campaign rhetoric if it is true: "She told us during the vetting process, she wanted to protect her daughter, sanctity of life. caring mother with experience of the real world..." - Paul Haahr

Sarah Palin is a responsible adult, isn't she? All she needs to do is show her medical records, included the routine visits to her Obstetrician. If she can't or won't I'd expect it would be game over for her run. - tagami

wildly improbably... I cannot imagine that she would have gotten through the vetting process if it were true. Of course, that assumes the McCain vetting team actually did their job. - Rachel

Yeah, this seems so improbable as to not be worth more than a chuckle. I agree that those pictures don't look like pictures of a woman who's 6+ months pregnant, but this is a woman who is presumably seen in public several times every week. She'd have to be a pretty bad liar to have floated such a lie. If I had to guess, I'd say that the pictures provided in the story weren't even taken at the time the story claims they were. - j1m

@Sacca, also note that this story is not from kos himself -- anyone can sign up for an account on dailykos.com and write a 'diary', and this guy appears to be just anyone. For example, it's not listed on the front page as a recommended diary, which means people with accounts haven't been recommending it. I read a few of the comments from members of the community, and many of them are more negative than we are. So think of the article as having zero authority, as if it were on the guy's blog. Of course, he could still be right -- I'm sure the fine journalists at The National Enquirer are looking into it right now. If there's anything to it, they'll get back to us. - j1m

I agree that it feels like the liberal version of the Obama birth certificate story, but there's certainly some weird stuff there-- the daughter being out of school for eight months is suspicious, and the flying thing is really odd. I think that this stuff is pretty easy to clear up by having her release her medical records, which I think most candidates do anyway nowadays. - Josh

ridiculous. daily kos is such a lousy site. - Rob Kniaz

I ditto Rob Kniaz. - Kevin Porter via twhirl

I'd love to see Kos get hit with a libel suit. But besides, what if Sarah Palin were lying? What crime is she guilty of; trying to protect her 16 year old daughter? I'd find that admirable. - Dave Roth

@Dave Lying to your constituency to maintain the illusion of "wholesome family values" is not admirable, it is simply politically driven lying. - Erica Baker

Campaign has revealed that the daughter is pregnant: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI... - Ken Norton

Erin Kotecki Vest posted a message on Twitter

“@2ScrappyChix I think this toy my *accidentally* lose it's batteries very soon.”

August 31 at 7:58 am - Link

Ontario Emperor liked this

Doggie needs its 8am nap. Mommy needs her sanity. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

As a kid, I was given a fireman's hat with a built in light and siren. After a horribly annoying couple of days, not only did my hat lose its batteries, but my mom and dad let me know that, unfortunately, "they didn't make those kind of batteries anymore." Later, at age 25, we were rounding up toys to give to the Goodwill, and as my brother put the hat in the bin I let him know, with all sincerity, that those batteries were no longer made. Sure enough, all it required were a pair of Cs. :) - Sacca

Sacca posted a link

YTMND - Paris Hilton doesn't change facial expressions (original sound)

August 31 at 8:36 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

I love the Internet. (Warning - autoplays sound) - Sacca via Bookmarklet

Sacca posted a link

Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

August 30 at 7:38 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

joneilortiz liked this

"Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets." - Sacca via Bookmarklet

Can we please, please, please take our country back? - Sacca

Instead of "like" it be nice to have a "take action" link for stories like this. - tagami

we need the concept of "collective consciousness" to see what is going on here ... america, and americans, don't care enough to maintain a higher order of functioning, either personally or collectively ... more chaos is needed, and will come the next few years, - Gregory Lent

MG Siegler published a photo on Flickr

I just had to.

