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Goo.gl: Google Launches a URL Shortener, Too - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Internal Social Media: Addressing The Fears - http://altitudebranding.com/2009...
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LOL RT @sig_eu: As it turns out, @timoreilly single-handedly determines the popularity of prog languages on twitter: http://www.sig.eu/en...
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Google should have hired a bunch of SEO consultants and Internet marketers to test real time search before the launch.
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Don't ask, but the Power of Ignorance -- breathing edition http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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What's your favorite TED talk? - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
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Nearly impossible to single one out.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Jennifer 8 Lee's talk on General Tso's Chicken was fascinating. It's really hard to pick out just one, though.
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
Dave Eggers, hands down. http://www.ted.com/talks... ... I watch this a lot and love it each time.
- pea
Malcom Gladwell on Spaghetti sauce ... http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Olivier Castets
Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat and Brian Greene on string theory
- Carlos Ayala
Neurologist Dr.Ramachandran's talk on the brain, phantom limb syndrome.
- Kamath (नमः)
I can't believe I forgot Mark Bittman's talk!
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
Bill Gates on Philanthropy.
- Eric Logan
Malcolm Gladwell (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Seth Godin (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Hans Roslin (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Nate Silver (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Richard Dawkins (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Barry Schwartz (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)
- Evan Solomon
Also James Howard Kunstler (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)
- Evan Solomon
I just watched http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Paul Buchheit
It's between the stroke one from the neuroanatomist - Jill Barad, I now remember - and the very first one I ever saw, on Seadragon out of MSFT.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
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J.J. Abrams' mystery box http://www.ted.com/talks...
- irem
Sir Ken Robinson's about education was the best ever, IMO.
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Agree with Rodrigo. Its here: http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Roberto Bonini
I really liked Brian Cox about LHC: http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Mark Layton
Also the demo of SixthSense from MIT: http://www.ted.com/index...
- Mark Layton
stefan sagmeister's speech on having sabbaticals for 1 year in every 7 years.the power of time off.
- taner tarlakazan
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Jonathan Haidt - "The real difference between liberals and conservatives" - http://blog.ted.com/2008...
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I haven't watched many of them - but, I absolutely liked Bill Gates on "mosquitoes, malaria and education" - http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Space Cowboy
+1 for Ken Robinson's talk.
- Ivan Zuzak
Kevin Kelly: "Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Phil Smirnov
What a great list...*bump*
- SAM
Murray Gell-Mann: "Beauty and truth in physics" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Phil Smirnov
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology http://www.ted.com/talks...
- hellonm
Multi-touch interface by Jeff Han (02/2006)
- AJ Batac
Have to do top 3 - Rodney Brooks says robots will invade our lives http://www.ted.com/index... Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation http://www.ted.com/talks... and Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Andrew Smith
was just watching/listening to one :) helps a lot
- ffcode
Sir Ken Robinson, without doubt...
- Berci Mesko, MD
If you can pick a favorite TED talk, you haven't explored the available TED talks enough.
- ana
+1 ana.
- Alex Schleber
Sagmeister and Ramachandran talks.
- Onur Gündüz
Sir Ken Robinson
- Kevin Borders
Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Bertrand Doux
Another +1 for Sir Ken Robinson's talk. http://www.ted.com/talks... It perfectly embodies what TED is really about.
- Chris Lasher
TED talks spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub... via http://sharingdocs.blogspot.com/2009...
- Mona Nomura
Thanks Mona Nomura.
- ashish
Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral http://blog.ted.com/2009... . My comments at http://ff.im/5Gs6m .
- Daniel Mietchen
William Kamkwamba, the boy who built windmills. http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Andrew Leyden
Itay Talgam: http://www.ted.com/talks...
- SBV
Flying to London to see my Father, a copy of Nabokov's lost masterpiece "The Original of Laura" in my bag. Its subtitle is "Dying is Fun."
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"Faux Friendship"- a fascinating essay on the history of friendship: http://chronicle.com/article... (Don't agree w/ everything but still a great read)
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Thank you for finding this, it is indeed a great read :-)
- Irma Vermaat
...as you, I didn't agree completely with everything... to make an example, on the point concerning the friendship from the Christian point of view... but on the whole I found it very interesting... Thank you!
- Haukr
The 25 Essential Public Speaking Skills - http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/25-skil...
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good advice
- Jeremy Zawodny
BLOGBloke: One day we Twits will suddenly wake up in a cold sweat and suddenly realize all those hours wasted and gone forever. - http://twitter.com/BLOGBlo...
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Google Googles: Take Photos of Things Around You to Search for Them - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
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5 Fabulous New Features Google Unveiled Today - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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How to Sell a Website for $1M » Ask Shane.org - http://www.askshane.org/daily-t...
