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How to Start a Charcoal Grill | eHow.com - http://www.ehow.com/how_205...
How to Start a Charcoal Grill. The unique smell of a charcoal grill is certain to get anyone's taste buds watering. Firing up the grill on those warm evenings of summer is a great way to get together with friends and family for a ...
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Domainr, the domain name search engine - http://domai.nr/
Domainr is a fast, free utility for finding and registering domain names for your website. Domainr searches the entire domain name space, instantly checking availability for .com, .net and all other domains at the top-level.
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Feeling your way around grids : Articles : Mark Boulton - http://www.markboulton.co.uk/article...
Mark Boulton is a designer based in Cardiff, UK. Specialising in usable, functional and elegant design acquired through rigorous problem solving.
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eBay Seller: readingfc: Sports Memorabilia, Sporting Goods items on eBay.co.uk - http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchan...
readingfc is an eBay seller listing items in Sports Memorabilia, Sporting Goods categories on eBay UK.
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Summaries of the best content from around the Web.
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Show description: Paul Stevens is a bright, sensitive high school student who discovers that his mother's new love interest works for a plant that turns out to be a government front for the development of nuclear weapons. Paul informs his girlfriend, Jenny, and they sneak into the plant where Paul steals a vial of gr
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Newser - Current News - Breaking Stories | Newser - http://www.newser.com/
Current news and breaking stories about politics, business, health, sports, technology, and entertainment. | Newser
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The Daily Beast - http://www.thedailybeast.com/
Curated news aggregation plus original reporting and opinion.
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King's X – Listen free and discover music at Last.fm - http://www.last.fm/music...
Listen free to King's X (Alright, Pray and more). King’s X is an American progressive rock band noted for its spiritual lyrics and sophisticated musical styles which include, but are not limited to, blues, progressive rock, grunge and psychedelic. The group traces its beginnings to 1980, when Doug Pinnick and Jerry Gaskill, who had previously met while recording and touring with Phil Keaggy and touring with the band Petra, recruited Ty Tabor to join them. Calling themselves The Edge, the group extensively performed on the Springfield, Missouri bar and club circuit. The band specialized in Top 40 covers. By 1983, the name of the band had changed to Sneak Preview and they started to record original material. Sneak Preview released a self-titled LP with all original material in 1984. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and photos with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.
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Amazon.com: Dr. Brown's 2-pack 7-ounce Standard Feeding System Glass Baby Bottles: Baby
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Blowin' up in '09 | These bands will be huge this year...trust us | Photo 1/16 | Metromix Denver - http://denver.metromix.com/music...
These bands will be huge this year...trust us
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Pari Passu Realty Corp. - NYC real estate rentals and sales - http://paripassu.com/...
Pari Passu Realty Corp. is a leading NYC real estate brokerage company specialized in residential rentals and sales
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Do people shorten your name? Does it bother you?
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Some people call me Mike. It doesn't particularly bother me, but I prefer Michael.
- Michael C. Harris
I always go with a person's handle online (social networks, email). Sometimes someone will have "Michael" in their standard email signature, but actually sign-off with "Mike". That throws me for a loop.
- Hutch Carpenter
Yeah, when people call me "Ma" it really grinds my gears.
- Mark Trapp
I prefer "J" to "Wehmhoener". Hearing someone call me by my last name reminds me of high school sports (something I'd rather not be reminded of).
- Jason Wehmhoener
I stick with their sign-off in an email...then reply with that.
- Brian Ries
They do shorten it, but I usually don't mind. Unless it is "Jenny," which I've always hated for some reason.
- Jennifer Dittrich
speaking of mike's my "formal" business name is michael but everyone calls me mike - I'm fine with either - there are lots of mike's at my work so folks use last names to eliminate confusion - I'm fine with that too - just don't call me late for dinner ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
I actually extend people's name
- Brian Bufalo
People call me "Sheen"...I've also been called "Ra"....can't really complain about either :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
All the time, thankfully most people go with Rob. Older guys seem to have a thing for calling me Bob, which I promptly correct them on. I am not a Bob.
- Rob Diana
Okay, I should have said, if you have more than one syllable in your name :)
- Michael C. Harris
For the record, most people know me as Robert in the corporate world, so my name does get shortened :)
- Rob Diana
People call me Mar or Mare (however you write it), it doesn't really bother me. I figure it means they like me. But really, my name is two syllables, so it is kind of funny.