August 29 at 2:02 pm - Link

Josh, Neha Narula, Noah Carter, hunter walk and 12 other people liked this

You witty sonofabitch. - Josh Lowensohn

:) - MG Siegler

Awesome use of the new someecards build your own card tools. - Sacca

Very nice... - Bindu Reddy

Sacca posted a link

Barack Obama | Explaining the riddle | Economist.com

August 29 at 9:44 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Anne Bouey, j1m, Siddharth Deb, Adam Kazwell and 8 other people liked this

"Eight years ago Barack Obama was thoroughly humiliated at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. He had recently lost a congressional primary in Chicago, and both his political and personal bank accounts were empty. The rental car company rejected his credit card. He failed to get hold of a floor pass and ended up watching the proceedings on a big screen in a car park. He returned home with his tail between his legs before the week was out—and left the celebrations to the people who mattered, not least the Clintons, who took every chance to seize the limelight from the Gores." - Sacca via Bookmarklet

I deeply admire stories like this. I particularly like how Silicon Valley tends to embrace them more than other places. As long as your failure was not a result of moral turpitude, you can wear it like a badge of honor out here. - Sacca

He's gonna be humiliated again on November 4th. - Peter Simard

Crystal English shared an item on Google Reader

Concept Cars Audi O

August 28 at 3:25 pm - Link

Sacca liked this

Concept nuttiness...with the Audi O you've got yourself a fuel-efficient party on wheels. - Crystal English

I guess concept cars aren't supposed to be practical, but the first thing I thought of is: "there's no way to keep things out of view in the rear storage area". I guess that means I'm a boring worrywart. - Chester

Chester, did your AARP card arrive yet? - Sacca

Dude, is it the mark of an old man to not want one's shit out in the open for public display or theft? Besides, I'm the only person in the world who isn't a DJ. - Chester

Bindu Reddy posted a link

McCain's Prickly TIME Interview - TIME

August 28 at 12:14 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

torque, Paul Haahr, AJ Kohn, Paul Buchheit and 3 other people liked this

Wow... - Bindu Reddy via Bookmarklet

Asshole. - Ken Norton

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Such entitlement. Yuck. - Sacca

Wow... I would love to know how he feels about his sons in uniform now, our current torture policy, and particularly how most of what was done to him doesn't officially count as torture. Looks like that will not happen. - Clare Dibble

Dislike. - Erica Baker

Wow. See, the thing is I can understand being pissed off and tired with all the media and the grind. Yet, that's the job and it's not going to get easier when you're president. Secondly, pick your spots and know who you're talking to. Do this to ... a low-circ newspaper or blogger, but to Time? - AJ Kohn

Maybe the dude is just trying to sell more books. (I haven't turned to the weekly news magazines for news in ages, but isn't Time the one that is considered to be generally slightly right of center? Shouldn't it be home turf for McCain, relative to Newsweek?) - Chester

More than anything, he sounds exhausted. He'd better get some sleep before the convention! - Heidi Moon via twhirl

Describing the interview as "prickly" doesn't seem completely accurate if you listen to the audio. The interviewers' questions were a little on the pointed side (confederate flag? pre-marital sex?) -- and while McCain didn't come across as effusive or garrulous, this is not the same thing as "prickly." :-) - Karim

Worse, the transcript appears to have some errors that make McCain look bad -- after the confederate flag question, the transcript says McCain, quote, "[Does not answer]," when to me, on the audio recording, it sounds like *somebody* replies, "No." Also, the transcript says, "[long pause]" where there is, in fact, NO long pause, making it sound as if his answer is evasive, or not forthcoming, etc. - Karim

I am *not* a McCain supporter, but it seems unfair to describe him in this interview as "abrasive" when it just seems like he's being direct and to the point, or to say he was "determined to stay on message" as if that was a bad thing. It seemed a bit like they were baiting him, and they were disappointed that he didn't bite. - Karim

@Karim, agreed about the audible "no" to the confederate flag question. However, the media is accustomed to McCain's charm, particularly in one-on-one interview sessions where he's historically shined (evidence the "do I know you?" crack.) Taken in the context of how McCain usually handles interviews like this, "prickly" is accurate. - Ken Norton