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If you want to sell your site, read this guide to see if you're ready to, when you should, and how to maximize profits.
- Tamar Weinberg
The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia (are better than the Sunday newspapers) // April 2009 - http://copybot.wordpress.com/2009...
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We live in a odd world...
- zeroinfluencer
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To Go Online, Or Not. - http://m.assetbar.com/achewoo...
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Still Waiting for An Evil Google? It's Not Going to Happen. - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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I'll admit that I'm biased. But I also agree.
- DeWitt Clinton
eh. I maintain a healthy distrust of all companies; especially those that grow as quickly as Google has been as of late. of course, time will tell.
- jbrotherlove
Not only are you legally required to agree, DeWitt, but you are quoted. :)
- Louis Gray
Ha. But I was about to add: But please never stop keeping Google honest, and holding the company to the highest standards. Call out Google on any BS or funny business you see. (I certainly do, though I usually do it internally...) I have tremendous faith in the people I work with, but it takes the whole community to do this right. And thank you, Louis, for your help here.
- DeWitt Clinton
My problem is that Google is into so much, and has so many good products, that it puts people into a situation where they end up with too many of their eggs in one basket. And no matter how good the basket is, it's still not a smart thing for people to do. And while Google may not be openly and willingly sharing its data with the government, it's only one subpoena away from being forced...
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- April Russo (app103)
April, if you were running Google, what would you do to make users feel more at ease? I'd be curious to get your take on what we should do.
- Matt Cutts
The way I see it, Google has no choice but to continue on the road its currently on, getting bigger and better/worse. So I have no advice for Google. I do have some advice for the rest of the world, however... Startups need to have a business plan from day 1 that includes the idea of profitability without being acquired by a bigger company. The idea of "build and sell to one of the big...
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- April Russo (app103)
"Google is not going to be evil because it hasn't been built to be evil. Will they work to speed up browsers and Web sites to give them more traffic on their search engine and more ads in more places? Sure. But that's just good business, not trickery." - Google's interests lie in creating a fast, ubiquitous, diverse and distributed web - that's what their business model needs. Today....
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I am not saying to avoid being critical or trusting naively. But I think we should give a company credit for having set a foundation and trajectory that is to be respected and trusted, when others are not.
- Louis Gray
@April - cheers to that. Interestingly, just two years ago Facebook was the little company that decided to go it alone and not sell to the big guys, and now you list them *as* one of the big guys. Who knows, maybe the next big company is two people hacking away in a garage right now, plotting a course not to get bought, but to be the best.
- DeWitt Clinton
I hope so, and I hope there are a lot working in garages with those plans, because we need them.
- April Russo (app103)
They have always worked to align their interests and that of the users - and that was smart and good and created tremendous value online. I have my set of biases that make me suspicious of any business with too much control, too much market share. "Don't be evil" is not a nice-to-have marketing concept, it is an absolute requirement considering the flabbergasting amounts of information...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Just a sidenote - not being evil is what will keep Google from nailing the telcos with their efforts in GoogleVoice and Gizmo. To win in that market they will have to play a very evil and dirty game. They'll be going against masters at graft and corruption who own the legislators and regulators. If they don't learn to play evil and dirty, they will have a tough time winning in telco...
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- Ken Camp
Louis, I hope you are right. Google is a great company with a lot of great services and a lot of great people. But April and Joelle make some excellent points. I know I do a lot of half-tongue-in-cheek tinfoil stuff, but diversification is always a good idea (intentions can change, there can be rogue actors, etc.), as is pushing to know exactly what information is used, how it's used,...
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- LogEx
@LogEx - have you seen: https://www.google.com/dashboa...? Also our Privacy Center: http://www.google.com/privacy...? And our Ads Preferences control panel: http://www.google.com/ads...? And our public policy blog: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/ (which talks about our take on public issues). Just a few links to show that Google, and Googlers, think about this stuff all the time. We agree.
- DeWitt Clinton
I'd suggest Google split up. 1) A super lean, but ultra focused semantic advertising team. 2) A blazingly awesome search company (those datacenters make me wistfully dream of virtual assistants of the future) 3) and split off every other focus (changed from service) they have into a separate entity. Allow the separate business entities to develop independently. Can big companies shrink successfully, you bet. They can do it on their own terms.
- Mark Essel
I also would like to remind what DeWitt said yesterday: "BTW, here's the Speakeasy Privacy Policy: http://www.speakeasy.net/tos... Here is Comcast's: http://www.comcast.net/privacy... Here is AT&T/SBC's: http://www.att.com/gen... Guess what? None of them publish a log deletion policy and ALL of them reserve the right to do nearly whatever they...