- Mary Carmen
Tad is already the shorted version. It's my initials - Terry Allan Donaghe. I did work once with a guy who just called me "T." And after a while he started calling me "T T Boy." If you happen to recognize that name it's pretty funny. If you don't I suggest that you DO NOT search Google. Seriously. Not kidding. At all.
- Chrimmus Tad
I have the opposite problem - they lengthen it. I'm Beth not Elizabeth and certainly not Bethie! UGH.
- Mlibrarianus
Well, I prefer people call me Dan, but have no problem with Daniel. If they're slightly more daring they are allowed to refer to me as "Dr. Gonzo, Your Royal Sex Machine." But I guess that's not really a shortening, is it?
- Dan Messer
from twhirl
Instead of the full three syllables, I'm often called "T" or "Ta." I'm ok with that.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
I used to have a friend who was a French-Canadian Catholic priest. He insisted on calling me John, even though my legal name is Jack. I got used to it.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I use my full name, with initial when I'm writing. My name is just too common. From my about page, "The "C" is important. It distinguishes me from the actor, the former Premier of Ontario, the 47 academics in fields ranging from Resource Economics to Engineering, and the drug dealer. But I'm not going to tell you what it stands for."
- Michael C. Harris
I hate full names... Only in writing though. If I write an business email I am happy to write Michael, but I will be thinking 'I can't wait until I can write Mike'. I hate typing anything longer than 4 maybe 5 characters... Now that I know Rahsheen doesn't mind Rah or Ra, I may even comment more or respond to his comments more often. I am just lazy that way. Sorry Ra for using you as an example. :)
- Roger Kondrat
If you're going to shorten my name, I'd prefer Miguel or Mig. Long story, but probably not very interesting :)
- Michael C. Harris
Oh, and Ra is a god. Take that how you want :)
- Michael C. Harris
I've been Dave for as long as I can remember, I feel like I'm in trouble when anyone calls me David.
- Dave Stevens
Sun God, right? Yeah...like I said...can't complain. Although...sometimes I'm called "Sheeny" which is cute if it's a woman, but I have had dudes call me that...not cool
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
People call me Mike all the time. It doesn't bother me a lot, except when they call me Mike immediately after I just introduced myself as Michael.
- Michael Hocter
Michael, that's exactly the situation that prompted the question.
- Michael C. Harris
I have to remind people that "Bro" is not short for "Bwana"
- Bwana ☠
No, but they spell it wrong 1/2 of the time. Either Aron or Erin. Ugh. People just don't get it.
- Aaron Myers
I get it shortened. It's when it is pronounced wrong AND shortened with the wrong pronunciation that it bothers me.
- Leslie Poston
I'm bad with names. Everyone ends up as 'hey' or 'dude'.
- Rodfather
People call me BK. It's cool with me.
- Brandon Klevence
LOL Bwana!
- jcunwired
Leslie, how do they pronounce it wrong, "Less"? My dad is Lester. You do _not_ want to call him Les.
- Michael C. Harris
My friends call my Oli, and I love it!
- Oli Kenobi
Everybody, all together, "Call me what you like, but don't call me later for dinner!"
- Pete Delucchi
YES, people call me Sue and that is soo annoying... my name is Susan, not Sue...augh!
- Susan Beebe
I hate it when people call me "ffff" or "fih" short for Phil. It just doesn't sound right.
- Phil Wolff
from Alert Thingy
I always introduce myself as Victor, after which most people automatically go to Vic. I found that if I introduced myself as Vic, some people heard it to Dick or Rick, depending of if they already knew someone by that name, and it was hard to get them to change.
- Victor Ryden
Growing up, my brothers have referred to me as "Ape" (among other things) - which, naturally, drove me nuts.
- April Buchheit
April, that's what brothers are for :)
- Michael C. Harris
Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine - http://news.cnet.com/cuil-sh...
Igor Poltavskiy, Jemm, AJ Kohn and 41 other people liked this
Performance is...well, laughable - http://is.gd/16yX
- Stephen Pierzchala
yeah you can tell why these guys aren't at google anymore
- Chris Harris
Their system setups is interesting. How they index only Sports data on select databases and so on. Also why do they display results in 2/3 columns? It's so hard to follow that
- Bartek Ciszkowski
What amazes me is that we, bloggers, started to hype the search engine based on what the company was willing to share - without even taking it a test run. And now many will have to admit they were too positive when it was not deserved.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
for real
- Sarah Perez
Svetlana: all it took is for me to do a single search on it for me to see that it just wasn't going to stand up to a deep analysis. I'm very glad I am getting off of the PR treadmill of "keep up with Mashable and Techcrunch and write about everything based on press releases." Why is this on CNN and NPR already? They have a good PR team, that's why. Played!