Another example of that damned liberal media bias. - Chester

I guess. He just seemed pretty normal to me, and reluctant to get suckered into answering dumb questions, which I thought was commendable. He seemed cordial enough. My idea of an "abrasive," "prickly" interview is more like this one with Lou Reed (http://nymag.com/daily/enterta...) where he responds with a few choice expletives and then walks out. :-D - Karim

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Mark Cuban 1, Loren Feldman 0

August 28 at 10:31 am - Link

Jeff P. Henderson, Noah David Simon, sean percival and Sacca liked this

Whether it was Loren who left the first comment or not, I think Cuban's response is priceless. - Sacca

a Cuban sandwich http://www.seesmic.com/video/c... - Noah David Simon

Interesting open-dialog now with Arrington questioning Loren's veracity "mmm, you sure? sure looks like you from the admin." Amazed these things don't take place via IM. - AJ Kohn

Must have been a Loren Feldman puppet. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

wait a sec.... Mr. Kohn... if you an Admin wherever? isn't it a conflict of interest for you to comment? - Noah David Simon

@Noah: It's a quote from comments of the post. I got nothing to do with it - just a lookie-loo gawker backing up traffic on the information superhighway. - AJ Kohn

Chester posted a message

“Smart quotes are, often times, pretty fucking stupid.”

August 28 at 11:27 am - Link

anna liked this

Are you drafting epitaphs? - Sacca

I don't understand what you're talking about, as has been the norm recently. Either you've gotten more opaque or I've gotten more dense. A combination of the two is entirely possible as well. I'm just bitching about how Wordpress always seems to fuck up either the direction of a "smart" quote or will inexplicably open up with a "smart" quote and then end with a "dumb" quote. I need to take a look into how I can turn this stupid shit off. - Chester

Dave Morin posted a message on Twitter

“The power of our example. Not the example of our power. - Bill Clinton”

August 27 at 6:28 pm - Link

Clearly, Bill Clinton has not seen Dave Morin benchpressing. - Sacca

Sacca favorited a video on YouTube

JCVD - THE OFFICIAL TRAILER

August 27 at 3:27 pm - Link

My brother just saw this and said it was terrific. Truly. Not joking around. - Sacca

MG Siegler posted a message on Twitter

“there is some kind of kind dust (or crumbs) under my mouse that is driving me nuts. tried cleaning twice already.”

August 27 at 11:43 am - Link

AlexScoble(Robert'sBro) and Lindsey Smith liked this

I think you just wrote one of those classic Twitters that will be quoted by the service's critics when trying to establish the triviality of communication for which it is used :) - Sacca

Oh man, I hate when that happens! I was going to tweet this an hour ago, now I don't feel so alone in the world. - Mark Trapp

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And, just as I say that, your message clearly resonated with some folks at a deep level. - Sacca

sounds like you need the USB powered desk vacuum. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

>.< - Lindsey Smith

@sacca - never underestimate the power of a mundane tweet! - MG Siegler

luckily, it is very hard to weaponize biscotti or you would have to evacuate your entire work area - Jay Cuthrell

@jay - ha! you've got a good band name there. Weaponized Biscotti. - MG Siegler

Crystal English shared an item on Google Reader

Scenes from Rio de Janeiro

August 27 at 10:45 am - Link

Sacca liked this

The faces on the side of the favelas are haunting. - Sacca

Sacca posted a link

In The Stupid Patent Advertising Category

August 27 at 10:42 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

How to induce vomiting. 1) Click on link 2) Pause to ask self, "Really?!" 3) Puke. - Sacca via Bookmarklet

Sacca posted a link

Pete and Brian -- Charades -- on Super Deluxe

August 27 at 9:50 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Crystal English, Serena and Josh liked this

This is my brother Brian's latest sketch. I love his stuff. - Sacca via Bookmarklet