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- Can Demirezen
I agree that the public DNS is not likely a tipping point on the evil scale. But "Not going to happen" --implying never? -- are you saying that Google is somehow special, blessed, different from every other corporation on the face of the earth?
- Brian Sullivan
@DeWitt, I follow all of those regularly, thanks. Perhaps best on another thread or offline to convey some of my more detailed concerns. @Can, very true, ISPs are notorious for bad data practices, but from my perspective I think the main reason that DNS raised this issue yet again is the growing extent of access Google has to people's online activity.
- LogEx
@Matt Cutts: I would ask the Chrome and Wave teams to make the use of Google technologies possible and easy *without going through Google's servers* (as a 20% project). A Chrome + Wave system à la Opera Unite... Sure, the result wouldn't compare to Google's own cloud computing offer, but it would prove that Google is serious about our privacy and independence, and that "cloud in...
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- Jérôme Flipo
Killing Etherpad WITH all users' data looks nothing short of evil. Really, Wave is not ready to take its place.
- Alex Kapranoff
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Introducing Google Public DNS, for a faster, and safer, internet experience: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
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Yay!
- DeWitt Clinton
I'm also pleased with the Privacy Policy: http://code.google.com/speed.... Full IP logs are deleted within 24-48 hours. This is a very good thing.
- DeWitt Clinton
And Google Public DNS telephone support! http://code.google.com/speed...
- Tony Ruscoe
I'll have to do some tests to see if this is any faster than my local ISP DNS.
- Benjamin Golub
hmmm... and the reason behind this offer?
- MikeAmundsen
They will then know every single domain name that every user is trying to resolve, and how often, etc.
- Glen Mistletoe
DeWitt that doesn't mean they aren't copied elsewhere or they will actually follow through with the policy.
- Todd Hoff
anyone know what appears when the domain request is invalid? i.e. will i see a google search page w/ ads?
- MikeAmundsen
Yay! This is super cool. I'm using it to work around my ISP (Comcast) hijacking DNS requests.
- Joe Beda ()
Another cool thing are the vanity IP addresses that were obtained for this: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. '8' is a lucky number, you know.
- Joe Beda ()
@Todd: Actually, the privacy policy is pretty clear about what's temporary and what's permanent. If temporary logs were "copied elsewhere" as you suggest, it would be a pretty obvious violation of this policy. And I think it's pretty unreasonable to suggest that Google wouldn't "actually follow through" on its own privacy policy.
- Joel Webber
Joe, do you know who had 8.8.8.8 prior?
- Micah Wittman
Fast, doesn't seem to hijack 404s in any way. But I will have to go over the privacy policy carefully, in the context of Google's broader privacy policy. I wish we knew if the NSA had direct access to Google's traffic like they do for ISPs. This will certainly give Google a lot of data about web use.
- LogEx
Joel, it's just a policy. If the NSA or some other agency says Google won't get this slice of spectrum etc then don't be surprised of all that traffic is split off some switch somewhere into total information awareness.
- Todd Hoff
@Todd - half the company would quit in protest on the spot if Google even contemplated doing something like that. Including our own founders. But here's a question -- what could a company do that would reduce your fear? Clearly you use the Internet, and DNS, today. What assurances did your ISP make that cause you to trust them? Personally speaking, I find the Google DNS privacy policy a heck of a lot more reassuring than my ISP's. At least Google is promising in writing to do the right thing.
- DeWitt Clinton
People don't know DeWitt. All those fat internet pipes hook into switches that have tap lines on them. And are there any examples of people quitting en masse in protest? I've not seen it. There's nothing people can do to reduce my fear because I know too much about it. Those promises don't matter. They can change at anytime and there's no external verification and as I said, the data is...
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- Todd Hoff
I wonder how much this gets traction beyond things like Chrome OS where Google can require the client to use their name servers. DNS is an abstract concept to most people, and for businesses, Google Public DNS doesn't offer the level of control other managed DNS services offer (like OpenDNS, for example). As an IT guy, one thing that I see missing is the ability to manually refresh the cache. I'm also interested to see how Google respects TTLs.
- Mark Trapp
BTW, here's the Speakeasy Privacy Policy: http://www.speakeasy.net/tos.... Here is Comcast's: http://www.comcast.net/privacy.... Here is AT&T/SBC's: http://www.att.com/gen.... Guess what? None of them publish a log deletion policy and ALL of them reserve the right to do nearly whatever they want (even sell) your personally identifiable information, including IP addresses. Those ISPs are seeing every bit of traffic from our machines today.
- DeWitt Clinton
@Mark - technical details, including TTL policy, can be found here: http://code.google.com/speed...
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, I went through that, and I'm still left wondering what Google's caching does. It doesn't explicitly say that Google will always respect the TTL on a record, and I don't see a remedy to resolve an outdated cache (for example, if Google fetches a record with a TTL of 86400 10 minutes before I change that record, if there's no way to force a manual lookup, even changing the TTL to...
