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cheers - VAL D. Zone

happy new year Nicholas - mohammadk

"A record by psychedelic indie act Animal Collective has been named best album of 2009 in a round-up of end-of-year polls by UK music critics. Merriweather Post Pavilion, their eighth studio album, topped retailer HMV's annual "poll of polls" survey." - M F from Bookmarklet

I've seen it high on a few lists this year. For me, it wasn't great but a far better album than their previous ones. - Kol Tregaskes

According to legend, the architect wasn't paid as much as he was told he was to be paid, so he added some "decorative" hoops to the handrails that allowed him some degree of pleasure especially since they didn't realize what he'd done - Amir

Franks n' beans! - Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"

Is that the problem-- low framerate? Because it's /really/ noticeable to me. It's really tiring on the eyes, too. - Jason Huebel

I suspect that it was turned off for some parts of the live-action 3D version (or at least applied at significantly lower amount than normal). I remember seeing some distinct shapes that I couldn't resolve in 3D in the fast-panning action sequences. I don't remember having the same problem with any of the CGI scenes - usually live-action objects in the near depth where the camera was panning horizontally. - Matt Mastracci

Removed from youtube in 3... 2... 1... - Derek van Vliet

Fantastic one! - Alexey Gopachenko

follow the yellow brick road... - Michael W. May

A kinder, gentler serial killer? - LogEx

x_x - Anna Haro

"I’m asking all participants to list their “greatest” nominees in the comments section below. You can list your top ten, twenty or fifty - but please, no more than that. List them in order of greatness, #1 being the most important. I’ll cull the final one hundred out of what titles we receive by January 9th. Please include your real name if you wish to be acknowledged in the book." - Scott of Two Countries from Bookmarklet

I'm too late for this one, dammit. - Spidra Webster

This is exactly the kind of thing I expect to see and rarely see. Considering how many people use PCs with Windows and Office I'm always astonished at how few service pieces I see covering their products compared to the glut about Apple and even [gag] Google. - Sprague D

Hopefully I'll be doing more stuff along this type of line Sprague .. it's good to know what kind of things people want to read about when it comes to MS/Windows .. the bashing gets tiring after a while - Steven Hodson

"The summit is going to be held online, and is hosted by 5 Microsoft MVP's who worked closely with Microsoft during the development of Windows 7. The website welcomes you with: "Meet the team that worked closely with the development team in Redmond, built production systems, configured, deployed, hardened, debugged, tested, crashed, modified and ran the new platform through all possible scenarios." The webinar will feature experts from around the world that will perform live demos, in-depth presentations, answer questions, and bring you up to date on what you need to know about Windows 7. The five speakers that will be speaking during the event are:" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"But there's a danger here, too. If we're not careful, our online interactions can hurt our real-life relationships. Like many people, I'm experiencing Facebook Fatigue. I'm tired of loved ones—you know who you are—who claim they are too busy to pick up the phone, or even write a decent email, yet spend hours on social-media sites, uploading photos of their children or parties, forwarding inane quizzes, posting quirky, sometimes nonsensical one-liners or tweeting their latest whereabouts. ("Anyone know a good restaurant in Berlin?") One of the big problems is how we converse. Typing still leaves something to be desired as a communication tool; it lacks the nuances that can be expressed by body language and voice inflection. "Online, people can't see the yawn," says Patricia Wallace, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth and author of "The Psychology of the Internet." But let's face it, the problem is much greater than which tools we use to communicate.... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"For others, boredom isn't the biggest challenge of managing Internet relationships. Consider, for example, how people you know often seem different online—not just gussied up or more polished, but bolder, too, displaying sides of their personalities you have never seen before." - RAPatton

"And then there's jealousy. In all that information you're posting about your life—your vacation, your kids, your promotions at work, even that margarita you just drank—someone is bound to find something to envy. When it comes to relationships, such online revelations can make breaking up even harder to do. "Facebook prolongs the period it takes to get over someone, because you have an... more... - RAPatton