Sacca posted a link

YouTube - Visual Thinking #1

August 27 at 9:40 am - via Reshare - Link

Laurence Gonsalves, Rachel L Fisher, Benjamin Golub and Judy Jones liked this

Net found this on YT. Man, Kermit was such a huge part of my life. - Sacca

wow... such an early Ralph the dog! - Rachel L Fisher

Scott Beale posted an entry on Laughing Squid

Google Reader in Plain English by Common Craft

August 26 at 3:43 pm - Link

Kevin Barrow, marcel weiss, Glenn Batuyong, Michael Pick and 9 other people liked this

The Common Craft things are ads and are paid for. I hear they get $20,000 or more to do these things. But I love them anyway, especially if they help get more people into our world. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'm not sure what you are getting at. Common Craft is not hiding the fact that this video was commissioned by Google. On their blog post they say "The Google Reader team hired us to create this one minute introduction to Google Reader." In fact they make it very clear that they are hired to produce videos: http://www.commoncraft.com/wor... Hey, you get paid to make videos and I watch those too. Are you saying that they shouldn't get paid to make videos? - Scott Beale

I don't think anyone has ever doubted the commercial nature of their videos, disclaimers or not. That said, I think they are uniquely effective at making technology approachable. I deeply admire their work. - Sacca

Actually, Common Craft *did* get paid to make *some* of their videos (and as Scott says, always with full disclosure when that was the case), but a lot of them were made for nothing but the love of it (the Twitter one for instance, and of course RSS, Wikis etc.) Lee & Sachi have stopped doing client work now to focus on their Common Craft store - selling licensed versions of the videos for commercial use and making them freely available for bloggers. What's the issue with getting paid here? The videos rock, period. - Michael Pick via twhirl

I just found it interesting that below this video was a link for "How to Survive a Zombie Attack, in Plain English" - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl

Todd Nemet posted a message on Twitter

“Advice from my son: Think about nothing then you won't worry.”

August 26 at 7:38 pm - Link

John Mueller, Sacca, Patricia Hanrahan, Mark Trapp and 3 other people liked this

Best advice I've ever heard. - Ginger Makela

Any chance your son dresses in flowing robes? - Sacca

He's a bodhisattva playing with Star Wars legos - Todd Nemet

Aydin Senkut posted a message on Twitter

“Started booking calls/meetings in 15 min increments...”

August 26 at 10:53 pm - Link

Sacca liked this

Amen, brother. Not sure why an hour became the default, but I have been reclaiming a lot of this time too. - Sacca

Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“I've heard so many arguments about the University of Life. Yet, I think people should just finish their degrees. Learn now. Train later.”

August 26 at 3:11 pm - Link

Ken Norton and Vincent van Wylick liked this

Speaking as someone who jumped head first into the world without first finishing his degree, I completely agree. I eventually finished it, but still wish I had done it first. - Allen Hutchison

Some say you only apply 10% of what you learnt in college in your career. The question I ask is, "which 10%?" :-> - Jeff Sandquist

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This assumes you learn more in school than by working. Some of the smartest people I've known don't have degrees. - Chris White

Done right, I think you can learn a lot about yourself in school. I know there are exceptions in either direction. But generally, I believe a good liberal arts education, which healthy amounts of study abroad, a few opportunities for crappy manual labor or tipping jobs, and volunteer work produce quality people with good self awareness, positive dispositions, and great attitudes about collaborating with others and building things that matter. - Sacca

Don't get me wrong, I think school is great. I especially like that you mentioned a good liberal arts education. I was thinking more along the lines of computer science, and how some particular companies are so focused on academic achievements during hiring that they miss out on people that are scary smart. - Chris White

Left college my junior year to get a job and have not regretted it for one instant. And I learn more about myself every year to this day and going forward, never felt like finding oneself was something limited to college :-) - KC Lemson

trust me, the older you get, the less the degree matters. I finally finished mine, and I've never had a call for it yet - Duncan Riley

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