Simon

"Or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware." - Simon from Bookmarklet

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"A friend of mine and I have been having a long-standing argument about whose penis is larger. [...] I don't want to see his penis and he doesn't want to see mine. I don't want my girlfriend looking at his penis and he doesn't was his looking at mine. So... We just need a girl to look at both of our penises (individually) and then to both of our faces say which one is bigger. We can't pay much. $50." - Simon from Bookmarklet

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"A portfolio that mimics the purchases of House Members beats the market by approximately 6% annually" - Simon from Bookmarklet

I read somewhere they are exempt from insider trading charges. - Private Sanjeev

Wow, I didn't realize that they were exempt: http://online.wsj.com/article... - Simon

What tool do you use to keep track of your photos? Or did you find it by chance? - Jérôme

"God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar." - Simon from Bookmarklet

I bet they broke up when she found out about Jesus. - Private Sanjeev

"certain conditions must be met for crowd wisdom to emerge. Members of the crowd ought to have a variety of opinions, and to arrive at those opinions independently. Take those away, and crowd intelligence fails." - Simon from Bookmarklet

"LG Electronics has claimed the iPhone's design was copied from the LG Prada. “We consider that Apple copied the Prada phone after the design was unveiled when it was presented in the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006.”" - Simon from Bookmarklet

"The country found itself offline for hours on 28 March after cables linking Georgia to Armenia were damaged. A 75-year-old woman had admitted damaging fibre-optic cables while scavenging for copper. She has been charged and reportedly faces up to three years in prison." - Simon from Bookmarklet

Excellent Hack :)- - Peter Dawson

"Lessons from a place that combines most of the shortcomings of the modern Western state" - Simon from Bookmarklet

"Yahoo! will be closing AlltheWeb on April 4, 2011, as we focus on other features to improve your search experience." - Simon from Bookmarklet

It might be upside down. - Simon

Do a significant number of Americans still pronounce it "toe-mah-toe"? I've only ever heard it pronounced "toe-may-toe" since I've been here. - Simon

"The document Apple submitted was not only too long, according to Microsoft, but also "printed in less than 11 point font," an apparent violation of court rules which require letters of a reasonable size." - Simon

"Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat." - Simon from Bookmarklet

Interactive chart. e.g., "Between 1971 and 2008 average incomes in the US grew. All growth went to the richest 10%. Income for the bottom 90% declined." - Simon from Bookmarklet

It's interesting comparing the stats for different start and end years. - Simon

"In the first significant revision to lending terms for ebook circulation, HarperCollins has announced that new titles licensed from library ebook vendors will be able to circulate only 26 times before the license expires." - Simon from Bookmarklet

"In one 40-second clip, you can hear how “gaga” turned into “water” over the course of six months. In a video clip, below, you can hear and watch the evolution of "ball."" - Simon from Bookmarklet

"The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has outlawed the practice of pricing insurance premiums based on gender. The ruling, which will be formally handed down later today, means that premium pricing based upon other areas of discrimination, such as age or disability, is also incompatible with European law." - Simon from Bookmarklet

What do folks think about this ban? What if it insurance pricing used race or ethnicity for adjusting premiums? "Oh, you're Jewish. Ok, we'll raise/lower your premiums by $X". - Simon

Can we just generalize this to a ban on any use of personal data? Or perhaps a more general ban on any company in any industry setting prices based on expected cost of service? I think if you're going to prohibit these sorts of things, you might as well just nationalize the industry and provide the service to everyone, paid for with taxes that are not based on your expected health care costs. - Seth

"Less than 5% of police officers in England and Wales carry a gun on duty. Infinitely fewer fire one, and fatal shootings by police are vanishingly rare (there were two in 2009-10)." - Simon from Bookmarklet

"The source said the undercover agent carried a pistol in her undergarments when she put the body scanners to the test. The officer successfully made it through the airport's body scanners every time she tried, the source said." - Simon from Bookmarklet

"Somalia has done very well for itself in the 15 years since its government was eliminated. The future of peace and prosperity there depends in part on keeping one from forming." - Simon from Bookmarklet

Nice try, Mises. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... If authorizing covert photos of kids in their bedrooms doesn't get you fired, it makes me wonder what you have to do... - Simon

Lindy Matsko and Carol Cafiero still appear to have their original roles: http://www.lmsd.org/section..., http://www.lmsd.org/section... - Simon