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- Mark Trapp
@Mark -- I can't see how to force a manual refresh either, but I'll find out. I agree that it's necessary in some situations.
- DeWitt Clinton
Mark, that page DeWitt linked to seems to infer that they respect TTL for prefetches: "The complexity of the name selection problem makes it impossible to solve online, so we have separated the prefetch system into two components: a pipeline component, which runs as an external, offline, periodic process that selects the names to commit to the prefetch system; and a runtime component, that regularly resolves the selected names according to their TTL windows."
- Matt Mastracci
@micah Level3 owns 8.0.0.0/8 and Google has 8.8.8.0/24. BTW, 7.7.7.7 is owned by the US Dept. of Defense.
- Joe Beda ()
Matt, what concerns me about that is it seems they interpret the TTL as a range of times they're allowed to ask for a new record; that is, if they automatically refresh records faster than the TTL, that's okay, as long as they don't hold onto it for longer than the TTL. A TTL shouldn't be a guideline: if I set a TTL to 86400, unless I manually tell you to fetch it again, you shouldn't...
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- Mark Trapp
Cool, added them to my list of servers that dnsmasq is to use.
- Grant Bierman
The RFC does specify TTLs as "a 32 bit unsigned integer that specifies the time interval ... that the resource record *may be* cached before it should be discarded" I don't know if there's ever going to be a rock-solid guarantee that a resolver will cache your records (its cache could always overflow or become corrupted). Jumping TTLs isn't half as annoying as the broken resolvers that cache one of your round-robin DNS responses for all their customers for days, though. ;)
- Matt Mastracci
Oh yes, checking too quickly is definitely a better problem than checking too slowly. One of the things we used to deal with was managed DNS that charged by the record lookup; in cases like that, you absolutely want people to respect the TTLs you specify or it can wind up costing you dearly. I don't really know if companies still get away with that (we get managed DNS for free now), but...
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- Mark Trapp
seems pretty good to me so far
- Logan Lindquist
http://OpenDNS.com have been doing the same thing for a while if you are worried about Google owing all your data!
- John Cooper
OpenDNS FTW
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I'm not happy with this. I feel it is a step too far. They could know and control way too much... from the OS Chrome to DNS/ mweh! And then what about a system fail! Laugh! I'm sure Murphy is working on it. How much of the network could go down with it. #don't-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket
- DC Crowley
4.3.2.1
- Itachi
@Glenc +1
- Serkan Unsal
Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google - http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
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As part of Google efforts to make the web faster, they're announcing Google Public DNS, a new experimental public DNS resolver.
- LouCypher
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Pre-meeting in the war room for the Where 2.0 Online Conference at O'Reilly in Sebastopol. CA: http://twitpic.com/rzbg5 #where20
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Google Public DNS - http://code.google.com/speed...
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"Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. To try it out: Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers"
- DeWitt Clinton
OMG this is sooo..... much better than the AT&T DNS severs that I was stuck on. I was starting to wonder why every bandwidth test site measured accurate throughput, but pages that pull content from multiple domains were incredibly slow to load. After flipping over to these DNS servers, the latency on each page dropped dramatically.
- Bill Strathearn
RT @richardcolback: @timoreilly at #sn09 "the social graph is a fingerprint" A way to identify authenticity of social media profiles.
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RT @lennp: From Engadget: Nokia offers sneak peak at improved 2010 Symbian UI http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google - http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
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bye bye open dns...
- Tahir Zaimoglu
from iPhone
Introducing Google Public DNS - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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"Today, as part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster, we're launching our own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, and we invite you to try it out."
- Lasse Johnsen
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Now people can REALLY say Google is taking over the internet. Fine as a search engine, but as the DNS provider that routes you to the correct IP? I'm questioning this. How much do you think they will report to other companies/agencies/third parties?
- CW™
@klashton27 I favor people stealing my ideas - better chance they get accepted.
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How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page - http://www.techipedia.com/2009...
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This is a guest post from Jesse Stay. There's a contest and giveaway. Anyone from FF gonna win?
- Tamar Weinberg
AOL Reveals Its Master Plan: Replacing human editors with robot ones. - http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-rev...
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Along with reader interest, AOL's algorithm will also try to predict how much marketers would be willing to pay to advertise next to stories on certain topics. In this way, when AOL's algorithm assigns a story, it will also come up with an amount of money AOL would be willing to pay to see it created.
- zeroinfluencer
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I think this kind of algorithmic spec work will be increasingly popular. It's more like Amazon Mechnaical Turk when it should be more like Craiglist or Match.com. ;-)
- Rob Myers
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