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aliens, of course. - Alexander Rode

http://www.flickr.com/photos... ;) that's me! - Sybelle

Whoa. That's crazy. That would have to be hard on a traditional young guy looking to settle down. I wonder if many them are going to more open to marrying an American-raised woman. - Admiral Anika

"During a two-week wife-hunting trip to India in December, Mr. Marwaha interviewed 20 potential brides in 10 days. He says several parents asked him, "How has the recession impacted your job?" Mr. Marwaha says he assured them he hadn't been affected at all, but still he returned to the U.S. brideless." - Daniel J. Pritchett

There is a fascinating discussion on this topic at Hacker News - Deepak Singh

This actually reminds me of the early 90s. A lot of my friends going back to India and Pakistan to find wives, but the economy was bad, it was hard. 5 years later, most of them had better luck. - Admiral Anika

And that Hacker news discussion is here http://news.ycombinator.com/item... - Daniel J. Pritchett

The Hacker discussion is silly. Most of the comments seem like they didn't even read the article and they went completely off-topic. - Admiral Anika

Anika, I think there are some Indian men who tend to be a bit narrow and would prefer only Indian women. Since there are not that many single Indian women here in the U.S. this might be affecting them pretty badly. Also these guys tend to be pretty shy and that means that it is even harder for them to meet anyone - Bindu Reddy

They did, but it's interesting what people latch on to and then the discussion just goes from there. - Deepak Singh

I knew an Indian guy in college with me at Alabama who was looking for an Indian Catholic in Alabama. I don't know if he ever found her. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I personally got burned by one of these free-floating Indian bachelors right before I met my current boyfriend. I wish they weren't so closed-minded (on average) about serious relationships with non-Indian women. He acted nice enough and we became very close, but there was finally this barrier he refused to cross, and it made me feel less than human and disgusted. After what finally happened I never wanted to speak to him again. Glad I have someone who loves me now, no matter my origin and color. - Kamilah Gill

Thanks for sharing that Kamilah, it sounds pretty rough :/ - Daniel J. Pritchett

It was, Daniel, but at least it has a happy ending :) I couldn't be much happier with the boyfriend I have now. That's how stuff goes sometimes, I guess. But boy, did it hurt at the time. - Kamilah Gill

Sorry to hear Kamilah.. Hopefully, that will all change in the next couple of years - Bindu Reddy

hope so, too, Bindu. People should be free to love one another regardless of race and such things if they individually choose to. It'll be great when all cultures become more supportive of this and move beyond that archaic way of thinking (many Americans are just as guilty as these particular Indians in this kind of discrimination). - Kamilah Gill

NYT just wrote about Indian mothers and their suns. There's some kidn of fascination with American media and Indian family life... - anna sauce

interesting. here is the article - http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - Bindu Reddy

Wow, that is terrible... but for some reason, I attract Indian men. My friends call me a magnet LOL - Mona Nomura

Well, I know that as a Muslimah here in the US, there wasn't a chance in hell any of the Pakistani, Indian, Egyptian, Lebanese, etc guys at my mosque were going to marry me. Their parents liked me fine, but being black it wasn't going to happen and many of them even said that if I was light like my mother, that it could have been a possibility. Moved on, I did. - Admiral Anika

Ack, Anika - you are well rid of them! [addressed comment to the correct person...] - WorldofHiglet

Anika: Wise. Their loss. - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty

WorldofHiglet.. I was wondering what you were talking about :) - Bindu Reddy

I can put you in touch with somebody at Google... oh ... wait. - Louis Gray

Yeah, and I'd like a way to permanently save items somewhere else (mail to, a delicious conduit, or something homegrown) - Kevin Fox

if Google indexes . we can use site:friendfeed.com - Swaroop

A list of entries I've commented on or liked would be enough for me. - Benjamin Golub

yes please... - Alex Gawley

Why Can't we use GooG's Custom Search Engine? http://www.google.com/coop... , else hack it with Apache Lucene!. - Anand Muthu

please please please - jon bradford

You can use Google Reader to search your items and your friends' items, but it's not a full-text search. - Ionut

oh! yes please. You have read my mind. Though its only today I felt a need to search my own posts for a link. - Pradeep Gowda

Ditto on the list of entries that the user has commented on/liked - Andrei M. Marinescu

yes, this is true - but i wish it were supported natively - Charles Hudson

Much like I wish del.icio.us would support the same. Yes, FF lets you do that, I know. ;) - Sean Leather

until all of my friends discover the magic of FF, GR should make this happen! - Charles Hudson

If only there were some simple tool for making lists.. - Paul Buchheit

I hope they have checklists at whichever ICU I may end up. - Sean Leather

Possibly more a function of mechanically following expert advice in complex situations rather than a benefit of checklists per se? - Florian

Maybe if you had an undistracted expert standing there giving advice. "The checklists provided two main benefits ... they helped with memory recall, especially with mundane matters that are easily overlooked in patients undergoing more drastic events ... [and] to make explicit the minimum, expected steps in complex processes." I'm sure you could find another way to provide expert advice to be followed mechanically, but it would probably be more expensive than a checklist. - Seth

The problem is that humans are not very reliable. We forget things easily and make a lot of mistakes. Checklists provide a very simple sort of automation where the paper replaces our feeble memory. This also has the benefit of freeing up cognitive resources for other tasks. - Paul Buchheit