OMG OMG! - AJ Batac from Bookmarklet

oh god why i'm a clicking this - Caroline

wow - RokhSaare

"On October 15 at the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Graham Chapman will be present to support their upcoming documentary. Yes, Chapman will be there in some capacity, even though he passed away 20 years ago. Their documentary is called Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut), and the founding members will be present for the screening and will participate in a Q&A session. A six-hour version of the documentary will have its premiere on IFC on October 18th." - michael sean wright from Bookmarklet

this is going to be a great doc! - michael sean wright

Lawyer's Cut - lol - Richard pancakhaus Walker

"The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have. As engineers, we want people to upgrade to the latest version. We make it as easy as possible for them to upgrade. Ultimately, the choice to upgrade belongs to the person responsible for the PC." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

I wish there was an inplace upgrade path from XP to Windows 7. - SuezanneC Baskerville

What does that mean? - Admiral Anika

Fortunately you send your Twitter feed to FF so I didn't miss it. :) - Kevin Gamble

"Although Web Apps may be a better fit for consumers and enterprise adoption of online apps will be slow, the two worlds will blend eventually, says McLeish - and this is where Microsoft will have an advantage over other Web-based alternatives. "The big differentiator here is that Microsoft is providing more options to businesses in the ways which Web-based apps can be deployed," says McLeish. For instance, for businesses licensed for Microsoft's Software Assurance maintenance program it is not a requirement to access Office Web Apps through the Windows Live Online Service or through a subscription-based model. Microsoft is allowing companies with Software Assurance to run Office Web Apps as a free service within the company's firewall, and then give workers access to the apps via the Web. This will give skittish IT managers more control over potentially sensitive online content." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

The argument isn't about MS vs. Google per se, but on-site vs. off-site service hosting in general. It only just so happens that MS specializes in the former while Google specializes in the latter. Data is factually a lot more secure when contained within the enterprise than when transmitted outside of it. The Twitter attack worked well because so much of the company's internal... more... - LANjackal from IM

"Count me among the skeptics who see Google’s Chrome OS announcement this week as, first and foremost, an effort to induce pain in its longtime rival Microsoft. And a pointless one at that." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

The Chrome OS move by Google is a nod toward LINUX, toward open source, and toward the open Web with HTML + JavaScript as the key software stack (that is what the Chrome browser was/is all about, fighting off proprietary solutions like Adobe Air and MSFT Silverlight by massively increasing JS performance). Can’t see anything wrong with that. - Alex Schleber

Uh oh... looks like the puppets are turning into a mob. - Sprague D

Yikes!! - Mo Kargas

LOL...yowza!! - JA Castillo

So true. Free isn't sustainable. - AJ Kohn

So offer something for free that is pretty broad and easily accessed, but charge for the part of your product/service/whatever that makes life more convenient and better for your customers. - Daniel Zarick

No I do the same thing :) - martha

April, I'm liking the idea of sharing to a private group. I'll have to try that out. - ha3rvey (business time)

"With Firefox 3.5 being recently released, and hitting five million downloads in 24 hours, Firefox appears to be gaining more market share, and Internet Explorer's market share is slipping according to Favbrowser, and a graph by statcounter shown below. Internet Explorer fell from 62.09% to 59.49%, while Firefox rose from 28.75% to 30.33%. But Firefox isn't the only browser that's gaining market share. Opera, recently released the beta version of version 10 of its browser, rose from 3.23% to 3.36%, Safari, recently released version 4 of its browser and hitting 11 million downloads in three days, rose from 2.65% to 2.93%, and Chrome rose from 2.42% to 2.82%." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Bad news for Microsoft perhaps, but worse news for Opera and their faltering effort to get the EU to force MS to carry their browser. - Sprague D

Hilarious interview. Loved it. Love Anderson. Teh Silver Fox! - Grant Gochnauer

Geeks and God for Drupal CMS and general technology implementation - Peter Kelley

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So beautiful... - cecily

"Every slice of this 4th of July cake looks like the US flag... A little taste of independence in every bite!" - AJ Kohn from Bookmarklet