- Robert Scoble
Not ready for prime time. Great press kills a bad product faster. Apologies to Bill Bernbach.
- Dave Martin
In this day and age, is there really room for a new search engine? I'm all for innovation but the likelihood of someone making a sizeable dent in Google's market share or even challenging Live Search is quite low, no?
- Dave Stevens
Lesson: Don't go for big press until you're ready. One of my VC friends advises people only to go for ~5,000 users in the beginning (so many beginners want traffic, traffic, traffic). Then you can test your product, change the interface, etc... before you get into a "New Coke" and "old Coke" situation. 5,000 is enough to give your product/website a good testing, and avoids this Cuil failure.
- Mitchell Tsai
trying searching Cuil for itself. http://www.cuil.com/search... :)
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
I'm unimpressed by Cuil. It's not how big their index is, it's about how accurate their results are. From my early experiments, I don't get what I'm searching for -- isn't that what a search engine is supposed to do?
- wrecks
I also think that it is early for Cuil to launch, but it is good that some people are trying to create alternatives to Google’s tyranny in search. Without any competition in their core business, Google will eventually become the next Microsoft
- Kerem Ozkan
mmmm... I wonder why so much hype around of _utility_ ? search has been utility for years, yet everyone and his dog into PR for yet-another-search... was it GOOG price on IPO which makes you blind repeaters? try to remember how many startups you've seen recently in major continent-wide utility business, like electricity or water supply? yes, none... oh, yeah, law & rules are not written for bloggers... they can even refuse math and other natural science ;)
- A.T.
Not impressed. While the layout for results is pretty, it doesn't give me any information. Ran a search on my own site - Dad info - and it got the bloody thumbnail wrong :( Dig a little deeper on a search where you know the net landscape well (eg vanity search) and the results are often bizarre - the photos acommpanying the SERPS are irrelevant/random/wierd. Can't help thinking that the next generation of search will be people centric rather than page centric - I can find more interesting stuff on FF.
- Tom Beardshaw
i saw an insert on BBC news today on this, went over to do vanity search just to test, back came some old articles of comments i left last year on tech blogs, now it's unavailable, plus the dark background is awful ;( FAIL!
- Mario Olckers
I got 2 searches in last night - disappointed with results - and then it crashed and 'went down for maintenance' - yeah, not overwhelmingly impressed.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Harsh but somewhat fair criticism. That said no service has ever been perfect when rushed *glares at twitter*
- Mo Kargas
may be
- accesine
Despite other criticism: I like the relaxed feel of the 3-column presentation in Cuil. Cuil, Viewzi, and identi.ca have relaxing and comforting front pages (nice color scheme).
- Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell - There's something wrong if the best thing 'bout a website is the color scheme
- Yuvi
@Robert: They obviously have a great PR team - making everyone repeat their claims of how great the product is. And I am glad I have decided to wait until it is live and do a search before hyping it myself - I would have felt it was unfair to our readers otherwise.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
Svetlana: This is what happens when the marketing dept moves faster than the tech dept. Often it's the reverse. Hard to coordinate the two.
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell: True but I feel it is not really lack of coordination and instead it is a deliberate move to get all the positive coverage they can and hope no one will see the problems. After all, as a marketing person myself I don't think they are unable to notice the irrelevant results themselves.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
Svetlana: Since the "glamor self-search" results work well for university professors and some famous people, I think it's a miscalculation from having too small a test group (since they've been concerned with a stealth launch). They probably didn't test enough middle-level people (e.g. me with only 47,000 pages on Google) to see the problems.
- Mitchell Tsai
Rather than a stealth launch, It seems that in this case a better process would have been (1) alpha-launch, generate buzz by selectively letting in tech bloggers, test their stuff, make bloggers feel good by being in on something early, about 200-500 people (2) private beta-launch, quiet, limited to 5,000 people (3) New York Times launch. - I think their team was too cocky (e.g. we're smarter), not realizing they would shoot themselves in the foot.
- Mitchell Tsai
I went to work this afternoon to get away from the Crewl Cuil conversation. What were the teachers talking about ? Cuil. *sigh*
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Mitchell: Very true, when I read they decided they were ready for everyone on day 1 and decided not to add beta to the logo, I was very excited - finally someone dares to launch a working product from the beginning. And after actually trying it out I could not understand why they chose not to go with private beta the way you describe. It could have potential but it definitely is not ready for prime time yet.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
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